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Here are some events that we will host during Hopkins 25th July 21 - 27, 2012 . As usual, our Programme reflects Hopkins's wide range of interest in poetry, visual arts, conservation, nature and sustainability.
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25th Hopkins Festival Advance Programme
Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival is 25 years old!
This year we will celebrate the 25th year of the GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS FESTIVAL
(July 21 to 27 2012). The Editor of The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature has described the annual Hopkins fest as ‘the best literary Festival in Ireland' while distinguished French translator, Bruno Gaurier - a regular visitor - calls it ‘the cultural highlight of the year - and the most enjoyable'. This year is special. The Committee is pulling out all the stops to celebrate our Silver Jubilee.
Pedro Irigonegaray (Cuba) will be among Speakers at our Festival Opening on Saturday 21st. We begin with a Concert by world-famous Swedish pianist Hans Palsson on Sat. 21st - Palsson plays for the King of Sweden the previous week. Irish Music highlights will include a Concert by Frankie Gavin (with Michelle Lally and Desmond Egan) on Tues. 21st; and flute player Diarmuid Johnson later in the week.
The Art Exhibition will be special, with work by Charles Cullen (who exhibits rarely nowadays), John Behan, Janet Loebel (USA); Edward Navone (USA), James Mc Kenna and Wilhelm Fockersperger (Germany). There will also be glass works by Eva Kelly . This Show has proved highly successful and popular over the years and this year may well be the most exciting yet. A Film version of The Wreck of the Deutschland by Director, Shane McGrath, will be premiered and is exciting much interest - including that of some TV channels.
Lectures are of exceptional interest and include Catherine Phillips(UK), Salah Niazi (Iraq), Miho Takahashi (Japan), Robert Smart, John Hunter, Kevin Mc Eneaney, Courtney Dombrowski (all USA), Brian Arkins, Patrick Murray and other Hopkins experts including graphologist, Denis Sexton, will examine Hopkins's Handwriting. Psychologist,Aiden Gregg will give us a psychologist's profile of the poet. Another highlight will be a lecture by international competition winner, architect Shelley McNamara. Workshops in Writing, Songwriting and - a new hit - Translation will also feature; book soon if interested as places are limited. This year we will approach Hopkins's Felix Randal through the problems faced by translators in various languages - from Japanese to Irish.
Poetry includes readings by Salah Niazi (Iraq), Robert Simoniset (Slovenia), Dermot Healy, Michael Wood (UK), Tomas Kafka (Czech Rep.), Desmond Egan, Sudeep Sen (India), Kevin McEneaney (USA) and many others. These take place during sessions nightly in various Newbridge pubs. There will also be several Book Launches including a new version in French of Hopkins Prose made by award winner Bruno Gaurier (France) and two new publications by Brian Arkins of NUI Galway.
Friday 27th is Conservation Day. It will include a field trip and - In conjunction with the featured Hopkins poem, Felix Randal - a visit to a working Forge. Other field trips will include visits to Russborough House and NUI Maynooth where the Annual Banquet also takes
place, at which a Lifetime Achievement Award will be made to legendary Irish poet Thomas Kinsella.
Architecture
Shelley MacNamara
Grafton Architects
World Building of the Year 2008 will give a Presentation on their latest startling commission: the UTEC in Lima Peru.
Shelley, Grafton Architects, world class. Check out their website Poets 2012
Sen Sudeep (India)
Salah Niazi (Iraq)
Tomas Kafka (Czech Republic)
Robert Simonisek (Slovenia)
Dermot Healy (Irl)
Desmond Egan (Irl)
Diarmuid Johnson (Wales)
Michael Woods (UK)
Donald Gardner (Netherlands)
Alfred Yuson (Philippines)
Ciarain O'Rourke (Irl)
Riposte Poets with Michael O'Flanagan.
Classical Music
Hans Palsson (Pianist) Sweden
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Traditional Irish Music
Frankie Gavin with Michelle Lally
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Diarmuid Johnson, Flute
Multilingual Translation Workshop
William Adamson (Ulm Univ. Germany)
The Hopkins poem selected for the 2012 Multilingual Translation Workshop is
Felix Randall Farrier.
Felix Randall Farrier text downloadable here.
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Lectures July 2012
Catherine Phillips, Oxford Univ.
