LOS GATOS - LISTOWEL WRITERS’ FESTIVAL OCTOBER 6th - 9th, 2016
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LETTERS OF THE LAW
THuRSdAy, OCTObER 6, TOWn CHAmbERS, 6Pm-8.30Pm A special Irish American Bar Association event with a literary and journalistic nod. Special guest speakers, Assistant U.S. Attorney Philip Kearney, and Irish investigative journalist and playwright, Frank Shouldice, will be introduced by Los Gatos Mayor, Barbara Spector. $35 includes reception. $15 suggested donation, event only 7pm-8.30pm.
JAmES duVAL PHELAn & VILLA mOnTALVO
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THuRSdAy, OCTObER 6, C.b. HAnnEGAn’S, 8Pm-9Pm $10 The story of James Phelan and the legacy of the Villa Montalvo Arts Center. Los Gatos Writer & Professor Emeritus of History James P. Walsh in Conversation with Tony Bucher, President of the Irish Literary and Historical Society. Walsh’s Legacy of a Native Son: James Duval Phelan & Villa Montalvo, was co-written with Professor Timothy J. O’Keefe. buLLETS OVER buSInESS
FRIdAy, OCTObER 7, TOWn HALL CHAmbERS, 3Pm-5Pm Richard Moran, is a noted Bay Area business leader, author and social scientist. He serves as President of Menlo College, and is credited with starting the genre of “Business Bullet Books.” Rich reads from his new book, The Thing About Work: Showing Up and Other Important Matters. Irish author and founder of writer platform and conference series FunnyBiz is special invited guest. $25 suggested donation
POETRy IRELAnd’S RISInG GEnERATIOn
FRIdAy, OCT. 7, FRIEndS OF THE LIbRARy, 5Pm-5.45Pm free A sign of the vigor of new Irish poetry, Poetry Ireland’s ‘The Rising Generation’ is dedicated entirely to the work of poets who have published their first pamphlets and books in the last five years. Jane Clarke is an award-winning contributor, and she will be joined by Irish poet Caroline Bracken for a reading. free JOHn FORd’S TRAGICOmEdy
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FRIdAy, OCT. 7, AduLT RECREATIOn CEnTER, 8-10Pm It has been suggested that John Ford’s most Irish film is his adaptation of Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath. Joseph McBride, author of books on Ford and professor of Cinema at SF State, explores the blend of comedy and tragedy in the films of the great Irish American director. Introduced and moderated by Ford aficionado Tom McEnery. $25 suggested donation
IRISH ARTISTS On VIEW - FRIdAy-SundAy, GALLERy 24
Meet the Artist Sunday, October 9, 4pm. Bridget Ryan is inspired by her native Connemara landscape, and Irish and American poets. Meet the Artist Sunday Oct. 9, 1.30pm. Emer Martin addresses the tensions between Lucia Joyce and her famous father. free
IRISH In “LOST GATOS” TOuR & bRunCH
SATuRdAy, OCTObER 8, 9.30Am-12Pm $25 Discover the fascinating history that has shaped Los Gatos over the past two centuries. Alan Feinberg, Sandy Decker and Peggy Conaway conduct a special festival tour where you’ll hear remarkable stories about some Irish and Scottish settlers. The tour concludes with an Irish brunch. Tour starts at the corner of Main St. and Santa Cruz Ave, ends at C.B.Hannegan’s. SATuRdAy POETRy REAdInGS
