31 March – 22 April Easter five day event, 6 April – 10 April

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© National Museums Northern Ireland Welcome to the Titanic Belfast Festival 2012

Titanic, with all the connotations of luxury, glamour and engineering feats, has sparked huge interest in Belfast from visitors and residents alike. The story of this amazing ship, designed and built in Belfast, is about much more than tragedy and lost lives. The story of Titanic is etched, hammered and carved into the city and in 2012; Belfast commemorates and celebrates the simultaneously breathtaking and mournful history of its most famous maritime creation. This information is correct at the time of going to print. A major international-scale three week Titanic Belfast visitor attraction in the newly Belfast City Council cannot be programme of events will be held in Belfast, developed Titanic Quarter. There will also be held responsible or liable for birthplace of Titanic, in 2012. We invite you a variety of fascinating Titanic related events any amendments, changes or to celebrate and commemorate a range of and activities taking place in Belfast over cancellations to the programme. significant anniversaries connected to Titanic. the Easter holiday period (7-10 April), with These include the birth of the ship (31 Belfast City Hall as the focal point. Join us for a March 1909), the 100th Anniversary of the variety of fascinating Titanic related events and ship leaving Belfast (2 April 1912) and the activities including dramas, exhibitions, tours, 100th anniversary of the sinking of the ship talks, children’s activities, films and more. (15 April 1912). Whatever your interest in Titanic, be sure During the three week festival, there’ll be a that there will be something for you! fusion of world-class public events to mark the opening of the multi-million pound

Belfast is the place to be in 2012; this is Our time, Our place! Opening of Titanic Belfast Saturday 31 March – Saturday 14 April 2012 Titanic Belfast, Titanic Quarter

100 years after RMS Titanic left Belfast, we are delighted to invite learn about Titanic’s maiden you to experience and explore voyage, her tragic sinking, Titanic Belfast is a ‘must do’ Titanic Belfast, the world’s largest the many stories of human interactive visitor experience Titanic visitor attraction. endeavour, and the technology engaging all the senses. To and science that finally found celebrate our official opening Immerse yourself in the amazing her, and helped to solve on Saturday 31 March we will story of Belfast in the 1900s, some of the many mysteries be launching a jam packed The Official launch of Titanic Belfast will take a spin in our Shipyard Ride, be at 11.45am on Saturday 31 March. surrounding that fateful night fortnight of celebratory Everyone is welcome. experience life on board and in 1912. events…see you there. 4 Titanic: A Commemoration in Music and Film BBC/Whizz Kid Entertainment/ASG Production

Titanic Saturday 14 April Belfast Waterfront Light Show Ticketed event

Free event A spectacular event which marks the 100th (Ticket required) Saturday 7 April anniversary of the sinking of the ill fated The Slipways, Titanic Belfast and Albert Quay Titanic, the world’s most famous ship. The Free event Gates open 8pm Monday 9 April – Wednesday 11 April 90-minute show, which will be broadcast live Last admissions to event site 8.45pm (No ticket The Slipways, Titanic Belfast required) on BBC, retells the story of the legendary Show 9pm (Duration 40 minutes) 8.30pm-10.30pm liner - those who built her, those who Cutting edge architectural projection, In addition to the show on Saturday 7 April, perished in the icy waters of the Atlantic, intense 3D motion graphics, synchronised there will be three nights of interactive and those who survived. The story unfolds pyrotechnics and bespoke sound installations, inviting you to submerge through a breathtaking combination of music design, will combine to treat you to an yourself in Belfast’s history. Using live motion and documentary featuring top local and unforgettable audiovisual performance. tracking and depth sensing technologies, the international artists, as well as original archive One of the most challenging projection responsive installations will open a porthole material, the Ulster Orchestra and a massed mapping projects ever attempted, this will to the information age, showing just how far choir. Accompanied by stunning visual effects, be an irrepressible celebration of Belfast, we’ve come since 1912. The live interactive this is a thrilling, dignified and memorable its culture, heritage and bright future. shows will be accompanied by reactive commemoration of a night to remember by visuals that will mutate and transform, a world which has never forgotten. The show is inspired by the design turning the incredible Titanic Belfast building For ticket information please visit of RMS Titanic itself, its construction, into a stunning musical artwork. www.bbc.co.uk/tickets engineering, its journey and transformation; demonstrating its continued life and spirit at Titanic Belfast. Titanic Belfast will set sail Saturday show admission by ticket only on a wave of anticipation as the launch of ALL TICKETS HAVE NOW BEEN ALLOCATED this unique building will capture the spirit If you have reserved tickets with the Belfast Welcome of optimism for Belfast’s future. Centre, they MUST be collected by Tuesday 3 April 5 100th Anniversary Titanic Commemoration Service and Unveiling of the Titanic Memorial Garden Sunday 15 April Belfast City Hall All welcome 9am – 10am As part of the Titanic 2012 centenary programme, Belfast City Council has created a new memorial garden around the existing Titanic Memorial sculpture on the east side of Belfast City Hall. This is the only memorial in the world to name all who were lost on RMS Titanic. Bronze plaques will bear the names of all those who died during the ship’s maiden voyage in April 1912. The garden will be unveiled following an inter-faith remembrance service and will include performances from Belfast Youth Orchestra and Friday 13 April the Harlandic and Queens Island Victoria Male voice The Slipways, Titanic Belfast choirs. The service will be broadcast live on BBC Ticketed event (£) Northern Ireland from 6.30am to 10am as part of For one night on 13 April, thousands of Belfast’s music fans their Titanic Commemoration programme. This will enjoy explosive live performances from OLLY MURS, event is open to the general public and is being SEAN PAUL and RIZZLE KICKS. Once again shining MTV’s hosted by Belfast City Council in conjunction global spotlight on the city of Belfast, ‘MTV Presents Titanic with the Belfast Titanic Society. Sounds’ will be filmed and broadcast across 63 channel and 152 For more information please contact territories around the world as part of the network’s World the Belfast Welcome Centre on Stage franchise. The event will also be broadcast on MTV UK 028 9024 6609 on 5 May. For more event information, check out www.mtv.co.uk and www.belfastcity.gov.uk/events or #mtvbelfast 6

(ScenesTitanic from the British Wreck Commissioner’s Inquiry, 1912) By Owen McCafferty Government ordered an The British Wreck Commissioner’s Directed by Charlotte Westenra immediate inquiry and Lord Inquiry sat from 2 May to 3 July A MAC Production Mersey was appointed Wreck 1912. It took testimony from Sunday 22 April – Sunday 20 May Tuesday – Saturday 7.45pm Commissioner. 97 witnesses. Saturday and Sunday 3pm ‘It is very difficult indeed to come ‘..after the Titanic sank I never The MAC, Saint Anne’s Square, Belfast Price: £9.50-£22 to any conclusions. Of course, heard a cry.’ Lady Duff Gordon we know now the extraordinary (1st Class passenger) The MAC, Belfast’s brand new arts combination of circumstances In a search for the truth behind venue, is delighted to open with its that existed at that time which the tragedy, a magnificent cast own MAC production as part of you would not meet again in retell the survivors’ stories with the ni2012 ‘Our Time, Our Place’ 100 years; that they should have dialogue taken word-for-word celebrations. existed on that particular night from 100-year old testimonies. shows, of course, that everything At 11.40pm on 14 April 1912, the Don’t miss this compelling was against us.’ Charles Lightoller RMS Titanic, on its maiden voyage courtroom drama full of A major musical (Ship’s 2nd Officer) from Southampton to New York, intrigue, bravery and human celebration! struck an iceberg. At 2.20am the frailty - only at the MAC. Saturday 8 September following morning, the ship sank. Belfast Originally commissioned by the 1,517 people died. Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at BBC Northern Ireland hosts ‘It was a dark mass that Queen’s. With support from a major musical celebration of the Arts Council of Northern culture, achievement, people came through that haze…’ Ireland and ni2012. Reginald E Lee (Ship’s and places. This major outdoor Look-out) event supported by Belfast City Council, will come live from In response to the Belfast on September 8, 2012 disaster the British (subject to contract). Further details to be announced. 7 Exhibitions

Free events. No tickets required.

