Things To Do

The competition, now in its 36th year, is sponsored by Jessops and Phil Smyth Photography. It challenges budding and amateur photographers to creatively photograph animals and scenes around the zoo, capturing the wonder of nature while exhibiting high quality skills and a great eye for a ‘zooper’ photo.

Up and down the country everyone is getting their costumes ready and looking forward to some trick or treating.

Any Questions?, BBC Radio 4’s flagship current affairs discussion programme, is returning to Northern Ireland and will be broadcast live from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland’s Assembly Buildings in Belfast on Friday, November 15.

The Oh Yeah Music Centre has revealed the full Sound of Belfast programme for 2019.

Belfast Music Society (BMS), promoter of live classical chamber music, has launched Chamber Cherubs, a new series of live classical music concerts for pre-school children, aged 1-3 years, in partnership with The Crescent Arts Centre, supported by National Lottery funding through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

A Whitehead couple are holding a fundraiser for the Guide Dogs for the Blind charity on Saturday September 7.

The Grand Orange Lodge of Ireland is planning to raise the roof of the Ulster Hall with an evening of favourite hymn singing and praise on Saturday, September 21.

Tourism in Larne has been given a late summer boost with the arrival of a cruise ship at the port.

Kilcreggan Urban Farm in Carrick was among finalists in the Northern Ireland’s Best Small Visitor Attraction awards.

The intrepid explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes will be paying a visit to Belfast’s Waterfront Hall on September 12 to share tales of his death defying adventures over the years.

Cairncastle Ulster-Scots will be holding the next in their series of popular soirees in the Halfway House Hotel, Ballygally, on Wednesday August 28, at 8.00pm.

Visitor numbers at Whitehead Museum have increased by 50 per cent since opening in 2017.

A re-enactment of Schomberg’s Siege of Carrickfergus will take place on Bank Holiday Monday (August 26) at Castle Green.

Tonight around 35,000 music fans will descend on Boucher Road Playing Fields to watch the Foo Fighters in action.

Forest Fitness NI has teamed up with NI Children’s Hospice to bring the popular Mud Mayhem Weekend to Carrickfergus on August 17 and 18.

Belfast Zoo has launched its first free audio tour.

A team of stitchers, drawn from National Museums NI staff and volunteers from local textile guilds in Northern Ireland, recently put the finishing touches to the iconic 90-metre Game of Thrones Tapestry, which is currently on display in the Ulster Museum, Belfast.