Carlo Gébler
Dangerous Women
A Poem for a Song
With Ian Sansom
Elizabeth Buchan, Clare Mulley
& Isabelle Grey
Antrim Community Choir,
The Henry Girls & Ruth Carr
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 19 June – 12.30-1.30pm
Tickets: £7 (Inc. Light Lunch) £5 (Event only)
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 19 June – 2.30pm
Tickets: £6/£4
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 19 June – 4.30pm
Tickets: £7/£5
Crescent Arts Centre
Sunday 19 June – 4.30pm
Tickets: £6/£4
Join us for this fascinating insight into the
career of one of our great writers, Carlo
Gébler.
He is the author of The Eleventh Summer,
The Cure, How to Murder a Man, A
Good Day for A Dog and The Dead Eight
(shortlisted for the Kerry Irish Fiction Prize),
the short story collections W.9. & Other
Lives and The Wing Orderly’s Tales, and
several works of non-fiction including
the memoirs Father & I, Confessions of a
Catastrophist and The Projectionist, the
Story of Ernest Gébler and the narrative
history, The Siege of Derry. He has also
written plays for both radio and the stage,
including Dance of Death, 10 Rounds (short
listed for the Ewart-Biggs Prize), Charles
& Mary a play for BBC Radio 3 about the
lives of the siblings who wrote the classic
children’s introduction to Shakespeare,
Tales from Shakespeare and Belfast by
Moonlight.
Elizabeth Buchan’s heroine in I Can’t
Begin to Tell You is British-born Kay
Eberstern. When the Nazis occupy her
adopted country of Denmark, Kay faces a
life-changing dilemma and finds herself
operating in a covert world of intelligence,
resistance and sacrifice. Weaving together
the voices of people hidden behind secret
identities who risked their lives to protect
others that they would never know, the
novel dramatizes a clandestine war from a
new and intensely moving perspective.
A journey into a world of lyrical texts, songs
and poems that capture the heartbeat of
what it is to be human.
Best-selling author Julie Peakman reveals
everything you every need to know (and
plenty you don’t) in a talk about the wide
range of sexual activity over the last 2,000
years. Her recent book The Pleasure’s All
Mine shows how homosexuality was usual
in ancient Greece, but punishable by death
in the medieval world; how ‘Child Love’
was acceptable in the Victorian period but
paedophilia is now a crime; and how both
bestiality and necrophilia have been decried
throughout the ages.
Carlo Gébler was born in Dublin and raised
in London. He now lives outside Enniskillen.
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Clare Mulley is the award-winning author
of two biographies. The Woman Who Saved
the Children: A Biography of Eglantyne
Jebb, won the Daily Mail Biographers’ Club
Prize. The Spy Who Loved: The Secrets and
Lives of Christine Granville led to her being
presented with Poland’s national ‘Bene
Merito’ honorary distinction in 2014.
The event will be chaired by novelist and
TV screenwriter Isabelle Grey. A former
non-fiction author, magazine editor and
journalist she has contributed to longrunning TV crime dramas from Midsomer
Murders.
With a selection of wonderful poetry and
arrangements of new and old music, ‘Poem
For A Song’ brings a delightful new twist to
the performance of poetry.
Antrim Community Choir: Although only
3 years old, this accomplished and dynamic
choir have performed extensively around
Northern Ireland and are renowned for
innovative and unexpected performances.
Ruth Carr a poet, editor and creative
writing tutor. She produced the first
anthology of women writers to come out of
the North, The Female Line, and has worked
with many community writing groups to
produce anthologies of their work. She has
two poetry collections.
The Henry Girls are 3 sisters whose music
is infused with the rich cultural heritage
of their native Donegal combined with a
transatlantic flavour. They are renowned
for their captivating live performances.
The Pleasure’s
All Mine
With Julie Peakman
Carefully researched as well as a fascinating
read, and featuring a wide array of
illustrations, The Pleasure’s All Mine
reaches conclusions that are surprising, and
sometimes shocking. This is an essential
volume for anyone interested in the art,
history and culture of sex.
Julie is also author of Peg Plunkett.
Memoirs of an Eighteenth-Century Whore
(2015), Mighty Lewd Books (a history of
pornography, 2012) and Lascivious Bodies
(a history of sex in the eighteenth century,
2008).
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