Literary
EVENING SERENADE A recital of music & spoken word
Nell Regan, poet. Klaas Jan de Vries (organ), Oisin Walsh-Peelo (harp), Linsey Dempsey (soprano) and Emer Barry (soprano).
Date: Friday 28th May
Time: 8pm (Doors open at 7pm)
Where: Chapel, Dominican Convent, Wicklow Town. (Bring a cushion!)
Admission: €12 / €10 concession ( includes refreshment before concert )
Programme :
Danny Boy
My Lagan Love
Lord Inchquin
- Poetry -
An Coitin Dearg
- Poetry -
Apres un reve
Nacht und Traume
Sure on this shining night
- Poetry -
Tornami
Work for Organ by Donnacha Dennehy (1992 rev. 1998)
Humperdink Duet
The Lake Isle of Inisfree
The Bold Unbiddable Child 
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. Her non fiction work includes the first biography of Helena Molony in Female Activists, Irish Women and Change (Woodfield Press) and Volume 4 of the Field Day Anthology. 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.
Klaas Jan de Vries was born in the Netherlands and came to Ireland in 1996. He lives in Wicklow where he runs a music and coaching practice. He studied organ with Hans van Nieuwkoop at the Sweelinck Conservatory Amsterdam, and with Una Russell at DIT Conservatory of Music. Engaged in performing, arranging, conducting, and teaching music, his special interest lies in the areas of contemporary music, improvised music and composing.
Soprano Linsey Dempsey holds a Bachelor of music performance degree from the D.I.T Conservatory of Music and Drama where she studied with Toni Walsh and Mary Brennan. She has performed in operas and concerts around the country and abroad. Operatic roles include Marcellina in The Marriage of Figaro, Mercedes in Carmen, Martha in Faust and most recently she performed with Anna Livia opera festival as Giovanna in Rigoletto. Linsey has been involved with Opera Ireland for many years, a prize-winner at many music competitions and has performed for President McAleese. She is currently continuing her studies in London.
The musical journey of seventeen year-old Oisín Walsh-Peelo began at six years old when he started learning the piano. He is currently a student of Mirette Dowling in Wicklow and recently won the John Swan Diamond Studio Award at the Arklow Music Festival.
At twelve, he pursued his dream of playing the Harp and began lessons with Áine Ní Dhubhghaill at the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin. He took to the instrument very quickly and in March of this year won the O’Farrell Cup for Irish harp at the Feis Ceoil in Dublin.
Emer Barry has an honours degree in Music and Italian from UCD and holds a Masters in Music Performance from the DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama.
She has performed extensively throughout Ireland as a soloist on both the concert platform and as guest soprano with choral societies and orchestras. She is a regular soloist at the National Concert Hall and has performed as guest soprano with leading Irish composer and singer Liam Lawton. Recent operatic roles include Fulvia in Rossini’s La Pietra del Paragone (January 2008), Nedda in Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci with Wonderland Productions Ltd., (March 2008) and Susanna in Le Nozze di Figaro, Mozart(April 2008). Most recently she played the female lead role of Serpina in La Serva Padrona which toured the north of Italy in July 2009.Currently she is studying with Kathleen Tynan at the Royal Irish Academy of Music.
Poetry Reading funded by Poetry Ireland
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
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.
COSMIC POETRY
A community poetry event in a garden setting
Date : Sunday 30th May
Time : 11am
Where : Cosmic Garden, An Tairseach Ecology Centre, Dominican Convent
Admission : FREE
Wicklow Writers bring their poetry and invite you to bring yours ( in words or music ) to the Cosmic Garden.....plus enjoy an elevenses cuppa before blast off....and hey, bring a cosy cushion for the trip!
BIG BANG......Drumming
STARS..........the Wicklow Writers Group
THE UNIVERSE........come along everyone ( with your poem in your pocket if you are feeling cosmic too! )
Any musicians out there would be most welcome at this event.
In association with Wicklow Writers Group wicklowwriters.blogsot.com & An Tairseach Ecology Centre
