Bantry / Sunday 7 – Saturday 13 July - West Cork Music

Monday 8 July14.30 / Maritime Hotel / €18MASTERS OF DECEPTIONThe Biographer’s Encounters with Myths, Lies, Beauty and Genius with NICHOLAS FOX WEBERNicholas Fox Weber has written biographies of courageous and extravagant art patrons (Patron Saints,The Clarks of Cooperstown), an architect of unequalled imagination (Le Corbusier: A Life), a twentiethcentury-master famous for his eroticism and self-mythologizing (Balthus), and some of the most brilliantmodern artists of the twentieth century (The Bauhaus Group). He will discuss the consuming search to getto know the inner lives of some of the greatest creative geniuses of the last century.Nicholas Fox Weber, who is American but has been at home in West Cork for over forty years, will alsotalk specifically about the importance of this part of the world to his writing on subjects ranging from aSwiss Nobleman to the architect who designed a new city for India.14.30 / Maritime Hotel / €10AMNESTY INTERNATIONALEXPLORING THE VOICES OF THE SILENCEDwith COLM O’GORMANColm O’Gorman will facilitate an exploration of the impact of discrimination and how literature exploresthe experience of marginalisation and voicelessness. Guest panellists and the audience will be encouragedto actively engage in exploring the concept of exclusion and discrimination.Colm O’Gorman is Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland. He previously worked as apsychotherapist, and was the founder of One In Four, the national non-governmental organisation thatsupports victims of sexual violence. Colm served as a member of Seanad Eireann and is also the author ofthe bestselling memoir, Beyond Belief.From top: Nicholas Fox Weber; Colm O’Gorman5