Unveiling of the Yardmen Statue - A sculpture by Ross Wilson Wednesday 28 March, 11am Pitt Park, Belfast Visit www.titanic-people.co.uk or Tel 028 9045 0507

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Titanic 100 Photographic Exhibition Saturday 31 March – Sunday 22 lens we get a remarkable April, 7am-7pm insight into the scale of the Front Lawns, Belfast City Hall shipyard, the environment in Friday 30 March – Saturday 21 April The Titanic 100 photographic Belfast Waterfront which men worked and the exhibition celebrates the variety of crafts that led to Three renowned artists building of the great ship the design and build of ships present their work based on from its inception to launch, prior to Olympic 400 and the Titanic and the people who focusing on the photography Titanic 401. Step back in time made the great ship. of R.J. Welch, the official and see how Belfast looked For more information visit photographer of Harland & in 1911 from the grand view Exhibitions www.waterfront.co.uk Wolff. Through Welch’s camera of Belfast City Hall. 8 Free events Kings of the Tides Belfast Family History Exhibition: Maritime Paintings from Belfast and Cork Exhibition Curated by Marianne O’Kane Boal Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April 10am-6pm Great Hall, Belfast City Hall Henry Aldridge & Son Sunday 2 April 1911, tens of Artefacts Display thousands of households in Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April Belfast filled in their census Titanic Toast Exhibition 10am-6pm forms. These unique documents Banqueting Hall, Belfast City Hall Exhibiting artists: Sara Greavu and offer a window on social, family Philip Hession Henry Aldridge & Son of and cultural life in Ireland’s Tuesday 10 April – Wednesday 11 May Devizes, Wiltshire, are the leading only industrial city. Using Golden Thread Gallery, Great Patrick auctioneers in the world of Titanic contemporary photographs, film Street, Belfast and White Star Line memorabilia. clips, newspapers and census This exhibition considers Titanic During the Titanic Belfast Festival, documents, this exhibition brings from a number of vantage they’ll be displaying over 100 to life some of the key features points. Some assign Titanic Tuesday 3 April – Saturday 28 April Open to public Tuesday-Saturday only museum quality items. This is a of community and family life particular symbolic meaning: 12pm-5pm, Admission Free unique opportunity to view selected in Belfast at the end of the others an oblique look at the Belfast Harbour, Harbour Office contents of Aldridge’s July 2012 Edwardian era and on the eve of event and its historical context. Corporation Square, Belfast 100th anniversary auction including the Great War, the Easter Rising Visit www.goldenthreadgallery.co.uk Kings of the Tides is an exhibition a cup and saucer from the Titanic. and Partition. or Tel 028 9033 0920. that celebrates the heyday of shipping and the maritime painting tradition. A selection of maritime Vintage Austin Car Display The vehicle has been paintings from the eighteenth- Monday 9 April – Tuesday 10 April completely restored using twentieth century from collections 11am-5pm Front Lawns, Belfast City Hall original parts and is believed in Cork and Belfast Harbour Step back in time to view a to be only one of two left in to celebrate the first cultural spectacular display of vintage Austin the world with the original partnership between the Port of cars in the grounds of City Hall. The Austin Sirdar Phaeton body. Cork and Belfast Harbour. star attraction will be the Austin Vintage Austin experts will be For more information 10/12 which was built in 1912, the on-hand to give you a taste of Tel 0035385 7687757 or email year of Titanic. life in 1912. [email protected] 9 Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh

Titanic: Window on Ticket for Titanic Emigration Exhibition Saturday 2 June – Tuesday 5 June 2012 Tuesday 28 February 2012 – Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh Sunday 26 January 2014 It is early April 1912 and young Ulster American Folk Park, Omagh Mary McGovern is leaving County Have you ever wondered Cavan for New York. She has come TITANICa:what life was like for the TITANICa:into town to say her goodbyes TITANICa: TITANICa: Theemigrants Exhibition from Ireland who Theto friends People’s and make Storysome last The Exhibition The People’s Story boarded Titanic? Explore a minute purchases for her journey. Discoverthird 500 class original cabin on artefacts Titanic ExploreMeet Mary the and ultimate some of living her fellow Discover 500 original artefacts Explore the ultimate living includingand discover RMS Titanic the reasons objects history experience of Titanic including RMS Titanic objects history experience of Titanic recovered from the bottom bytravellers walking as they and stroll talking down why steerage passengers recovered from the bottom by walking and talking of the Atlantic. Get close to withUlster the Street people and experience who knew the of the Atlantic. Get close to with the people who knew Titanichanded with realover objectstheir tickets from in hersights, best. smells Dress and soundsin period of a busy Titanic with real objects from her best. Dress in period her world.Queenstown See one on of 11 the April 1912. costumesmarket day duringand take the awayearly 1900s. her world. See one of the costumes and take away portholes and a soup tureen yourChat withown the copy Emigrant of the Agent Titanic portholes and a soup tureen your own copy of the Titanic recovered from the seabed. launchabout how ticket. your Meetjourney local could be recovered from the seabed. launch ticket. Meet local Examine an original Titanic shopkeepers,arranged. Then wish businessmen Mary and her Examine an original Titanic shopkeepers, businessmen launch ticket from the pocket andcompanions townspeople, a safe passage, and watch for the launch ticket from the pocket and townspeople, and watch of a shipyard worker and find silentship they movies are leaving in the on Pictureis Titanic! of a shipyard worker and find silent movies in the Picture out about Rosa Abbott, the House. Look around and be out about Rosa Abbott, the House. Look around and be only woman to be pulled captivated by the era of the only woman to be pulled captivated by the era of the alive from the icy waters on world’s most famous ship. alive from the icy waters on world’s most famous ship. that fateful night. that fateful night.

Titanic: ‘Letting-Go The Last Rope’ at Southampton, 10th April 1912 Events and Exhibitions and Events Photograph © National Museums Northern Ireland 10 Collection Ulster Folk & Transport Museum

100019 Titanica 106x148 AW.indd 1 10001914/02/2012 Titanica 106x148 14:35 AW.indd 1 14/02/2012 14:35 Free Admission - ticket required. Available from the Belfast Welcome Centre. Titanic Dry Dock Big screen special events Titanic on screen A movie experience like no other! Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April, 10am-6pm The historic Dry Dock nestled within Titanic Quarter, will offer film goers an Reception Hall, Belfast City Hall experience like no other. Take your seats at the location where the gargantuan Take this opportunity to see on screen the legend that is Olympic class liners were launched. Belfast Film Festival, in association with Titanic, from archive footage to documentaries and dramas of the Belfast City Council and Northern Ireland Science Park, are hosting these unique liner; as she was in Belfast in 1912, as she is now on the seabed experiences which will transport you back in time to Belfast’s golden age of and how she has been depicted in film. industry. Become part of the history of Titanic as you watch the films projected Titanic: The Mission from the location of the great ship’s final departure from Belfast. (5 part series) A Night to Remember (£) Saving The Titanic (£) This fascinating five part Monday 2 April Tuesday 3 April series brings A Night To Saving The Titanic (2012, dir. Maurice the drama, Remember (1958, Sweeney, 90 mins) UK Premiere technological dir. Roy Ward We all know about the fates of the accomplishment and social Ghosts of the Abyss Baker, 118 mins) rich and famous on the ship’s maiden history of the Edwardian Joined by some of the world’s recounts the final voyage and the dramas that played out manufacturing industry back to foremost historical and marine night of RMS in the Titanic’s last hours. We know life. Titanic: the Mission sees a experts, James Cameron Titanic, as seen through the eyes of less about the team of shipbuilders team of modern engineers use journeys back to the site of Titanic’s famous Second Officer Charles and engineers who struggled to save hundred year old methods to his greatest inspiration – the Lightoller (Kenneth More). The film the stricken vessel. Now, Saving the recreate iconic sections of the wreck of the Titanic. During the won a Golden Globe in 1959 for Best Titanic tells the story from below deck. ship including the mighty hull, voyage, we explore inside the English Language Film and was produced Based upon eye-witness accounts, the luxurious interiors and the entire ship, deck by deck, room by Belfast man William McQuitty, co- this is the remarkable story of nine sixteen tonne anchor. by room, encountering mysteries founder of UTV. central characters from the engineering hidden for a century. Underwater crew as they work among the huge, Titanic – A Journey robots were designed and Also screening will be a short coal-fired furnaces powering the ship. to Remember built solely for the purpose of film of the launch of the RMS These men fought courageously to allowing the explorers to peer Titanic via Northern Ireland hold back the power of the sea and Follow BBC Newsline’s Mike Screen’s Digital Archive. McKimm’s journey to the into the remains of the once- keep the power running, even when wreck of Titanic. This short film great ship and bring those surreal they learned that all was lost. Most of contains some of the footage of and haunting images back to the these men died but their actions saved the ship, along with remarkable surface world. Loaded with unseen many lives. pictures taken from a Russian footage and revealing interviews. Please dress warmly submarine, which show Titanic’s startling deterioration. This film Full programme available on captures the unique experience www.belfastcity.gov.uk/titanic of visiting the world’s most or from the Belfast

