KILDARE READERS FESTIVAL
This weekend sees the second running of Kildare Reader's Festival by Kildare Library & Arts Services. Make sure to pass on the details to someone you know if you cannot come along yourself.
Fantastic Line up
http://www.kildarereadersfestival.ie
Friday 13th May
Mayor’s Festival Opening reception with music by Ellen Cranitch (Flutes) & Denise Kelly (Harp) Launch of KRF_1 Notebook Exhibition
18.00-19.30 Riverbank Arts Centre
Free
Join Peter Murphy, John the Revelator, in conversation with Maria Doyle Kennedy
19.30-21.00 Riverbank Arts Centre €5.00
Saturday 14th May
Walking tour with Mae Leonard
11.00 - 12.30
Departing from Riverbank Art Centre
€5.00
Kevin Barry: City of Bohane and There are little Kingdoms
11.00 - 12.30
Riverbank Art Centre €5.00
Stories for the Ear: Reading with Tom Hickey
12.30 - 13.00
Riverbank Art Centre Free
Kildare Author Panel: Peter Cunningham, Rose Doyle and James Lawless with Linda Geraghty
14.00 - 15.00
Riverbank Art Centre €5.00
Bloody Women! Alex Barclay, Arlene Hunt and Ava McCarthy in conversation with Declan Burke 15.30 - 16.30
Riverbank Art Centre €5.00
Laura Jane Cassidy - Reading & Book Signing 15.30 - 16.30
Easons Whitewater SC
Free
Lissa Oliver - Reading & Book Signing 15.30 - 16.30 Farrell's Book Shop Free
The Vanising Ireland Project with Turtle Bunbury, James Fennell and Siobhan Cronin, followed by presentation of Cecil Day Lewis Bursary Award
17.00 - 18.00
Riverbank Art Centre €5.00
Slovak Orchestra and tastings from Plate to Plate cookery book 18.30 - 19.30 Riverbank Art Centre Free
Talking About Jane Austen in Baghdad Bee Rowlatt in conversation with Yvonne Nolan 19.30 - 20.45 Riverbank Art Centre €5.00
Festival Club: An evening of sean nos song and fiddle tunes with Lorcán Mac Mathúna, singer, and Daire O Breacáin, fiddle and poetry from John McAuliffe and Leanne O Sullivan
21.30 onwards Johnson's Pub Free
Sunday 15th May
Dermot Bolger, Peter Sheridan and Carlo Gébler in conversation
11.00-12.30 Riverbank Arts Centre
€5.00
Cathy Kelly - Reading and book signing with one of Irelands most popular authors
11.00-12.30 Newbridge Silver Free
Come along to Kildare Reader's Festival this weekend Friday 13th to Sunday 15th May