Wilde Stories - Blog

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We’re delighted to announce that Wilde Stories has been nominated for the Kieran Hegarty Award for Innovation at the Celtic Media Festival 2017. 

This transmedia Irish art, literature and music project has been built around original music composition and landmark radio series re-imagining Oscar Wilde through the prism of Wilde's fairytales.

The creative team on Wilde Stories is Helen Shaw, Michael Gallen, Felicity Clear and digital editor John Howard. The production partners for the project are the BAI, RTÉ Lyric FM and Dublin City Council

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#WildeStoriesLive

photo credit: John Ryan

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#WildeStories #Live #Music and #Readings - October 22nd in celebration of #OscarWilde

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Our upcoming live event to celebrate #OscarWilde - with live readings of all 5 stories from his collection ‘The Happy Prince and other Stories’, with each reading followed by the originally-scored, animated film it inspired, projected in the wonderful space that is Meeting House Square, Temple Bar, Dublin - October 22nd, adults and children welcome - Tickets via eventbrite - https://goo.gl/JV5iWP

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Stay tuned to RTÉ Lyric FM for the #WildeStories series, airing 7pm on Friday evenings from July 8th

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Merlin Holland reading his grandfather #OscarWilde with a rough sample of a piece from @gallenmusic #WildeStories

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Composer Michael Gallen and artist Felicity Clear are coming together to produce a truly inspiring collaborative body of work. Two artists with their own interpretations of these timeless stories and yet there is still such incredible harmony in their vision. The sample below is just a taste of the beautiful pieces to come.

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https://audioboom.com/boos/2738864-the-happy-prince-written-by-oscar-wilde-narrated-by-michael-gallen A sample of #TheHappyPrince read by composer Michael Gallen

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recent imagery for #WildeStories

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Wilde Stories - Music Sample #5

Michael Gallen is the young Irish composer working on the music for Wilde Stories. These are some early ideas of themes that will form the suite of compositions that will help form #WildeStories. http://www.wildestories.ie

Further development on our suite of pieces for #WildeStories from the talented Michael Gallen, wonderful use of the human voice here

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Felicity Clear developing animations for Wilde Stories

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