Monday 22 July to Friday 26 July 2013A Five-Day Festival of Culture & Creativity

The Market Place Theatre & Arts Centre, ArmaghBox Office 028 3752 1821

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P a t r o n sEilish Clerkin, Margaret D’Arcy, Seamus Deane, Brian Garrett, Maurice Hayes, SeamusHeaney, Fred Heatley, Marie Jones, Edna Longley, Michael Longley, Terence McCaughey,Carmel McGuckian, Keith Millar, John Montague, Tom Paulin

The 26th JHISS brings together in Armagh's Market Place Theatre high-profile writers, artists, performers, speakers and critics to consider this year's theme, inspired by John Hewitt's poem, The Search:

It is a hard responsibility to be a stranger;to hear your speech sounding at odds with your neighbours[…]

Often you will regret the voyage,wakening in the dark night to recall that other place…

Poets have long celebrated 'place' in poetry of landscape, community, andtradition. John Hewitt affirmed both the richness and severities of Belfast,and the beauty and familiarity of the Antrim Glens where he saw himself as awelcomed, but strange, migratory bird. Despite his long settled antecedents,he was to find himself an 'incomer' when he moved to the English Midlandsin his fifties.

People have always travelled, for work or love, in fear and in hope, but no erawitnessed as much movement of populations as the past century. What is theplace, 'the local' in the twenty-first century? In a world of globalisedentertainment and communication, and increasingly migratory labour, is thereroom for sentiment about place in our art?

Is the 'living among strangers' that allowed separate, mutually opposedcultures to develop here over four hundred years to be the norm for futurepopulations? Will diversity reduce conflict, or increase antagonism betweenhosts and guests? Can those of different backgrounds and histories shareincreasingly fragmented spaces?

You are invited to join the celebrations at this 26th JHISS at the Market Placeat the end of July – for a week, a day or an individual event or more – for afeast of arts and literature provided by another impressive line-up of writers,academics and performers and for a chance to reflect on ‘living amongstrangers’.

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h 10.45am Official Opening Lord Diljit Rana, MBE h

Diljit Rana is a very successful Belfast-based businessman and former President of the Northern Ireland Chamber of Commerce.

h 11.15am

Talk: ‘e Twentieth Century – e Century of Violence’ by Baroness Williams of CrosbyTickets: £8.00

Shirley Williams has been one of the best known names in British Politics for almost 50 years.In 1964 she was elected Labour MP for Hitchin and went on to serve as a member of both theWilson and Callaghan governments in the 1960s and 1970s. After 35 years in The LabourParty Williams became disillusioned and, along with Roy Jenkins, David Owen and BillRodgers, became one of the 'Gang of Four' who founded The Social Democratic Party. Shesupported the establishment of the Liberal Democrats in 1987 and stood down as their leaderin the House of Lords in September 2004 after three years of service. Her outstandingautobiography, Climbing the Bookshelves, was published in 2009.

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Lunchtime Reading with Salley Vickers Salley vickers is the author of the word-of-mouthbestseller Miss Garnet's Angel and several otherbestselling novels including Mr Golightly's Holiday,

The Other Side of You and Dancing Backwards as well as acollection of short stories, Aphrodite's Hat. Salley will read from andtalk about her latest novel, The Cleaner of Chartres.

h 2.15pm Creative Writing Workshops with Carlo Gébler (Short Story), James Byrne & Eoghan Walls (Poetry), Heather Richardson (HistoricalFiction), Nessa O’Mahony (Memoir), Kimberley Lynne (Playwriting) and Stuart Neville (Crime Fiction).The poetry, prose, memoir and writing for stage courses will be directed by established writersand practitioners who are also experienced tutors. (Limited number of places in each workshop. Course fee for 3 Workshops: £30.00. Details on page 15)Writing workshops by Eoghan Walls, Heather Richardson and Nessa O’Mahony are sponsored by The Open University

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e Centre for Cross Border StudiesAnnual Talk at JHISS: ‘14 years of cross-border collaboration: the usefulness ofoutsiders’ by Andy PollakAndy Pollak retires as the founding director of the Centre for CrossBorder Studies (with offices in Armagh and Dublin) in July 2013. Hewas formerly Belfast reporter, religious affairs correspondent, educationcorrespondent and assistant news editor with the Irish Times. With a Czechfather, a County Antrim mother and a Dublin wife and daughters, he considershimself to be an ‘Irish/Northern Irish insider/outsider’. Sponsored by the Centre for Cross Border Studies

h 5.30pm Reception Hosted by the north South Ministerial CouncilOpening of Exhibition: John Hewitt: Home Words Launch of John Hewitt autobiography, A North Light Twenty-Five Years in aMunicipal Art Gallery, edited by Frank Ferguson & Kathryn White andpublished by Four Courts Press. Details on page 14.

h 7.00pmOpening of Exhibitions: ulster Arts Club Visual Artists’ Summer Exhibitionand ‘Heads, Hats and Beards (Mostly)’ Details on page 14.

