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Dear friends and colleagues,
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As we looking forward to the bank holiday weekend in both Belgium and Northern Ireland, we are delighted to this week bring you a mix of art, literature and heritage in our newsletter. We are especially excited to see Máire Zepf win the Children's Book Award Ireland. She presented her fantastic novel Nóinín during the Transpoesie event in our office last year, certainly a well-deserved win!
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The team are also pleased to support the Northern Ireland Mental Health Week theme of “kindness”. Through a huge array of online events, discussions and classes the NI Mental Health Festival is providing anyone who is interested, from anywhere in the world, with access to various initiatives each day based on mental health and well-being.
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Finally, over the longer weekend the team have provided information on how to join an evening of traditional live music this Friday, take a virtual tour of historic Enniskillen Castle in our beautiful County of Fermanagh or check out digital exhibitions of some of our best known artists through the Golden Thread Gallery.
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We hope you enjoy this week's selection from Northern Ireland and that you and your loved ones are safe and well. As always, do not hesitate to get in touch, we are looking forward to hearing from you.
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Children's Book of the Year: Nóinín
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Looking back at our Transpoesie event last year, we are excited to celebrate Máire Zepf winning the Children’s Book Ireland Awards 2020 with her book Nóinín. You may recall the excellent panel discussion in our office with Máire outlining her inspiration behind the novel. Award Judges praised the books rich imagery, poetic language and intertextual references to fairy tales and Irish myth.
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Mental Health Arts Festival Online
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The Northern Ireland Mental Health Week 2020 has as its theme the topic of ‘Kindness’. As part of this the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival is providing an online programme with different events running daily (18 - 24 May) between 11 am and 8 pm. You can visit their website this weekend to sign up for a range of initiatives aimed at mental health and well-being - from singing parties to comedy and from yoga to wellness DJ sets.
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An Evening of Live Traditional Music
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This Friday through a Facebook Livestream by Discover NI, you will have the opportunity to listen to traditional sounds from the Belfast Traditional Music Trail before joining Antrim and Derry band, Beoga’s album launch party. With local guests like Foy Vance and Ryan McMullan, this promises to be an evening full of local Northern Ireland musical highlights and expert insights.
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Take a 360° virtual walk around Enniskillen Castle
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You can now enjoy the beautiful Enniskillen Castle from wherever you are in the world. Located on the River Erne in County Fermanagh, the Castle was built around 600 years ago with a wealth of history and stories. It contains two museums: Fermanagh County Museum and The Inniskillings Museum both of which you can explore virtually through a 360° virtual tour around Enniskillen Castle.
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Belfast’s Golden Thread Gallery (GTG) has launched a series of online exhibitions entitled ‘GTG Artists Present’. The digital exhibitions feature the work of Northern Ireland based artists. The most recent film showcases sculptor John Rainey as he re-examines his 2016 solo show ‘On Visibility’.
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