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h 10.45am Official Opening Lord Diljit Rana, MBE h Diljit Rana is a very successful Belfast-based businessman and former President of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce. h 11.15am Talk: ‘e Twentieth Century – e Century of Violence’ by Baroness Williams of Crosby Tickets: £8.00 Shirley Williams has been one of the best known names in British Politics for almost 50 years. In 1964 she was elected Labour MP for Hitchin and went on to serve as a member of both the Wilson and Callaghan governments in the 1960s and 1970s. After 35 years in The Labour Party Williams became disillusioned and, along with Roy Jenkins, David Owen and Bill Rodgers, became one of the 'Gang of Four' who founded The Social Democratic Party. She supported the establishment of the Liberal Democrats in 1987 and stood down as their leader in the House of Lords in September 2004 after three years of service. Her outstanding autobiography, Climbing the Bookshelves, was published in 2009. h 1.05pm Lunchtime Reading with Salley Vickers Salley vickers is the author of the word-of-mouth bestseller Miss Garnet's Angel and several other bestselling novels including Mr Golightly's Holiday, The Other Side of You and Dancing Backwards as well as a collection of short stories, Aphrodite's Hat. Salley will read from and talk about her latest novel, The Cleaner of Chartres. h 2.15pm Creative Writing Workshops with Carlo Gébler (Short Story), James Byrne & Eoghan Walls (Poetry), Heather Richardson (Historical Fiction), Nessa O’Mahony (Memoir), Kimberley Lynne (Playwriting) and Stuart Neville (Crime Fiction). The poetry, prose, memoir and writing for stage courses will be directed by established writers and practitioners who are also experienced tutors. (Limited number of places in each workshop. Course fee for 3 Workshops: £30.00. Details on page 15) Writing workshops by Eoghan Walls, Heather Richardson and Nessa O’Mahony are sponsored by The Open University h 4.15pm e Centre for Cross Border Studies Annual Talk at JHISS: ‘14 years of crossborder collaboration: the usefulness of outsiders’ by Andy Pollak Andy Pollak retires as the founding director of the Centre for Cross Border Studies (with offices in Armagh and Dublin) in July 2013. He was formerly Belfast reporter, religious affairs correspondent, education correspondent and assistant news editor with the Irish Times. With a Czech father, a County Antrim mother and a Dublin wife and daughters, he considers himself to be an ‘Irish/Northern Irish insider/outsider’. Sponsored by the Centre for Cross Border Studies h 5.30pm Reception Hosted by the north South Ministerial Council Opening of Exhibition: John Hewitt: Home Words Launch of John Hewitt autobiography, A North Light Twenty-Five Years in a Municipal Art Gallery, edited by Frank Ferguson & Kathryn White and published by Four Courts Press. Details on page 14. h 7.00pm Opening of Exhibitions: ulster Arts Club Visual Artists’ Summer Exhibition and ‘Heads, Hats and Beards (Mostly)’ Details on page 14. h 8.00pm Poetry Reading with Simon Armitage and Medbh McGuckian Tickets: £10.00 Simon Armitage is undoubtedly the most popular and widely known poet of his 1960s-born generation. Renowned for his technique, versatility and passion, he has won both critical and popular acclaim for his highly accessible poetry which often combines slang and immediacy with a sardonic wit. Medbh McGuckian has earned significant critical acclaim and many awards over the course of her distinguished career as one of Ireland’s finest living poets. Among the prizes she has won are the National Poetry Prize and, in 2002, The Forward Prize for Best Poem. Her most recent collection, The High Caul Cap, was published to much acclaim last Autumn. Presented in association with Poetry Ireland d a y 1 M O n D A y 2 2 J u L y PHOTO CREDIT: AvID BARKER PHOTO CREDIT: PHILIP O’NEILL h 10.00pm Music in e Footlights Bar
h 9.45am Talk: ‘John Hewitt & e Bell Magazine’ by Dr Kelly Matthews Kelly Matthews teaches English at Framingham State university in Massachusetts, uSA. She wrote about John Hewitt's early poetry, commentaries and reviews in her 2012 book, The Bell Magazine and the Representation of Irish Identity. In this talk, she will discuss Hewitt's work for The Bell, a Dublin literary magazine edited by Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, and Peadar O'Donnell in the 1940s and 1950s. h 11.15am Poetry Reading: Penelope Shuttle and Julian Stannard PHOTO CREDIT: JEMIMAH KuHFELD Penelope Shuttle’s 2006 poetry collection, Redgrove’s Wife, was short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best Single Collection and for the T S Eliot Award, and her 2010 collection, Sandgrain and Hourglass, was a Recommendation of The Poetry Book Society. Her most recent publication is Unsent: New and Selected Poems 1980-2013. Julian Stannard is the author of three volumes of poetry: Rina’s War, The Red Zone and in 2011, The Parrots of Villa Gruber Discover Lapis Lazuli. He was awarded the Troubadour Poetry prize in 2010. h 4.15pm Talk: ‘Challenges faced by the Somali community in northern Ireland’s education sector’ by Suleiman Abdulahi Originally from Somalia, Suleiman Abdulahi is co-founder of Horn of Africa People’s Aid Northern Ireland (HAPANI) and co-ordinates the charity’s fundraising and project activities. He is a passionate and relentless advocate for the Horn of Africa community, with fifteen years experience as an activist and social entrepreneur. h 7.00pm Play: ‘e Duck Variations’ by David Mamet, presented by e Lurig Drama Group, Cushendall Tickets: £6.00 d a y 2 T u E S D A y 2 3 T H J u L y Following their memorable visit to JHISS 2011 with their uK One-Act Finals winning production, Melody, Lurig Drama Group returns to Armagh, having been nominated for this year’s uK finals, with Mamet’s heartbreaking comedy/drama, The Duck Variations. Through fourteen variations, two estranged brothers meet in the park to scatter their mother’s ashes. George, a uS soldier, and Emil, a beatnik poet, slowly come to terms with life, death, and the choices each has made. Discussion turns to love, loneliness and…a lotta ducks! h 1.05pm Lunchtime Reading with Gavin Corbett Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and raised in Dublin. His first novel, Innocence, was published in 2003 and there has been huge critical acclaim for his latest novel, This is the Way, which was published by Fourth Estate earlier this year and was shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award 2013. h 2.15pm Creative Writing Workshops with Carlo Gébler, James Byrne, Eoghan Walls*, nessa O’Mahony*, Kimberley Lynne, Heather Richardson* and Stuart neville. *Sponsored by The Open University h 8.00pm e Wireless Mystery eatre presents ‘e Play of the Book’ written by and starring Ian Sansom Tickets: £12.00 Theatre meets novel and a live musical score in The Play of the Book which follows the frustrations of creation and the effort that go into genius, as Ian Sansom, author of the highly entertaining series of Mobile Mystery novels, leads the audience, in his own inimitable style, through the making of a book! (And his latest book, The Norfolk Mystery, is the first in a thrilling new detective series, The County Guides, which will offer plenty of murder, mystery and mayhem for years to come!) In this show Ian will be accompanied by a live new score/soundscape provided by Wireless Mystery Theatre, using everything from cellos to toy pianos and tearing paper as percussion!
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