Titanic on screen screen on Titanic For further information Tel 028 9032 5913 famous shipwreck. Welcome Centre. or visit www.belfastfilmfestival.org 11 Titanic talks and debates

Free Admission - ticket required. Available from the Belfast Welcome Centre. Call 028 9024 6609. Reception Room, Belfast City Hall

Titanic Birthplace - the History of Belfast Harbour By Alf McCreary Saturday 7 April,1pm included the ship-building Join Alf McCreary, the award- giants Sir Edward Harland, winning Belfast Telegraph Gustav Wolff and Viscount journalist and author of the Pirrie. He also tells the story best-selling book Titanic Port of the Thompson Dock where as he talks about the colourful Titanic was fitted out, and and dramatic history of outlines the fascinating history Belfast Harbour where the of Sailortown and its Titanic, Olympic, Canberra generation of dockers, and many other famous and the many rich ships were built on the land characters from the developed by the famous Belfast shipyards. Harbour Commissioners. They

of the Edwardian era, including Honeymoon Couples on Titanic Edwardian Fashion Event ‘Lucile’ who survived By Gill Paul By Jill Edgar the sinking of Titanic Sunday 8 April, 1pm Monday 9 April, 1pm and will discuss Gill Paul, author of Titanic After studying fashion and what influenced Love Stories and Women and period design, Jill, through her the creation of the Children First, will talk about plans for the future – and work as a Couturier, has worked stunning gowns of the thirteen honeymoon how they coped when, from on a number of period pieces the early 1900s, so couples who were on Titanic: celebrating their marriages they which are included in this very different from their backgrounds, how they suddenly found themselves presentation. Jill will talk about the Victorian era that

Titanic talks and debates and talks Titanic met, their weddings, their fighting for their lives. the famous fashion designers had gone before. 12 © National Museums Northern Ireland From Loch Ness to the Belfast Shipbuilders, A Fr Browne’s Titanic Album The RMS Titanic North Atlantic Titanic Tale By Una Reilly MBE Co-Founder Miscellany By Rory Golden By Stephen Cameron of the Belfast Titanic Society ( by kind permission of E.E.O’Donnell SJ) By John White Sunday 15 April, 11am Monday 16 April, 7pm Tuesday 10 April, 1pm Reception Room, Belfast City Hall Reception Room, Belfast City Hall Wednesday 18 April, 7pm Reception Room, Belfast City Hall Come along to City Hall to Rory Golden fulfilled a lifelong This fascinating talk will look at hear John’s tales surrounding ambition when he became the the men who took Belfast, a town In April 1912, Frank Browne, a the magnificent leviathan, RMS first Irish diver to visit the site with little or no resources, to trainee priest was given a gift from Titanic. You’ll be treated to a of the shipwreck RMS Titanic become the shipbuilding capital his uncle ... a two day trip in 1st Class, gloriously quirky mixture of in 2000 and 2005. This visual of the world. There were literally from Southampton to Queenstown facts, trivia, compendia and presentation tells the story from thousands of people who worked in Ireland, on board Titanic, on her biographies about Titanic. its original concept to find the at the shipyard over the years, maiden voyage. During the trip, Discover her sister ships, the wreck in 1976, to present times. but there were a handful of men, Frank explored the new ship and Harland & Wolff Shipyard Listen to Rory’s tales on his such as William Ritchie, Robert took photographs. The photographs, where she was built, Thomas experiences of being submerged Hickson, Sir Edward Harland, along with 42,000 others taken over Andrews her architect, the almost 4000 metres into the Gustav Wolff, Walter Wilson, Fr Browne’s long life, remained with maiden voyage, the passengers Atlantic Ocean as he got up Viscount Pirrie and Thomas the Jesuit Order, after his death in onboard and the moment close and personal with Andrews, whose individual and 1960. The Titanic images give us a she struck the Belfasts most famous joint visions were to unique insight into what life was like iceberg. Hear the maritime creation, see shipbuilding in on board. A Centenary extraordinary RMS Titanic. Belfast lifted to the Edition of Fr Browne’s accounts of highest heights. Titanic Album has been bravery onboard launched, to introduce Titanic when it the story to a new was clear she was generation. going to sink.

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Boat Making Art Workshop Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April 11am-5pm Great Hall, Belfast City Hall Make your very own Titanic, Olympic or Nomadic in this boat making art workshop. You can model your boat on some Belfast Bred (£) of the most famous ships or Every Friday and Saturday from June - September create a new design and then Departs Sawer’s Delicatessen, set sail on the high seas in your Fountain Street, Belfast imagination. No ticket required. A unique theatrical walking Suitable for all ages. tour exploring the food and drink history of Belfast. You will be accompanied by Barney, a chef from Nearly Titanic Tales Face Painting RMS Titanic, who has been True Tours Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April, restored to life following the melting of the iceberg Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April 11am-5pm (On the hour 12noon-4pm 10.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm every hour) Great Hall, in which he had been Meet at Reception, City Hall. Great Hall, City Hall City Hall frozen. Barney has two and All children must be accompanied by Titanic and maritime themed a half hours to complete an adult. stories which will cast a spell Easter Mask Making an ingredient hunt in Workshop contemporary Belfast and Take a trip back in time to on young and old alike. Be recreate the famous ship’s discover the ‘true and not so transported to places near Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April 11am-5pm launch menu with your help. true’ secrets of Belfast City Hall. and far with stories that are Great Hall, City Hall If successful, Barney will Developed by Young at Art the funny, serious, wise cook the Titanic Centenary organisers of Belfast’s Children’s and interactive... See your little ones transformed Dinner in 2012. Please wear Festival this tour has been all at once. into bunnies, lambs, chicks or comfy shoes and prepare especially created for even an Easter egg in our free for some delicious sampling! Easter Mask Making Workshops. Family fun Family children aged 7+. Visit www.kabosh.net or

