Arts | Outburst
also take part. A photography exhibition will also feature as part of Outburst, in honour of the Northern Irish LGBT activist and founder of Belfast Pride, P.A. Mag Lochlainn, who passed away last November. Also, one of the public art installations features photographs of transgender people from Belfast, visible at bus-shelters across the city. “We want [people] to go to the events,” McCarthy says, “go to the pub afterwards with their friends, or go home and have conversations with each other about what they’ve seen, and have a bit of craic while doing it!” No better place to do all of that, than Belfast. The Outburst Queer Arts Festival takes place from November 15th to 23rd at various venues across Belfast City. For more information, visit outburstarts. com or @OutBurstArts on Twitter.
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