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This is not a magazine. Not a proper issue anyway. Totally Stockholm is an

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Roadmap The sleeper cell behind Stockholm’s first wooden skyscraper.

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Threads Fred with her broken paw, and other things high fashion.

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Grinderman Experiencing being disliked by Nick Cave in a sweaty room in London.

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Slinkachu Adventures in Lilliput.

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Cycle chic David Byrne and a million Copenhageners can’t be wrong.

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Albert Watson 200 Vogue covers later he founds his way into a magazine yet to be launched.

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Dinner Party We bring two Irish chefs and a previous Michelin star to Volt.

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Fast Food Restaurants, reviews, short and sweet.

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Bitesize Food trends, news, bits and leftover pieces.

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Taking Stock Casablanca share their personal thoughts on Stockholm.

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Listings Music, visual arts, theatre, clubbing, comedy, film.

ambitious project that will be launched in November 2011 and this is to give you all a taste of what’s to come.

Our aim is to cover all things Stockholm, and be a fascinating and intriguing product to visitors and Stockholmians alike - hence the choice of language. And without making any bold claims, hopefully we’ll live up to our aim of taking an unconventional approach to most things and be a bit unexpected.

This dummy issue is just for you to sample some of the different flavours and give you a rough idea of what we want to achieve. Obviously, in some articles - or especially when you come across the listings section and you see a gig in a venue you don’t know - the content is only there to represent the equivalent Stockholm related content in our future issues.

Totally Stockholm will be free to pick up from strategic points around the city.

Hope to see you again.

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Contributors

Stefan Hallenius 070-483 59 47 stefan.hallenius@hkm.se

Daniel Gray Henry Barnes Morgan Ekner Slinkachu Albert Watson Roisin Kiberd Mikael Colville-Andersen Deirdre O’Callaghan Polly Borland Anton Renborg Katie Gilroy Aoife McElwain Bianca Brandon-Cox Emma B

Editor in chief and editorial director Peter Steen-Christensen 0708-86 71 01 peter.steen@hkm.se

Editor and responsible under Swedish press law Philip O’Connor 070-721 77 15 philip@eblana.se

Art Director Lauren Kavanagh lauren@hkm.ie

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ROADMAP UFO They work in sleeper cells. They’re part of a worldwide organisation comprised of 60 members plotting projects all over the world. A collaborative network where you get voted in through ties with existing members.

Two of these people reside in Stockholm. Architects Daniel Fagerberg and David Wettergren are active members of Urban Future Organisation Stockholm.

“We have a code of conduct where all members of the organisation has access to each others portfolios. We have the right to use each others work to market ourselves and to prove our resources. We have eight offices worldwide and 14 ‘sleeper cells’”, he explains.

Basically they are just like an architecture firm only that they consist of several smaller independent architects around the world. Daniel makes a parallel with the film industry, where a producer and scriptwriter set a ball rolling and affiliate with financiers, draft in people with certain competence and becomes like its own company. UFO do the same thing but with architecture.

Without the resources the Urban Future Organization provides they wouldn’t have a chance of pitching at the projects they do.

“When we pitch on something we know we can carry the project through to completion. We all work on joint servers where we share our projects. Who ever lands them, organises it and drafts in whatever people are needed”, Daniel explains.

Right now they want to build Stockholm a couple of wooden skyscrapers. A wild idea you might think, but one is currently being erected in Germany.

They’re project leading a mixed use building for Danvikstull, designed by London UFO-architect Stephen Harker. Complete with 270 parking spaces and 150-200 hotel rooms, the idea is to become a new infrastructure hub to relieve the pressure on Slussen plus to be used as an infocenter for the cruise shipping industry.

The grand plan is to move the Viking Line terminal to make room for cruise ships.

A business currently lining the Stockholm coffers with five billion Swedish kronor annually, but could be so much more if the ships weren’t made to wait at sea and the passengers not having to wait for shuttle boats to get into town to spend money.

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You thought Bray was knackered, right? Jennifer Cunningham and Simon Fleming’s forthcoming ‘I want to get off’ exhibition is a study of American amusement parks fall from coloured-lightbulb grace. The results are wistful glimpses of once-grand family holiday sites. The artists write: ‘Among the dandelions and the chip wrappers, a shoddinesss is revealed.

There is rust under the paintwork, cracks in the plaster, and the chairs worn. For many people they are nostalgic places, they spark off a range of associations and images, of feelings and senses. We are interested in that nostalgia, in the sense that the carnival can never be what it was in our memories.’

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In dreams you’re mine, all the time... no, not Roy Orbison, but we’ll gladly take his glasses! Irony-mongers and all-round style geniuses Laura and Kate Mulleavy (a.k.a the Rodarte sisters) have created Roy’s signature glasses in collaboration with Opening Ceremony. The chunky translucent frames come in burgundy, floral, tortoiseshell and a creamy nude colour. Ideal for creepy-cool karaoke turns, or for hiding when you’ve been crah-ay-ay-ay-ing. $219 at lagarconne.com

Resembling the timepiece of a thousand childhood dreams, the ‘Mixtape Watch’ by slick New York brand Eos pays homage to a technology gone the way of the beeper and Beta tape. Replicating an old-school cassette tape for its face (the dial on the right-hand side), the watch is tongue-in-cheek yet stylish and elegantly blocky, with a simple black leather strap and designs laser-etched into its gold casing.

Snap one up fast, as supplies are numbered at www.store.eosnewyork.com

Butcher Bling Verameat Words Roisín Kiberd Hands up anyone who’s ever wanted to wear a tyrannosaurous eating a leg of fried chicken around their neck. A litter of gold-brass bulldogs spread across a knuckle-duster? A gold pendant in homage to the Viking god Woden? Now you can, thanks to a jewellery line based in Brooklyn. VeraMeat is the creation of Vera Balyura, a former model and consummate storyteller with a love of the macabre and absurd. Inspired by memories of childhood, and made with ecologically sound materials, her designs are tiny sculptures, taking in mythology and mysticism as well as pop icons like Godzilla. Here we ask her about the thought and work behind each of her tiny shrunken fairytales.

What’s in a name? And how is your jewellery ‘meaty’?! It’s the meatier side of jewellery in that we use better materials,

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more interesting subject matter. I’m a little bit meat-eater also though I only eat local free-range meat.

Does New York impact on your work? Yes of course, just seeing so much great fashion out of the side of your eye walking down the street gives me great subconscious ideas. When I sit down to design a new VeraMeat I find no problem in just coming up with something right then and there.

Usually it’s what I’d like to wear myself.

I love the pictures of your dog with a cast on its paw; how did Fred break her paw?

She was a couple months old and sitting on a very small pillow. I walked five feet away from her and that was too far. So she tried to leap towards me onto one paw and it just broke. She didn’t cry, but I on the other hand did. But she’s all better now.

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Words Daniel Gray Pictures Deirdre O’Callaghan and Polly Borland

She was raised by beasts Photographed by vultures Here come the Wolfman!

The Abominable Snowman!

Gotta little poison Gotta little gun Sitting in the bathtub Waiting for the Wolfman to come - Nick Cave, Heathen Child If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers. - Thomas Pynchon

‘I have difficulties seperating my nightmares from reality,’ Jim Sclavunos*, eyes locked on mine like I’m the very hypnagogic incubus sat on his sleeping back.

‘My dreams are populated by the people I know.’

‘Are you potentially in a nightmare right now?’

‘Oh man, this is one of the worst fuckin’ ones.’

Pow. At least we’re all in Sclavunos night terror together. To call spades spades seems barely necessary - nobody locked in a small room on a sweaty day with Nick Cave** is bound for sweet dreams.

Cave is reclined in a member’s club chair dressed not in the expected threepiece suit, but a Hawaiian shirt buttoned down to the belly-button, his chest saved from total exposure by a knackery gold chain, faintly perspiring - he looks like a Tussaud’s version of himself done up accidentally in the Miami Vice boys’ outfits.

He doesn’t like me. I can tell because he’s not really looking at the side of the table I’m on, and also because he keeps saying things like ‘Jesus man, the Norwegian guy who was in here before you was easier to understand than you.’ Sclavunos today is his sartorial antithesis, amply-bearded, preacher-suited, and making some laserlike eye contact that also doesn’t hide the fact he doesn’t like me very much either, but here we are in a makeshift EMI meeting room, so let’s just all try to get along.

‘Ask better questions.’

