Welcome
Apologies: unfortunately Beat has been without email and web services since early April. This web address is online again now (30 April 2012) but all web data for the past two years and more is lost. This site is therefrore out of date and displays none of the information entered this year and for the current programme.
The beatcarnival.com email is still not working. Please use david.beat@me.com, eileen.beat@me.com and jean.beat@me.com for now.
We will start again with a new website and email services as soon as it is possible to do so.
Telephone the Beat Initiative office: 02890 434767
If you use Facebook, you will find The Beat Carnival and The Beat Initiative there.
There is also a page for our current project with Belfast Community Circus: Journey To The Land Of Giants. The first performances are 3 & 4 May in St Anne's Square, Cathedral Quarter at 6pm.
https://www.facebook.com/JourneyToLandOfGiants
Video of Journey To The Land Of Giants rehearsal: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtMUHEb-q_A&feature=youtu.be
CARNIVAL ARTS COMPANY
Belfast – Beat'n'Drum&Dancers at Belfast Culture Night, Cathedral Quarter
Brazil – Nacao Pernambuco rehearsal
Bologna – Beat team (including Wandsworth Youth) in Bologna for new puppet and drum performance (9 Oct) and a conference on our European parades partnership
Belfast – opening performance (and parade) for refurbished Belfast City Hall: FLY BUTTERFLY. Debut of Beat's new aerial dance performers
Latest from the Blog
Latest News
- Puppet Construction Techniques: workshops on 12th and 19th April
- CWA-TRANS-BEAT-Belfast’s Lord Mayor ‘Raise the Dragon’ – this Friday
- Leadership in the independent sector recognised
- Fly Butterfly Performance - videos
- Bologna Press – the BBB performance
- Someone must be working in Bologna?
- Butterfly Mask to print, colour and cut-out
- Beat perform in Bologna
- Beat puppets make a cultural outing
- Busy, busy – and butterflies
- oh yeah, we had a good carnival earlier in the summer
- Next stop: Glasgowbury!
- Fantastic Training Opportunity in Aerial Harness Work
- ...calling...Earth...Carnival...calling...Earth...
- Carnival Supergroup - ATL snippet
- Belfast City Carnival poster
- Music and Dance Masterclasses this weekend
- Music training 11th & 12th May - Masterclases
- North Down Easter Parade - Bright and Beautiful
- Join – New Carnival Dance Workshops
- *Light Up Lilliput* - East Belfast Lantern Festival
- Aisling Awards 2008
- Launched - exclamation mark
- Launch Date - getting close
Latest Features
- Belfast St Patrick's Day Carnival Parade 2010
- Fly Butterfly Performance
- Kate Lawerance - Vertical Dance
- Fly Butterfly and the Connections programme
- Fly Butterfly – October Event
- Aerial Performance
- Carnival Video Part 5 & 6 – the Parade!
- Saturday's Carnival ROUTE and TIMETABLE
- 09 Carnival MUSIC
- Carnival 09 - What THEY Say
- Look Up preparations - Carnival 2009 videos pts1 to 5
- FUNKY Carnival Music
- Belfast Carnival - Radio Ulster interview
- Music and Dance for Carnival – masterclasses
- Groups - Register for Belfast City Carnival 2009
- Beat 'n' Drum
- Dance@Beat
- St Patrick's Day 2009: Belfast
- Carnival Centre Launch - Watch the video
- The Lantern Parade
- Puppets in December
- The Puppet Family
- Carnival Creations
- Le Beat - International
- Belfast Carnival History
- Carnival Here?
- A Carnival Arts Centre Plan
- What does a Carnival Centre look like (Luton)
Latest Photo Galleries