Spoken Word Series: Alice Bennett, Darren Caffrey and Siobhán de Paor
Wed 30 Oct 2024 6:45 PM - 7:45 PM GMT
Butler Gallery, Evans Home, Johns Quay, Kilkenny, R95 YX3F
Description
This autumn Butler Gallery are delighted to present our Spoken Word Series featuring an exciting line-up of spoken word performances. Join us at 6.45pm on Wednesday 30th October at Butler Gallery for readings by Alice Bennett, Darren Caffrey and Siobhán de Paor.
Tickets are €10 and available for purchase below.
Enjoy a 20% discount when you buy a ticket bundle to all three events!
Friends of Butler Gallery can avail of a 50% discount with their membership. Please email friends@butlergallery.ie before purchasing.
Entry ticket proceeds will support Butler Gallery, supporting living artists and all audiences.
Supported with funding from Call 2 of the Night Time Economy Diversification Grant Scheme.
Alice Bennett is an artist, writer, teacher and researcher. She was born and raised in Zimbabwe until she came to live, with her family, in Kilkenny in 2000. She teaches writing in Maynooth University and facilitates creative workshops with community groups.
Alice’s poems are about intense personal experiences and relationships. They record, reflect and challenge the everyday moments which make up our lives. Her work has been published in the Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet, various anthologies and broadcast on Poetry Phone, a Kilkenny Arts Office programme. Alice was shortlisted for the Patrick Kavanagh first collection award 2023. She creates bespoke poems on commission and has just completed her first collection of poetry which she has sent out to publishers.
Darren Caffrey has lived in Kilkenny for the last decade. Slowly his public practice as a writer has shifted from creative to critical and back now again with a focus on the poetic form. His background in the visual arts informs his imaginary as a key aspect of his work but it is ultimately sound and emotion which drive his expression. Graduating from MAVIS in 2013 he has performed and presented work at venues across the country, working with journals and publications like Howl, Visual Artists Newsletter and last year's Kilkenny Poetry Broadsheet. Throughout his time in Kilkenny he has received invaluable support through local initiatives, workshops and awards. Darren is currently working toward a first chapbook and close to completing a series of 78 acrylic on canvas works which will serve as the basis for a uniquely illustrated card game.
Siobhán de Paor is a file, a performance poet le Gaeilge. Her delivery is both dramatic and physical. Her spoken word weaves the mythical and contemporary i scéal úr nua don tír.
Location
Butler Gallery, Evans Home, Johns Quay, Kilkenny, R95 YX3F