I’m trying! I’m trying! Rather than exploring the golden, but well-worn path into Cave and Sclavunos’ artistically fascinating and turbulent careers, the aim is to hack into the core of the Grinderman project. Shoot me for saying it, but I’ve never really lost myself in either the Bad Seeds’ or the Birthday Party’s work.

Grinderman, on the other hand, has a 100% hit rate so far. Formed in 2006 as an outlet for a more visceral sound and an open-plan band dynamic than the post-Lyre of Orpheus/Abbatoir Blues Bad Seeds, the self-titled debut of Cave, Sclavunos, Warren Ellis (who brings not just the most fascinating instrumental contributions to the band, but has far and away the sickest beard), and bassist Martyn Casey was a coiled cobra of an album - all death stares and venomous fangs. It was a sexual record in the rock tradition - from the frustrated libidinous

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ness of No Pussy Blues to Get It On’s character who has ‘fucked the girls you’re probably married to’, the positioning of rudimentary guitar at the centre of the album’s most compelling moments a curiously phallocentric alter-ego to the more flowery, evangelical direction of the then-contemporary Bad Seeds - the trait running through both bands was feverish obsession.

Grinderman 2 is a different beast (quite literally - the artwork of its predecessor featured a monkey, this one an arctic dog prowling a living room - ‘you’ll have to see the inner-sleeve artwork for the wolf to make sense). It opens in a fit of Shellac-y post-hardcore bass and No Pussy Blues explosions in Mickey Mouse and the Goodbye Man, but grows into a stoner-rock monster (When My Baby Comes hits like Queens of the Stone Age) with exemplary atmospheric work by Ellis (What I Know is composed of just Cave’s voice, a hushed mix of looped ghost noise and gentle kick drum). Violins and pianos are more prominent. It draws from a lusher template. Thematically, though, Worm Tamer and Kitchenette stand as the only overtly sexual songs you can guess at the innuendo from song title alone.

The first album seemed a lot more overtly sexual, lyrically. What happened to the No Pussy Blues? Did Grinderman get laid?

‘You young guys,’ Cave drawls. ‘You see everything through a prism of sleaze.

When you get to our age you have a different view of sex. It doesn’t have to permeate everything, you know?’

Well, yeah, but you sing about putting your fingers in someone’s biscuit jar.

Grinderman definitely deals with masculinity a lot, sex is surely part of that?

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‘Exploring masculinity is a big part of it.

It made a lot of people very uncomfortable with the first record.’

Why do you think that is. Reverse sexism?

‘I don’t feel very comfortable even talking about it. It’s unpleasant for people to be confronted with.’

There seems to be this particular character that runs through a lot of your

Exploring masculinity is a big part of it. It made a lot of people very uncomfortable with the first record. work - on Get It On, back in stuff like [The Murder Ballads’] Stagger Lee, and in the Proposition [Cave’s Ray Winstonestarring movie that remains possibly his most intriguing piece of work to date], but that really typifies Grinderman, a character I’d call ‘the motherfucker’.

‘The motherfucker?’

The guy who’s a law unto himself and does whatever he wants. Is there not a degree of persona between you all in Grinderman that is playing out that character?

‘No.’ No? ‘I think there’s more focus on our particular personalities in Grinderman that isn’t the Bad Seeds, because it’s just the four of us,’ Jim takes the reigns. ‘I

wouldn’t have thought there was any persona involved.’

Cave leans across the table and swivels the notes sheet in front of me towards him.

‘What else have you got here... The Abominable Snowman?’

Yeah, you invoke the Abominable Snowman on two different songs on the album. What’s the significance?

‘I used to have all these terrible nightmares as a kid about the Abominable Snowman.’

Really? He couldn’t have been very much of a threat in Australia.

‘I don’t know. People have stopped worrying about him, like he doesn’t exist anymore. But he’s fuckin’ scary.’

A motherfucker, you could say.

Let’s move away from lyrics. The template on the album includes more familiar elements from the Bad Seeds, is the function of the band still the same?

‘We recorded this album in the same fashion as the last album, in a short burst. We’re very, very happy with it.

Grinderman for us is still an entirely different unit.’

Do you still surprise yourselves as musicians?

‘Yes, completely. It’s not worth pursuing if you don’t grow from one work to the next.’

Grinderman II is out right now. * CV: Sonic Youth, Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Grinderman ** CV: The Birthday Party, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Grinderman, various soundtracks with Warren Ellis, books And the Ass Saw The Angel and The Death of Bunny Munro.

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It’s carnival in New Orleans. A jeep pulls up at a traffic light. On top of it, in between two disco speakers, a man completely covered in moss and wearing sunglasses is dancing.

Another man, not covered in moss but holding a camera, runs up to him and asks ”would you hold Tracy Lords for five minutes if I give you 50 dollars”? The moss man duly obliges. ”Sure,” he says, presumably with a broad grin underneath all that moss. The man with the camera shoots just two frames with a polaroid before the sky opens and they all flee for cover from torrential rain. The man with the camera is Albert Watson and obviously, one of those two frames is perfect.

The impetuous tale is very unlike the Albert Watson of today; a photographer given to impeccable preparation, who gives careful thought to the composition of each image. With wonderful lighting and a creative mind, he’s always in search for photographic perfection.

“I can miss the naivety of my early days.

It’s depressing because I think some of the early work actually looks better than some of the refined work I do today because it has more spontaneity”, he says.

Albert became a photographer by chance. It turned out to be the perfect marriage of two of his earlier passions – graphic design and film. He studied graphic design in Dundee and film at the Royal College of Arts in London, but already when doing graphic design in Scotland he tried photography as part of his course. “I developed a passion for it almost immediately. I wasn’t fascinated by the equipment, I was fascinated about that you could record what was in front of you. Now photography will always be my first love. When I get behind the camera, time disappears, I enter a state of euphoria.”

Watson’s work is hard to categorise; most photographers have a speciality but he has been very diverse throughout his career, working in vastly different areas. But what is always traceable is his background in graphic design and filmmaking. “When you look at my work I think you can see both elements.

Everything I do, you can almost drop into one of those two boxes. You can easily see graphics or film in my work, or you can see a combination of the two together.”

“I went out to Los Angeles to do a picture of Mick Jagger in a Corvette, with a leopard as his passenger.

I got the idea to shoot one roll of film with the cat. I rewound the film and then put Jagger into the same position. So it was a straight forward old fashioned double exposure. So basically, after I shot, I think it was nine frames, I thought it’s never gonna work, so I wound the film through and we almost didn’t develop the film. The miracle was when I got the film back, four of the shots were perfect.”

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“Once the technical thing was a little bit conquered, let’s call it that. Then the next thing was of course to work on some kind of more sophisticated creative approaches, and how to develop that.

You try to be as creative as possible with it, to make it as interesting as possible.”

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“You need the passion, the passion is the secret ingredient. If you don’t have that, you don’t have the drive to make it interesting.”

“I think a turning point for me was photographing Alfred Hitchcock. I had never photographed anyone famous, and I was very nervous about it. He was absolutely charming and told me to relax. I had brought this 25 pound goose to the shooting, because very few people knew he was a gourmet chef. And he was giving the magazine his recipe for christmas goose. They wanted to do the goose cooked on a plate with him holding it. But I thought it was funnier that he would hold a kind of a plucked goose. After the shoot he said I did very well, and offered me tea and scones which we had while talking about film. It was surreal.”

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“I am blind in my right eye, my left is fine. But the funny thing is you’ll never use one eye anyway. When you think of someone looking through a camera, even a person with two eyes has a choice, he can use his left or his right, whereas I obviously have to use my left. But to this day, I don’t really notice it.”

“Sometimes, a good photo can reveal the inner self.

The American Indians felt that a photograph was stealing their soul, taking something from them that they didn't get back.

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GASTRO Words Philip O’Connor Picture Morgan Ekner If they’re going for a laid-back, unobtrusive vibe at Volt, they’ve succeeded - with no sign outside, my guests and I rushed right past it as we hurried to make our reservation. And to miss dinner here would have been a disaster.

Started by four young restaurateurs and claiming to be “Sweden’s first gastrobistro”, Volt is one of the hottest properties on the Stockholm scene just now.

Their idea is to combine elements of fine dining with the relaxed atmosphere of a bistro.

It says a lot about how far Volt have come in a short space of time that the only available table when we booked was at a quarter-past nine on a Tuesday night.

Our task is to see if they can live up to the ambition and the hype. My guests are both chefs from Ireland who have lived and worked in Sweden for several years, and are no slouches in the kitchen themselves.

