We're warming up for Pride Week with a fabulous Banana Gala celebrating all things LGBTQUIA hosted by Belfast's first lady of Disco Venus Dupree & Urban Events( the team who brought you Big Screens & Drag Queens) Guest of honour Onya Becks hosts our first Runway Category Event with upcoming Drag Performers from Belfast. The… Continue reading Pride Focus: The Banana Gala- A celebration of all things LGBTQUIA

Venus Dupree is a DJ and Creative Producer based in Belfast. In this short talk she'll present her own research and experiences of working with the House Ballroom Scene in NYC ,the roots of Voguing and her love of Disco & House music and it's roots in Queer Liberation.

HOUSE is a collaborative work that took three years to make.It was performed and filmed in the MAC, Belfast in 2015. This was the first time that anyone from the New York Ballroom Scene had come to Ireland to talk about their rich and diverse culture. Ft Twiggy Pucci Garcon ( Choreographer on FX Pose),… Continue reading Pride Focus Screening : HOUSE

Venus Dupree - Top pick One of the most seminal, at times controversial, but insightful films ever made about the New York House Ballroom Scene with a killer contemporary soundtrack. It documents an important time in New York's Queer scene against a backdrop of survival in the midst of prejudice and the AIDS pandemic.  … Continue reading Pride Focus: Screening- Paris is Burning

A Sound Advice, Bobby Analog & Venus Dupree pick. A portrait of Arthur Russell- is a critically acclaimed documentary which examines the life and work of Arthur Russell, an influential singer, songwriter, cello player and disco auteur who died too soon in 1992.   Dir: Matt Wolf

We are delighted to welcome Tokyo Jazz Joints back to Banana Block- tickets for the last one sold out in 2hrs! TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS is an audiovisual project documenting Japan’s hidden, vanishing world of jazz ‘kissa’ (coffee shops) and bars since 2015. Hosted by TOKYO JAZZ JOINTS co-creator and photographer, Philip Arneill, this unique pop-up… Continue reading Tokyo Jazz Joints

Having headlined the festival in 2018, we’re delighted to welcome this brilliant band back to help us celebrate our 10th birthday and kick of this years’ festival. Something amazing happens when Hothouse Flowers step onto the stage – something that has been shaped by over thirty years of singing and playing all over the world, yet… Continue reading Eastside Arts Festival 2022: Hot House Flowers

Think.. the biggest, ugliest, ‘mother of the bride’ style headdress you ever did see, then multiply this by a gazillion! Put your glad rags on and bring all your mates along to have a couple of drinks while you re-discover your inner Queen at our first ever RuPaul-inspired ‘Category Is …’ event. With assistance from… Continue reading Eastside Arts 2022: Category is….The World’s Ugliest Headdress