Last night I had a lovely evening in Belfast and it was all free. First of what Ps2 Gallery opening where Jennifer Caffrey, Remembered, Heard, Fictionalized, Drawing IN, OUT, OF Belfast’. installation
was taking you to a higher power with her speakers on the roof of the gallery. It gave you a wierd feeling where the sound was actually going inside your head. The sound of a trip into Belfast nicely observed.Capturing Belfast altererial routes at a specific point of development.
Next was Platform Arts where Catherine Devlin, No use Crying was showing sculpture and photos. Now the thing about Platform Arts is that I remember when they were all working hard to clean it up to make it into a gallery space. I've got photos somewhere. Now is a ligitimate gallery space. Could it be a flegling Golden Thread? it certainly looks that way exhibition was beautifully presented . Well done keep it up.
Further on down Queen street was Queen street studios gallery space had Aleramin rising by Barbara Knezevic at QSS Gallery, Queen street studios 3 pieces interesting to look at after the other two galleries but............it was worth it just to see Brendan's trolley.
Over then to The Ulster Hall where there was a free concert with the Ulster Orchestra the star of the show for me was Codetta with Donal Doherty, Artistic Director
a choir from Derry who were fantastic ,beautiful clear voices that caught you right it the chest. It made me realise what interesting opportunities Derry talent is going to get (I hope) from being the City of Culture in 2013. The whole preformanace was going to be transported to Derry the next night.
By that time my evening was over, all free, all in Belfast City Centre walking distance apart. It's lovely to see a city changing. I only hope the drastic art cuts will not cut off the life of all this amazing creativity. Wait and see, in the meantime just keep lobbying.
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