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Fermanagh Arts Festival Ltd Thursday 29 September Venue Time Page Registered in Northern Ireland NI066336 Helen Cathcart in conversation with Terry McCartney South West College 4pm 17 Western Virtuosi Brass educational workshops Registered Charity NIC100689 St. Michael’s College All day 4 with Steve and Misa Meade Steve and Misa Meade in concert with the Ardhowen Theatre 8pm 4 INTRODUCTION Youth Western Virtuosi Brass Friday 30 September Venue Time Page Welcome to Fermanagh’s only Arts Festival - now in its 8th year. NykkÖ Mickaël Grègoire organ workshop St Macartin’s Cathedral 3pm 5 Fermanagh Landscapes - an exhibition of Enniskillen Castle 6pm 18 Running even a small festival takes a mammoth amount of time and effort. So why do I and prints and paintings by Michael Brown my team of helpers bother? The answer, which is well known, is that festivals are good for Fermanagh Film Club presents ‘Carol’ Regal Cinema 7pm 10 you!! They are your mental “five-a-day” - or should that be Flive-a-day! NykkÖ Mickaël Grègoire organ concert St. Macartin’s Cathedral 7.30pm 5

Kila Westville Hotel 9pm 6 It is also a fact that societies with a rich cultural life are better to live in. Many have realised this which is why festivals like Edinburgh, Galway, Sligo and Belfast continue to grow year on Saturday 1 October Venue Time Page year. So here’s your opportunity to enjoy, locally, a range of live, artistic experiences that aim Wilhelmina Geddes stained glass artist; A Inishmacsaint and Devenish 10am 19 to bring people together socially for their collective enjoyment. Talk by Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe Parish Churches Nicholas Watts, Chair, Fermanagh Arts Festival It’s Showtime, FLive Children’s Event The Buttermarket 1-5pm 8 FLive Cultural Boat Tour Round ‘O’ 2-5pm 8 NI Screen presents Digital Film Archive with Phil Hessian, Regal Cinema 2-30pm 9 and songs from Gabie McArdle and Rosie Stewart Poetry Slam – Ulster Final Blake’s, Level 7 5pm 15 Fermanagh Film Club presents ‘Atlantic’ Regal Cinema 6.30pm 10 Melisma Methodist Church 8pm 6

Sunday 2 October Venue Time Page Lord Belmore Art Tour Castlecoole 11am 18 Splódar Theatre Company presents Young Stephen, adapted Blakes, Level 7 2-3pm 9 from Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce. Murley Band & David Robertson St. Macartin’s Cathedral 4pm 7 WORDS FROM OUR SPONSORS Fermanagh Film Club presents … ‘Louder Than Bombs’ Regal Cinema 6pm 10 Evelyn Hassard of Crannog Antiques says, ‘I am delighted to give my support to music events Naughty Nancie’s Franco’s 7pm 15 at the Fermanagh Live Arts Festival because I love Classical music and want to help bring as Other Events - Thursday 6 October Venue Time Page much as possible to as many people as possible’. Dawn to Dusk : Celebrating National Poetry Day Various (to be announced) 8am-8pm 16 CavanaghKelly are delighted to sponsor Fermanagh Live Arts Festival. The Festival of Live Entertainment and Visuals Arts is a great opportunity for the local community to get a taste Visual Arts Venue Dates Page of our home-grown artists through this programme of innovative, vibrant and contemporary Enniskillen Visual Arts Open See programme details 16 Sept-17 Oct 11-14 events.” Fermanagh County Museum permanent Art Collection Enniskillen Castle On-going 20 Fuels & Lubricants are happy to be associated with the Fermanagh Live Arts Festival in William Scott, The early years exhibition Enniskillen Castle 22 Sept 20 sponsoring Melisma in this year’s festival. It is a positive way of encouraging the promotion of Michael Brown exhibition Enniskillen Castle 1-8 October 21 local talent and enabling local audiences to see arts that they might not get the opportunity ArtbyNorthWest Devenish Gallery 22 Sept-6 Oct 21 to see otherwise. The Buttermarket Artists’ studios The Buttermarket On-going -

