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Arts Council brings writers and critics to Ireland
Tuesday 29 May 2001Those taking part include former Turner prize judge Fumio Nanjo; writers Bernhard Schlink and Jostein Gaarder; Godfrey Cheshire, the renowned film editor and senior film critic for the New York Press; Peter Sellers, Artistic Director of the Adelaide Festival of the Arts, 2002; Peter Plagens, Chief Visual Arts Critic, Newsweek; and Daniel Liebeskind, the architect who designed Berlin's Jewish Museum.
The six month programme is aimed at enlarging the critical framework for the arts and culture in Ireland, in the context of public debate about fifty years of arts legislation and the 50th anniversary of the Arts Council.
'Critical Voices' will run nationwide from June to December 2001, in the form of print and web publications, broadcasts and public talks.
Fumio Nanjo will attend Éigse Carlow in June; Bernhard Schlink and Jostein Gaarder will participate in the Dublin Writers' Festival in June; Godfrey Cheshire will attend the Galway Film Fleadh in July; Zhou Long and Peters Vasks will participate in the West Cork Music Festival, 23 - 31 June.
Fiach Mac Conghail is the curator of the programme.
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