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Collage your Personal Soul Cards – A Workshop for Women

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Create your own Soul Cards with card, glue, images and  imagination. Collage — a creative and playful method for intuitive, artful self-discovery and self-expression — is accessible to everyone, even those who think they have no artistic ability.

Where? Lakeside Centre, Belleek Road, Ballyshannon, Co Donegal
When? Saturday, July 14, 11 AM – 5 PM
How much? €75, all materials supplied
Early bird concession: €60 before July 6 
Questions? Contact monicacorishwriting@gmail.com

What they said about previous workshops: “Surprisingly easy.”  — “A window into my interior, amusing, surprising and fun.”  — “A restful day of creative play and unexpected connections.”

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This workshop is based on the SoulCollage® process developed by Seena B Frost, and on the Art to Heart methods taught by Jole Bortoli.

Lunch, teas, coffees will be available at AJ’s Wine Bar and Restaurant, Lakeside Centre.

Literary Highlights of the Allingham Festival 2017

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Poetry Masterclass; Fighting Words; The Art of Awareness; Literary Lunch; Wild Atlantic Writers; and lots, lots more… Book all events through Eventbrite. More info at www.allinghamfestival.com

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  • Friday, 10:30 – 11:30 Fighting Words Information Session, with Sean Love – for anyone interested in learning about Fighting Words, the free creative writing programme for students of all ages in Ireland.
  • Friday, 11:30 – 12:30: Fighting Words Volunteer Training, for those who have already completed the application process – if you are interested in applying in time for this training, please email donegal@fightingwords.ie
  • Friday, 13:30 – 15:30: The Art of Awareness: A Creativity Workshop for Adults, with Olive Travers
  • Friday, 16:00 – 17:30: Wild Atlantic Writers, with Mick Delap, Winifred McNulty, Monica Corish and Enda McGloin.
  • Saturday, 9:00 – 12:00: Poetry Workshop with Moya Cannon: “Stitching the Inner and the Outer World Together”. This workshop is aimed at those who have been writing poetry for some time – places limited to 10. Participants are asked to send two pieces of work to allinghamfest@gmail.com before October 31st.
  • Saturday 12:30 – 15:00: Literary Lunch in Nirvana: Splendid Food; Jim Keane Flash Fiction Award; Allingham Poetry Award; launch of “Grace” by Paul Lynch
  • Saturday 15:30 – 17:00: Mike McCormack, author of “Solar Bones”, in conversation with Sinead Crowley, RTE Arts and Media Correspondent.
  • Saturday 19:00 – 20:00: History Ireland Hedge School: William Allingham – “An Irish poet but not a national poet”? Moderated by Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland.

Do you have what it takes to be a Fighting Words volunteer?

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Fighting Words is coming to South Donegal/North Leitrim/North Sligo/West Fermanagh, and we are looking for volunteers!  Have you got what it takes? Have a browse on the Fighting Words website: www.fightingwords.ie/volunteer to learn more, or come along to an information session at Bundoran Library on Monday, October 9 from 12 till 1.

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From the website:

What kind of people volunteer at Fighting Words?

Everyone! All tutoring at Fighting Words is free and delivered by teams of volunteer writing tutors.  We have over 400 volunteer tutors – people from all walks of life – including third level students (from all disciplines!), retired people, writers (both professional and aspiring), teachers, journalists, visual artists, musicians and filmmakers – just to name a few.

What kind of skills do I need to volunteer at Fighting Words?

Anyone who enjoys working in a creative environment with the individuals and groups that come to our centres – and is a good listener –  is welcome to volunteer. You don’t need to be a writer or a teacher to be a Fighting Words volunteer writing tutor.

What kind of commitment to I have to give?

Volunteering with Fighting Words is totally flexible because your time is a valuable resource.  Tutors choose the days and times they come in using our online calendar for Dublin, Glencree and Cork.  You simply click on the day you’d like to come in and sign up. For example, we have tutors who choose to come in on the same day every week on the same day, tutors who come in for a week or two in the summer and tutors who come in a few times a year for evening workshops. In Mayo, the local volunteer co-ordinator will contact you by email about our monthly workshops.

There is no minimum time commitment – and we mean that!

Celebrating Cuba in Ballyshannon!

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The Cuban Ambassador to Ireland, H.E. Dr. Hermes Herrera Hernández will be the Guest of Honour at the Official Opening of Emer O’Shea’s fabulous ‘Celebrating Cuba – From the Bluestacks to the Carribean’, a photographic exhibition at the Abbey Arts Centre, Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, at 6 pm  (prior to the carnival parade) on Saturday  October 7.

