IRPWA (Fb | tw) board protesting the treatment of republican prisoners in Maghaberry “torture camp”, next to Free Derry Corner, with a Palestinian flag and the Bogside Artists’ Bloody Sunday mural in the background.
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Restoration on the exterior St Joseph’s chapel in Sailortown – a Catholic church decommissioned in 2001 – is set to begin this month (BelTel). The building, originally constructed in 1880, is in such a state that it was declared a dangerous building earlier this year (Irish News). Here are three images from the front: a masonry rose above the door; a plaque to two young girls who were killed by a UDA car bomb in 1972; and a wide shot. BelfastLive has a gallery of the interior, which also needs restoration.
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Not happy with his Tyrion Lannister, Visual Waste (Web | Fb | tw) turned it into Harley Quinn (in her more recent incarnation by Margot Robbie in the Suicide Squad movie) within a few days. The title of the piece is ‘Split the problem, not your personality’, giving the work a mental health message.
The mural was then quickly “enhanced” by members of TMN (second image). The wide shot, third below, shows the trio of Dan Kitchener’s The Dream, Friz’s Tyger, Tyger, and the Visual Waste piece.
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Street artist Visual Waste (web) chose Game Of Thrones character Tyrion Lannister as his subject for Culture Night/Hit The North.
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A WWI poppy is used as the “O” in “Lest we forget”, joining together the Ulster Volunteers of 1912 and the modern Ulster Volunteer Force. For more of the many small UVF boards mounted in the Village in order to re-establish its presence, see South Belfast Volunteers | Welcome To The Village | A Hive Of Glass | For God And Ulster.
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Work by Waterford artist Lisa Murphy (Fb) for Culture Night/Hit The North.
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The PPR (Participation & The Practice Of Rights) project has called for homes to be built at the Crumlin Road “Hillview” site but the council’s planning council approved a retail park (Belfast Live) by a vote of 7 to 6 (BelTel). The connection to supermarket chain Lidl is unclear, as there is no mention of a supermarket in the plans for the retail park. If you can shed any light, please leave a comment. Their slogan “Lidl: Big on quality, Lidl on price” has been rephrased as “Lidl: Big on quality, Lidl on equality”.
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Work by DMC (Fb | Web | tw) for Culture Night/Hit The North, replacing his (vandalised) former mural Long Runs The Fox.
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Just Books and the Belfast Solidarity Centre — “supplier of revolutionary merchandise, left wing literature and craic” (web) — has to compete with “Be Beauty” salon in Belfast City centre. “An injury to one is an injury to all”.
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Culture Night Crocodile by Easi (unused Fb | see more work here) with Peter Sheridan (Fb).
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Extramural Activity 