Brink and Alice Malseed present Luminous; a night of new theatre, performance, literature and music. This night of site-responsive performance invites audiences to experience five unique performances.

Each artist responds to the environment, light and our world. 

The five short pieces will explore everything from mushrooms to queerness, pronatalism to hypercapitalism, and are set in contrasting locations such as Silent Valley and Belfast City Centre.

Join us at 5.30pm for music from The Shrub and a drink with The Sunflower Bar.

Performances starts at 7pm

End 10pm

This event has been supported by Arup and A&BNI.

Performances - 

• Blueprint by Sara Walmsley

• Fás Aon Oíche / One Night's Growth by Ass Gaeilge

• Scim (performed play-reading) by Louise Parker, directed by Colm G. Doran

• Beltane - written and red by Deirdre Kelly

• TITLE by Louise Mathews 

Presented by Harmony

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Blueprint

BluePrint project artist, Sara Walmsley, in collaboration with community participants and project partners co-created multiple creative outputs to amplify climate risk communication with decision-makers and communities at-risk.   

A sound Installation entitled “In at Midnight and Away by Morning: The Uninvited Guest” (17mins, 2024) weaves together the voices and sounds that tell the stories of two devastating flood events that affected the people and places of Eglinton and Newtownstewart in 2017 and 2022.  This piece combines poetic reflection, polyphonic harmonies of St. Eugene’s Church choir, as well as the sonification of historic and predicted rainfall data. It captures the lived experience of two communities who, in having to deal with the realities of flooding, are already learning to live with the impacts of climate change and their need for climate resilience.

https://www.marei.ie/project/blueprint/

Fás Aon Oíche

Fás Aon Oíche/One Night's Growth is a new bilingual (Irish/English) solo show that centres the queer, horny and freaky world of fungi. Touching on queer joy, climate grief and the power of language, the show explores what 1.5 billion years of evolution and 23,000 genders have to teach us. 

Scim

Scim by Louise Parker, Directed by Colm G. Doran (performed reading)

It’s 2029: Sarah is going on terrible dates off a terrible app, her Granny Aine has just died, and the River Bann has turned to blood. Devastated and enraged by both her crumbling personal life and the frightening state of the natural world around her, Sarah travels through space and time to solve the mystery of what exactly has happened to the longest river in Ulster.

Beltane

Deirdre Anna Rose Kelly is a writer and performer from Letterkenny who lives in Belfast. She is a member of the Duncairn Creative Collective, and has performed her short stories extensively. Her work recently featured on BBC Radio Ulster. She feels passionate about sleeping and playing football badly.

TITLE

By Louise Matthews

Music by The Shrub - 

The Shrub are a collective of vinyl-focused music lovers who dig out discarded gems, dubby groovers and spacey slow burners to fill out your favourite local chill out room. They run a monthly low-tempo listening lounge in The Green Room at The Black Box.

How can we move to a more resource-efficient society by addressing the challenges of changing waste related behaviours? In this panel discussion we will explore how attitudes to waste are changing in Northern Ireland and what steps are needed to effectively engage the public to deal with their waste better. 

Caroline McGuiness-Brooks, Repair and Share Foyle & Library of Things, Derry.  

Anthony Flynn, Green Party Councillor, Belfast City Council

Dr Rachael Singleton, Chair of Sustainable NI, Behavioural Scientist and Lecturer at Ulster University

In this workshop we will look at common products that we buy to see what they are made of and how easily they can be recycled. 

There is currently a lot of work going on to produce “greener” packaging, but what is true and what is greenwashing?  This workshop will help inform you about how to make more environmentally friendly choices when purchasing. 

Led by: Patrick Duggan, Sustainability Sector Specialist – Plastics Recycling, WRAP, with support from Bryson Recycling. 

Paddy Duggan, Plastic Sector Specialist, WRAP – Paddy joined WRAP in April-22 bringing a wealth of experience of packaging materials after 20 years within the FMCG food and dairy industries. Paddy currently works on all Targets within the UK Plastic Pact, focusing on difficult to recycle materials. His knowledge within these sectors plus projects will increase the overall recycling rate and recycled content, contributing towards the Plastic Pact Targets.