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Steve and Misa Mead in concert with NykkÖ Mickaël Grégoire organ workshop the Youth Western Virtuosi Brass Date | Friday 30 September Date | Thursday 29 September Venue | St. Macartin’s Cathedral Venue | The Ardhowen Theatre Time | 3pm Time | 8pm Tickets | £10 (Limited places so book early) Tickets | £12 (£8 Conc) The workshop is aimed at introducing the organ in more detail to musicians who want to explore the instrument in all its glory. We are particularly keen for young keyboard players to come and try it out. It does not matter what level you play at, please come along and join us.

Participants will get the opportunity to play the organ and learn more about its incredibile colour and versatility. You will find NykkÖ Mickaël Grégoire a fun and lively tutor who has great experience in working with beginners.

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Date | Friday 30 September Venue | St. Macartin’s Cathedral When word reached FLive about the Time | 7.30pm exceptional talents of French organist Tickets | £10 NykkÖ Grégoire, now based in the UK, no time was lost in engaging him to FLive are predicting euphonium euphoria when the husband and wife team Steve and appear at this year’s festival. Born in 1979 Misa Mead, tuba players both, arrive in Enniskillen to conduct workshops for Western the charismatic multi-instrumentalist/ Virtuosi Brass and to perform with their pupils at a special evening concert. composer studied organ, harpsichord and ondes Martenot at the music conservatory Born in the southern Japanese city of Kumamoto, Misa Akahoshi graduated with honours in Bordeaux. He also plays cello, duduk from the Tokyo College of Music then studied composition and orchestration in Paris. A (Armenian wind instrument) and Bawu Gold medallist in a young soloist’s competition in Luxembourg she went on to perform (Chinese flute). As well as a full calendar of at international festivals such as Tubamania in Thailand and the Tuba Euphonium tour dates in Europe, South East Asia and Conference in California. In July 2013 Misa moved to the UK where she married fellow America, NykkȌ works with various choirs tuba player Steven Mead who is well known to brass enthusiasts around the world. He and theatre ensembles. At the organ in tours constantly as a solo artist performing with symphony orchestras and leading military St. Macartin’s cathedral he will present a bands including the Band of the Garde Republicaine (Paris, France) The Central Band varied and entertaining programme of Bach of the RAF (London, UK) The Italian Police Band (Rome, Italy), The Dutch Marine Band and Vivaldi, Cesar Franck and Jeremiah (Rotterdam,Netherlands) and The US Army Band (Washington DC, USA). Steven has over 70 Clarke, Klezmer music and arrangements of CDs to his credit and is a professor at the Royal Northern College of Music, in Manchester. popular European and British folk songs.

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‘Softly spoken off stage and complete lunatics Fivemiletown’s own Murley Silver Band just go on on it, Kila have torn up the rulebook with their winning prizes. Led by their musical director Wiliam Hill, wantonly eclectic mix of styles, Brilliant!’ they have been Brass in the Valley overall Champions, - Hot Press Best March and Soloist band and NIBA Champion Band of Northern Ireland. They have represented Northern Get ready for a rip-roaring, roof-raising Ireland at the European Championships in Norway, session from Ireland’s leading fusion band. Belgium and France and have appeared at the Belfast Tattoo. The band members, who Natural heirs to Planxty and Horslips, the eight members of Kila, including brothers are drawn from well-known musical families and from all sections of the community Colm, Ronan and Rossa O’Snodaigh have evolved their own unique mix of folk, rock and support their activities through membership subscriptions and concert revenues. world music. Kila, who formed up in Dublin in 1987, have performed in over 30 countries around the globe at prestigious venues and festival events such as the Montreux Jazz Bass-baritone David Robertson also grew up in a musical household in Fivemiletown. In festival, Glastonbury, Womadelaide and the Stockholm Water festival. Their latest album 1995 he showed his promise as a singer by winning the prestigious Elisabeth Schumann Suas Sios has been described as ‘magical and memorable’ words that will no doubt define Competition for Lieder. Having completed his degree at Trinity College of Music, London, their concert at the Westville hotel. he moved to Italy to study with internationally renowned bass Enrico Fissore and soprano Sylvia Rhy-Thomas. David will also perform with NorthWestOpera in the autumn in the role of Falke in Die Fledermaus and in Spring 2017 looks forward to performing in Melisma Mozart’s Figaro. Date | Saturday 1 October Sponsored by Venue | Methodist Church Time | 8pm Tickets | £10 (£8 Conc)

