Belfast Photo Festival 2019
Truth
And Lies
06-30 June
Contents TRUTH & LIES 10 - 11................... Controlled Perspective - Korean Perspectives In Photography 12 - 13................... Do Governments Lie? - Solo Shows 14 - 15................... Double Take - Cortis & Sonderegger 16 ..........................Land of Giants - Arno Rafael Minkkinen 17........................... Margins of Excess - Max Pinckers 18.......................... Portraiture In The Post Truth Era - Group Show 19.......................... Post Truth - Group Show 20 - 21................... Pusedo - Alma Haser 22 - 23................... Science - H+ - Matthieu Gafsou 24 - 25................... Science - Ways of Knowing - Daniel Stier 26 -27.................... Trusted Memory 28.......................... Truth - i-D 29.......................... Truth & Lies - VICE Group Show OFF THEME 32 -33.................... Forgotten Places 34.......................... New Talent - Annual Group Exhibition 35.......................... Personal Identity 36.......................... Photobook Library 37.......................... Unseen Dummy Award - Group Show 38 - 39................... London Alternative Photo Collective TALKS & DISCUSSION 42 - 43................... On My Mind 44 ......................... Abandoned NI 45.......................... Panel Discussion 46.......................... Comedy - Have I Fake News For You 46 ......................... Talk - Cortis & Sonderegger 47 ......................... Talk - Unseen Dummy Award Winners 48 ......................... Talk - Transhumanism with Matthieu Gafsou 49 ......................... Talk - Oliviero Toscani 50 - 51 .................. Talk - Erik Kessels 52 ......................... Talk - Phillipe Chancel 53 ......................... Talk - Tenx9 WORKSHOPS, REVIEWS, SCREENING AND TOURS 56.......................... Workshop - Belfast City 57.......................... Workshop - Printmaking 58.......................... Today at Apple 59.......................... Workshop - Photography Ethics 60 - 61................... Workshops - London Alternative Photography Collective 61.......................... Workshop - The Camera Never Lies 62 - 63................... Portfolio Reviews 64 - 65................... Screenings 66 -67.................... Tours 72 -73.................... Parties 76 -77.................... At a Glance
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Foreword
Welcome to the 2019 Belfast Photo Festival, Northern Ireland’s premier visual arts festival and the photographic biennial for the Island of Ireland, returning from 6 – 30 June 2019. This year, the Festival has taken the current post-truth era as its inspiration, looking at how photography can be used to influence opinion; from carefully choreographed photo-shoots to image manipulation and misrepresentation. “The camera never lies,” the age-old saying goes, but increasingly consumers are having to be evermore diligent in distinguishing fact from fiction – and photography has a crucial role to play in the era where billions of new images are captured daily and content is consumed at a staggering rate. Through a range of exhibitions, talks, workshops, screenings, reviews and tours, the Festival will explore how photography has a particular role in shaping our views. With a focus on sources of authority that many have come to question, from the press to politics and science we look at the ability of the camera to depict the truth and the untruthful, as well as how this ability has been embraced by photographic artists. Presenting photography as a bridge of sight and not of truth.
Highlights of this year’s festival include collaborations with publications which foreground image and society: having exhibitions staged with i-D magazine and the global youth media company VICE. Additionally, representatives from the V&A, Aperture Foundation and The Guardian contribute to a series of broad, exciting events and discussion programmes. As the Director and founder, I would like to personally thank my family, Ellen, Lee and Callum Weir, as without their help and support I could never have brought the festival to this point. This also includes the Festival board who’s guidance and advice has been invaluable over the past ten years. Being a new year and a new Festival, we have been fortunate to welcome new financial supporters and maintain the loyalty of our original partners, whose support has helped us make the Festival even bigger and better than ever before. Whether it is taking part in a workshop, attending a talk or visiting an exhibition, we hope you enjoy the exploration into this new era for mankind and the role of photography within it. Michael Weir / Festival Director
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Controlled
Korean Perspectives In Photography Seung Woo Back / Heeseung Chung / Yeondoo Jung Focusing on trends in Korean photography, the exhibiting photographic artists make use of controlled perspective and constructed environments to influence the viewers perception and convey a message. Yeondoo Jung skillfully invents carefully staged realities for the camera through elaborate sets that when only viewed from a particular perspective do they look true to life. Seung Woo Back takes the approach to a larger scale by photographing miniature cities that depict foreign lands, which appear connected and yet juxtaposed against the more traditional landscape of Korea.
Date: 14 - 27 June 2019 Opening: 18:00, 13 June 2019 Venue: Culturlann Times: Mon - Sun, 09:00 - 18:00 Tickets: Free
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Do Governments Lie?
Jump Trump Erik Kessels & Thomas Mailaender Asking the question do government lie? The Golden Thread Gallery presents three small solo exhibitions by photographic artists Erik Kessels, Phillippe Chancel and Marc Lee. Each bringing their own visual perspective to a question that has a multitude of answers but is as relevant today as ever before
Here’s one you won’t want to miss, wholesome fun for everyone! This is the opportunity of a lifetime, the chance you didn’t know you’ve been waiting for. It’s time to take the leap and get the Jump on Trump. Get up in his face and tell him how you feel!
Date: 06 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 06 June, 19:00 Venue: Golden Thread Gallery Times: Tues - Sat, 11:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free
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Kim Happiness
Political Campaigns Battle of Opinion on Social Media
Philippe Chancel
Marc Lee
Flashy despotism comes across as a kind of harmless chromo. But is it permissible to enjoy the beauty of the images, knowing full well that the decor conceals the suffering of a people? Is it possible for the photographer to impose the sensitivity and lucidity of his eye?
