Fit To Burst

Our friends in the north are about to be spoiled for choice as the Outburst Queer Arts Festival takes over Belfast in early November. A cutting edge celebration of local and international LGBT+ talent, culture vultures can expect a rip roaring ten days of theatre, film, music, exhibitions and more.

Highlights include writer Stacey Gregg’s new show, Choices, about reproductive rights, while composer Conor Mitchell and the Belfast Ensemble take a topical look at political homophobia in Northern Ireland with two stunning new works at the Lyric Theatre – The Doppler Effect and Abomination - an opera challenging the DUP on their record of derogatory comments about LGBT+ people.

Cake Daddy, an uproariously delicious new musical with Ross Anderson Doherty, will explore what it means to be fat, gay, working class and proud, while lesbian performance legends Split Britches bring their show Unexploded Ordnances straight from a sell-out UK run.

With 35 excellent events to choose from, patrons would be advised to book early (and book often).

Outburst Queer Arts Festival runs from November 8 to 17 in venues across Belfast. Check out the full progamme at www.outburstartscom