the JohnHewitt Society International Summer School A Festival of Culture & Creativity “Coming to terms: learning to live with difference” Including : Tess Gallagher | Bernard O’Donoghue Yasmin Alibhai-Brown | Ian Sansom | Colum Sands Patrick McCabe | Mary Costello | Paul Muldoon Christine Dwyer Hickey | Paul Brady I Barry Devlin Lord Steel of Aikwood | Alistair Moffat Monday 27th – Friday 31st July 2015 The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Armagh www.johnhewittsociety.org Booking Information Book online: www.marketplacearmagh.com Book by phone: The Market Place Theatre Box Office: 028 3752 1821 Book in person: The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, Market Street, Armagh, BT61 7BW Box Office Opening Hours: Monday – Saturday 9.30am – 4.30pm. Open until 7pm on performance nights. Tickets : Individual events: £6-£7 or otherwise specified Daily ticket: £45 (includes lunch) Weekly ticket: £195 (includes lunch) Three-day creative writing workshop: £40 Stay in touch : www.facebook.com/john.hewitt.3158 @The_JHS #JHISS “Coming to terms: learning to live with difference” I would be neighbourly, would come to terms with your existence, but you are so far – John Hewitt, O Country People , 1949 Welcome to the 28th John Hewitt International Summer School, a five-day celebration of culture and creativity through talks, readings, theatre, writing workshops and disussions. This year’s event is themed ‘Coming to Terms: learning to live with difference’, with the aim of exploring politically and culturally challenging issues of religion, race, and gender within our society. Daily news reports highlight our need to come to terms with difference, in everyday life in Northern Ireland and on the world stage. 2015 has seen the continued rise of right wing political parties, clashes between religious fundamentalism and an increasingly secular society, and attacks on freedom of speech, such as the Charlie Hebdo shooting in Paris this year. Can writers only speak up for their ‘own sort’? Or can art help to see another side, to come to terms with difference? CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS Monday 27th, Tuesday 28th & Thursday 30th July 2.15pm – 3.45pm | 1 hour 30 mins £40 for three-day workshop Memoir Crime Fiction Prose Fiction Scriptwriting Maureen Boyle Anthony J. Quinn Mary O'Donnell Daragh Carville Maureen Boyle won the Anthony J. Quinn’s debut Mary O’Donnell is an award- Daragh Carville is a playwright Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize novel Disappeared was winning poet and prose writer and screenwriter. His films are and the Strokestown shortlisted for a Strand whose best-selling novels Middletown and Cherrybomb International Poetry Prize in Literary Award in the US. Two include The Light-Makers, and TV credits include Being 2007, and in 2013, she was more of his Celcius Daly Virgin and the Boy, The Human (BBC3), 6Degrees awarded the Fish Short novels, Border Angels and Elysium Testament and Where (BBC NI) and The Smoke Memoir Prize. Silence , are to appear this year. They Lie. (Kudos/Sky One). CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS Develop your writing skills under the direction of one of our seven tutors who are all experienced facilitators and published authors. Each workshop runs over three days, and each intensive session lasts for 1hr 30 mins, with six genres to choose from. Spaces are limited – advance booking is essential. Supported by the Open University Poetry Poetry Short Story Niall Campbell Siobhán Campbell Heather Richardson Niall Campbell has been Siobhán Campbell is an Heather Richardson is the recipient of an Eric Gregory award-winning poet whose author of Magdeburg , a Award and a Robert Louis collections of poetry include novel, and Chilled , a short Stevenson Fellowship. His The Permanent Wave (1996), story collection. Her short collection, Moontide , was The Cold that Burns (2000) fiction and poetry have been given a Poetry Book Society and Cross-Talk (2009). published widely in the UK Recommendation. and Ireland. ART EXHIBITION Belfast Print Workshop The Life and Times of an Armagh Response - Eight Poets - Eight Artists Writer: John O'Connor (1920 – 1959) Foyer Walls, 27th July – 15th August Upper Foyer, 27th July – 15th August Belfast Print Workshop invited eight poets to submit To complement the presentation of John O’Connor: A a poem that they thought would elicit a visual Celebration at JHISS, the author’s nieces have put response from a Belfast Print Workshop artist. Poets together an exhibition of original manuscripts, Ciaran Carson, Michael Longley, Paul Muldoon, magazines, letters, photographs, recordings and other Sinead Morrissey, Leontia Flynn, Alan Gillis, Miriam items featuring the work, life and times of the locally Gamble and Medbh McGuckian accepted the celebrated Armagh writer. [Recording of John Hewitt invitation and Belfast gallery owner, Jamshid reading a John O'Connor Mirfenderesky, selected the artists to respond. short story by kind permission of