A dachshund looks quizzically at a bottle of buckie (Buckfast tonic wine – fortified to 15% alcohol) left on the wall. Street art by Verz (Fb | Web), officially entitled “Sausage”, on the wall outside the Crescent Arts Centre, just off University Road.
Another of Verz’s ‘Dogs On The Street’ series: Psychedelic Dog
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“Weavers To Winners” – Linfield Football And Athletic Club was founded in 1886 by workers at the Ulster Spinning Company’s Linfield mill and they became Irish League champions in the 1890-1891 season. The names of the players in the photograph are given in the shot of the information plaque, below. The work was designed by Ross Wilson.
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X03004 X03005 Audaces fortuna juvat 50 league titles trevor whip whittley 7-7-1960 24.2.2011 missed by all his friends in sandy row william gordon tom gordon n. mckeown dr. dunn robert gibson esq (president) bob milne rab torrans william arnott david foy treasurer billy dalton george gaffikin robert hill sam torrans john pedan john torrans secretary john rab and sam torrans were three brothers who shared a dream they were ulster weavers who with others practiced their football skills on the meadow and linen field within the local mill in 1886 their dreams became a reality and the first linfield team was born within four short years they had become irish league and cup champions and had now woven themselves into history 125 years later players still dream and press on towards the goal they still make the hearts and mind of fans everywhere beat louder when they take to the field still sharing the aspirations of the brothers and countless others who have worn the true blue colours today we must still encourage the dreams of young people within sandy row and other communities to help awaken inspire and engage young minds and hearts in the reality of every day life to help create new and better goals to move forward in the hope of great things to come field of dreams
“There’s a nice wee place in Belfast, they call it Sandy Row. On a Saturday night, that’s where we used to go. A bucket on the stove, boiling all the whites, the big tin bath on Saturday nights.”
Here are two boards at the blind end of Blythe Street which together illustrate a short poem about Sandy Row in days gone by. The first, above, shows dancing and bingo (which took place in the Sandy Row Orange Lodge? – The Row You Know: Memories Of Old Sandy Row (ISBN 0953053504) by Donna McCann and published by Nicholson & Bass contains an image with the caption “Saturday night dance at the Orange Hall – Hector McMillan about to break into song”.)
The second, below, shows scenes from home: clothes in front of the fire, a child in a tin bath, a wireless radio, and a grandmother dandling a child.
Sponsored by the Sandy Row Women’s Group.
Two more boards are shown in Those Days Are Gone. A gallery of all of the pieces on the wall can been seen in a 2007 entry.
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The corner of College Court and College Street is something of a contested space, as whatever street art appears is painted over in short order. First there was The Sun Will Make You Blind which was followed by Ballex and now there is “graffiti image loading …” with a progress bar – the third piece in under a year.
Along the same lines, see New Mural Loading.
The Red Ant visible in the wide shot, below, also appears in Cat & Mouse.
Andrew reports that a version of this piece also appeared at The Menagerie in 2010.
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“Today is yesterday’s tomorrow”. Vintage images of Sandy Row, including the Ulster Spinning Company and the Royal Bar, make up this “Heritage – Culture – Identity” board on Donegall Road. The central image is part of this photo montage.
Featured previously: Hope – Future – Change – Now
Hour-long video of Sandy Row memories
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“Youth has no age – Pablo Picasso”. Above is one of the panels on Donegall Road, just above the City Hospital railway stop, celebrating the Sandy Row community.
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Target practice in south Belfast. A bullseye gets 100 points.
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SWANK Street Theatre characters Madame Fondant and Mademoiselle Patti Cerie, who graced Festival Of Fools 2014 in May, have been immortalized in a paste-up in Garfield Street (below) and Kent Street (bottom).
Here is video of two other SWANK characters, usherettes Pearl & Deanie.
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Reality takes many forms when you participate in Belfast’s Red Pill Spoken Word Showcase. In this David McClelland (a.k.a. Tweet, davidcreative) piece in Garfield Street, the speaker tells a tale of a luchador (Mexican wrestler).
For another luchador, see this piece by Friz: Free For All
Replaces Make Art Not Bombs which replaced Tynee Bear which replaced Not Criminals Just Thugz
Here’s a terrific time-lapse video of the piece being created.
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Belfast has seven geographical quarters and an eighth one in the form of Quarter Accountants/Cuntasóırí in Belfast’s city centre. Notably, the signage is in both English and Irish; the business is in the Cathedral Quarter rather than the Gaeltacht Quarter.
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