The IMRAM Irish language literature festival has just announced its 2008 programme. The theme this year is the islands and seas of Ireland and their place in the artistic imagination.
There is the Gaelic Jazz Project, fusing the ancient and the modern, moving from classic Blasket Island texts to twentieth century poetry; Béal Tuinne, Shaun Davey’s setting of Caoimhín Ó Cinnéide’s poetry to music; and in the shadow-puppet play Róisín agus an Rón, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill and Púca Puppets present a novel take on the legends of the seal-people, with a soundtrack from Colm Ó Snodaigh and Slavek Kwi.
IMRAM 2008 is collaborating this year with the Stranger Than Fiction documentary film festival. Special screenings of films about Tory Island, Inis Biggle and Shark Island will be accompanied by poetry, singing and music – with performers including haiku poet Siobhán Ní Ghabhann, Patsy Dan Rogers, the King of Tory, and Lillis Ó Laoire.
The festival also looks to the future, with readings featuring a new generation of writers, including Na Scríbhneoirí Óga is Úra, a dynamic group with a mission to encourage and develop emerging writers. And in a collaboration with the Irish Film Institute and Poetry Ireland on a special schools screening of Nead an Dreolín, young audiences can experience the best of modern Irish poetry in an imaginative visual context, as well as meeting some of the poets in person.
TUILLEADH EOLAIS/FURTHER INFORMATION:
Liam Carson r-phost/e-mail liamog62@mac.com
Fón/phone 01-8329594 nó 087-2912797
www.poetryireland.ie/whats-on/imram.html
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