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National Public Libraries Open Day Saturday 28 September 2024
National Public Libraries Open Day promotes the role of public libraries in Irish society and raises awareness of the broad range of services they provide. The Day is taking place Saturday, 28th September, with 300+ libraries across Ireland marking it through activities, events and celebrations.
dlr Cuairt agus Cultúr Call-Out to Residential Nursing Homes and Day Care Centres
Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown (dlr) County Council’s ‘Cuairt agus Cultúr’ programme is an annual arts and wellbeing programme where artists and wellbeing practitioners visit and carry out workshops and projects in residential nursing homes and day care centres in Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown.
The programme is fully funded and organised by dlr County Council Arts, Libraries and Age-Friendly Programme with additional support funding from the Arts and Health Partnership Programme (funded by the HSE).
Autumn 2024 Creative Brainwaves Talks & Workshops on the Creative Arts Improving Brain Health
Creative Brainwaves returns for a third series of talks and workshops, exploring how our engagement in various creative arts can benefit our brain health. The sessions include brain health specialists, therapists, people living with and working with those affected by acquired brain injury, and a range of artists, musicians and writers. This series is curated and facilitated by Mike Hanrahan, Global Atlantic Fellow for Equity in Brain Health at Global Brain Health Institute (GBHI), Trinity College Dublin.
Fadó Fadó Storytelling Festival - Féile Scéalaíochta
Join dlr Libraries this October 2024 for the third year of our annual storytelling festival, delivering a range of professional Irish and international storytellers for families, adults and schoolchildren to enjoy. Invited storytellers include Fiona Dowling, Baden Prince Junior, Masako Carey, Steve Lally, Senem Donaten Mohan and Pádraig Ó Briain.
Celebrating Eavan Boland - Dundrum Library
On September 21 2024, to mark what would have been the 80th Birthday of renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland, dlr Libraries was delighted to host this event that will feature her poetry, readings by her friends and family plus some music.
The late poet lived in Dundrum in South County Dublin, worked a lot with writing groups in the area, and was prominent in the cultural life of the county of Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown, in addition to being feted nationally and internationally.
Celebrarting Eavan Boland DLR LexIcon
On September 28 2024, to mark what would have been the 80th Birthday of renowned Irish poet Eavan Boland, dlr Libraries was delighted to host this event to celebrate the life and work of the much-loved and much-missed poet who died in April 2020. The event featured the poetry of Eavan, readings by her friends and family plus some music. Readers included members of the WEB writing group, established following a series of workshops for women writers facilitated by Eavan for Arlen House in the 1980s. The group continues to meet monthly, and dlr Libraries are delighted to be able to support them through this event and other initiatives.
Jacqueline Wilson in conversation with Aoife Barry
On September 26 2024, dlr LexIcon welcomed legendary and bestselling author Jacqueline Wilson to talk about her first adult book, Think Again, in conversation with Aoife Barry.
Migrants: An exhibition of work by artist Issa Watanabe
Launch: Wed 4 December, 6.00pm
All welcome
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Presented by the Peruvian Embassy in Ireland, this exhibition highlights the work of Issa Watanabe, one of the most recognised Latin American illustrators in recent years. Her book Migrants, published in Spain and in 18 countries, has received important distinctions, such as the Libreter Award (Barcelona, 2020) and the Gran Premio BIBF Ananas (Beijing, 2021). The artist's journey has a strong self-taught element: she began studying Literature at the Pontifical Catholic University of Peru, later resided in Mallorca, where she
The Forest of Wool and Steel
This beautiful and gentle novel chronicles the life of a young Japanese man, Tomura, who discovers the joy of sound and music through his training and work as a Piano Tuner. It is a story for the senses, bringing the reader on a sensory experience through the world of musical sound. It also explores the theme of finding one’s vocation in life and pursing that passion through the various challenges and obstacles along the way.
We are first introduced to Tomura as a seventeen-year-old in high school, where one day, he is asked to direct a Piano Tuner to the piano in the school gymnasium. He has