The Poetry Divas at Kildare Readers Festival

Please come along and see us read at the Kildare Readers Festival 2013

There are lots of events from 9th to 13th October 

Now Booking at Riverbank Box Office www.riverbank.ie or 045 448327

Date: Friday, 11th October
Time: 19:00 - 19.20
Venue: Riverbank Arts Centre 

Admission: Free

The Poetry Divas are a collective of women poets, well published and experienced performers of their own work. They promise a deliciously infectious show that's bound to touch a nerve and blur the wobbly boundaries between page and stage.  Maybe you haven’t heard a poem since school. Maybe you write yourself. Come along anyway and listen to poems on love and death, camping and drinking, babies and buns, science and science fiction.

Link for the rest of the program is here

Walking on Thin Ice

A short story competition to promote mental health awareness.

“Talk about depression” – But what if you can’t – because institutions of power or stifling, culturally-enforced shame have made it unsafe to do so?

Theme: Mental illness, stigma and oppressive institutional power

Deadline extended to: November 15

Prizes: €500, €250 and €100. Publication in an e-anthology for the final shortlist.

bof final shortlist: Dave Lordan, poetry and prose writer and facilitator, author of Invitation to a Sacrifice and First Book of Frags.

The Walking on Thin Ice short story competition has one aim: to produce powerful, new, high-quality short fiction (500 – 4000 words) on the topic of mental health, stigma and power by means of an open blind-submission short story contest. The intention is also to fundraise as much of the prize money as possible.

Entry is open to anyone, anywhere in the world – but entries must be in English.

Rules, submissions and more info here

Reading your Work to an Audience - a Workshop with the Poetry Divas

Would you like to build up confidence in reading your poems aloud on stage? Or to an audience of any kind.

Are you looking for advice and tips on how to improve?

This workshop is not about strictly performance poetry and or reciting poems; it’s about poetry in performance, for an audience.

As well established poets and performers of their own poetry, The Poetry Divas will focus in this workshop on the art of performing poetry for others. They will discuss rhythm, emphasis, dramatic pause, timing, movement, flair and nerves. After polishing your performance skills, the workshop will culminate in a performance to put them into practice in front of an audience.

Please bring along a few poems which you would like to work on, or poems by another poet which you would like to perform. And an audience around 8pm. All welcome but numbers are limited. Pre-book or first come, first served.

We will be blurring the Wobbly boundaries between Page and Stage in  a Workshop with The Poetry Divas at Rua Red Arts Centre as part of the Red Line Festival in Tallaght. Organised by South Dublin County Libraries.

Friday 18th October at 6.30pm Admission €12/€8

Places limited, book early to avoid disappointment! Places are booking fast.
Link here

Minimum age 16

This workshop is aimed at ostensibly poets but is applicable to short prose also.

Some All Ireland Poetry Day events

First of all me.

I'm reading at the Irish Writers' Centre

Thursday 3rd October 2013 11.40am

A day-long (10am to 4pm) of poetry by some of Ireland's finest poets is at the centre of Poetry Ireland's celebration of All Ireland Poetry Day. 
Watch the live stream at poetryireland.ie/live

Francis Ledwidge: WWI Irish Nationalist War Poet - Talk

18:30, Wednesday 2nd October at the National Library, Kildare Street, Dublin 2

On the eve of the All Ireland Poetry Day teacher, writer and performance artist Miriam Kilmurry will examine the place of Francis Ledwidge among the canons of WWI literature in her talk "Francis Ledwidge: WWI Irish Nationalist War Poet". Admission is free and no booking required. http://www.nli.ie/en/list/current-events.aspx

Dean Crowe Theatre, in collaboration with Athlone Literary Festival, will host an open mic poetry night with music on Thurs Oct 3 at 7:30pm in the Dean Crowe, Athlone.
Poet/Writer John Sexton will open the evening followed with readings from Micheal Corrigan, Niall O’Connor, Michéal Kearney, Michael Corrigan, Éabha Rose, Declan Finneran, Amy Barry, Patrick Carton...and more....

Louth

1pm - Highlanes Gallery, Dundalk

'Variations on a Theme of Change, Transformation and Alchemy' is the theme chosen for a special lunchtime gallery event to mark All Ireland Poetry Day. Five Drogheda poets, Susan Connelly, Patrick Dillon, Roger Hudson, Marie MacSweeney and John O'Rourke, will present poems that explore the various aspects of change. All are welcome and admission is free, with people free to come and go.

8pm - Anaverna House, Ravensdale, Dundalk

A poetry reading with Enda Coyle-Greene and Richard W. Halperin. There will also be a musical interval and readings from the Dundalk writers' circle.

