{"id":129,"date":"2016-08-23T19:47:47","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T19:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/?p=129"},"modified":"2016-08-24T15:53:12","modified_gmt":"2016-08-24T15:53:12","slug":"ub-students-travel-to-northern-ireland-for-immersive-creative-writing-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/2016\/08\/23\/ub-students-travel-to-northern-ireland-for-immersive-creative-writing-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"UB students travel to Northern Ireland for immersive creative writing experience"},"content":{"rendered":"

This summer, seven UB students, led by Affiliate Assistant Professor and Arts and Theater Manager Kimberley Lynne<\/strong>, traveled to Northern Ireland to participate in the Armagh Project<\/a>, a month-long creative writing residency. The project is an immersive learning experience for budding young writers, allowing them to develop their creative writing skills while learning about the culture, history, politics and people of Northern Ireland. Students from institutions across the U.S. participated in the project as well.<\/p>\n

During the month-long residency, the students lived in Armagh, a tiny and historic town located 80 miles north of Dublin. Not only did the students get to learn and practice their writing, but they also spent time in both Dublin and Belfast, visiting museums, theatres, libraries and other historic sites. \u201cIt was an interesting time to be there in the middle of Brexit and the conventions and all that violence in July,\u201d said Kimberley Lynne. \u201cWe felt a little disconnected from America but the distance also gave the students amazing perspective.\u201d The students developed plays, poems, prose, songs and journalistic pieces, and at the end of the month they all performed their pieces at the John Hewitt International Summer School Festival, an annual arts and culture event that draws writers from across Western Europe.<\/p>\n

\"Armagh<\/a>

on stage at the Armagh Marketplace Theatre & Arts Centre, location of the John Hewitt International Summer School Festival<\/p><\/div>\n

The UB students will showcase their creative works from Ireland again this fall during UB’s\u00a0Arts & Ideas classes as well as at the Maryland Irish Festival<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

In its\u00a0fifth year, the Armagh Project\u00a0immersion trip continues to be a life-changing experience for its participants, inspiring them to live the itinerant\u00a0life of a writer and embrace the performance aspect of their art. For several of the students, this was their first time out of the U.S., on a plane or even in a hotel. \u201cThey all want to go back,\u201d Lynne said. \u201cThey coined the feeling \u2018PID\u2019\u2014Post-Ireland Depression.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u2018Til next summer\u2026<\/p>\n

Read more about this year\u2019s trip on the Armagh Project 2016 blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"Abbey<\/a>

outside of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Irish<\/a>

on the steps of the Irish Writers’ Centre<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Navan<\/a>

at historic Navan Fort, just outside of Armagh<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lord<\/a>

students pose with the Lord Mayor of Armagh (middle row, third from the left)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This summer, seven UB students, led by Affiliate Assistant Professor and Arts and Theater Manager Kimberley Lynne, traveled to Northern Ireland to participate in the Armagh Project, a month-long creative writing residency. The project is an immersive learning experience for budding young writers, allowing them to develop their creative writing skills while learning about the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":530,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/530"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubalt.edu\/casblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}