Skerries Grand Slam Final 2024 Na Slamfhilí + After Hours Craic

Skerries Grand Slam Final 2024
Na Slamfhilí + After Hours Craic

Spoken word poetry extravaganza at which this year’s Skerries Slam Champion will be crowned. Be part of it with host Sheila Ryder and guests Samuel Yakura, a multi-championship winning slam poet and music by Amano.

Featuring the finalists of four regional Poetry Slams in Fingal Libraries. The winner will perform in the WordTent at Electric Picnic 2025!

File, amhránaí, cumadóir ceoil, scríobhann Amano trasna seánraí éagsúla ag tabhairt draíochta & faobhair nua don traidisiún.

Always a great night. Early booking is advised.

PLUS!

After Hours – After-Slam Craic

Kick back and relax with bilingual poet Ben McCaoilte, who morphs poetry to song and story to poetry plus craic and chit-chat. Light refreshments served.

Tar fé gheasadóireacht Ben Mac Caoilte – file ildhána, iltheangach & lig do Ghaeilge agus Bhéarla leáigh ina oíche d’fhocail líofa dhátheangach.

(Let’s not go home just yet…)

• Venue: Little Theatre, Old School, Skerries Community Centre
• Date and time: Fri / Dé hAoine, 13/09/2024, 7 to 10 pm / After Hours: 10 to 11 pm
• Bilingual, live music.
• Join us for the After-Slam-Craic afterwards, until 11 pm. Light refreshments served.
• Tickets €10/€8 on Eventbrite (fees apply). There will be some tickets available on the day, come early!

The festival events are timed so that you can come to Skerries by train or bus. The last train from Skerries leaves at 10.29 pm (subject to timetable changes coming in late August), and there is a bus to Dublin at 11.27 pm from Strand Street.

Sheila Ryder

Sheila Ryder is a Fingal based poet and writer. With her poetry performances, she has been a winner at the Cúirt International festival, an All-Ireland Poetry Slam finalist and is a regular on The Word Stage at Electric Picnic.

Her belief in sharing our experiences, connecting with others and developing our hearts is what drives her writing and her involvement in creative events.

She hosts the Fingal Poetry Festival Slams and the Scéal Sessions Open Mic nights in Balbriggan.

She is also a founding member of Rising Tide, a creative events organisation showcasing spoken word poetry for UNESCO Dublin City of Literature.

Samuel Yakura

Samuel Yakura is a Nigerian Born Writer, Poet and Performing Artist resident in Ireland.

He’s a multiple-time Poetry Slam Champion both in Nigeria and Ireland, winning Slam competitions like ALS, OxFam, Talkatives and currently the Leinster Regional Slam Champion.

Samuel is a Co-founder with the Wearegriot Poetry Collective based in Dublin. His Collective hosts the biggest Poetry Slam in the Country, make plays and theatrical productions, host workshops for both academic, Art, and Corporate organizations. His Clientele ranges from art organizations like Summer in the city, Poetry Ireland, Abbey Theatre, Dublin Fringe, Adrian Brinkerhoff Foundation, IMMA, MOLI, Gaisce Awards, to brands like Guinness, Smirnoff and St Patrick’s Festival.

His debut Poetry Play; “The Perfect Immigrant” received multiple nominations and 4 Star reviews as part of Dublin Fringe Festiva 2022, and just concluded a successful Autumn National Tour, 2023.

His work reflects heavily on observing the human condition, interpersonal relationships and our interaction with and within society and culture.

Amano

Amano is a singer, songwriter and poet from Killarney, Co. Kerry. Amano is a 2024 recipient of the Traditional Arts Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland through which she is embarking on a study of the sean-nós singing tradition and its accessibility to new Irish communities.

Amano’s work is informed by the earth, animist cosmologies, anti-racism, and the nuances of language in an era of cultural convergence. In summer 2024 she released an Irish language electronic music project called THREAD with producer Kalabanx.

Ben Mac Caoilte

Is file dátheangach é Ben MacCaoilte. Iarann Ben ar an lucht féachana imeacht ar aistear dtín am atá thart, dtí na háiteanna agus dtí na daoine a chónaigh ann. Tá Ben théis a seó Lifting the Gate a thabhairt ar fud na tíre, dtín Ríochta Aontaithe agus na hEorpa lena n-áirítear Smock Alley Scene and Heard, Cork World Book Fest, Ó Bhéal, Féile Power of Words, an Dr. Martin Shaws Medicine House Tour, Stephen James Smith So Say So Sessions le Basciville, The Bath Festival UK agus an Culturel Centre Irlandais i bPáras chomh maith le hAoi-Fhile ag Spoken Word Paris. Bhí áthas ar Bhen tacaíocht a thabhairt do Declan O Rourke ar a chamchuairt Éireannach 2023.

“Impossibly detailed worlds about people and place are revealed in tight verses wrapped in warm harp strings”

Ben MacCaoilte has taken Lifting the Gate to venues across Ireland,the UK and Europe including Smock Alley Scene and Heard, Cork World Book Fest, Ó Bhéal, Power of Words Festival,Dr. Martin Shaws Medicine House Tour, Stephen James Smith So Say So Sessions with Basciville, The Bath Festival UK and the Culturel Centre Irlandais in Paris as well as Guest Poet at Spoken Word Paris. Ben had the pleasure of supporting for Declan O Rourke on his Irish Tour 2023.

Spoken word extravaganza, crowning the ’24 Slam Champion. Host Sheila Ryder, with Samuel Yakura, music by Amano. After: Ben Mac Caoilte