Yeats 2015 programme of events
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February 14th | Launch of Yeats 2015 Library Membership Card |
| February 14th | Yeats in Love - Poetry on Valentine’s Day | |
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March 1st - 31st | Primary Colours schools’ art programme based on the poems of W.B. Yeats |
| March 2nd - 31st | Wandering Shades - an exhibition by Kate MacDonagh, Ballymote Library | |
| March 5th | Seachtain na Gaeilge - Gliondar san Leabharlann | |
| March 9th | Launch of the Yeats Landscape Photography Competition | |
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April | Yeats on the Go - Poetry on Bus Eireann and Iarnrod Eireann |
| April | Yeats meets Michael Coleman - a meeting of music and lyrics from Sligo’s most loved artists | |
| April | Primary Colours schools’ art programme based on the poems of W.B. Yeats | |
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May 1st - 31st | Bealtaine - Yeats inspired exhibitions and performances |
| May 1st - 4th | Music in Drumcliffe - Festival including W.B. Songs sung by Rachel Kelly | |
| May 2nd - 3rd | Cycle Event - An Post Yeats Tour of Sligo | |
| May 4th | Harp Festival of Moons: Bright Moon - recital by Michael Rooney, Slish Wood | |
| May 20th - 21st | Beezie - a play performed by Sheila Flitton in the Avalon Centre and Yeats Society Building. Details announced in the Bealtaine Programme | |
| May 22nd | Biodiversity Week 2015 - To the Waters and the Wild - A Guided Tour | |
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June | Opening of Yeats and the Landscape of Sligo Exhibition in Sligo County Museum |
| June | National Recreation Week in the Yeats County with Yeats - themed activities | |
| June | Launch of Summer Reading Buzz 2015 - The Bee Loud Glade | |
| June 13th - 27th | Lily Lolly Craftfest Print Competition Exhibition and Primary Colours exhibition, Hyde Bridge Gallery | |
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July | Yeats at Play - National Play Day - early July date to be confirmed |
| July 26th | Launch of Tread Softly Festival (until 7th August) | |
| July 27th | Old Flames - a performance by Brian Leydon for Tread Softly | |
| July 31st | Harp Festival of Moons: Blue Moon - Drumcliffe | |
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August 9th - 16th | Fleadh Cheoil - Yeats inspired events |
| August 22nd - 30th | Heritage Week 2015 - Yeats Landscape Photographic Competition Exhibition | |
| August 29th | Harp Festival of Moons: Lightening Moon - recital by Paul Dooley, Lissadell Church | |
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September - TBC | On the Boiler: A debate on the Polemic in association with Toastmasters |
| September 18th |
Culture Night: ...of Clay and Wattles Made, Exhibition of the Architectural |
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October | Children’s Book Festival with Children’s Laureate Eoin Colfer |
| October 21st - 26th | Fiddler of Dooney- world renowned traditional fiddle competition inspired by Yeats’s poem | |
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November 13th - 15th | W.B. Yeats Cup, Sligo Choral Festival |
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December 25th | Harp Festival of Moons: Cold Moon, recital in Drumcliffe Churchyard |
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