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Poetry Reading with Simon Armitage and Medbh McGuckian Tickets: £10.00Simon Armitage is undoubtedly the most popular andwidely known poet of his 1960s-born generation.Renowned for his technique, versatility and passion, hehas won both critical and popular acclaim for his highlyaccessible poetry which often combines slang andimmediacy with a sardonic wit.

Medbh McGuckian has earned significant critical acclaimand many awards over the course of her distinguishedcareer as one of Ireland’s finest living poets. Among theprizes she has won are the National Poetry Prize and, in2002, The Forward Prize for Best Poem. Her most recentcollection, The High Caul Cap, waspublished to much acclaim last Autumn.

Presented in association with Poetry Ireland

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Talk: ‘Challenges faced by the Somali community in northern Ireland’s education sector’by Suleiman Abdulahi

Originally from Somalia, Suleiman Abdulahi is co-founder of Horn ofAfrica People’s Aid Northern Ireland (HAPANI) and co-ordinates the charity’sfundraising and project activities. He is a passionate and relentless advocate forthe Horn of Africa community, with fifteen years experience as an activist and socialentrepreneur.

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Talk: ‘John Hewitt & e Bell Magazine’ by Dr Kelly Matthews Kelly Matthews teaches English at Framingham State university in Massachusetts, uSA. Shewrote about John Hewitt's early poetry, commentaries and reviews in her 2012 book, The BellMagazine and the Representation of Irish Identity. In this talk, she will discuss Hewitt'swork for The Bell, a Dublin literary magazine edited by Sean O'Faolain, Frank O'Connor, andPeadar O'Donnell in the 1940s and 1950s.

h 11.15am Poetry Reading: Penelope Shuttle and Julian Stannard Penelope Shuttle’s 2006 poetry collection, Redgrove’s Wife,was short-listed for the Forward Prize for Best SingleCollection and for the T S Eliot Award, and her 2010 collection,Sandgrain and Hourglass, was a Recommendation of ThePoetry Book Society. Her most recent publication is Unsent:New and Selected Poems 1980-2013.

Julian Stannard is the author of threevolumes of poetry: Rina’s War, TheRed Zone and in 2011, The Parrotsof Villa Gruber Discover LapisLazuli. He was awarded theTroubadour Poetry prize in 2010.

h 1.05pm Lunchtime Reading with Gavin Corbett Gavin Corbett was born in the west of Ireland and raised in Dublin. His firstnovel, Innocence, was published in 2003 and there has been huge critical

acclaim for his latest novel, This is the Way, whichwas published by Fourth Estate earlier this year andwas shortlisted for the Kerry Group Irish Novel of theYear Award 2013.

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Creative Writing Workshops with Carlo Gébler,James Byrne, Eoghan Walls*, nessa O’Mahony*,

Kimberley Lynne, Heather Richardson* and Stuart neville. *Sponsored by TheOpen University

h 7.00pm

Play: ‘e Duck Variations’ by David Mamet, presented by e Lurig Drama Group, Cushendall

Tickets: £6.00

Following their memorable visit to JHISS 2011 with their uK One-Act Finals winningproduction, Melody, Lurig Drama Group returns to Armagh, having been nominated for thisyear’s uK finals, with Mamet’s heartbreaking comedy/drama, The Duck Variations. Throughfourteen variations, two estranged brothers meet in the park to scatter their mother’s ashes.George, a uS soldier, and Emil, a beatnik poet, slowly come to terms with life, death, and thechoices each has made. Discussion turns to love, loneliness and…a lotta ducks!

