Hopkins Youth Festival July 2024
Saturday 20th to Thursday 25th (daily except Sunday)
Newbridge College
'A bright gem in the literary world'. Patrick Samway SJ
Derek Egan,
Director'
The Hopkins Youth Festival 2024.
The Hopkins Youth Festival
The Hopkins Youth Festival July 2024
- an annual event organized for 5th Year students interested in literature, writing or the arts in general. Students are welcome from all over Kildare- as well as Dublin, Laois, Offaly and Carlow.
Newbridge College, 10 am til 4 pm daily (except Sunday).
Be our Guest at The Celebrity Concert : 7 pm on Saturday evening. Check out full Concert Programme (pdf format) here. A night to remember!
Hans Pålsson Celebrity Concert Saturday July 20th Newbridge College Theatre
The full cost of the programme would be over €300 but this is subsidised by The Hopkins Society. As a result the cost to you, for the week, including Classical Concert, is kept to €50.
Exam help at hand!
An exploration of the English Leaving Cert - led by Dr. William Adamson (Bamberg University, Germany).Also involved in this Youth Festival of Arts and Literature:
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Emily Dickenson and Sylvia Plath
Discussion of Life and Works of Emiy Dickenson and Sylvia Plath with Brett Millier, Professor of American Literature
at Middlebury College, Vermont, USA .
Shakespeare's Drama
An exploration of Shakespeare’s drama on the Leaving Cert. course. Presented by Jenny Adamson, English teacher
and Licentiate, London School of Music & Drama.
An Fhilíocht don Ardteist
Prepare Irish poetry for the Leaving Certificate examination With Derek Egan, Dept. of Education examiner.
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Introduction to Creative Writing ( Poetry and Prose.)
Multi-language Translation Workshop
(with translators from Germany, Japan, Finland and more). The Hopkins Festival Committee, each year, select a Hopkins
Sonnet. God's Grandeur is the Hopkins Sonnet selected for this year's Translation Workshop. You will be able to work
on a version ofGod's Grandeur in a language of your choice (including Irish, of course).
Origami Workshp led by Madame Akiko Kidokoro
After all that work, you will certainly enjoy an Origami Workshp led by
Madame Akiko Kidokoro
And much more!
- Speaking and Performing in Public.
- Meet and mingle with visitors and writers from around the world.
Words and Music Workshop
Students explore the relationship between Music and Lyrics; attempt at composing themselves.
Led by Conor Mahony, musician and songwriter.
Arts Workshop led by a Creative Artist.
Making a Documentary Film
Behind the Camera
Multi-award Winning Film Producer, Jim Kelly (USA)
Visual Arts - an expert guides you.
Highlights:
Free entry to the festival’s Celebrity Classical Concert with world-famous pianist HansPålsson (Sweden). Be our Guest - and enjoy!
Past participants' observations on The Hopkins Youth Festival
Past participants' observations on The Hopkins Youth Festival
Absolutely fantastic. I’ve never experienced anything quite like it and I never will again!
Has given me so many lovely memories and increased my level of understanding in art and literature enormously. I received a H1 in my Honours English Leaving Cert and I believe that The Hopkins Youth Festival helped me greatly for this exam.
The Hopkins Youth Festival has had a major influence on my life.
I thought the broad range of subjects was excellent and the teachers who were fantastic...
I see poetry from a better angle now, my eyes are open to every possibility of the poem. I now know that I enjoy writing and reading poetry and have all the tips, thanks to The Hopkins Youth Festival.
The Hopkins Youth Festival was brilliant! I know a lot more material for the exam and it was meeting other young people with same interst in poetry was wonderful!
I enjoyed The Hopkins Youth Festival greatly. It was one of the best weeks of my summer.
We leave it to each school to nominate the students they feel would best benefit from attending the Youth Programme. For further information on the programme contact Derek Egan at derekjegan@hotmail.com
or 086-4021459.
For information on the Hopkins Festival see our website www.gerardmanleyhopkins.
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