This is a rich, immersive live performance from Eugene McPeake and The Urban Arts Centre

Join the creative team behind our Cultural Bridge project, for an artist panel discussion exploring the learnings from our international partnership.

Witches is a 2024 British documentary film written and directed by Elizabeth Sankey and produced by Jeremy Warmsley, Manon Ardisson, and Maria Chiara Ventura.

Rapture and Repulsion is a QueerCrip performance piece in development, written from interviews with d/Deaf, disabled and neurodivergent artists and activists

Open Arts Community Choir, winners of the prestigious Royal Philharmonic Society’s Inspiration Award 2025, is celebrating 25 years!

Sick in the City combines elements of socially engaged practice with audio-visual technologies for a live performance reclaiming public space in Belfast city centre.

Strap yourself in for an afternoon of boisterous and bonkers physicality! Experience an exhilarating showcase of dance and physical theatre from the Rogue Encounters ensemble.

Make your mark and have your voice heard in our placard-making workshop. If you’re marching for a cause, celebrating your identity, or want to get crafty, this session is for you.

Tales from the Mother is a conversation through dance between two women. The work is the result of a new commission by two of Northern Ireland’s most respected disabled dancers, Linda Fearon and Helen Hall.

Not Just Clowning is an opportunity for those with no previous circus skills to see what circus performance is all about in a relaxed, no pressure setting.

Following our fantastic literary sharing event at the 2024 festival, we are looking for d/Deaf, disabled, and neurodivergent writers who would like to share their work with an audience.

This workshop will reflect on the last 25 years of disability arts and disability-led theatre. It will explore ‘The Wr0nG W0m3N, makin’ Wr0nG work for the Wr0nG audiences’ from Julie’s experiences.

Speak Up is a two hour performance workshop for writers, performers or aspiring speakers who would like to share your words on stage. Feel inspired, recharged, and believe in the power of your own voice.

Anushiya Sundaralingam presents an artist talk in the Atypical Gallery, explaining the themes behind the art installation ‘Passages’

Not Just BS is a disabled-led networking, discussion and performance forum for artists and activists from diverse disability identities.

Explore disability through Gaeilge, movement, words and play. Theatremakers and Irish speakers Billí Mills and Soso Ní Cheallaigh will lead this Irish-language workshop

Positive Sounds is a club night led by DJs, visual artists, and promoters with a learning disability.

Passages is an exhibition of drawings, sculpture and installation exploring the journey of migration. Fragile boats and body-like forms hold stories of movement, memory, and survival.

This live performance draws on Homi Bhabha’s notion of the ‘third space’, where cultural meaning is negotiated rather than fixed, to explore the tensions between heritage and innovation, collective memory and individual expression.

Dreaming Disability Futures is a writing and dreaming workshop led by writer Alex Cregan. It is inspired by the book ‘Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice’ by writer and activist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha.

Bounce back in time and enjoy a rare opportunity to witness the unique talent of Stage Beyond Theatre Company on the big screen.

Following on from Bounce 2024, Foyle Pride is back with ‘Still Not Your Pity Party!’ This encore continues its unapologetic, eclectic collaboration with queer, d/Deaf, disabled or neurodivergent spoken word artists from the North West.

(W)right Now is a writing workshop for writers of fiction, poetry, drama. It is an opportunity to reflect on writing interests, to practise craft, to sharpen critical modes of address, and explore where identities intersect.

Re-collections is a series of mixed media pieces. It combines elements of vintage photography, advertising, and street ephemera with ink, acrylic, and paper—creating a tension between beauty and decay.

Not Just BS is a disabled-led networking, discussion and performance forum for artists and activists developed around this year’s festival theme ‘Not Just…’ on the importance of disability representation, diversity, and intersectionality in the arts sector.

Bounce Launch: Belfast Join us for our Launch Event to start off the 12th year of the Bounce Festival. Experience dance routines from the classical Indian dance troupe Karma Kalakendram.

An Evening with Ruth McGinley and Alice McCullough This will be an unmissable night in the relaxed and beautiful Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre in the heart of Limavady.

