Welcome To The 4 Corners Festival
The 4 Corners Festival seeks to inspire people from across Belfast to transform it for the peace and wellbeing of all. It consists of innovative events designed to entice people out of their own ‘corners’ of the city and into new places where they will encounter new perspectives, new ideas, and new friends. We celebrate our city through music, prayer, storytelling, discussion and more.
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People Have Attended Our Festival Since 2016
10 Years
Of Bringing The Community Together
330+
Events ran as part of the festival since founding
2026 Festival
The 4 Corners Festival invites you to explore the profound meaning of ‘Journey’ in our beloved Belfast.
Every life is a journey – a weaving of roads taken and roads left behind, of moments that move us, change us, and call us onward. Journey is the story of movement and change – the way we grow through what we meet along the road.
Each of us travels paths shaped by hope and hardship, by choice, chance, and opportunity. Some journeys take us outward into new places; others lead us inward, toward understanding and peace. Along the way come moments of encounter – with one another, with truth, with God – that awaken transformation within us. Every step holds the promise of growth: of seeing differently, of becoming more fully alive.
And as we journey together through this year’s Festival, we are invited to see change itself as grace – renewing our hearts, our communities, and our city.
Latest News
4 Corners Festival 2026 – The Rome Section
By Steve Stockman 2026’s 4 Corners Festival that is historically Belfast-centric is having a 6 day section in Rome… Visiting the British and Irish Ambassadors to the Holy See and attending lots of ecumenical events. The 4 Corners Festival is getting ready for its 14th edition in the first week
A Hostage In Syria – “Faith When There Is Nothing Else”
By Steve Stockman Sam Goodwin was taken hostage in Syria… at the 4 Corners Festival he will tell us his story… in Syria and getting out… uncertainty, faith and safely home… Sam Goodwin is telling his story at the 4 Corners Festival 2026. It is quite the story. Sam was
Bishop Rose Hudson-Wilkin; The Journey So Far…
By Steve Stockman From poverty in Montego Bay, Jamaica to being Chaplain for Queen Elizabeth II, the first black Bishop in the Church of England, Rose Hudson-Wilkin is perfect for a 4 Corners Festival called Journey… Perhaps in a year when the 4 Corners Festival’s theme is Journey, no
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"A breath of fresh air presented positively without rancour and condemnation – commands a way of peace and reconciliation which is attractive and engages men and women and people of different ages … lots of variety and imagination."
"Its an inspiring initiative. The faith…hope and love …in the tone of everything presented is a precious light for those of us who want to live the gospel out in this wounded and wonderful city."
"It was just so refreshing to attend your event and see people coming together in peace with an eye on the future…not both on the past. It truly gave me hope for NI."
"The festival is awesome… inspirational, educational and shows how much we have improved in NI but we must continue to get together. This is a great week every year."
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