Having declared “No More Delays – Name the Date for a Referendum”, the Coalition to Repeal the Eighth Amendment will organise and spearhead a huge march this International Women’s Day (Wednesday, March 8) from Dublin’s Garden of Remembrance at Parnell Square East. Asking the public to “demand a Referendum to Repeal the Eighth Amendment and respect women’s lives, health and choices” the march will kick off at 5.30pm and run until 7.30pm. Go here for the march’s Facebook event page.
Featuring a triumvirate of Italian artists, Riccardo Giacconi, Invernomuto and Luca Trevisani, with guest curation by fellow Italian Manuela Pacella, Lost in Narration is an exciting new exhibition on in Belfast’s The MAC. While the players may be of Italian origin, the subject matter leaves the confines of Europe and discuss events in Columbia, Jamaica, Ethiopia and Kenya. Though the individual narratives within each project are disparate, a continuity across the work prevails, and one that is reinforced through their research lead practices. Lost in Narration continues until June 18th, with more info available here.
This is the last week to catch Jonathan Mayhew’s latest show I Wanted to Write a Poem on in Wexford Arts Centre until Saturday 25th March. Mayhew, who was awarded Wexford Arts Centre’s 2015 Emerging Visual Artist Award, has presented a body of work that sees heavy links between the literary and visual arms of art. Both practices are intertwined by Mayhew in the exhibition, with the title itself being drawn from the autobiography of imagist poet William Carlos Williams. In I Wanted to Write a Poem Mayhew explores the ability of poetry to convey far deeper meaning through more simplistic collections of words.…
What: Meanwhile Where: CIT Wandesford Quay When: February 3rd – February 25th Words: Judt Fisher “This exhibition is a celebration,” said Catherine Fehily, head of CIT Crawford College of Art and Design as she opened the new show Meanwhile in the Wandesford Quay Gallery. “These artists have succeeded in combining creative thought with critical intelligence, resilience and tenacity resulting in D.I.Y-led productivity and action, and we are proud.” Meanwhile is curated by Aideen Quirke and shows work from artists who graduated from Crawford College of Art and Design between 2008-2013. These artists through their work, the organisations they have founded and events they have organised…
As part of this year’s International Women’s Day on March 8, Belfast’s the MAC will host The Missing Voice, a special two-part panel and performance event. Kicking off with the launch and live recording of a new podcast series ‘The Missing Voice’ produced by Belfast-based musician Isobel Anderson (pictured), the night will also feature performances from Anderson, DIE HEXEN and Little Green Cars‘ Faye O’Rourke. Joining the Missing Voice panel on the night will be all three performers, Oh Yeah Music Centre Chief Executive Charlotte Dryden and producer, DJ and founder of Body Fusion Bobby Analog. The Missing Voice series…
Stephen Brandes – Parc Du Souvenir (Image Courtesy of Stephen Brandes) What: Parc Du Souvenir Where: Oonagh Young Gallery When: January 26th – February 24th Words: Aidan Kelly Murphy Albert Sitzfleisch is a failed architect. A failed architect who works for the Council of Europe. The year is 2068, a date that is tantalisingly close but also just out of reach – will we all make it to this year? Holed up in his rented cabin in the southwest of Ireland, following 30 years of travelling around Europe, Sitzfleisch has with him for company his memories and views of the continent…
On April 8 we will co-host a special, two-part event The MAC as part of Belfast Film Festival celebrating the life and music of the sadly-missed Mark Linkous, aka Sparklehorse. Following a screening of Alex Crowton and Bobby Dass’ new documentary ‘The Sad & Beautiful World of Sparklehorse’, the evening will also feature a Q+A with the filmmakers, as well as a live, one-hour performance, ‘A Night of Sparklehorse’ with Belfast-based singer-songwriters Tom McShane, The Mad Dalton, Heliopause, Pixie Saytar and more. Tickets are available from The MAC, priced at £10.50 & £12.50. Things kick off at 8pm.
This Friday sees artist Cliona Harmey in Cobh’s Sirius Arts Centre for a discussion around her practice. Harmey made a series of visits to Cobh and Sirius Arts Centre in both 2015 and 2016 as she continues to work on new projects. This new work will be discussed alongside a pair of short films made last year at Hawlbowline Naval base with members of the Irish Defence forces. Harmey’s practice has often taken on naval themes which was most notably executed in 2015’s wonderful Dublin Ships installation – see photo above. The talk kicks off at 1pm on Friday with more information…
TULCA Arts Festival returns for it’s 15th edition this November and key details about the festival have been released. Matt Packer, Director of CCA Derry~Londonderry, has been announced as this year’s curator, with the festival itself being titled They Call us the Screamers. The title is drawn from the Jenny James novel of the same name, which details the establishment of the therapy commune (Atalantis) by James in the West of Ireland in the 1970s. With this in mind this year’s festival narrative is a look at “anti-modernism, cultural withdrawal, primal voice, self-enlightenment, and an attempt to establish new forms of social relations in…
Today and tomorrow are the last days to catch the Ban an Tí exhibition in The Chocolate Factory on King’s Inn Street. The show is a multi-artist response to the home as a female space, and looks at the domestication of femininity and the role of women in modern Irish society. Ban an Tí features a broad range of mediums from a multitude of artists, including Orla Langton, Kathryn McShane and Rachael Kelly – who was recently long-listed for the Aesthetica Art Price 2017. As well as installation work, performance art is also included with tomorrow seeing Léann Herlihy performing A glove is a gift at 3pm. The space is open…