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FOCÁL UP!<br />
continued<br />
We sat down with one half of jazz duo Zrazy, Carole<br />
Nelson, last month to talk about her first album fronting<br />
her new outfit, The Carole Nelson Trio, and this month<br />
we’re delighted to report she’s out and about, bringing<br />
her music to the people.<br />
We were particularly charmed to hear that idea for her<br />
sumptuous album, One Day in Winter, came to her one<br />
night while driving to a gig just after hearing the news<br />
of Leonard Cohen’s passing. “I knew too how I would<br />
structure it, from pre-dawn to sunrise, to the moon rising<br />
over the Blackstairs Mountains,” she told us.<br />
You can catch Nelson’s trio at the following venues:<br />
on January 27 at the Wexford Arts Centre (Jan 27),<br />
Billy Byrnes, Killkenny (Feb 1), Arthur’s Blues and<br />
Jazz Pub, Dublin (<strong>February</strong> 15), The Courthouse Arts<br />
Centre, Tinahely, (Feb 17), and finally on <strong>February</strong><br />
21 at the Limerick Jazz Society. Find out more at<br />
carolenelsonmusic.com<br />
Nelson’s<br />
Tour<br />
The<br />
Write<br />
Stuff<br />
For any burgeoning or aspiring writers out there seeking assistance in crafting<br />
believeable and authentic LGBT+ characters, a one-day course offered by the<br />
Irish Writers Centre is just the ticket.<br />
The course, hosted by Hilary McCollum whose debut novel, Golddigger, won<br />
the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for historical fiction in 2016, will focus<br />
on how to research LGBT+ lives and how to avoid clichés and stereotypes.<br />
“There are many issues to consider when representing LGBT characters,”<br />
McCollum says. “How are LGBT people viewed in the setting the writer has<br />
chosen? Are they accepted or are they stigmatised? What is the character’s<br />
attitude to their identity? Is the character’s LGBT identity explored in the<br />
storyline or is it incidental? For example, JK Rowling has said that she always<br />
considered Albus Dumblesdore, headmaster of Hogwarts, to be gay but this is<br />
not hinted at until the final book of the seven book series.<br />
These questions in more will be explored in depth on the course, during which<br />
participants will explore LGBT+ characters across different genres. And if<br />
McCollum could be one queer fictional character for a day, who would it be?<br />
“Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,” she says, “so that I could experience life over many<br />
centuries and many cultures while falling in love and perfecting my craft as a<br />
writer.”<br />
Writing LGBTQ Characters With Hilary McCollum runs at The Irish Writers<br />
Centre on Dublin’s Parnell Square on March 3, from 10.30 to 4pm, tickets €80<br />
(€70 for members)<br />
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