{"id":1028,"date":"2014-08-31T15:34:48","date_gmt":"2014-08-31T15:34:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisisbanter.com\/?p=1028"},"modified":"2014-11-10T10:20:43","modified_gmt":"2014-11-10T10:20:43","slug":"banter-at-kinsale-arts-festival-087-sep-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/banter.test\/banter-at-kinsale-arts-festival-087-sep-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Banter at Kinsale Arts Festival (087, Sep 2014)"},"content":{"rendered":"

After two visits to the town in 2013, the\u00a0Banter<\/a>\u00a0series of talks and interviews returns to the Co Cork town for the\u00a0Kinsale Arts Festival<\/a>\u00a0in September. We\u2019ve sessions covering food, music, gardening and film-making and cracking guests for you to meet on Saturday and Sunday 27 and 28 September.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the line-up<\/p>\n

Rory O\u2019Connell\u00a0<\/a>(Saturday 1pm Lord Kingsale)<\/p>\n

\"Rory-o-connell-full\"<\/a>Master chef at work. Rory O\u2019Connell has spent over 20 years cooking in the world\u2019s finest kitchens alongside leading chefs and cooking advocates, including Nico Ladenis at Chez Nico, London, Raymond Blanc at Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons in Oxford, Alice Waters at Chez Panisse, California and Mrytle Allen at Ballmaloe House. Rory co-founded the\u00a0Ballymaloe Cookery School<\/a>\u00a0with his sister, Darina Allen, and is also festival director of the\u00a0Ballymaloe Literary Festival<\/a>. His first book,\u00a0\u201cMaster It: How to Cook Today\u201d<\/a>\u00a0won the\u00a0Andre Simon Award for Best Cook Book 2013<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Mary Reynolds<\/a>\u00a0(Saturday 2.30pm Lord Kingsale)<\/p>\n

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Meet the gardener. Mary Reynolds, who won a gold medal at the Chelsea Flower Show in 2002 for her Celtic Sanctuary Irish wildflower garden, is a designer who seeks to create landscapes which are expressions of each individual place. A film about Mary\u2019s story called Wild \u2013 which was written and directed by Vivienne de Courcy, stars Emma Greenwell amd Tom Hughes and was partly shot in west Cork \u2013 is due for release in 2015.<\/p>\n

Iarla \u00d3 Lion\u00e1ird<\/a>\u00a0(Saturday 4pm St Multose Church)<\/p>\n

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C\u00fail Aodha calling. Iarla \u00d3 Lion\u00e1ird is a singer, songwriter and musician with an unique voice and approach. Whether as a member of the Afro Celt Sound System and, more recently, the wonderful Irish-American band\u00a0The Gloaming<\/a>\u00a0or as part of a plethora of other projects and collaborations from Ghost Trio and Crash Ensemble to work alongside Nico Muhly, Gavin Bryars, Dan Trueman and David Lang as well as film credits for Hotel Rwanda, Calavary and others, Iarla has long exhibited highly individual artistic ambitions when it comes to Irish music.<\/p>\n

Pat Collins<\/a>\u00a0(Sunday noon The Black Pig)<\/p>\n

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Pat Collins is a Cork-born filmmaker who has directed over two dozen acclaimed documentaries since leaving the work of criticism (he edited Film West magazine) and film festivals (Galway Film Fleadh programmer). He has won multiple awards for work which includes Michael Hartnett: A Necklace of Wrens, Oile\u00e1n Thora\u00ed, Marooned, Gabriel Byrne \u2013 Stories From Home and Pilgrim. In 2012, he released his first feature drama, Silence, about a sound recordist returning to Ireland for the first time in 15 years to take up a job recording landscapes free from man-made sound. His most recent work is Living In A Coded Land, a superb vivid look at the people and places of the Irish Midlands<\/p>\n

Selling Irish food to the masses<\/strong>\u00a0(Sunday 1.30pm The Black Pig)<\/p>\n

A conversation with\u00a0Sully<\/a>\u00a0(Cully & Sully<\/a>) and\u00a0Kieran Murphy<\/a>\u00a0(Murphy\u2019s Ice Cream<\/a>) about the business of food. How do you get a new food brand off the ground? What kind of work and research is involved in moving beyond just local sales and reach? What are the ups and downs on turning your food into a brand? What lessons are to be learned from scaling up?<\/p>\n

Nuala O\u2019Connor<\/a>\u00a0(Sunday 3pm The Black Pig)<\/p>\n

Nuala O\u2019Connor is the Dingle-based writer and producer behind some of the most compelling Irish documentary films in recent years. She worked as a producer and writer on such TV shows as Bringing It All Back Home (and won an Emmy Award for it), River of Sound (the seven-part series on Irish traditional music presented by M\u00edche\u00e1l \u00d3 S\u00failleabh\u00e1in), The Raw Bar and The Limits of Liberty, a three part television history of 20th Century Ireland presented by Diarmaid Ferriter. In the last 12 months, she has worked on both Moment to Moment, the acclaimed documentary about The Gloaming, and C\u00e9ili\u00faradh, the celebration of Irish music and culture at London\u2019s Royal Albert Hall during the visit of President Michael D Higgins to the UK in April. She was also a traditional music reviewer for the Irish Times for many years.<\/p>\n

Full information on all sessions and everything else going on at the festival from September 19 to 28\u00a0here<\/a>. Big thanks to Marie McParlin and all at the festival for the return invitation to the town and their help in putting this on.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After two visits to the town in 2013, the\u00a0Banter\u00a0series of talks and interviews returns to the Co Cork town for the\u00a0Kinsale Arts Festival\u00a0in September. We\u2019ve sessions covering food, music, gardening and film-making and cracking guests for you to meet on Saturday and Sunday 27 and 28 September. Here\u2019s the line-up Rory O\u2019Connell\u00a0(Saturday 1pm Lord Kingsale) … <\/p>\n

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