Poetry on the Edge: Workshop with Alice Kinsella
Event Information
About this event
Poetry on the Edge brings professional writers to Ballina for school and community engagement. The aim of the project is to make creative writing and literarture accessible for a variety of audiences.
Poet Alice Kinsella will faciliate a two part poetry workshop over two evenings:
Weds 13th October 7pm - Part 1
Thurs 14th October 7pm - Part 2
Alice Kinsella's poetry has appeared in Banshee, The Irish Times, Poetry Ireland Review, The North, and Multipoetry Project Krakow, among others. She holds a BA (Hons) in English Literature and Philosophy from Trinity College Dublin, and a First-Class honours Masters in Writing from NUI, Galway.
Her work has been translated into Polish, Arabic, and Greek. She is the editor of Empty House (Doire Press, 2021), an anthology of creative writing on the climate crisis. Kinsella received Words Ireland mentoring to work on her first full length collection, which she is currently developing. She lives on the west coast of Ireland with her family.
This booking is for both Part 1 and Part 2 of Alice Kinsella's workshop.
It also includes admission to Poetry on the Edge: Readings which takes place Friday 15th October at 9:30pm in the Shambles Bar, Ballina Manor Hotel.
Organiser Ballina Fringe Festival
Organiser of Poetry on the Edge: Workshop with Alice Kinsella
Ballina Fringe Festival returns from 9th – 17th October 2021
Ballina Fringe Festival is an artistic exploration of life lived on the edge of Ireland’s Wild Atlantic Way served up in a festival of words, art and music.
The festival returns for another year of outdoors, online and intimate venues from 9th – 17th October 2021, in association with the Ice House Hotel & Spa.
All 2021 events and tours , both paid and free events, will be ticketed to manage audience numbers.
Join us as we dip and weave our way though exceptional art, musical entertainment, botanical discoveries, tales well told and lyrical words that dance through poetry.
Pure Ballina – Ballina Fringe Festival’s community street art project
Another great year beckons for Pure Ballina street art , bringing internationally known street artist Canvaz back to his Mayo roots to collaborate with St Augustine's Community Nursing Unit to create unique community and world-leading street art once more in Ballina. Funded by and Topline Archers Ballina.
Ballina Fringe Festival is developed in partnership with Ballina Arts Centre and Mayo North.
Covid-19 restrictions
We understand that due to the changing nature of public health advice, there may be a very small chance that we may not be able to run some festival events as planned or indeed at all. Should public health advice indicate that this is the case, all tickets purchased will be fully refundable and we will offer a no-quibble money-back guarantee.