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Hopkins Festival, best literary festival in Ireland. All are welcome.

Highlights:

Poetry and Music Concert, The Road Around Erin with Frankie Gavin and Desmond Egan, Poet in Moore Abbey Saturday 25^th at 8.15. Some tickets still available 30 euros.

Film showings – an innovation of 2009. Includes award winning documentary by noted film director, Hekki Hiltunen from Finland; and a dramatized version of The Wreck of The Deutschland, first put together by James McKenna.

• Art Exhibitions
• Field Trips
• Workshops
• Lectures
• Poetry Readings

and don’t forget Festival Club nightly where everyone gets to know everyone else and everyone is welcome.

Field trips include: Celbridge, Emo, Maynooth; Naas; Newbridge and a Guided Tour of Monasterevin.

Come and have a glass at the Grand Opening. Visitors will include ambassadors from Nigeria and USA; while the Art Exhibitions will feature a wide range of Work led by distinguished Irish artistis, Michael Kane and Benedict Byrne.

Workshops:

• tie-dyeing with 3 experts from Japan – learn the technique;
• Words and Music led by Conor Mahony;
• Creative Writing Workshop led by David Axelrod (USA);
• Translation Workshop (very popular) directed by Aleksandra Kedzierska (Poland);
• there will also be a Haiku Workshop by Russian poet, Anatoly Kudriavitsky.

Lectures (daily) include

• Peter Milward (Japan);
• Robert Welch;
• well known writer, Peter Costello;
• internationally acclaimed author, Patrick Samway (US) and many others.

Poetry Readings will include

• Giorgos Chouliaras (Greece);
• Gearoid O Clerigh;
• Desmond Egan;
• Mile Pesorda (Croatia);
• Shizue Ogawa (Japan); and others.

Full details of our exciting programme on our website: http://www.gerardmhopkins.org/

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