Arts news in brief August 21

Limerickโ€™s Heritage Week

CURRENT from Saturday August 21 to Sunday 29, National Heritage Week is celebrated in Limerick with a brisk roster of events. See:

* Tuesday 24, 1pm-2pm

LCGA Permanent Collection Lecture by Dr. Peter Jordan at The Hunt Museum. Free.

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* Wednesday 25, 1pm-2pm

Curatorโ€™s talk by Mary Conlon at Faber Studios, Catherine Street. As part of the series on the Shinnors scholarship, Conlon discusses ideas and developments in her curatorial research project based on Italo Calvinoโ€™s lectures Six Memos for the Next Millennium.

* Thursday 26, 6pm-8pm

Carnegie Reading Circle at Faber Studios, Catherine Street. This is an informal, social event where guests are invited to read to the group a text or extract from a text on the theme of Time Travel. Book by email, [email protected].

 

Septemberโ€™s On the Nail

TWO prominent writers feature in September 2โ€™s On the Nail literary session at The Locke Bar. The Thursday night readings are hosted by Limerick Writersโ€™ Centre and the invited guests are Dublin born writer and teacher, Nuala Ni Chonchuir and Limerick writer/ director Gerry Stembridge.

โ€œEveryone is invited to take part in the open-mic after the main event, poets, storytellers, musicians and writers,โ€ founder Dominic Taylor makes clear. โ€œThe night begins at 8pm and there is free admission and free finger food for everyone attendingโ€.

So anyone with an ear for the spoken word will enjoy this regular monthly forum, and thereโ€™s an open opportunity to platform books, CDs and background.

 

Jazz improvisation workshops

PROVISIONAL dates mooted by Limerick Jazz for improvisation workshops are from September 14 to December 8, taking place over 12 Tuesday nights inย  LIT. Add in also theย  end of term performance on Wednesday December 8 which takes place on stage in Dolanโ€™s Upstairs, a series of ensembles led by top professionals. Students, whose ages have rangee from 12 to 70 years, can expect a mid-term break with the academic year in late October.

The plan is to run the junior workshop again on Saturday afternoons at Peter Dee Academy of Music on Oโ€™Connell Avenue. ย Names are being taken for a first ever beginnerโ€™s workshop.

You can email jazz maestro Ed Hansom on [email protected] for more details and reference websites www.limerickjazz.com and www.myspace.com/limerickjazzworkshop.