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e Wireless Mystery eatre presents‘e Play of the Book’ written by and starring Ian Sansom

Tickets: £12.00

Theatre meets novel and a live musical score in The Play of the Bookwhich follows the frustrations of creation and the effort that go into genius,as Ian Sansom, author of the highly entertaining series of Mobile Mysterynovels, leads the audience, in his own inimitable style, through the makingof a book! (And his latest book, The Norfolk Mystery, is the first in athrilling new detective series, The County Guides, which will offer plenty ofmurder, mystery and mayhem for years to come!) In this show Ian will beaccompanied by a live new score/soundscape provided by WirelessMystery Theatre, using everything from cellos to toy pianos and tearingpaper as percussion!

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Talk: ‘ulster through Polish Eyes: Reconsidering the Stereotypes’ by Professor Jan JędrzejewskiJan Jędrzejewski was educated at the university of Łódź, Poland, and WorcesterCollege, Oxford; he is now a Professor of English and Comparative Literature and

the Head of the School of English and History at the university of ulster. He has published twomonographs, Thomas Hardy and the Church (1996) and George Eliot (2007), and severalpapers on victorian literature and Anglo-Polish and Hiberno-Polish literary relations.

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Poetry Reading with James Byrne & Órfhlaith FoyleJames Byrne is the editor of The Wolf, aninternationally-renowned poetry magazine. Anaward-winning poet, his most recent collection,Blood/Sugar, was published to much acclaim in2009 and his Selected Poems: The VanishingHouse was published in Belgrade. His poemshave been translated into several languages including Arabic and Burmese.

Órfhlaith Foyle’s first novel, Belios, was published in 2005 and an anthology ofher poetry and short fiction, Revenge, was published by Arlen House, also in2005. Her first full poetry collection, RedRiding Hood's Dilemma, appeared in 2011,as did her short story collection, Somewherein Minnesota.

h 1.05pm Lunchtime Reading with Pat McCabe Pat McCabe, Clones-born novelist and playwright, is one of Ireland’smost extraordinary and versatile writers. He is the author of severalacclaimed novels including The Dead School, Winterwood and TheHoly City, as well as The Bucher Boyand Breakfast on Pluto, both ofwhich were shortlisted for the BookerAward. His next novel, Hello andGoodbye, is due from Quercus inOctober.

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Portrait Demonstration: neil ShawcrossNeil Shawcross is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed and influential artists. He has recently been working on a series of ‘Heads, Hats and Beards (Mostly)’, some of which are on show in The Market Place during JHISS 2013 and today

he will add to that collection following this public portrait demonstration when his model will be a well-known figure in the arts!

Sponsored by the Ulster Arts Club

h 4.15pm

Readings: ieiMedia Armagh Project Reflections and Echoes: Plays, Poems and Prose Inspired by northernIreland

By the end of July nine young American students – aspiring journalists, creative writers andplaywrights - will have completed a month-long residency at the AmmA centre in Armagh,using writing to explore the human condition, understand thermselves, their relation to others,and their relationships to society. This Summer School session will give them an opportunityto showcase and talk about their work.

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In Concert: e Voice Squad [ Phil Callery, Gerry Cullen and Fran McPhail]Tickets: £13.00The critically acclaimed Voice Squad, a group of traditional a capellaclose harmony singers, have performed all over Ireland, on manyoccasions in The National Concert Hall, Dublin, and in most of themajor cities of Europe. They have also toured extensively in NorthAmerica and Canada. Phil, Gerry and Fran have carefully brought aunique harmony sound to a tradition which is known worldwide.There is sure to be a warm welcome for them when they return toperform in this not-to-be-missed concert in Armagh after an absenceof many years! Book early to avoid disappointment.

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Talk: ‘Aspects of the northern Ireland Peace Monitoring Report’ by Dr Paul nolanPaul Nolan is the Research Director on the Northern Ireland PeaceMonitoring Report, a project supported by the Community Relations

Council, the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. Thereport, the second in a series, provides regular commentary on Northern Ireland as a post-conflict society.

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Poetry Reading with Pat Boran & noel MonahanPat Boran has published five collections of poetry, most recently

The Next Life (2012), while his New andSelected Poems (2005), has been translatedinto a number of languages. He received thePatrick Kavanagh Award in 1989 and the 2008Lawrence O'Shaughnessy Poetry Award in the uS.

Award-winning Cavan writer,Noel Monahan, has publishedfive collections of poetry, themost recent of which wasCurve of The Moon, publishedin 2010. His literary awardsinclude The SeaCat National Award, The Irish Writers’ unionPoetry Award and The William Allingham Poetry Award.

