Saturday 27th October
4.00pm Flash Fiction Awards
7.30pm Author Panel: readings and questions and answers
with Jane Gilheaney Barry and Kevin McManus
Sunday 28th October
Monday 29th October
Tuesday 30th October
Thursday 1st November
12pm Spooky Art Camp
Friday 2nd November
Saturday 3rd November
Photography exhibition open for viewing during all events.
Click on links for full details of all events. Bookings (086) 3027602, (086) 1717925 or creativeardagh@gmail.com
You can now pay online here for most events but please let us know if you have availed of this option. Thank you!
Jane Gilheaney Barry
Saturday 27th October at 5pm
Writing workshop for adults €10pp
WRITE YOURSELF FREE Taster Workshop - Are you living your creative potential? Is your writing/creative practice the best it can be right now? Have you found your unique voice yet? Your style? For this workshop Jane will be sharing simple and inspiring ideas and exercises towards your next level of writing and creativity. From beginner to fearless. Suitable for all levels and artistic disciplines. No experience necessary to take part. This workshop is based on Jane's WRITE YOURSELF FREE Creative Writing Programme. Get ready to banish all that's holding you back.
Booking essential as places are limited.
About Jane
Jane Gilheaney Barry is author of the modern gothic,
mystery novel, Cailleach~Witch, and founder of creative lifestyle blog
and brand That Curious Love of Green. This is where she shares daily
inspirations with an online following of 25,000 and growing. About Jane
With a passion for writing, creativity, freedom, and the creative path, Jane and That Curious Love of Green are becoming a go-to source for creativity inspiration. When she’s not writing, Jane is in demand as a workshop facilitator and retreat host.
Jane lives outside Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim, in the north west of Ireland, with her family; husband Adrian, and children, stylist Shaylyn Gilheaney, Saoirse, ten, and Sadhbh, seven.
A keen photographer, nature lover, stylist, and artist, Jane’s professional background is PR, Arts Management, Art Therapy, and Project Design.
Follow Jane at That Curious Love of Green on Facebook:
www.facebook.com/thatcuriousloveofgreen www.facebook.com/
and on the blog www.thatcuriousloveofgreen.com
For workshops and press email: janebarry17@gmail.com
CAILLEACH~WITCH is now available on Amazon.
Jane will also join the author panel on Saturday 27th October at 7.30pm.
Author: Kevin McManus
7.30pm, Adults
Author Panel featuring readings and questions and answers session with Kevin McManus and Jane Gilheaney Barry
Kevin McManus is an award winning crime fiction writer from Carrigallen in County Leitrim. In 2016 the author was awarded the Leonard Trophy for his writing and in 2017 Under the Red Winter Sky was voted the best Crime Novel of the year and 5th best Indie published novel of the year out of 2000 nominated books.
The Whole of the Moon and its sequel, Under the Red Winter Sky have been consistent best sellers in the Crime fiction category alongside his two Detective Ray Logue Novels: Death Rains Down & New Blood. Kevin's third Ray Logue Novel: 9 Lives is due for publication in November.
Candlelit Tales
Friday 2nd November
7.30pm, Adults
Candlelit Tales present Shadows of the Táin
Queen Medhb of Connaught wants something: a prized bull of Ulster. And Queen Medhb is the sort of person who gets what she wants. On Samhain, when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, she will march on Ulster with the armies of Ireland. But as the days grow darker, danger lurking in the shadows grows too.
Queen Medhb of Connaught wants something: a prized bull of Ulster. And Queen Medhb is the sort of person who gets what she wants. On Samhain, when the veil between this world and the next is at its thinnest, she will march on Ulster with the armies of Ireland. But as the days grow darker, danger lurking in the shadows grows too.