In recent months in Political Campaigns all over the world, the supporters of opposing parties have engaged in fiercely waged wars of images on social media. Elections have also long since ceased to be won on the street or in the traditional media— social networks have become the digital market place for political disputation.
Philippe Chancel raises the question of the ethics of an image, not one taken from the news and the media, but right from its creation. He responds to the simulacrum by using an epic style whose aim is to work against the ‘aestheticisation’ of power. How should one react to the sense of awe that the Korean spectacle is designed to provoke? Michel Poivert
Date: 06 - 30 July 2019 Opening: 6 June, 19:00 Venue: Golden Thread Gallery Times: Tues - Sat, 11:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free
This Interactive Net-Based TV Show, filters the latest Twitter, Instagram, and YouTube posts according to the leading candidates of the parties in political campaigns. The bot weaves the posts into a wild TV show (24/7) in which images, tweets, and videos flicker across the screen in real time. What counts today are the ‘Likes’ and ‘Retweets’ that migrate across the screen as icons in the colours of the combatants indicate their current online market value. While, as users of social networks, we only ever see variants of our own opinions mirrored back to us, Political Campaigns confronts us with a view beyond the bounds of these echo chambers.
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Double Take
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06 - 22 June 2019 City Hall Lawn Mon - Sun, 08:30 - 18:00 Free
Cortis & Sonderegger For f ive years, the Zurich-based ar tist duo Jojakim Cortis & Adrian Sonderegger worked on a project that not only captivates with its concept, but also through its intricacy and aesthetic power. ‘Double Take’ plays seductively with iconic images from international photographic history: Pictures imprinted in the collective memory are reproduced as three-dimensional models – a meticulous bricolage of cardboard, sand, wood, fabric, cotton wool and plaster – and photographed so that they in turn represent images that are astonishingly close to the original scene. But the illusion is humorously broken by the inclusion of elements of the studio environment, along with all kind of remnants from reconstructing the scenes. This portrayal of a portrayal of a portrayal of reality becomes a dizzying metaphysical experience: What is real? And can we trust our perception?
Artist Talk: 1pm, Sun 9th June (Bullitt Hotel)
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Land of Giants
Arno Rafael Minkkinen Inspiring Belfast toward ideas of a more positive and progressive future this photographic art work embraces Northern Ireland’s image as a land of giants (i.e. Finn Mcool, Samson, Goliath). Posing the question, at what point to myths and legends become truth?
Image: Shelton, Looking East, 2005 (copyright Arno Rafael Minkkinen)
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From 01 June 2019 Castle Place, Belfast 24/7 Free
Margins of Excess Max Pinckers Margins of Excess exists at the intersection between accepted truth and subjective realities, between fact and fiction. The series focuses on the stories of six characters based in North America all of whom momentarily received nationwide attention in the US press. Darius McCollum drew the limelight through his compulsive highjacking of trains, Herman Rosenblat through his self-invented love-story set in a concentration camp during WWII and Ali Alqaisi for his claim to be the ‘hooded man’ in the iconic photo from Abu Ghraib prison. Each of these characters maintain their own highly personal sense of individual truth but all were unmasked by the press and portrayed as frauds or con artists.
In responding to our so-called post-truth era, Margins of Excess proposes a new multi-layered approach to documentary photography, one where the definitions between truth, fiction and entertainment are fluid. The artist notes “I want to embrace a form of ‘realism’, rather than representing reality itself. Instead of experiencing images as objective representations, we should see them as proposals, or little arguments. My motive is not to unveil the reality behind illusion but to perceive the reality in the illusion itself.”
Date: 14 June - 27 July 2019 Opening: 13 June, 18:00 Location: B elfast Exposed Photography Gallery Times: Tue - Sat: 11:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free
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Portraiture In The Post Truth Era
Hiroshi Nomura / Haruyuki Shirai / Yuka Kihara An exhibition showcasing three exceptional emerging Japanese artists and their responses to the theme “Portraits in the Post-Truth Era,� exploring the most cutting-edge conceptual and technical trends in contemporary photography. In line with Belfast Photo Festivals ethos, the presented work develops and supports young talent from the ground up, while showcasing them to the international photography community. Hiroshi Nomura uses the technique of photomontage to explore the ambiguous boundary between reality and fantasy while Haruyuki Shirai produces a magical sense of humour. For Yuka Kihara, she takes photographic creation a step further, mixing reality and fiction by creating portraits of the unidentified dead from nothing but words.
Date: 07 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 18:00, Thurs 06 June Venue: Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Times: Tue - Sat: 11:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free
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Post Truth
Group Show Belfast Exposed is delighted to present Post Truth, an exhibition showcasing the photographic works of 20 international artists associated with the MFA photography program at Ulster University, Belfast School of Art. The era of Post Truth is symbolic of social and political focus so fragmented that society has betrayed itself and is unconsciously cashing in on
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its own sense of isolation and separation. Therefore, empowering a core feeling of division and disarray. Post Truth explores themes such as separation, mortality, spirituality, and conflict.
Artist Group Discussion: 06 June 2019, 15:00
06 - 08 June Belfast Exposed Photography Gallery Mon - Sun, 08:30 - 18:00 Free
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Pseudo Alma Haser Pseudo is a series that plays on what’s real and what’s not. In a world where we are constantly told about Fake News, not to believe the first thing you read or are told. And where social media and the internet toy with our beliefs and acceptances. Alma explores the idea of the fake and the real and the in-between with everyday plants. Here she uses techniques of paper-layering, cutting and manipulation by hand to create multiple images that confuse the eye by contorting reality, similar to a Chinese whisper effect, or the more recent ‘Fake News’ phenomenon.
