Last Night A Flute Band Saved My Life

As part of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival, Beyond Skin presents a panel disucssion and musical performance exploring the important role marching bands play, ensuring they are looking after the wellbeing of their members.

The marching band community boasts some 600 bands spread throughout the province with a number of actual members estimated over 18,000, considered the largest voluntary and community arts sector in Northern Ireland. Although both men and women musicians are in marching bands it is a higher percentage of men. The Samaritans 2022 research report  77% suicides in Northern Ireland 2022 were men and 23% were women,

This event explores the impact of playing a musical instrument as part of a marching orchestra and the important role marching bands play, ensuring they are looking after the wellbeing of their members.

https://www.beyondskin.net/marchingbands

Funded by B♭ Foundation

Show Info

In-Person

Venue: 12-13 Shaftesbury Square, Belfast, BT2 7DB

Access: Directly from Shaftesbury Square

Performance(s): Monday 13th May 2024

Starts: 7:00pm BST (Book Bar* will not be open)

Age Guidance: 18+

Run Time: 1.5 Hours +

Disabled Access: Theatre (ground floor) is fully accessible. Toilets & Book Bar (1st floor) are accessible via a wheelchair platform lift. Carer tickets available: Call 028 9032 5881 to book.

*The Book Bar is our charity bar, run to help support Accidental & the new building.

Online

This event will not be available online.

Ticket Info

Please book a ticket per person watching to avoid viewing issues.

£0 - WATCH IN-PERSON TICKET - a standard ticket that gives you in-person access to watch the show in the theatre.

£5 - DONATION TICKET - a special ticket that gives a little extra to the exceptional and hardworking artists creating the show.

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