Presented in association with Poetry Ireland

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Lunchtime Reading with Deirdre MaddenDeirdre Madden, one of the most importantvoices in Northern Irish writing, is originally from

Co Antrim. Her acclaimed novels include The Birds of InnocentWood, Nothing is Black, Authenticity, as well as One by Onein the Darkness and Molly Fox's Birthday, which were bothshortlisted for the Orange Prize. Deirdre will read from and talkabout her new book, her first adult novel since 2008, TimePresent and Time Past.

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Creative Writing Workshops with CarloGébler, James Byrne, Eoghan Walls*, nessa O’Mahony*, Kimberley Lynne, Heather Richardson* and Stuart neville. *Sponsored by The Open University

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Panel Discussion: ‘Aftermath’ - the relationship between displacement and hospitalityWill Glendinning, Co-ordinator, Diversity Challenges, will chairthis discussion on the Aftermath Project, which looks at victimsand survivors of conflict and with persons displaced by conflictin Ireland and elsewhere. Contributors include LaurenceMcKeown, former hunger striker and Coordinator of the Project,Tosin Omiyale of the Integration Centre, and Anthony Haughey,

photographer and lecturer in the School of Mediaat the Dublin Institute of Technology.

Sponsored by Diversity Challenges

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Bardic eatre presents Affluence by Wesley BurrowesTickets: £12.00Set against the backdrop of a tiny island off the Co Down coastcomes Affluence, from one of Northern Ireland’s leading amateurcompanies, The Bardic Theatre, Donaghmore. This laugh-a-minutecomedy, returning to the Market Place in response to populardemand, takes a light-hearted look at some issues surrounding theisland’s Catholic and Protestant communities.The lack of flushing toilets in their respective reading rooms causes problems. Having lobbiedtheir curates for years, the toilets arrive on the same day. However, when a man from ‘TheDepartment’ arrives and informs them they will have to share the same sewage pipes, thingsbegin to happen!

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Talk: ‘Religion and Politics in northern Ireland’ by ProfessorLord Paul BewPaul Bew is Professor of Politics at Queen’s university and is a crossbenchpeer in the House of Lords. He is one of Northern Ireland’s most renownedacademics and his most recent book is Enigma: A New Life of Charles

Stewart Parnell. In his talk he will ask if the Troubles have ended because we no longerbelieve in religion the way we used to do.

h 11.15am

Poetry Reading with Julia Copus & Conor O’Callaghan Award-winning poet Julia Copus, who lives inSomerset, has won First Prize in the NationalPoetry Competition and the Forward Prize forBest Single Poem in 2010. Her acclaimed thirdcollection, The World's Two Smallest Humans,(2012) was shortlisted for The TS Eliot PoetryPrize and for the Costa Poetry Award.

Conor O'Callaghan is one of the best-known Irish-born poets living inEngland. He has published four collections of poems, all with Gallery Pressand the most recent of which is The Sun King(2013). His work has won several awards,including the 2007 Bess Hokin Prize fromPoetry Magazine.

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Lunchtime Reading with Anne Enright One of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, Anne Enright, was announced aswinner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction for herstunning novel, The Gathering, just after her lastvisit to JHISS in 2007! Two collections of stories,Taking Pictures and Yesterday's Weather, were

published in 2008 and her most recent novel, The ForgottenWaltz, was for shortlisted for the Orange Prize in 2012.

h 2.15pm

Reading: Creative Writers’ ReadingAn opportunity for some of those attending Summer SchoolCreative Writing Workshops to read their work to others.Chaired by James Byrne.

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Panel Discussion: ‘Ideals and Ideas: the difference between what weinherit and what we learn’ with Baroness May Blood, Arlene Foster, MLAand naomi Long, MP.Malachi O'Doherty, Belfast-based journalist,cultural commentator and author, hosts the annualSummer School discussion which this year invitesthe panel of three well-known politicians to reflecton the differences between what we inherit andwhat we learn. On the panel will be Baroness MayBlood, MBE, a Labour Member of the House ofLords; Arlene Foster, MLA for Fermanagh andSouth Tyrone and Minister of Enterprise, Trade andInvestment, and Naomi Long, Alliance Party, formerLord Mayor of Belfast and MP for Belfast Eastsince 2010.