Liam Ginnane won a Michelin star for his work at the Champany Inn in Scotland in 2008, while until recently Seán Beatty was head chef in the hightempo kitchen in The Dubliner in Stockholm, Scandinavia’s busiest Irish bar and restaurant.

We were greeted warmly at the door by co-creator Johan Bengtsson, who showed us to an intimate booth in the corner, fitted with an L-shaped table and plenty of comfortable cushions.

The décor, like the staff, is unpretentious, as if they don’t want to allow anything to divert attention away from the food. The downside is that it feels a little too relaxed on occasion, with regular striplights hanging over some tables and staff wearing colourful sneakers.

But it wasn’t long before our attention was diverted back to the food, as we chose the three-course meal with Seán and Liam partaking of the recommended wines for each course.

“Impressive,” said Liam as his starter of rabbit, carrot and dandelion arrived on a slab of marble. “People shy away from putting rabbit on the menu, usually because they have no idea how to cook it properly. Usually it’s overdone, but this is perfect.”

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Great Ambitions, Exceeded Expectations due to the presentation than the food on a green, somewhat dated-looking plate.

The white asparagus, skin of chicken and egg looked delicious, “but the plate looks like something from your grandmother’s house…”

The discussion centered on how difficult it is to get good produce at a decent price in Stockholm, which can hamper an ambitious restaurant like Volt.

“It’s very difficult to make anything worthwhile if you can’t get the raw materials,” said Liam, who used to get up at five o’clock six days a week to buy the food for the Champany. “That comes from not trusting anyone else to do it,” he grudgingly admits.

Seán was more surprised at the difficulty in getting hold of decent fish, given the length of Sweden’s east coast. “You would think you could get it in Stockholm, but it’s really only in Gothenburg that you can get good fish. Maybe it’s because people here don’t like eating fish from the Baltic Sea.” I neglected to ask our waitress Carolina where the scallops and oysters in my starter came from - all I can say is that it was about the freshest, tastiest seafood I have come across in twelve years in Stockholm.

“It’s obvious they’re going for the star,” said Liam, referring to the Michelin award he won and retained for the Champany.

“They’re all about the food here - if they were looking for a second star they’d need to look at the surroundings, the staff and the rest, but for now they are concentrating on the food”.

Having moved to Stockholm a couple of years ago, Liam goes out regularly

to keep his finger on the pulse of what is happening in the restaurant world, and while there may be a big difference between fine dining and the high-volume sales at the Dubliner, both he and Seán are agreed that preparation is the key - to any properly-run restaurant.

“If you prepare properly, you can feed any amount of people,” says Seán, who has had to cater for everything from hundreds of hungry soccer fans to high-level corporate events in his time at “the Dub”.

With a dining room that seats about 30 people, Volt has no particular worries on the volume front, but it seems no less effort is put into the planning and preparation. The service is friendly and punctual throughout, without being overly familiar or annoying.

The main courses arrive and are fascinating to behold, with great emphasis placed on presentation. The colours are strong and attention to detail minute, as evidenced by the carefully-carved wisps of garnish on each dish.

The white fish of Liam’s plaice is offset by the vibrant green of the peas and vegetables, and Sean’s chicken is pleasantly golden.

For some reason that none of us can fathom, my veal is delivered placed entirely on one side of the plate; not even when Johan kindly rotates it ninety degrees does it become apparent, but it doesn’t taste any less fantastic for that.

Seán is enthusiastic about what he sees and tastes, and Liam equally so. “You have to have a bit of passion for what you do, and these guys clearly still love what they do.”

Liam is quietly impressed. During the evening he has recounted a number of

horror stories about visits to the city’s finer establishments, most of which ended in leathery sweetbreads and crushing disappointment, but this is not to be one of those evenings.

The desserts continue where the main courses left off, a colourful combination of culinary challenge and artistic architecture. Seån’s goats’ cheese is well-presented and tasty, and my rhubarb and milk pudding has a sharp, clean taste that refreshes that palette.

Most ambitious of all is Liams’s dessert of fennel, white chocolate, liquorice and dill. There’s at least two ingredients in there that neither of these master chefs would have thought to put in a dessert, with Liam struggling manfully before admitting he doesn’t really like liquorice.

Instead, he reserves judgment, saying “I’m not sure I really understand what he’s trying to do here�. After tasting it, it’s true that the combination of flavours was interesting, but maybe a little too strong and not to everyone’s taste.

The meal ends with freshly-brewed coffee and a deliciously light sponge cake, and it’s time to take stock of what we have seen and tasted throughout the evening.

The consensus is that the food lives up

to – and in many cases – exceeds – all our expectations. It is fresh and ambitious without being pretentious or elitist, and one can well understand those diners who would like to keep the restaurant and it’s surroundings as their own little secret hideaway.

The service was friendly and knowledgeable, but added to our admittedly old-fashioned reservations about the dress code, occasional misses were made when delivering the food and wines.

In a bigger party it would be understandable, but with only three of us it should be easy enough to remember who ordered what. And that striplight over the tables by the door has to go.

But the quality of the food far outweighs anything else and an evening at Volt is not to be missed. In a competitive world, this is the rarest of things; an openly ambitious restaurant that exceeds expectations.

Or, as Liam succinctly puts it “I think they’ll get their star. But they’ll have to work to get the second one.�

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No Cold Turkey Crackbird Words Aoife McElwain

Pop-up restaurants are so over in London and New York, where citizens yawn at the very idea of a temporary eating spot housed in a hitherto unused glorified closet in a forgotten part of their metropolis.

Most of us in Dublin, however, reeling from the closure of establishments like Gruel on Dame Street, are in serious need of fresh (and reasonably priced) eateries to check out. Ephemeral pop-up restaurants could be the way forward for Dub-

lin’s restaurateurs to pique our interest in new ventures, without having to invest huge amounts into getting them off the ground in (groan) These Troubled Times.

Kicking the city off on its latest culinary adventure is Crackbird of Crane Lane, brought to you by the patty-happy people of Jo’Burger in Rathmines. The decor is urban shack chic, all picnic benches and booths, hanging lights and lots of red. The food is simple: fried chicken done in six delicious ways.

My lunch date and I ordered half a skillet-fried buttermilk chicken (€9.95), chilli chicken crunch and semolina chicken crunch (both at €4.95 including a side sauce). To balance our meal we got a side of slaw (€1.75) and a four pack of Pilsner beer (€4 per bottle).

The meat of the chicken itself, although succulent and tender, played second fiddle

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to the incredibly crispy and flavoursome skin wrapping itself around each fillet like a blanket of lusciousness. The accompanying dips of chipotle and viet mint chilli, plus a complementary Wexford honey and thyme dip along with a little spritzer bottle of apple cider vinegar (a nice touch), helped take each morsel onto higher plains of fried chicken heaven.

Our visit was in the early evening and we got the impression by the relaxed approach of the staff that patrons are welcome to actually hang out not “eat and GTFO”. The pricing of food and drinks encourages large groups to get better value by buying more, whether it be chicken by the bucket and beer by the crate, thus creating an affable meeting point between restaurant and bar.

There are two negatives to an otherwise very welcome, however temporary, addition to Dublin’s food scene. The first one, and it may prove to be a rather prohibitive one for a few potential customers, is that although the chicken is fully traceable back to a small co-op farm in Cootehill, Co. Cavan, it is not free-range.

Crackbird 19 Crane Lane Dublin 2

Cocoa Atelier is the latest addition to Dublin’s Drury Street, causing quite a stir amongst the sweet-toothed cognoscenti. The sophisticated chocolate boutique, stocked with a splendid array of luxurious Irish handmade chocolates and polychromatic macaroons is owned by French chocolatier, Marc Amand, who has spent 25 years refining his art, finally opening his first store in our capital city this summer. Not only are Amand’s wares made using the finest ingredients but are sans preservatives too which means they can be enjoyed all the more. The chocolate gallery of choice includes blackcurrant, mango and ginger varieties as well as the bejewelled salted caramel and the gold-gilded chestnut honey chocolate. On the shelves are glass jars full of cocoa nibs and butter and caramel pastes for baking and the macaroon-clad mannequin in the window models a colourful ensemble composed of pistachio, coffee and passion fruit flavoured treats that can’t but turn heads.

Soon a DIY section will be opening in Atelier’s basement that will be brimming with all the baking supplies chocolate addicts and Betty Crocker enthusiasts alike have ever dreamed about and by the end of September the Drury Street store will be the only place to go for a cup of hot chocolate.

