Belfast's AVA Festival & Conference announces first acts

including 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind'

By Neil Greenway | Published: Wed 25th Jan 2017

AVA Festival 2017

Friday 2nd to Saturday 3rd June 2017
T13, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT3 9DT, Northern Ireland MAP
£50 for both days, or £35 for either day.

For the 3rd year AVA (Audio Visual Arts) Festival and Conference is set to return to its Belfast home at T13, this time across two days on Friday 2nd and Saturday 3rd June 2017. For it's first full weekend outing, AVA has a packed agenda of conferences, talks, music and arts.

Confirmed is a special collaboration between Jeff Mills and French lighting designer Guillaume Marmin to create 'Close Encounters of the Fourth Kind', , which is described as "a full sensory experience recreating the sensation of entering and existing in another reality, for what is set to be a truly one-of-a-kind experience".

Also announced are performances by Marcel Dettmann, Bicep, Fatima Yamaha(live), Midland, Ben UFO, Job Jobse, Rebekah(Hybrid Set), Ejeca, Denis Sulta, New Jackson, Timmy Stewart, TinFoil Live (Sunil Sharpe & DeFekT) , Techno & Cans Crew, Jordan, Hammer, Or:La, Myler, Schmutz, Twitch DJs, Inside Moves DJs, Saoirse, Guerilla Shout, The Cyclist , Ryan Vail, Swoose & Cromby, MisFit DJs, Subject DJs, Alice Meat Free, ELLLL (live), JMX, JC Williams (live), Holly Lester, Bobby Analog, Brien, Nez, Ryan Dallas , Clockwork, Paragon, Cave DJs: B2B Kapoor, Jika Jika, and Girl.