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Jlf Belfast Hotels Each Other’S Stories Belfast’S Largest Hotel Group 1 JLF BELFAST HOTELS EACH OTHER’S STORIES BELFAST’S LARGEST HOTEL GROUP For the first time ever, JLF comes to Belfast from 21-23 June 2019 to celebrate literature 21-23 JUNE, 2019 and the rich diversity in thought that it inspires. THE LYRIC THEATRE BELFAST Curated by Teamwork Arts, the producers 22ND JUNE of the Jaipur Literature Festival, JLF Belfast embodies the magnificent spirit of Jaipur’s annual literary carnival, bringing SEAMUS HEANEY its inclusive and infectious camaraderie to HOMEPLACE the vibrant capital of Northern Ireland with an inspiring mix of writers, thinkers, poets, 23RD JUNE musicians and raconteurs. BELFAST CITY CENTRE The Festival will showcase South Asia’s unique literary heritage and JLF’s international programme combining this with the proud literary legacy of Ireland, epitomised by the collective greatness BELFAST QUEEN’S QUARTER of writers such as Anne Enright, Samuel Beckett, Seamus Heaney, James Joyce, Jennifer Johnston, John McGahern, Edna O’Brien and W.B. Yeats, to name just a few. Festival Programme: 21st June, 2019 Inaugural Address: Imagining Our Worlds 6:00pm - 6:45pm , Belfast Harbour Commissioners Opening address by Roisin McDonough, Chief Executive, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, the British Council Northern Ireland, Sanjoy K. Roy, Namita Gokhale, William Dalrymple and Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee The Last Mughal 7:00pm - 8:00pm, Belfast Harbour Commissioners William Dalrymple and Vidya Shah William Dalrymple transports us back to a bygone era of matchless splendour—the SERVICED APARTMENTS period of the last Mughal. This evocative session features readings by award- winning author and historian Dalrymple from his book The Last Mughal: The Fall of a Dynasty, Delhi, 1857 alongside the vocals of Vidya Shah celebrating the poignant folk poetry of the time and ghazals of the Mughal court. 2 WWW.ANDRASHOUSE.CO.UK HOTELS BELFAST’S LARGEST HOTEL GROUP BELFAST BELFAST CITY CENTRE BELFAST QUEEN’S QUARTER SERVICED APARTMENTS WWW.ANDRASHOUSE.CO.UK 3 Directors’ Notes Namita Gokhale It is the culmination of a long-held dream by a spectacular musical performance by to present JLF in Belfast, in the heart of Vidya Shah. Pico Iyer tells us of his new an intense and passionate literary culture. book Autumn Light. Asma Khan takes us The literary and political histories of India on the Darjeeling Express and a journey of and Ireland are deeply entwined, and our culinary discovery. We revisit the poetry of national poet Rabindranath Tagore was Yeats and Tagore and explore the echoes inspired and influenced by W.B. Yeats, who of each in the other. Ruth Padel curates a wrote the introduction to his Gitanjali in session on Vowels Ploughed Into Other, a 1912. In the last several years, the Jaipur tribute to Seamus Heaney introducing us to Literature Festival has platformed a slew the ghosts and voices hidden in the ‘earth’ of contemporary writing from Ireland, of one’s self through the voices of powerful featuring authors such as Colm Toibin, David contemporary poets. Our programming Park, Anne Enright, Roddy Doyle, Glenn at JLF Belfast looks at these connections Patterson, Roy Foster, Jon Halliday, Joseph through themes of identity, selfhood and O’Neill, Patricia Forde, Jan Carson and Paul shared histories. McVeigh, among others. Ireland is the land of poetry, which lives in The Jaipur Literature Festival, the largest the vowels and consonants of its writers free festival of its kind in the world, is a and the imagination of the world. Literature place where India thinks aloud, argues with is itself an infectious form of magic. In itself, listens to itself. It is plural, diverse and 2013, our keynote speaker, the great Indian multi-lingual. We are a young festival with writer Mahasweta Devi, declared in her more than 60 percent of our audiences address that ‘the right to dream should be below the age of 25. The joyous spontaneity, the most fundamental right’. This June, we democratic spirit and rigorous programming look forward to once again celebrating the remain the authentic hallmark of our festival, dreaming mind. which has transformed the perception of South Asian writing and its place in the world. We have editions across continents in London at the British Library, in Houston, New York, Colorado, Toronto and Adelaide. As a cultural hub, we are the site of intersecting stories, narrated through poetry and song, fact and fiction, debate and dialogue. Here in Belfast, Tara Gandhi Bhattacharjee, Mahatma Gandhi’s distinguished granddaughter, discusses the nature of violence and non violence. We ponder the puzzles of identity, the power of poetry, the mysteries of words, the flavours of Asian cuisine, the future of AI. We speak of foremothers, of women and freedom. Transgender activist Laxmi Narayan Tripathi deconstructs the rigid stereotypes of gender. We interrogate fault lines and the places we call home. We invoke myth and memory