WHAT'S ON AT THE LINEN HALL

BEGINNERS' IRISH CLASSES

The Library is introducing a series of Beginners' Irish Classes running until Wednesday 4th June 2008 at 4.30pm.  All classes are free and on a weekly basis and everyone is welcome.

If you are interested in coming along to the classes, please contact Kelly-Anne Collins, Arts and Cultural Programmer on 028 9032 1707, or email k.collins@linenhall.com

FOUNDERS' DAY CHILDREN'S DRAMA WORKSHOPS

In May, the Linen Hall Library will be 220 years old. Oh my, that is just soooooooo old! Older than even my granny! And she is really old! But just because you are that old doesn't mean you can't have lots of fun playing around.

On Saturday 17 May, come join in the fun at our Children's Drama Workshop for Primary Students based on some of our favourite stories for children, The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson & Axel Scheffler and The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe by C.S. Lewis. And the best bit is that it's FREE.

Spark your imaginations through drama, improvisation and fun using your body and voice.

Places are limited and bookings essential.  Please wear loose clothing and soft shoes. Refreshments will be provided.

11-11.45am - The Gruffalo - For 5 & 6 years (not-so-old)
   


12-12.50pm - The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - For 7 to 11 years (ooh! starting to get old!)
   

PERFORMANCE

A Performance Poetry Event - Written & Performed by Scream Blue Murmur

Their third new show in two years, Scream Blue Murmur (formerly the Belfast Poets Touring Group) takes a look at 1968. Sometimes serious and sometimes irreverent, they cover events that made '68 a year to remember. The Morning after ... is poetry but not quite as you have seen it before with music, song, beat boxing, and even a bit of Hendrix's rendition of his national anthem thrown in. The show also includes sound bites with people who remember '68 first hand.

Scream Blue Murmur is premiering their new show in Belfast at the Linen Hall Library before embarking on a tour of New Zealand, Kuala Lumpur and Singapore.

Places are limited and bookings essential. 

READING GROUP

Salmon Fishing in the Yemen - This is the story of Dr Alfred Jones, a fisheries scientist - for whom diary notable events include the acquisition of a new electric toothbrush and getting his article on caddis fly larvae published in 'Trout and Salmon' - who finds himself reluctantly involved in a project to bring salmon fishing to the Highlands of the Yemen ...a project that will change his life, and the course of British political history forever. With a wickedly wonderful cast of characters - including a visionary Sheikh, a weasely spin doctor, Fred's devilish wife and a few thousand transplanted salmon - Salmon Fishing in the Yemen is a novel about hypocrisy and bureaucracy, dreams and deniability, and the transforming power of faith and love.

The Reading Group meets on the last Thursday of each month, and all are welcome to come along and discuss the book chosen for that month.

READING GROUP

The Sea - This title is the winner of the 2005 Man Booker Prize. When art historian Max Morden returns to the seaside village where he once spent a childhood holiday, he is both escaping from a recent loss and confronting a distant trauma. The Grace family had appeared there, in that long-ago summer, as if from another world. Mr and Mrs Grace, with their worldly ease and candour, were unlike any adults he had met before. But it was his contemporaries, the Grace twins, Myles and Chloe, who most fascinated Max. He grew to know them intricately, even intimately, and what ensued would haunt him for the rest of his years and shape everything that was to follow.

The Reading Group meets on the last Thursday of each month, and all are welcome to come along and discuss the book chosen for that month.

ULSTER MUSEUM LECTURES - Fossils Tamed!

By Dr Mike Simms, Curator of Paleontology

An easy and painless introduction to the astonishing world revealed by fossils and the rocks in which they are found. You don't need prior knowledge of the subject, but you may be surprised by how much is already familiar.

They may be common in some rocks, but on average you have more chance of winning the lottery than becoming a fossil! 
The Tooth Fairy's secret hoard - why your teeth may long outlast you. 
Footprints can be fossils, too - traces of unknown animals.