Sponsored by Stratagem

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Reception by Lord Mayor of Armagh to mark the end of the 26th John Hewitt International Summer School.

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Summer Exhibition by the Visual Artistsof the Ulster Arts ClubThe Gallery 22 July – 17 AugustBegun in 1902, the Ulster Arts Club was set up as a centrepoint for Ulster artists of all descriptions to meet, exhibitand exchange ideas. Although it has embraced all of the artsdisciplines in the past, it is the visual artists who are stillmost active. The Club is delighted to bring to Armagh, forthe first time, their Summer Exhibition which will featurethe work of established artists from throughout the provinceof Ulster and will offer a variety of styles and disciplines.

‘Heads, Hats and Beards (Mostly)’ by Neil ShawcrossFoyer Walls 22 July – 17 August

Best known for full length portraits, theacclaimed artist, Neil Shawcross, has, forthe past few years, turned his attention to aseries of heads and this exhibition featuresa selection of 18 paintings. These sensitiveand affectionate studies mirror Neil’sinterest in people with a theatrical

appearance and reflect a depth of warmth and goodhumour towards his subjects. Hence the heads, hats andbeards (mostly)!

John Hewitt: Home WordsGallery and other Market Place spaces 22 July – 17 AugustThis exhibition celebrates the life, work and legacy of John Hewitt and has been created byFrank Ferguson, Kathryn White and John McMillan from the University of Ulster inpartnership with Tony Kennedy from the John Hewitt Society and Helen Perry from theCauseway Museum Service. The project will alsobe launching John Hewitt’s eagerly awaited auto-biography, A North Light Twenty-Five Years in aMunicipal Art Gallery, which is edited by FrankFerguson & Kathryn White and published by FourCourts Press. The project is supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

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A Choice of Seven Writing Courses: Monday, Tuesday and Thursday [22,23 & 25 July] from 2.15pm – 3.45pm each day.

Poetry: James ByrneJames Byrne is the editor of The Wolf, an internationally-renowned poetrymagazine. An award-winning poet, his most recent collection, Blood/Sugar, waspublished in 2009 and his Selected Poems: The Vanishing House was publishedin Belgrade. His poems have been translated into several languages includingArabic and Burmese.

Poetry: Eoghan WallsEoghan Walls' first collection, The Salt Harvest, was published in 2011 with Seren.He won an Eric Gregory Award in 2006 and an Irish Art's Council Bursary in 2009.He completed a PhD in the Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry in 2009, and hecurrently lives in Scotland, teaching Creative Writing for the Open university.

Memoir Writing: Nessa O’MahonyNessa O’Mahony is author of a verse-novel, In Sight of Home (2009), as well astwo collections of poetry, Bar Talk (1999) and Trapping a Ghost (2005). She wonthe National Women’s Poetry Competition in 1997 and was shortlisted for thePatrick Kavanagh Prize and Hennessy Literature Awards.

Short Story: Carlo GéblerCarlo Gébler is the author of a range of books including The Eleventh Summer,How to Murder a Man and most recently, The Dead Eight (2011). In 2000 hepublished an autobiography, Father and I: a memoir. He teaches creative writingat QuB and at HMP Maghaberry, where he is writer-in-residence.

Historical Fiction: Heather RichardsonHeather Richardson’s first novel, Magdeburg (Lagan Press,2010) is set in Germany during the Thirty Years War. She iscurrently working on an historical novel, set in Edinburgh in1697. She is a former winner of the Brian Moore ShortStory Award, and teaches Creative Writing for the Openuniversity.

Playwriting: Kimberley LynneKimberley Lynne is an American playwright, novelist andteacher. Over thirty of her plays have been produced inNew York, Washington DC, Baltimore and Minneapolis, andrange in genre from magic realism to comedy to historicaldrama.

Crime Fiction: Stuart NevilleAward-winning crime-writer, Stuart Neville’s first novel, TheTwelve, was one of the most critically acclaimed crimedebuts of recent years, and was the first of a trilogy whichincluded Collusion and Stolen Souls. His fourth novel,Ratlines, was published to further acclaim, earlier this year.

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Workshops will takeplace at The MarketPlace and at theAmmA Centre. Each CreativeWriting Course willhave limited numbersand will consist ofthree workshops. Itwill not be possible tochange from onecourse to anotherduring JHISS. Costper course: £30.00bookable in advanceat Market Place BoxOffice. 028 3752 1821

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Welcome to the Armagh City HotelWhere past meets present.

