2018
November
21st (Ardhowen Theatre) 60th birthday recital by concert pianist Hugh Tinney
October
6th (Mulhern’s) Ulster Poetry Slam Final 5 pm
7th (Fermanagh House) Inside A Writer’s Head with Ciaran McMenamin, Jason Johnson, Sheila Lewellyn and Malachi O’Doherty 3 pm
September
6th South West Area Hospital Main Foyer Fermanagh Landscapes A Sole Exhibition of Prints and Monotypes by Michael Brown Official Opening 6 pm – exhibition runs to 31st October
8th (Mulhern’s) Fermanagh and Borderlands Poetry Slam Heat 4 pm
14th, 21st & 28th (Ardhowen Theatre) Monotype Printmaking Workshop with Michael Brown 9.30 am
August
23rd Poetry in Motion Writing Workshop with Colm Keegan 10 am – 5 pm Fermanagh House
June
16th (Hambly & Hambly) Opening of Liberté, Égalité, Sororité Summer Exhibition celebrating women artists. 2-6 pm. Exhibition runs to 27th July
22nd (The Thing Itself) Mulhern’s Cellar Bar, Belmore Street 7.30 pm Spoken word by Mel Bradley alongside songwriter Aoife the Sly and Rae O’Dowd
May
2nd – 6th Where We Are Now LGBT+ Theatre Festival various venues Sligo and Leitrim
25th (The Thing Itself) Mulhern’s Cellar Bar, Belmore Street 7.30 pm with Colin Dardis and Geraldine O’Kane
APRIL
11th (Ardhowen Theatre) Franz Schubert – ‘Die Schone Mullerin’ sung by Andrew Irwin
17th (Killtyclogher Community Centre) Green and Blue 7.30 pm
25th (The Glens Centre) From Under the Bed by Seamus O’Rourke 8.30 pm
28th (The Thing Itself) Mulhern’s Cellar Bar, Belmore Street 7.30 pm Spoken word by Michael Wilson & David Hynes, music by Katie Armstrong
March
8th (Women Aloud) Poetry and Prose readings in Blakes of the Hollow, Enniskillen 7.30 pm
23rd – 21st April Exhibition of Photographs by Richard Pierce opening 7pm at Hambly & Hambly Dunbar House 143 Loughshore Road Enniskillen
February
23rd (and following 4 Fridays Ardhowen Theatre Studio) The Art of Drawing
23rd (The Thing Itself) Poetry Readings @ Mulhern’s Cellar Bar, Belmore Street 7.30 pm featuring Abby Oliveira & Myles McCormack
January
19th (The Thing Itself) Poetry Readings @ Mulhern’s Cellar Bar, Belmore Street 7.30 pm featuring Elizabeth McGeown, Adrian Young & Andrew Train
24th (Ardhowen Theatre) Fermanagh Film Club 10th Anniversary 3.30-9.30
25th (North West Words) Poetry Reading and Awards Florence Food Co Letterkenny 8 pm
26-29th Yeats Winter School Guest Writer Nuala ni Dhomhnaill Sligo Park Hotel
27th Short Story workshop with Jan Carson Omagh Library 11-3.30 Phone 02882440733 to book.
2017
November
2nd-5th (John O’Connor Writing School) Literary Arts Festival Armagh
October
20-22nd (Strule Arts Centre) Omagh Literary Festival
7th Final of All-Ireland Poetry Slam, 4-7 pm Mulhern’s Bar
5th Launch of Fermanagh Writers anthology Remembering and Forgetting, Blakes of the Hollow, Enniskillen 8 pm
4th-8th Fermanagh Live Festival, Enniskillen
September
29th (The Thing Itself) Live Poetry with Hazel Hogan and others, 7 pm Mulhern’s Bar
(Some ongoing Fermanagh Live Events)
13th till 30th October Tactile Postcards exhibition by Tara Moran Woods, Fermanagh House
11th till 31st October Emergence Visual Arts Trail by students of South West College
8th till 31st October Thread Softly Through Memories Solo exhibition by Jenny McGrail, The Jolly Sandwich, Belmore Street
7th till 9th October Precious Cargo II small works by Noelle McAlinden
6th – 30th Elsewhere Solo exhibition by Douglas Hutton, Waterways Ireland, Enniskillen
August
25th All-Ireland Poetry Slam – Fermanagh Heat @ Mulhern’s Cellar Bar, Belmore Street Enniskillen 7 pm
July
7th (The Thing Itself) Poetry Readings @ Mulhern’s Cellar Bar, Belmore Street 7 pm featuring Stephen Murphy and Cat Brogan
June
13th (Yeats Memorial Building Sligo) Launch of Paula Lahiff’s poetry collection From India to Ithaca with Damien Brennan 1 pm
MAY
26th (The Thing Itself) Poetry Readings @ The Happiness Trap 7 pm featuring Mel Bradley
22nd & 23rd (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Vernacular Carpentry Workshop with Niall Walsh
19th (The New Suite, Main Street, Omagh) Book Launch The Blossom or the Bole by Pheme Glass
13th & 14th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Wood Construction & Workshop with David Spence
13th & 14th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Woodturning Workshop with David Spence
6th & 7th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Stone Lettercutting Workshop with Seamus Dunbar
6th & 7th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Make Your Own Casting Facility Workshop with Nick Hughes
