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Aspects Festival Bangor 20 September – 6 October 2019 a Celebration of Irish Writing P TOURIST BANGOR MARINA INFORMATION PICKIE FUN PARK HELLO and WELCOME HIGH STREET Aspects Festival Bangor 20 September – 6 October 2019 A celebration of Irish writing P TOURIST BANGOR MARINA INFORMATION PICKIE FUN PARK HELLO AND WELCOME HIGH STREET P Welcome to Aspects 2019 QUEENS PARADE We use the cliché all too often but there really is something for everyone in 1 this year's programme! There are events celebrating historical writing, poetry, crime fiction, writing workshops, children’s events, politics, memoir, journalism, 6 GRAYS HILL P STREET MAIN scriptwriting, the short story and exhibitions. HAMILTON ROAD Back by popular demand, we welcome some of our Aspects friends in Michael Longley, Fergal Keane and Malachi O’Doherty – as well as local talents Moyra Donaldson, Ian Sansom and Colin Bateman. 2 MAIN STREET We are delighted to host the launch of Darina Allen’s new cookbook and Gerald Dawe’s new poetry collection. BUS & TRAIN STATION Don’t miss out on our female crime event and Women Aloud NI shares its poetic TENNIS COURTS thoughts on food. We hope you enjoy exploring our programme and look forward to seeing you at the festival. 5 Aspects Festival Team ABBEY STREET SERC P BELFAST ROAD P BELFAST ROAD 3 BANGOR AURORA TO CLANDEBOYE AQUATIC & LEISURE ESTATE COMPLEX 1 THE BLACKBERRY 4 PATH ART STUDIOS 2 BANGOR CARNEGIE LIBRARY 3 BANGOR CASTLE P & NORTH DOWN MUSEUM 4 WALLED GARDEN We have sent you this guide as we believe you have a legitimate interest in our product as you have 5 SERC THEATRE requested to receive it before, however you can unsubscribe at any time and we will no longer send A21 FESTIVAL MAP 6 BOOM! STUDIOS you a copy. You can contact us using the details on the back page. 2 3 Aspects At A Glance Opening North Down 1,000 Books To Read Before North Down P6 4 Sep–6 Oct Writers in the Frame Free P24 3 Oct 6pm £7 hours Museum You Die Museum Opening Blackberry Path P6 26–29 Sep Poetry and Art Free P25 3 Oct 8pm Malachi O’Doherty Bangor Castle £10 hours Art Studios Opening Bangor Castle Clandeboye P7 8 Sep–6 Oct Gathering Silence Exhibition Free P26 4 Oct 5pm Olivia Manning £7 Hours Walled Garden Courtyard Opening Seacourt Print An Evening with Poets and Clandeboye P8 2–27 Sep Fabrications Exhibition Free P27 4 Oct 7pm £7 Hours Workshop Poetry Courtyard Seacourt Print 5 Oct/ 6.30pm/ Clandeboye P8 28 Sep 2–4pm Brainy Crafternoon Free P28 Lightning Talks Free Workshop 6 Oct 2pm Courtyard Opening This World is Magic Bangor Carnegie Clandeboye P9 10 Sep–5 Oct Free P29 5 Oct 3pm Mad Hatter’s Tea Party £20 Hours Exhibition Library Courtyard North Down Clandeboye P10 21 and 28 Sep 10am–1pm Reading Like a Writer £30 P30 5 Oct 8pm Darina Allen £10 Museum Courtyard Clandeboye P11 26 Sep 8pm Michael Longley Bangor Castle £12 P31 6 Oct 10.30am–1pm The Woodland Chew and Yarn £5 Courtyard North Down Shane Connolly discusses Clandeboye P12 27 Sep 6pm Poetry: New Collections £7 P32 6 Oct 3.30pm £10 Museum Flowers, Food and Drink Courtyard The History of What We Eat Clandeboye P13 27 Sep 8pm Fergal Keane Bangor Castle £12 P33 6 Oct 5pm Free and Drink Courtyard North Down Clandeboye P14 28 Sep 5pm Rise of the Short Story £5 P33 6 Oct 6.30pm Women Aloud NI Free Museum Courtyard Colin Bateman and Clandeboye P15 28 Sep 3pm Bangor Castle £10 P34 6 Oct 8pm The Darkling Air £12 Stephen Walker Courtyard Space, SERC Bangor Carnegie P16 28 Sep 7pm Poetry Slam £5 P36 20 Sep 10–11am Toddler Storytime Free Theatre Library Carlo Gébler and Gavin Bangor Carnegie P17 29 Sep 2pm Bangor Castle £8 P36 20 Sep 3.30–4.45pm Illustration Workshop £7 Weston Library P18 29 Sep 4pm Gerald Dawe Book launch Bangor Castle Free P37 20 Sep 4pm and 5pm Book Inspired Yoga Boom! Studios £7 P19 29 Sep 6pm Polly Devlin Bangor Castle £10 P37 20 Sep 6.30–8.30pm Tablets and Text Boom! Studios £8 North Down 10.30am and Bangor Carnegie P20 30 Sep 6–9pm Writing to the Image £15 P38 21 Sep Sensory Story £8 Museum 12noon Library North Down Bangor Carnegie P21 1 Oct 6–9pm As Good as it Gets £15 P38 21 Sep 2–4pm Comic Book Creations £8 Museum Library North Down P22 2 Oct 6pm Female Crime £7 P39 21 Sep 10am–4pm Poetry Collage Making Boom! Studios Free Museum Bangor Literary Journal North Down P23 2 Oct 8pm Fealtys Back Bar Free P39 21 Sep 6pm Bedtime Stories £3 Launch Museum 4 5 Sunday 8 September – Sunday 6 October Wednesday 4 September – Gathering Silence Sunday 6 October Bangor Castle Walled Garden Writers in the Frame Free during opening hours North Down Museum Free during opening hours Gathering Silence showcases new work by artists Helen Hanse and Owen Crawford. Inspired by exhibiting in the unique and beautiful environment of the Walled This is a literature inspired