IBBY Ireland AGM 2010

Invitation to attend IBBY Ireland's Annual General Meeting, following a celebration of the Irish Nomination for HCAA 2010. Click here for detailed information.

A date for your diary: 10 March 2010

IBBY Ireland is hosting a a reception and celebration of iBbY Ireland’s nominees for the Hans Christian Andersen Awards for 2010, Eoin Colfer and P.J. Lynch, both of whom will give short presentations. The Andersen Awards are among the most prestigious international awards for children’s literature, and we are delighted to have two such distinguished candidates to represent us. 

 
iBbY Ireland 2010 Honour Book nominees are also invited to attend. These are:
Mary Finn (novel in English); Áine NíGhlinn (novel as Gaeilge); Andrew Whitson (illustration); Treasa Ní Bhrua (translation).
 
In addition, our newly designed website and the iBbY Perpetual Calendar will both be launched.
 
The evening’s proceedings will take place at The Ark, a Cultural Centre for Children in Temple Bar, Dublin 2, on March 10th commencing at 6.00pm.

Zimbabwe Awareness Event
 
A cultural evening to highlight awareness of the newly formed iBbY Zimbabwe, will be held in Pearse Street Library on Thursday 26th February 2009 from 6.00-8.00pm.

Join a host of Irish authors and illustrators who have generously agreed to come along and talk about their latest work to help iBbY Ireland raise funds for iBbY Zimbabwe’s important work. With P.J. Lynch, Oisín McGann, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne, Conor Kostick and Sarah Webb already confirmed, we know that it will be an enjoyable evening with African music and refreshments to add to the ambience!

In March 2008, iBbY Ireland (International Board on Books for Young People) twinned with iBbY Zimbabwe in order to help them set up a similar organisation during a particularly challenging time in Zimbabwe’s history. iBbY has sections in over 70 countries worldwide and one of their central aims is to build international understanding through children’s books. Their core aim is to bring children and books together. iBbY Ireland has been working on a number of projects with our Zimbabwe colleagues - supporting workshops and seminars for children’s authors and illustrators, advising on reading promotion programmes and crucially, making cooperative links with other sections facing similar challenges. Thanks to modest funding from iBbY Ireland, one of our Zimbabwe contacts made a recent fact-finding visit in January 2009 to iBbY South Africa where he saw at first hand, projects such as the township Reading Clubs, the container libraries (converted, second hand sea containers) and efforts to promote indigenous publishing.

There is a great deal to be done to rebuild networks of literature and literacy in Zimbabwe and we hope that iBbY Ireland can make a small contribution towards this very worthwhile aim. So, come along and find out more about the work that is going on in Zimbabwe and enjoy an evening in the company of some of  Ireland’s finest writers and illustrators.

 
Venue:            Pearse Street Library, Dublin 2
Date    :          Thursday 26th February 2009
Time   :           6.00-8.00pm
Cost    :           €10 which includes refreshments. Donations will be accepted and
a raffle will be held for great prizes too.

 
Further details: secretary@ibbyireland.ie or phone 087 996 9220
 
 
Dr Patricia Kennon

Department of English

Coordinator for the Programme in Lifelong Learning

Froebel College of Education, Sion Hill, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland

Tel.: +3531 2888520           Fax.: +3531 2880618

email: patricia.kennon@froebel.ie

 

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire (W.B. Yeats)