Tours Tel 028 9024 3343 14 The new and official Titanic Tours Titanic bus tour of Titanic’s Dock and Titanic Walking Belfast (£) Titanic Quarter (£) Pump House (£) Tours (£) City Cemetery Walking Daily - times arranged to suit Departs daily from Castle Tours daily in April and May. Daily in April and May, customer on booking. Place, on the hour 11am and 2pm and Taxi Tours (£) £10 per adult / concession, Explore the world’s only Tour departs from the Premier Wednesday 4 April – Saturday 7 April Join Susie Millar, the great child and family tickets authentic Titanic landmark. Inn, Titanic Quarter Thursday 12 April – Sunday 15 April granddaughter of Titanic available Walk along the bottom Thursday 19 April – Sunday 22 April engineer Thomas Millar, of Titanic’s massive Dry Step back to the past and City Cemetery, Falls Road, Belfast who worked on the Journey to the past and Dock, at a depth of 44ft. trace Titanic’s birth through Walking tours depart from the cemetery gates construction of Titanic but experience the birthplace Her physical footprint in the eyes of the men who and the taxi tour begins at King Street depot. also sailed and lost his life of a legend. history is now open to the built her. Join ‘Titanorak’ guides 2pm each day - other times and dates are available upon request. (Duration 2 hrs) on her. The tour visits all See all the key sites public for the first time in who will accompany you on the key sites, telling the including a guided tour of its 100 year history. Once a visit to the former HQ of The tour will visit the graves of people story of Thomas Millar. Up Titanic’s Dry Dock and the beating heart of the Harland & Wolff, the original linked to the Titanic and its story, to 6 people can travel in Pump House with special shipyard, the Pump House Drawing Office where Titanic culminating with a unique performance the Mercedes MPV. access 44ft down to the comprises a visitor centre was designed, the Slipways presented by Kabosh Theatre Company. floor of Titanic’s Dock. where Titanic was built and the For more information and cafe. Tours including The tour concludes at local pub, The Tel 0785 2716 655 or visit For more information movie show operate daily. entrance to Titanic’s Dock and Rock Bar, the Gaeltacht Quarter with www.titanictours-belfast.co.uk Tel 028 9032 1321 or visit Pump-House. As part of the a complimentary glass of Guinness. www.titanicexplorer.com Booking and information at tour you will get special access www.titanicsdock.com Comfortable walking shoes and warm Tel Colin: 028 9073 7813 44ft down into Titanic’s Dock. clothing is advised. For bookings and information For booking information, Tel 07546 489875 or visit Tel 028 9024 6609 or visit www.titanicwalk.com www.gotobelfast.com Tickets can also be purchased from the West Belfast tourist information point located at An Chultúrlann 216 Falls Road. For more information visit www.visitwestbelfast.com or Tel 028 9024 1100 15 © National Museums Northern Ireland 16

Tours Tours Tickets: £25 pp can be arranged) Times: 10am (Other dates and times Kent Street Departs from Linen House Hostel on Every Saturday and Sunday Titanic Bike “N” Boat (£) Albert Clock,Albert CustomHouse Belfast’s Quarter, Cathedral the interestincluding points ofhistoric tour willtake you toover 30 ofthecity.heart This easypaced leisurely cyclethroughthebuzzing Quarter,the Cathedral enjoy a Belfast CityBike Tours HQ1in from - by bike andboat!Starting Belfast’s mostfascinatinglocations Bike-n-Boat tourwilltake you to way!an ecofriendly The Titanic ofthisiconicvessel in centenary the can’tandcelebrate tours Boat Tour goeswherenoother The world’s only Titanic Bike and (£)- There is a charge associated with these activities www.belfastcitybiketours.com 07592208716 or visit For bookings and information Tel for groupsatothertimes. sunglasses. Tours canbeorganised your wet weather gearandyour Be preparedfor allconditions-bring withcycling.for peoplecomfortable extremely comfyandeasytopedal used by BelfastCityBike Tours are points ofinterestenroute. The bikes back throughthecity, stoppingat withbikes andcycle will disembark land,launched. todry you Returning RMS Titanic wasdesigned, built and & the Harland Wolff shipyards where Belfast Lough, Queen’s Islandand sitesaround see themany historical of of thebirthplace Titanic, you’ll Boat Tour. An authentic perspective Lagan BoatCompany for the Titanic the River Laganyou’ll thenjointhe Square andtheBigFishsculpture. At Hamilton Dock, Queen’s Road, Titanic Quarter April SS Nomadic (£) in early in early 2012.April areavailablehat tours for thepublic Dock whereshenow resides. Hard beingrestoredinHamilton currently from the Titanic. The famousliner is toand passengers which carried SS Nomadicisthetendervessel www.goexploreni.com For more information go to its unique ‘deals’ section. exclusive offers and deals to users with NI’s best locations as well as providing ideas, event information, cool videos of NI serves to provide you with activity Titanic, with more to follow. Go Explore key signature destinations including Android app covering Northern Ireland’s Go Explore NI is a FREE iPhone and Go Explore NI - free app! Download from: studyguideforInteractive iPad. - free Titanic Gameand Titanic Map.Interactive Newfor 2012 and Events, Blog, and Gallery Documentary, Titanic facts, News iPhone experience Titanicdock iPad and www.titanicdock.com www.nomadicbelfast.com For more details visit Goes Live on the 31 March 2012 guide for 2012 (£) Titanic Belfast App, your Visit tours. informative and fun these on City QUARTER’ the of ‘TITANIC regenerated beautifully the round you guide will characters Irish Northern Famous users. iPhone and for Android app new brand their with time in back you company ‘My Tour Talk’ take to local winning award the Allow www.mytourtalk.com

Belfast City Hall Tours Lagan Boat Monday to Friday - 11am, 2pm and 3pm Saturday - 2pm and 3pm Company tours There are no tours on Sundays, Bank Holidays or Public Holidays. Hop on Hop Off Water Taxi Tours are available on a first-come, Service (£) first-served basis (no booking needed) Monday 19 March - December 2012 daily and leave from the reception area inside (See website for departure times) Belfast City Hall. Departing from Donegall Quay (near Led by an experienced guide, the Big Fish Sculpture) the tour lasts around one hour. Uncover the history of Belfast City Belfast’s first and only Harbour Hop Titanic Centenary Guided Titanic MTV Show (£) Hall, while exploring some of its on Hop off water taxi service. Boat Tour (£) Friday 13 April finest features. Saturday 7 April – Sunday 15 April Listen to the stars playing under the Titanic Boat Tours (£) 11.30am, 1pm and 3pm daily stars on the Mona and Joyce Too as The splendour and grandeur (Duration 1.5hrs) Monday 19 March - December 2012 daily we tour around the Titanic Quarter displayed so proudly and created 12.30pm (Duration 1 hour) Hear the fascinating maritime by boat, experiencing this first ever so magnificently by the craftsmen See the birthplace of Titanic by history of Belfast, Titanic and her two concert on Titanic’s slipway. The best of Belfast in the interiors of City boat, sailing around the Historic sisters Olympic and Britannic from views and sounds to be had! Hall, can be seen reflected in the experienced guides. Belfast Harbour where Titanic public rooms onboard Titanic. In was designed, built and launched. Titanic Voices (£) walking the corridors and climbing The tour tells the story of Belfast’s Titanic Belfast Light Show illustrious maritime heritage. Saturday 14 and Sunday 15 April the staircases of Belfast City Hall it Extravaganza (£) 7.30pm (Duration 1.5 hrs) is possible to envisage what it was Saturday 7 April like on Titanic. Titanic Leaving Voyage (£) Historic voices on a historic past, Monday 2 April See Titanic Belfast’s opening night recollecting emotional accounts and 7.15pm (Duration 2 hours) light show from the best vantage experiences from Titanic survivors, point, on the water! Feel the crew, shipbuilders and locals. Follow the wake of Titanic as she left excitement and watch an amazing Belfast Harbour for Southampton, display of lights projected onto the where she would depart on her new Titanic Belfast visitor attraction Book early to avoid disappointment! fateful maiden voyage. The tour takes on a leisurely cruise around the Contact: Lagan Boat Company in Belfast Harbour as we make our Titanic Quarter and Belfast Harbour tel: 028 9033 0844 or visit www.titanicboattours.com way out into the Belfast Lough to area. Book early for this once in a Holywood and beyond. lifetime experience. 17 Drama and music Booking essential - Tickets available from Grand Opera House Tel: 028 9024 1919 or visit www.goh.co.uk

Titanic - The Musical (£) Tuesday 10 April - Saturday 14 April Grand Opera House, Belfast Tuesday – Friday, 7.30pm Saturday Matinee, 5.30pm Saturday Gala Performance 11.40pm A unique stage re-creation tickets went on sale a year in of the tragic sinking of the advance of the performances. Titanic will be played out The final gala performance exactly 100 years to the on Saturday, April 14 sets a minute that the ill fated ship theatre precedent by having sank. Such was the interest its curtain up at 11.40pm; in the Belfast Operatic exactly 100 years after the Company’s historic, multi ‘unsinkable’ ship hit the award winning Titanic – The iceberg which was to seal its Musical production that tragic fate.

