Bilingual Takin’ the Mic with Ciara Ní É and Mahito Indi Henderson
Info
Date:
March 8, 2023
Time:
7pm-9pm
Location:
Irish Writers Centre
Price:
Free
Online/In-Person? In-Person
Please note that this event is suitable for those aged 18 and over.
In our first Takin’ the Mic of 2023, MC Ciara Ní É is joined by special guest Mahito Indi Henderson for a fantastic evening of poetry and prose in English and Irish with an open mic with writers, poets and musicians. All welcome.
Tá Takin’ the Mic ar ais go Áras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann le hghaidh sár-oíche filíochta, focal labhartha agus grinn i mBéarla agus i nGaeilge. In éineacht le ban an tí Ciara Ní É, beidh Mahito Indi Henderson ann mar aoi speisialta chomh maith le ‘mic-oscailte’ le haghaidh scríbhneoirí, filí agus ceoltóirí. Fáilte roimh chách!
Is file, gníomhaí, agus craoltóir í Ciara Ní É. Ise a bhunaigh an oíche mic oscailte REIC, a mbíonn filíocht ó bhéal, rap, ceol, scéalta, agus eile le cloisteáil ann. Tá a cuid filíochta léite aici i Nua-Eabhrac, i Londain, sa Bhruiséil, sa tSualainn, agus sa bhaile in Éirinn. In 2019 ceapadh í ina hambasadóir le hÁras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann agus bhí sí mar Scríbhneoir Cónaithe DCU 2020. Chomhbhunaitheoir an chomharghrúpa Aerach.Aiteach.Gaelach í, agus roghnaíodh togra léi don Abbey 5×5 2020. Tá a céad chnuasach filíochta idir lámha aici faoi láthair.
Is file í Ciara Ní É a bhfuil a cuid fiíochta léite aici i Nua-Eabhrac, i Londain, sa Bhruiséil, sa tSualainn, agus sa bhaile in Éirinn. Bhí sí ar an liosta ‘100 Women Changing Ireland in 2022’ de chuid an Irish Examiner. Tá sí mar Ealaíontóir Cónaithe le Scoil na Gaeilge, an Léinn Cheiltigh & an Bhéaloidis UCD 2023, agus bhí sí mar Ealaíontóir Cónaithe leis an Dublin Fringe Festival in 2022. Foilsíodh saothar dá cuid sna díolaim Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior, Washing Windows Too, Queering the Green, agus in irisí éagsúla. Chomhbhunaitheoir an chomharghrúpa AerachAiteachGaelach í agus is ambasadóir í le hÁras Scríbhneoirí na hÉireann. Foilseofar a céad chnuasach filíochta an bhliain seo chugainn.
Writer and activist Ciara Ní É has performed in New York, London, Brussels, and Sweden. She was chosen as one of the Irish Examiner’s ‘100 Women Changing Ireland in 2022’. She is Artist in Residence UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies & Folklore 2023, and she was Artist in Residence with the Dublin Fringe Festival in 2022. Her work has been published in the recent anthologies Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior, Queering the Green and Washing Windows Too, in various journals, and on YouTube. She is a co-founder of the LGBTQ+ arts collective AerachAiteachGaelach and is an Irish Writers Centre ambassador. Her first poetry collection will be published in early 2024.
Mahito Indi Henderson is a Canadian American writer and actor based in Dublin. He is a graduate of University College Cork’s MA in creative writing and his work has been published in The Moth, The Echo and the Foundationalist, among others. He is a recipient of an Arts Council Agility Award and was a finalist for the Iowa Review Awards 2021. He is featured in Breaking Ground Ireland and was selected for the pilot Foundation Programme through the Irish Writers Centre and Cúirt International Festival of Literature.
*Please Note that registering your interest to read at Takin the Mic does not immediately guarantee you a place on the night. Readers will be informed when they have been allocated a place*
House Rules
– Five mins per performer
– Performers should register their interest in advance via Eventbrite .
– Performers will be informed of their slot via email.
– Donation tickets do not count as performance tickets.
Performers Registration (7 slots available for Irish language readers and 7 slots available for English or bilingual readers.)