11:30-12.15Pm FRIEndS OF LIbRARy free Former Los Gatos Poet Laureate Erica Goss reads from some of her recent work. Erica also leads a Youth Poetry workshop at 1pm at the Youth Recreation Center. 12Pm-12.45Pm VILLAGE HOuSE OF bOOKS free Dubliner and Bay Area resident Sara Berkeley reads from her new collection of poetry, 'What Just Happened'. THE LEGEndS OF LISTOWEL
SATuRdAy, OCT. 8, LOS GATOS LIbRARy, 12.30Pm-1.15Pm Listowel in Co. Kerry, Ireland, is the birthplace of many of Ireland’s most prominent writers, past and present, including Dr. John B. Keane, Dr Bryan Mac Mahon, and Professor Brendan Kennelly. Listen to stories, and watch archive footage of famous writers at festivals past. Presented by Listowel Director Sean Lyons, and Jimmy Deenihan, Irish Parliament Minister 2011-14. free STAGInG InTERCuLTuRAL IRELAnd, mATT SPAnGLER
SATuRdAy OCT. 8, FRIEndS OF LIbRARy, 1Pm - 1.50Pm free Matthew Spangler, playwright, director, and professor of performance studies at SJSU. This collection features plays and interviews with migrant and Irish-born theater artists who are producing work at the intersection of interculturalism and inward-migration in Ireland during these first decades of the early twenty-first century. Q&A follows with Tony Bucher, President of Irish Literary and Historical Society. PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A LIFELOnG REAdER
SATuRdAy, OCTObER 8, LOS GATOS LIbRARy, 2Pm-3Pm free Join Ethel Rohan for a lively talk about her journey as a voracious reader throughout her Irish childhood and right up to the present day as an award-winning writer. “...Without stories, without books, we stay small and separate, like an acorn that never went to seed,” says Ethel. In-conversation with Irish writer Mary Rose Doorly. SATuRdAy, OCTObER 8th - CHILdREn’S EVEnTS
Los Gatos Library, 12-1pm Emer Martin launches children’s book, Pooka, a modern take on an ancient Irish folktale. youth Rec Center, 1pm A reading of Kerry poet Gabriel Fitzmaurice’s children’s poems 1.30pm Free Irish dance classes to 3pm, followed by children’s storytelling session to 4pm. free
LOS GATOS-LISTOWEL WRITERS’ FESTIVAL VEnuES 1. Los Gatos Library
2. Friends of Library/NUMU 3. LG Town Chambers
4. LGS Youth Rec Center 5. LGS Adult Rec Center 6. Hotel Los Gatos
7. Village House Of Books
8. LG Coffee Roasting Co. 9. Carry Nations
10. Gallery 24
11. Black Watch
12. Rootstock Wine Bar 13. C.B. Hannegan's
14. Los Gatos Lodge
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 6
6.00Pm-8.30Pm: LETTERS OF THE LAW – LOS GATOS TOWn CHAmbERS $35*
8.00Pm-9.00Pm: JAmES duVAL PHELAn & VILLA mOnTALVO – C.b. HAnnEGAn’S $10
ART ExHIbIT OPEnS And COnTInuES THROuGH SundAy, OCTObER 9 - GALLERy 24 FRIDAY, OCTOBER 7
3.00Pm-5.00Pm: RICH mORAn, buLLETS OVER buSInESS – TOWn CHAmbERS $25
5.00Pm-5.45 Pm: JAnE CLARKE, POETRy IRELAnd – FRIEndS OF THE LIbRARy free
6.00Pm-9.00Pm: OPEnInG RECEPTIOn, PAT O’LAuGHLIn & COnTEST AWARdS – (numu) $100 8.00Pm-10.00Pm: JOHn FORd’S TRAGICOmEdy – AduLT RECREATIOn CEnTER $25 SATURDAY, OCTOBER 8
9.30Am-12.00Pm: “LOST GATOS” WALK & bRunCH – TOWn PLAzA - C.b. HAnnEGAn’S $25 11:30-12.15Pm: ERICA GOSS POETRy REAdInG – FRIEndS OF THE LIbRARy free
12.00Pm-1.00Pm: POOKA CHILdREn’S bOOK LAunCH, LOS GATOS LIbRARy free
12.00Pm-12:45Pm: POETRy REAdInG, SARA bERKELEy – VILLAGE HOuSE OF bOOKS free 12.30Pm-1.15Pm: LEGEndS OF LISTOWEL PRESEnTATIOn – LOS GATOS LIbRARy free 1.00Pm-1.30Pm: WORdS, SILLy & SERIOuS – yOuTH RECREATIOn CEnTER free
