Féile, the North West’s biggest arts festival returns for the 30th year with a packed programme including music, literature, film, sport, history, comedy, carnival, fun days and much more.
The 100+ events will take place across the Bogside, Brandywell, Creggan, Bishop Street, Fountain neighbourhoods and Derry City centre from Saturday, August 13th – Saturday, August 20th.
Féile 2022 will also have loads of events for children and young people with family fun days, bus trips, and The Greatest Show bringing some of the country’s finest magicians, acrobats and comedy acts to parks and green spaces across the neighbourhood.
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Each year Féile delivers a strong programme of political debates, talks and difficult conversations and 2022 is no exception. Contributors this year include Professor Colin Harvey and former chief electoral officer, Pat Bradley with talks covering a wide range of subjects including the cost of living crisis, Irish Unity and Human Rights.
A spokesperson for Féile said: ‘It’s hard to believe that it is now 30 years since a group of community activists had the vision of holding a one-day festival on the then vacant Gasyard site on Lecky Road.
"The festival was primarily a positive celebration of the Bogside ad Brandywell neighbourhoods and that first few Féile’s acted as a catalyst to transform these areas.
"The main objective of Féile remains the same 30 years after the first Gasyard Wall Féile in 1993 – to celebrate everything that is great about these neighbourhoods where we live, learn, play, work, and visit."
The festival will also include an extensive programme of films and documentaries with screenings at The Nerve Centre and The Museum of Free Derry. Féile 2022 will include a tribute to the late filmmaker and Derry man Tom Collins with screenings of Bog Woman and Hush A Bye Baby.
Féile’s own productions ‘Sanctuary’ and ‘The Making of A Green Hill Far Away’ will also receive their big screen premieres at The Nerve Centre cinema.
The Nerve Centre will host one of the first-ever screenings of the acclaimed film ‘How To Tell A Secret’ which explores the act of disclosure of being HIV positive and the stigma that drives people to withhold their status.
The Museum of Free Derry will host screenings from The Pat Finucane Centre (‘Lifting A Dark Cloud - The Kathleen Thompson Case’ and ‘Unquiet Graves’) while Free Derry on Film will see the four acclaimed films (Battle of The Bogside, No:Go, Exodus and Operation Motorman) from Vinny Cunningham and John Peto covering the tumultuous 1969-72 period of Derry’s history, screened at the Glenfada Park museum.
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