As part of the #Yeats2015 celebration, the Irish community in London will gather at the London Irish Centre in Camden on April 1st 2015, to celebrate the poetry of WB Yeats and raise funds for Creative Cricklewood and friends of Cricklewood Library. If you’re a Yeats fan, you are invited to put in a proposal before February 14th (see below). The theme of the event, organised and supported by The Department of Diaspora Affairs, will centre on the question of what it means to be Irish, especially when one lives away from Ireland. “I Am Of Ireland” is being run in partnership with Gary Dunne, Arts Officer at The London Irish Centre, which will be the venue for the evening. Supported by the Irish Department for Diaspora Affairs through Minister Jimmy Deenihan, it will feature performances by writers, artists and musicians whose life or work has been inspired by Yeats’s poetry. Yeats was a long-time Londoner and, more than any other writer, established the idea of Ireland as a spirit, an internal condition, an imaginative space. Our event will celebrate that concept and, true to the complexity of the poetry, include a wide variety of responses to what it means to be “of Ireland”. POETRY GIFTS & AUCTION The first 100 attendees to sign up to the event receive a Poems on The Underground poster. All attendees will receive an audiobook gift of Orna Ross’s Selected Poems. All performers and Minister Deenihan will receive a book called I Am Of Ireland: Celebrating The Poetry of WB Yeats, containing the poems, speeches and performances of the event. This book will be on sale on the night and there will also be a short auction after the interval of art, literature or music, in aid of our two charities: Creative Cricklewood and Friends of Cricklewood Library. The two organisations will display their work in the lobby, for the audience to peruse during the interval. CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (closing date: 14 February) Call for Submissions: “I Am Of Ireland”: An Evening of Words and Music To Celebrate The Poetry of WB Yeats. April 1, London Irish Centre As part of the #Yeats2015 celebration, the Irish community in London will gather at the London Irish Centre in Camden on April 1 2015 to celebrate the poetry of WB Yeats. The event, “I Am Of Ireland”, organised by the Irish Department for Diaspora Affairs through Minister Jimmy Deenihan working with novelist and poet Orna Ross and supported by The London Irish Centre, will feature performances by writers, artists and musicians whose life or work has been inspired by Yeats poetry. They will be required to read one or more poems, or perform a musical piece, and tell a short story that illustrates their relationship with Yeats and his poetry. If you would like to perform at this special event, please send an email to Orna Ross at info@ornaross, with the subject line — Yeats Event: London Irish Centre — saying which poem you would like to read, or which piece of music you’d like to perform. And, most importantly, why. We will also need CC volunteers to help out on the night. Just let us know in comments box, if you can help.
Posted on: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:30:08 +0000
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