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Abigail Smith & Lioba Petrie

Preview

16 September

14:00, €11

Performances

16 & 17 September

20:30, €15/€13

Other Performance

17 September

14:00, €15/€13

Venue

Dublin Castle — Chapel Royal

Duration 60 mins

What is holding you back creatively? Come along and journey into a landscape of sound with musical duo Lioba Petrie and Abigail Smith as they will provide a meditative space for you to relax and reflect in Dublin Castle’s beautiful chapel.

Participate if you wish by sending us your voice notes in advance or written notes at the event. This will be used as source material for their improvisation. Fill in the blank ‘I give myself permission to ’

Developed at IMC Cooler Space.

Image Brid O’Donovan

FRINGE LAB is both studio space and a yearround hub for artist support opportunities.

FRINGE LAB provides year-round practical and artistic support, responding to the needs of the Irish artistic community with an ongoing schedule of workshops, expert masterclasses, networking events, scratch nights and a host of other activities devoted to cultivating connections and expertise for both developing and established artists. This year, events include a Touring Workshop, Fringe Fuse: Love Incubator curated by Diana Bamimeke, co-presented workshops with Irish Theatre Institute, CREATE, Dead Centre and The Civic, two Supper Clubs, and Elevenses, a monthly open co ee morning.

In 2022 FRINGE LAB was delighted to announce the Break New Ground Bursary, to support an artist who has not led a project at Dublin Fringe Festival before, towards developing an ambitious new idea for live performance. The recipients of this bursary were Kate Dunne who presents her work Sl(t)áinte this year and Alessandra Azevedo who is presenting their work Terra in 2024. For 2023, our resident artists are Nick Nikolaou, Sam Killian and Trudie Gorman.

Space

FRINGE LAB is home to artists all year round, providing dedicated free rehearsal and workspace for the development of new work as well as studio space for hire. Studio 1 is free for the development of new work; the Workstation o ce is free for any artist looking for an o ce space in town and Studio 2 is available for hire at subsidised rates for artists. FRINGE LAB also has a host of great equipment available, from podcasting equipment to self-tape setup, so get in touch!

Effect

Many of the artists supported through FRINGE LAB have gone on to debut in Dublin Fringe Festival and elsewhere. This year’s festival is home to two past recipients of the Dream On bursary, four past Artist at Work residents, four past Weft participants, six past Resident Artists, eight artists who were supported by FRINGE 50 and many more who have engaged in our workshops programme and rehearsed in-house.

Connect

Contact Artistic Projects Manager Bee if you would like to find out how we can support you as an artist email bee@fringefest.com

FRINGE LAB established Artist at Work in 2020. These paid idea development residencies take place with host venues across Ireland over our festival dates, shining a light on artistic process and the often invisible work done by artists.

ANDREA WILLIAMS is an Irish-Cape Verdean multidisciplinary artist based in Cork. She moves between di erent mediums such as dance, experimental theatre, visual arts and directing. Recent work includes Hive City Legacy at Dublin Fringe Festival 2022, EPG (Exploitation, Power, Greed) with Olympio, and Dubh for FeliSpeaks. Most of her work is a search and reconnecting with her lost African heritage as well as making connections between cultures. She created, and performed in, UNDEFINED which was presented as part of Cork Midsummer Festival 2023.

In partnership with CoisCéim, Dublin.

JENNI NIKINMAA is a playwright and theatre-maker from Finland, based in Inishmore, Aran Islands. She works with immersive, poetic plays and experiences that often escape outside traditional theatre space. Currently, she is developing a play called Sheep, which is about sheep (not about humans. Or humanity) within the FUEL development programme with Druid Theatre. She is also writing about bold birds. In partnership with Interface, Connemara.

CAL MCELWEE is a multi-disciplininary queer theatremaker based in Belfast, who focuses on representing queer people in larger than life, fantastical scenarios (like spies and superheroes). Paper Moon tells the story of a queer kid bringing their own imaginary fantasy kingdom to life using only paper, projections and whatever words pop into their head. It discusses queer escapism, solitude and the simple joy that can come from just making stu up.

In partnership with The MAC, Belfast.