📣 IMAGINE! BELFAST 2026 (Mar 23-29) Earlybird Announcement! 🎟️ First 5 highly anticipated shows are LIVE: Adam Kay, Tom Mayhew, Len Pennie, Will Sebag-Montefiore, & Dan Donnelly! 👉 Tickets here: https://t.co/iShpOWVZME Secure your tickets before the full festival drop.

Just over one week to go! Submit your idea for our 2026 edition by 7 November - info at

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CALL FOR IDEAS: IMAGINE! BELFAST FESTIVAL 2026 Find out more and submit your event idea here: https://t.co/zur3ZML9CK Imagine returns 23-29 March 2026. Submit your engaging and creative proposals (talks, performances, workshops, etc.) by 7 November 2025 to shape the programme.

CALL FOR IDEAS: IMAGINE! BELFAST FESTIVAL 2026 Find out more and submit your event idea here: https://t.co/zur3ZML9CK Imagine returns 23-29 March 2026. Submit your engaging and creative proposals (talks, performances, workshops, etc.) by 7 November 2025 to shape the programme.

Calling all creatives, thinkers, and changemakers... Imagine 2026 open submissions are just around the corner, launching on 10 October. We'll also be releasing a step-by-step video guide to walk you through the application process. Get your ideas ready!

120 events across 50 Belfast venues in 7 days - and countless unforgettable moments. See if you can spot yourself in our highlights video - and thanks so much for supporting Imagine Belfast 2025! ✨

Wow, what an event with @RubyFree8 and Bethany Dawson at @ImagineBelfast on Sunday! Head over to their instagrams to find out more 👇 https://t.co/P94haIwtpd

Bring your mother (and anyone else you love!) to this fun #quiz on this evening in the lovely @The_AmericanBar #belfast for lots of laughs, unusual prizes, and friendly people! A few tables left

So inspired by the words being shared by young poets at @HeaneyCentre presents: LAND. Congratulations to Shirley McMillan and the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's team for such a wonderful event!

Engaged audience for the Politics and Poetry Pub Tour as part of @ImagineBelfast . Thanks to participating pubs , Sunflower, The Reporter, McCrackens.

Lemn Sissay, author, poet and activist, at The @NUJBelfast ‘Lyra McKee Symposium AI and Journalism – Threats or Opportunities?’ in Crescent Arts Centre at Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics @ImagineBelfast

A lovely afternoon with @QuintinOliver @acallan87 & @markdevenport discussing how to lose a referendum as part of @ImagineBelfast A rich debate on how international examples might guide future votes in Ireland; citizen engagement, clear information & relevancy all critical.

People at The @NUJBelfast ‘Lyra McKee Symposium AI and Journalism – Threats or Opportunities?’ in Crescent Arts Centre at Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics @ImagineBelfast @NUJofficial

Professor Charlie Beckett, Journalism AI Programme, LSE, spoke on a pre-recorded zoom from London, at The @NUJBelfast ‘Lyra McKee Symposium AI and Journalism – Threats or Opportunities?’ in Crescent Arts Centre at Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics @ImagineBelfast

Kathryn Johnston, NUJ National Executive Member, reading the ‘ceasefire babes’ by Lyra McKee RIP at The @NUJBelfast ‘Lyra McKee Symposium AI and Journalism – Threats or Opportunities?’ in Crescent Arts Centre at Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics @ImagineBelfast

Disenshittifying Big Tech: How To Seize The Means Of Computation: @Doctorow @ImagineBelfast https://t.co/oTyxa7BImB @RMBee @daeaves @MazzucatoM @CarlotaPrzPerez @bethnoveck @om @jon_m_rob @VassB @DanHendrycks @kyleichan @IEET @erikbryn @EFF @FBoversight

Join us for this fun #quiz on Sunday evening in the lovely @TheAmericanBar for lots of laughs, unusual prizes, and friendly people! A few tables left so getting booking @whatsonNI @BelfastQuiz @secretbelfast @SluggerOToole #imaginebelfast #Belfast