Street Festival Strokestown 4th & 5th May 2018
Help us celebrate the 20th Festival
As part of Strokestown International Poetry Festival, the streets of Strokestown will play host to poets, musicians, street poems and films – come and join in the fun. The shortlist of the schools poems are up in the Library, and the street poems to celebrate 20 years are already around town.
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- Lemn Sissay, Tony Walsh and The Poetry Divas will be arriving into town...
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- Schools shortlisted poems exhibition in Strokestown Library
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- Large poems appearing on the streets...
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- Poems as Social Objects - creating talking points in town
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- Poetry themed shop fronts appearing ..
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- Finbar and Briege
On Thursday at 4pm, a workshop by James Harpur will be held in The Library. Friday at 12pm Tony Longfella Walsh will give a street oratory at 12pm in Bawn Street. Tony whose family were of Roscommon origin, came to fame after the Ariana Grande concert last year when 22 people were killed. His poem ‘This is the Place’ went viral.
The Hermit Collective will be performing and playing on Saturday, 12 -2 outside the Library. Finbar and Briege will be playing at various venues around town –
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- Tony Walsh 12 pm Friday 4th
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- Poetry Workshop with James Harpur, Strokestown Library
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- Bawn Street, Strokestown
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- Paddy Bushe
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- The Hermit Houseband, Photo Mike Byrne
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- Michael McGahon, Photo Mike Byrne
Films showing in the SCDA Office and The Percy French Hotel
Free events
On: Friday 4th May 2018 Home, a Bealtaine Film Poem Commission
At: 2pm
In: The Percy French Hotel, Strokestown Co. Roscommon
Introduction by Poet, Enda Wyley
Home, is a poetry film commission between Age & Opportunity/BEALTAINE in partnership with Poetry Ireland. A visual artist and a poet came together to develop a short film poem working with a community group in response to the festival theme hospitality, hosting and welcome. The poet is Enda Wyley and the artist is Anita Groener.
FREE EVENT – ALL WELCOME
See Programme for more details
https://www.strokestownpoetry.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/Programme-2018.pdf