Summer Music Series 2008
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Summer Music Series 2008
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Posted: 24/06/2008
Force 12, 2008
FORCE 12
Mayo County Council Arts Office, in partnership with Áras Inis Gluaire, held the eighteenth Force 12 Writer’s Festival from Friday 6th to Sunday 8th June in Belmullet, Co. Mayo. Jessie Lendennie directed the weekend, with a host of well-known writers including Maurice Harmon, Frank Golden, Dave Lordan, Anne Le Marquand Hartigan, Lorna Shaugnessy, Kevin Higgins, Susan Millar Du Mars, Joe Woods, Seamus Cashman, Patrick Cotter, Gerald Dawe, Maighread Medbh, Geraldine Mills and Alan Hayes. Readings by published writer’s took place on Friday night, Saturday morning and Sunday morning. Other readings were held on Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning. All events took place in Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet Arts Centre and were very well attended by writers and writer’s groups from Mayo and throughout the country.
Workshops included: Publishing (Jessie Lendennie & Alan Hayes), Poetry (Anne Hartigan) and Prose (Geraldine Mills). There was also be a lively panel discussion - "Do you have to be a self-promoter to get published?" moderated by Maurice Harmon. There were readings throughout the weekend and music on Saturday night in An Chéibh.
This year, tribute was paid to Barbara Ennis Price, a great friend of the festival, regular attender – herself a writer. Barbara died earlier this year and was fondly remembered with readings by Joe Woods, a special tribute by Leo Cullen and a reading by her daughter, Ursula Worlock.
This event is organised by Mayo County Council Arts Service.
If you require further information please contact: Mayo County Council Arts Office at 094 9024444, ext. 7558 & 7560.
Guest Writers, Force 12 2008.
Group Photograph, Force 12 Writers Festival, Belmullet, 6th to 8th June 2008.