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FOCÁL UP! continued We sat down with one half of jazz duo Zrazy, Carole Nelson, last month to talk about her first album fronting her new outfit, The Carole Nelson Trio, and this month we’re delighted to report she’s out and about, bringing her music to the people. We were particularly charmed to hear that idea for her sumptuous album, One Day in Winter, came to her one night while driving to a gig just after hearing the news of Leonard Cohen’s passing. “I knew too how I would structure it, from pre-dawn to sunrise, to the moon rising over the Blackstairs Mountains,” she told us. You can catch Nelson’s trio at the following venues: on January 27 at the Wexford Arts Centre (Jan 27), Billy Byrnes, Killkenny (Feb 1), Arthur’s Blues and Jazz Pub, Dublin (<strong>February</strong> 15), The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, (Feb 17), and finally on <strong>February</strong> 21 at the Limerick Jazz Society. Find out more at carolenelsonmusic.com Nelson’s Tour The Write Stuff For any burgeoning or aspiring writers out there seeking assistance in crafting believeable and authentic LGBT+ characters, a one-day course offered by the Irish Writers Centre is just the ticket. The course, hosted by Hilary McCollum whose debut novel, Golddigger, won the Golden Crown Literary Society Award for historical fiction in 2016, will focus on how to research LGBT+ lives and how to avoid clichés and stereotypes. “There are many issues to consider when representing LGBT characters,” McCollum says. “How are LGBT people viewed in the setting the writer has chosen? Are they accepted or are they stigmatised? What is the character’s attitude to their identity? Is the character’s LGBT identity explored in the storyline or is it incidental? For example, JK Rowling has said that she always considered Albus Dumblesdore, headmaster of Hogwarts, to be gay but this is not hinted at until the final book of the seven book series. These questions in more will be explored in depth on the course, during which participants will explore LGBT+ characters across different genres. And if McCollum could be one queer fictional character for a day, who would it be? “Virginia Woolf’s Orlando,” she says, “so that I could experience life over many centuries and many cultures while falling in love and perfecting my craft as a writer.” Writing LGBTQ Characters With Hilary McCollum runs at The Irish Writers Centre on Dublin’s Parnell Square on March 3, from 10.30 to 4pm, tickets €80 (€70 for members) auténtica mexicana from the people that brought you DILLINGERS & THE BUTCHER GRILL www.777.ie 7 Castle House South Great George's Street Dublin 2 T +353 (0)1 425 40 52
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