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Children Of The Drum – Kodo One Earth Tour

Kodo is one of those Japanese words that has two meanings. The first is “Heartbeat”, some think that the sound of the great taiko is similar to a mothers heartbeat and can help lull small children to sleep. Which should mean growing up next to a nightclub should mean peaceful nights. The other meaning is [...]

Calling All Musicians

Just wanted to point the good folk at Culch towards a very interesting press release that went out today. I’m involved with the Science Gallery on their new flagship project, Biorhythm and there’s an open call for artists of all disciplines to submit a proposal for consideration.
So, if you’re an experimental musician, musical neuroscientist, sound [...]

NABO Returns

The lit-com of Not Also But Only returns to 4 Dame Lane this Wednesday 3rd March 2010 at 8pm.
As always its FREE, different and thoroughly entertaining you know, if you’re into mid-week free laughs and the likes.
Follow NABO on Twitter or check out the FB page if you’re a newbie to the [...]

Perrier’s Bounty – Trailer

Found this trailer floating around the internet yesterday, hadn’t heard a thing about it before. Looks good though! It stars Brendan Gleeson, Cillian Murphy, Jim Broadbent and Jodie Whittaker.
Directed by Ian Fitzgibbon , it tells the story of the gangster Perrier (Gleeson) who puts a bounty out on a small time thug (Murphy) after he [...]

Review: Christ Deliver Us!

The Abbey Theatre opened it’s stage doors last night to a star speckled audience for the World Premier of Thomas Kilroy’s Christ Deliver Us!   Inspired by German dramatist Frank Wedekind’s ‘Spring Awakening’ , Christ Deliver Us! is a story focusing mainly on the lives of three teenagers growing up in 1950s Ireland.
Beautifully staged as [...]

Powerscourt, paintings and romance

I have always thoroughly adored Dublin’s Powerscourt Centre. Long before it was ever home to some of my favourite shops and spaces (Circus, The Loft … places where dreams are made ) I always found it one of the city’s most beautiful areas in which to wander and spend time. The incredible interior combined [...]

The Princess and The Frog: Irish premiere

(L-R) Directors Ron Clements, John Musker, Anika Noni Rose (Tiana), Producer Peter Del Vecho and Supervising Animator for ‘Mama Odie’ Andreas Deja at the Irish Premiere of The Princess and the Frog at the Savoy Dublin Jan 27th 2010. Image from Image.net.

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Out with the weighing scales and in with the (homemade) corset

So it’s ‘so-long’ the Noughties and ‘hola’ the … 10ees?? Has anyone actually figured out what this decade is called yet? ?
Well regardless of its title a new year, and particularly a new decade gives us all the opportunity to forget the unfulfilled resolutions of the past and focus on the many prospects for the [...]

Little Gem in The Abbey Theatre

On the Peacock Stage at the Abbey Theatre last night, I was treated to a truly hilarious, but honestly moving play, Little Gem. With no shame, I’ll admit to having shed a couple of tears only to be hurled in the other direction to have the laughter pour out of me.

This is not high-brow [...]

ABSOLUT FRINGE 2010

Here at Culch.ie, we’re big fans of the Absolut Fringe . Last year’s festival was an eclectic blend of comedy, drama, pirates , the dissection of a night in the club , legendary tales , huge spectacles , madness , group therapy and Blanchardstown Shopping Centre . They will have to do a lot [...]

Liffey Faces

Thanks to @nonsequitir on Twitter, I’ve been made aware of this short film being shown in the IFI over the next few weeks.
Liffey Faces is the first in a new series of lunchtime screenings of short films portraying life in Dublin in the 1970s from the IFI Irish Film Archive. The films, all [...]

Francis Bacon: A terrible beauty

An exhibition Francis Bacon: A Terrible Beauty is being shown in the Hugh Lane Gallery on Parnell Square to celebrate the centenary of Francis Bacon’s birth in a nursing home on Lower Baggot Street, Dublin in 1909.

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Out with the weighing scales and in with the (handmade) corset

So it’s ‘so-long’ the Noughties and ‘hola’ the … 10ees?? Has anyone actually figured out what this decade is called yet? ?
Well regardless of its title a new year, and particularly a new decade gives us all the opportunity to forget the unfulfilled resolutions of the past and focus on the many prospects the coming [...]

Picturing New York

The Irish Museum of Modern Art in Dublin’s Royal Hospital Kilmainham is hosting an exciting exhibition from New York’s MoMA this winter. The photography exhibition, Picturing New York, is made up of 145 pieces from the photographic collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. All of the photos are of New [...]

Beacons of Hope

 
If you are out and about rambling Dublin city over the Christmas and want to get away from the throngs of crazy shoppers and queues then head on down to Dublin Castle Courtyard for a little bit of colour, peace an a lot of Hope! Here you will find for no entrance fee an exhibition [...]

New Year’s Eve – Out & About

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The Seafarer at the Abbey Theatre

Wednesday night, with thanks to David McCadden at the Abbey I was lucky enough to see The Seafarer in the Abbey Theatre.
It’s Christmas Eve and Sharky has returned to Dublin to look after his irascible, ageing brother who’s recently gone blind. Old drinking buddies Ivan and Nicky are holed up at the house too, [...]

Granny O’Grimm’s Sleeping Beauty

Granny O’Grimm is an Irish-made animated short film, short-listed for an Oscar for Best Animated Short Film in 2010. They have just put the full version online and it is wonderful. A beautifully made bedtime story with an Irish flavour, I love it! Granny O’Grimm certainly lives up to her name.
‘Granny’ is voiced [...]

Play a part in Verdi’s AIDA

Verdi’s famous opera Aida, is said to be one of the greatest operas ever written. It tells the story of an Ethiopian princess whose love for an Egyptian soldier is complicated by the fact that their two countries are at war with each other and Aida’s love rival is the Pharaoh’s daughter.

Aida will be performed [...]

Smash Hits Christmas Dance Party

Smash Hits – like so totally the ultimate 90s band – are playing a special 90s Christmas party in The Button Factory next Saturday evening 5 December in aid of International Volunteer Day.
Described as “a 6-pc band performing the cream of 90s dance, pop and RnB chart classics from Technotronic, N-Trance, Culture Beat, Dr. Alban, [...]