Westenders intergenerational Singing Group, that will take part in community events, participate in concerts for their members or as a supporting act in community concerts, events or festivals.
Event Category: Live Music Sets & Performing Arts
Stand-Up for Integrated Education Comedy Night
| The Integrated Education Fund (IEF) is proud to present Stand-Up for Integrated Education, the latest in a series of sold-out comedy nights at the Ulster Hall, Belfast, on 16 October 2025. All funds raised will go towards supporting the IEF’s mission of promoting and developing Integrated Education across Northern Ireland.
Colin Murphy returns to compère the evening. Colin has been a regular on radio and tv for the last twenty-five years, most famously on The Blame Game for the BBC and The Panel on RTE. He is an accomplished stand-up comedian and has recently finished his latest tour ‘Murphy Beaucoup’ playing to sell out audiences from Belfast to Cork. Emer Maguire is Northern Ireland’s brightest up-and-coming musical comedy star. She has sold out shows at the Mac Belfast, the Grand Opera House and the Edinburgh Fringe and continues her ascension with her new touring show ‘Notions’. Emer is a regular voice on BBC Radio and is host of the acclaimed podcast ‘Bimbo and Butch’. She has also just been commissioned to write a script for Channel 4 for a sitcom starring Emer, based on her life as an autistic adult. Emer is a fierce advocate for Integrated Education. The bearded Tim McGarry is best known for playing the role of Da in the iconic series Give My Head Peace, as well as for hosting panel show The Blame Game. Alongside Dr David Hume, he currently co-presents the acclaimed BBC Radio Ulster show and BBCNI TV series The Long and the Short of It, which explores Irish history from different perspectives. With 31 years in the comedy game, Tim’s acerbic take on all things local is unmistakable. Wendy Wason is a Scottish actress and comedian. Her TV shows include Coupling, The IT Crowd and Broken News. Wendy is also an established stand-up artist with five solo touring shows under her belt, including the winner of best show at the 2016 Guildford Fringe. With a Northern Irish husband, Wendy reflects: ‘There is a real joy with sticking it to the man in Belfast. That’s a shared feeling between Scots and NI folks.’ Tim McGarry said: ‘I’m delighted to be back in the Ulster Hall to help raise funds for the important work of the Integrated Education Fund. If you have already been to Stand-Up for Integrated Education, you’ll want to come back. And if you haven’t been before – even if you’ve no links to the cause – come along for a great night’s craic!’ The comedians will be joined on the night by a special guest. This event is generously supported by the McCall Foundation.
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North of Ireland Brass Band Championships
In association with the Fermanagh/Tyrone Brass Band Summer School supported the Community Relations fund, the North of Ireland Brass Band Championships brings together brass bands from all over Ireland to connect as a brass community together from all cultural backgrounds to work together to sustain and improve the ethos of their cultural. Following on the FTBBSS event in July 2025, this event reunites friendships created at this event in friendly competition but sustaining the strong cultural movement of the brass band for all ages.
ANYTHING CAN HAPPEN 1972: Voices from the Heart of The Troubles
Presented by The Playhouse Theatre and Peacebuilding Academy
Written by Damian Gorman
Directed by Kieran Griffiths.
The statistics for 1972- the worst year of the ‘Troubles’- are astonishing: almost 500 killings (nearly 100 in the month of July alone); 10,000 shootings, 2,000 explosions, and almost 5,000 people physically injured.
But statistics only take you so far, and they don’t take you inside the hearts of people who were there. 1972 was an extraordinary year- a year when it felt like anything could happen- but it was a year of lives as well as deaths. And here is an evening of voice, of people- gathered by the poet Damian Gorman- which carries inside stories of both.
As part of the production, those who have lost loved ones in the Troubles, due to Covid-19, or in any circumstance, were invited to contribute to Anything Can Happen 1972. They were able to send objects or photographs of significance or importance to them, to be placed on the other 130 empty chairs in our theatre. This is so that instead of absence, the chairs have something very significant and important on them, to be lit by theatre lights in an act echoing Seamus Heaney’s famous work Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication, in which he describes ‘a sunlit absence’.
Teanga an Phobail/ Language of the community/people – Liam Ó Corraí
Glór Dhal Riada is the local Irish Language and Culture development group that was established within the Ballymena and Glenravel Area in 2008. The group’s name is appropriate to the Mid and East Antrim area as it is derived from the ancient Gaelic overkingdom of Dal Riada that included north east Ulster and a sizable portion of western Scotland and its Islands. Dal Riada was founded by Gaelic Irish migrants who brought their Language, and writings with them. Ths song performance is from Liam Ó Corraí .
Teanga an Phobail/ Language of the community/people – Lorcán ó Darach & Louis Young
Glór Dhal Riada is the local Irish Language and Culture development group that was established within the Ballymena and Glenravel Area in 2008. The group’s name is appropriate to the Mid and East Antrim area as it is derived from the ancient Gaelic overkingdom of Dal Riada that included north east Ulster and a sizable portion of western Scotland and its Islands. Dal Riada was founded by Gaelic Irish migrants who brought their Language, and writings with them. This performance is from Lorcán ó Darach & Louis Young.
Teanga an Phobail/ Language of the community/people – Lasairfhíona Nic Ruairí, Harpist, from Glór Dhal Riada
Glór Dhal Riada is the local Irish Language and Culture development group that was established within the Ballymena and Glenravel Area in 2008. The group’s name is appropriate to the Mid and East Antrim area as it is derived from the ancient Gaelic overkingdom of Dal Riada that included north east Ulster and a sizable portion of western Scotland and its Islands. Dal Riada was founded by Gaelic Irish migrants who brought their Language, and writings with them. This performance is from Lasairfhíona Nic Ruairí from Glor Dal Rhiada playing the Harp.
Teanga an Phobail/ Language of the community/people – Conn Fyfe, Irish Dancer, Seven Towers, Ballymena
Glór Dhal Riada is the local Irish Language and Culture development group that was established within the Ballymena and Glenravel Area in 2008. The group’s name is appropriate to the Mid and East Antrim area as it is derived from the ancient Gaelic overkingdom of Dal Riada that included north east Ulster and a sizable portion of western Scotland and its Islands. Dal Riada was founded by Gaelic Irish migrants who brought their Language, and writings with them. This performance is from Conn Fyfe, an Irish Dancer from Seven Towers, Ballymena.
Teanga an Phobail/ Language of the community/people – Nigel and Elaine Black from Glór Dhal Riada
Glór Dhal Riada is the local Irish Language and Culture development group that was established within the Ballymena and Glenravel Area in 2008. The group’s name is appropriate to the Mid and East Antrim area as it is derived from the ancient Gaelic overkingdom of Dal Riada that included north east Ulster and a sizable portion of western Scotland and its Islands. Dal Riada was founded by Gaelic Irish migrants who brought their Language, and writings with them. This performance is from Nigel and Elaine Black from Glór Dhal Riada.
Inorganic Matter Live Performance
Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum held a virtual live event in the Museum of Free Derry with our Health Champions band, Inorganic Matter, made up of young people from the local community.