We Crept Ashore

Our very final Belfast 2024 WATER WORKS event is a celebration of our river. Earlier in the year, we commissioned writer Niamh Scullion, poet Padraig Regan and composer John D’Arcy to create written responses which they will perform for us this evening. We hope that these pieces, along with other research and artistic commissions, will contribute to ongoing conversations about the value and care for the Lagan.

Niamh Scullion writes novels, short stories, scripts and essays, sometimes builds traditional boats and rows them over the sea. She is from Bellaghy in Co. Derry and lives in Belfast.

Padraig Regan's debut Collection Some Integrity was published by Carcanet in 2022 and was awarded the Clarissa Luard Award and shortlisted for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection. They the author of two poetry pamphlets: Delicious (Lifeboat, 2016) and Who Seemed Alive & Altogether Real (Emma Press, 2017). In 2015, they were a recipient of an Eric Gregory Award, and in 2020 they were awarded the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary Prize. They hold a PhD on creative-critical and hybridised writing practices in medieval texts and the work of Anne Carson from the Seamus Heaney Centre, Queen's University Belfast, where they were a Ciaran Carson Writing and the City Fellow in 2021. They were Fellow Commoner in Creative Arts at Trinity College Cambridge from 2022 to 2024.

John D’Arcy works in composition, live performance and technology. His recent projects involve voice-based intermedia artwork, and site-specific storytelling and song-making. John directs HIVE Choir, an experimental vocal ensemble working with found texts and improvisation.

Tickets are free, but capacity is limited. You can book a ticket via Eventbrite. 

PS² is supported by Belfast City Council and The National Lottery through the Arts Council of Northern Ireland and project funding from Belfast City Council