BBC.] ART EXHIBITION Rita Duffy The Thaw Factory Exhibition The Gallery, 27th July – 29th August Rita Duffy is one of Northern Ireland’s most groundbreaking artists. Her art is often biographical, including themes and images of Irish identity, history & politics, paying homage to magic realism and including elements of the surreal. Here she previews The Thaw Factory project for 2016, a year of remembering wars and revolution, presenting the work in galleries and museums in Berlin, London Belfast and Dublin. Monday 27th July OFFICIAL OPENING FICTION Lord Rana Ian Sansom 10:45am FREE 1:05pm £7 The 28th Summer School is opened Death in Devon by Lord Rana MBE, Baron of Malone. is the second instalment of OPENING ADDRESS Ian Sansom’s The County Lord Steel of Aikwood Guides, a series Towards a federal United of detective novels set in 1930s Kingdom? England. A prolific writer, Sansom’s essays and reviews have appeared in 11:15am £8 numerous magazines and journals, Lord Steel was Leader of the Liberal including The New York Times . A Party from 1976 until its merger with regular broadcaster on BBC Radio, he the Social Democratic Party in 1988 teaches on the English and to form the Liberal Democrats. As Comparative Literary Studies David Steel he served as Member of programme at University of Warwick. Parliament from 1965 to 1997 and as a Member of the Scottish Parliament from 1999 to 2003, during which time he was the parliament's first Presiding Officer. Since 1997, he has been a member of the House of CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOP Lords. Introduced by Lord Rana. 2:15pm Three day course: £40 www.johnhewittsociety.org RECEPTION BOOK LAUNCH Hosted by the North South Northman: John Hewitt, (1907- Ministerial Council 1987) An Irish Writer, His Opening of The Thaw Factory World, and His Times Exhibition By W.J.McCormack 5:30pm 7pm Free See Exhibitions for more details. The Oxford University W. J. Mc Cormack LECTURE Press, in association The Heaney O’Driscoll with No Alibis Memorial Lecture Bookstore, is Bernard O’Donoghue pleased to launch the first Northman Distraction as Inspiration complete life of John Hewitt, 1907-1987 An Irish Writer, 4:15pm £7 John Hewitt, His World, and His Times The second in a three year series of written by the lectures dedicated to the memories highly regarded of two of Ireland’s foremost poets of academic, W.J. McCormack. The the 20th century and friends of the book will be launched by Chair of the John Hewitt Society, Seamus Heaney Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Bob and Dennis O’Driscoll. Bernard Collins. This book was commissioned O’Donoghue is a poet, academic and by the John Hewitt Society with the literary critic. He is the author of financial assistance of the Arts Seamus Heaney and the Language of Council of Northern Ireland. Poetry (1994). Monday 27th July POETRY Gallery Goes…to the John Hewitt International Summer School Sara Berkeley, Alan Gillis & Eamon Grennan 8:30pm £9 The Gallery Press provides us with a rare treat to hear from three remarkable Irish poets as they return to home soil from life abroad for this special event. Sara Berkeley has published poems, stories and a novel and has published three poetry collections with The Gallery Press, most recently What Just Happened (July 2015). Alan Gillis released Scapegoat in 2014, the year he was chosen as one of the PBS Next Generation Poets. Eamon Grennan has published ten collections with The Gallery Press, including Still Life with Waterfall, which won the Lenore Marshall Prize, and There Now (July 2015). Supported by Arts Council Ireland Touring and Dissemination Scheme www.johnhewittsociety.org Tuesday 28th July TALK POETRY READING C.L. Dallat Bernard O’Donoghue & Yasmin Alibhai-Brown The Other Sort Hannah Lowe 1:05pm £7 9:45am £6 11:15am £7 Yasmin Alibhai- Poet, musician Bernard O’Donoghue is an Emeritus Brown is a and critic Fellow of Wadham College, Ugandan-born Cahal Dallat University of Oxford, where he British journalist reviews taught Medieval English and Modern and author, who literature and Irish Poetry. He has published six describes herself the arts for collections of poetry, including as a "leftie liberal, several Gunpowder , winner of the 1995 anti-racist, publications Whitbread Prize for Poetry, and feminist, Muslim, including The Farmers Cross (2011). Hannah part-Pakistani, Guardian and Lowe's first collection Chick and ... a very Times Literary (shortlisted for the Forward, responsible person". Currently a Supplement and has been a regular Aldeburgh Best First Collection regular columnist for The contributor to BBC Radio 4’s Prizes and Seamus Heaney First Independent and the London Saturday Review . In this talk he Collection Prize) was published by Evening Standard, she is a well- discusses how John Hewitt dealt Bloodaxe in January 2013. In known commentator on issues frankly, and tentatively, with September 2014, she was named as relating to immigration, diversity and difference and shared one of 20 Next Generation poets.