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Natalie El Baba, artist and Mountshannon Arts Festival committee member and local poet Roisin Bugler with Natalie’s Returning Swallows in the village. Photograph by John Kelly
Mountshannon Arts turns to poetry as it steers a route through restrictions of the pandemic
April 22, 2021
NEW Directions, Maps and Journeys are the themes of Poetry Day and the inspiration behind a project being undertaken by Mountshannon Arts, as the community organisation reflects on its 25-year history.
Poetry Day takes place on Thursday, April 29. Poet Róisín Bugler notes that it will also mark the first outing this year for Moutshannon Arts, whose festival has been inspiring and entertaining audiences from East Clare and far further afield, for a quarter of a century.
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The Inaugural Clare Drama Radio Play Festival will begin on Scariff Bay Community Radio (SBCR) this Saturday 27th February with a special festival programme hosted by Eoin O’Hagan at 8pm.
The event will continue on Saturdays, and Sundays, presented by Festival PRO Tom Hanley, until the final night on Easter Sunday April 4th. SBCR has joined forces with CDF who are one of Ireland’s longest running amateur drama festivals having started in 1946.
The Clare Drama Radio Play Festival is a perfect addition to the schedule of SBCR and an antidote to the continuing lockdown for both the listeners to the local station as well as the devotees of amateur drama throughout Ireland. This brand new drama festival is going to be a feast of drama for those starved of it because of Covid 19.