A SERIES of six Thursday lectures on "Issues of Cultural Inclusion and Exclusion" will run on Thursdays from January 30th to March 6th at 8.00pm at Butler House, Patrick Street, Kilkenny; subjects will include Traveller culture, the Irish origins of the Plymouth Brethren, minority and majority cultures in Israel, and the British poet, Dr. Ruth Padel on "not being Irish". Tickets are £3 per lecture; phone 056-65103/5184 for more information... A Bernadette Greevy Recital for the United Arts Club Restoration Fund takes place on Friday, January 31st at 8.00 p.m. in the Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Foster Place; tickets £10, information on 01-6762965/6670124... The closing date is February 1st for the Classical Bursary Awards in Belfast; entry forms can be requested by post from Una Downey, Secretary, 56 Oakhurst Avenue, Blacks Road, Belfast BT10 OPE - .. The Fourth International Women Playwrights Conference from June 22nd-29th will be held in Galway. Registration forms can be requested from this address: 4th IWPC, c/o Incentive Conference - Ireland, 1 Pembroke Place, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4 or information on 01-6671711...