The Fatwa may have been officially lifted, but secrecy has still attended Salman Rushdie's intended visit to Belfast on Saturday to perform the festival's closing event. He will be reading at the Elmwood Hall at 3 p.m., along with Dutch writer, Cees Nooteboom, and Colm Toibin will be in the chair . . . The International Association of Art Critics has awarded honorary life presidency of the section to James White, former director of the National Gallery, and Brian Fallon, former Irish Times Chief Critic . . . The Cinematek series of films at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork continues until Saturday with the Iranian film, The Taste of Cherries (Abbas Kiarostami), and the US film The Spanish Prisoner (David Mamet) from Tuesday to Saturday next . . .