Robert Smart Quinnipiac Univ (USA)
Hopkins in Dublin
Denis Sexton Handwriting expert(Irl)
Hopkins's Handwriting
Geraldine Parsons Glasgow University Scotland
Tobias Schlingensiepen Berlin
Deirdre Serjeanston Essex University UK
Hopkins's Sermon at Bedford Leigh
Aiden Gregg Southampton University UK
Hopkins: a Psychologist's Perspective
Brendan McConvery CSSr , St Patrick's College Maynooth
Aleksandra Kedzierska, Marie Curie Univ.Poland
Miho Takahashi Japan
Will Adamson Ulm University, Germany
Felix Randal, Textual Analysis
Ciarán O'Hare Northern Ireland
Bruno Gaurier France Hopkins's Sermons
Michael Woods Malvern College, UK
Hopkins and the Mass
Joseph Sweeney UK Hopkins the Priest
Edward Navone Washburn University USA
Hopkins and Visual Arts
John Hunter Washburn University USA: Motivation
Desmond Egan Hopkins and Hiberno-English
Hank Edmundson Georgia University USA
Brian Arkins NUI Galway
Jim Ryan Waterford Newman and Education
Thomas Berenato, Charlottsville Univ. US.
Courtney Dombrowski, Texas Univ. US
Thomas Norris, St Patick's Maynooth
Visual Arts Exhibitions
Charles Cullen - a rare exhibition
John Behan
James McKenna
Ed Navone (US)
Janet Loebel (USA)
Eva Kelly (Irl)
Eleanor Swan (IRL)
Film
The Wreck of the Deutschland Dir. Shane MacGrath
Workshops
Michael Woods Creative Writing Workshop
Conor Mahony, Guitar
Book Launches
Sudeep Sen Poems
Bruno Gaurier Hopkins's Sermons
Michael Woods: Poems;
Brian Arkins: Shakespeare and the Classics; Mahaffy in Europe;
Neil Donnelly Tullamore Train;
Desmond Egan Hopkins in Kildare. |
Classical Music Concert: Hans Palsson
Date: 8 pm July 21st, 2012
Venue: The Theatre, Newbridge College
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Traditional Irish Music: Frankie Gavin Fiddle with Michelle Lally Singer
Date: July 24, 2012
Venue: The Theatre, Newbridge College
Frankie Gavin at 25th Hopkins Festival
Frankie Gavin is widely considered to be the world's greatest Irish fiddle player. In 2010 he entered the Guinness World Records as the fastest fiddle player in the world. Frankie has been responsible over many years for bringing some of Ireland's immensely talented traditional performers to the world stage. He has performed everywhere from The White House & U.S. Capitol Building to Beijing Opera House, In addition, he has performed and recorded with a long list of musical luminaries which includes The Rolling Stones. Frankie Gavin created a new way of playing Irish dance tunes in a group format. He describes in The Companion to Traditional Irish Music as "tightly percussive melody lines set against a flowing, contrapuntal background." And the band's cheeky versions of classical pieces such as Handel's "The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba" and pop songs like "Hey Jude" and "Bohemian Rhapsody" helped remind the world that traditional music doesn't exist in a cultural vacuum. 'Electrifying' 'Mesmerizing'- if you've never been lucky enough to see Frankie perform live, prepare to be... shocked.'edgy and brilliant on both fiddle and flute' - Fintan Vallely, Sunday Tribune Heralded as the greatest Irish fiddler player, Frankie Gavin has nothing left to prove ... Gavin is a true fiddle-playing genius who continues to inspire and dumbfound in equal measure. The Scotsman
Michelle Lally Singera Player
Michelle Lally is a powerful new singer who has just emerged from Galway in the west of Ireland. Her renditions of contemporary easy listening Irish music are impossible to resist with the gentle charm of her immediately identifiable pure tone. Michelle's undoubted talent has been brought to the fore by the legendary Frankie Gavin of traditional super group De Dannan. She is currently the lead vocalist with Frankie's new group 'Hibernian Rhapsody' who recently performed with The Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra in Liverpool and Dubai Philhamonic Orchestra. The Hibernian Rhapsody band has received rave reviews since its inception and has played to over 80,000 people in the past year alone. The band had the honour of being the opening support act to The Rolling Stones in Slane Castle, Ireland. Michelle's debut album "If This be Love" was released in 2007.
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Hans Pålsson plays Beethoven's Appassionata (1st movement)
Palsson's acclaimed Broadcast makes it into the Swedish Charts!
Hans Palsson has broadcast for Swedish Television the acclaimed series "I döda mästares sällskap (In the Company of Dead Masters)", so far consisting of 30 parts. This album made it into the Charts in Sweden for five weeks! Read what international Press write about pianist Hans Palsson: The important thing for Pålsson is to penetrate the logic and structure of the compositions, but also to provide an atmosphere of darkly romantic depth, often cloaked in a meditative and evocative chiaroscuro.Pålsson´s performance distinguished itself by its intensity and expressiveness. His power of interpretation, concentrated from beginning to end, plunged the audience into nearly religious emotion - Il Giornale, Milan
His rendition showed a variety that produced the most fascinating musical aspects.A great evening! - Aftenposten, Oslo A distinguished, composed and well-proportioned performance, overflowing with rhytmic energy and musical rapture.A brilliantly clear, beautifully sonorous and lyrically motile rendering! -
Berlingske Tidende, Copenhagen
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