Dublin Writers Festival 2010
1 June 2010 - 6 June 2010
Dublin Writers Festival has whole world of words in its hands
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International writers Antony Beevor, Hanif Kurieshi, Yann Martel and multi-award winning Ian McEwan will join Irish writers Jennifer Johnston, Joseph O'Connor, Tom Murphy, NWCI Director - Susan McKay and dozens more at this year's Dublin Writers Festival.
The 6-day literary Festival, now in its 12th year, features over 40 writers who will read from their most recent works and take part in curated conversations about their writing. Click here for the entire programme
Rounding off the jam-packed programme will be discussions on the new feminism, the 'tricky' second novel, a detailed exploration of Irish language travel literature and a multimedia bilingual event featuring poetry, song and projections.
Natasha Walter & Susan McKay event is on on the 5th June....
What message does our hypersexualised culture and its airbrushed version of femininity send out to women and young girls whose ambitions often stop at fame, glamour and endorsement by men? To what degree are we limiting their futures, and what actions can we, as a society, take to counter the slide?
In Living Dolls - written more than a decade after her seminal The New Feminism - broadcaster, writer and critic Natasha Walter asks how its watchwords - 'choice', 'empowerment' and 'liberation' - have become so distorted, and at what cost? Natasha Walter has worked as a reviewer, columnist and feature
writer at the Independent, the Observer and Guardian. She is a passionate advocate for the rights of women and in 2006 founded the charity Women for Refugee Women. Susan McKay is an award-winning journalist, author and campaigner. She is currently director of the National Women's Council of Ireland. Her debut book Sophia's Story was a potent and provocative best-seller. She has also written the history of the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, and was instrumental in setting up the Belfast equivalent. Her other books include Bear in Mind These Dead (2008) and Northern Protestants, an Unsettled People (2000). Join Natasha and Susan for a pressing debate on the return of sexism.
Venue: Project Arts Centre
Time: 4pm
Tickets: €10 / €8 (concession)
Dublin Writers Festival is an initiative of Dublin City Council Arts Office, supported by The Arts Council.
Venue
Various Venues in Dublin