[NEohioPAL] "Coming Home" A Virtual Benefit for Irish American Archives of Northeast Ohio featuring Filmmaker Kevin Toolis and The Portersharks

[Margaret Reardon]

*Sunday February 28*
* Beginning at 2:00 pm EST*

Irish American Archives Society of Northeast Ohio
<http://www.irisharchives.org/> has commissioned internationally acclaimed
filmmaker, poet, journalist, TED speaker, and performer Kevin Toolis
<https://twitter.com/KevinToolis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor>to
create “Coming Home”—a multi-media reflection on Ireland’s “long bleeding
into exile,” filmed in an abandoned house in Ireland and incorporating
spoken poetry, keening, and music. Toolis will be debuting the piece at
this event. A live post-performance conversation with Toolis and a
performance by one of Cleveland's favorite Irish bands  The Portersharks
<https://www.facebook.com/ThePortersharks/> will follow.

Kevin Toolis is a BAFTA winning writer, film maker and bardic poet who has
reported on wars, famines and plagues for The New York Times and The
Guardian. Kevin lives in his family’s village in Dookinella, on the ocean’s
edge, in Achill Island, County Mayo where his ancestors have lived for the
last 250 years. He grew up in Scotland. He is  also the author of My
Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die
<https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin-toolis/my-fathers-wake/9780306921452/>
 and Nine Rules to Conquer Death
<https://oneworld-publications.com/nine-rules-to-conquer-death-hb.html>. *

Tickets begin at $25.

But wait there's more!  There is also a Baskets of Cheer Raffle
<https://rafflecreator.com/pages/44857/iaas-baskets-of-cheer>!

*View complete details and registration information here
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-the-debut-of-a-new-work-by-kevin-toolis-tickets-137927088635?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch>*

Slainte!
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