Who am I, and more important, where am I and why? 'This Never Was My Town' is a series of prose and poetry readings that tries to evaluate the question of how much your identity is linked with the place you live in. Is a city adding to your personality, or does location have no influence whatsoever in our globalised and interlinked world any more? A group of expat writers from Dublin and other cit
ies in Europe (patched in via screen) will read from their works and reflect on placelore, identity and if it's really possible to make a place 'yours'. Presented by German Dubliner Marcel Krueger together with the Irish Writers' Centre and Storymap Dublin, each reading will feature a curated story from storymap.ie with added commentary by story/filmmakers Tom and Andy, and readings from both authors at the Irish Writers' Centre on Parnell Square and authors and poets patched in via Skype from all over Europe. With Kit Fryatt (Aberdeen), Marcel Krueger (Dublin/Berlin), Christodoulos Makris (Dublin/Nicosia), Anna Byrne (Cork/Berlin), Nuala Ní Chonchúir (Galway/Dublin), Stu Anderson (Edinburgh) and Au Ngog Dunc (Dublin), more tba.
