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Monday, Midsummer Day/ Dé Luain, 21 Meitheamh |
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10.00 am – 12.30 pm Workshops/Ceardlanna
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2.00 pm Seeing Delight: Visual Art from Tech Amergin
An exhibition of the work of the tutors and students of the visual arts in Tech Amergin. The exhibition and the festival will be officially opened by Kate Kennelly, Arts Officer of
Kerry County Council.
3.30 pm Aonghas MacNeacail and Kerry Hardie
Two very distinguished poets, one Irish and one Scottish, read from their work. Aonghas will read in both Gaelic and English. There will also be music.
Admission free.
8.30 pm Celebrating the Sun
Internationally renowned actor Stephen Rea will be joined by musician Máire Breatnach, an old friend of the festival, and Scottish actor, singer and poet Gerda Stevenson, for our now traditional evening of readings, songs and music to celebrate Midsummer Night.
Admission €20 (€15).
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Tuesday/Dé Máirt , 22nd Meitheamh |
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10.00 am – 12.30 pm Workshops/Ceardlanna
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12.00 pm Tegolin’s Tales Theatre: a masked fairytale drama for children
Dramatic masked performances of fairytale stories.
Admission €5 and family rate available.
2.00 pm Eamon Grennan and Eugene O’Connell
A reading by two poets whose work ranges from North Cork to Connemara and the United States.
Admission free.
4.00 pm J. M. Synge’s The Aran Islands
J M Synge's The Aran Islands. A dramatic recital for two voices performed by Tegolin Knowland and Sean Coyne.
Admission €5.
8.30 pm Cailleacha faoin nGréin: Wise Women taking the Sun
Leanne O’Sullivan reads from her most recent collection Cailleach: the Hag of Beara
followed by
The Wilder Wisdom of Auld Ones: stories, legends and poetry inspired by the Cailleach, performed by actor and storyteller Nuala Hayes and accompanied by harpist/composer
Anne-Marie O’Farrell.
Admission €20 (€15).
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Wednesday, St. John’s Eve, Dé Chéadaoin, 23ú Meitheamh |
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10.00 am – 12.30 pm Workshops/Ceardlanna
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10.30 am Film- Angel
Written and directed by Neil Jordan starring Stephen Rea and RayMcAnally (1982).
Writer/director Neil Jordan's debut feature is a tense thriller played out amid the violence in Northern Ireland. Stephen Rea stars as Danny, a saxophone player in a travelling band who witnesses the brutal murders of the manager of the band (who is involved in some extortion payoffs) and a deaf and dumb girl, who has seen the killing of the manager.
2.00 pm The Reading to end all Readings
The participants in the writing workshop read from their work, followed by a reading with their tutor, the hugely versatile Gabriel Fitzmaurice and Chris Agee, poet and editor of the prestigious journal Irish Pages.
Admission free.
8.30 pm Scaoil Amach É! Give It A Lash!
A sizzler of a concert with Corca Dhuibhne maestro Breandán Ó Beaglaoich agus a chlann, in éineacht leis an rinceoir Sibéal Davitt agus an supergroup áitiúil Ardú.
Admission €20 (€15).
10.30 pm Tine Chnámh na Féile: St. John’s Eve Bonfire with ceol agus craic
A three-day all events ticket €50.
All other events free of charge.
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