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Pier Class Caviston’s Seafood Restaurant Words Katie Gilroy Picture Emma Brereton If you’re wondering how the snow-capped, Polo-shirt clad retirees of South County Dublin have been spending their days now that their pension funds are diminished, the value of their Georgian sea-side estates purely sentimental and their arthritic bones no longer able to withstand 18 holes on the golf course 5 days a week, look no further than Caviston’s of Glasthule for enlightenment. Long a local institution, Caviston’s Food Emporium has been known to rack up a queue the length of Dun Laoghaire’s east pier at Christmas time when men in their droves embark on their annual shopping trip, their breast pockets lined with enough green to purchase a plump, organic bird. With all the character of a village general store, Caviston’s shelves stock the greatest array of goods imaginable from rare cross-breed vegetables to molasses and of course a vast spectrum of scaled swimmers and shellfish too.

Next door to Peter Caviston’s gourmet

shop is his 26 seater seafood restaurant where the theme of local, comfortable and familiar is continued, and the high standards maintained. Lunchtime sees a total of three regimented sittings beginning at midday with the last one at 3.30pm. We opt for the middle slot at half one on a Thursday which is almost booked out. The lunch deal of ₏15.95 for a starter and main is only available until 12.30pm and offers a rather limited choice of pan-fried haddock, baked cod and organic salmon – a choice well tailored to the prune-like clientele and their temperamental dentures but a little too Volvo-esque for these two thrill-seeking spring chickens. There are a few beacons of excitement on the menu 58/59 Glasthule Road Sandycove Co. Dublin t: 01 2809245

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BITESIZE Wagamama

Please try their ginger chicken udon with beautifully pickled ginger and teppon fried udon noodles (the thick kind, made from wheatflour). To wash down, try their fresh carrot, cucumber, tomato, orange and apple juice.

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We seem to be in the midst of a second wave of Asian food culture arriving at these shores. Noodle bars, so prominent in many other big western cities, have taken a while to place a firm grip on Stockholm, but when Wagamama finally moved in a host of others was sure to follow.

In China producing noodles is a real craft on the edges of being an art form.

Schools educate artistic noodle chefs, something we might have to wait a while for here, but in the meantime we can enjoy the Swedish equivalent’s more decent level of creativity. Here are some of our noodles of choice.

Dervla and Marian opened the Pepperpot Café last year in the Powerscourt shopping centre. While working together in Cake Café, they realized over post-work pints that they shared similar ambitions and the same passion for high quality food. Though they spoke a good deal about food and atmosphere, they didn’t really have any idea of location. The possibility of opening a café in the Powerscourt centre arose when one of Dervla’s old lecturers asked her how she might feel about starting her own business. When Dervla made her enthusiasm for the idea clear, her lecturer passed her on the email that led to the girls getting the location.

They were both sceptical of their astounding good luck. Though there are some firm favourites, the café menu changes depending on what’s in season and on offer from their organic grocer. The only constant seems to be the variety and quality of ingredients which go into the food – the parsnip tart with goats cheese, maple syrup and pecans and the spiced root vegetable soup with glenisk yoghurt and toasted coriander seeds have both recently featured on the Pepperpot menu, which also caters to celeriacs with walnut, raisin, and cashel blue cheese salad and apple, almond, and vanilla tart.

The name of the café, something Dervla and Marian had trouble agreeing on, was taken from the Pepper Pot Tower in Powerscourt Gardens, which was modelled on the pepper pot in the 8th Viscount’s dining room. Needless to say, the girls knew that this was perfect for their café; it had a cheerful quirkiness which immediately appealed to them.

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Salt n Pepa The Pepperpot Café Words Zoe Jellicoe

Östasiatiska Noodle bar

A perfect ending to a visit to one of their exhibitions. It’s run by the same enthusiasts who are behind the Restaurang Hjerta and Restaurant Moderna Museet. Simple, appetisingly attractive and effectively served noodle dishes in little black boxes.

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Serving personal and creative noodle dishes with exciting flavours and fanciful names. Mamma-mu – minced beef and mushrooms wrapped in cabbage with udon noodles served with a horseradish mayo and a spicy lamb sausage.

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I moved to Stockholm in the late eighties and have been enjoying the Stockholm nightlife for 25 years – almost since prehistoric times when there were rules stating you couldn’t buy alcohol without ordering food, most often it was a tiny sandwich. It’s fun and inspiring to live in a place that is like a spin-drier. Compared to most other European cities of similar size, like Brussels or Prague, Stockholm is far superior. There is so much talent, so much energy.

I’m very big on convenience so all my favourite things are in the area of Vasastan where I live and has the city centre nearby on one side and the Haga park just as close on the other. Café Non Solo is where you’ll usually find me - an international café with the best espresso outside Italy. I also go to the French inspired restaurant deVille on Roslagsgatan and its neighbouring Café Nero which opened up Buco Nero - a restaurant in a 400 square meter garage underneath them. Those places are my own personal little Stockholm enclave.

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Mats Rubarth

I think the best thing about Stockholm is that it’s a city open to new things and changes both when it comes to culture and food. People in Stockholm are curious when it comes to exotic food, they are well on top of latest fashion trends and they all listen to laptop electronica while they upgrade their fancy kitchens. Unfortunately it can lead to standardization when everyone drowns out their own personal taste in fear of not being hip or down with the latest trends. For good or worse the people of Stockholm always makes sure it’s the hippest city in Europe.

What I like to do when I’m not working is to take a morning walk to Il Café at Bergsgatan on Kungsholmen and order the breakfast sandwich with Krutrök (Gunpowder smoke), which is Swedish Västerbotten cheese spiced with Northern Swedish aquavit.

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Live gigs June Sun 5th Jun

Academy 2, €14.50, 7.30pm

Andrea Corr Vicar Street, €28, 7.30pm Now famous as Jim Corr’s sister

The Frames Vicar Street, €30, 7.30pm

Peter Delaney Upstairs in Whelans, €8, 8pm

Matthew Dear Whelan’s, €18, 7.30pm Cheap thrills

Mon 6th Jun

Fri 10th June

Ash Whelans, €19.50, 8pm

Rhino Magic Hello Operator, €10, 8pm Album launch, with support from No Monster Club and Porn on Vinyl

Matthew Morrison The O2, €59.80, 6.30pm Return of someone who isn’t the mac What the Folk?

The Workman’s Club, Free, 8pm

Sat 11th Jun Journey The O2, from €49.20, 6.30pm Don’t stop bereaving

Tue 7th Jun Julian Lynch The Workman’s Club, €16, 7.30pm

Adebisi Shank, Heathers & O Emperor Whelans, €15, 8pm Gold Panda The Workman’s Club, €15, 8pm

Jan Akkerman Whelans, €25, 8pm

Sun 12th Jun Wed 8th Jun Ryan Adams Olympia Theatre, from €49.20

Lumiere Whelans, €14, 8pm Mon 13th Jun

Def Leppard The O2, from €59.50

Erasure Olympia Theatre, €39.50, 8pm

Lisa Hannigan Whelans, €21, 8pm

Alex Winston The Sugar Club, Dublin, €13.50, 7.30pm

Jason Collett The Workman’s Club, €15, 8pm Thu 9th Jun

Mr. Big The Button Factory, €28, 7.30pm Slow down, little girl

Erasure Olympia Theatre, €39.50 Give a little respect The Cult The Academy, €42.50, 7.30pm Wed 15th Jun Cheap Trick Olympia Theatre, €30, 8pm The Cult The Academy, €42.50, 7.30pm

Mary Black Olympia Theatre, from €23

The Academy, €25, 7.30pm Y’know, for kids!

Take That Croke Park, Dublin, from €70.70, 8pm Back for good or evil?

Wed 22nd Jun

The Original Rudeboys Academy 2, €12.50, 7.30pm Sold out!

