Bealtaine Events
BEALTAINE COMMUNITY ART EXHIBITION
Date : May 21st - May 27th, open daily.
Where : Unit (previously Horizon, opposite Kilmantin Gallery), Main Street.
A collaboration between Wicklow and Arklow Community Education art classes, and funded by the VEC, has resulted in this exhibition of works created by students.
I'LL LIVE TIL I DIE
A Bealtaine celebration in talk, story & song of the iconic Delia Murphy.
Date : Thursday 27th May
Time : 1.15pm
Where : Day Care Centre, Wicklow District Hospital.
Admission : FREE Places limited, phone 086 0333906 to book a place
DELIA MURPHY was a renowned singer of her day who gave the Irish ballad international recognition and ensured its everlasting appeal.
Music by Gerry Anderson playing and talking you through Delia’s career, drawing on his knowledge of the singer as the first inspiration of his own development as a folk balladeer and traditional musician, and looking at her place in Irish music and the people she inspired as Ireland’s first lady of song.
Song Some of Delia’s much loved and remembered favourites such as The Spinning Wheel and If I were a Blackbird, sung by actress and singer Máirín O'Donovan, accompanied by Gerry with a chance for the audience to join in!
Talk The life and times of her famous aunt by Carmen Cullen niece of Delia Murphy, followed by a dramatised reading from her own novel Two Sisters Singing, inspired by a larger than life Delia. Carmen is a published poet and playwright and was awarded an M.Phil in Creative Writing from Trinity College Dublin in February 2009.
Wicklow Film Club celebrates Bealtaine
"DEAN SPANLEY"
Directed by Toa Fraser, 2008. / Cert G
Date : Thursday 27th May
Time : 7.30pm (Doors open 7pm) (100 mins)
Where : Friars Suite, Grand Hotel
Admission : €1 Film Club membership at door.
Starring Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Judy Parfitt, Bryan Brown
Based on a little-known 1936 novella by the Irish author Baron Dunsany, Dean Spanley stars Jeremy Northam as Fisk, an Edwardian publisher who is exasperated by his cantankerous father, played by Peter O'Toole: a dotty yet powerful performance. Fisk's older brother was killed in the Boer war and his mother died of a broken heart soon after, but Fisk Sr refuses to grieve.
His son makes the acquaintance of Dean Spanley (Sam Neill), a peppery and somewhat Trollopian churchman, and he is astonished to discover that the dean is the reincarnation of a bizarre departed soul - a soul who may, by declaring himself, allow dad to rediscover his emotions. It is odd, yet amusing, and O'Toole and Neill both give very nice performances. – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
“Fraser’s delightfully eccentric and ultimately touching film set in Edwardian England features O’Toole on sublime form as an irascible curmudgeon...” - Michael Dwyer, The Irish Times
“What an eccentric, absorbing and rewarding film this is....Delightful” - David Cheal, The Telegraph
In asociation with Wicklow Film Club & Access Cinema
POETRY FOR ALL
with Nell Regan
Bridge the generational gap and team up with someone from another age group for a joint adventure in creativity !
Date : Saturday 29th May
Time : 12pm
Where : An Tairseach Ecology Centre, Dominican Convent
Admission : FREE Places limited, phone 087 6537454 for info or to book a place
Have you ever fancied writing but didn't know where to start? Do you work away but just need an infusion of energy? Or maybe you just have an hour to spare on Saturday!
Either way, come along to this multigenerational writing workshop with award winning poet and experienced teacher Nell Regan. So, come old, come young. Grannies- grab your grandchild, Aunties- nudge your niece....you get the idea. BRING ALONG AN OBJECT FROM YOUR HOME OR GARDEN AND ALL WILL BE REVEALED!
Nell Regan's debut collection Preparing for Spring (Arlen House) was shortlisted for the 2007 Glen Dimplex New Writing Awards, the 2008 Strong Awards and the Vincent Buckley Award. She is also the recipient of the 2007 Dublin City Literature Bursary.She has just returned from a reading tour in San Francisco and Los Angeles supported by Culture Ireland. She lives and teaches in Dublin and is currently working on her second collection.