5th (Ardhowen Theatre) Celebrating 40 Years of 2000AD 7.30 pm Tickets £8
April
29th & 30th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Stone Carving Workshop with Jackie McKenna
29th & 30th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Sand Casting In Aluminium Workshop with Kate Oram. Patterns can be made in a 3D printer next door at the FabLab
29th (Common Ground) 3-6 pm Poetry Workshop and readings in aid of Ulster Wildlife
28th (The Thing Itself) Poetry Readings @ The Happiness Trap Enniskillen with Rory Jones, former All Ireland Slam Champion
22nd Monica Corish Sligo Writing Workshop, in partnership with Comhlamh – Development Workers in Global Solidarity
8th (Fermanagh Writers) Writing Memoir workshop with tutor Lynda Kirby, in Fermanagh House, Enniskillen 1pm-5pm. Limited places. Booking Essential
7th (Higher Bridges Gallery) Opening of Cirque des Oiseaux: Artists & Augurs 7 pm. Exhibit continues to 29 April
March
3rd – 11th (Ardhowen Theatre) 37th Enniskillen Annual Drama Festival
29th (Ardhowen Theatre) Music in Fermanagh presents Musici Ireland – Flute, Viola and Harp
February
January
19th (Clinton Centre) Together One Voice singing classes begin weekly 7.30 pm – 9.30 pm
27th (Higher Bridges Gallery) Opening of Interpretations of a Landscape New Work by Jill Mulligan 7 pm. Exhibit continues to 25 February
2016
November
3rd-6th Allingham Festival Ballyshannon
October
30th Fermanagh Writers read their work on Time of Our Lives Radio Ulster 2 pm.
22nd – 23rd (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Modelling The Head In Clay – From Life Workshop
17th (Omagh Library) Beneath the Hat a collection of verse by Patrick Montague, launched by Joe Mahon of Lesser Spotted Ulster
16th (Ardhowen Theatre) Matinee performance by Ashley Wass, winner of the London International Piano Competition 3 pm
15th (Ulster American Folk Park) The Great War in Memory, Writing and Drama 10.30 -4pm
1st Ulster Final of the All-Ireland Poetry Slam @ Blakes of the Hollow, Enniskillen 5 pm
September
30th-3rd October Seamus Heaney Homeplace Opening Weekend
30th-8th October Exhibition of Paintings and Prints by Michael Brown at Enniskillen Castle
29th-1st October FLive Festival Enniskillen
25th (Allingham Festival) Midday deadline for online entries in Poetry and Flash Fiction Competition
23rd (Jack Harte Bursary) Deadline for applications 2 weeks writer-in-residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre
16th- 25th (Higher Bridges Gallery) Enniskillen Visual Arts Open Exhibition launch 5-8 pm
16th Culture Night at Enniskillen Castle. Readings by Fermanagh Writers 7-8 pm
10th & 11th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Sand Casting In Aluminium Workshop
10th (Fermanagh Writers) Writing Workshop with crime writer Brian McGilloway Fermanagh House 10am – 5pm Limited Places. Booking Essential
5-16th Wordsworth’s Ulster Exhibition Enniskillen Library
3rd Regional Heat of the All-Ireland Poetry Slam @ Blakes of the Hollow, Enniskillen 4.30 pm (Poets register at 4pm to perform three poems of less than three minutes each)
August
30th (AT the Edge) Poetry Readings (Breda Wall Ryan, Colin Dardis and Marie Cadden) and Open Mic Johnstone Library Cavan 6.30 pm
25th-28th (Five Glens Arts Festival) Manorhamilton
20th (Common Ground) Annual Gathering
20th (EADS) Acting Workshop with James McAnespy Devenish College Enniskillen 11-6 pm
13th (Eoghan Timoney) Writers in the Wood Workshop on Conscious Writing in Longford Demense, Beltra Co. Sligo facilitated by Olive Travers.
6th (Ardhowen Theatre) 9 pm An Evening of Songs and Poems with Anthony Toner and Frank Ormsby
July
30th & 1st August (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Stone Carving Workshop
30th & 31st (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Reproduction Moulding For Artists & Architects
28th Launch of A Dying Language poetry collection by Monica Corish
24th-5th August Yeats International Summer School Sligo
24th Deadline for Submission to Boyne Berries anthology
23th & 24th (Leitrim Sculpture Centre) Workshop in Vernacular Carpentry
18th-19th Living Legacies WWI project writing workshop Castle Museum Enniskillen
9th (Higher Bridges Gallery) Opening Night of the Summer Show Exhibition 7.00pm
1st (Slieve Beagh Arts) One-day exhibition @ Mullaghfad Church 8.30-12.00pm
JUNE
14th (Fermanagh Writers)-FSNI poetry competition launch & readings. @Enniskillen Library
7th Corncrake issue#1 launch 7.30pm