Opening: 06 - 19 June 2019 Date: 06 June 17:00 to 20:00 Venue: Atypical Gallery Times: Tues - Fri, 11:00 - 15:00 Tickets: Free For access needs contact paula@universityofatypical.org
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H+ Matthieu Gafsou H+ focuses on transhumanism, a movement advocating the use of science and technology to enhance humans’ physical and mental abilities. H+’s photographs are elliptical and have little context. Taken one by one, they baffle more than they explain. Seen together, they weave a web of discourse. Artificial, they resemble their subject: it is no longer known whether the living die by becoming machines or inanimate objects spring to life. H+ talks about our bodies, our everyday lives and our relationship to technology, as well as opens up future prospects. No response is given, but the exhibition can work both as a tool to think about a key issue of our time and as a poetic space that confronts us with the absurdity of our finiteness. At a time when scientific progress has surpassed public understanding, this exhibition uses renditions and constructions of the artists own making to illustrate understanding genuine scientific phenomena and technilogical transformations, using photography as a bridge of sight and not a truth.
Artist Talk and conversation with The UK Transhumanist Party. 14:00, Sat 08 June 2019 (Ulster Museum, Lecture Theatre) Date: 08 June - 08 July 2019 Opening: 15:00, Sat 08 June Venue: Botanic Gardens (Stranmillis Road Entrance) Times: Mon - Sun, 07:30 - 18:30 Tickets: Free
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Ways of Knowing Daniel Stier In his project “Ways of Knowing” German photographer Daniel Stier takes us inside the world of scientific research to meet the real people whose work, represented in these images by an intriguing array of self-built technologies, holds the promise - and perhaps the threat - of transforming our lives. Together with photos taken in 17 research institutions across Europe and North America, the images exhibited here include a series of homemade experiments, shot in Stier’s own studio, that seem to ask us to consider the similarities between the scientist’s domain and the artist’s. Both domains, lab and studio, are characterized by big questions, obsessive convictions and a high degree of specialization. Now Stier has invited us, the outsiders, to look in. We do so with wonder, dismay and, depending on our disposition, even a certain faith.
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Date: 09 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 15:00, Sat 08 June Venue: Ulster Museum Times: Mon - Sun, 10:00 - 17:00 Tickets: Free
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Trusted Memory
Jacob Burge / Shelli Weiler / Oli Kellett / Seunggu Kim It’s impossible to remember everything nowadays. Our internal hard drive is overloaded with information on a daily basis, only a fraction being stored and replayed. Naturally over time, what were once clear and vivid thoughts, end up confused and faded. This is particularly prevalent in the wake of constructed and fake spectacles within which
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memories are to be created. Memories of these places become easier to forget, whether they be instagram, selfie factories or fantasy holiday parks that attempt to make the fake, real, therefore lacking both meaning and authenticity. Living both on and offline makes this separation between real and fake even more challenging. Sometimes it is important to take a few seconds and occasionally to think ‘Where do we come from?’ and ‘Where are we going?’
Date: From 06 June 2019 Opening: 24/7 Venue: St Annes Square Tickets: Free
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Group Show To celebrate the theme of ‘Truth’ we have provided a selection of photography from i-D over the past five years. As a world leader, both in the curation of fashion photography, and in elevating the next generation of creatives, i-D has, over its 40 year history, cemented itself as a champion of truth
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and beauty. In recent years they’ve cemented themselves as a voice of youth media, allowing tomorrow’s photographers, designers, artists, stylists and musicians to tell their truth through the pages and covers. Their images celebrate every young person choosing to live their truth throughout the world, and offer them a platform to tell their own stories on their own terms.
Date: 06 - 30 June 2019 Location: Gresham Street, Belfast Times: 24/7 Tickets: Free
Vice–Truth & Lies
Date: 06 - 30 June 2019 Location: Writers Square Times: 24/7 Tickets: Free
Group Show We know the textbook definitions of the words Truth & Lies, but can their meanings change over time? Are they static or fluid? The bold black line we always imagined separating what is true, factual, and correct, and what is not, feels more gray in recent years. The photo portfolios chosen all toe this line as well. Whether it’s Emile Askey’s new series, Monuments Are Forever, where he takes a road trip throughout the South and Southwest of America to retrace the routes of his childhood travels, or Sadie Weschler’s powerful photos of what was left behind by America’s Secret War in Laos—they all uncover new facts. Even Elizabeth Moran challenges her initial skepticism as motivation to use photography and paranormal investigators to reckon with her family’s haunted history. We encourage you to do a double take while looking at some of the selections in this exhibition.
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Forgotten Places Date: Venue: Times: Tickets:
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From 06 June 2019 St. Anne’s Square 24/7 Free
Elliott Verdier / Panos Charalmpidis / Mary Chiaretaki / Giulio Di Sturco / Fumi Nagaska / Maria Sturm Reflections of places fallen into abeyance, these photos are but fragments of reality – facts – in an attempt to reconstitute a concealed story, shattered pieces, so difficult to gather and put together. With what is left of their broken dreams and surprising vitality, they are contradictory Neverland’s where great aspirations cross paths with remnants that are found in the country’s landscapes, in it’s peoples minds and sense of identity. Societies rooted in environments where isolation comes into contact with a silent resignation. These artists show echoes of pasts that are being forgotten, that lurk under the surface, ready to rear their heads if only someone paid more attention.
