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KAVANAGH WEEKEND: I’m honoured to deliver the welcome speech at this year’s Patrick Kavanagh Weekend in Inniskeen (26-28 September). Read about the lounch night which includes the poetry award here, and do browse the whole weekend programme. It’s fantasic!

DRAMA AND DISABILITY – GALWAY: I’m also excited to return yet again to Galway to work alongside playwright David Joyce and visual artist and educator Joanna McGlynn as the Galway Centre for Independent Living teams up with main partner Galway City Council, and also University of Galway and Irish Wheelchair Association Galway to present a 3-phase series of workshops and a seminar on drama and disability. Entitled ‘Through a Prism’ it follows from David’s successful stage play ‘A Personal Prism’ which premiered at Black Box Galway last December (scroll down for images). Keep December 3rd free for the seminar! Details to be announced soon.

NOW THE (semi) PERMANENT STUFF!

Welcome to the website of Declan Gorman Arts & Events!

I am a playwright, director, performer, producer and public artist with a practice that has covered many aspects of the arts.  At the core is an unswerving belief in the power of live performance – the working towards it and the sharing of it – to change, entertain, question, and somehow to make the world around us a better and more exciting place.

This website contains information about current projects; selected archive materials; resources and a “News & Views” section which combines news with occasional reflections and personal essays, mainly but not exclusively about the arts.

The artist is grateful to the Arts Council, Bealtaine Festival, Fingal County Council and Monaghan County Council for certain short term grants and supports over the past decade, which are listed against the relevant projects on these pages.

(FAIRLY) RECENT NEWS: JANUARY 2025

Below is a selection of images by Anita Murphy (c) from “A Personal Prism” the debut play of David Joyce which was staged in November 2024 (Declan Gorman Arts & Events in associaton with Town Hall Theatre, Galway, Creative Places Tuam and Portumna Community). For more information you can follow this link to teh archived listing on Arts & Disability Ireland. Or check the blog pages of this website.