We have some very exciting events taking place in Kerry Writers’ Museum in Listowel in August and September as part of Heritage Week 2024
Kerry Writers’ Museum puts home movies at the heart of Heritage Week with an exciting programme of FREE workshops, screenings and talks that explore the heritage value of film and digital media.
Daily screenings hosted by filmmakers celebrate a vibrant movement in storytelling-in-film that has a long history in North Kerry. beginning with travelling road shows in the 1920s and continuing at the cutting edge of Irish art and climate activism.
“This is not a rural nostalgia project” according to Cara Trant, Director of Kerry Writers’ Museum. “Many of the filmmakers were committed to recording life as it happened and social realism rather than nostalgia is at the heart of the stories these filmmakers tell”.
The Museum received funding from the Heritage Council in 2024 to look at the management of filmed heritage assets at local level. “Since we began working on this project” adds curator Ciarán Walsh “we heard of many collections that have been lost and just as many that urgently need to be conserved. Heritage week is a good time to celebrate our home movie heritage but the serious business of protecting that heritage is just beginning.”
The week includes an open access workshop on the care of personal collections. “If anyone has old film or video ‘in the attic’ and doesn’t know what to do with it” Walsh adds “this workshop is for them”.
The Home Movie Mini Festival opens in Kerry Writers’ Museum on 17th August and all events are listed on the Heritage Week website:
https://www.heritageweek.ie/event-listings
All events are FREE, but places are limited for certain events, and booking is required. Bookings can be made via:
https://kerrywritersmuseum.com/book-now/ or by calling our Ticket Office on 068 22212.
Kerry Writers’ Museum is open Monday to Saturday and from 10am to 5pm.
Pictured is local film maker John Lynch, whose 1978 film ‘Killing of Pig’ will be screened as part of the mini festival. Photo by: Domnick Walsh.
