Slugger O’Toole is delighted to be returning to the John Hewitt Worldwide Summer season Faculty later in July.
Our panel on the night of Tuesday 26 July will ask The place is Dwelling? – inviting three visitors from the world of politics to discover the place residence has been, the place it’s at present, whether or not residence may be one place or many, and what may shift that sense of belonging and id sooner or later.
I’ll be joined on stage in Armagh’s Market Place Theatre by Alex Kane (who first arrived in Armagh in 1961 after two years in an orphanage and says that he fairly favored the change!), Lilian Seenoi-Barr (SDLP Councillor for the Foyleside ward and programme supervisor within the North West Migrants Discussion board) and Sorcha Eastwood (who as soon as lived two doorways down the road from me and was a Lisburn & Castlereagh Metropolis councillor earlier than being elected to the NI Meeting in Could this 12 months).
Doorways open at 7pm. Tickets (£10) may be booked on-line and I look ahead to seeing a few of you there.
Elsewhere within the pageant programme you’ll discover Prof Katy Hayward (Thursday twenty eighth at 9.45am) contemplating the methods through which Brexit and the Protocol are altering identities, understandings and narratives of Britishness and Irishness and redefining residence and nation.
5 journalists who contributed to the e book Reporting the Troubles 2 – a transferring testimony of never-forgotten occasions, victims and private impacts – will discover their work throughout that period. Gordon Adair, Deric Henderson, Ivan Little, David Lynas and Eric Villiers are on stage on Thursday twenty eighth at 7pm.
And heaps, heaps, extra.
Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, studies from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, educational and political occasions and conferences. He delivers social media coaching/teaching; produces podcasts and radio programmes; is a FactCheckNI director; a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Northern Eire; and a member of the Corrymeela Neighborhood.
