
(AGENPARL) – mar 04 febbraio 2025 ** To be or not to be… A Mother
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** Thursday, February 6th at 7.30pm
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Join us at the James Joyce Centre in association with Anna Livia Creative (https://www.annaliviacreative.com/?mc_cid=1f4ad757cb&mc_eid=UNIQID) for a performance by poet Jessica Traynor and spoken word artist Nicole Rourke this Thursday, February 6th at 7.30pm. They will dig deep into the worlds of Motherhood/Non-Motherhood to explore the choices we (& the body) make, and the emotional and physical landscapes we navigate based on these choices.
Doors open at 7pm. Tickets are €20. The performance will be followed by a Q&A and drink reception.
Nicole Rourke has been part of the Irish theatre and spoken word arena for more than three decades. She has featured with many theatre companies including Theatreworks, Storytellers, Yew Tree and Tmu-Na; and her international appearances include those at the London and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals, Glasgow International, Craw Festival Berlin, Singapore Arts Festival, and Konfrontacje Teatraine Poland. Rourke’s one-woman play, Baggage, was a smash hit at the SoloSIRENS festival in Dublin in 2019. She is co-director of Anna Livia Creative (https://www.annaliviacreative.com/?mc_cid=1f4ad757cb&mc_eid=UNIQID) .
Jessica Traynor is the author of three critically acclaimed books of poetry. Her latest collection, Pit Lullabies (https://www.bloodaxebooks.com/ecs/product/pit-lullabies-1293?mc_cid=1f4ad757cb&mc_eid=UNIQID), (Bloodaxe Books, 2022), is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. She is the 2023 recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award and is the 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence at Galway University, and a Creative Fellow of UCD. She is poetry editor at Banshee Press (https://www.bansheelit.com/?mc_cid=1f4ad757cb&mc_eid=UNIQID) .
‘Jessica Traynor [is] capable of creating canonical work which draws on a contemporary re-thinking of poetic traditions while finding a voice that is wholly her own.’ – Poetry Ireland Review
‘An absolute force of nature. Engaging, hilarious and fabulous….Nicole Rourke is a goddamn sparkling GENIUS’ – SoloSirens Festival Review
Get Tickets (https://www.annaliviacreative.com/event-details/to-be-or-not-to-be-a-mother?mc_cid=1f4ad757cb&mc_eid=UNIQID)
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