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You’ll have heard them on Radio Ulster or seen them on Songs of Praise but now is your chance to experience the Belfast-based, eight-voice choir live in a perfect setting - Enniskillen’s Methodist church. Well known throughout Ireland and beyond, Melisma have performed at English cathedrals including Ripon, Winchester, Gloucester.

In New York they have appeared at the church of St. Thomas, 5th Avenue and St. John the Divine. In concert they present a variety of genres and styles, with an emphasis on solo vocal lines. Their repertoire ranges from early music to folk and popular songs. Melisma are quite simply unmissable.

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It’s Showtime, FLive Children’s Event A performance that fuses traditional song with archival film with

Date | Saturday 1 October Children loved last year’s Phil Hession and Fermanagh singers Venue | The Buttermarket capers in the Buttermarket Gabriel McArdle & Rosie Stewart Time | 1.30-5pm so FLive are planning even Tickets | FREE Event bigger and better thrills for Date | Saturday 1 October Join a conversation with Phil Hession and Sinéad them this year. The place Venue | Regal Cinema Bhreathnach-Cashell to discover the inspiration behind a will be buzzing with giant Time | 2.30pm performance that fused traditional song with archival film outdoor games, street in the dramatic setting of the Marble Arch Caves earlier Tickets | FREE theatre, a baby boogie this year. This new work by Hession was a senses-stirring session, face painting, journey through the Caves and an imaginative excursion hair wraps and a nail bar. into the rural heritage of Fermanagh, featuring singers Decorate a head-band, a Rosie Stewart and Gabriel McArdle. mask, or a special bag with Genevieve. Paint a mural with Rachael. Create beautiful During this talk, the artist and curator will discuss the crafts. Meet Parky the magician. Take part in Enniskillen Has performance and showcase the songs. Local archive films Talent. Get in carnival mood by dressing up and winning a such as the home movie of Boho creel-basket weaver, spot prize for the most original or unusual costume. Brandy McManus will also be shown. This project is part of the BFI’s celebration of Rural Life in partnership with Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive and FLive Cultural Boat Tour FilmHubNI. Date: Saturday 1 October | Venue: Round ‘O’ | Time: 2-5pm | Tickets: £12 Splódar Theatre Company presents Come cruising with Catherine Scott and Séamas MacAnnaidh aboard the MV Kestrel for a relaxing and enlightening trip around our beautiful island town. Visit Buttermilk Point and Young Stephen, adapted from Portrait of an Pancake Lough where you may catch a glimpse of the Wide Awake, the boat that once ferried sand from the islands to the Round ‘O’. Learn about the origins of Cornagrade and Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce Derrychara, and the lore of the Broad Meadow where the sconce was the landing wharf for Date | Sunday 2 October boats carrying stone from the quarry at Carrickreagh. Catherine will be the historical guide while author and storyteller Séamas will relate real and fantastical stories about the town. Venue | Blake’s Level 7 There’ll be a song or two and a cup of tea so get on board. Time | 2pm (duration 40 mins) Tickets | £5

Adapted from Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the semi- autobiogrphical novel by James Joyce, and directed by Prin Duignan, this one-man show presents Patrick McEneaney as the Young Stephen Dedalus. The young boy’s idyllic life is turned around as he spends his first term at boarding school. We follow Stephen through his isolation and loneliness to a new sense of freedom but then he returns home to a household torn down the middle by the political turmoil caused by Charles Stewart Parnell’s affair with Kitty O’Shea.

