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EDITION #22
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2016
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In Brief
NEW BOOK ON HISTORY OF ORANGEFIELD SECONDARY
C.S LEWIS FESTIVAL TO CELEBRATE ‘JACK’S’ LEGACY From 18 – 22 November EastSide Arts will mark the impact of this literary great by celebrating his life and work through the C.S. Lewis Festival.
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rguably one of the most influential writers and thinkers of his day, C.S. Lewis (or Jack to his friends and family) was not only born and bred in East Belfast but his influence and legacy is still very much alive across the EastSide today. Now in its fourth year, the Festival will showcase Lewis’ diverse works, his legacy as well as his strong connections to his childhood home of East Belfast. Through a series of events and activities including talks, film, theatre, arts, crafts, readings, music, workshops, exhibitions, tours, children’s activities and spoken word events - everyone is invited to be inspired and walk in the footsteps of Jack. Highlights of this year’s
festival include a new story inspired by the character Jadis, aka the evil White Witch from ‘The Chronicles of Narnia’. Join well-known Belfast actress Maria Connolly and musician Ursula Burns at the Linen Hall Library for a unique staged reading of this new work. Local artists will also reveal how C.S. Lewis inspires their work. Spend an evening with Fiona Lowe Brunell at ArtisAnn Gallery and hear how Lewis and other Irish writers inspired her work. Through photography, sculpture, painting, fashion and video, the skating group ‘Joyalists’ reveal their Lewis connection at Framewerk Gallery. Join a host of East Belfast writers, musicians and poets at EastSide Visitor Centre as
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YOUNG RYAN PETERS (8) FROM CARRICKFERGUS, WARILY ACCEPTS TURKISH DELIGHT FROM THE WHITE WITCH, JADIS, AKA MARIA CONNOLLY. PICTURE BY BRIAN MORRISON
they explore the work and legacy of C.S Lewis. Fantasy was a theme in Lewis’ work and with this in mind, don’t miss out on a range of fantasy film screenings in Northern Ireland’s only art deco cinema – Strand Arts Centre. Celebrate another literary great, Roald Dahl by enjoying his ‘Tales of the Unexpected’ with a twist at Canteen, Belmont Road. Closing the festival this year will be a fantastic Connswater Community Greenway event to officially open the C.S. Lewis Square, located behind the EastSide Visitor
Centre, and to unveil seven magnificent Narnia inspired statues. Through performance, talks and workshops, the Festival will explore the spiritual side of C.S. Lewis and other artists, including; Faith and Fiction workshop with Jan Carson at Strand Church which will focus on the role of parable and allegory in writing as well as help you to develop your own work. Well known personality Nuala McKeever will lead a creative writing workshop, Surprised by Loss, at Strand... (Cont p10)
For full programme details and to book visit www.eastsidearts.net. Also follow the Festival on Facebook /CSLewisFestival & Twitter @CSLewisFest #CSLFest16.
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Orangefield Remembered: A school in Belfast describes the fortunes of an East Belfast secondary intermediate school which opened in September 1957 in Cameronian Drive, Castlereagh, on land which had been part of the Blackiston Houston estate. This commemorative volume comprises memoirs of past pupils and former members of staff as well as photographs of sport, drama, music, art, journalism, outdoor pursuits and afterschool activities. Pupil and teacher memoirs pay tribute to John Malone, Orangefield’s first headmaster, a pioneering educationist who set out to create a learning experience which would challenge many of the orthodoxies of schooling in the 1950s.
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