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Jaipur: Hailed as the ‘greatest literary show on Earth’ and the ‘Kumbh of Literature’, the Jaipur Literature Festival 2021, will open tomorrow on its brand-new virtual platform which recreates the iconic Diggi Palace Hotel, offering an immersive experience for literature-lovers and festival-goers. The Festival continues to ‘celebrate the word’, bringing together a diverse set of voices and a gamut of ‘stories’ – fearless and funny, fiery and tender, fantastical and true-to-life, equivocal, atypical and every day.
With an ever-astounding line up of speakers and sessions, the Festival this year features over 300 speakers and performers representing around 25 Indian and 18 international languages and over 23 nationalities as well as major literary awards ranging from the Nobel, the Man Booker, the Pulitzer, the Sahitya Akademi, DSC Prize for South Asian Literature, JCB Prize for Literature.
Derry groups to share in £10.8m in new funding from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Welcome cash boost for local organisations
Children enjoying activities at Studio 2 in Derry pre-Covid. Studio 2 is one of the local groups to benefit from the new funding.
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A large number of groups in Derry are to share in a £10.8m funding allocation from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
The money is being handed out as part of Stability and Renewal Programme for Organisations (SRPO) which is supporting cultural organisations affected as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Seventeen of the 168 organisations are based in the local council area.
Communities Minister Deirdre Hargey has said that £10m of funding being offered to arts and creative organisations will help stabilise the sector as it battles the Covid crisis.
Play in a New Way at the 2021 Belfast Children s Festival
Expect a packed programme of dance, theatre, visual art, music, comedy and much much more!
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Eibhlin deBarra, Director of Young at Art pictured with Maeve McGreevy and Michael McEvoy, Maiden Voyage Dance at the launch of Belfast Children s Festival 2021
With contemporary dance based on the theme of hope, a ‘part Lord of the Flies, part Animal Farm’ theatre performance set in a post pandemic future, and an exhibition that explores the magic of everyday items found in the home, the line-up for Belfast Children’s Festival 2021 feels very much like art imitating life.