Come to the centre on Thursday, 10 November from 8pm to 11pm for a fun evening to benefit Fighting Words!
There will be plenty of fun and niblets on the night. Both Lost In Transition and the brand new Fighting Words Annual 2011 (a collection of primary school stories written at FW will be on sale as well as a raffle and other prizes, right down to the ones you would rather not have.
During the mid-term break, 7-9 year olds and 9-11 year olds come into Fighting Words to participate in ‘Playing with Poetry’ workshops.
Write Club members (13-17 year olds) write about their favourite books.
OTHER VOICES NYC: A CELEBRATION OF MUSIC & LITERATURE
Curated by GLEN HANSARD, THOMAS BARTLETT and PHILIP KING. Benefitting FIGHTING WORDS Creative Writing Centre
Venue: LE POISSON ROUGE, NEW YORK
Date: OCTOBER 27th & 28th, 2011
Word of Mouth follows a year in the life of the creative writing centre, Fighting Words, developed by the award winning Irish writer Roddy Doyle and the former director of Amnesty Ireland, Sean Love, which was inspired by 826 Valencia in San Francisco and is located in the heart of Dublin city.
The documentary was broadcast on RTÉ lyric fm on Friday 28th October 2011 at 7pm.
Fighting Words, together with SeeChange, Trinity Students’ Union and the Union of Students in Ireland broke the Guinness World Record for ‘The Most Number of People to Write a Story.’
953 people added a line to the story at Trinity College on October 26th 2011, breaking the previous record.
Creative Writing Workshops with Fighting Words for 7-12 years
Dates Tuesday 1st November 2:30-4:30PM & Wednesday 2nd November 11-1PM
We are delighted to welcome our friends at Fighting Words to The Ark this Halloween mid-term break for two days of free creative writing workshops as part of our Cosy Corner Programme.
€ 200,000 Awarded to Each of Three 2011 Social Entrepreneurs Ireland Winners
Seán Coughlan, Chief Executive of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, said that social entrepreneurs have developed solutions that tackle some of Ireland’s entrenched social problems.
Three awards were presented on 19th October at a ceremony in Dublin, one in the area of education, one in the area of sustainability and the other to encourage greater participation of women in politics.
Fighting Words, together with See Change , Trinity College Dublin Students’ Union and the Union of Students in Ireland are aiming to break the current Guinness World Record for the most people to write a story.
The aim is to receive 900 contributions to the story, over twelve hours.
Fighting Words volunteers will work with those contributing to the story, typing their work up on a projection screen as they go.
We are please to annouce two poetry workshops during the upcoming midterm break. Come to Fighting Words for a couple of hours of poetry fun!
Playing with Poetry for 7-9 Year Olds
Date: Thursday, 3 November, 2011
Time: 10am to 12 noon
Venue: Fighting Words
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