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Archer’s project,
In the Land where the Crow flies backwards: The songs of western NSW, has as its centre point the songs of the infamous troubadour, Mr Dougie Young, but also looks at lesser-known characters from that era of the fifties and sixties and earlier, as well as up until today. The project focuses mainly on Indigenous songwriters, telling their stories through songs and poems, and of course the song of the red-tailed black cockatoo.
Archer is a folk singer, and self-proclaimed ill-fated explorer of the interior recesses of the embattled brain-box and beyond . Best described as an old-style travelling singer/poet, for the better part of the last 20 years, Archer has humped his bluey through every state in Australia, walking, hitchhiking, and catching trains, sleeping on the riverbanks and in the parks, singing in the streets, to performing in music halls of some renown. Searching for songs, old songs, forgotten songs and songs of his own making. Archer s genuine love
The Glens Centre’s peace-building programme ‘Across the Lines’ receives further support
New phase of cross border and cross community engagement work
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The Glens Centre is delighted to announce new programme funding for the development of ‘Across the Lines’ cross community and cross border peace-building programme from the International Fund for Ireland under its Peace Impact Programme.
To date, the IFI support has enabled The Glens Centre to develop new programming bringing people from different community backgrounds along the border region together.
The new programme will build on the cross border linkages already made through youth drama work between Manorhamilton and Enniskillen young people and Men’s development work, across four Men’s Sheds across Leitirm and Fermanagh.
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Prophets, Makers and Risk Takers: A Showcase of Writing from Northern Ireland. An exciting and unique one-day Writers’ Symposium, part of the Cathedral Quarter 2021 Out to Lunch Festival, that invites writers, readers and industry professionals from across the globe to explore writing from Northern Ireland.
The symposium will show the breadth of writing talent that Northern Ireland has to offer and is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Organisations Emergency Fund and the Department for Communities’ Covid-19 Social Enterprise Fund.
Curated by local author Jan Carson, the symposium aims to bring together leading voices in writing from across Northern Ireland (NI) to discuss how NI writers’ approach global issues and themes; how they are revisiting ideas associated with the history and politics of NI, how they are finding new ways to tell the stories, exploring what opportunities exist outside NI, ho
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