Mark Roper was born in England in 1951, and moved to Ireland in 1980.
His poetry collections include The Hen Ark (Cornwall, UK, Peterloo Poets,1999), which won the 1992 Aldeburgh Prize for best first collection; Catching The Light (Peterloo Poets, 1997), The Home Fire (Belfast, The Abbey Press, 1998); Whereabouts (The Abbey Press/Peterloo Poets, 2005); and Even So. New and Selected Poems (Dublin, The Dedalus Press, 2008).
He was Editor of Poetry Ireland Review for 1999.
Marks' most recent work is "Evenso: New, Selected Poems".
The reading takes place on Thursday 29th of April at 7pm in the library. For more information call the Information Desk on 01-8905563.
Admission is free.
Artistic License will be in attendance at the reading so feel free to say hello to the team.
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Mack & Mabel the Musical stage by Coolmine Musical Society will run from the 27th of April to May 1st at 8PM in the Draiocht's Main Auditorium // €20 / €16 conc
Mack & Mabel is a musical with a book by Michael Stewart and music and lyrics by Jerry Herman.
The plot has as its origin the tumultuous relationship between Hollywood director Mack Sennett and Mabel Normand (transformed from an artist's model to a waitress from Flatbush, Brooklyn for the musical), who became one of his biggest stars. In a series of flashbacks, Sennett relates the glory days of Keystone Studios from 1911, when he discovered Normand and cast her in dozens of his early "two-reelers", through his invention of Sennett's Bathing Beauties and the Keystone Cops to Mabel's death from tuberculosis in 1930.
Coolmine Musical Society is a local musical society located in the Blanchardstown/Castleknock district. It’s been a heady journey for CMS from our humble beginnings as a Choral group in the 1978 to a fully-fledged Musical Society. They have staged shows at various venues around the neighbourhood. Their members have featured on RTE, including the “Late, Late Show” and numerous “Theatre Nights” (on RTE Radio), as well as concerts with AIMS at the National Concert Hall.
In March 2001 Coolmine Musical Society were the first company to perform in the Auditorium of the new Draíocht Centre for the Arts beside Blanchardstown Centre. Treading the boards of Draíocht was a dream come true for the Society.
The performance of Mack & Mabel continues the proud tradition.
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Lying in State stage by Classic Revival and directed by Pegeen Coleman runs from MON 3 - SAT 8 MAY 2010 at 8.15PM in the Draíocht Studio // €16 / €12 conc
When a state senator unexpectedly dies in the middle of his re-election campaign, his family and friends gather to pay their respects ... including his secret fiancée, a former erotic dancer, who arrives to claim his seat. Before long the body is misplaced, the public is rallying to vote for the late senator, the president is coming to the funeral, and a crazy group of political advisers is scheming to get their candidate re-elected. Join the Classic Revival cast as they present the Irish premiere of this hilarious American comedy, written by David C. Hyer.
Pegeen Coleman has been directing theatre in Ireland for many decades!Having played Buttons in the Morning Star Theatre when she was 9 she became hooked on theatre and so continued all through school years and after.
She played in many musicals where the acting was more important than the singing and where singing was more important she did prompting, props, costumes etc., and eventually turned towards Directing which she loves,loves,loves.
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The Five Lamps Arts Festival, an initiative of Marino College of Further Education, started the 22nd April 2010 and runs until the ist of May. This festival, which is in its third year, is run by volunteers who want to promote the arts in this area of the city. It is supported by Dublin City Council’s Arts Office and Marino College of Further Education CDVEC.
This year some of the highlights will be a debut recital by up and coming opera singer Cliona Cassidy; a lunchtime opera concert from The PreMadonnas; Maruczella a mime play from Poland by Nikoli Veprev; The Dublin Lyric Players perform Within the Gates by Sean O’Casey and Pull Down a Horseman by Eugene McCabe. All of the above will be performed in Liberty Hall Theatre. Landscape, a visual art exhibition and a second art exhibition by members of the Blackchurch Print Studio, will be mounted in the D-light studios. Stone soup by Puca Puppets and a double bill of Dracula and Grease by CRC in the Sean O’Casey Theatre East Wall and a Tea Dance with the Brian McCarthy Band in Connolly House, North Strand. There will be murals, music and mayhem in the community Arts sector and of course a lot of enjoyment. Many of the events will be free to the public.
BREAKING NEWS: The festival is sorry to have to announce the cancellation of the mime play Maruczella and the play Aisling and Pavel.
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