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New Talent
Annual Group Exhibition This annual exhibition will launch the new photographic talent graduating from Belfast School of Art’s Department of Photography. Graduates have built successful careers, won awards, published photo-books and exhibited widely.
Date: 08 - 14 June 2019 Opening: 18:00, 07 June Venue: Ulster University, Belfast Campus Times: Mon - Sat: 10am - 5pm Tickets: Free
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Personal Identity Rachel Cox / Liza Abrossio / Lucie Khatoutian  These projects represent a collective search and celebration of ones identity, being explored through family and multicultural life within our ever evolving settings and psychological frame of mind. For all of us, every photograph becomes a remaining memory of a period in our lives, a person met, a language spoken, a place lived in or a mood you were in. More than ever in a global context of identity confusion and political blur, it has perhaps become more essential to celebrate our different origins and focus on the foundation of our identity, whether is be as a human, an individual or a collective.
Date: From 06 June 2019 Opening: 06 June Venue: St Annes Square Times: 24/7 Tickets: Free
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Photobook Library A Cultural Hub in the east of the city. Far more than a photo-book library and gallery, this is a cultural hub with a focus on photography. Featuring, photo-books, zines, magazines and artist book dummies from around the world. Chill out and view our specially curated presentations featuring the winners of the 2019 International Open Submission and must see photo-books from Taiwan, Japan, South Korea and The Netherlands, among many more. The library offers artists, photographers, students, researches and the general public with a unique resource during the festival.
Date: 09 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 14:00, 09 June Venue: Framewerk Times: 10:30 - 6:00, Mon - Sat Tickets: Free
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Unseen Dummy Award
The Unseen Dummy Award is a collaboration between Unseen Amsterdam and Lecturis. The dummies are prototypes of prospective photobooks, the preferred alternative to printmaking for many independent artists testing the possibilities of their work. A key component in Unseen Amsterdam’s programme since 2012, the award is designed to showcase the work of exceptional artists from around the world, providing them the ability to position themselves within the international photobook industry. From more than 200 submissions, one winner is selected to have their photobook published. In 2018, the international jury was comprised of Sarah Allen (Assistant Curator, Tate Modern), Tim Clark (Editor-inChief and Director, 1000 Words), Russet Lederman (Co-founder, 10×10 Photobooks), Paul van Mameren (Managing Director, Lecturis) and Małgorzata Stankiewicz (winner of the Unseen Dummy Award 2017). The winning dummy of 2018 was UBUNTU by Rebecca Fertinel.
Date: 09 - 30 June 2019 Opening: 14:00, 09 June Venue: Framewerk Times: 10:30 - 6:00, Mon - Sat Tickets: Free
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Slide-collaging Workshop: In this hands-on slide collaging workshop, participants are provided with an archive of 35mm found vintage slides and invited to appropriate images by making physical interventions. Tampering with the materiality of the surface by collaging, drawing, scratching or layering fragments of the reconfigured transparencies, participants will re-project the slides and photograph them digitally. Participants will get to keep their one-off collaged slides as well as digital files of the projected images they produce, which can be printed and manipulated further beyond the workshop. In dialogue with historical as well as contemporary processes that engage with the materiality of film - from Pictorialism and Modernism to current photographic practice - the workshop presents the opportunity to combine analogue and digital processes, experiment with different materials and enables participants to produce work in a short space of time that reflects the medium’s malleability and versatility in a playful way.
Date: 08 June 2019 Opening: 12:00 - 14:00 | 14:30 - 16:30 Venue: Castle Court (Golden Thread Gallery Space) Tickets: ÂŁ20 p.p
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On My Mind Erik Vroons / Catherine Troiano / Takashi Kakishima / Roisin Lanigan Belfast Photography Festival asked a group of Photographic Curators, Editors, Authors and Artists to share thoughts, ideas and images by artists who explore truth and lies through photography, whether it be in the present or the past. This series of morning presentations gives these professionals the opportunity to talk in conversa-
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tion about exactly what’s on their mind in regards to photography in an ever shifting landscape. Each presentation lasts one hour with time for discussion at the end.
Coffee and tea provided.
08 June 10:00 - 12:00
09 June 10:00 - 12:00
Erik Vroons
Takashi Kakishima
Editor At Large. GUP Magazine (Amsterdam, Holland)
Director, Poetic Scape Gallery (Tokyo, U.K.)
From 2010-2014, he was the Chief Editor of international photography magazine GUP - based in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Currently he functions as Editor-at-large for both GUP Magazine and Newdawn Paper - a bimonthly ‘freezine’ on contemporary Dutch Photography, initiated by the GUP editorial team. Besides editorial work, he is active as a freelance writer/researcher/ teacher in the field of photography.
After working in a photo agency and the art industry, Takashi set up an independent photography label in 2007, started organizing exhibitions and selling photography prints from artists
Catherine Troiano
Roisin Lanigan
Curator of Photography, Victoria & Albert Museum (London, U.K.)
Editor, i-D (London, U.K.)
Catherine Troiano is Curator of Photographs at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A). She joined the team as Assistant Curator in 2015, having worked with photography at various organisations, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York. She has curated and contributed to displays within and without the V&A, most recently Collecting Photography: from Daguerreotype to Digital (V&A, 2018), the inaugural display in the V&A Photography Centre. Her main research interests include digitally-informed photographic practices, approaches towards curating photography and the CEE region, and she publishes regularly on these topics.
He opened his gallery POETIC SCAPE in 2011 and has since organized 40 solo exhibitions including such artists as Daido Moriyama, Sakiko Nomura and Hiroshi Nomura.
