The MAC; The Metropolitan Arts Centre - Mac Theatre Belfast Video
The MAC Belfast is a great location in the Cathedral Quarter that focuses on art, shows, plays and as a theatre - has a lovely coffee shop and seating area. Great for adults and kids - very unusual building design.
Visiting a place that is artistic with the things it offers you, could happen in Belfast by visiting the Metropolitan Arts Centre that is located in the Cathedral Quarter and is home to all kinds of exhibitions, theatre performances and experimental works (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=teQFlh-ezts).
The Metropolitan Arts Centre in Belfast - or as it is known as MAC - is an award winning arts venue and this tends to explain the reason why it comes in the list of places that one should visit in this city. The MAC opened in 2012 and since its opening it welcomed thousands of tourists who were attracted to the different programmes of visual art, theatre, dance, family workshops and lots of other things that could be attended there.
In 2015, the Metropolitan Arts Centre of Belfast was shortlisted for the Museum of the Year Prize, and this could actually say a lot about the success of this place and explains how it manages to attract lots of visitors to the shows that it brings for them.
The MAC sits on a roughly trapezium-shaped site opposite to St. Anne's Cathedral - it would be close to those who will be still doing other touristic things in the city after checking the MAC (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k63KxsVKNi4). The MAC building consists of a number of intersecting brick volumes and a basalt tower topped with three stories of glazing.
One of the things highlighted in the MAC is the one permanent artwork that is found there and which is "The Permanent Present" by the Irish artist Mark Garry. This piece of art consists of 400 copper strands in a spectrum of colors reaching from a high window down to the first floor and it is commissioned by the MAC and the Thomas Devlin Fund which is a charity set in remembrance of the murdered teenager Thomas Devlin. According to Mark Garry, the artist of this artwork, he created it because he wanted to bring to people a piece of art that is hopeful and positive.
To make sure that your plan to visit the MAC is done in the right way, you should know more about the information related to its opening hours. The Metropolitan Arts Centre is open 7 days of the week - in total it opens 363 days of the year - from 10 am to 6 pm or even sometimes later during the performance nights.
There's also a nice coffee shop that is found inside the MAC where you could sit and have your cup of coffee before heading to the performance that you are going to attend. Being in the middle of the Cathedral Quarter, it is important to say that there are lots of things to be checked there as well that would be close to the MAC, such as the Commercial Court for example that is an old place in the Cathedral Quarter and which hosts some bars and pubs (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIBfUcGkBaI).
Since we are talking about art while referring to the Metropolitan Arts Centre in the Cathedral Quarter, we should also shed the lights on the other kind of art that is also found in this area in Belfast but which is delivered through graffiti and murals that you could also check in one of the corners of this area (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2xpOSaxwqlA).
There are some other famous touristic attractions in Belfast which are located close to the Cathedral Quarter and which are also considered in the centre of the city, such as Belfast City Hall (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4DesKkA6dM) that attracts a huge number of tourists to it who come to check the old building, the exhibition held inside, or even check Titanic memorial which is located there in the garden (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o7jMDZNFjA).
Art is so important, especially if it would be related to a new country that you have never been to before and you are just visiting for the first time. A good plan for making the best out of the trip you are going on is to choose a little bit of something from everything; go and check the old buildings and the touristic sites of this city, make sure to attend something related to art that would tell more about this city (it could be a performance, a dance, a musical night, etc.), eat the local food of this country and walk in the ordinary streets where the local people tend to walk to get the chance to deal with them and know more about the everyday life of the place that you are travelling to.
The MAC is one of the places in Belfast that will give you the chance to come a little bit closer to this city by getting introduced to the types of art offered through it and at the same time enjoy your time doing something a little bit different than all the tours that you have been doing through the city in general.
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