This year’s Red Line Book Festival runs from October 15th to 2oth. There is a fantastic line-up for this year’s festival with the usual big names in attendance including Colm Tóibín, Fintan O’Toole, Deirdre Purcell, Dermot Bolger, Catherine Dunne, Peter Sheridan, Arlene Hunt, Alex Barclay and many more.
The full programme of events is here, but I’m going to highlight a few workshops and events which may be of interest to you.
Tues 15th October 8pm to 9.30pm at Civic Theatre Tallaght – Booking required
Publishing: The Inside Track with Lilliput Press
Panel Discussion chaired by Ciarán Carty (New Irish Wrting, Irish Independent) with Literary Agent Faith O’Grady, Publisher Anthony Farrell (Lilliput) and Authors Kevin Power, Mike McCormack & Elske Rahill.
Wed 16th October 8pm at Civic Theatre Tallaght – Booking required
Three Men Talking About Things They Kinda Know About, featuring Colm Keegan, Stephen James Smith and Kalle Ryan.
Thurs 17th October 6pm at RUA RED Arts Centre Tallaght – Red Line Book Festival Poetry Competition prize giving and reading by judge Alan Jude Moore.
Followed at 7.30pm by reading by poet Michael J. Whelan – Against the Black Sky: Peacekeeper’s Poems.
Fri 18th October 6.30pm to 9.30pm at RUA RED Arts Centre Tallaght
Blurring the Wobbly boundaries between Page and Stage
A Workshop with The Poetry Divas at RUA RED Arts Centre – Admission €12/€8
Places limited, book early to avoid disappointment!
Would you like to build up confidence in reading your poems aloud onstage? Are you looking for advice and tips on how to improve? This workshop is not about strictly performance poetry and or reciting poems; it’s about poetry in performance, for an audience.
As well established poets and performers of their own poetry, The Poetry Divas will focus in this workshop on the art of performing poetry for others. They will discuss rhythm, emphasis, dramatic pause, timing, movement, flair and nerves. After polishing your performance skills, the workshop will culminate in a performance to put them into practise in front of an audience.
Please bring along a few poems which you would like to work on, or poems by another poet which you would like to perform.
Minimum age 16
Poetry Divas are Kate Dempsey, Triona Walsh, Barbara Smith and Maeve O’Sullivan.
Audience to come in around 8-8:15pm
Fri 18th October 8.00pm to 9.30pm at Civic Theatre Centre Tallaght – Booking required
Lady Killers:Ireland’s Leading Female Crime Fiction Writers, Alex Barclay, Louise Phillips, Arlene Hunt, with special guest Joanne Richardson, U.S. Former Boulder Colarado Coroner, in conversation with Susan Condon.
There’s plenty more besides, so check out the full programme of events.
