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Yeats Festival Season
Fri 24th July – Sat 15th August
Welcome to the 2009 Yeats Festival Season, a three-week Season of events including poetry readings,
lectures, lunchtime theatre, art exhibitions, kids workshops and much more.
The Festival Season is presented by some of Sligo’s key cultural organisations, who have all come together to
celebrate the creativity of the Yeats family, most especially brothers W.B and Jack B. Yeats,
and to highlight the special inspiration provided by Sligo for their work.
Bookings & Enquiries
Contact (071) 91 42693
You can email us at info@yeatsfest.com if you have any further queries.
Fri 24th July
5pm Exhibition Opening: Jack B Yeats; The Sligo Paintings
Sligo Art Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building
Sat 25th July,
12.30pm Yeats by the Sea: Kids Workshop (till 2pm) 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm)
Sun 26th July
2.30pm Opening of The Yeats Summer School
Mon 27 July
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.05pm Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain 1.10pm Poetry Reading: Greg Delanty 8.30pm Poetry Reading: Seamus Heaney
Tue 28th July
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.05pm Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain 8.30pm Reading: Gerald Dawe & Bernard O’Donoghue 9 & 11am Yeats summer school lectures.
Wed 29th July
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.05pm Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain 8.30pm Eavan Boland & Claire Roche,
Thu 30th July
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.05pm Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain 1.10pm Dennis O’Driscoll & Julie O’Callaghan, 6.30pm Book Launch: Books of Poetry by Joan McBreen 8.30pm Theatre: The Great Yeats
Fri 31st July
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.05pm Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain 1.10pm Poetry Reading: Local Sligo Poets 8.30pm Sinéad Morrissey & Moya Cannon,
Sat 1st Aug 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 12.30pm Yeats by the Sea: Children’s Workshop (till 2pm) 1.05pm Lunchtime Theatre: Irish Writers Entertain
Sun 2nd Aug
6pm Book Launch: “The Only Art” by Declan Foley
Mon 3rd Aug
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.10pm Reading : Peter McDonald & Justin Quinn
Tue 4th Aug
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.15pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon 1.30pm Reading: Leontia Flynn & Maurice Harmon 8.30pm Reading: Michael Longley
Wed 5th Aug
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon 8.30pm Reading : Peter Fallon & Vona Groarke
Thu 6th Aug
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon 1.10pm Reading: Alan Gillis
Fri 7th Aug
9.30 & 11.15am / Yeats Summer School Lectures. 10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon 8.30pm Theatre: The Words Upon the Window Pane
Sat 8th Aug
10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 12.30pm Yeats by the Sea: Kids Workshop (till 2pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon
Sun 9th Aug
1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon
Mon 10th Aug
10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm)
Tue 11th Aug
10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon
Wed 12th Aug
10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon
Thur 13th Aug
10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon
Fri 14th Aug
10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon
Sat 15th Aug
10am Exhibition: Jack B. Yeats. (until 5.30pm) 1.00pm Lunchtime Theatre: The Cat and The Moon
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