The Titanic Boys (£) By Martin Lynch and Francis McPeake Wednesday 8 August – Saturday This is the extraordinary true 25 August story of the members of the Grand Opera House Tickets start from £12 Harland & Wolff Guarantee Monday – Thursday 8pm Group, nine young Belfast men Friday and Saturday who built, sailed with and died 5pm and 8.30pm Drama and music and Drama on RMS Titanic. 18 © National Museums Northern Ireland Booking essential. The Wireless Room (£) Tickets available from Belfast Welcome Centre Tel: 028 9024 6609 most famous sinking in history. www.gotobelfast.com In this gripping new piece of For a full programme of all festival audio theatre on the 100th activities please visit anniversary of the sinking, On www.belfastcity.gov.uk/titanic The Air (Wireless Mystery Wednesday 11 April – Friday 13 April Theatre) presents the radio Great Hall, Belfast City Hall signals that went out on that Blackness After Midnight (£) 7.30pm White Star of the North (£) fateful night: from Titanic herself; By Rosemary Jenkinson On April 14 1912, hundreds of from neighbouring ships; from Directed by Des Kennedy wireless radio communications land-bases and newspapers. Saturday 24 March – Saturday 14 April filled the air over the mid- Using ships’ logs and the Lyric Theatre – Naughton Studio, Belfast Atlantic. Were it not for reports of the one surviving 1912. The most famous year in Belfast’s Marconi’s wireless telegraph wireless man, the audio play history, the year of the Titanic and the system and the bravery of weaves wireless messages with Ulster Covenant. This poignant play Tuesday 3 April and Wednesday 4 April the wireless operators, there music and sound effects to focuses on an east Belfast protestant 7.30pm may have been no survivors recreate the sound of the night family the Masseys and conveys how Council Chamber, Belfast City Hall to tell the tale of Titanic, the to remember. their lives were torn apart by fears The role of the Leyland liner of Home Rule in Ireland and religious Californian is one of the great discrimination at that time. Against this The Iceberg Presented by the Southbank Players (£) troubled backdrop, two of the Massey mysteries of the sea, inextricably Thursday 19 April and Friday 20 April Stewart Parker’s 1975 radio family set out to start new lives in linked to the tragedy of Titanic. The Barge, Lanyon Place play tells the story of the men America. The ship they sail upon is the Was she the ship that ignored the 7.30pm behind Titanic; those who Titanic. On that fateful night, Crawford rockets and steamed away, leaving helped design and build her Massey acts in a way that will impact on 1517 people to drown, or was she and those who took that now the rest of his life. really 20 miles away surrounded infamous maiden voyage in the This play was commissioned by the Belfast by ice, as claimed by Captain Lord? world’s most infamous vessel. Titanic Company in association with the The dialogue of this play, written But this is more than a lesson Lyric Theatre with funds provided by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland. by Denis MacNeice, is based on in history. In Parker’s hands the proceedings of the official the tale unfolds in unexpected inquiry of 1912, set in Scottish For ticket information please call ways; at times wryly humorous 028 9038 1081 or book online at Drill Hall Westminster. but ultimately poignant. www.lyrictheatre.co.uk 19 ni 2012 - the big events 2012 is an amazing time. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity, with unprecedented With so many big events, events and historic anniversaries celebrations, commemorations and to mark. A programme of huge attractions coming to completion, events are happening throughout this is our time to change the year, beginning with the perceptions and confidently put Titanic Belfast Festival 2012 in Land of Giants (£) Northern Ireland on the global April, kicking off a big year of Titanic Slipways, Titanic Quarter, Belfast tourism map. We’re welcoming Saturday 30 June events in style. visitors from around the globe to Evening event discover our region. Land of Giants will be the largest outdoor arts event ever seen in Northern Ireland. A show Peace One Day Concert (£) Irish Open (£) Royal Portrush is widely recognised of ‘giant’ proportions which Thursday 21 June 2012 Royal Portrush as one of the top golf courses combines acrobatics, aerial dance Ebrington, Derry~Londonderry Thursday 28 June – Sunday 1 July in Europe. It regularly features in and circus, music, special effects Evening concert After an absence of almost 60 years, top 20 golf rankings across the and pyrotechnics, the event This music concert will showcase the Irish Open returns to Northern world, and has hosted many elite will present a unique and epic the iconic new event space at Ireland this summer. The world international events. In 1951 Royal spectacle to an audience of over the historic Ebrington site in class links course at Royal Portrush Portrush became the first course 18,000 on the Titanic Slipways. Derry~Londonderry. Celebrating Golf Club will host the prestigious on the island of Ireland to host Funded by Legacy Trust UK, Olympic Truce, the Peace One 2012 event, from Thursday 28 June the British Open. The traditional Northern Ireland Tourist Board, Day Concert marks the opening to Sunday 1 July. Northern Ireland’s seaside town of Portrush lies Belfast City Council and the Arts of the London 2012 Festival of the historic courses have nurtured on the world famous Causeway Council of Northern Ireland, Land Olympic and Paralympic Games. more than a few legends. Our Coastal route, home to some of Giants is written and directed The gig will be wrapped in a city- home-grown international stars will of our most spectacular scenery, by Mark Murphy and being staged wide day-long music festival, with all be in attendance – Rory McIlroy with breathtaking views across by the Giant Events Company – a something for everyone to enjoy. (US Open Champion 2011), Darren to Scotland and Donegal. Major consortium comprised of the Jude Law as a main ambassador of Clarke (The Open Champion 2011) courses make major winners! Beat Initiative, Belfast Community the event will host on stage. and Graeme McDowell (US Open For event information visit Circus School, Young at Art and www.pgatour.com Belfast City Council. For more information please visit: Champion 2010) – as well as a host For ticket information visit

ni 2012 - the big events big the - 2012 ni www.peaceoneday.org of Europe’s top players. www.europeantour.com For more information please visit: 20 www.landofgiants.info Clipper Homecoming FLAGS by Hans Peter Kuhn Peace Camp Maritime Festival Giant’s Causeway Derry~Londonderry – North Coast Derry~Londonderry August – September/October 2012 Thursday 19 July – Sunday 22 July Thursday 5 July – Sunday 8 July This is the year the Giant’s Causeway Dusk ‘til dawn All day festival unveils the visitor centre worthy of Created by the renowned The Clipper Round the World its giant reputation as a must-see Opera and Theatre Yacht Race will make its destination. FLAGS by Hans Peter Kuhn, Director Deborah Warner homecoming leg from Nova a London 2012 Festival event, is an in collaboration with actor Scotia to Northern Ireland, installation embedded in the dramatic Fiona Shaw and creative arriving in Derry~Londonderry and to take part in the landscape of the Causeway, creating a producer Artichoke, this major in late June, welcomed by a celebrations to welcome new visitor experience, drawing on the new living artwork has been four day maritime festival at yacht crews from around the natural power of the elements. A series co-commissioned by Derry- the end of the following week world to Northern Ireland. of flags randomly positioned along the Londonderry Culture Company to celebrate the visit of the banks of the cliff face will rotate freely 2013 for the Cultural Olympiad. For more information please visit: world’s longest race. This is www.derrycity.gov.uk/clipper in the wind, creating a flickering pattern Installations will appear an opportunity to be inspired of yellow and red set against the www.cityofculture2013.com simultaneously from dusk ‘til dawn by the endeavour of the crew, backdrop of this spectacular landscape. at locations that ring the coast of For more information visit www.ni2012.com the UK and Ireland. From Northern Ireland to the tip of Cornwall, from remote Scottish islands to an East Anglian beach, these glowing, murmuring artworks are a poignant exploration of love poetry and a celebration of the extraordinary variety and beauty of our coastline. For more information please visit: www.artichoke.uk.com