From Monday 22nd until Friday 26th July 2013 to coincide with e John Hewitt International SummerSchool we have an exclusive accommodation offer…Four night stay - £140.00 per person sharing includes full breakfast£239.00 for a single roomOne night - £65.00 (single) or £40.00 per person sharing(includes breakfast)To book call 028 9038 5050 or visit the hotel websitewww.armaghcityhotel.com

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JHISS 2013 Bookstall at The Market Place TheatreOpen Daily 22-26 July Books by all participating writers and speakers …. and much more!Courtesy of: No Alibis Bookstore

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e 26th John Hewitt International Summer School - A Five-Day Festival of Culture and Creativity

MONDAY22 JULY

TUESDAY23 JULY

WEDNESDAY24 JULY

THURSDAY25 JULY

FRIDAY26 JULY

9.45am

10.45amOFFICIAL OPENING

Lord Diljit Rana

TALKDr Kelly Matthews

‘John Hewitt and The Bellmagazine’

TALKProfessor Jan Jedrzejewski

‘ulster through Polish Eyes:Reconsidering the

Stereotypes’

TALKDr Paul Nolan

‘Aspects of the Northern IrelandPeace Monitoring Report’

TALKProfessor Lord Paul Bew‘Religion and Politics in

Northern Ireland’

11.15am

TALKBaroness Shirley Williams

‘The Twentieth Century – TheCentury of violence’

POETRY READING Penelope Shuttle

& Julian Stannard

POETRY READINGJames Byrne

& Órfhlaith Foyle

POETRY READINGPat Boran

&Noel Monahan

POETRY READINGJulia Copus

& Conor O’Callaghan

1.05pmLUNCHTIME

READING Salley Vickers

LUNCHTIMEREADING

Gavin Corbett

LUNCHTIMEREADING Pat McCabe

LUNCHTIMEREADING

Deirdre Madden

LUNCHTIMEREADING

Anne Enright

2.15pmCREATIVE WRITING

WORKSHOPS CREATIVE WRITING

WORKSHOPSILLUSTRATED TALK

Neil Shawcross ‘Portrait Demonstration’

CREATIVE WRITINGWORKSHOPS

READING Creative Writing Groups

James Byrne

4.15pm

TALKAndy Pollak

‘14 years of cross-bordercollaboration: the usefulness

of outsiders’

TALKSuleiman Abdulahi

‘Challenges faced by the Somalicommunity in Northern Ireland’s

education sector’

DRAMA (4.15pm - 6.15pm)'Reflections & Echoes'

US Students’ Creative WritingShowcase

PANEL DISCUSSION‘Aftermath - the relationshipbetween displacement and

hospitality’

PANEL DISCUSSION4pm

‘Ideals and Ideas, the differencebetween what we inherit and

what we learn’

5.30pm

NSMC RECEPTION Book Launch &

Exhibition Openings(5.30pm & 7.00pm)

DRAMA (7.00pm)The Duck Variations

by David MametThe Lurig Drama Group

FEEDBACK & MAYOR’SRECEPTION (5.45pm)

8.00pmPOETRY READING

Simon Armitage &Medbh McGuckian

DRAMAThe Play of the Book

Ian Sansom/WMT

MUSICThe Voice Squad

DRAMAAffluence

The Bardic Theatre Group

9.30 /10.00pm

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n BookingBox Office:Opening hours are Monday to Saturday from 9.30am to 4.30pm or until7.00pm on performance evenings.

By telephone:Call the Box Office during opening hours. T: 028 3752 1821The easiest way to pay is by credit/debit card.

By mail:Please mail written bookings, giving full address, telephone no., andrequest for weekly/daily or event tickets, to the Box Office, The MarketPlace Theatre, Market Street, Armagh, BT61 7BW. Please make chequespayable to Armagh City & District Council.

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Bursaries:For information on available bursaries, contact JHS Administrator on 078 3507 3616 or E: admin@johnhewittsociety.org

Rates:Summer School Weekly Rate: £175 [includes lunch, tea/coffee, daytime & evening events] Daily Rate: £38.00 [includes lunch, tea/coffee, daytime and evening events] Weekly Workshops Rate £30.00Event Rates: £6.00[except events which are individually priced]Enquiries to Box Office for equivalent Euro rates.

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