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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Sep 19

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Sep 19

At the third of 3 great exhibitions from the Belfast Archive Project @ulstermuseum.org - Bill Kirk and Frankie Quinn before - and today the Bell Archive. Beautiful, rich, evocative documents of times and people past. An excellent series.

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Aug 26

Live theatre - caught up in a story, enraptured in a moment caught on stage by the production team, the actors and the writer- literally on the edge of my seat and sharing it with others in a darkened room - feels so alive and exciting, a transcendent togetherness.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Aug 26

I engage with theatre (and art in general) to hear stories from all people and culture. But it is also a pleasure in the last month to have seen 2 plays by writers from my own area and relevant to my own story.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thrilling theatre at Bright Umbrella tonight with David Ireland’s Ulster American - shocking, visceral and hilarious. Go see - gripping drama.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jul 31

Nice to be back at the Strand Arts Centre for 2 good events today - talk on the building’s past and future and a showing of Singin’ in the Rain, preceded by a performance from the Soda Popz.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jul 31

Belfast TradFest looks great this year so I probably should have made to more than this event but tonight’s - Brighde Chaimbeul and Chris Stout & Catriona McKay - was excellent.

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jul 29

It is great to see this particular experience (which is beginning to slip from living memory) being captured for posterity but also we don’t here enough of these kind of stories (to the detriment of the community).

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jul 29

At the opening night of Sam Robinson’s Spacebucket Rides Again - 2nd of his plays about growing up in Ballybeen. Great night’s theatre but difficult to be objective as this is basically my story

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jul 25

Ulster Consort gigs always have good music (tonight’s at St Patrick’s with pieces associated with the Sistine Chapel) but you also get to experience (and very definitely to hear) great church architecture. Allegri’s Miserere in particular was spine-tinglingly good.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jul 21

What algorithm ( “or who?) decides the price of second hand books on Amazon? Bought Ladybird in a Loony Bin by Ian Cochrane last week for £4.99 plus P&P. Now available only for £42 (around what I had seen it for before). Other 2 Cochranes that I have read but don’t own are £60 and £87.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 26

For someone who goes to a lot of theatre and lives in Ballybeen/Dundonald it has taken me a ridiculously long to catch up with the DLA but saw it tonight at @themacbelfast.bsky.social and there were some great laughs and both performers were good.

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 26

Congratulations to all. Well made film and some eye opening historical research. I eagerly await what comes next.

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 26

Excellent short film telling a story of forgotten local history. Very promising start to a project and account worth following.

Hearts of Down @heartsofdown.bsky.social · Jun 26

Our short film about the Great Hunger in Newtownards.

There are Bully’s Acres all over Ireland – mass graves, where victims of an Gorta Mór and harsh workhouse regimes lie buried.

‘The Forgotten Famine’ is about one of them, in a quiet corner of County Down…

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The Forgotten Famine — Hearts of Down

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 25

This is great - so wide ranging, so entertaining, such a love of music and pop culture combined with insight and erudition.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 19

A.I. n’t Written - improv with a twist (scripts by ChatGPT) at The Mac tonight - performed with great verve and funny,if not entirely successful. Promise for more shows.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 19

Pruning bookshelves is difficult. Very rarely reread but difficult to give away a good book even if all it will do is gather dust. Then there are the ones that I will get round to reading someday 😁.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 19

Good idea. Occasionally see the idea of the human library at festivals where you can talk to someone, usually of a different outlook or culture, for 15m or so. All art to some degree though is like this in that it tells stories and puts you in people’s heads.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 13

Interesting exhibition at Titanic Belfast of etchings by Lucian Freud with several accompanying short films. Usual problem though with the large print catalogue of merely reproducing the blurbs and not indicating how they relate to the paintings on the walls i.e. start on your left and go clockwise

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 13

11 events at the book festival and thoroughly enjoyed them. Such a diversity of ideas, emotions and people that I have engaged with in the last 8 days. A strong, very well run festival that is a tribute to the vibrancy of our cultural sector here. Thanks to all. #belfastbookfestival

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 12

It is the respect between the artists, the cross disciplinary discussions and the insights in to their various processes that make them fascinating.

Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 12

Events at the book festival with the Seamus Heaney fellows are always a highlight - tonight’s with Declan Lawn & Adam Patterson, Fiona Benson and @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social - provided a good ending to a great festival. #belfastbookfestival

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 11

Thought this would be the highlight of the book festival - @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social new book- and after the launch tonight I eagerly look forward to reading it. #belfastbookfestival

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 11

The friendship between @lucycaldwell.bsky.social and @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social, the fun they have in chatting and their obvious intelligence and insight makes events between them a real pleasure. Tonight’s, on the latter’s new novel did not disappoint. #belfastbookfestival

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Ian Reynolds @ianzie.bsky.social · Jun 10

Day six #belfastbookfestival and an event with Paul McVeigh - a writer I only know from his play Big Man but will have to read more of.