21 50th Ulster Bank Belfast world music. This special Festival at Queen’s anniversary year promises Various venues across Belfast a world of talent on your Friday 19 October – Saturday doorstep. All we’re asking is 3 November for you to open the door, Titanic… Our Stories Saturday 21 April - Wednesday 19 The 50th Ulster Bank step outside and embrace September Belfast Festival at Queen’s the cultural experiences Springhill, 20 Springhill Road, will offer a dizzying array awaiting you. Moneymore, Magherafelt, Derry~Londonderry of dance, music, theatre, For more information visit visual arts, film, classical and www.belfastfestival.com The National Trust will deliver a unique programme of events maximising the links with two significant properties in Mid Titanic Lockdown Festival the evening with cutting edge music Ulster: Springhill’s Lenox- Saturday 31 March 12pm - 1am Conyngham family and Titanic T13, Queens Road, Titanic Quarter, performances Belfast from UK hip hop (1912), and The Argory’s Cornet An indoor, all day boutique pioneer Roots Bond with the Birkenhead festival in the heart of Titanic Manuva, legendary (1852). A letter written on Quarter. DJ Gilles Peterson, London’s Soul board Titanic was recently bequeathed to Springhill, written Taking Place in T13, Titanic Jazz Sound System and much more to be confirmed. on Titanic letter-headed paper by Lockdown features the stunning eleven-year-old Eileen Lenox- backdrop of Harland & Wolff’s Under 18’s welcome to all daytime Conyngham. Visitors can see, and iconic Samson & Goliath events if accompanied by an adult Over 18’s only permitted for evening discover the story behind, this cranes. Featuring events for events historic document and uncover all the family throughout the Tickets available from Ticketmaster the links with this beguiling 17th day, including street artists, outlets and www.ticketmaster.ie century plantation home through global cuisine, indoor market, For more information tel guided living history tours and urban sports, fashion and 028 9050 3726 or visit other events. magic workshops. The packed www.titanic-lockdown.com Email: [email protected] For more information Tel 028 8674 8210 programme continues into or visit www.nationaltrust.org.uk

To keep up to date on all the ni2012 events, and see how you can get involved please visit www.ni2012.com 22 Titanic Belfast events Kicking off our two weeks of celebrations and inviting you to a unique view of Belfast from within Titanic Belfast is the Titanic Tea Party - Join us for an old-fashioned tea party to celebrate our opening on orchestral programme of music from City Saturday 31 March. With a beautiful mixed of Belfast Youth Orchestra and songs to lift your soul from Belfast Community Gospel Choir. This is a free event but ticketed for limited numbers so please apply early for one of the following time slots: Tea Party Time Slots 1.30pm-2.30pm 2.30pm-3.30pm 1.30pm-2.30pm This event marks the beginning of a range of

excellent entertainment throughout the opening Further details visit festival from the very best of Northern Ireland’s musicians and artists and a celebration of our

rich, local talent. www.titanicbelfast.com Titanic Suite The BoatFactory(AllQueen’sMen)byDanGordon Happenstance Theatre Company and Titanic Foundation present Titanic Belfast of the Titanic Suite on the top floor of yard, in the magnificent surroundings is staged at the of heart Belfast’s ship by Dan Gordon and Michael Condron, This acclaimed production, performed -story this is THE BOAT FACTORY. can build it. This is history - this is his best there is, if you can dream it - they its height. Regarded as the biggest and of land and 35,000 men employed at Clyde, 67 different Trades, 300 acres ships built between here and the Harland & Wolff Titanic Shipyard. 1700 boy walks through the gates of Belfast’s on a post-war world. A 16 year-old 2nd of July 1947. The sun shines down above and years 12 for Suitable 8pm April, 5 Thursday – April 2 Monday

www.happenstancetheatre.co.uk For more information visit Brilliant!” - provoking - what more could you ask for? executed, fast, clever, funny and thought- Factory” would be hard to beat. Beautifully “For an evening’s entertainment “The Boat Titanic” - carefully as the men they portrayed built the friendship, hardship, humour and heroism as constructed a picture of boat-building, male “Dan Gordon’s brilliant two-man play....they Belfast Telegraph Audience comment 23 Titanic Belfast events The adrenaline filled action begins Easter Family Events in at Belfast City Hall on Friday 6 April association with Titanic Foundation with an opportunity for spectators Over the Easter weekend at Titanic to meet the drivers and see the Belfast, all the family can enjoy cars up close. Competitors will then some of the world’s best street Titanic Super Special Stage go head to head in a purpose built performers over three days of Donnelly Group Circuit of Titanic Quarter Super Special Stage interactive entertainment; cheer Ireland Rally that promises spectacular viewing, on your favourites at our ‘Street Friday 6 April just yards from the Titanic slipway. Performance It’s a Knock Out’ and Starting Belfast City Hall - 4pm onward The Rally then powers south for see who is crowned the Titanic Starting at Titanic Quarter - 5pm onward fifteen more stages around Armagh Street Performer. In the third round of the global and Lisburn. Intercontinental Rally Challenge For ticket information Tel 028 9024 6609 Titanic Diaries - Family Fun Days or visit www.gotobelfast.com Friday 6 - Monday 9 April (IRC) series, rally stars from around presented in association From Noon the world will battle with the best www.circuitofireland.net with Titanic Foundation Incorporating world street Irish drivers to lift the famous title. The Andrews Gallery performance and interactive family fun Monday 2, Thursday 5, Tuesday 10 Explore, Discover, Challenge and Wednesday 11 April TITANS – a new play by Jimmy McAleavey, 11am and 2pm (Duration 40 minutes) International Markets directed by Paula McFetridge Free event but tickets limited The weekend is jam packed with Starting from the Drawing Offices Suitable for 12 years and above activities for all ages, complimented and Belfast lore, encounter Sunday 8, Monday 9 and Wednesday 11 April the ghosts who have found a Titanic Diaries are intimate by an eclectic range of foods and 4 performances nightly: 7.25pm, 8.00pm, portrayals of how Titanic goods from around the globe at our 8.40pm and 9.15pm home in this unique structure, touched people’s lives International Markets brought to you by Suitable for 15 years and above now Heaven, Hell and a resting from Belfast, Southampton, city favourites, Belfast’s Award Winning place of lost souls. A haunting, A world premiere for a world- Cherbourg and Cobh. Join us Continental Christmas Market. provocative and humorous new for these bespoke sessions, class building, join us for a The International Markets run for 5 days drama, expect the unexpected. which animate a story inspired compelling theatrical trip behind Friday 6 April: 11am – 9pm the scenes of Titanic Belfast. Set in www.kabosh.net by these cities, in which the Saturday 7 April: 11am – 8pm great ship ported. Brought to Sunday 8 – Tuesday 10 April from 11am an ancient context of sea journeys A Promenade Performance. Titanic Belfast events Belfast Titanic life through performance, visuals, from early Irish myths, the Bible Please dress appropriately. 24 music and film. We are delighted that Dr Ballard, world-renowned ocean explorer will be joining us for the historic centenary weekend of April 14/15. We’re offering the public two exclusive opportunities. © National Museums Northern Ireland

