{"id":22309,"date":"2022-10-27T03:02:15","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T02:02:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/event\/samhain-storytelling-festival\/"},"modified":"2022-10-27T03:02:15","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T02:02:15","slug":"samhain-storytelling-festival","status":"publish","type":"event","link":"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/samhain-storytelling-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Samhain Storytelling Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00cdontas Theatre &amp; Monaghan County Libraries are delighted to bring you the first cross border Storytelling Festival in County Monaghan, through the Creative Monaghan and Shared Island Initiative. We are delighted to welcome a diverse range of storytellers and performers to the festival, who will be visiting schools, care settings, and libraries on both sides of the border.<\/p>\n<p>We will be launching and hosting the County\u2019s first Fighting Words programme in partnership with Fighting Words NI which will offer all ages opportunities to dabble in the many processes of creative writing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As long as we are engaged in storytelling, our culture, history and heritage are moved forward. It is through every format that storytelling can be used, and throughout this festival, we will be using many different storytelling forms, which will provide something new and inspiring for all age groups, visitors and locals alike. Storytelling has always been a great means to uniting and sharing communities&#8217; cultures in a respectful and inclusive manner.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>More info at <a href=\"https:\/\/issuu.com\/monaghancountylibraries\/docs?fr=sYTlhOTE5ODY5Mzg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Monaghan County Library Events<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Booking via <a href=\"https:\/\/iontascastleblayney.ticketsolve.com\/ticketbooth\/shows\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u00cdontas Theatre\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":22310,"template":"","class_list":["post-22309","event","type-event","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Samhain Storytelling Festival - Creative Ireland Programme<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\u00cdontas Theatre &amp; Monaghan County Libraries are delighted to bring you the first cross border Storytelling Festival in County Monaghan, through the Creative Monaghan and Shared Island Initiative.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.creativeireland.gov.ie\/en\/event\/samhain-storytelling-festival\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Samhain Storytelling Festival - Creative Ireland Programme\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"\u00cdontas Theatre &amp; Monaghan County Libraries are delighted to bring you the first cross border Storytelling Festival in County Monaghan, through the Creative Monaghan and Shared Island Initiative. 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