Roisin Lanigan was born and grew up in Belfast. She is now based in London where she works as an Editor for i-D. She is also a freelance arts and culture writer with work seen in ArtUK, VICE, Broadly, Refinery29, The Outline, Cosmopolitan and others.
Venue: Bullitt hotel Tickets: Suggested donation Visit: belfastphotofestival.com
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Abandoned NI Come and listen to Abandoned Ni’s first 2019 lecture in an abandoned performing arts school that’s been taken over by artists. Listen to them talk about the abandoned and forlorn country manor houses, hospitals, mental asylums, churches from all four corners of Ireland and more! You will get to hear of the lives that have gone through these homes and institutions and they will also share some paranormal experiences that have come from these explores with shared evidence to present. Some artefacts from homes will also be on display. For any hidden history fans this is a must!
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Date: 09 June 2019 Location: Vault Studios Times: 15:00 and 19:00 Tickets: belfastphotofestival.com
Panel Discussion
Photography: Construction of Truth Recognising that photography has played a major role in our collective view of what is true and what is false, the panel will be discussing how the camera has been used to construct (and de-construct) our understanding. In approaching this we will recognize the international relevance of this issue and its pertinence to Northern Ireland. Within the context of this discussion, the panel will consider the festivals exhibition concepts and how photography has been edited and misrepresented to portray the truth and the untruthful.
We’re delighted to welcome: Sean O’Hagan Photography Writer & Critic The Guardian & the Observer (London, U.K.) Michael Famighetti Editor – Aperture Magazine (New York, U.S.A) Elizabeth Renstrom Photo Editor – VICE Media (New York, U.S.A)
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07 June 2019, 12:30 - 14:00 The Mac Suggested donation belfastphotofestival.com
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Interactive Theatre:
Have I Fake News For You! Accidental Theatre, Belfast Photo Festival & Belfast Improv Theatre present a wild night of comedy improv inspired by never before seen fake news images, made up from audience suggestions in the week before the show! The performers will never have seen the images and will create on the spot new worlds, stories and elaborate tales for the audiences enjoyment!
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08 June 2019, 20:00 / Doors 19:30 Accidental theatre belfastphotofestival.com £6
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Cortis & Sonderegger This photographic duo will discuss their on going project ‘Icons,’ where they play seductively with iconic images from international photographic history and reproduce them as three dimensional models that are astonishingly close to the original scene. By creating a portrayal of a portrayal of a portrayal of reality, they question what is real and whether we can really trust our perception.
Date: 09 June 2019, 13:00 Venue: Bullitt hotel Tickets: Suggested donation
Unseen Dummy Award Presentations Date: Time: Venue: tickets:
09 June 2019 14:00 Framewerk Free
We have invited a number of specially selected dummy book ar tists to present their award winning photo-book dummy creations. Join us for compelling photo-book designs with a degree of artistic rawness and hear of their crafted creation from these exceptional photographers from all over the world that made them.
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Artist / Curator Talks
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Transhumanism with Matthieu Gafsou At a time when scientific progress has surpassed public understanding, artist Matthieu Gafsou uses documentar y photog raphy, as well as renditions and constructions of his own making to illustrate understanding genuine scientific phenomena and technological transformations, using photography as a bridge of sight and not a truth.
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The discussion will focus on the subject of Transhumanism, a movement advocating the use of science and technology to enhance humans’ physical and mental abilities. The talk and discussion with the artist will be followed by a conversation with The UK Transhumanist Party.
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8 June 2019, 14:00 Ulster museum, lecture theatre Suggested donation belfastphotofestival.com
Photography is like
An Exorcism
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Oliviero Toscani We are delighted to be hosting a Q&A event with the legendary Oliviero Toscani Studio. Oliviero Toscani has produced Award winning photography for Vogue, Elle, GQ, Har per’s Bazaar, Esquire, Stern, Liberation... He has been awarded the Lions d’Or four times, the UNESCO Grand Prix, Grand Prix d’Affinge on two occasions....the list goes on... From 1982 to 2000 he built the identity, corporate image, communication strategy and online presence of United Colors of Benetton transforming it into one of the world’s most recognized brands as Creative Director.
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13 June 2019, 18:00 Ulster Museum, Lecture Theatre £15 / £10 Student belfastphotofestival.com
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Artist / Curator Talks
Storytelling With– Erik Kessels Over a period of 20 years Erik Kessels has made many books and exhibitions out of his passion for vernacular and amateur photography. In this lecture he will highlight his latest publications and give an insight in collecting and editing the photographs often found online or on flea markets from all over the world. Another subject of the lecture is the role of images in the time we live in and how you can look at these in other ways than simply consuming them.
BIOGRAPHY Erik Kessels is a Dutch artist, designer and curator with great interest in photography. Erik Kessels is since 1996 Creative Director of communications agency KesselsKramer in Amsterdam and works for national and international clients such as Nike, Diesel, J&B Whisky, Oxfam, Ben, Vitra, Citizen M and The Hans Brinker Budget Hotel. As an artist and photography curator Kessels has published over 60 books of his ‘re-appropriated’ images: Missing Links (1999), The Instant Men (2000), in almost every picture (2001-2015) and Wonder (2006). Since 2000, he has been an editor of the alternative photography magazine Useful Photography and has written the international
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bestseller Failed It! For the DVD art project Loud & Clear he worked together with artists such as Marlene Dumas and Candice Breitz. Kessels writes regular editorials for numerous international magazines. He lectured at the D&AD Presidents Lecture and at several international design conferences such as in Singapore, Goa, NY, Toronto and Bangkok. He has taught at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy (Amsterdam), Écal (Lausanne) and at the Amsterdam Academy of Architecture where he curated a celebration of amateurism. Kessels made and curated exhibitions such as Loving Your Pictures, Mother Nature, 24HRS in Photos, Album Beauty, Unfinished Father and GroupShow. He als co-curated an exhibition called From Here on together with Martin Parr, Joachim Schmid, Clement Cheroux and Joan Fontuberta. In 2010 Kessels was awarded with the Amsterdam Prize of the Arts, in 2016 nominated for the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize. In 2017 his mid-career retrospective was shown in Turin and Düsseldorf and exhibited this year in the MOMA. He was called “a visual sorcerer” by Time Magazine and a “Modern Anthropologist” by Voque (Italia).
