Handmade Music

A festival within a festival!

Handmade Music at Accidental Theatre returns to Sonorities Festival with a special extended edition, featuring a roving sound installation and nine live acts, headlined by nomadic father/daughter duo Yeah You (aka Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi).

A big element of Handmade Music is about community and space for experimental and improvised music to exist, and seeing what comes out the other side. The night is a place for trying out new collaborations, and embracing the feeling of not knowing what will happen next. Sets are short, there is time to chat and space to move around the building.

Line-up / order subject to change:
Cameron Clarke – Critters

Christos Michalakos – AEAEA

Penelope Bekiari and Aggeliki Giannopoulou – Permeable Signal

Vital Organs – Lia Mice, Sarah Angliss and Karina Townsend + Stephen Hiscock

Gabriela Waclawska and James Ho – gabubabu talks nonsense

Masha Kashyna and Cristobal Pinto Santana – Between Us: Fragments of a Closeness

Kerry Hagan and John Bowers – Fault Condition [REDACTED]

Composite Mashworks – Cath Roberts and Tullis Rennie

Niloufar Shiri, Jonas Engel, Matthew Ryals, Fan-Qi Wu – Assemblage / Rewoven Fragments

Yeah You – Gustav Thomas and Elvin Brandhi

For further details, visit the Sonorities Festival Belfast 2026 website.

Presented by Moving on Music and SARC in association with Accidental Theatre, with support from Improvising Futures SSHRC partnership.

Show Info

In-Person

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

Access: Directly from Shaftesbury Square

Performance(s):  Friday 17th April 2026

Doors: 7:00pm BST

Starts: 7:30pm BST (Book Bar* will not be open, BYOB)

Age Guidance: 16+

Run Time: 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.

Online

Access for the live stream will be emailed out on the day of the event, please check junk/spam folders.

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

Ticket Info

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

£6 - WATCH IN-PERSON TICKET - a standard ticket that gives you in-person access to watch the show in the theatre.

£6 - WATCH LIVE ONLINE TICKET - a standard ticket that gives you access to the live stream on the night.

£8 - WATCH LIVE ONLINE & LATER TICKET - a special ticket that gives you access to watch live online & on demand at your leisure.

£10 - DONATION TICKET - a special ticket that gives a little extra to the exceptional and hardworking team creating the show. Donation Tickets include all watch options above.

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