The exhibition is sponsored by Donegal County Council as a Bluestacks Festival Event. Refreshments will be served  and a wee taste of salsa may be on the menu. Prints of the images can be ordered and all profits will go to Dr.David Hickey’s Fund for Medical Aid for Cuba. Everyone is welcome, RSVP Emer O’Shea  0860219023, emerosheaphotography@gmail.com

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Fighting Words – A Great Opportunity for North West Ireland

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Sean Love, Executive Director of Fighting Words, Tom Sigafoos, and Conor Carney, Principal, Holy Family NS, 12 June 2017

A version of this article appeared in the Donegal Post on Wednesday 21 June 2017. (Photo: Seán Love, Executive Director of Fighting Words; Tom Sigafoos; and Conor Carney, Principal, Holy Family National School, Ballyshannon)

“It seemed daft, in a country that prides itself in being a land of writers, that so little time was dedicated to creative writing.”

At a June12 meeting in Ballyshannon’s Holy Family National School, Seán Love, Executive Director of Fighting Words, described how he and Co-Founder Roddy Doyle sensed a great opportunity in 2009 to launch a creative writing programme that is branching into every corner of Ireland. “Regional programmes are now springing up,” Love added, “in communities of all sizes and descriptions – Glencree in Wicklow, Castlebar in Mayo, Clarenbridge in Galway, not to mention Belfast and Cork. It’s great to see the interest that’s sparking in Ballyshannon.”

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Readings by Noel King from his new book The Key Signature & Other Stories

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The nineteen stories in this book concern the trials of modern man in an Ireland of the late twentieth and early twenty-first century.  Each first-person narrator is grappling with something: host family father falling in love with the au pair, cross-dressing husband unleashing his grief and his vices after the funeral of his beloved wife, Men’s Shed participant falling in love with another male attendee. The Key Signature is a superb debut collection of stories from a fine poet and actor.

Noel King was born and lives in Tralee, County Kerry. His poetry collections are published by Salmon: Prophesying the Past (2010), The Stern Wave (2013) and Sons (2015). He has edited more than fifty books of work by others (Doghouse Books, 2004-2013) and was poetry editor of Revival Literary Journal (Limerick Writers’ Centre) in 2012/13. He also enjoys acting and singing in amateur plays and musical theatre, and in the odd film. He was once a Bunratty Castle entertainer. The Key Signature & Other Stories is his debut collection of fiction.

Come and see Noel read from The Key Signature at one of these venues

Monday 5 June – Launch of The Key Signature & Others Stories (Liberties Press) – Siamsa Tire Theatre & Arts Centre, Town Park, Tralee. 6pm

Tuesday 6 June – On the Nail, Shannon Rowing Club, Sarsfield Bridge, Limerick hosted by Limerick Writers’ Centre. 8pm

Wednesday 7 June – Seanchai Centre, Listowel. 7.30pm

Thursday 8 June – Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop, Galway. 6.30pm

Friday 9 June – The White House Bar, Fermoy, County Cork.

Saturday 10 June – Four ‘pop-up’ readings with Mae Leonard in Naas, County Kildare: McAuley Place, 2pm; Naas Library, 2.30pm; The Moat Club Cafe , 3pm; Swan’s on the Green, 4pm

Sunday 11 June – National Concert Hall, ‘The Sprit of Kerry’ night

Wednesday 14 June – David Butler’s Serrocco series reading in Baggot Street, Dublin.

Thursday 15 June – Cork city, hosted by Matthew Moynihan

Friday 16 June – Louis Mulcahy Pottery, Ballyferriter, County Kerry

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Yeats Day Book Launch by Paula Lahiff; and Stoneywoods Festival Update

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The launch of From India to Ithaca, a new collection of poetry by Paula Lahiff, will be held in the Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo on Yeats’s birthday — Tuesday, 13 June at 1:00 pm. Damien Brennan will launch Paula’s collection.
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Sinead Morrisey at Stoneywoods Festival – start time 5.50 pm, entry fee €5.

Join poets Sinead Morrissey, Monica Corish and Teresa Lally for a summer feast of poetry in the community centre in the heart of Kiltyclogher! If you wish to reserve a place in advance, contact Alison: 083-1755723. Tickets: €5 at the door – proceeds to charity. Cash only, please! www.facebook.com/events/682393661931626/

Poetry and Myth Workshop Postponed

The “Poetry and Story Inspired by Myth” writing workshop, which was due to take place as part of the Stoneywoods festival, has been postponed. Future venue and date TBC

Writing Workshop: Poetry and Story Inspired by Myth

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As part of the Stoneywoods Festival: Kiltyclogher Library, 1 – 3:30 pm, Saturday, July 1.

Kiltyclogher – Coillte Clochair, the Stoney Woods – sits halfway between the enigmatic Prince Connall’s Grave and the splendidly named Black Pig’s Dyke. It is the perfect place in which to learn from poems and stories inspired by myth, and write your own.

The workshop will be led by Monica Corish. €20, pay at the door – places limited to 16.