1.30Pm-2.30Pm: IRISH dAnCE LESSOnS, PATRICIA KEnnELLy – yOuTH REC. CEnTER free
1.00Pm-1.50Pm: mATT SPAnGLER, InTERCuLTuRAL IRELAnd – FRIEndS OF LIbRARy free
2.00Pm-3.00Pm: In COnVERSATIOn WITH ETHEL ROHAn – LOS GATOS mAIn LIbRARy free
2.00Pm-2:50Pm: dAVId bRundAGE, IRISH nATIOnALISTS – FRIEndS OF THE LIbRARy free
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HAndS On WORKSHOPS
mEmOIR WRITInG WITH HuGO HAmILTOn OCTOBER 8&9, 9.30AM-12PM $175 ART WORKSHOP WITH bRIdGET RyAn OCTOBER 8, 10AM-4PM NUMU $100
yOuTH POETRy WORKSHOP WITH ERICA GOSS OCTOBER 8, 1PM-3PM $20
AduLT POETRy WORKSHOP, JAnE CLARKE OCTOBER 8, 12.30PM-3PM $100
InTEGRATInG ART, WRITInG, And TECHnOLOGy WORKSHOP OCT. 8, 2PM free
REGISTER OnLInE
SuRVIVOR STORIES WRITInG WORKSHOP OCT 8, 3PM-6PM $75
A TO z OF THE FIRST TWO PAGES - FICTIOn WORKSHOP OCT. 9, 12.30PM free CRImE FICTIOn WRITInG WITH CLAIRE mCGOWAn OCT. 9, 12–3PM $100
3.00Pm-3:50Pm: JOSEPH mcbRIdE, THE bROKEn PLACES – FRIEndS OF THE LIbRARy free 3.00Pm-4.00Pm: ROSE dOyLE, HEROES OF JAdOTVILLE – LOS GATOS mAIn LIbRARy free 4.30Pm-6:00Pm: HuGO HAmILTOn, REAdInG And Q&A – HOTEL LOS GATOS $20 6.30Pm-8:00Pm: WOmEn In IRISH CRImE FICTIOn – HOTEL LOS GATOS $20
8.30Pm-10:00Pm: mIKE mCCORmACK REAdInG And Q&A – HOTEL LOS GATOS $20 SUNDAY, OCTOBER 9
10.00Am -10.50Am: ETHEL ROHAn REAdInG – VILLAGE HOuSE OF bOOKS free
11.00Am-11.45Am: A TRIbuTE TO dERmOT HEALy, VILLAGE HOuSE OF bOOKS free 11.00Am-1.30Pm: POETRy, SCIEnCE And EnVIROnmEnT $15
12.30Pm-1.20Pm: GRAndPA THE SnIPER, FRAnK SHOuLdICE – LOS GATOS LIbRARy free
1.00Pm-3.00Pm: IRISH AmERICAn CROSSROAdS WRITERS’ SALOn, C.b. HAnnEGAn’S free
1.30Pm-2.30Pm: EmER mARTIn In COnVERSATIOn W/ CATHERInE FLynn – GALLERy 24 free 1.30Pm-4:00Pm: 1916 dISCuSSIOn, TERRIbLE bEAuTy SCREEnInG, AduLT REC. $15 1.45Pm-2.45Pm: bREAKInG InTO SCREEnWRITInG – TOWn CHAmbERS $15
3:00Pm-4:00Pm: TRAmP PRESS & mIKE mcCORmACK – LOS GATOS LIbRARy free 3.00Pm-4.15Pm: A KITCHEn STORy, by dAn mcFAddEn – TOWn CHAmbERS $15
3.00Pm–5.00Pm: FLASH FICTIOn CRAWL, COFFEE ROASTERy TO C.b. HAnnEGAn’S free 4.00Pm–5.00Pm: mEET THE ARTIST, bRIdGET RyAn – GALLERy 24 free
4.30Pm–5.45Pm: CRImE WRITERS: dETECTIVES AS muSE - TOWn CHAmbERS free
6.00Pm–10.00Pm: TRIbuTE TO FLAnn O’bRIEn $10, 8.30Pm uP CLOSE WITH bILLy KEAnE
dAVId bRundAGE • REAdInG & SIGnInG
SATuRdAy, OCT. 8, FRIEndS OF THE LIbRARy-2Pm-2.50Pm free UCSC Professor David Brundage gives us a full-scale history of Irish nationalists in the US. Beginning with the exile of Wolfe Tone, founder of Irish republican nationalism in 1798, and concluding with the role of Bill Clinton’s White House in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement in N. Ireland, it’s a story of more than two hundred years of activism. Local historian Elizabeth Creely conducts a Q&A. THE bROKEn PLACES: A mEmOIR • JOSEPH mcbRIdE
SATuRdAy, OCTObER 8, FRIEndS OF THE LIbRARy, 3Pm free American cultural historian and SF State University professor Joseph McBride recalls his troubled youth in the Midwest during the 1960s. The author’s memoir of his breakdown as a teenager - he was committed to the Milwaukee County Mental Health Center for four months - and triumphant recovery gives an unsparing look at abuse, family dysfunction, sexual repression, and Catholic guilt.