‘De mo Neamhthoil’: Installation and intervention Soso Ní Cheallaigh (they/them) is a disability-led multidisciplinary maker from Derry.  “De mo Neamhthoil a thánaig an crith orm”“How does it feel to never truly

The Weather Orchestra: A Launch and Artist Talk Mikhail Karikis is an artist based in London and Lisbon. He works in moving image, sound, performance and other media. This installation

Not Your Pity Party: An Evening of Unapologetically Proud, Queer Disabled Art Join Mel Bradley and a cast of local artists for a vibrant cabaret celebration of queer, d/Deaf, disabled,

“All who are weary and heavy-laden, I will give you rest” All who are weary and heavy-laden, I will give you rest is a sound and movement performance by Northern

Late Lunch Poetry Nina Quigley and Elizabeth McGeown Enjoy inspiring poetry readings and settle in for an afternoon of thought-provoking verse. Nina Quigley, a writer and visual/performance artist from Inishowen,

Derry~Londonderry Bounce Arts Festival Launch Enjoy a cup of tea at the Playhouse in Derry~Londonderry for a special launch event, offering the chance to meet some of our festival artists,

Bounce Wrap Party with Kippysmuse and Strange New Places Join us at the wrap party featuring Kris Marsden, aka Kippysmuse, an alternative folk troubadour from County Down. His delivery is

Comedy on the Spectrum: A Night of Autistic Humour Ross Mitchell is a standup comedian who has been entertaining audiences across the Island of Ireland for 12 years. For the

What I (Don’t) Know About Autism This is a film screening of the 2021 play of What I (Don’t) Know About Autism. The play is a sometimes comic, sometimes heart-breaking

The Big Open Arts Takeover Join Open Arts as they take over the Crescent Arts Centre again! Come and watch, or join in and become an honorary member of each

Toilet Paper Diaries by Porcelain Delaney Toilet Paper Diaries is a play written and performed by Porcelain Delaney. It follows thirty-year-old Eloise on a pivotal day, waiting anxiously in a

Yellow: Jody O’Neill Yellow is a joyous, uplifting piece of theatre written by Jody O’Neill, writer of the award-winning ‘What I (Don’t) Know About Autism’. It follows the story of

“It Flows With No Electrics” and “Through the Virtual Looking Glass” It Flows With No Electrics is a collaboration project showcase between Brain Injury Matters and SARC: Centre for Interdisciplinary

Class Creations! with Open Arts Open Arts runs 3 visual art groups. Join us to celebrate their exhibition, Class Creations! The exhibition will feature work in wood, clay and textiles.

I Didn’t See You There I Didn’t See You There is shot entirely from director Reid Davenport‘s physical perspective—mounted to his wheelchair or handheld—and serves as an unequivocal rebuke to

Digital Horizon Seminars: Joe McStravick and Catherine Bourne Film and Serving the Story Joe McStravick’s seminar will explore storytelling through film. It will give an insight into the production of

Chasing Amy by Victoria Geelan and Her Band​ Sit back and enjoy a cabaret-style setting, as Victoria Geelan and her band of virtuoso musicians bring the songs of Amy Winehouse

Astray in a New World: Representations of Madness in Indian and Irish Literature Professors Tess Maginess and Pramod K. Nayar will offer a glimpse into how madness is represented in

Immersive Gamelan Workshop with Open Arts Start the Bounce Arts Festival weekend by immersing yourself in the enchanting sounds of our beautiful traditional Indonesian instruments. During the session you will

Coming Up For Air by Sinéad O’Donnell Coming up for Air is a special commission for the Bounce 2024 Festival. It is a solo performance that examines how we deal

Time: An Installation by Peter Fleming Peter Fleming is a composer and producer, and is the 2024 recipient of the Digital Innovation Award funded by the Santander Foundation at University

Performance Art Masterclass by Sinéad O’Donnell This specially commissioned performance art masterclass is led by the acclaimed performance artist Sinéad O’Donnell. The masterclass will include a 1-hour performance lecture, followed

Artist in Residence: Brian Connolly Brian Connolly is a multimedia artist who uses a wide range of artistic processes, including performance art, public sculpture, and installation art. Install-action is a