Dingle Literary Festival roundtable and screening
This November, we're proud to be partnering with Ireland's Dingle Literary Festival to bring you two events featuring our films.
On November 22nd at 7:30 PM, join us for Poetry Is Language Caught Alive: An Evening of Poetry and Film at WAVE Dingle. Poets Jane Clarke, Emily Cooper, Gustav Parker Hibbett, and Rafael Mendes will discuss their favorite selections from our poem films, accompanied by a screening of their picks, at this free roundtable event. The films screened will be:
- “To Sweeten Bitter” by Raymond Antrobus, performed by Shakeel Haakim and directed by Matthew Thompson
- “Blizzard” by Carl Phillips, performed by Bernard Ferguson and directed by Jean Coleman
- “The Lost Art of Letter Writing” by Eavan Boland, performed by Jade Jordan and directed by Matthew Thompson
- “I want to be like Frank O’Hara” by Martina Evans, directed by Matthew Thompson
And throughout the festival, from November 21 to 23, eight of our poem films will be screened on loop on the top floor of An Díseart. The free screening will include the premiere of two new poems films produced with Dingle Lit and directed by Matthew Thompson: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill's "Ceist na Teangan / The Language Issue," performed by Muireann Nic Amhlaoibh, and Seamus Heaney's "In Gallarus Oratory," performed by Sodiq Ajibola Abiola.
The rest of the slate of films, all directed by Matthew Thompson, will include:
- Nithy Kasa performing “Charcoal Iron”
- Doireann Ní Ghríofa performing “Brightening”
- Tommy Tiernan performing Austin Clarke’s “The Echo at Coole”
- Sidonie McLaren performing Kim Addonizio’s “Good Girl”
- Sean Hill performing “Insurance Man 1946”
- CAConrad performing “GOLDEN IN THE MORNING CRANE OUR NECKS”
If you're attending, we hope you'll enjoy both our events and the other excellent programs the festival has to offer.