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Video: Launch of Belfast International Arts Festival

THE programme for the 2016 Ulster Bank Belfast International Arts Festival was unveiled today.

Highlights include a Northern Ireland first in the form of New York performance artist Taylor Mac and the the UK premiere of The Fever at the Grand Opera House.

The festival runs from October 11-29 and has been developed around three themes of Bending the Bard (Shakespeare 400 years on), World in Motion (migration and refuge) and 1916 (legacy of the war years).