Reaching out… is the Ulster Museum’s outreach programme for 2008 while the Museum building is closed for redevelopment. The programme includes exhibitions, lectures and talks, family activities and hands-on workshops throughout Northern Ireland. 

For further information, please contact the Ulster Museum.

ULSTER MUSEUM LECTURES - Fossils Tamed!

By Dr Mike Simms, Curator of Paleontology

An easy and painless introduction to the astonishing world revealed by fossils and the rocks in which they are found. You don't need prior knowledge of the subject, but you may be surprised by how much is already familiar.

How architects, engineers, biologists and genealogists all have a role to play. 
Colours in an ancient world. 
Unravelling fossil behaviour. 

Reaching out… is the Ulster Museum’s outreach programme for 2008 while the Museum building is closed for redevelopment. The programme includes exhibitions, lectures and talks, family activities and hands-on workshops throughout Northern Ireland.

For further information, please contact the Ulster Museum.

ULSTER MUSEUM LECTURES - Fossils Tamed!

By Dr Mike Simms, Curator of Paleontology

An easy and painless introduction to the astonishing world revealed by fossils and the rocks in which they are found. You don't need prior knowledge of the subject, but you may be surprised by how much is already familiar.

The vastness of time. 
How Peter Pan, Mickey Mouse and the Giant Irish Deer can help us to understand evolution. 
Extinctions large and small, what causes them, and the problems of Lazarus and Elvis. 
How evolution helps us to tell the time. 

Reaching out… is the Ulster Museum’s outreach programme for 2008 while the Museum building is closed for redevelopment. The programme includes exhibitions, lectures and talks, family activities and hands-on workshops throughout Northern Ireland.

For further information, please contact the Ulster Museum.

ULSTER MUSEUM LECTURES - Fossils Tamed!

By Dr Mike Simms, Curator of Paleontology

An easy and painless introduction to the astonishing world revealed by fossils and the rocks in which they are found. You don't need prior knowledge of the subject, but you may be surprised by how much is already familiar.

Secrets revealed by colour, texture and fabric.
Tales told by sand grains and pebbles.
Flattened fossils, Midas and Medusa.
Shaking, stirring and smothering - some ancient hazards.

Reaching out… is the Ulster Museum’s outreach programme for 2008 while the Museum building is closed for redevelopment. The programme includes exhibitions, lectures and talks, family activities and hands-on workshops throughout Northern Ireland.

For further information, please contact the Ulster Museum.

ULSTER MUSEUM LECTURES - Fossils Tamed!

By Dr Mike Simms, Curator of Paleontology

An easy and painless introduction to the astonishing world revealed by fossils and the rocks in which they are found. You don't need prior knowledge of the subject, but you may be surprised by how much is already familiar.

Some fossil weirdos and the story of Hallucigenia.
Strange fossil names.
Crinoid arms, banana plantations and living on the edge of disaster.
Instant fossilisation.
Corals as calendars.
Fur, feathers and fakes. 

Reaching out… is the Ulster Museum’s outreach programme for 2008 while the Museum building is closed for redevelopment. The programme includes exhibitions, lectures and talks, family activities and hands-on workshops throughout Northern Ireland.

For further information, please contact the Ulster Museum. 

ULSTER MUSEUM LECTURES - Fossils Tamed!

By Dr Mike Simms, Curator of Paleontology

An easy and painless introduction to the astonishing world revealed by fossils and the rocks in which they are found. You don't need prior knowledge of the subject, but you may be surprised by how much is already familiar.

Ireland's (and the world's!) oldest footprints.
The first trees.
'Cabbage stalks' and tropical sea floors.
Ulster's oldest rudist colony.
Marvels from the Minnis mudflow. 

Reaching out… is the Ulster Museum’s outreach programme for 2008 while the Museum building is closed for redevelopment. The programme includes exhibitions, lectures and talks, family activities and hands-on workshops throughout Northern Ireland.

For further information, please contact the Ulster Museum.