Friday September 12th.
8pm Opening by James Scully from the Banagher Brontë Group at 8pm.
8.15pm Rose Dawn Gant, a regular contributor for the Brontë Studies Journal, will be talking about the early childhood writings and illustrations by Charlotte and her brother Branwell. Their juvenilia informed Charlotte’s later bestselling novels.
Saturday September 13th
10am to 11.30am, Jenny Bassett will be facilitating ‘Nourishing the Flow’. This creative writing workshop is open to people who would love to write or are emerging and experienced writers. The one and a half hour workshop will include mindfulness techniques and exercises designed to: help overcome writers’ block, encourage inspiration and discourage over-thinking.
1.30pm Artist and Film Maker Dr. Maebh O’Regan will show and speak about two of her short films: The Irish Legacy of the Brontës’ in Banagher and Prenuptial Politics at the Parsonage in Haworth.
While upstairs in the meeting room at Culturlann Sweeney The Legacy of the Brontës’ in Banagher exhibition will be on display. The exhibition, consisting of a variety of textile panels, will show precious items connected to the Brontë family brought over to Banagher by Charlotte Brontë’s widower Arthur Bell Nicholls in 1861. The work is an ongoing collaboration between the Banagher Crafting Group and Maebh O’Regan formerly of the National College of Art and Design in Dublin
Following the double bill of short films, Nick Holland will deliver his talk titled The Loves of Charlotte Brontë. Yorkshire born and bred, Nick is well known internationally for his books on various members of the Brontë family and his weekly In Search of Anne Brontë blog.
4.30pm, Courtney Caitlin travelling from Alabama, USA, will talk about how the Brontë novels inspired her to write a series of chamber music compositions. Courtney said she is ‘Absolutely delighted to have been invited to Kilkee, a watering hole Charlotte loved and adored and so excited to be part of this year’s festival’. The audience will get the opportunity to listen to recordings of Courtney’s exquisite compositions. There will also be a Q&A session following each talk.
To close the Kilkee Brontë Festival, Nigel West, a descendant of Charlotte Brontë’s Irish husband Arthur Bell Nicholls, will address the audience via Zoom from the recently opened Brontë Birthplace in Thornton, Bradford. As the Fundraising Officer on the Brontë Birthplace committee, Nigel will share the inspiring story of how a group of determined and committed people bought and renovated the house in Thornton where all four of the Brontë siblings: Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne were born. The house was recently officially opened to the public by Her Majesty Queen Camilla.
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