Fly Butterfly – 17th October Event
An aerial dance spectacle
Caterpillars transform to butterflies on the City Hall wall – a giant butterfly opens its wings for flight
Be part of the City Hall opening celebrations – join the Caterpillar Parade in the City Centre at 2.30pm as it moves from Bank Square / Royal Avenue to the City Hall
A Beat Initiative Outdoor Spectacle Event for Belfast City Hall Reopening
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A spectacular aerial dance performance to mark the reopening of Belfast City Hall
Fly Butterfly is also the launch of Beat’s Liftoff project for the Legacy Trust UK “Connections” programme to build a lasting legacy from the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games
Fly Butterfly is a spectacle that pictures the re-emergence of a newly renovated Belfast City Hall: a public event in the city-centre streets and City Hall grounds, involving hundreds of community participants with arts and sports performers. The Butterfly represents emergence, renaissance, transformation – and flight, or ‘liftoff’, to the future: a future with Belfast being a shared space for all.
Be part of the opening celebrations. Join the Caterpillar Parade. Download a butterfly mask template to colour and cut-out – available here shortly.
• Make your own caterpillar or butterfly mask at home; or come along to one of Beat’s open workshops:
in Victoria Square Shopping Centre, Saturday 10th 1 – 4pm
or at City Hall on Saturday 17th from 12.00pm
• To enquire about the workshops programme or to book a Saturday session, phone Beat at 90434767 or email beat@belfastcarnival.com
Saturday 17th October Programme
12.00 – 2.30pm Family Workshops in City Hall,
Make butterflies to welcome the caterpillar to City Hall.
Phone Beat to pre-book a 30 minute workshop session: tel 90434767
12.00 – 3.00 Music Stage in City Hall grounds with Love Music Hate Racism & Homely Planet Radio. Featuring:
12.30 Colenso Parade
1.20 Joe Lindsay
2.00 Ten Gallon Hat and the Big Salute
2.45 The Ugly Bug Ball
2.30 – 3.00 Caterpillar Parade
City Centre: Bank Square > Royal Avenue / Castle Junction > City Hall.
Caterpillar dancers, butterflies, street performers, drummers, puppets and hundreds of community participants. Join in!
2.45 The Ugly Bug Ball at City Hall Lawn
3.10 Fly Butterfly
an aerial performance spectacle on the City Hall façade and in City Hall grounds with: a giant butterfly on the roof; aerial performers on the wall; dancers and acrobatic ground performers; and
Ruby Colley playing an original music soundtrack.
3.30 Announce the City Hall open
3.35 Music and Dance performance Beat Dancers; Beat’n’Drum; the Ireland Drummers; and maSamba music set.
Fly Butterfly is imagined, created and performed by the Beat Initiative with support from Belfast City Council, the Legacy Trust UK , the Arts Council and the European Regional Development Fund under the Peace lll programme.
Fly Butterfly is the launch event for Beat’s Liftoff project for the Legacy Trust UK “Connections” programme. LTUK is an independent charity set up to help build a cultural and sporting legacy from the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. “Connections” is managed by the Arts Council Northern Ireland.
Beat’s key arts and sports partners in the Liftoff project who are involved in this event are:
Circus Bone Idle; Bruiser Theatre Company; Rathgael Gymnastics; and Streetwise Circus