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THE GREAT ESCAPE
WITH SIR GEORGE BAIN AND MARTINA DEVLIN
To celebrate its 13th Anniversary, The John Hewitt Society is hosting a
series of talks chaired by Sir George Bain, which review how society
has changed in that time and considers what further changes
are needed.
We are delighted to partner with The Society in presenting this event in
which best selling author and Award winning journalist, Martina Devlin
will discuss how the position of women in Ireland, both North and South,
has changed and the changes which are still required.
Her latest book About Sisterhood is set in the near future in a world
ruled by women.
8PM // FREE EVENT // CRESCENT ARTS
EMMA PRESS LAUNCH
Come along to the the launch of two new poetry pamphlets from Emma
Press: Padraig Regan’s Who Seemed Alive and Altogether Real and
Zosia Kuczynska’s Pisanki.
Regan’s pamphlet brings together art history in a way which is playful
and inquisitive. Other poems focus on the representation of the human
body as they discover responses to paintings.
In 1940, a young girl is taken from her home in Eastern Poland to Siberia;
in 1942, she boards a train. 70 years later, that journey is reimagined by
her granddaughter, Kuczynska. Pisanki tells the story of her maternal
grandmother, coming to England and confronting some of the big
questions of art and history.
8.30PM // £5 // CRESCENT ARTS
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