The Silver Branch will screen at several cinemas nationwide on various dates, including IFI Dublin from Oct 5. It will screen at Cork’s Triskel Arts Centre for four nights from Nov 26

IT’S not nostalgia. The Yellow River, a collaborative project between poet Gerard Smyth and painter Seán McSweeney, delves deep into the pair’s memories of Co Meath, but Smyth, selecting words with the care to be expected of a poet, balks slightly at “nostalgic”.

A PLAYWRIGHT and journalist will have a captive audience when his new play is staged in a prison.

OVER €55 million is to be handed out in funding for the day-to-day running of arts organisations during 2007, the Arts Council announced yesterday.