<![CDATA[AEPRIL SCHAILE - News and reflections]]>Mon, 13 Apr 2026 13:03:35 -0400Weebly<![CDATA[My poetry in Oscail Magazine]]>Wed, 01 Apr 2026 12:25:06 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/my-poetry-in-oscail-magazineI'm so pleased that my poem, "at the end of the dark river I released my mother" will be published in Issue 2 of Oscail magazine.

I am proud to be included in this "literary magazine dedicated to celebrating and highlighting neurodiverse and queer voices in contemporary Irish writing". 


]]><![CDATA[Performing Persephone at The Cairde Festival]]>Sat, 19 Jul 2025 04:00:00 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/performing-persephone-mysteria-at-the-cairde-festivalA very short bit from my performance of spoken poetry, dance and ritual for Wandering Voices at the Cairde Festival. At The Model, Sligo, Ireland. 
]]><![CDATA[down, black, down in Copenhagan, Denmark]]>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 17:55:25 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/down-black-down-black-down-at-a-tide-of-ghosts-esotericism-and-art-beyond-fact-and-fiction
After my performance of my work: down, black, down, black, down at A Tide of Ghosts conference at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

It was a wonderful privilege to perform my poetry/dance/performance art in the gorgeous main hall.

Thank you to Kasper Opstrup @kasperopstrup and Tim Rudbog for having me.

And so good to spend time and bond with friends known and newly met.
It was a fantastic, enriching event.

This photo was very kindly taken by Emil Asprem using my phone

PS. I'm holding a pomegranate ♇
]]><![CDATA[Constellations at the Yeats Society]]>Wed, 30 Oct 2024 04:00:00 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/constellations-at-the-yeats-society
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I'll be performing poetry at the Constallations event created by Rebecca Massey, October 31, 2024 at the Yeats Society, Sligo. 
]]><![CDATA[A Tide of Ghosts: Esotericism and Art beyond Fact and Fiction]]>Tue, 01 Oct 2024 10:14:40 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/a-tide-of-ghosts-esotericism-and-art-beyond-fact-and-fictionI am thrilled to be scheduled to perform at A Tide of Ghosts: Esotericism and Art beyond Fact and Fiction this October 24th, 2024!

"A two-day multidisciplinary conference exploring how the use of fictionings, in various entanglements of art, politics, and esotericism, bleeds into the real and how the two relate, if they ever are truly separate.

The conference marks the first conference of the Scandinavian Network for the Academic Study of Western esotericism (SNASWE). It is co-organized by the Novo Nordic funded research project Twisting the Fabric of Space: On the Art and Politics of the Hidden which has Kasper Opstrup as its PI and The Copenhagen Centre for the Study of Theosophy and Esotericism headed by Tim Rudbog."

I'll be performing a 20 minute piece down, black, down, black, down:  "An interdisciplinary performance of poetry and dance. I give testimony to my encounters with Underworld Kings: Fionnbharr, King of Connacht at Cnoc Meadha and Pluto, at the Plutonion at Eleusis. I will give a devotional performance that invites you, the audience, to experience what I experience at these sites."
]]><![CDATA[Poetry Salon at Oscar Wilde House, Dublin]]>Sat, 27 Jan 2024 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/poetry-salon-at-oscar-wilde-house-dublin
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At the Oscar Wilde House for the Poet's Salon. Lovely night performing and listening to poetry seance style! Thank you Caoimhe LaVelle.
]]><![CDATA[Fundraiser for the children of Palestine]]>Thu, 18 Jan 2024 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/fundraiser-for-the-children-of-palestineI'll be performing my poetry for this event in Tullamore to raise money for the children of Palestine. 
Organized by Tullamore for Gaza.
18 January.
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]]><![CDATA[The Ireland Institute for The Sheltered Arts Exhibition ‘Every Night’s An Open Night’ I]]>Wed, 22 Nov 2023 05:00:00 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/the-ireland-institute-for-the-sheltered-arts-exhibition-every-nights-an-open-night-i
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I will be performing my poetry at The Ireland Institute for The Sheltered Arts Exhibition ‘Every Night’s An Open Night’ at the Ireland Institute in Dublin.

We will be raising money for Barnados. 

"Barnardos mission is to transform the lives of vulnerable children because childhood lasts a lifetime."
https://www.barnardos.ie
]]><![CDATA[Culture Night at Charleville Castle]]>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 04:00:00 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/culture-night-at-charleville-castle
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Bellydance drum solo to "Moon Dance" choregraphed by Ashley Lopez. At Culture Night at Charleville Castle, Offaly, Ireland. It was a great night of dance and fun!
]]><![CDATA[My performance of I Guard Your Death at the 8th European Society for the Study of Western Esotericism - ESSWE conference]]>Sat, 20 Aug 2022 07:44:21 GMThttp://www.aeprilschaile.com/news-and-reflections/my-performance-of-i-guard-your-death-at-the-8th-european-society-for-the-study-of-western-esotericism-esswe-conference
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"This then shall be thy lot," said she, "...in the shape of an eel I will come beneath thy feet in the ford; so shalt thou fall." -the words of The Morrigan, Tain Bo Cuailnge,
translated by Joseph Dunn, 1914. (Fadas omitted due to formatting limitation)

A bit from my performance I Guard Your Death at ESSWE8 at @universitycollegecork. The event was organized by Dr. Jenny Butler @spiral_eyed_grrl

More about the performance
You'll please forgive the monitor! The theatre is generally used for academic presentations so it was adapted.

Music: Salt Point by Julia Kent
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