Grinderman Vicar Street, €49.20, 7.30pm Nick Cave’s evil rock troupe

Tue 14th Jun

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Mon 27th Jun Rumer Olympia Theatre, €33.60, 8pm Neither nasty nor ugly Jupe Upstairs in Whelans, €10, 8pm Not Jape Ladydoll Whelans, €tbc, 8pm

Ziggy Marley Vicar Street, €30, 7.30pm Tue 28th Jun John Mellencamp Grand Canal Theatre, from €59.80, 7.30pm Cougar convention

JPKallio.com w/ The Wicked Few Upstairs in Whelans, €5, 8pm Prescient parents name child with web domain

Pierce Turner Whelans, €20, 8pm Veteran Irish singer-songwriter

Thu 23rd Jun

Rob Zombie Olympia Theatre, from €39.20 Zombie convention

Thu 16th Jun

Sun 19th Jun

Gilbert O Sullivan Olympia Theatre, €35, 8pm Biz Markie’s nemesis

Wed 29th Jun

Mary Black Olympia Theatre, from €23

Gomez Olympia Theatre, from €26 78 stone wobblers

Declan O’Rourke Whelans, €23.50, 8pm G – Em – C – D7 ∞

Grinderman Vicar Street, €49.20, 7.30pm

The Million Dollars Upstairs in Whelans , Free, 8pm

Take That Croke Park, Dublin, from €70.70, 8pm

Fri 17th Jun

6th Borough Project The Twisted Pepper 10.30, €11 til 11.30, €14 after Album Launch Party

Mary Black Olympia Theatre, from €23 Only a woman’s heart

Mon 20th Jun Framing Hanley The Academy, €16, 7.30pm Discover by Creed, nuff said tUnE-YaRdS Whelan’s, €16, 8pm

Paul Simon Vicar Street, €81.25, 7.30pm Shining like a national guitar after all these years Tue 21st Jun

Sat 18th Jun Foy Vance

Thread Pulls & Twinkranes Whelans, €12, 8pm Local kraut-psych-out-there rockers

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Bryan Adams The O2, €59.60, 6.30pm Gonna run from you Ron Sexsmith The Academy, €25, 7.30pm Now here’s a Canadian songwriter!

Laura Marling Vicar Street, €16, 7.30pm Rescheduled from December, tickets valid Fri 24th Jun Valentine Black Upstairs in Whelans, €5, 8pm Kildare songwriter Peco’s alter ego

Jimmy Barnes Olympia Theatre, from €33.60 Bressie Whelans, €15, 8pm Used to play for Leinster!

Bon Jovi RDS, €61.25, 8.00pm Giving stadium rock a bad name No Roller Upstairs in Whelans, €10, 8pm No touching!

Thu 30th Jun Bon Jovi RDS, €61.25, 8.00pm

Sat 25th Jun Fri 1st Jul Neil Diamond Aviva Stadium, from €65.70, 7pm Hands, holding hand…

Jack L Vicar Street, €35, 7.30pm Give ‘em L

Clubbing weekly June Mondays Upbeat Generation @ Think Tank Think Tank, Temple Bar, D2 Pop, Rock and Soul 11pm Sound Mondays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Indie, Rock, Garage and Post Punk 11pm, Free Island Culture South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Caribbean cocktail party Free Dice Sessions The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 DJ Alley Free King Kong Club The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Musical game show 9pm, Free

The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 9pm All drinks €4 or less 3 Jagerbombs for €10 Tuesdays C U Next Tuesday Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D2 A mix every type of genre guaranteed to keep you dancing until the wee small hours.

11pm, €5 Play with DJ’s Dany Doll & Eddie Bolton Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Soul/Pop/Indie/Alternative.

8.30pm - 11.30pm.

Taste Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Lady Jane with soul classics and more 8pm, Free Rap Ireland The Pint, 28 Eden Quay, D1 A showcase of electro and hip hop beats 9pm, Free

Soap Marathon Monday/Mashed Up Monday The George, Sth. Great Georges St, D2 Chill out with a bowl of mash and catch up with all the soaps 6.30pm, Free

Groovilisation South William, Sth. William St. D2 8pm, Free DJs Izem, Marina Diniz & Lex Woo

The Industry Night Break for the Border, 2 Johnstons Place, Lr Stephens Street, D2 Pool competition, Karaoke & DJ 8pm

Tarantula Tuesdays The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, Breaks 11pm

Make and Do-Do with Panti Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel Street, D1 Gay arts and crafts night 10pm

Sugarfree Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Soul, Ska, Indie, Disco, Reggae 11pm, Free

DJ Ken Halford Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie, Rock 10pm

Le Nouveau Wasteland The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Laid back French Hip Hop and Groove Free

Euro Saver Mondays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 DJ Al Redmond 11pm, €1 with flyer

Star DJs Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Disco, House, R’n’B 9pm

Recess Ruaille Buaille, South King St, D2 Student night 11pm, €8/6

Juicy Beats The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 Indie, Rock, Classic Pop, Electro 10.30pm, Free

Therapy Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Funky House, R‘n’B 11pm, €5

Jezabelle The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Classic Rock 7pm, Free before 11pm

Lounge Lizards Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Soul music 8pm, Free Dolly Does Dragon, The Dragon, South Georges St, D2 Cocktails, Candy and Classic Tunes 10pm, Free Oldies but Goldies Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 Blooming Good Tunes 11pm, Free Austin Carter + Company B + DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Chart, pop, and dance with a twist Piss-up with Peaches

The DRAG Inn The Dragon, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Davina Devine presents open mic night with prizes, naked twister, go-go boys and makeovers.

8pm, Free Glitz Break for the Border, Lwr Stephens Street, D2 Gay club night with Annie, Davina and DJ Fluffy 11pm DJ Stephen James Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Indie 10pm Funky Sourz Club M, Temple Bar, D2 DJ Andy Preston (FM104) 11pm, €5 Hed-Dandi Dandelion, St. Stephens Green West, D2 DJs Dave McGuire & Steve O

Although he twice claimed the UK beatboxing championship, Beardyman has transcended the boundaries of his craft. Armed with four Kaoss pads, the Brighton based musician has perfected his innovative technique of sampling and looping his own voice. Hip Hop is the staple of beatboxing, however, Beardyman’s shows reveal his unwillingness to toe the line as he touches on jungle, Stevie Wonder, and whatever else takes his fancy. Here the not-actually-bearded man reminisces on some of his stranger touring experiences.

On weird gig commissions I did a gig for Google, pretending to be a French lecturer on voice recognition technology. I got a couple of people up from the audience and got them to say their names into this system, which was actually my live rig and then started sampling their voices and forced them to dance and then I had these images come up on the screen, weird images. And then I did a proper set and then I had to introduce the head of Google and the head of Youtube. I’ve done these children’s concerts in Dublin, Manchester, and London. In Manchester there were 8,000 children behind me singing when I beatboxed, and all of their parents. I’ve also done breakcore gigs, Like this one gig where there was this naked Spaniard saying poetry and everything he said ended with ‘you have the most beautiful cock in the world.’ That was his thing.

On the Late Late Show I was expecting a crowd made up of entirely older woman, but on the night it was a really mixed crowd. I’d seem some clips before, and it pans across the audience and it was just old women. It was really fun, I wanted to play longer and get a party going but I just had my four minutes before I had to get out of there. I didn’t realise how serious it was. I was standing up there waiting for my turn listening to Anna from Big Brother 1 talking about what it’s like being a lesbian nun.

On warm-up acts and ugly Russians Actually the weirdest warm up act I had was the entire Russian army choir. This was in Moscow and the bill was the Red Army choir, Groove Armada, and me. They were singing all these old-school, hearty Russian songs and then halfway through this, a house beat kicks in and they started doing this left to right march, and the weird thing was that no-one in the audience thought there was anything strange about it. That’s how weird Russia is, that they were all dancing and nobody even had a smile on their face.

They had this thing on the door called face control where if you’re ugly you don’t get in. I’m not even joking, in Russia that is a totally acceptable thing to do. You can advertise that you’ve got that policy on the door. I was chatting to groups of people who were like ‘our friends didn’t get in, they are too ugly!’ It kills the vibe in a club when there are no ugly people. If the all the girls are that good looking, the boys don’t want to act silly. It was a very serious atmosphere.

On improv and crowd suggestions If there is a club of like 300 people it can be impossible. If you ask for a suggestion all you get is ‘yaaaaah’. I’m kind of budgeting for the fact that they might be really crazy by saying that the suggestions I’m gonna do are from Facebook and Twitter. I think that’s probably safer because I’ve had some really good suggestions so far.

It’s probably just gonna be me announcing what I’m gonna do, or just do it and let people figure it out for themselves. If people are being reverential and chilled out and want to listen to me talk for a few seconds and explain what I’m going to do then great, if not and they’re just up for a mad party that’s cool as well.

The inaugural show of his Open Sauce tour is set for the Twisted Pepper on April 28th. You can barrage him with requests via Facebook or Twitter if you feel so inclined.

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John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Mick B Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9 – 1.30am DJ Keith P Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 11pm Classic hits & party pop Wednesdays Songs of Praise The Village, 26 Wexford St., D2 The city’s rock and roll karaoke institution enters its fifth year.

