Cultural Events - Cultural Development - University of Ulster
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[LITERATURE] [LITERATURE] [LITERATURE]<br />
Friday 23rd February<br />
8.00pm, Ballymoney Town Hall<br />
Readings by<br />
Colin Bateman<br />
and John Connolly<br />
Join two <strong>of</strong> Ireland’s best-selling<br />
authors reading from their<br />
latest work.<br />
Colin Bateman is a best selling novelist and<br />
screenwriter who came to international<br />
prominence with the publication <strong>of</strong> Divorcing<br />
Jack in 1995. Since then, he has written thirteen<br />
best selling novels, including Empire State,<br />
Turbulent Priests and Driving Big Davie. He<br />
created and wrote the hit BBC1 series Murphy's<br />
Law starring James Nesbitt and has also produced<br />
a series <strong>of</strong> Murphy's Law novels.<br />
John Connolly began his writing career as a<br />
freelance journalist for The Irish Times, to which<br />
he continues to contribute. His first novel,<br />
Every Dead Thing, was published in 1999 and<br />
introduced the character <strong>of</strong> Charlie Parker, a<br />
former policeman hunting the killer <strong>of</strong> his wife<br />
and daughter. Other books in the Charlie Parker<br />
series are Dark Hollow, The Killing Kind, The<br />
White Road and The Black Angel. John will read<br />
from The Unquiet, the latest novel in the Parker<br />
series, due to be published in April 2007.<br />
Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00<br />
Information: <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Development</strong> Office<br />
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449<br />
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk<br />
Saturday 24th February<br />
10.00am - 12.30pm, Room L116, Coleraine campus<br />
Filling The<br />
White Page<br />
A Creative Writing<br />
Workshop with Kate<br />
Newmann<br />
This workshop will focus<br />
on a practical approach<br />
to writing poetry. It will<br />
explore what can be achieved in a very short<br />
time, and the approaches that participants<br />
can take away from the workshop to develop<br />
their own writing. Kate says “The workshop<br />
welcomes everyone, people who are writing<br />
and those who are only thinking <strong>of</strong> writing,<br />
because in the final analysis all <strong>of</strong> us have<br />
something important to say which no one else<br />
can say on our behalf.” Kate Newmann has<br />
published the Dictionary <strong>of</strong> <strong>Ulster</strong> Biography,<br />
a collection <strong>of</strong> poetry, The Blind Woman in the<br />
Blue House and a CD, How Well Did<br />
You Love?<br />
Presented in association with the <strong>University</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> <strong>Ulster</strong> Alumni Association.<br />
Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00.<br />
Advance booking required (Max 15 participants)<br />
Information: <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Development</strong> Office<br />
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449<br />
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk<br />
Saturday 24th February<br />
1.30pm, Room H215, Coleraine campus<br />
A Lunchtime Reading<br />
with Kate Newmann<br />
Musical accompaniment by Bill Campbell<br />
Kate Newmann will read from her collection<br />
The Blind Woman in the Blue House and the<br />
CD How Well Did You Love? as well as some<br />
new poems. Adding a musical element will be<br />
guitarist and composer Bill Campbell, who<br />
will perform his settings to some <strong>of</strong> the poems<br />
and also a piece for solo guitar.<br />
Bill Campbell studied music at the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ulster</strong> and also under Sir Peter Maxwell Davies.<br />
He has produced a CD, Reed Bed, with the poet<br />
Dermot Healy and the new music ensemble<br />
Concorde. In 2005 his Violin Concerto, Swim,<br />
was premièred by violinist Darragh Morgan with<br />
the <strong>Ulster</strong> Orchestra.<br />
Presented in association with the <strong>University</strong> <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Ulster</strong> Alumni Association.<br />
Admission: £5.00/conc. & students £3.00<br />
Information: <strong>Cultural</strong> <strong>Development</strong> Office<br />
at the Coleraine campus on (028) 7032 4449<br />
or j.mackle@ulster.ac.uk<br />
Cutural <strong>Events</strong> SPRING 2007