Imagine! Belfast
Imagine Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics
Helping You Make Sense of a Crazy World
24-30 March 2025
@faeriepress.bsky.social
The first LGBTQ+ led children’s publishing press on the island of Ireland 🧚🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ 📍Belfast Faeriepress.com
@escfilms.bsky.social
Belfast-based arts education charity working in NI Prisons, mental health settings, using film as social activism. We have been creating change for over 25 years... Check us out on www.esc-film.com
@katealderton.bsky.social
Artist. Theatre Being. Facilitator. Dreamtender https://dreamfishingsociety.com
@commonplaces.bsky.social
A project about commonplacing: a practice of collecting, recording and extracting meaningful fragments and keeping them in a book, which thinks about materiality, time and living resistant lives.
@hearthni.bsky.social
Hearth Historic Buildings Trust’s mission is to rescue and restore historic buildings at risk for the enjoyment and benefit of all.
@skeinpress.bsky.social
Independent publisher of voices and stories not commonly featured in Irish literature. Passionate about storytelling and counter-storytelling in all its forms. 📚 Current: The Oasis by Charles Lang 📚 Forthcoming: This Is Not A Cookbook by Roxana Manouchehri
@olwencd.bsky.social
Work: Equality, policy, strategy • Interests: The arts, equality, politics • Reposts ≠ 👍 • Views are my own • She/her.
@quantick.bsky.social
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. Author of RICKY'S HAND, ALL MY COLORS, ETC. Emmy (Veep). Website: www.davidquantick.com. AND OTHER STORIES collection - preorder here: https://tinyurl.com/msmv7amc
@michaelrosenyes.bsky.social
Writer, performer, broadcaster, university professor Website: www.michaelrosen.co.uk YouTube Channel: 'Kids' Poems and Stories with Michael Rosen' Radio show: BBC Radio 4 'Word of Mouth' Goldsmiths University of London, Prof Children's Lit., teaching MA
@mattchorley.bsky.social
📻BBC Radio 5 Live weekdays 2pm-4pm 🇺🇸Americanswers Mondays BBC Sounds 🎤Stand-up shows coming in 2025 ✍️Subscribe to mailing list mattchorley.com
@euanmacdonald.bsky.social
Freelance journalist living and working in Kyiv, Ukraine BBC local radio freelance reporter, sometimes heard on LBC radio Very biased: against fascist and authoritarian regimes; for democracy, rule of law, and human rights.
@connorphillips.bsky.social
TV / Radio Presenter • Live Event Host • BBC Radio 5 Live, BBC Radio Ulster, BBC Radio 2 ☘️ South Armagh man on loan to Manchester / Belfast 🟧⬜️
@carolinebracken.bsky.social
Irish poet Winner Poetry Business Book & Pamphlet Competition 2024 'Boy, Mother' published by Smith Doorstop https://poetrybusiness.co.uk/product/boy-mother/
@cormacmoorehist.bsky.social
Historian with Dublin City Council. New book out, The Root of All Evil: The Irish Boundary Commission. Columnist and editor of 'On this Day' with The Irish News.
@irishnews.com
The Irish News is the UK and Ireland’s top selling regional daily newspaper. We've been telling the full story since 1891. www.irishnews.com
@mckeevergrainne.bsky.social
Law Professor at Ulster Uni, Belfast. Co-Editor of Journal of Social Security Law. Former Vice-Chair of Social Security Advisory Committee. Writing a book on 'Legal participation for litigants in person: protecting the right to a fair trial.'
@qubhistory.bsky.social
History in the School of HAPP and adjacent historians at Queen's University Belfast. Find the QUB Historians and projects under ‘Lists’. We are at https://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/happ/
@drdeiana.bsky.social
Senior Lecturer in International Relations Queen’s University Belfast | Feminism Peace Security| Creative Methods | Dance Culture & Global Politics| she/her From Sardinia like Antonio Gramsci https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/persons/maria-adriana-deiana
@elainefarrell.bsky.social
Professor of Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. 19th-century Irish social history, gender, crime, gossip and secrets. #BadBridget co-lead with Leanne McCormick @badbridgetbook
@brendanjharkin.bsky.social
Belfast-based Photographer. Do good, die great. https://brendanjharkin.myportfolio.com/
@clairemitchell.bsky.social
writer, mamaí, history and politics, 1798 dissenter. Belfast/County Down 📖 The Ghost Limb: Alternative Protestants and the Spirit of 1798 www.clairemitchell.net
@belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Northern Ireland news, sport, features, opinion and debate 🏆 News Website of the Year - #RegionalPressAwards www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk
@dmarshall.bsky.social
BBC News NI Politics Producer | Senior Journalist. On Twitter @DarranMarshall Based in Belfast / Tyrone
@jocaulfield.bsky.social
STAND-UP COMEDIAN & COMEDY WRITER “★★★★★ Scotsman” - “★★★★★ Observer” - “★★★★★ The Herald” - “★★★★★ SGFringe" - Tickets for new Edinburgh Festival show “BAD MOOD RISING” on sale now ⬇️
@sdlp.bsky.social
Building something new ✨ | For a social democratic new Ireland ❤️ | Promoted by the SDLP, 121 Ormeau Road, Belfast, BT7 1SH
@brendagough.bsky.social
Civil rights activist, community gardener, LGBTQ ally. Member of Reclaim the Agenda. https://www.reclaimtheagenda.com/ Says "fuck" a lot and also completely out of the giving of them. Irish. Belfast Mammy #IrishBlueSky Saoirse Don Phalaistín.
@naomilong.bsky.social
Alliance Party Leader | NI Justice Minister | East Belfast MLA | Daisy's 🐶 bestie | Michael's Mrs
@leoniehannan.bsky.social
Teaches History/Public History at Queen's University Belfast. 18thC, gender and material culture. Author of open access: A Culture of Curiosity: Science in the eighteenth-century home https://www.manchesterhive.com/display/9781526153050/9781526153050.xml
@amanda.ie
North Belfast woman. Freelance journalist c2010. NUJ member. Writer. Talker. Events. Consultant. Reasonable. A wee bit fancy.✌🏻❣️#BeanUltach Also Director @wimbelfast.bsky.social And everywhere else: https://linktr.ee/amanda.ie
@bsky.app
official Bluesky account (check username👆) Bugs, feature requests, feedback: [email protected]