“…a quintessential Irish experience that manages to blend the ancient with the new” Lonely Planet review
https://vimeo.com/242365191
Workshop: Adam Wyeth
Sunday 28th October
11am to 4pm, Adults and teens
The Mythic Imagination
11am to 4pm, Adults and teens
The Mythic Imagination
Creative Writing Workshop with Adam
Wyeth
‘Mythology is
not a lie, it is poetry, it is metaphorical’ Joseph
Campbell
In this exciting and
accessible new series of creative writing workshops, Adam Wyeth
(author of The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic mythology
in Contemporary Irish Poetry) will take you on a journey through the
great panoply of Celtic myth, revealing how these ancient
narratives and traditions are deeply intertwined into the fabric of
our daily lives.
Adam has developed a series of unique
creative writing exercises, showing the many ways in which we can
interlace our writing with Celtic references. Once you’ve unlocked
the mythic imagination, you’ll be shown how you can add your own
21st century twist to the rich bedrock of Celtic heritage – finding
new ways from the old ways to enhance your work with hidden layers
and depth.
You’ll explore many of Ireland's
major traditional forms from Early literature, Immrama, Dindsenchas
to aisling, and look at themes of metamorphosis, animal symbolism,
tree folklore, archetype and lots more. Through readings and
discussion you’ll discover that the mythic imagination is not a
tacked on idea or an exercise in nostalgia pining for a bygone age,
but that it speaks to our inner lives and is at the heart of all
great literature and art. As well as poetry, the course is tailored
towards prose writing too, we’ll explore how you can apply these
mythic ideas and archetypes to develop characters and enhance plot,
adding hidden layers to your work. We'll see how leading Irish
writers have used and transformed these forms and then find exciting
ways to apply these ideas to your own work with inspirational
exercises, writing prompts and games. Adam will then offer personal
feedback on each piece written.
Expect to come out
of the workshop with some great new work and a deepened appreciation
and awareness of modern literature, myth, tradition and writing
craft. These workshops are designed for writers of all levels
of experience and no knowledge of mythology is required. All you need
is paper, pen – and your imagination!
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ADAM WYETH is
an award-winning poet, playwright and essayist with three books
published. His critically acclaimed debut collection, Silent Music
was Highly Commended by the Forward Poetry Prize. Adam’s second
book, The Hidden World of Poetry: Unravelling Celtic Mythology in
Contemporary Irish Poetry contains poems from Ireland’s leading
poets followed by sharp essays that unpack each poem and explore its
Celtic mythological references. His second collection of poetry The
Art of Dying was published by Salmon November 2016 and was named as a
book of the year in the Irish Times. Adam has over twelve years
experience as a workshop facilitator. He works as an editor and
critic at fishpublishing.com where he also teaches creative writing
online adamwyeth.com. He also works on ideas and research for the RTE
Radio 1 Poetry Programme.
Author: Robert Peacock
Free Family event
Robert Peacock will be dressing up and reading from his newly released book Cara and the Cauldron of the Round Hill.
Robert Peacock lives in the heart of rural Ireland, on the peat-bogs
between Cill na Si (Church of the Fairies) and Cor na Dabhcha (Round
Hill of the Cauldron), with his beloved dog Cara, who is the co-dreamer
of their stories and editor-in-chief!Rob and Cara compose poetry, and write and illustrate books for children. They draw their inspiration from their own adventures, and their natural surroundings of misty hills and lay boreens and woodland groves.
Rob specialises in photo-illustration, and much of his work and stories are inspired by the scenes he captures, photographed in a locality immersed in an ancient history of bog-oak roads, and cattle-ways, and the deep dark depths of the River Shannon and Lough Ree.
Drawing on the folklore of the hawthorn, hedgerow, and fairy-forts around, and with a background in Special Needs Education, Rob provides the simplicity of the story, accompanied by full-colour illustrations presented in a complimentary story-board format, facilitating understanding and enjoyment of the text for children of all ages and abilities.
Rob and Cara were featured during the Summer Stars Reading Initiative and Ireland's Children's Book Month during the autumn of 2017. They will be doing the same again in the autumn of 2018!