Vernacular Photography
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15 June, 13:00 Golden Thread Gallery ÂŁ5 belfastphotofestival.com
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Artist / Curator Talks
Phillip Chancel & North Korea Over the past twenty five years Philippe Chancel’s photography has explored the complex, shifting and fertile territory where art, documentary and journalism meet. His is a constantly evolving project, focusing on the status of images when they are confronted with what constitutes “images” in the contemporary world.
Best known for his body of work ‘DPRK,’ Chancel will offer a revealing and original vision of North Korea from his festival exhibition ‘Kim Happiness.’ In this talk he will raise the question of the ethics of an image, not one taken from the news and the media, but right from its creation.
Date: 08 June, 13:00 Venue: Golden Thread Gallery Tickets: Free
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Tenx9 “A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words” Tenx9 is a storytelling event where nine people have up to ten minutes each to tell a true story from their lives. Begun in Belfast in 2011 by Paul Doran and Pádraig Ó Tuama, this event now takes place in cities across Ireland, the UK, the Netherlands, the US and Australia. Every night has a theme, and hundreds of stories can be heard on the podcast: www.tenx9.com/podcast For this year’s collaboration, we are delighted to have the theme “A Picture’s Worth a Thousand Words”. We are looking for nine storytellers. Each storyteller will submit one photo, and a true story from their life about that photo. While details about composition and exposure are interesting, we’re more interested in the human story: what happened just beforehand? why is this photo irreplaceable in your life? Why you hid this photo for years… you get the picture.
To submit a story, please visit: www.tenx9.com/submissions Make sure to read the editorial guidelines on the page first though. Date: Time: Venue: Tickets:
19 June 2019 19:00 for 19:30 start Black Box Free
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Workshop
Belfast City. ( The Truth )
Using Belfast Exposed Archive we will look at Belfast from a time past gaining an insight into how the past has shaped Belfast. We gain insight into these events and through our lens today capture how Belfast looks today offering each photographer a capture of a moment in time,These images adding to the rich historical visual record of Belfast.
Date: 29 June 2019 Venue: Belfast Exposed Times: 14:00 - 17:00 Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com
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Workshop
Printmaking
Discover new possibilities for your photographic imagery by combining it with printmaking. This weekend workshop with BPW artist Raquel Amat Parra, will use light sensitive photopolymer film to produce intaglio-plates using photographic, digital and collaged imagery. Participants will leave with a small printed edition, made with their own images. All materials provided. Suitable for beginners or those with some experience. (Ages 15+ but under 18’s must be accompanied by an adult).
Venue: Belfast Print Workshop Date: 22 - 23 June, 10:00 - 14:00 Cost £125 Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com
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Workshop
Today At Apple Presents
Photography
Today at Apple helps you do more with the products you love. Come learn essential photo skills, experiment with portraiture and even break the rules for more artful photos.
Workshops include: Photo Lab Crafting your shot Photo Walk Framing architecture and taking portraits on location Photo Skills Photography on iPhone
Venue: Apple Store (Victoria Square) For more info & to book visit: www.belfastphotofestival.com
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Understanding Photography Ethics
Facilitator:
Savannah Dodd Founder & Director, Photography Ethics Centre This workshop will engage your critical thinking skills in an in-depth conversation about photography ethics. We have seen the important way that photography has played in global events like the migration of Syrian refugees across the Mediterranean and the surge of violence against the Rohingya community in Myanmar. Photographs shape how we view the world, and when we take and present photographs we are shaping how others view the world. This is an enormous responsibility. In order to meet this responsibility, we need to be ethically literate.
We will begin this workshop by discussing what ethics are and how we make ethical decisions in our own photographic practice. We will then look at key ethical principles, and examine reallife situations to understand how we can apply these principles in different contexts. We will address important issues that are relevant for photographers today, including “fake news”, misrepresentation, and digital manipulation. We will look at examples of altered and misused images to better understand the responsibility of the photographer in these situations.
Date: Times: Tickets: Visit:
08 June 2019 14:00 - 17:00 £20 belfastphotofestival.com
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London Alternative Photo Collective Workshops
The chlorophyll printing process with:
The Anthotype process with :
Almudena Romero
Nettie Edwards Â
Artist Almudena Romero will be explaining step by step how to print photographs directly onto leaves using a plant’s own chlorophyll pigment and the power of sunlight.
Join Lacock Abbey Fox Talbot Museum teacher and artist in residency Nettie Edwards to learn the organic Victorian photographic technique of the anthotype process. Invented in 1842 by early photographic pioneer Sir John Herschel, this process uses dyes made from crushed plants.
