Linen Quarter Culture Night

Titanic Wrestling, NI Opera, Rock Choir & More!

Belfast Grand Central Station (5-9pm)

Visitors to Culture Night who arrive through the Belfast Grand Central Station will be greeted by the Linen Quarter Wrestling Corner!

Stop by throughout the evening to catch exciting wrestling bouts featuring athletes from Titanic Wrestling, and refuel at the station’s great selection of hospitality venues.

Wrestling on the hour, and every half hour, while NI Ulster Touring Opera & The Rock Choir will also provide entertainment between each of the wrestling bouts.

HALT-er Skelter: A Night At The Fair 

HALT Street Food Market, Former Europa Bus Station (4-8pm)

Get fuelled up for your Culture Night at LQ BID’s Funfair at HALT.

Expect Magic Acts, Tarot Readings, Face Painting, Circus Acts, Comic Book Caricatures and free giveaways, alongside HALTs eclectic street food and drinks offering.

10% Discount on Food & Drink from 4-9pm. Bar open until 11pm.

Tiny Groovers Baby Rave 

Grosvenor Hall, Glengall Street (4-7pm)

In celebration of Belfast Culture Night, Puddleducks Nursery and Linen Quarter BID are delighted to bring you our Tiny Groovers dance extravaganza.
Designed for children below school age, we will bring the mini beats and moving feet to Culture Night in a family friendly setting.

The event is completely free and alongside a groovy dance hall, a quieter family sensory area* will be available for all attendees big and small. Children must be always accompanied by a responsible adult. Glow bands will be provided, and fluorescent clothing colours are strongly advised!

The event is located at Grosvenor Hall, 5 Glengall St, BT387LN, just a two-minute walk from Grand Central Station. The groovy music runs from 4pm until 6.30pm, with doors closing at 7pm- just before bedtime!

For any queries please contact admin@puddleducksnursery.org

* Capacity for sensory area restricted to 10 children at any one time

Past, Present & Future of Belfast Public Transport

Pug Ugly’s Bar (4-5.30pm)

Come along to learn about the fascinating history of Belfast’s trams and trolleybuses.

This event features talks and visual material, including historical photos and film footage, on the history and future of Belfast’s public transport network. Local historian Mike Maybin will talk about the Belfast’s historical public transport networks such as trams and trolleybuses, with historical footage provided by NI Screen. Translink will talk about their current initiatives and future plans to develop Belfast’s public transport into a more efficient and sustainable network.

Boom Strutt Brass Band

Roaming The Linen Quarter (4-6pm)

Boom Strutt Brass Band will be roaming the streets of the Linen Quarter, led by their second line dancer Racquel, bringing their unique sound of brass and drums to entertain those passing through the district or on their way between venues for Culture Night activities.

Spinning Yarns Walking Tour

Roaming – But Meeting Outside Ulster Hall (3-5pm)

This fun and informative walking tour links past and present, helping you see what’s on the streets of Belfast’s Linen Quarter in a new light and just how much there is to do and enjoy in this unique district. Along the way, your experienced Belfast tour guide will share many entertaining ‘yarns’ – stories of people and events across 250 years that relate to what you are seeing.

Along the way, your experienced Belfast tour guide will share many entertaining ‘yarns’ – stories of people and events across 250 years that relate to what you are seeing. For example:

Where the largest bell in the city rings out from and why it was silenced for a time!

The venue where Italian tenor, Luciano Pavarotti, sang for his UK debut in 1963, and another where Led Zeppelin in 1971 first played live the famous song ‘Stairway to Heaven’.

Where linen and other workers would go for their weekly baths before homes were modernised!

How a modest record shop set up in the late ’70s is now celebrated in a film, a musical and by colourful street art in an open-air gallery.

Maximum 20 participants, so arrive early to secure your spot! 

Pétanque Tasters

Pétanque Piste, Blackstaff Square (3-7pm)

Pétanque fever has been catching on with the business community in the Linen Quarter over the past three summers, with 32 locally based organisations and 100s of workers taking place in LQ BIDs Annual Inter-Company Tournament this summer.

Now is your chance to have a go! Drop by the Piste where you will find players from Ormeau Pétanque Club who will demonstrate this pick up and play sport, and organise some friendly games.

Culture Night Hive For The Neurodivergent & Others

NOW Group – The Hive, Grosvenor Road (5.30-7.30pm)

Drop by the Hive – a large space at the NOW Group Head Office on Grosvenor Road which will have a range of activities including arts and crafts workshops, quiet/sensory spaces and a ‘Fandom Takeover’ – which encompasses all things gaming from tabletop games to Switches and VR headsets.

NOW Groups Social Enterprise will be providing Tea/Coffee & Light Refreshments sponsored by LQ BID.