Splódar Theatre company are based in the Glens Centre in Manorhamilton.

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Carol (running time 1hr 58 min) VISUAL ARTS OPEN Date: Friday 30 September | Venue: Regal Cinema | Time: 7pm | Tickets: £5 (£3 Conc) 16 September16 SEPTEMBER- 15 October - 15 OCTOBER In this adaptation of the novel ‘The Price of Salt’ by Patricia Highsmith, Therese (Rooney Mara), a young department store clerk in 1950s Manhattan, meets Carol (Cate Blanchett), a beautiful older VENUES & ARTISTS VENUES & ARTISTS woman stuck in a depressing marriage of convenience. As their Since its inception in 2006,ENNISKILLEN The Higher Bridges Gallery bond deepens and they become romantically involved, Carol finds VISUAL ARTS OPEN remains an open The Higher Bridges Gallery (TUE - FRI 10am - 4pm, SAT 1pm - 3pm) the strength to leave her husband (Kyle Chandler). Unfortunately, submission exhibition that encourages (Tue-Fri 10am-4pm; Sat 1pm-3pm) Visual artists to enter work in any practice, her spouse starts to raise questions about her fitness as a mother Ruth Gonsalves Moore, Gavin Porter, representational styles or genre. Ruth Gonsalves Moore, Gavin Porter, when he realizes that Carol’s relationships with her best friend Simon Carman, Trina Hobson, Simon Carman, Trina Hobson, Abby (Sarah Paulson) and Therese are more than just friendships. Fermanagh & Omagh District Council’s Arts Rachel Leary, Kevin Gillet, Des Cullen, Rachel Leary, Kevin Gillet, Directed by Todd Haynes (Rotten Tomatoes) Office annually seeks diverse and ambitious Tansey Cowley, Phyl Guerin, Noah Rose. Des Cullen, Tansey Cowley, Phyl Guerin, Noah Rose submissions from artists involved in all areas of arts practice and encourages proposals Fermanagh House Foyer Atlantic (running time 1hr 22 min) that aim at siting work within the widespread (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm; Sat 9am-1pm) Fermanagh House Foyer fabric of a modern urban environment – and Carolin Koss. (MON - FRI 9am - 5pm, SAT 9am - 1pm) Date: Saturday 1 October | Venue: Regal Cinema | Time: 6.30pm | Tickets: £5 (£3 Conc) in particular within Enniskillen Town. Carolin Koss FermanaghENNISKILLEN Lakeland VISUAL Forum Narrated by Emmy-award winning actor Brendan Gleeson, The 2016 Visual Arts Open is a major (Mon-SatARTS 10am-4pm; OPEN is anSun open 2pm-6pm) this documentary follows the fortunes of three small fishing exhibition of selected exhibitors who will Fermanagh Lakeland Forum showcase their work in the Higher Bridges Andysubmission Parsons, Floating exhibition World Books, (MON - SAT 10am - 4pm, SUN 2pm - 6pm) communities - in Ireland, Norway and Newfoundland. The Ellie Niblock, Mairead McCormack. Atlantic ocean was once seen as Ireland’s most valuable Gallery at The Clinton Centre, Enniskillen and that encourages Andy Parsons, Floating World Books, throughout Enniskillen Town Centre during resource, but gradually we have turned our back on the sea. Ellie Niblock, Mairead McCormack the Fermanagh Arts festival launching on Waterwaysvisual artists Ireland to enterEnniskillen As politicians in Norway and Newfoundland have moved to (Mon-Fri 8.30am-5.30pm) Culture Night Friday 16 Sept from 5-8pm and work in any practice, Waterways Ireland Enniskillen protect their ocean resources – especially oil, gas and fish, running through to the 15 October 2016. representationalKiera O’Toole, Nicholas styles orMay, Ireland has allowed these resources to fall into the hands of Mary A. Fitzgerald, Wendy Ferguson. (MON - FRI 8.30am - 5.30pm) foreign private interests. Will the lessons learned in Norway Fermanagh & Omagh District Council invited genre - siting work within Kiera O’Toole, Nicholas May, and Newfoundland be heeded on Irish shores, before it’s Outland Arts to curate the 2016 Visual Arts the widespreadThe Clinton fabric Centre of a Marilyn Lennon, Mary A. Fitzgerald, too late? Directed by Risteard O’Domhnaill Open in association with the Arts Office. (Tue-Frimodern 10am-4pm, urban Satenvironment 11am-3pm) Wendy Ferguson Stephen Gunning, Emma Zukovik, Outland Arts is an artist-led organisation – and in particular within Floating World Books. The Clinton Centre Louder Than Bombs (running time 1hr 49 min) based in Fermanagh set up to promote and Enniskillen, Town. support the ethos of exhibiting contemporary The Aisling Centre (TUE - FRI 10am - 4pm, SAT 11am - 3pm) Date: Sunday 2 October | Venue: Regal Cinema | Time: 6pm | Tickets: £5 (£3 Conc) art in rural locations and to support artists Stephen Gunning, Emma Zukovik, (Mon-Fri 9am-5pm) who practice involved ideas of the rural Floating World Books An exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed (Isabelle and the remote in its widest context. Artists Fionn Wilson, Brian Kielt, Mary Furlong Huppert) three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest involved must be feral at heart. Pawel Kleszczewski & Kasia Zimnoch. The Aisling Centre son Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg) back to the family house - forcing him (MON - FRI 9am - 5pm) to spend time with his father Gene (Gabriel Byrne) and withdrawn Fionn Wilson, Brian Kielt, younger brother Conrad (Devin Druid). With the three of them Mary Furlong, under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the Pawel Kleszczewski & woman they remember so differently. Directed by Joachim Trier Kasia Zimnoch Enniskillen Visual LOGO & artsDESIGN open logoBY design by Talie Mau www.ﬂ ive.org.uk 10 Book tickets:www.FLive.org.uk or 028 6632 5440 Fermanaghlive ARTS ENNISKILLEN VISUAL OPEN 12 4 6 15 9