9pm, Free Hump Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 DJ’s Niall James Holohan & Megan Fox. Indie/ rock/alt/hiphop & Subpop 8.30pm - 11.30 pm Dublin Beat Club Sin è Bar, 14 Upr Ormond Quay, D Showcase live music night 8pm, Free Galactic Beat Club The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Disco, Boogie, House, Funk and Balearic 11pm, Free Blasphemy Spy, Powerscourt Town Centre, South William St, D2 Upstairs Indie and pop, downstairs Electro 11pm, €5 Beatdown Disco South William, Sth. William St. D2 Stylus DJs Peter Cosgrove & Michael McKenna - disco, soul, house 8pm, Free Wild Wednesdays Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Frat Party €5 entry, first drink free Shaker The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 11pm, €8/6 A Twisted Disco Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 80s, Indie, and Electro 11pm, Free Synergy Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 All kinds of eclectic beats for midweek shenanigans 8pm, Free Dean Sherry Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Underground House, Techno, Funk 9pm 1957 The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Blues, Ska Free Soup Bitchin’ Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay student night The Song Room The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 Live music 8.30pm, Free First Taste Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St Station, D 2

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A new weekly party playing all new and advance music in The Lobby Bar Unplugged @ The Purty The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live acoustic set with Gavin Edwards 7pm, Free before 11pm Space ‘N’ Veda The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Performance and dance. Retro 50s, 60s, 70s 9pm, Free before 10pm, after 10pm €8/€4 with student ID DJ Alan Healy Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm Mud The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey St, D2 Bass, Dubstep, Dancehall 11pm, €10 (varies if guest) Sexy Salsa Dandelion Café Bar Club, St. Stephens Green West, D2 Latin, Salsa 8pm, Free Rob Reid + EZ Singles + DJ Karen G Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am DJ Darren C DJ Darren C Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Chart, pop & dance with a twist Free, 11pm Space N’Veda The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Exquisite Mayhem with Veda, Davina & Guests Music on the Rocks South William Swing, jive, cabaret 8pm, Free Thursdays Sounds@Solas Solas, Wexford St, D2 9pm-1am, Free Soul @ Solas Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Mr Razor plays the best in Soulful beats and beyond. International guests too!

8pm, Free CBGB Pygmalion, Powerscourt Centre, D2 Megan Fox & Niall James Holohan 9pm, Free Extra Club M, Blooms Hotel, D2 Kick start the weekend with a little extra 11pm, €5, Free with flyer

Pygmalion, South William St, Dublin 2 Crackity Jones & Readers Wives on the decks Free

Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 Chart Pop, Current Indie and Rock Music 10pm

Guateque Party Bia Bar, 28-30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Domingo Sanchez and friends play an eclectic mix 8.30pm

Chewn Crawdaddy, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Mincey indie music 11pm, €5

The LITTLE Big Party Ri-Ra, Dame Crt, D1 Indie music night with DJ Brendan Conroy 11pm, Free Mr. Jones & Salt The Twisted Pepper, 54 Middle Abbey Street, D2 House, Electro, Bassline 11pm, €8/5 Alternative Grunge Night Peader Kearney’s, 64 Dame St, D2 Alternative grunge 11pm, €5/3 Eamonn Sweeney The Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 10pm Jason Mackay Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 Dance, R’n’B, House 9pm Fromage The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Motown Soul, Rock Free Davina’s House Party The George, Sth Great Georges St, D2 Drinks Promos, Killer Tunes and Hardcore Glamour 9pm, Free before 11pm, €4 with flyer After Work Party The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple Bar, D2 Live Rock with Totally Wired.

6pm, Free before 11pm Big Time!

The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, Portobello, D2 You Tube nights, hat partys... make and do for grown ups! With a DJ. The Panti Show Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 Gay cabaret.

10pm n Mofo + One By One + DJ Jenny T Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Free, 9pm – 1.30am The Bionic Rats The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Dance, Jump and Skii to Reggae and Ska Free, 10pm

The Beauty Spot Dakota Bar, 8 South William Street, Dublin 2.

A new night of Fashion, Beauty, Shopping and Drinks in association with Style Nation and sponsored by Smirnoff.

7pm, Free The Odeon Movie Club The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Classic Movies on the Big Screen at 8pm. Full waiter service and cocktails from €5. June Dark Comedy.

8pm, Free Tanked-Up Tramco Nightclub, Rathmines Student Night, Drinks From €2 10:30pm, €5 Jugs Rock O’Reillys, Tara St. Late Rock Bar, All Pints €3.20, Pitchers €8 9pm, €5 Thirsty Student Purty Loft, Dun Laoghaire Student Night, All Drinks €3.50 10pm, €5 entry Davina’s Club Party The George, George’s St., D2 Free, 11pm Davina Divine hosts with Peaches Queen, Bare Buff Butlers & Special Guests M*A*S*H South William DJs Matjazz, Baby Dave, Lex Woo 8pm, Free Fridays Housemusicweekends Pygmalion, Sth. William St., D2 House music magnet with special guests each week 12pm, Free NoDisko Pravda, Lower Liffey Street, D1 Indie/Rock N Roll/ Dance 10pm – 2.30pm.

T.P.I. Fridays Pygmalion, South William St, D2 Pyg residents Beanstalk, Larry David Jr. + guests play an eclectic warm-up leading up to a guest house set every week.

9pm, Free Hustle The Odeon, Old Harcourt St. Station, D2 Dance floor Disco, Funk and favourites. All Cocktails €5/. Pints, Shorts & Shots €4 10pm, Free

DJ Dexy Fitzsimons Bar, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Energetic blend of dancefloor fillers Free, 11pm

Friday Hi-Fi Alchemy, 12-14 Fleet St, D2 Rock, Funky House and Disco 10.30pm

Eamonn Barrett 4 Dame Lane, D2 Electro Indie Free, 10pm

Disco Not Disco Shine Bar, 40 Wexford St, D2 Disco, house, funk & soul 9.30pm

Thursdays at Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St., D2 DJs and dancing until 2.30am. Cocktail promotions.

8pm, Free

Global Zoo Hogans, 35 Sth Gt Georges St, D2 Groovalizacion bringing their infectious and tropical selection including Cumbia, Samba, Dub, Reggae, Balkan, Latin and Oriental Sound 9pm, Free

Fridays @ The Turk’s Head The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, Temple Bar, D1 Live guest bands and DJs 11pm, Free

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Off the Charts Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 R&B with Frank Jez and DJ Ahmed 11pm, €5 Muzik The Button Factory, Curved St, Temple Bar, D2 Up-Beat Indie, New Wave, Bouncy Electro 11pm

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Rotate Solas Bar, 31 Wexford St, D2 Oliver T Cunningham mixes it up for the

weekend!

8pm, Free

of the best

Takeover Twentyone Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Electro, Techno 11pm, €5

Friday Tea-Time Club Break for the Border, Johnston’s Place, Lower Stephens St, D2 Karaoke with Cormac and Stevo from 6pm.

Budweiser promotions. DJs until late.

Searsons, 42-44 Baggot St. Upper, D4 Indie, Rock, Electro 9pm, Free

CLUBBING

The Bodega Social Bodega Club, Pavilion Centre, Marine Rd, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin Soul and Disco with Eamonn Barrett The xx 11pm, €10 (ladies free before midnight)

Fridays @ Café En Seine Café En Seine, 39 Dawson St, D2 DJS and dancing until 3am. Cocktail promotions 8pm, Free

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Cosmopolitan Club M, Anglesea St, Temple Bar, D1 Chart, Dance, R&B 11pm, €9 with flyer Afrobass South William, 52 Sth William St, D2 Dub, Ska, Afrobeat 9pm, Free Foreplay Friday The Academy, Middle Abbey St, D2 R ‘n’ B, Hip Hop, Garage 10.30pm, €10 after 11pm

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Hells Kitchen The Dice Bar, Queen St, Smithfield, D7 Funk and Soul classics Free Friday Night Globe DJ The Globe, 11 Sth Great Georges St, D2 DJ Eamonn Barrett plays an eclectic mix 11pm, Free Ri-Ra Guest Night Ri-Ra, Dame Court, D2 International and home-grown DJ talent 11pm, €10 from 11.30pm

Friday 13th December Tripod Scribble €14, 7:30pm The Bernard Shaw, 11 - 12 Sth Richmond St, The year’s most hyped young ‘uns play the Portobello, D2 follow up show from their early afternoon Funk, House, Dubstep, Hip Hop Electric Picnic slot. We thought it was trouser8pm, Freebut others thought it was wreckingly good, pants-wettingly bad. They’ve been touring Room Serviceexhaustion since then, to the point of literal so hopefully Tripod Feile,their Wexford St., show D2 will be a little less contentious.

