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Alongside the exhibition, we’re hosting a series of talks, workshops, screenings and creative actions that open up urgent conversations about Belfast today, and the future we want to build.
Hearsay at Point Zero: Screening and walk with artist Marta Dyczkowska | Sat 30 August | 12pm-2pm | Age: 18+ | £5
Join Marta Dyczkowska for a screening of her film Hearsay at Point Zero exhibited in the MAC Sunken Gallery.
Following the film, Marta will provide a brief introduction and guide you through the streets of Belfast and film locations, aiming to gather collective memories of the area through oral and creative testimonies. The memory mapping of North Street will commence at Point Zero (Assembly Rooms, also known as Four Corners) and will extend to Carrick Hill, covering distance of 0.6 miles.
A new vision for housing: In conversation with Matthew Lloyd and PPR's Take Back the City Activists | 5 September | 6:30pm - 8pm | Free, Booking Required
Participation and the Practice of Rights (PPR) Take Back the City (TBTC) activists are joined by Matthew Lloyd, award-winning architect of TBTC’s Mackie’s Masterplan to take a closer look at how this 25 acre brownfield site in Belfast of public land can be used to address the crisis in social housing supply, in a way that respects communities, climate and health.
Thinking of Home through Geopolitics, Memory and Justice | Tue 9 September | 3pm-5pm | Age: 16+ | Free, Booking Required
What does “home” really mean in a world shaped by inequality, displacement, and struggle?
In this lecture-performance, Dr. Azadeh Sobout invites us to rethink the idea of home—not just as a place to live, but as a site of resistance and a lens through which we can confront systems of power, colonialism, and injustice. Challenging the mainstream push to simply “build more housing,” Dr. Sobout explores deeper questions: What if housing itself could help us reimagine care, community, and belonging?
Reimagining Home Together: Tackling NI's Housing Crisis | Sat 13 September | 2pm-3.30pm | Free, Booking Required
Join us at the MAC on Saturday 13 September for a workshop to explore student proposals for the Mackie’s site, developed by the StreetSpace studio at Queen’s University.
This event invites discussion on a spatial plan tackling Northern Ireland’s housing crisis through a design-led, human-centred approach. In partnership with PPR's campaign Take Back the City and international research project Change Stories, this project reimagines public land for inclusive housing with all the services and amenities needed for a good quality of life.
Mini Architects – Let’s Design a City | Sat 20 September | 11am-1pm | Age: 7-11yrs | £7
In this imaginative workshop, children become Mini Architects, using drawing and collage to dream up a city where everyone has a home.
With the help of local artists, kids will explore what makes a home—and a city—welcoming and fair for all. They’ll create vibrant, mixed-media artworks that show their own designs for houses, neighbourhoods, and community spaces that leave no one behind.
Programmed as part of The State of Belfast exhibition. The State of Belfast uses Grenfell by Steve McQueen as a stepping off point to address the inherent injustices and inequality as well as issues of race and poverty which are inextricably linked to the Grenfell tragedy. The State of Belfast explores how these same conditions exist in Belfast and how we might collectively address them.
This national tour of Grenfell is being coordinated by Tate in collaboration with the partner venues and is made possible thanks to support using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England and from Art Fund. Each presentation will be free to visit and will be accompanied by a public engagement programme of talks, workshops and community events supported by the Grenfell Foundation.
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