25th Hopkins Festival
Newbridge College Theatre July 23 - 30, 2011
info@gerardmanleyhopkins.org

Silver Jubilee of ‘the best literary festival in Ireland (editor Oxford Companion to Irish Literature.)

Venue

Newbridge College Theatre
Co Kildare

July 21^st – 27^th 2012

Find out all about this great celebration of the Poetry and Life of Gerard Manley Hopkins. Enjoy music,  literature, poetry, fieldtrips and much more.

 
Contact us

http://www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org

Telephone: 045 43363     mob. 085 2732568

Email: info@gerardmanleyhopkins.org

For our 25^th Annual International Festival of the Arts, the Gerard Manley Hopkins Festival will be our biggest, most ambitious
and best so far.

Our Programme for July 2012 (21^st to 27^th) will feature contributors from 22 countries: from Argentina to Japan, from
Germany to Iraq, from USA to UK, from Sweden to Scotland. ‘the most international festival in Ireland’. (Independent).
Selected highlights:
 

Classical Concert with world famous Swedish pianist, Hans Palsson.

Traditional Irish Music Concert with Frankie Gavin and Michelle Lally.

Lecturers include: Tobias Schlingensiepen (Germany); Geraldine Parsons (Glasgow); Michael Woods (UK);
Deirdre Serjaintson (UK); William Adamson (Germany); Brian Arkins, Patrick Murray, Brendan Stanton, Dennis Sexton 
(Ireland); John Hunter (USA); Miho Takahashi (Japan).

International Poetry Sessions: Roger McGough (UK); Salah Niazi (Iraq); Dermot Healy (Ireland); Diarmuid Johnson
(Wales); Desmond Egan, Neil Donnelly  (Ireland).

Visual Arts Exhibitions include: Charles Cullen; James Hanley, John Behan, Eva Kelly (Ireland); Fernando Pezzini
(Argentina); Wilhelm Fockersperger (Germany); and some pieces by the late James McKenna.

Field Trips: Visit to Maynooth University with President Philip Nolan and Gala Festival Banquet in Pugin Hall. Guided
Tour of Russell Library with Librarian Penny Woods. Conservation and Nature Celebration. Visit to Traditional Forge
and Guided Introduction to Flora and Fauna of Kildare by conservationist, Michael Jacob.

Parallel Youth Programme unique to the Hopkins Festival with specially geared events, workshops and demonstrations.

The Festival of a lifetime, with something for everyone July 21 to 27, Newbridge College Theatre, 2012. www.gerardmanleyhopkins.org