exhibition Garden, the sculptures in stone and wood reflect a gathering of experience, of quiet displaying works including author moments and the changing seasons. portraits and book-related framed pieces. Aspects Festival is delighted The process of carving to create in stone and wood is time worn and allows for the to present a small number of works alliance of story and word in the careful definition of these materials. Stories often held in the Arts Council of Northern precede and germinate the carving yet the materials seem always to provide a new Ireland’s Art Collection, including this telling of whatever has to be said. portrait of Michael Longley by David Russell, charcoal on paper. Exhibition Launch event Sunday 8 September 3pm Free – all welcome, Thursday 26 September – Sunday 29 September meet at the Bandstand Poetry and Art The Seventh Bangor Poetry Competition and Art Exhibition The Blackberry Path Art Studios Free during opening hours The Bangor Poetry Competition’s theme this year was ‘Elements’. In this seventh year of the competition, it saw poets from all over the globe submit original poems to be considered for the shortlist. The final selection, made by the editorial team of The Bangor Literary Journal, are displayed alongside original artwork. The public is invited to come along and vote for their favourite poems and choose a winner for the prestigious competition. Exhibition opening hours: Thursday 26 and Friday 27 September 11am–2pm Saturday 28 and Sunday 29 September 11am–3pm 6 7 Monday 2 September – Friday Tuesday 10 September – Saturday 5 October 27 September This World is Magic Fabrications: Drawings by Barry Falls Unravelling Facts Bangor Carnegie Library from Folklore Free during library opening hours Work by Susan Robinson Seacourt Print Workshop Barry is an award-winning illustrator and artist from County Tyrone. He provides Free during opening hours illustration for editorial, design, advertising and publishing. Monday to Friday, 10am – 4pm Barry works with a variety of pen, pencil, paint and found materials. Sections of a drawing are created individually and then assembled on the computer in a digital collage. Texture and vibrant, saturated colours are a hallmark of his work. Facial Fabrications examines the fine line expression and nuances of gesture or posture allow for the creation of a complex between facts, fiction and folklore. personality within the context of a ‘simple’ drawing. Barry’s love of drawing fauna Combining screen-printing, stitch, and flora is apparent in much of his work. knitting and crochet, Robinson examines, embroiders and embellishes His aptitude at finding a compelling visual to our understanding of memory and the accompany an abstruse subject, has led to human brain. repeated work for The Lancet medical journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Where did the idea of ‘woolly thinking’ come from? How exactly does someone’s The New York Times and The mind ‘completely unravel’? What is a ‘hare-brained scheme’? How does one put Financial Times. As well as ‘a twist in the tale’? editorial, corporate and This exhibition gathers all these curious threads to produce some imaginative advertising work, Barry textile art. has also produced book covers for Faber & Faber, Random House and Macmillan and illustrated Saturday 28 September short stories in The New Yorker. Brainy Crafternoon His first Seacourt Print Workshop picture book 2 – 4pm for young Free during opening hours children, It’s Your World Now! was Our take on a stitch’n’bitch, bring your current knitting or stitch project or we’ll published in 2019. provide a project for you to work on. Session will be inspired by the exhibition of fiction or folklore. Open to all ages and no experience required. 8 9 Saturday 21 September and Thursday 26 September Saturday 28 September Michael Longley Reading Like a Writer Aspects Launch Event with Patsy Horton Bangor Castle North Down Museum 8pm 10am–1pm £12 £30 total for both sessions Michael Longley is an award-winning ‘Like most – maybe all – writers, I learned poet whose love of his craft remains to write by writing and, by example, undimmed. This is his description of reading.’ writing a poem: ‘You’re concentrating, Reading Like a Writer, Francine Prose and all of you is gathered up, deeply attentive, and that concentration is like Whether you are a writer or someone a drug, and you realise you’ve been at with aspirations to write, or whether you a sheet of paper for four hours. I love love reading and talking about books, this that. I love the intensity of that. It’s such session is for you. excitement.’ Join editor and expert reader Patsy Michael’s most recent collection, Angel Horton to discuss two fantastic and Hill, was published in June 2017.
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