The Hopkins Literary Festival July 19 - 25th, 2024
Newbridge College Theatre (since 1987, last week of July)
'A bright gem in the literary world'. Patrick Samway SJ
A week-long celebration of Victorian poet, Gerard Manley Hopkins, his poetry and his time in Ireland. Enjoy poetry,literary discussions, workshops, field-trips finishing each day with our famous Festival Club for relaxation and friendship.
Highlights:
Celebrity Festival Concert with Swedish Pianist, Hans Pålsson
Hans Pålsson will play Mozart: Piano Concerto in A Major (KV331); Schubert: Four Impromptus (D 899); Beethoven : Bagatelle ‘Fur Elise’, version 1 and recently found version 2, finishing with Piano Sonata, op 53, ‘Waldstein’
Hans Pålsson Celebrity Concert
Visual Arts: ‘the last of the Surrealists’, Desmond Morris.
Desmond Morris, ZooTime, The Naked Ape, last of the Surrealists
Better known from his ten years presenting Zootime on BBC TV, and even more so from the amazing success of his book ‘The Naked Ape’ (20 million copies sold worldwide), Morris is also a surrealist painter of note: his first exhibition was in 1948 and he still paints regularly.
Abandon the control of reason and favour what seemed to the Surrealists the only worthwhile artistic impulse: a world of pure, unmoored, imagination, of swirling shapes and colours that defied rational explanation and even flew in the face of it.
Read more about Desmond Morris and the Surrealists
The Hopkins Youth Festival July 2024
- an annual event organized for 5th Year students interested in literature, writing or the arts in general. Students are welcome from all over Kildare- as well as Dublin, Laois, Offaly and Carlow.
Newbridge College, 20th to Thursday 25th, 10 am til 4 pm daily (except Sunday).
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Visit The Hopkins Archive (started 1987)
