University College Cork

I have organised numerous public engagement events involving writers, translators and performers since 2008, including:

Performances by visual poets Xavier Canals, Gustavo Vega and J.M. Calleja, dancer Angels Margarit and a rehearsed reading of Pau Miró's "It's Raining in Barcelona" in parallel with a conference on Contemporary Barcelona: Visual Culture, Space and Power in London (March 2008);

A showing based on Spanish Republican exile dramatist José Garcia Lora's "The Captive Land" in conjunction with the Highbury Little Theatre in Birmingham (September 2008);

Round-table on contemporary Catalan literature as part of Catalan symposium in Berlin to mark Frankfurt Book Fair (October 2007);

Presentation and interview on Shakespeare in Catalonia as part of the Mataró Shakespeare festival (July 2010);

Performance by Marc Sambola and Marc Vilavella of elements of Ojos Verdes. Miguel de Molina as part of symposium on Spanish Republican Exile theatre (March 2010);

Online summer course on film adaptations of Shakespeare with University of Girona (July 2011);

Round-table with translator Peter Bush in Cork City Library to launch Cork World Book Fest (March 2011);

Catalan music event with Valencian band VerdCel as part of the Cork World Book Fest (April 2011);

Talk on contemporary Catalonia and poetry reading with Jaume Subirana as part of the Cork World Book Fest (April 2012);

Spanish and Catalan musical theatre workshop and performance with LaBarni teatre (March 2012);

Reading of contemporary Iberian poetry in translation as part of Iberia in Translation Symposium (February 2013);

Session on contemporary Catalan cinema, including interview with Isona Passola as part of the Cork World Book Fest (April 2013);

Performance by folk singer Pau Alabajos in Cork City Library as part of Cork World Book Fest (April 2014);

Reading and interview with Barcelona crime writer Marc Pastor as part of Cork World Book Fest (April 2014);

Chaired round-table with John Banville, Diamela Eltit and José Ovejero as part of ISLA festival in Dublin (October 2014);

Symposium on contemporary Barcelona in the British Library (February 2015).