Join Cara the Dog on her quest to find the mythical Cauldron of the Round Hill. Follow her as she explores the Irish countryside, finding clues, and meeting mystical creatures along the way! Will she find the cauldron? And what secrets will it contain? Find out, in Cara's second adventure, 'Cara and the Cauldron of the Round Hill.' https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1724964585
Cara and the Mystery of the Missing Ball
Follow Cara the dog, as she goes on an adventure to find her missing ball, with the help of new friends she meets along the way. Join her on her journey through forty beautiful illustrations, depicting the Irish countryside.https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1548551295
Concert: Gian Castello
7.30pm Evening Concert with Gian Castello and Kitia Benedetti
Thanks to Mary Carlton Reynolds, Creative Ireland Longford, for organising this late addition to the Ardagh Fright Fest programme. We really look forward to this enchanting concert.
Darkness, Light and Enchantment
From Trad to Sidhe, a musical journey to the Celtic Lands at Samhain, when the veil between the two worlds becomes thinner...
Gian Castello, from Italy, is a fervent follower of Celtic culture i.e.
the culture which has its roots in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and
Brittany, and has studied Irish flute with various Irish teachers (John Lee, Co. Donegal, and the legendary Micho Russell, Co. Clare).
He lives at present in Drumshanbo, Co Leitrim.
He draws inspiration from the poetry of the ancient bards and has
produced four poetical-musical works (book and CD: "Merlin the
Enchanter", "Taliesin", "The Secret Kingdoms", "Rama, the primordial
Druid"), one CD ("The Stone in the Field" or "La pietra nel campo")
with the English harper Steve Haggerty and "To Drive the Cold Winter
Away" with fiddle player and singer Devon MacGillivray.
Spooky art camp
Join us for some spooky fun on Thursday 1st November from 12pm to 4pm. We are taking inspiration from the Nightmare Club books by Annie Graves (http://littleisland.ie/authors/annie-graves/) again this year. Listen to some readings. Paint, draw, collage and print some scary pictures or build your own 3d scene or monster. Lots of time for some outdoor creations too, weather permitting.
Bring a snack and dress for messy indoor and outdoor fun.
Bookings: 086 3027602/0861717925 or creativeardagh@gmail.com
You can now pay online here but please contact us to let us know you have availed of this option. Thank you!
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Ardagh School of Witchcraft and Wizardry
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Flash Fiction
Frightful Flash Fiction Competition
Creative Ardagh are delighted to present the third annual Frightful Flash Fiction Competition in association with this year's Ardagh Fright Fest.
We are looking for entries from anyone aged 13 or over. Get your creative juices flowing and send us in your scariest, spookiest or most twisted tales. All genres welcome: gothic, fantasy, mythology, sci-fi, reality etc. The only rule is that you stick to a maximum of 300 words.
The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 27th October. More details to follow.
Award winners will be notified in advance.
Entry fees: Adults and Teens €5 or €10 for three entries
Creative Ardagh are delighted to present the third annual Frightful Flash Fiction Competition in association with this year's Ardagh Fright Fest.
We are looking for entries from anyone aged 13 or over. Get your creative juices flowing and send us in your scariest, spookiest or most twisted tales. All genres welcome: gothic, fantasy, mythology, sci-fi, reality etc. The only rule is that you stick to a maximum of 300 words.
The awards ceremony will take place on Saturday 27th October. More details to follow.
Award winners will be notified in advance.
Entry fees: Adults and Teens €5 or €10 for three entries
Spooktacular Prize details:
Adult
Send entries by email to: creativeardagh@gmail.com or by post to Ardagh Heritage and Creativity Centre, Ardagh, Co. Longford to reach us not later than
- The winner of the adult section will receive the following:
- Cash Prize of €100
- A quiet writing space during all opening hours for a whole year at Ardagh Heritage and Creativity Centre worth over €1300
- Online publication.
- The winner of the Teen section will receive the following:
- Cash Prize of €50
- 3 week residency during summer 2019 worth €225
- Online publication.
Send entries by email to: creativeardagh@gmail.com or by post to Ardagh Heritage and Creativity Centre, Ardagh, Co. Longford to reach us not later than
5pm on Monday 22nd October
Include your name, address and contact details on a separate sheet.Fees can be paid online here or by cheque/money order made out to Ardagh Heritage and Creativity Centre.
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