Workshops by Adam Wyeth

Every Monday a fun and inspiring course led by poet, Adam Wyeth.

Creative Writing Workshops (Monday 11 - 1 pm)
For everyone interested in poetry or creative writing.
You will set fun and stimulating exercises to help free up the imagination. You will learn about craft and technique, discover ways to improve your range and ability as a writer... all you need is paper, pen and your imagination!

Poetry Appreciation Workshops (Monday 2 - 4 pm)
Enjoy and savour a wealth of poems by a wide-selection of contemporary leading poets from around the world. The sessions will entail reading several poems in a group and garnering an in-depth understanding of the poem and poet through discussion.

For your place Contact adam: tel: 086 3166300 e-mail: awyeth@02imail.ie

Also starting soon - evening Creative Writing Workshops.

“24 HOURS NON STOP ART” is an artistic event about the experiencing duration. In the course of one day and one night (24 hours) the audience will be able to experience and partiipate in a range of multi-disciplinary artistic activity offered by 24 artists through video, visual arts, performances, dance, music, theatre, poetry and who knows.
24 Hours represents a conventional and symbolic measure of a cycle: the sun cycle, the cycle of the biological human body, the DAY CYCLE. This event is part of the Touring Experiment in partnership with the Arts Council of Ireland.

28th-29th October 2007

If you are interested in participating in this event contact

Frances Murphy
Angelique De Santos
Curators

Art Trail

28th September - 7th october

Delphine Arnault

French graphic illustrater artist Delphine Arnault has been living and working in Kinsale (Cork) for 4 years. Her inspiration is influenced through people mostly musicians and is reflected in her acrylic watercolour paintings.

13th August - 25th September

BEYOND FORM

Michael Gurhy and Siobhain Grace
Painter and video/photography

This group exhibition of 2 emerging Cork artists, graduates of the Crawford College of Art and Design is a combiaation of video, photography and painting.

Siobhains first marks painted on paper are greatly inspired by her surroundings and landscapes. In her work she combines the unknown mystical world to the existing material world.

Michaels work is about desire and the space between love and lust. "I want the audience to share my experience unaware of beig filmed or caught in acts of extreme intimacy. The viewer becomes present to the subjects unawareness. This consiousness pushes both the viewer and the subject to examine who we are beyond ego. This transforms acts of taboo into acts of beauty.

Beyond Form continues at Tigh Fili Gallery until August 11th

"THE LOST YEAR"

An exhibition of photographs by
MALCOLM McCLAY
New Orleans
"Hurricane Katrina"

Monday 18th June - Saturday 7th July

Gerard Sheehy

Gerard was bron in Limerik and has lived there for most of his life. He is a regular reader at the White House Poetry Revival nights. Previous work has been published in the Microphone On Abthology and Revival.

Edward O Dwyer

Edward is 22 and from Limerik. He's been writing seriously since June 2006, wich incidentally is the time he began going to the White House in Limerik. He holds a first class honours degree in English and Media & Communications (U.L) and in September begins a H.Dip in secondary school taching (N.U.I Cork). he has been previously published in Revival.

Noel Harrington

Noel is from Tuamgraney in Co Clare. In hs 20s he did the customary living abroad thing (Copenhagen, Munich, New York, etc) and has washed more than his fair share of dishes. In his final year studying for a BA at Maynooth, he won the University's top award for literature, the Barbara Hayley Memorial Prize. Has had work published in Revival and will be appearing in a future issue of The Stinging Fly.

Visual Art

Photographer Malcolm Mc Clay will have an exhibition of work at Tigh Fili Gallery from June 15th to July 1st.

Literature

Childrens Events

The annual Eurochild Anthology of Poetry & Art is with the printers and is due to be launched in October 2007. This year we recieved over 8,000 entries from all over Europe and for the first year are really pleased to welcome the work of young artists and poets from Belgrade,Palestine and Egypt! The book will also be launched this year in Dublin, Laois, Sligo and Derry so coming soon to an art centre near you!