About
WildeDay is an event celebrating the life and work of Oscar Wilde and his close connections to Enniskillen. The event will take place on the weekend closest to his birthday, October 16th. This year October 16th falls on a Friday and it is proposed to hold a launch on that day with the main WildeDay events happening on Saturday October 17th. WildeDay will be community led, community focused and free of charge. It will engage with the local arts and business communities and the community at large in a spirit of collaborative partnership.
Taking acknowledged inspiration from Bloomsday, we will stage a series of events in Enniskillen throughout the day with performers in Victorian period dress. The day will have a number of strands and moving parts, and will involve contributions from drama, music, dance, literature and the visual arts, but the central spine will be readings and performances of extracts from Oscar's works. It is envisaged that each piece will run for 15-20 minutes, with approximately 20 events running across the town from 10am until 4pm.
Events will be staged within businesses and in public spaces across the town.
WildeDay will be a celebration of Enniskillen and Fermanagh's literary heritage. By situating the events within the heart the town we aim to make that heritage accessible and available to everyone.
WildeDay will be a fun, engaging event designed to take our literary heritage and build from it a vibrant, vital part of the cultural landscape.
We are starting small with this years WildeDay, but the avowed aim is to develop it as an annual event, an established part of the cultural landscape in Fermanagh and further afield.
