Location: 2 Royal AvEnue
Date: 1 May, 2026
Time: 12:00 – 2:00Pm

We got word that our key contributor for The Other Place had to pull out because of a bereavement and made the decision therefore not to proceed with the event in its current form. Instead on 1st May in 2RA we’re going to have an ‘Other Place Lunch’ thanks to our partners at Bodega Bagels. This will be free and open to anyone who wants to talk about the intersection between creatives and decision makers.

All ticket holders for the conference will be fully refunded in the coming days.

The Other Place is a passion project for Daisy Chain. We fund it ourselves because we think these conversations are worth having. This also means that we don’t have to do it if it doesn’t feel right. This year, although we had a great list of speakers and a solid programme, our instincts were it just didn’t feel quite right yet. There was, even at this stage some work to do. And we were doing it. But when you lose your lead contributor in this context... well we’d rather not do it than do something that we don’t feel right about.

We don’t think this is the end for The Other Place. We’ve ideas for 2027.

But we’ll only do it if we feel it’s worth your and our time.

GOOD CITIES HAVE SOMETHING THAT DEFIES EXPLANATION, A FEELING... A VIBE. AN ORGANIC, MESSY SENSE OF FUN AND EXCITEMENT, ROUGH EDGES THAT AREN’T LIKE ANYWHERE ELSE.

MAGIC EMANATING FROM AN OTHER PLACE.

WHEN WE TALK ABOUT CITIES WE LOVE, WE AREN’T JUST TALKING ABOUT HOW FUNCTIONAL THEY ARE.

Belfast is a city imbued with the spirit of anti-etablishmentism. It’s a city housing the worst funded artists in Europe, and yet, somehow, these artists are transforming their city. Artists who are staunchly ‘other’, in a city where the establishment is defined by two sides, have crafted literal and figurative spaces for coexistence. Street artists in particular, in a city where walls have been weaponised for paramilitaries, have built a scene that is globally revered and locally embraced with entrepreneurship rather than funding. It’s a phenomenon.

So as part of Hit the North Street Art Festival 2026, Daisy Chain Inc is proud to invite you to, ‘The Other Place’.