New Knitting Circle for Central Library
Waterford City Council Central Library, Lady Lane is getting crafty and needs your help. The library is looking for people who are interested in all aspects of knitting to come to the library to take part in a fortnightly knitting circle.
The circle is aimed at all levels, from beginners right up to experienced knitters and promises to be an exciting addition to the current varied programme of activities held within the library.
As well as providing a comfortable and friendly space for the circle to meet, Waterford City Council Central Library has in stock a wide range of interesting knitting and craft titles available for borrowing.
The next meetings of the Knitting Circle will take place on Wednesday 25th March at 6:30pm and on Thursday 26th March at 10:15am.
So if you think you might like to brush up on your skills, want to meet others with a love for knitting or best of all pass on some tips or ideas, why not come along to one of the meetings.
If you are interested you can call into us at the Waterford City Council Central Library, phone us on 051-849975 or send an email to lboyle@waterfordcity.ie for further details.
Waterford City Council Central Library, Lady Lane opens:
Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday from 10:00am to 5:30pm and on Wednesday and Friday from 10:00am to 8:00pm.
Seán Dunne Writers’ Festival 2009
The programme for the Seán Dunne Writers Festival 2009 is now available and this year’s festival features an exciting line up of poets, writers and journalists. Events range from a literary breakfast, comedy, poetry readings, workshops, sports writing debate to performance poetry with jazz. The festival runs from March 19th to the 21st and tickets are available from the Central Library, Lady Lane, Waterford, contact 051 849975.
Events on Thursday 19th March include readings by best selling novelists Paul Carson and Tara Heavey in Central and Ardkeen libraries . The Seán Dunne Young Writers Awards will be presented at the opening of the festival in City Hall where author Celine Kiernan will give a keynote speech. Following the opening Tramore Writers Group read from their work in the Tower Hotel and an Open Mic session follows .
Friday 20th provides opportunities to hear poetry from Conor O’Callaghan, Macdara Woods, Anthony Healy in Greyfriars Gallery ,and local poets Jim O’Donnell, Teri Flynn, and Anthony O’Neill in Central Library.
The sports writing debate in the Tower Hotel on Friday evening between Eamon Carr, Ulick O’Connor, Conor O’Callaghan, Declan Lynch chaired by WLR FM’s Matt Keane is an event not to be missed and the evening rounds off with a “stand up reading” session from comic and best selling author A.L. Kennedy, ( tickets are available from Central Library).
The Literary Breakfast on Saturday 21st gives the opportunity to hear Peter Cunningham and Ellen McCarthy, two of Waterford’s best selling authors, read from their new works while enjoying a full Irish breakfast in the Tower Hotel (tickets are available from Central Library).
Mid morning a celebration of Sean Dunne’s work takes place in Scoil Lorcain , St. Johns Park and also provides an opportunity to see the photographic exhibition created by local school children in conjunction with the festival.
Poetry and creative writing workshops given by Conor O'callaghan and A.L. Kennedy take place on Saturday afternoon in the Tower Hotel ((tickets are available from Central library 051 849975).
The latest crop of young Waterford writers read from their work at Waterford Youth Arts in the Arch in the afternoon. Other events on Saturday include talks in the Central Library from journalists Michael Kelly on sustainable living and Anthony Healy on the changes in journalism as we know it.
Poet Tom Paulin gives a rare reading of his work on Saturday evening and we finish off the festival with a lively performance poetry session from Eamon Carr and Raven accompanied on sax and guitar by Richie Buckley and Hugh Buckley (tickets are available from Central Library).
Tickets are available for all events from Central Library, Lady Lane, Waterford, phone 051 849975 and further details are on www.seandunne.ie.