Festival highlights
VISUAL ART
AT the Hamilton Gallery - Lull, a new body of work by artist Hazel Egan, Entropy a series of work by Noel Tighe and An Irish Airman Foresees His Death by Invited Artists AT Ballymote Library - Steve Wickham presents Geronimo. The Waterboys musician chronicles the story and music of his much loved but ill-fated Geronimo Grandini violin. AT The Model - Yeats: Portrait of a Family, an intimate insight into the Yeats Family through the portraits of John Butler Yeats and a selection of other artists and Cairde Visual, Cairde Sligo Arts Festival’s fifth annual open submission exhibition.
AT the Factory Performance Space: Walking Birds’ Mountain, an exhibition presenting the visual, vocal and written responses by a group of artists and writers following a trek across Ballygawley Mountains with archaeological writer and folklorist Padraig Meehan
THEATRE PURGATORY: performed by Blue Raincoat Theatre Company - a family history played out by an old man and his son with tragic consequences in front of the old man’s mother’s family home.
EASY Aces: The Hawk’s Well presents theatre episodes of the old-time radio sitcom favourite Easy Aces.
LITERATURE & TALKS THE Cornorant, A Broadsheet of Sligo Writing with new writing from both established and emerging writers including Kevin Barry, Molly McCloskey and Eoin McNamee; a creative writing workshop The Act of Creation with John MacKenna; reading and poetry with Leontia Flynn, One Hundred Years of Women’s Suffrage, The Summer School Salon at The Methodist Church, Bird Reign with Amabel Clarke and Sinead Nic Gearlait at Ballymote Library; readings by Niall Williams: The History of Rain and Mike McCormack: Solar Bones.
THE 59 th Yeats International Summer School features the launch of Collected Poems a posthumous work from Dermot Healy (July 24 th) as part of its diverse and immersive programme whilst SLIGO Dreams Project, a collaboration with Sligo IT invites key speakers from a broad range of backgrounds to share their own dreams for changes to sustain and enhance future life for all in Sligo.
WALKS
A selection of guided walks around the beautiful landscape that inspired Yeats taking in iconic sights including Sally Gardens, Carrowkeel and Rosses Point. Listen to local stories of the area and fascinating accounts by colourful locals experts.