IT Sligo’s fourth year Tourism students are working in partnership with Yeats2015 to organise and run an event for World Poetry Day on March 21st.
As part of the groups Honours degree programme they will host a Yeats themed event in Sligo town centre entitled ‘Pop-Up Poetry’.
The event aims to encourage fun engagement between the local community and Yeats’ work.
It has been endorsed by the Yeats2015 organising committee – and is one of series of activities and events which being staged to help celebrate the 150th anniversary of the birth of the Nobel Prize-winning poet, William Butler Yeats.
Yeats2015 presents a local, national and international series of exhibitions, performances, educational events, festivals, concerts, readings, talks and screenings.
Cultural events centred on Sligo, Galway, Dublin, London and in counties across Ireland are echoed in a diverse international programme.
Through the prism of one of Ireland’s greatest artists, Yeats2015 marks a moment to celebrate and promote creativity in Ireland and elsewhere, and to reconsider the role of culture, community and the arts in the contemporary world.
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Students and staff from IT Sligo with Senator Susan O’Keeffe, Chair Yeats2015, to mark a new partnership between the Institute and the Yeats 150 Celebrations for World Poetry Day on March 21st.