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1. Andy Parsons 4. Des Cullen 6. Emma Zukovic 9. Gavin Porter 12. Mairead McCormack 15. Nicholas May Since graduating from his MA Cullen’s work is a form of dialogue ‘‘Post memory describes the Gavin Porter is a visual artist from Inspired by artefacts from the Mays work focusses some in 1990, Andy Parsons has with materials, in this instance relationship that the ‘generation Belfast. His art practice attempts past, Mairead explores the fragile thoughts relative to returning to shown widely nationally and limestone. The work is influenced after’ bears to the personal, to create a visual language beauty in the disintegration of the essential quality of experience. internationally. His work includes by ecology, and the nature of collective and cultural trauma through which to engage with tangible paper objects. She aims The plasticity of the mark speaks painting, drawing, printmaking, North Leitrim - the hills, the of those who came before – to the uncanny nature of forms and to highlight the pace at which of the ambiguity of meaning in the sculpture and Artists books. woods, the lakes, the rivers with experience they ‘remember’ only phenomena. This language is society is evolving. poetic experience. their ox-bow bends, their currents by means of the stories, images realised through the mediums of 2. Brian Kielt and flow. and behaviours among which they drawing, and etching. 13. Mary A. Fitzgerald 16. Noah Rose Kielt’s work explores methods grew up. But these experiences Fitzgerald works primarily What Matter / Cén t-údar’ were transmitted to them so 10. Kevin Gillett of depicting trauma. His work is 5. Ellie Niblock through painting and printmaking. Rose’s new body of work explores deeply and affectively as to seem Kevin Gillett studied his Degree inspired by senses or moments Ellie takes the idea of something However her work in recent years the relationships between place, to constitute memories in their in Fine Art at Kent Institute of Art from experiences and memories. being repellent and reinterpreting has diversified and encompasses landscape, language, translation. own right’’ (Hirsch, 2008) & Design during the 90’s since it as beautiful. The idea that 3d floor and wall works, video and memorialisation and stone as a then he has exhibited in various something attractive can easily installation. Fitzgerald creates repository of memory. 3. Carolin Koss 7. Fionn Wilson galleries in England & Wales. works with foundations in the Carolin Koss is a Helsinki based seduce, using their beauty Fionn Wilson’s work relies on almost as trickery. Each object is narrative but with the gesture of 17. Pawel Kleszczewski and artist and filmmaker originally from creating an immediate emotional the sensory abstract. Germany. Koss works with various created using a unique approach impact through paint and examines 11. Kiera O’Toole Kasia Zimnoch mediums and many times creates to making. She uses original the sensuality of presence in space Insider/Outsider Polish artists living in Cavan since 14. Mary Furlong contemplative and aesthetic processes and techniques that and colour, not least the presence As a returning migrant after ten 2012 create animations based on Mary’s work, The Red Ribbon, works, which explore internal produce contrasting elements to of the human form. years residing in Australia, Kiera mythology, folklore and legend. In landscapes, often dealing with the work. O’Toole’s work explores the notion is a series of six images from our work we combine our artistic environmental issues. 8. A Floating World Nature Trail of the landscape through drawing. a larger project based around experience with elements of art Floating World have created a Irish Traveller traditional beliefs history, ethnology and cultural unique Nature Trail. It’s a series of and superstitions - about anthropology. small temporary and ephemeral wearing something red, a artworks located at the around ribbon tied to your underwear the town. as a protection against harm. ENNISKILLEN VISUAL ARTS OPEN - 16 September - 15 October 2016 16 September - 15 October 2016 - ENNISKILLEN VISUAL ARTS OPEN Drama

