With a population of almost 300,000 in the city proper, Belfast has grown into a cosmopolitan destination and become a popular weekend break spot. With feelings of optimism and life pulsing through the city, Belfast makes for an energizing getaway. It's never been easier to tour the city, thanks to a number of intriguing bus, taxi, boat and pedestrian options. Don't miss the Ulster Folk Museum or the Belfast Cathedral, and make sure to experience some of the award-winning restaurants, bars, clubs, galleries and theaters.
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Golden Thread Gallery (GTG) is a medium-scale, publicly funded, contemporary art gallery based in Belfast that is recognised as having charitable status. It provides a welcoming space for the public to engage with contemporary visual art, and has grown steadily since it was founded in 1998. GTG is recognised for its engagement with recent histories and re-imagined futures: the majority of its programme is engaged with offering the public a contextual experience of the visual art of our time. GTG is a member of the Plus Tate network, a lead partner in the Draw-Down-the Walls collaboration and is accredited by Investors in People. Golden Thread Gallery (GTG) plays an important role in the provision of contemporary visual art in Belfast and Northern Ireland: Creating a context, challenging perceptions, promoting creativity, delivering contemporary visual art for all Our purpose in doing this is to: Offer the public a contextual experience of visual art of our time Present quality and innovative artistic programs that capture the diversity of contemporary arts practice and which engage, educate, challenge and inspire. Develop, support and promote the work of contemporary Northern Irish artists and contemporary visual arts practice. Build and engage the widest possible audience for contemporary arts, extending the reach of the arts, and nurturing a deep understanding and enjoyment of current visual arts practice within the broader community The Golden Thread Gallery delivers its vision across a portfolio of three interconnected activities: Audience, Participation, and Support and Profiling. GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY IS FINANCIALLY SUPPORTED BY ARTS COUNCIL OF NORTHERN IRELAND AND BELFAST CITY COUNCIL. THE GOLDEN THREAD GALLERY LTD IS A RECOGNISED AS A CHARITY BY THE CHARITY COMMISSION FOR NORTHERN IRELAND - CHARITY REGISTRATION NUMBER: NIC101097 AND IS ACCEPTED AS HAVING CHARITABLE STATUS BY THE INLAND REVENUE UNDER REFERENCE XR 54731.
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Catalyst Arts is an artist led organisation and seeks to adopt a poly-vocal strategy towards the promotion of contemporary art practices by large selection of artists and projects from the widest possible range of disciplines.Catalyst Arts is always a gallery, but has also been a 24 hour cinema, a recording studio, a publishing house, a skip, a radio station, a jumble sale, a wrestling ring, a sauna, a distillery, an agnostic chapel, a banquet hall, a darts team, a leisure centre and a night club.
4.5 based on 1,625 reviews
Amazing place brilliant breakfast then a wonder round the stalls, everything from fresh seafood to arts and crafts
Belfast's newest and possibly smallest gallery. Exhibiting a permanent, but ever changing, selection of the Artists work. Paintings of Belfast, in Belfast, by a Belfast artist. The Gallery is situated above the famous Good Vibes Records in Winetavern Street, behind CastleCourt, beside Smithfield Market. Open business hours, Mon - Sat.
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