ROSE dOyLE • HEROES OF JAdOTVILLE
SATuRdAy, OCTObER 8, LOS GATOS LIbRARy, 3Pm free In 1961, during the UN intervention in the Katangan conflict in the Congo, Irish peacekeeping troops were forced to surrender and were isolated without support when they were attacked and forced into a brutal five-day battle. In Heroes of Jadotville: The Soldiers’ Story, Rose Doyle blows the lid on the real story of what happened in Africa. Netflix releases an original film of this story, starring Jamie Dornan. HuGO HAmILTOn, REAdInG & In-COnVERSATIOn
SATuRdAy, OCT. 8, HOTEL LOS GATOS, 4.30Pm- 6Pm $20 Considered one of the most original memoirs to emerge in Ireland, Hugo Hamilton’s The Speckled People is an account of growing up in Ireland with a German mother and a militant Irish nationalist father. Hugo will read from his acclaimed memoir as well as latest works. German-American poet Erica Goss opens with a reading, and Irish Times contributor, Elgy Gillespie, conducts a post-reading Q&A.
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nEW WAVE OF WOmEn In IRISH CRImE FICTIOn
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SATuRdAy, OCTObER 8, HOTEL LOS GATOS, 6:30-8Pm $20 More Irish women are joining the ranks of established crime fiction greats. Three award-winning writers - Louise Phillips, Niamh O’Connor, Claire McGowan - discuss Irish women writing crime, and the new anthology, Trouble Is Our Business, with moderator Margie O’Driscoll. Their stories have a distinctive Irish flavor and show that Irish crime writing is now playing in international leagues. mIKE mcCORmACK • REAdInG SOLAR bOnES
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SATuRdAy, OCTObER 8, HOTEL LOS GATOS, 8.30-10Pm $20 One of Ireland’s most important contemporary novelists reads from his highly acclaimed Solar Bones. Funny and strange, McCormack’s ambitious and other-worldly novel plays with form and defies convention. A beautiful elegy, this story of order and chaos, love and loss captures how minor decisions can ripple into waves. A Q&A session with Anna Livia Books’ Conor Howard will follow reading.
THE WEIGHT OF HIm, ETHEL ROHAn
SundAy, OCT. 9, VILLAGE HOuSE OF bOOKS, 10Am - 10.50Am Ethel reads from two short stories collections, “Cut Through the Bone” and “Goodnight Nobody,” and from her upcoming novel, The Weight of Him - the story of Billy Brennan, who at four hundred pounds, can always count on food to make everything better, until the day his beloved son takes his life. Advance sales available. free TRIbuTE TO dERmOT HEALy - CAROLInE bRACKEn
SundAy OCT. 9, VILLAGE HOuSE OF bOOKS, 11Am - 11.45Am The late novelist and playwright Dermot Healy is described as a “Celtic Hemingway” and “Ireland’s finest living novelist”. Often overlooked outside Ireland, Healy’s work is much admired by his Irish literary peers. Poet and playwright Caroline Bracken reads from new release Writing the Sky: Observations and Essays on Dermot Healy. SCIEnCE, POETRy...And THE EnVIROnmEnT!
