Something To Say looks at the personal and professional friendship between Seamus Heaney and musician, film maker and broadcaster David Hammond, and features screenings with accompanying correspondence and production notes of some of the work they made together.

This exhibition celebrates friendship and collaboration, charting the evolution of ideas through correspondence, in both meanings of the word: letters, faxes, and scribbled notes; but also, the shared understanding that grows between artists as they learn the language of each other’s artforms. Featuring never-before-seen photographs, rarely spotted written materials, and many of the treasures of the SHC Broadcast Archive, the exhibition shows the deep mutual understanding of these co-conspirators and reveals some of the unseen labour behind their work.

In this same spirit of collaboration, this year we made a vinyl record, inspired by Hammond’s Flying Fox broadcast collection, which forms the basis of our archive. ‘

This is it, Yeah’ is an album of poetry and music from writers associated with the Seamus Heaney Centre, with fragments of interviews with Seamus Heaney.

Join us for Culture Night at the Seamus Heaney Centre for hourly tours of the Something To Say exhibition and programme of material from our broadcast archive and poetry album throughout the evening as part of the closing ceremony of our summer exhibition.