Meath

12pm - Laracor Graveyard

1pm - St Patrick's Cathedral, Trim

4pm - Ledwidge Museum, Slane

5pm - O'Reilly Memorial, Dowth

The Boyne Writers Group invite you to join them in celebrating the poetic heritage of Meath. They are holding a series of four readings to celebrate two Meath-born poets and two who spent many years in the county: F.R. Higgins, Jonathan Swift, Francis Ledwidge and John Boyle O'Reilly.
Join them at any or all of the venues, listen to or read poems by these poets and others of your choice.

Tipperary

8pm - Lough Derg Yacht Club, Dromineer

The Dromineer Literary Festival presents a poetry reading with Michael Longley, Mark Roper and Jennifer Matthews.

Radio Writing Workshop

This sounds rather thrilling. Good job Kilkenny!

WEEKEND RADIO WRITING WORKSHOP - BOOKING NOW

WOULD YOU LIKE TO WRITE A PLAY FOR SESSIONS HOUSE?

Sessions House Arts Centre is proud to host through the Kilkenny Carlow Education & Training Board Weekend Radio Drama Writing Workshops.
Cost of the workshop is €25 per person
There are two weekend workshops running on the following dates:

WORKSHOP 1

SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER 10 AM -5PM
SUNDAY 6TH OCTOBER 10 AM -5PM

WORKSHOP 2

SATURDAY 19TH OCTOBER 10AM-5PM
SUNDAY 20TH OCTOBER 10AM-5PM

Radio Drama and Performance Workshop - wherein a radio play will be devised, developed, scripted and performed, specifically for and about The Sessions House Arts Centre, the old Court House and Gaol in Thomastown, Kilkenny
Incorporating the rich history of the building, participants will devise a short piece for radio which they will subsequently perform and record under the facilitation of playwright, Gillian Grattan.
The workshop will explore the following; script writing, editing, acting, creating sound effects, character creation and development, microphone technique and the physicality of radio acting.

Content:
• Development of a story and plot which directly relates to Sessions House.
• Devising and writing of the script or scripts.
• Performance of the piece by participants for recording.
• Sound effects which will be sourced by participants as the project will be recorded in the traditional style: ie: no computerised effects.
• Music, an original piece to be devised by participants.
• Recording the piece, in a professional studio setting
• Performance of the piece to an audience in November at Session House.

Athlone Literary Festival

This literary festival is getting bigger.

More details on their website

FRIDAY 4TH OCTOBER
C. Blurred Lines: A Poetry Workshop with Vona Groarke Fee: €15 2:00pm - 5:00pm

An Evening with author Pat McCabe 8:00pm Fee €10

SATURDAY 5TH OCTOBER
Workshop: ‘Writing a Novel’ with James Lawless Fee €15 10:00am – 1:00pm

‘Song is Reality’ with Nóirín Ní Riain and Avia Gurman Fee €10 10:30am – 12:30pm

Poetry & Prose with Vona Groarke and Dermot Healy Fee €10 1:30pm – 3:00pm

From ‘Beyond Prozac’ to ‘Selfhood’ and beyond. A conversation with Dr Terry Lynch 3:30pm-5:00pm Fee €10

An evening of Comedy, Music & Poetry Fee €12 8:00pm-10:00pm

SUNDAY 6TH OCTOBER
Paths to Publishing 12:00am-1:00pm Fee €5

 "Irish Identity & Culture, an Ever Changing Idea" Fee €10 3:00pm-5:00pm

Developing your film script

From Dream to Screen: The Development Process of Run and Jump
On this half-day workshop, Ailbhe Keoghan, (co-writer, Run And Jump) and Mark McIlrath (script-editor, Run and Jump) will discuss their development process involved in the feature-length script, Run and Jump. Run and Jump, directed and co-written by Steph Green, had its world premiere at Tribeca Film Festival and won Best Irish Feature at the 2013 Galway Film Fleadh.

Development is now a necessary part of the writing process, especially where money from funding authorities and/or co-production is involved. This discussion aims to enlighten filmmakers to this process and how to navigate it successfully.

Topics covered will include:

• The journey of development
• The do’s and don’ts of development
• Protecting what the story is while being open about how best to tell it.
• Approaching how to develop the character/story/theme issues to make it a more effective emotional experience for an audience
• Looking at a particular scene development scenario from Run and Jump.

Ailbhe Keogan is the author of the novel, Molly & the Cyclops, published by Hag’s Head Press. Her first screenplay, Run and Jump, was directed and produced by Oscar-nominated team, Steph Green and Tamara Anghie in association with Samson Films. The script was selected as one of twelve to take part in the 2010 Berlinale Talent Campus Script Station and as one of only five projects for the Sundance Institute’s June 2010 lab.

Mark McIlrath is a film script editor who works on feature film projects in Ireland, Italy, France and the UK.

Date: Friday, October 4th, 2013. Half Day (10.30am - 1.30pm)
Cost: €20 members/€25 non-members. Places are limited.
http://www.galwayfilmcentre.ie/training/from-dream-to-screen-a-discussion-about-the-script-development-of-run-jump/