August 20th - Oct 24th 2025

Regroup & React

August

Common Threads

Group Exhibition at Island Arts Centre
Island Arts Centre, Lisburn
August 21st - September 13th

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Royal School of Needlework Workshops

Masterclasses in needlework
Hillsborough Castle
22 & 23 August

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Flax Meitheal Harvest Celebration

A flaxen gathering of community, conversations, education & craic!
An Creagán & Mallon Linen, Co Tyrone
30 & 31 August

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Singing Threads: Songs and Stories of Ulster’s Mill Life

Solo Exhibition by Eimear Magee
R-Space Gallery, Lisburn
30 August - 19 September

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September

Linen Landscapes

Solo exhibition by Zoë Gibson
Sunburst Gallery, Ards Arts Centre
September 4th - September 27th

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Storytelling with Ceramics

Artist talk with Heidi McKenzie - exploring her practice and family heritage links with linen in Belfast.

Island Arts Centre
11th September 5pm - 6pm

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European Heritage Open Days

A chance to see inside and learn about some of our most beautifull heritage buildings
Various locations
13th September

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Dromore Linen Festival

A week-long celebration of Dromore’s rich linen heritage

Various locations across, Dromore
18th - 24th September

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Flaxen

Solo exhibition by artist Alice Fox
R-Space Gallery, Lisburn
Sept 27th - Oct 24th

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October

interWOVEN Exhibition

Irish linen, heritage and sustainablity

Down Arts Centre, Downpatrick
3rd October - 7th November

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Textile Takeover

Discover sustainable textiles at Textile Takeover event - we'll be there, and lots of our freinds too!

Ulster Folk Museam, Cultra
11th October 11am - 4pm

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Old Belfast and stories from the mills with Sharon Dickson

Storytelling session, part of Lisburn Culture Club
Irish Linen Centre & Lisburn Museum
4th October 2pm - 3pm

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The Warp, the Weft, and the Weaver screening

Doumentary screening and talk with weaver Deborah White

Carnegie Oldpark, Belfast
24th October, 2pm - 4pm

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The Linen Biennale is a festival celebrating linen, past, present and future, with initiatives across Northern Ireland by R-Space and other partner organisations. R-Space is supported by the Arts Council Norther Ireland and The Esmé Mitchell Trust supported R-Space’s work for this festival.