<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:left"><b><font size="4">Sunday February 28</font></b></div><div style="text-align:left"><b><font size="4"> Beginning at 2:00 pm EST</font></b></div><div><div class="gmail-g-group gmail-l-mar-bot-6 gmail-l-sm-mar-bot-4" style="margin:0px 0px 30px;padding:0px;font-size:0px;letter-spacing:0px;color:rgb(57,54,79);font-family:"Neue Plak",-apple-system,BlinkMacSystemFont,Roboto,"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Tahoma,Arial,sans-serif"><div class="gmail-structured-content gmail-g-cell gmail-g-cell-10-12 gmail-g-cell-md-1-1" style="margin:0px;padding:0px 15px;width:560px;box-sizing:border-box;display:inline-block;overflow:hidden;vertical-align:top;letter-spacing:0.5px;font-size:0.933333rem;line-height:1.25rem"><div class="gmail-has-user-generated-content" style="margin:0px;padding:0px"><div class="gmail-structured-content-rich-text gmail-structured-content__module gmail-l-align-left gmail-l-mar-vert-6 gmail-l-sm-mar-vert-4 gmail-text-body-medium" style="margin:30px 0px;padding:0px;font-size:0.933333rem;line-height:1.25rem"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem"><a href="http://www.irisharchives.org/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;padding-top:0px">Irish American Archives Society of Northeast Ohio</a> has commissioned internationally acclaimed filmmaker, poet, journalist, TED speaker, and performer <a href="https://twitter.com/KevinToolis?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">Kevin Toolis </a>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  <a href="https://www.facebook.com/ThePortersharks/">The Portersharks </a> will follow.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem">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 <a href="https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/kevin-toolis/my-fathers-wake/9780306921452/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent;padding-top:0px">My Father’s Wake: How the Irish Teach Us to Live, Love and Die</a> and <a href="https://oneworld-publications.com/nine-rules-to-conquer-death-hb.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="text-decoration-line:none;background-color:transparent">Nine Rules to Conquer Death</a>. *</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem"><span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px">Tickets begin at $25.</span></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem"><span style="padding-top:0px">But wait there's more!  There is also a</span><span style="font-weight:700;padding-top:0px"> </span><a href="https://rafflecreator.com/pages/44857/iaas-baskets-of-cheer" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" style="background-color:transparent;text-decoration-line:none">Baskets of Cheer Raffle</a>!</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem"><b>View complete details and registration information <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com/e/coming-home-the-debut-of-a-new-work-by-kevin-toolis-tickets-137927088635?aff=ebdssbonlinesearch">here </a></b></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:10px 0px 0px;color:rgb(111,114,135);font-size:16px;line-height:1.5rem">Slainte!</p></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>