McElhatton’s and the Front Page/Fox’s Den has been sold and will be refurbished (Irish News). It’s not clear whether this mustache is a guerilla piece or at the impetus of the new owners.
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Graffiti on the Lower Lisburn Road – “No matter what the name/We’re all the same/Pieces in one big chess game” – Chuck D of Public Enemy, from the song “Rebel Without a Pause” on their 1988 album, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (full lyrics).
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New street art by Hicks54 (Ed Hicks) on the side wall of Dawson’s Music in William Street, painted as part of Culture Night Belfast.
Previously: Hicks54’s California Dreamin’ piece and ‘in progress’ images.
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Above is a new mural by JMK (Jonny McKerr – Fb) in Hogarth Street (in Tiger’s Bay) with images of the Belfast Blitz – in the apex a Nazi bomber sets buildings alight; in the main panel, people, including a milkman, walk among the bombed-out buildings.
900 people died and half the homes in Belfast were destroyed or damaged (WP).
In the bottom right corner, men listen to a woman testing a piano after it was moved – the original can be seen at Communities NI. The garden wall (to the right of the shot) has an outline on it but is not yet finished.
Update 2013-10-16: The garden wall to the right has been completed. It features a painted frame surrounding a manufactured plaque. See below for an image.
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X01318 X01319 X01395 this mural is dedicated to the people who lost their lives in tiger’s bay on the 16th april 1941 during the belfast blitz anderson brown campbell carson christy clarke donnnelly dornan duffy erskine fee flack gordon halliday hillis howard irwin jerwood kennedy kinghan lilley lynas lyttle mcatamney mcavoy mccary mccullough mcdowell mchugh mcintyre mcilwayne mckinty mcknight mclellan mcneil millar miller moore mulhulland pollock renton rossborough spratt taggart toogood venn venton warwick wilson
The new Gaeltacht mural on Divis Steet’s International Wall is to mark the launch of The Big Gaeltacht Quarter Plan and the signing of the Gaeltacht Quarter Charter (Tele).
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X01324 an domhan an chathaır ceılıúır próıfíl athléımneach saınıúıl údarach spórt oıdreacht draíocht turascóıreacht oıdeachas teanga cultúr the world the city celebrate profile resilient distinctive authentic sport heritage magic tourism education language culture
Hit TV series Breaking Bad ended last night after five seasons on-air. The popularity of the show is such that artist Visual Waste chose to make lead character Walter White the subject of his contribution to Culture Night Belfast. The new piece is right next to Visual Waste’s piece (which we called ‘The Mark Of Zorro’) from last year’s festival, in North Street.
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For the Union Flag mural on the other side of the road, see The People’s Army and LPWA, and for the plaque see Big Bill Campbell.
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After a delay, the UVF mural in Inverwood Court, replacing a George Best mural, has been finished. (The Belfast Telegraph reports it was finished on 2013-09-21, and that negotiations to remove it are “ongoing”.) The quote on the right – Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed – comes from the section of Martin Luther King’s Letter From A Birmingham Jail in which he considers the merits of civil disobedience or direct action. For a shot of the half-finished piece, see Second Best.
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A fourth and final metal-work piece from the Cupar Way “peace” line shows an aeroplane in outline over a globe and gives a list of various Belfast streets which were formerly industrial centres: Shankill Rd., North St., Victoria St., High St., Ann St., Peters Hill, Royal Ave., Castle Place, Queens Bridge. A wide shot of all (one | two | three) four pieces (as well as Let Go Of The Past and 3 R’s) can be found below.
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A new piece by Friz (previously: The Girl With The Flaxen Hair and Working On A Building) and Danleo (whose web site has a few photos of the piece in process; CNB has a photo of the sketched piece) in North Street, completed as part of Culture Night Belfast 2013, shows a bird fighting off a fox who wants her eggs, all in a mane of human hair. The building to the right was also featured on ExtrAct at this time last year: An Essay On The Necessity Of Art. Official title: Fight Or Flight
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Extramural Activity 