Date: 06 June 2019 Opening: 18:00 - 19:00, 06 June Venue: Castle Court (Golden Thread Gallery Space) Tickets: Free
Date: 07 June 2019 Opening: 14:00, 07 June Venue: Castle Court (Golden Thread Gallery Space) Tickets: Free
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Slide-collaging Workshop:
Constructed Landscapes with Dafna Talmor
In this hands-on slide collaging workshop, participants are provided with an archive of 35mm found vintage slides and invited to appropriate images by making physical interventions. Tampering with the materiality of the surface by collaging, drawing, scratching or layering fragments of the reconfigured transparencies, participants will re-project the slides and photograph them digitally. Participants will get to keep their one-off collaged slides as well as digital files of the projected images they produce, which can be printed and manipulated further beyond the workshop.
The Camera Never Lies? This fun filled workshop is designed to enable the photographer to present a different view of Belfast. Firstly taking an image followed by using photoshop to create a view of Belfast that isn’t as real as it seems, a quirky view of Belfast. We will create a scene of Belfast where all is not as it seems, create a fictional story behind each image and display in Belfast Exposed Studio Gallery Details for event booking (if relevant) - Bring your camera, basic knowledge of Photoshop.
Date: 08 June 2019 Opening: 12:00 - 14:00 | 14:30 - 16:30 Venue: Castle Court (Golden Thread Gallery Space) Tickets: ÂŁ20 p.p
Date: 15 June 2019 Venue: Belfast Exposed Times: 14:00 - 17:00
Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com
Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com
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Portfolio Reviews Belfast Photo Festival presents a day of one on one portfolio reviews with a range of international experts. The purpose of these reviews is to provide both photographers and artists working with photography the opportunity to meet with professionals from Europe, Asia and America. Through these reviews participants can expect to gain vital feedback on their artistic development, expand their professional networks and exchange ideas. Each review session will last 20 minutes. PLEASE arrive on time for sessions.
You can choose from either 2, 4, 6, 8, or 11 reviews / Reviewers include:
The Festival has carefully selected international experts in the field of photography, art and fashion from around the world to review for one day. Reviewer bios can be viewed through the Festival website. The invited reviewers are looking for new and emerging talent, as well as works by established artists utilizing photography. This is an invaluable professional development opportunity, and whilst the purpose of the review is not guaranteed to deliver exhibitions, publications or representation, these are potential outcomes.
Daria Tuminas Unseen Photo Fair (Holland)
Date: 07 June 2019 Time: 09:30 - 17:00 Venue: The Mac, Belfast
Joanne Mullan Irish Museum of Modern Art (Ireland)
Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com
Michael Famighetti Aperture Magazine (U.S.A) Catherine Troiani Victoria & Albert Museum (U.K.) Elizabeth Renstrom VICE Media (U.S.A)
Roisin Lanigan i-D Magazine (U.K.) Takashi Kakishima Poetic Scape Gallery (Japan) Erik Vroons GUP Magazine (Holland)
Malcolm Dickson Street Level Photoworks (U.K.) Trish Lambe Gallery of Photography (Ireland) Deirdre Robb Belfast Exposed (N.Ireland)
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Source Meetings Submission deadline 29 May 2019 As part of research for future issues, Source Magazine will be organising meetings with photographers to find out about new their work and to offer feedback on work in progress. Meetings with selected photographers will take place on Saturday 08 June 2019 at the Source Office, Belfast. The meetings are an opportunity to directly introduce a new piece of work to one of the editors. This is one way Source finds new work for publication in the ‘portfolio pages’ section of Source
magazine. If you are interested in attending you should email a pdf with up to 8 images and contained within it up to three paragraphs of text that give a background to your new work along with your name, contact phone number and web address.
For more details about the process, Email: john@source.ie
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Screenings
Bellingcat Truth in a post truth world Bellingcat explores the promise of open source investigation, taking viewers inside the exclusive world of the “citizen investigative journalist” collective known as Bellingcat. In cases ranging from the MH17 disaster to the poisoning of a Russian spy in the United Kingdom, the Bellingcat team’s quest for truth will shed light on the fight for journalistic integrity in the era of fake news and alternative facts.
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Length: Date: Time: Venue: Tickets:
88mins 09 June 2019 15:30 Queen’s Film Theatre £5.50 - £6.95
Booking & More Info: belfastphotofestival.com
Screenings
Circulations Circulations festival focuses on Young European Photography by exhibiting a photographic dialogue about Europe. This screening presents work by 48 young photographers from around the globe.
Lensculture Street Photography Awards We’re excited to present the winners of 2018 LensCulture Street Photography Awards–39 photographers who are reinvigorating and redefining the genre of street photography today.
Date: Time: Venue: Tickets:
06 June 2019 20:00 - 21:00 Bullitt Hotel Free
Date: Time: Venue: Tickets:
06 June 2019 20:00 - 21:00 Bullitt Hotel FREE
Info:
belfastphotofestival.com
Info:
belfastphotofestival.com
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Tours
Architectural Photo Walk We will walk around Belfast looking at and talking about the architecture and we’ll encourage viewing it with a fresh perspective. We will make images, concentrating on the character of the buildings, rather than simple record making; we’ll find visual interest in detail and explore the potential in pattern making with architectural features.
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We will seek beauty, or at least visual interest, in texture and the juxtaposition of colours and materials. We will chat about Belfast, its architecture and we will discuss technical issues such as lenses and cameras and also technique. We’ll have an entertaining chat and we will, hopefully, create some images which capture the essence of the city.
Date: Time: Venue: Tickets:
23 June 2019 12:00 PLACE, 7-9 Lower Garfield Street. £10 + Booking Fee
Info:
www.placeni.org
Tours
Titanic Taster Photography Tour
Late Night Art Bus Tour
Become a Titanic inspired photographer for the day, learning all about the science behind photog raphy while having the oppor t unit y to explore Titanic Quarter’s industrial & maritime heritage. You will learn how to use light to create stunning images and the power of magnification at our very own giant optic lenses. On this interactive tour, you will be transported around the quarter in style on the Wee Tram with various stops along the way including the Great Light, Titanic’s Dock & Pump-House and H&W cranes.
