Event Details
Conflict Textiles curator Roberta Bacic at the Linen hall Library (Photo: Lauren Dempster) |
| Launch: | Our Lady of Words and Flora Poetica Donation |
| Description: | A reception on National Poetry Day to mark the donation of two textile pieces to The Linen Hall from the Conflict Textiles Collection: an arpillera celebrating Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral - Our Lady of Words by Linda Adams - and an embroidery on the work of poet Seamus Heaney entitled Flora Poetica by Marlene Milner.
Representatives from the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queen's University Belfast, from the Linen Hall, as well as Trustees from Conflict Textiles along with curator Roberta Bacic will be in attendance.
The donation will be marked by formal speeches and poetry readings from the work of Mistral and Heaney. Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American author to receive a Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. Seamus Heaney received, 50 years later, the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
This event will be filmed. |
| Commissioned by: | Linen Hall Library & Conflict Textiles |
| Date(s): | 3rd October 2024 - 3rd October 2024 |
| Venue: | Governors' Room, The Linen Hall
17 Donegall Square North, Belfast, BT1 5 GB |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic and Patsy Horton |
| Facilitator: | Patsy Horton |
| Outcome: | Our Lady of Words and Flora Poetica will be on display in the library throughout the month of October. Our Lady of Words will be on permanent display in the library thereafter.
A short film of the event will be made available on both websites. |
