WexfordLocal posted: " MICO HASSETT (Manager) and MICHAEL FORTUNE (Curator) at the new exhibition running in Enniscorthy Castle for the summer By Dan Walsh "That's true, you know!" is a new and exclusive exhibition running in Enniscorthy Castle from today until July 29th"
MICO HASSETT (Manager) and MICHAEL FORTUNE (Curator) at the new exhibition running in Enniscorthy Castle for the summer
By Dan Walsh
"That's true, you know!"is a new and exclusive exhibition running in Enniscorthy Castle from today until July 29th as part of their 2022 summer programme.
Curated by the respected folklorist Michael Fortune of www.folklore.ie , it's a first of its kind in the country as a sole showcase focusing on folkloric customs and beliefs from across Ireland.
Wexford features strongly throughout the exhibition with objects, stories, photos and videos collected from every corner of the county and beyond. Michael told WexfordLocal.com; "I'm delighted to be invited by Manager Mico Hassett and her team to curate 'That's true, you know' for Enniscorthy Castle as the old museum was the first museum I visited as a child. It's a great opportunity to display and share both the traditions and superstitions of local and national voices and have their stories and objects profiled in such historic surroundings".
Mico Hassett commented; "The exhibition has a mixture of elements from a series of large and beautiful hanging displays focusing on areas around Holy Wells and Sacred Spaces, to the supernatural world of Fairies and the Banshee. To complement that you will also be walked through the calendar year with display boards for every month highlighting traditional dates of importance".
Newly appointed Deputy Manager, Eve Furlong said 'We have also curated a room focused on superstitions and beliefs aimed at children and teenagers which contains interactive aspects from walking under ladders, to stepping on cracks - a space sure to create some intrigue and wonder. To top it all off, Michael has also brought together a host of objects which he has acquired and borrowed from people and communities from all over Ireland."
Admission Tickets for the castle exhibition are available at the castle reception seven days a week or by calling 053 9234699. With a family of five tickets (2 plus up to 3 kids) just €15, an affordable and interesting day out is assured.
Skyline Cemetery, 2019 from Never the Same: Coming to Terms with the Death of a Parent by Donna Shuuman
Get the Information You Need
You may be surprised at the healing that can take place, not just for you, but for others who are keeping secrets or have held feelings inside.
In the end, I bring you all here, to the hill that is not my home. I bring you one by one, alone. This is how I know
Create Rituals and Traditions for Remembering
The biggest obstacle may not be what, but giving yourself permission to do something.
we've reached a beginning. I spread the moving blanket—the one I found in the attic & use whenever I venture outdoors— over the grass, the graves.
Make a Memory Book, Box, Container, Table, or—?
Never underestimate the power of symbolic objects.
It's a beautiful view from up here. He can see the golden sunsets, chose this place for the pine, so the rain would scatter across his ashes.
Expressive Arts
We should also consider giving sorrow paint and clay and markers and long walks and punching bags and music and dance and crayons.
I show you the bench, carved with my family's names. Beside mine: I will be able to imagine you here, written, age 6, for my Father, although now he is gone, I cannot.
Continue a Connection with Your Parent
Contrary to popular belief, death does not end a relationship. While it ends the ability to connect in this physical flesh-and-blood plane, it doesn't preclude the possibility of ongoing connection.
The pine tree continues to grow. The grass turns stiff with summer. I take your hand to lead you from the marble to the wool. There, you tell me it's a beautiful view,
Help Others: Volunteer
There's something very therapeutic about volunteering.
leaning back on those skinny arms. Time after time, I agree. This place, though known, becomes perpetually new. I keep it. I harvest its beauty for you.
Write It Out
There's evidence that it's not just expression that's curative, it's also about feeling and understanding you are not alone.
I share the milk tea I made in my childhood home. We pass the glass back & forth as it cools. I ask you about your childhood. I ask you about your home.
Take Care of Yourself
It's important to make a conscious effort to take care of yourself.
With time, though, we fall into the silence of birds, calls I am yet to name or to learn. It's warm up here, under the sun. The city is dwarfed by the trees.
Make Something Good Happen
Is there any way you can commemorate your parent's life, transform their death, and help the world, even if it's just one person at a time?
If you're lucky, when we leave, I'll take you to the woods where I walk barefoot, composing these lines. That's how you'll know I want you to see me; that's how
Find Meaning in Your Story
Almost every child or adult who has a death asks, Why did this happen to me?
I'll mistake you for home.
Ana Michalowsky lives and writes in Portland, Oregon. She received an MFA from Pacific University, where she studied with Chris Abani and Marvin Bell, and a BA from the Johns Hopkins Writing Seminars. Her work has received a Vaclav Havel Scholarship from the Prague Writers Program and a 2017 Publication Award in the Atlanta Review's International Poetry Contest.
gulfstreamlitmag posted: " by AC Dobell Mound of Butter by Antoine Vollon. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art. I want to steal them all,or own the rights to themlike an art collector. Pluck them one by oneoff the screens in Times Square,watch them disappearfrom the sides"
Mound of Butter by Antoine Vollon. Courtesy of National Gallery of Art.
I want to steal them all, or own the rights to them like an art collector.
Pluck them one by one off the screens in Times Square, watch them disappear from the sides of highways.
I will spare only "Farm Fresh Eggs" & the "Free Firewood" signs because I am feeling generous.
I will leave up empty billboards & screens the way we have been left caracasses— bleached coral & the hollowed bodies of addicts that make up urban centers.
Because I am feeling generous I will preserve their history, fold their flags into boxes & donate them to public archives. I imagine one day we could gawk at how backwards it all was.
In Shanghai, there's a collection of posters from the Cultural Revolution displayed in some apartment basement. It is inconspicuous, but it is there for those curious enough to imagine a world where people were so constantly exposed to propaganda smiles.
It has given me an idea for how to display our once inescapable logos, but I will not tell you which ones because I have plucked them too from this poem & I will not be allowing photos.
AC Dobell is a Filipina-American poet and visual artist. She studied as a mentee of the Madwomen in the Attic writing program at Carlow University. Her work has been published in Hawaii Pacific Review, Voices from the Attic, Gasher, Eunoia, Rising Phoenix, and Mercado Vicente. She is a director at Mused, a collaborative exhibition for artists of varying mediums.
SquallSnake posted: " The Single-Pak link multi-boot mode found in Blender Bros., a forgotten platformer, isn't the most entertaining but it is one of the most surprising because it has 3 modes, one of them being a Mario Kart clone. How/why was a Mode7-style racing game inclu"
The Single-Pak link multi-boot mode found in Blender Bros., a forgotten platformer, isn't the most entertaining but it is one of the most surprising because it has 3 modes, one of them being a Mario Kart clone. How/why was a Mode7-style racing game included in a platfomer featuring long eared bunny creatures? So many questions!