PHOTOS: Poetry Slam host Frank Rafferty, a performance poet and comedian / Rory jones (2015 Ulster & All Ireland champion, and 2015 Glastonbury champion / Stephen Murphy (2014 Fermanagh winner, & All Ireland Champion) 21 24 19 Poetry Slam – Ulster Final Date: Saturday 1 October | Venue: Blake’s Level 7 | Time:5pm | Tickets: £5

Following regional heats that include the Fermanagh Slam on Saturday 3rd September, the ALL ULSTER POETRY SLAM FINAL will be held in Blakes of the Hollow in Enniskillen. Performance poet and comedian Frank Rafferty will host this wicked word fantastic event when a winner and runner up will be elected to take part in the All Ireland Poetry Slam Championship in Limerick. Fermanagh has a strong track record in producing Slam champions 20 22 25 for Stephen Murphy and Rory Jones (see pics) were winners in Enniskillen en route to their respective All Ireland victories. 18. Phyl Guerin 21. Simon Carman 23. Tansey Cowley Quiet Possession and Silent Carman’s work predominantly Views from a Rented Hallway Testimony form part of the work is in stone and is inspired by presents a divided Ireland For further details on entry to the Fermanagh Heat, Slam Rules and Regulations, contact: centered around the Limerick everything from Greek sculpture struggling to assert its own Frank on [email protected] Sailors’ Home, founded in 1856 to electro record covers. He draws identity. It illustrates a nation and its chief protagonist Sir James inspiration from a wide range which, for so long, has played Spaight. Phyl Guerin is a native of sources spanning classical along with a taught narrative; of East Limerick. Her outputs are sculpture, nature, astrophysics and defining itself according to the Naughty Nancies both lens based work, text, and popular culture. rhetoric of old institutions. installation. Date | Sunday 2 October 24. Trina Hobson 22. Stephen Gunning Venue | Francos 19. Rachel Leary Hobson is concerned with Stephen Gunning was born in Time | 7pm Leary is a Ceramic Artist from Limerick and is currently based translating her surroundings, Omagh, whose practice is driven in Dublin and elsewhere. He collected images and memories Tickets | £25 by the experimental making and holds qualifications from both into expressive paintings using a combination of both the is influenced by both science Limerick College of Art and the The welcome at Franco’s is invariably and nature. representational and gestural. National College of Art Dublin, warm and the food divine but when where he was awarded a Degree the Naughty Nancies turn up they 20. Ruth Gonsalves Moore in Fine Art 1998-00 and a MFA in 25. Wendy Ferguson Ordinances and Angels - is about Virtual Realities in 2003. He has Wendy Ferguson’s ideas stem add a frisson of fun and some extra the observation of dress codes exhibited widely both in Ireland from turbulent scenes depicted spice. This year, by popular request, for worship and in particular the and abroad. from the Romantic era. The they are back on the FLive bill with a practice of head-covering within exploration of the changing new repertoire of stories, some cool an evangelical Christian tradition. Fermanagh rural landscape is cabaret and, needless to say, they’ll transferred into an abstracted, The work seeks to represent be naughtier than ever. female decorum in worship expressive surface. practice. Book tickets:www.FLive.org.uk or 028 6632 5440 Fermanaghlive 15 ENNISKILLEN VISUAL ARTS OPEN - 16 September - 15 October 2016 Drama Visual

