Féile 2024
Date: 10 August 2024 - 17 August 2024
Venue: The Gasyard Centre, 128 Lecky Road, Derry, Derry, BT48 6NP
Féile, Derry's biggest community arts festival, returns this August for the 32nd year. From August 10th - 17th, Féile 2024 will feature more than 100 events across the Bogside, Brandywell, Creggan, Bishop Street and Fountain neighbourhoods and Derry City centre.
Féile, Derry's biggest community arts festival, returns this August for the 32nd year. From August 10th - 17th, Féile 2024 will feature more than 100 events across the Bogside, Brandywell, Creggan, Bishop Street and Fountain neighbourhoods and Derry City centre.
Musical highlights at Féile 2024 include 'The Gathering', a one day festival celebrating the best contemporary trad and folk music in Ireland with performances from John Francis Flynn, Ronan O'Snodaigh and Myles O'Reilly and Lemoncello. Musicians from the Ulster Orchestra will perform at local care home residencies and The Whistlin' Donkeys will play a massive outdoor concert at The Gasyard Park on Thursday August 15th. Electronic music and hip-hop/grime fans are spoilt for choice at Féile 2024 with big names such as Erol Alkan, Ivan Smagghe and Sello all due to play at the festival.
Féile 2024 has a packed programme of activities for children, young people and families with summer schemes, family fun days and bus trips throughout the week. The Greatest Show and The Big Family Night Out will bring some of the country's finest magicians, musicians, acrobats and comedy acts to parks and green spaces across the neighbourhood. Large scale gatherings for families include the Party In The Park at Pilots Row on Saturday 10th August, Wan Big Street Party on Central Drive and the Lúnasa celebrations in Creggan on Thursday 15th August. Older people's organisations have come together to produce an extensive programme for our older residents including days out, bingo, social events and musical performances at local older people's residences.
This year's Féile has its biggest ever sporting programme. The annual Colm Quigley Jog in the Bog, a highlight in the road race calendar, returns on Sunday August 11th. Youth soccer teams from the city will battle for The Ryan McBride Cup and The Pádraig Barton Cup. Féile are also offering a number of free bursary places for young people to attend the Kelloggs GAA Cúl Camp at Séan Dolans GAC.
Each year, Féile delivers a strong programme of political debates, discussions and talks, and 2024 is no exception. Themes this year include climate change, racism, reconciliation, the ongoing debate around what a new Ireland will look like, the worsening drugs crisis in our communities and the continuing demand for increased student numbers at Magee. Panellists at Féile 2024 will include human rights lawyer Michael Mansfield KC, journalist and author Brian Rowan, Pro- fessor of Human Rights law at Queens, Colin Harvey and Professor Anne Campbell, Member of the UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs.
Féile 2024 includes an extensive programme of films and documentaries. Féile's latest film production 'Tony Doc' which celebrates community worker and ex Derry City player and manager Tony 'Doc' O'Doherty will premiere at St Mary's Youth Club. DJ Provai will host a homecoming screening of Kneecap at Brunswick Moviebowl. Nightly screenings at The Nerve Centre Cinema will include premieres of award winning films 'The Irish Question' and 'Days of Trees'. The ongo- ing genocide in Palestine will be highlighted through acclaimed documentaries 'No Other Land' and 'Where Olive Trees Weep.' Films by Dennis Harvey will highlight the issues facing refugees in Ireland in 2024. The work of emerging and established Derry film-makers will be screened throughout the festival including works by award winning film-makers Seán Mullan, Diana Cheung and Séan Coyle.
We hope you can enjoy us this August for Feile 2024!