Skibbereen Arts Festival

WEDNESDAY JULY 2834‘The Quiet Club’ are Mick O’Shea andDanny McCarthy. Formed in Feb 2006they have met with considerable successand have become recognised as one ofIreland’s leading sound art improvisationgroups. They have toured extensively inIreland and have appeared in festivalsin both Germany, Canada. and Japan.Most recently at DEAF (Dublin ElectronicArts Festival), Static (Liverpool) and I& E Festival, (Dublin). They frequentlyappear with guests which in the pastincluded Mark Wastell, Viv Corringham,John Godfrey, Harry Moore, ChristianCarley, David Toop plus many more.Employing a wide range of sound makingdevices ranging from stones , homemadeinstruments, electronics, amplifiedtextures, theremins, field recordings etc.Over the past number of years ‘TheQuiet Club’ have been active in exploringthe boundaries of sound and listeningin unorthodox spaces. ‘The Quiet Club’have previously played in St Fin Barre’sCathedral Cork, The Unitarian Churchin Cork and The Unitarian Church onStephens Green Dublin.SOUNDINGSACRED SPACESTHE QUIET CLUBThe Quiet Club will play for about 2 hours and wouldencourage people to come and go as they please but quietly.POETRY READINGTOM FRENCHTom French is one of the mostinteresting poets to emerge inIreland in the last few years. Hewas born in Kilkenny in 1966and raised across the border in Tipperary. He received abursary in literature from An Chomhairle Ealaíon/The ArtsCouncil, Ireland in 1999, and his first collection ‘Touching theBones’ (Gallery Press, 2001) was awarded the Forward Prizefor First Collection 2002.His second collection ‘The Fire Step’ was published in October2009. Tom will read from both collections tonight - thegeneral theme is ‘The Things That Leave Us Breathless andHorizontal’.LEANNE O’SULLIVANLeanne O’Sullivan was born in 1983,and comes from the Beara peninsulain West Cork. She received an MA inEnglish from University College, Cork in2006. The winner of several of Ireland’s poetry competitions,including the Seacat, Davoren Hanna and RTE Rattlebag PoetrySlam, she has published two collections, both from Bloodaxe,‘Waiting for My Clothes’ (2004) and ‘Cailleach: The Hag ofBeara’ (2009). She is the recipient of the 2009 Ireland Chair ofPoetry bursary.“What is remarkable about Leanne O’Sullivan is not that she isso young but that she dares to write about exactly what it is tobe young. A teenaged Virgil, she guides us down some of themore hellish corridors of adolescence with a voice that is strongand true. For that alone, she deserves our full attention.”American Poet, Billy CollinsWEST CORK WORKING ARTIST’S STUDIO| 7.30PM | €8THURSDAY JULY 2935ABBEYSTREWRY CHURCH | 4-6PM | FREE OF CHARGE