And we just won’t wearand Latin, Funk, Disco, uplifting Choons trousers this time.

Classics

9pm, Free

Feedback Festival Frat Fridays Saturday Twentyone 5th December Club and Lounge, D’Olier St, D2 Whelan’s Student night with drinks promos and DJ Karen €10, 8pm 10pm 10 quid for 9 of the better Irish bands is probably the best deal we’ve been offered John Fitz + The K9s + DJ Darren C and DJ since the Camden Casket start selling barelyMick B in-date Red Bull. With Cap Pas Cap, 202s, Fitzsimons Bar,Turpin, 21-22 Wellington Quay, Temple Paddy Kelleher, David and Valarie Francis allBar, onD2 the bill, and said tenner going Free,Peter 8pmMcVerry – 2.30am trust, we know towards the where we’ll be snaking our cheapo taurine juice on the 5th December DJ Ronan M and DJ Ross

Fitzsimons Club, 21-22 Wellington Quay,

Temple& Bar, D2 Hercules Love Affair

Saturday Funky 12th December Friday and music mayhem Tripod Free, 11pm €20, 10pm Regular Listings readers already know of our Green Sunrise Love Affair with Herc – his last visit was a The Turk’s Head, Parliament St & Essex Gate, DJ set, but December sees the return of the Temple Bar, D1 ginger disco magician to the live sphere. With Funky club house, Elektronika and Disco with the potential of new material to tempt doubtsome guilty pleasures ers, this should be an end of year winner.

Free Late Night Fridays Deer Tick & Megafaun The Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Leeson St, D2 Fridays @ 4 Dame Lane Sunday 6th December Residents include The Burlesque and Cabaret Whelan’s 4 Dame Lane, D2 Social Club & Choice Cuts €12, 8pmRock n Roll with Rory Montae in the bar while 11pm and MarinaOrplay House and Deer TickAoife in a Nicanna word? ‘Soused’. maybe Breaks‘pissed and Beats the tits’, club if ‘wrecked’.Latino I suppose off in their you’d like10pm, to take War Freethe eloquent route. Their influences are the neat triumvirate of beer, Andrew’s Lane Theatre music, and girls in cowboy Indie, Electro and Pop Basement Traxx boots - which might sound like 35 theSth formula for the 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7/€10 Hogans, Gt Georges St, D2 forthcoming Kings of Leon Greatest Hits Freestyle club with DJ’s Half Dutch and package. Deer Tick’s is a far more greasier Al Redmond Dejackulate spinning funk breaks, hip hop, affair though. Frontman John McCauley Sin, Sycamore St, Temple Bar, D2 ska, reggae and party nuggets sounds like he’s been drinking from ashtrays, R’n’B, House, Chart 10pm, Free and the band’s garage-crafted alt-country is 9pm a sweet reminder of a genre too glossed up Let’s and MakeMy Party by the Wilcos Morning Jackets of Fridays at V1 the worldThe Village, 26 Wexford St, D2 The Vaults, Harbourmaster Place, IFSC, D1 With DJ Mikki Dee Progressive Tribal, Techno and Trance Miley10pm, Free Cyrus 10pm, €5 before 11pm, €10 after Wednesday 16th December The O2 DJ Barry Dunne From €65.70, 7.30pm Sticky Disco Buskers, Temple Bar, D2 And nowChart we’rePop, standing theand rainRock Music The Purty Kitchen, 34/35 East Essex St, Temple CurrentinIndie But nothing’s Bar, D2 10pmever gonna change A gay techno electro disco in the club and Until you hear, my dear things I hate about you. indie, rock, pop, mash and gravy in the mainThe sevenAnto’s X Factor room The George, George’s St., D2 10pm, Free before 11pm, €7 after Free, 9pm

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Sub Zero Transformer (below The Oak), Parliment St, D2 Indie, Rock, Mod 11pm, Free Stephens Street Social Club Bia Bar, 28/30 Lwr Stephens St, D2 Funk, Soul, Timeless Classics Panticlub Panti Bar, 7-8 Capel St, D1 DJ Paddy Scahill Free before 11pm, €5 with flyer, €8 without Music with Words The Grand Social, Lwr. Liffey St, D1 Indie, Ska, Soul, Electro 9.30pm, Free Processed Beats

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Prize €1,000 & Professsional Recording Session followed by DJ Karen Late Night Live Gaiety Theatre Live music 11pm, €TBC Saturdays Shindig Shebeen Chic, Georges St, D2 Each and every Saturday you’ll find the Shindig Crew rocking Shebeen Chic’s quirky Bar with an eclectic mix of music to move to.

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Comedy June The International Wicklow St., D2

Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian 8.30pm, €5/€7

Mondays Improv night 8.45pm, €8/€10

The Bankers

Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash There’s free biscuits 8.45pm, €5

Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10

Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley Ireland’s longest running comedy night 9pm, €8/€10

Trinity St., D2

Saturdays Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne 9.00pm, €8/€10

The International Wicklow St., D2 Mondays Improv night 8.45pm, €8/€10 Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash There’s free biscuits 8.45pm, €5

Wednesdays Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian 8.30pm, €5/€7 The Bankers

Saturday The International Comedy Club Early and late shows 8pm and 10.30pm, €8/10

South Great George’s St., D2 Sundays & Mondays Comedy Crunch Stand-up comedy Sundays & Mondays From June, One Man Tuesdays 9.00pm, Free

Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10

Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley Ireland’s longest running comedy night 9pm, €8/€10

Saturdays Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne 9.00pm, €8/€10

Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/€10

Shebeen Chic

Saturday The International Comedy Club Early and late shows 8pm and 10.30pm, €8/10

South Great George’s St., D2 Sundays & Mondays Comedy Crunch Stand-up comedy Sundays & Mondays From June, One Man Tuesdays 9.00pm, Free

Comedy once-offs Sunday What’s New at The International New material night 8.45pm, €5 Ha’penny Bridge Inn Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Tuesdays & Thursdays Battle of the Axe Dublin’s long standing open mic night 9.00pm, €9 Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club Hosted by Simon O’Keeffe 9.30pm, €7/€5

Jimmy Carr Olympia Theatre, D2 10th & 11th June 8.00pm, €33.60 - €36.60 La Carnival The Laughter Lounge In aid of the Niall Mellon Township Trust 10th June, €25 Des Bishop Vicar St, D2 11th June 8.30pm, €28

Parnell Street, D1

Tommy Tiernan Vicar St, D2 Friday, 16th,17th , 24th & 25th June 8.30pm, €35

Mondays The Comedy Shed Resident MC Damien Clarke 9.00pm, €5

PJ Gallagher Vicar St, D2 30th June 8.30pm, €28

Anseo

Inn Jokes with Colm O’Regan Patriots Inn Pub, Kilmainham, D8 Wednesday, June See innjokes.com for details 9.00pm, Free

The Wool Shed Baa & Grill

Camden St., D2 Wednesdays

Sunday What’s New at The International New material night 8.45pm, €5 Ha’penny Bridge Inn Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Tuesdays & Thursdays Battle of the Axe Dublin’s long standing open mic night 9.00pm, €9

The Wool Shed Baa & Grill Parnell Street, D1 Mondays The Comedy Shed Resident MC Damien Clarke 9.00pm, €5 Anseo Camden St., D2

Tommy Tiernan Vicar St, D2 Friday, 16th,17th , 24th & 25th June 8.30pm, €35 PJ Gallagher Vicar St, D2 30th June 8.30pm, €28 Inn Jokes with Colm O’Regan Patriots Inn Pub, Kilmainham, D8 Wednesday, June See innjokes.com for details 9.00pm, Free The International Wicklow St., D2

The Bankers Trinity St., D2 Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10 Saturdays Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne 9.00pm, €8/€10 Shebeen Chic

Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club Hosted by Simon O’Keeffe 9.30pm, €7/€5

Des Bishop Vicar St, D2 11th June 8.30pm, €28

Trinity St., D2

Shebeen Chic Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/€10

In aid of the Niall Mellon Township Trust 10th June, €25

South Great George’s St., D2 Sundays & Mondays Comedy Crunch Stand-up comedy Sundays & Mondays From June, One Man Tuesdays 9.00pm, Free