Titanic Discovery Series Songs to The Siren 1912- Eric Whitacre’s ‘Water Titanic Memorial Lecture by - presented by Titanic 2012 - Presented by Titanic Night’ – A Sound and Visual Dr Robert D Ballard – presented by Foundation and Titanic Belfast Belfast and Titanic Foundation Installation - co-commissioned Titanic Belfast and Titanic Foundation Titanic Suite The Andrews Gallery Titanic Suite by Titanic Belfast and Northern Saturday 14 April, 6pm Monday 9 – Thursday 12 April Tuesday 10 April, 8pm Ireland Tourist Board Suitable for all ages 12.30pm and 3.30pm Peter Curran, BBC broadcaster Atrium (starting at the Drawing Offices) Suitable for all ages. Saturday 14 April, 11pm It is an honour and fitting that Dr Ballard will and son of the city invites you Suitable for 15 years and above deliver his annual Titanic Memorial Lecture at What was life like in Belfast, to celebrate the songs, the wit April 1912? Who were the Titanic Belfast to acknowledge this significant and the words that have saved A truly unique experience this world centenary. Among the most accomplished and larger than life characters in the both soul and sanity for the premiere of Eric Whitacre’s beautiful well known of the world’s deep-sea explorers, Titanic story? Want to learn people of Northern Ireland audio-visual installation, ‘Water Robert Ballard is best known for his historic more about fun and frocks on and beyond. Join some of the Night’ is a delicate, commemorative discoveries of hydrothermal vents, the sunken board the Titanic? These quirky, island’s great songwriters and experience to mark the historic RMS Titanic, the German battleship Bismarck, entertaining and educational musicians with performances evening of April 14, which changed and numerous other contemporary and sessions bring a fresh and lively by Cashier No 9, Andy Irvine, the course of the Titanic journey ancient shipwrecks around the world. dimension; step behind the Cara Dillon, Bap Kennedy, forever. ‘Water Night’, recorded by scenes of Titanic’s world. Henry McCulloch, The Wonder singers from across the globe, is Into The Deep by Dr Robert Villains and very special guest Eric’s third virtual choir, illuminated D Ballard – presented by Titanic Cathal Coughlan. by stunning visuals and immersive Belfast and Titanic Foundation sound. Meeting at the Drawing The Andrews Gallery Offices this late evening of reflection Sunday 15 April, 11.30am incorporates spoken word and A unique opportunity for young people music, an opportunity to engage in and families to learn about marine science this alternative vigil. and technology from Dr Ballard and discuss Further details on www.titanicbelfast.com his sea-bed discoveries including Titanic. 25 © National Museums Northern Ireland Out of interest

Titanic People The Titanic’s Last Saturday 31 March, 8pm Hero Shipyard Church, (Westbourne Hamilton Road Presbyterian Presbyterian Church), Newtownards Church Bangor Road, Belfast Sunday 15 April, 7pm A unique event to mark the Titanic An evening of worship and Centenary with members of the reflection on the courage New Irish Orchestra and Choir. and faith of Reverend John Visit www.titanic-people.co.uk or Harper, one of those lost Tel 028 9045 0507 on that fateful night. All are welcome to attend and there Yardmen Service is no charge. Sunday 1 April, 11am For more information Shipyard Church, (Westbourne Tel 028 9147 3213 or email Presbyterian Church), Newtownards [email protected] Road, Belfast and the Dock Office hours are 9am to 1pm A service of Thanksgiving and Monday – Friday Commemoration in the Shipyard Church for those who built the Titanic People Concert Titanic and other ships. Friday 20 April, 7.30pm For more information Shipyard Church, (Westbourne Requiem for the Lost Souls of the Titanic (£) Requiem for the Lost Presbyterian Church), Tel 028 9045 0507 Saturday 14 April, 9pm Hammond in St Anne’s Souls of the Titanic Newtownards Road, Belfast St Anne’s Cathedral, Cathedral Cathedral will be held on Sunday 15 April, 11am Memorial Procession A Titanic Centenary Quarter the centenary of the Titanic St Peters Cathedral, Falls Road concert of celebration and Saturday 14 April, 10.30pm Tickets £25 (Restricted view) hitting the iceberg, one commemoration with the St Anne’s Cathedral, Cathedral Quarter A mass and requiem will be £25 (To include CD and hundred years ago. Belfast Community Gospel commemorative programme) held in St Peter’s Cathedral, A special memorial procession will For ticket information call Belfast, to follow on from the Choir in the Shipyard Church.

Out of interest of Out leave St Anne’s Cathedral and make A specially written requiem into the Belfast Welcome previous night’s requiem in Visit www.titanic-people.co.uk its way to Belfast City Hall. by Belfast composer Philip Centre or Tel 028 9024 6609 St Anne’s Cathedral. or Tel 028 9045 0507 26 Titanic Yardmen Titanic Quarter 10k Cycle and Walk (£) Road Race (£) Sunday 1 April Sunday 22 April, Titanic Quarter Cycle – Departs Billy Neill Centre, Start - Queens Road Dundonald at 12 noon Finish - Arc Public Realm Walk – Departs Pitt Park, Junior Race – 1:30pm Newtownards Road at 12.45pm Senior Race – 2.15pm Registration fees: cyclists: £10 per adult and £5 per child Now in its sixth year, the Titanic how long it would have taken them All walkers: £5 10k has established itself as to run the length of the Titanic’s Northern Ireland’s premier boat deck. The race is open to Be part of the Titanic road race. The run finishes runners of all abilities, with fun 2012 celebrations in the beautiful setting of the runners, joggers and club athletes in this fun, family public realm space at Abercorn joining elite International athletes friendly event Residential Complex (ARC) to produce a unique atmosphere. which encourages physical activity. where a family fun day will be Make sure you put the date in your Walk or cycle the route 1000s of hosted with a range of activities diary and get training! yardmen took to work each day before, during and after the race. Edwardian Fashion Display while raising money for Bowel It will include a charity ‘Titanic For more information and entry details Cancer UK. Saturday 7 April – Tuesday 10 April Sprint’ event which will invite race visit www.athleticsni.org or contact 10am-6pm For more information on how to competitors and spectators to test [email protected] tel 028 9060 6964 Great Hall, Belfast City Hall register visit www.communitygreenway.co.uk Come and see the elegance and style or call 028 9046 7925 of the Edwardian era with a display of Titanic Amateur Radio much lower. Today’s radio amateurs or hams as they are known still use replica Edwardian Fashions, including Saturday 7 April - Tuesday 10 April, hats which you can try on. Members of Belfast Titanic Triathlon (£) 10am-6pm morse code as well as voice and Sunday 1 July computer generated signals to talk the Belfast Titanic Society will be there Council Chamber, Belfast City Hall in period costume to answer those A Triathlon sanctioned event to one another. Using simple wire The new technology of radio played antennas they can communicate with Titanic questions you always wanted the offering both sprint and standard a crucial role on that fateful night answer to. You can also browse in the distance races on closed roads. other amateurs across the world. Join in 1912. If recently introduced the City of Belfast Radio Amateur Society’s stall which has a large range of Athletes will race through the international radio procedures had of Titanic memorabilia. heart of the city, taking in many of Society to learn all about this been followed by all ships fascinating technology. Belfast’s iconic sights. in the area, the loss of Further details of the Belfast Titanic Society, events and membership can be For more information visit life may have been found at www.belfast-titanic.com www.belfasttitanictriathlon.com 27 The Belfast Barge

The Belfast Barge is the home of enjoy a series of classic maritime a museum based charity that uses documentaries. physical artefacts and oral history recordings to tell the illustrious The Belfast Barge is also home to the story of Belfast’s maritime past, both Galley Café where you can enjoy non commercial and industrial. alcoholic and alcoholic beverages, light snacks and meals. Admission (£4 adults, £3 concessions) includes a guided tour of the museum For further information or to arrange group and entry to the stage cinema where tours visit www.belfastbarge.com or call visitors will have the opportunity to 028 9023 2555 Moored behind the Belfast Waterfront

