Fri 13 - Sun 22
A festival of culture, conversation and workshops centred on the climate crisis.
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Fri 13th Jun: By Day - In partnership with Wild Belfast
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Fri 13th: By Night - Opening Party in partnership with Black Bones & Never Never
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Sat 14th Jun: By Day - In partnership with Native Events, Oh Yeah, Belfast Photo Festival and NI Screen
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Sat 14th: By Night - Outdoor Cinema In partnership with BFI and Patagonia
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Sun 15th: By Day - In partnership with Green Arts NI
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Sat 21st: By Night - In partnership with BBC Radio Ulster
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And a lot more to come ...
Events, Panels, Workshops, and much more…
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Festival Program
Fri 13
Becoming a Natural Park City: Planning the Possible
By Day: 10am – 5pm
Becoming a Natural Park City - a day of panels discussing the planning, environmental data and the politics required to achieve this aspiration (in partnership with Wild Belfast, Grow NI and quarto)
By night: 6pm – 11pm
Festival Opening Party - Black Bones & friends from the Brink! (with Black Bones, Conor Schmtz, Chris Frieze & Never Never)
Sat 14
Creative Climate: Arts Leading the Sustainable Shift
By Day: 10am – 5pm
Creative arts and a sustainable future - hear from artists and industry practitioners across music, image and film, leading the way in climate story telling & sustainable transformation (in partnership with Belfast City Council, Belfast Photo Festival, NI Screen, Native Events / Julies Bicycle Europe, Oh Yeah Music Centre & SUKI Tea)
By night: 6pm – 11pm
Outdoor cinema (in partnership with BFI, British Council & Patagonia)
Sun 15
Arts of Change: Creativity and Climate in Action
By Day: 10am – 5pm
A day of discussions, art and workshops delivered by artists and organisations from Green Arts NI, including the Black Box, Young At Arts, Polly Garnett, The Dirty Painter, Stephen Beggs, Power Plants, 10x9 and NI Science Festival (in partnership with Green Arts NI)
By night: 6pm – 10pm
Outdoor cinema (in partnership with NI Science Festival & QFT)
Mon 16
By Day: 10am – 5pm
Hear from academics, practitioners and students across a series of climate and environment panels and workshops (in partnership with Queen’s University Belfast - SECA, ClImate+ Co-Centre & The Seamus Heaney Centre)
Tue 17
Threads of Nature: Weaving Sustainability into Style
By Day: 10am – 5pm
A day of panels and workshops around natural fibres, dying and sustainable fashion (in partnership with Culture Bridge, Art Park, Mallon Linen, Fibreshed Ireland, Patagonia & Ulster University & SUKI Tea)
By Night: 5.30pm – 10pm
Alice Malseed and Brink present LUMINOUS with music by The Shrub - a night of new theatre, performance, literature and music (Supported by Arup and A&BNI)
Wed 18
Feeding the Future: Towards a Sustainable Food City
By Day: 10am – 5pm
A day of panels and workshops around becoming a sustainable food city (In partnership with the Belfast Sustainable Food Partnership and SUKI Tea)
By Night: 6pm – 10pm
Supper club - local produce and great chat for an evening of food under the canopy (in partnership with Food Ethics Council, Source Grow, Nourish NI & Stereo)
Thur 19
The City We Need: Collaborating for Sustainable Change
By Morning: 8am – 9am
People, Planet, Pastry (Supported by SAGE and Bakari Bakery)
By Day: 10am – 5pm
Planning for a sustainable city. A day of panels and discussion around how the many stakeholders of the city can be part of the change we need to make - in planning & architecture (in partnership with RSUA) - in energy (in partnership with SONI and Action Renewables)
By Evening: 5pm – 6pm: People, Planet, Pint (Supported by Krystal)
Fri 20
Worth Not Waste: Stitching a Future Beyond Fast Fashion
By Day: 10am – 5pm
Worth Not Waste panels & workshops around textiles and fast fashion (in partnership with Bryson Recycling, Belfast Repair Cafe, Tools For Solidarity, International Synergies)
By Night: 6pm – 11pm
Site-specific audio art with Rory Friers (ASIWYFA)
(Supported by Arup and A&BNI)
Sat 21
Long Light, Loud Stories, Beautiful Trouble
By Day: 10am – 5pm
Climate, food, and environment panels & workshops (in partnership with Friends of the Earth)
By Night: 6pm – 11pm
BBC Radio Ulster - Folk Club Live with Neil Martin and Inna Rhythm with Kwame Daniels (in partnership with BBC)
Sun 22
By Day: 1 – 2pm
Close the festival with rhythm and joy! Join the Beat Carnival for a high-energy drumming circle workshop where everyone can get involved — no experience needed.
Sunday Events
All day events are delivered in partnership with Northern Ireland Science Festival
A festival of culture, conversation and workshops centred on the climate crisis.
This year’s Summer Solstice festival will be a 10 day series of events, panels and workshops to showcase the best of what Belfast has to offer in terms of making changes for the city across the themes of how We Eat, Live, Wear, Power, Waste and Travel.
Our previous solstice and equinox weekenders have welcomed thousands of people onto the Brink! site, to hear about the amazing projects and aspirations for our city, to learn new skills through workshops, and to have a party or two on the way. Join us for 10 days of challenging conversations, aspirational hopes, hands-on skills and cultural events to celebrate the start of your summer.
Over the next few weeks we’ll be regularly announcing updates to our program, a combination of free and ticketed events, so make sure to keep the dates clear because it’s going to be inspiring.
Let’s Get This Show on the Road
We’re on the move — and we need your help to get there!
In June we are hosting Summer Solstice from the Brink! - a 10 day festival of culture, conversation and workshops centred on the climate crisis.
We are also coming to the end of our 'meanwhile' time on the Belfast Stories site, and we are on the hunt to set up a new spot in Belfast City Centre.
So every penny you chip in (big or small!) helps us with our efforts to be a platform where culture, conversation and climate collide.
Our space and our festival are a playground for ideas, a gathering of curious minds, and a chance to brink together.
Love what we’re doing?
Please help us keep it going!
Our partners
Brink! partners span all walks of life and society, from funding bodies to companies, from activist organisations to cultural icons of our city, from academic institutions to community groups, from all over our islands. We all believe in the change that needs to happen.