and share in the wonder of the Kohinoor diamond. My co-director William Dalrymple reads from The Last Mughal accompanied 4 William Dalrymple The Jaipur Literature Festival is a unique also know that when they come here they celebration of writing that has grown into will have a lot of fun. As Time Out put it nicely: something bigger and more wonderful to “It’s settled. The Jaipur Literature Festival is anything we could ever have hoped when officially the Woodstock, Live 8 and Ibiza of we first conceived this festival a decade ago. world literature, with an ambience that can From only 14 guests turning up in 2005, most best be described as James Joyce meets of whom were tourists who took the wrong Monsoon Wedding.” But the scale and reach turn, in 2006 we had a big enough crowd of the Festival is something that still takes to nearly fill the Diggi Durbar Hall. About us all aback. When we ask an author to 400 people came in 2007. This year, we had come to Jaipur, they very rarely say no, and more than a quarter of a million footfalls this year we were proud to present a Booker and the success of Jaipur has spawned Prize winner, as well as a galaxy of Pulitzer nearly 60 other literary festivals, not only in and Commonwealth nominees. Jaipur has India but in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, now become synonymous with the greatest Bhutan, Nepal and now Myanmar. We are as writers on the planet. surprised as we are proud of this. For the first time ever, we present in Belfast All events are completely free; there are no a mini taster platter of Jaipur. We can’t wait reserved spaces for grandees; our authors to show Belfast some of the energy and mingle with the crowds and eat with them literary brilliance that has made Jaipur the on a first- come, first-served basis. People most colourful literary festival in the world. 5 Arts Council British Council of Northern Ireland Jonathan Stewart Director, British Council Northern Ireland International connections and conversations are central to our work at the British Council and central to our partnership with the Arts Roisin McDonough Council of Northern Ireland. Chief Executive, Arts Council of Northern Ireland Together we connect, share and celebrate many of Northern Ireland’s leading and The Arts Council and the British Council have newest writers, poets, artists, musicians and recently been building relations with Indian creative organisations in our work around cultural institutions, in order to expand the the world. Culture, language, writing and possibilities for global cultural exchange and even festivals cross continents and borders as part of our joint commitment to increase and bring creative connections that inspire international opportunities for artists and shape us and importantly help us from Northern Ireland. With our support, understand the complex times we live and eminent writers from Northern Ireland have work in. participated at the last three ZEE Jaipur Literature Festivals in India, where we have This is particularly true of our relationship inspired a real appreciation of our rich literary with the Jaipur Literature Festival where heritage. Consequently, we have generated the celebration and the vibrancy of great interest in bringing an edition of this contemporary Indian and world literature famous festival to Belfast. We are honoured combines to create “the greatest literary to be hosting this very special event, the first show on Earth”. time Jaipur has featured on the island of Ireland, and we look forward to intelligent, British Council Northern Ireland is honoured passionate and thought-provoking—not to be part of the first ever JLF Belfast festival to mention entertaining—debate on major of literature. Along with audiences at the topical themes of today, from varied and Lyric Theatre, Belfast and Seamus Heaney distinctive cultural viewpoints, brought HomePlace in Bellaghy, we look forward to together through a shared celebration of deepening our connections with India by literature and the rich diversity in thought celebrating ‘each other’s stories’, reflecting that it inspires. India and Northern Ireland’s love of literature and diverse literary traditions from Tagore Have a great time, to Seamus Heaney. aaiye aapka swagath hai! 6 Teamwork Arts Sanjoy K. Roy Managing Director, Teamwork Arts Art and literature are two constants not bound by political boundaries. They have a universality within them that encourages us to absorb an idea, explore its differences and appreciate its inherent diversity. As societies and their people increasingly find themselves connected through time, space and geographies, an inverse effect sets in making communities and their governments build firewalls around themselves to keep out those who do not belong. In our divisive times, it is imperative to create energetic platforms that allow for the exchange of ideas, knowledge and traditional wisdom. World over, freedom of expression is being challenged, with hatred being the dominant narrative.
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