Titanic events at the Barge Titanic Regale (£) 100 Year Anniversary Saturday 21 April, 6.30pm A Better Boy: Thomas Andrews, Belfast Barge Screening of Titanic Titanic Regale offers visitors Titanic Treasures (£) Shipwright (£) the opportunity to enjoy an By John Wilson Foster (1997) (£) Thursday 5 April, 10am-4pm Directed by Paula McFetridge interpretation of the first class Produced by multi-award-winning Kabosh Saturday 14 April, 7.30pm dinner menu that was served on A special family fun day focusing Tickets: £10 on what life was like for children Monday 9 April – Sunday 15 April the evening of 14 April 1912 and aboard Titanic. Hear stories, meet 8pm (9th, 10th, 11th, 12th, 13th, 15th) The Ulster Cancer Foundation hear stories about the men and who characters and play games. 3pm (14th and 15th) (Duration 45 minutes) (UCF) invites you to join us for sailed on the Titanic’s only voyage. Tickets are £6/£8 a one-off movie screening of This dramatic world premiere takes a fresh the 1997 James Cameron epic Sisters to an icon: The ‘Titanic’ on the Belfast Barge. The making of a legend look at Thomas Andrews, designer of Titanic, History of the RMS from author of ‘The Age of Titanic’ on the Light refreshments will be ‘Titanic in the movies’ (£) provided. All proceeds will be Britannic and Olympic (£) Saturday 7 April, 1pm preserved Confiance. used to support cancer patients Sunday 22 April, 1pm This illustrated lecture explains the www.kabosh.net and their families in Northern For ticket information contact Belfast Welcome Centre. From the horrors of war to longevity and continued intensity Ireland. the tranquillity of stability this of fascination with the ‘Titanic’ by Tel: 028 9024 6609 or visit www.gotobelfast.com Pre-theatre menu available in The Galley Café,The For information contact Suzi illustrated lecture tells equally placing it in context with her status

The Belfast Barge Belfast The Barge. Visit www.thegalleycafebelfast.com for McIlwain 028 9068 0746 or email fascinating stories of Titanic’s as a star of the big screen. more details [email protected] largely forgotten siblings. 28 Valhalla Street Theatre Free presents ‘Titanic and the Men event of Steel’ (£) Titanic Walking Tours Friday 20 and Saturday 21 April, 8pm Friday 13 and Saturday 14 April, 2pm Andrews Memorial Hall, Comber Departs: Second Comber Presbyterian Tickets: £5/Concession £3 Church perience ‘Titanic and the Men of Steel’ follows Ex Led by local historian the story of Titanic, from conception, Desi Rainey Comber through its construction to Launch Day. Historical Society will Comber take you on through Tel 028 9182 6846 or visit the hometown of www.ards-council.gov.uk Titanic designer, Experience Comber, birthplace of Thomas Andrews, Thomas Andrews. Titanic Coach Tour (£) Visit the various Saturday 28 April, 1pm designer of Titanic Andrews’ family and Departs: Ards Tourist Information Centre, Titanic related sites Newtownards Free Free Tickets: £20/Concession £18 The largest Ship built event Comber Together in Comber. by man at that time Titanic Festival event (Price includes light refreshments and For more information contact Lawrence Tuesday 3 April - Saturday 30 June Thursday 12 April - Sunday 15 April admission into Pump House and Folk and 07923 062069 or visit Transport Museum). BB Heritage Museum, Ganaway Second Comber Presbyterian Church www.secondcomber.co.uk Activity Centre, Millilse This festival, which will This tour will start in Comber, the Open Tuesday and Wednesday home town of the Titanic’s designer, 10am-4pm (Other times by celebrate Comber’s history Titanic Living History Thomas Andrews where you will arrangement) and its close Titanic connection, Walking Tour (£) see the church in which his family An exhibition featuring two will feature a diverse range Sunday 15 April, 2pm worshipped and are buried, the hall of activities including a flower Departs: The Square, Comber built in his memory and the cricket back-lit drawings of Titanic. Tickets: £6/ Concession £5 See how she looked at night festival, a historical exhibition, ground where he played for the 2nd with navigation, deck and a gala concert and a vintage Join Valhalla Street Theatre for a very XI. The itinerary will also include the special living history walking tour of cabin lights and the intricacy car concourse. The event will Titanica exhibition in the Folk and Comber. Step back in time to the year Transport Museum, Harland and of the ships rigging. Other culminate in the dedication of a Titanic Memorial by the 1911 where you will meet and speak Wolff shipyard with the dry dock items include photographs, to the characters responsible for the Mayor of Ards. where the ship was built and the banner displays, historical construction of the famous ship. Titanic Memorial at Belfast City Hall. For more information contact Lawrence documents and newspapers. Tel 028 9182 6846 or visit For more information Tel 028 9182 6846 07923 062069 or visit Experience Ards tours tours Ards Experience For more information www.ards-council.gov.uk or visit www.ards-council.gov.uk Tel 028 9186 1297 www.secondcomber.co.uk 29

Titanic Tales (£) Linenhall Library events Saturday 14 April, 12 noon and 2pm Linenhall Library Terry Bradley Exhibition Children’s event with Titanic Thursday 1 March – Monday 30 April tales, and stories to mark the year of Second Floor, Linen Hall Library the Olympic Games and the 200th Born in Belfast in anniversary of the first edition of 1965 Bradley’s early the Brothers Grimm’s stories. With work was inspired storytellers Billy Teare and Kathleen by the 10 years he O’Sullivan. lived and worked Spirit of the Titanic - old Sam plunges to his death in Dublin in the 80s The Man Who Left The Titanic (£) Children’s Reading by whilst building his beloved and 90s. His recent Titanic. Now as the greatest ship Friday 20 April, 7pm Nichola Pierce £10 per ticket Heroes and Villains the world has ever seen crosses Linen Hall Library Saturday 10 March, 12noon collection depict the Atlantic Ocean, Sam finds ‘The Man Who Left The Titanic’ tells the the proud and Linen Hall Library Admission free – All welcome himself on board – as a ghost. tale of J Bruce Ismay, Chairman of the rugged face of the men who built and White Star Line and the ship’s owner ‘That calm, sunny day is one I’ll His spirit roams the ship, from worked in the famous sea ports of who survived the tragic events of 15 always remember... because the the glamour of first-class to the both Dublin and Belfast. This exhibition April 1912 by stepping into one of the twentieth of April, in the year party atmosphere of third- is part of the Linen Hall Library’s Local ship’s lifeboats and sailing away from the 1910, was the day I, Samuel class, where Sam shares the Art by Local Artists Series. stricken ship and from his passengers. Joseph Scott, died.’ Fifteen year excitement of Jim, Isobel and Admission free – All welcome their children on their way to The play asks if Ismay only did what a new life in America before any of us would have done in the same circumstances, or should his actions on Titanic Belfast Connections disaster struck. Can Sam’s spirit reach out to save them? that night consign his name to infamy. Saturday 10 March – Monday 30 April Was he a coward, or merely human? Vertical Gallery, Linen Hall Library

Marking the centenary of her tragic sinking, this exhibition of Titanic memorabilia focuses on the shipyard and the men who built her. It includes survivor Molly Brown’s trinket box, keys from the ship and items from the Library’s archives. Admission free – All welcome Linenhall Library events Library Linenhall 30 For ticket information Tel: 028 9032 1707 or visit www.linenhall.com CARRICKFERGUS

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UNIVERSITY ST Belfast Waterfront and St George’s Market Saturday 31 March-Sunday 8 April Irish Dancing Championship Oireachtas Rince na Cruinne, World 4,500 competitors who will descend looking forward to welcoming some their 42nd year and Belfast is The Championships are now in will be held in Belfast. World Irish Dancing Championships For the fourth time in 12 years the upon the city. The Championships coming dancers. some of the world’s best up and For ticket information please contact the Box Office, Belfast Waterfront Hall will run over a period of 8 days to breathtaking displays by Tel 028 9033 4455. For competition information visit during which residents and visitors alike will be treated www.clrg.ie activities for all the family. filled day of music and sporting 2012 Olympic rings. Enjoy a fun witness the unveiling of the Come along to City Hall and Belfast City Hall Date still to be announced Spectaculars to be missed. an evening of celebrations not arriving at Belfast City Hall for Wednesday 6 June before travel throughout Belfast on The Olympic Torch will Belfast City Hall Wednesday 6 June Olympic Torch Run For more details visit art, andliterature. including music, film, drama, visual ofevents,be thefocus ofaseries The building’swill heritage rich its150th anniversary. celebrates In May 2012Belfast’s UlsterHall Celebrating 150 years The Ulster Hall 2012 Paralympic Agitos. Flame Festival and the unveiling of the of Belfast City Hall for the evening August before arriving in the grounds across greater Belfast on Saturday 25 The Paralympic Torch will travel Belfast City Hall Saturday 25 August Paralympic Flame Festival www.waterfront.co.uk

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