Dawn to Dusk - Celebrating National Poetry Day Date | Thursday 6 October Venue | Various / Enniskillen Time | 8am - 8pm Tickets | FREE Event

Our theme this year is Messages and, as usual, we promise a proper perambulation of poems and people popping up in public places!

In what has become a highlight of the FLive programme, the Dawn to Dusk poetry event will celebrate its fourth edition with a fresh programme of poetry readings Marion Maxwell at the 2015 Dawn to Dusk. “every hour on the hour” in and around Enniskillen. You can follow the trail or come Photography with an Artists Eye along on any hour to hear favourite poems chosen and read by our team of volunteer - An Illustrated talk by Helen Cathcart enthusiasts. Last year began with poems chaired by Terry McCartney at breakfast time in a café, progressed to readings in two churches as well as various picturesque settings around the town and finished with poems in the cradle of the Manapian Date | Thursday 29 September currach and a sundown set in a pub. Watch out for the 2016 schedule of readers and venues Venue | South West College which will be published in advance. Time | 4pm Tickets | £5

Helen Cathcart has been described as “a wonderful talent who can shoot just anything and make you want to either eat it/visit/or meet it.” The Bellanaleck-born London-based lifestyle photographer who trained at Manchester University, worked as a picture editor for Ink Publishing and for British Vogue and now travels the world snapping stylish images for cook books, travel magazines and top brands like Marks and Spencer. In an online blog entitled ‘Bolder’ she publishes telling portraits and profiles of older people (most recently Michel Roux senior) and for the last two years has been a finalist in the prestigious Pink Lady Food Photographer Awards. FLive are delighted to welcome Helen Poetry Love - Reader: Hazel Johnston. home to show examples of her work and talk about her exciting freelance career and globetrotting experiences.

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Fermanagh Landscapes Wilhelmina Geddes - Irish stained glass - an exhibition of prints and paintings by Michael Brown artist tour of Fermanagh windows

Date | Friday 30 September (continues until 8 October) Date | Saturday 1 October Venue | Enniskillen Castle Venue | Inishmacsaint & Devenish Churches Time | 6pm Time | 10am Price | £7 including tea & scone For twenty years Fermanagh has been the base for film-maker and artist Michael Brown though his focus on social and environmental issues regularly takes him all around the world as a facilitator for marginalised communities who wish to speak out.

Back home in Fermanagh he works in a similar way with local communities to explore and document their heritage in film. Michael is also a talented print maker, painter and photographer. Working out of his studio at Makenny, Irvinestown, he finds that the Fermanagh landscape is a constant source of inspiration for his creativity. His work at this show includes silkscreen prints, monotypes, etchings and oil paintings.