Discover Northern Irelands capital city through the creative work of its artists, designers and makers. The Late Night Art bus tour is a fully guided tour visiting galleries, artists studios, public art and art events in and around Belfast. All our fully trained guides are also local artists so you learn about Belfast’s thriving arts community from those who know it best. The tour takes place on the f irst Thursday of ever y month and finishes at 9.15pm.
“Lively commentary, knowledgeable guides and plenty of hospitality along the way-what a fantastic way to experience the arts in Belfast” Date: 15 June 2019 Time: 10:30 - 13:30 Meeting: Titanic Sign, Titanic Belfast Info:
belfastphotofestival.com
Date: Time: Begins: tickets: Visit:
06 June 2019 18:30 - 21:15 Linenhall library £10p.p belfastphotofestival.com
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Dine for Less Quote BPF to get 10% off your bill Belfast Photo Festival has partnered with restaurants in Belfasts Cathedral Quarter to offer 10% off all you order. Reference Belfast Photo Festival when paying your bill at the following restaurants We have invited a number of specially selected dummy book artists to present their award winning photo-book dummy creations. Join us for compelling photo-book designs with a degree of artistic rawness and hear of their crafted creation from these exceptional photographers from all over the world that made them.
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Belfast Photo Festival Presents
Art School Graduation Party The biggest party night of the Belfast Photo Festival comes to The Bear & The Doll. Celebrating with the new graduates of Belfast School of Art and all Festival goers, we will be partying till the early hours with free flowing beer and some real 21st century beats. See you there!
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Date 07 June 2019 Time: 20:00 Till Late Venue: The Bear & The Doll Tickets: Free
Belfast Photo Festival Presents
Festival Launch Party The party to launch the festival will be lead by one of the hottest DJ’s to come out of Northern Ireland, the one and only Timmy Stewart. He will have you hear subtle bells ring, percussion rattle, with a whole load of twisting and turning until the end of the night.
Date: 06 June 2019 21:00 - 00:00 Venue: Bullitt Hotel Tickets: Free 73
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At a Glance Thursday 06 June 2019 Artist Tour: Phillippe Chancel, Golden Thread Gallery 17:00
Late Night Art Coach Tour: Outside Linenhall Library, 18:30
Screening: Street Photography Awards, Bullitt, 20:00
Exhibition: Pseudo, ATypical Gallery, 17:00
Exhibition: Portraiture In The Post Truth Era, Belfast Exposed, 18:00
Screening: Circulations Festival Screening, Bullitt, 20:00
Exhibition: Do Government Lie? Golden Thread Gallery 19:00
Workshop: Chlorophyll printing process, Castle Court, GTG, 18:00
Official Launch Party: Bullitt, 21:00 Awards: Spotlight Award Winner Bullitt, 21:00
Friday 07 June 2019 Portfolio Reviews: The MAC, 09:30 - 16:00 Talk: Panel Discussion -Truth & Lies (The MAC) 12:30 - 14:00
Workshop: Anthotype process Castle Court, GTG, 14:00 Exhibition: London Alternative Photo Collective Castle Court, GTG, 17:00
Exhibition: New Talent Ulster University 18:00
Graduation Party: The Bear & The Doll 20:00
Exhibition: Post Truth Belfast Exposed 18:00
Saturday 08 June 2019 Talk: On My Mind Erik Vroons - GUP Bullitt 10:00 Talk: On My Mind Catherine Troiano - Q&A Bullitt, 11:00
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Workshop: Slide-Collaging Castle Court, GTG, 13:00 Artist Talk: Phillipe Chancel Golden Thread Gallery 13:00
Talk: Transhumanism Q&A Matthieu Gafsou Ulster Museum 14:00
Workshop: Undertsanding Photography Ethics Workshop 14:00
Exhibition: Opening: H+/ Ways of Knowing. Botanic Gardens/Ulster Museum 15:00
Comedy: Have I Fake News For You? 19:30
Sunday 09 June 2019 On My Mind: Takashi Kakishima Poeticscape Bullitt 10:00 On My Mind: Roisin Lanigan i-D Magazine Bullitt 11:00
Artist Talk: Daniel Stier Bullitt 12:00 Artist Talk: Cortis & Sonderegger Bullitt 13:00 Talk: Unseen Dummy Award Presentations Framewerk 14:00
Exhibition: Photobook Library 14:00
Talk: Abandoned NI VAULT Studios 19:00
Talk: Abandoned NI VAULT Studios 15:00 Screening: Bellingcat Queens Film Theatre 15:30
Thursday 13 June 2019 Talk: Oliviero Toscani, Ulster Museum, 18:00
Exhibition: Korean Perspectives, Culturlann, 18:00
Exhibition: Margins of Excess, Belfast Exposed, 18:00
Artist Talk: Erik Kessels Golden Thread Gallery 13:00
Workshop: The Camera Never Lies Belfast Exposed 14:00
Saturday 15 June 2019 Titanic Taster Photography Tour: Titanic Belfast 10:30 Wednesday 19 June 2019 Talk: Tenx9, Black Box, 19:00 Saturday 22 June 2019
Saturday 23 June 2019
Workshop: Photo Intaglio, Belfast Print: 10:00
Tour: Architecture Photo Walk, Place: 12:00
Saturday 29 June 2019 Workshop: Belfast City, The Truth: 14:00
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