SundAy, OCTObER 9, TOWn CHAmbERS 11Am-1.30Pm free 11AM-12PM: Historian/Essayist Elizabeth Creely will read from "The Ridgeway's Rail and the Second Saving of the SF Bay"- the future and fate of the bay's tidal marshes at a time of rising ocean levels. 12.30PM-1.30PM Are science and poetry at odds with one another? Poet and scientist Pireeni Sundaralingam, and Irish poet Jane Clarke explore the nature of interactions between the two. sugg. donation $15
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GRAndPA THE SnIPER, FRAnK SHOuLdICE
SundAy, OCT. 9, LOS GATOS LIbRARy, 12.30Pm - 1.20Pm free Frank Shouldice is an Irish writer, director, journalist and playwright. In Grandpa the Sniper he draws on prison letters, personal diaries, and secret military and police files, to retrace a remarkable journey by his grandfather, a reluctant hero. Extensively researched and written, the book is a fascinating trawl through a very personal history. STORIES FROm 1916 & SCREEnInG OF ‘A TERRIbLE bEAuTy’
SundAy, OCT. 9, AduLT REC. CEnTER, 1.30Pm-4Pm Stories from 1916 is a “living history” project, a digital portal of stories of the participants and living relatives of those involved in the Irish Easter Rising 1916. A discussion with Jimmy Deenihan and filmmakers Dave and Colin Farrell will be followed by a screening of ‘A Terrible Beauty,’ a docudrama about the men and women of the conflict. $15 suggested donation
WRITInG In PICTuRES: bREAKInG InTO SCREEnWRITInG
SundAy, OCT. 9, TOWn CHAmbERS, 1.45Pm - 2.45Pm SF State Cinema Professor Joseph McBride will discuss the basic elements of the screenwriting craft and how an aspiring writer can break into that field. McBride is the author of Writing in Pictures: Screenwriting Made (Mostly) Painless. His screenwriting credits include the cult classic punk rock musical Rock ‘n’ Roll High School. $15 suggested donation
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SundAy IRISH AmERICAn CROSSROAdS SALOn 1Pm-3Pm Irish-American Crossroads’ regular Salons create a space for writers and artists who are interested in exploring Irish-American themes to gather and experience each other’s work and share ideas. All invited to join this lively Crossroads Salon at C.B. Hannegan’s. free SundAy FLASH FICTIOn FORum CRAWL 3Pm-5Pm Join the forum crawl to declaim short fiction and performances, both Irish-related and not, throughout town. The Flash Fiction Forum is a San Jose reading series group. Crawl starts at Coffee Roastery and winds up at C.B. Hannegan’s. free
dAn mcFAddEn “A KITCHEn TAbLE” nARRATIVE
SundAy, OCT. 9, TOWn HALL CHAmbERS, 3Pm-4.15Pm Santa Cruz-based artist and writer Dan McFadden’s “Oh Come Ye Back” is a narrative on growing up Irish Catholic in Pittsburgh, and focuses on Dan’s relationship with his father, and with the Catholic Church. The one-hour presentation piece on race, ethnic conflict, and family is illustrated with spot drawings by Zephyr Pfotenhauer. suggested donation $15
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SundAy, OCTObER 9, LOS GATOS LIbRARy, 3Pm - 4Pm free Tramp Press is an independent Irish publisher that strives to bring the best of new and established authors to readers all over the world, as well as reissuing out-of-print titles. Join founders Sarah Davis-Goff and Lisa Coen, who in just three years have discovered diverse award-winning authors, and published brilliant, experimental novels such as Mike McCormack’s critically acclaimed Solar Bones. dETECTIVE AS muSE – CRImE ACROSS THE mILES
Sun. OCT. 9, TOWn HALL CHAmbERS, 4.30Pm-5.45Pm Dublin writer Louise Phillips and Bay Area crime novelist Cara Black will be joined by Irish detective Tom Doyle, and SFPD Crime Scene Investigator Ronan Shouldice, for a panel discussion on writing about crime, the real versus the fictionalized, detective as muse, and covering crime both sides of the Atlantic. suggested donation $15
A bAy AREA TRIbuTE TO FLAnn O’bRIEn
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SundAy, OCTObER 9, C.b. HAnnEGAn’S, 6Pm-7.45Pm Join the Bay Area Flanneurs for an homage to one of Ireland’s most neglected literary lions. Flann O’Brien was a novelist, playwright and columnist of singular distinction. Prepare to be regaled by the words of a humourist and satirist of Swiftian proportion as Conor Howard, Colm Ó Riain & Friends romp through the Myles catalogue. $10 uP CLOSE And PERSOnAL WITH bILLy KEAnE
SundAy OCT. 9, CLOSInG nIGHT AT HAnnEGAn’S, 8:30Pm An evening with Billy Keane, son of playwright John B. Keane. “I know it sounds corny but I feel I don’t walk in my father’s footsteps- rather, he walks beside me, and his wisdom is always there,” says Billy, who reflects on John B, and life in Listowel, and is joined by Writers’ Week directors Seán Lyons and Máire Logue. $15
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