Lord Belmore Following the sell-out tour at Castle Coole last year, FLive Art Tour are offering another exclusive, intimate and personal tour of Date | Sunday 2 October the art works on display in this Wilhelmina Geddes: A talk by Dr Nicola Gordon Bowe Venue | Castle Coole splendid stately home. For the Time | 11am last 25 years art connoisseur and Early this year a sumptuously illustrated and sharply written book by Nicola Gordon Bowe, Price | £25 collector Lord Belmore has been the greatest authority on stained glass in Ireland, was published. It celebrates the life of adding to family portraits and Wilhelmina Geddes, one of the premier practitioners of the art. Admirers such as John Piper period acquisitions with paintings noted that Geddes was a master of colour who should be compared to Braque, Rouault, which are in keeping with the Kandinsky and Matisse. Indeed the Belfast-born artist was more famous abroad than in her style and period of Wyatt’s native Ireland and has remained so highly regarded that when names of great artists were elegant neo-classical mansion. given to craters discovered on the planet Mercury, she was honoured alongside Shakespeare, Lord Belmore, who is best placed Beethoven and Picasso. Nicola Gordon Bowe has very kindly agreed to come and talk to us to explain the significance, history in front of the two examples of Geddes’s work which we are proud to have in Fermanagh. At and background of the works on Inishmacsaint Parish Church (Derrygonnelly) we will study the Angel of Resurrection and then display laces his tour with personal move on to Devenish Parish Church (Monea) to see the window entitled Walking in the Fields anecdotes and thoughtful insights of Paradise. In both churches Billy McBride, organ, and Stephen Magee, trumpet, will offer a into the life and times of his programme of well-chosen music to heighten our enjoyment. Following the second part of Lowry-Corry ancestors. the talk, tea will be served in the Reade Hall opposite Monea church. Those attending should meet at the car park of Inishmacsaint Parish Church at 10am.

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Enniskillen Castle Museums & the new permanent Art Gallery Michael Brown exhibition at Enniskillen Castle Museums Adult: £5 | Child: £3.50 | Student/Senior Conc: £3.50 | Family (2 adults & 3 children: £13.50 Opens 6.00pm, 30 September and Transformed by a £3.5 million development project, continues until 8 October Enniskillen Castle now incorporates a combined tourism, heritage and genealogy centre. The (Opening hours as for Enniskillen Castle refurbished historic castle buildings and grounds stand Museums, including Sunday 11am – 5pm) as a magnificent heritage gateway to the surrounding area and provide a wonderful backdrop for events. The new state-of-the-art Visitor Centre includes a café, shop and discovery space with panoramic views. Seven galleries showcase Fermanagh’s unique culture and heritage and, for the first time, Fermanagh County Museum has a permanent art gallery in which to display its impressive collection of paintings. Among at Devenish Gallery them are works by celebrated local artists like T P Flanagan and the internationally renowned William Opens 7.00pm, 22 September and continues until 6 October Scott. During FLive the showcase exhibition will be ‘William Scott: The Early Years’. On display will be documents, photographs and early sketches which relate to the artist’s formative years in Enniskillen. Above: William Scott by Kathleen Bridle. Below: New Visitors Centre OPENING HOURS at Enniskillen Castle. Monday to Friday: 9.30am* - 5.00pm 9.30am opening for new Visitor Centre and 10am for Museum Galleries Saturdays: 11.00am - 5.00pm ArtbyNorthWest is a group of artists from the North West of Ireland. While their styles and subjects will differ, they are all, in one way or another, influenced by the scenery in, and the atmosphere of, the areas in which they live. The present exhibition, which is part of the FLive Fermanagh Festival, thus promises a widely differing range of work, in all mediums and a similarly wide range of subjects.

The artists exhibiting are: Olive Bödeker, Jim Crowe, Lois Eadie, Peter Lyner, Kathleen Ward, Rosemary Wilkinson and R J Brian Coulter.

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