Mondays Improv night 8.45pm, €8/€10

Wellington Quay, Temple Bar, D2 Tuesdays & Thursdays Battle of the Axe Dublin’s long standing open mic night 9.00pm, €9 Wednesdays & Sundays Capital Comedy Club Hosted by Simon O’Keeffe 9.30pm, €7/€5 The Wool Shed Baa & Grill Parnell Street, D1 Mondays The Comedy Shed Resident MC Damien Clarke 9.00pm, €5 Anseo Camden St., D2 Wednesdays Laugh Out Loud Resident MC Aidan Killian 8.30pm, €5/€7 The Bankers Trinity St., D2

Tuesdays Andrew Stanley’s Comedy Mish Mash There’s free biscuits 8.45pm, €5

Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10

Wednesdays The Comedy Cellar with Andrew Stanley Ireland’s longest running comedy night 9pm, €8/€10

Saturdays Stand Up at The Bankers Resident MC Peter O’Byrne 9.00pm, €8/€10

Thursdays & Fridays The International Comedy Club Resident MC Aidan Bishop 8.45pm, €8/€10

Shebeen Chic

Comedy once-offs

Saturday The International Comedy Club Early and late shows 8pm and 10.30pm, €8/10

Jimmy Carr Olympia Theatre, D2 10th & 11th June 8.00pm, €33.60 - €36.60

Sunday What’s New at The International New material night 8.45pm, €5

La Carnival The Laughter Lounge

Ha’penny Bridge Inn

South Great George’s St., D2 Sundays & Mondays Comedy Crunch Stand-up comedy Sundays & Mondays From June, One Man Tuesdays 9.00pm, Free The Bankers Trinity St., D2 Thursdays & Fridays Comedy improv with The Craic Pack 9.00pm, €8/€10

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Visual Art June 13 North Frederick Street

Dublin Castle, D8

Group Show All-female group exhibition showing drawings and paintings by Helen Downey, Laura Mcauliffe and Leeza Marie Romans with photographic works by Irene Siragusa.

May 13 – June 8 Back Loft 7-11 Augustine Street, D2 Movement of Sound Movement of Sound seeks to combine movement and sound in a way that will speak across a number of artistic platforms, attracting fresh anduntried audiences and creating new and more complete experiences of movement, sound, movement through sound and sound through movement. This project will involve 4 artists: Karen Power (Composer / Live Electronics), Mary Nunan (Dancer and Choreographer), Deirdre O’Leary (Clarinettist) and Kate Ellis (Cellist).

This type of program aims to bring a more holistic performance to its audience, where sound, sight and movement are all considered equally, creating a specific type of environment.

June 19 Blackrock Market Café Main Street, Blackrock, D4 Veronica Heywood – Ag Seasamh An Fhoid Dún Laoghaire artist, Veronica Heywood showcases her mythological landscapes in a solo show at The Blackrock Market Cafe in May and June. ‘Ag Seasamh an Fhóid’ will feature a selection of works from throughout her career. The exhibition is curated by Tony Strickland. In her practice, Veronica creates a visual diary of Ireland through Watercolour and Drawing. When she sets out to visit a new part of Ireland, she researches it’s history, archaeology, flora and fauna, and it’s people, so that she will know where to look for inspiration. Veronica always works plein-air, to capture the magic of the moment.

May 10 – June 19 Blue Leaf Gallery The Observatory, 7-11 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, D2 Suzy O’Mullane New work May 19 – June 10 Centre for Creative Practices 15 Pembroke Street Lower, D2 Janusz Kapusta – ‘The Captive Mind and other illustrations’ ArtPolonia is honoured to present an exhibition of selected works by Janusz Kapusta including his illustrations of “The Captive Mind” along with his other awards wining illustrations.

Janusz Kapusta’s work can be found in the collections of many museums and galleries around the world including Museum of Modern Art in New York, Museum of Modern Art in Lodz, The IBM Collection. His work ranges from small graphic forms, posters, magazine illustrations, graphic design, book illustrations, to set designs and painting. In 1985 Janusz Kapusta also discovered a new geometrical shape – an eleven faced polyhedron, which he called the K-dron, used in fine arts and architecture and in the applied arts. In May 2004, Kapusta won a Grand Prix in an international competition in Ankara commemorating the 80th Anniversary of the Turkish Republic. As a visiting professor, Kapusta collaborated with the newly established School of Visual Art and New Media in Warsaw.

May 26 – June 12 Chester Beatty Library

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The Art Books of Henri Matisse The Library is delighted to announce that the Library and Bank of America Merrill Lynch will present this exciting exhibition of the art books of Henri Matisse. The exhibition will feature four of Matisse’s most artistically significant books on loan from the Bank of America Merrill Lynch Collection together with works by Matisse belonging to the Chester Beatty Library.

This exhibition is provided by Bank of America Merrill Lynch Art in our Communities programme.

May 26 – September 25

troops and people.

The construction of steal structures (designed for longevity and accountability) existed alongside tents that (on the construction sites) appropriated the nomadic lifestyle and material culture that the new railway was soon to extinguish. For this exhibition Raum installs an extensive, tent-like structure stretching from floor to ceiling in the gallery. The tent is made from long pieces of cotton fabric, which were dyed and painted to show what could be traces of time and different usage. Voices reading out reports and file entries by German and British engineers and diplomats fill the space between the fabric.

May 5 – June 17

the apprehension of space. The installation creates an unbounded wall-painting that is both parasite in and protagonist to its cultural and architectural setting. Each gains meaning according to the other and this reciprocity mirrors our potential dialogue with the artwork.

An understandable aesthetic pleasure is thus evoked but the de-materialised nature of the work also interrogates the exhibiting function of the institution and its values.

May 18 – August 21

Cross Gallery

Gormley’s Fine Art

59 Francis Street, D8

24 South Fredrick Street, D2

She would argue a Crow is White Solo exhibition by Ann Quinn June 9 – July 2

Summer Exhibition Gormleys Fine Art look forward to the Summer season with new works by their many artists, including, Sean Cotter, Peter Monaghan, Jonathan Aiken, Rowland Davidson, Tony Lynch, and Eileen Meagher.

June 16 – July 16

Philip Taaffe - Anima Mundi This survey exhibition of the work of the American painter Philip Taaffe, features 34 mixed media, mostly abstract paintings from the last ten years. Taaffe’s work has been celebrated in museums around the world for its rich fusion of abstraction with ornamentation, combining elements of Islamic architecture, Op Art, Eastern European textile design, calligraphy and botanical illustration. The exhibition includes many of the most striking examples of the vivid, complex images that result from Taaffe’s highly individual use of line and colour.

March 23 - June 12

The Doorway Gallery 24 South Frederick St, D2 Summer Selection ‘Summer Selection’ is a group show including work by Michael Flaherty, Lucy Doyle, Francis Boag, Brian Mc Donagh and sculpture by Seamus Connolly.

May 10 – June 8 Douglas Hyde Gallery Nassau Street, D2 Mairead O’hEocha June 10 – July 13 Mark Manders – Two Interconnected Houses June 10 – July 13 Draiocht

Green on Red Gallery Lombard Street. D2 John Cronin – Augmented Reality In John Cronin’s large oil on aluminium paintings called Augmented Reality we see the artist at his best. Few Irish artists can achieve the sumptuousness and visual exuberance in pushing the boundaries of technique and possibilities with colour as Cronin shows himself capable of doing here. The continuing Augmented Reality series points to a hyper-overloaded information age. Layer after layer of lurid purples and greens and yellows assert the vibrancy of colour abstraction that persists in his work, healthy as ever.

May 20 – June 18

Blanchardstown, D15

Hello Operator

Desmond Kenny For the past 22 years Kenny has worked as a figurative painter. Through portraiture, landscape, the nude figure and Dublin City Street scenes he has explored diverse subject matter. Over the past 3 years his style has shifted into that of a more abstract painter.

The sudden change occurred whilst looking at paintings produced by his grand niece in his studio. Her work appeared free and spontaneous and not bound by art history. To tap into this elemental childlike creativity the artist removed all figuration from his work. Whilst still concerned with painting the resulting body of work is greatly removed from Kenny’s previous practice.

This will be the first major solo exhibition of Kenny’s new departure into abstract painting.

A retrospective of Kenny’s earlier figurative work will run concurrently in the First Floor Gallery.

June 9 – August 27

12 Rutland Place, D1

Goethe Institut Irland 37 Merrion Square, D2 Judith Raum Since 2009, Judith Raum has engaged in artistic research dealing with the effects of German profit-orientated expansion on the cultural relations between the German and the Ottoman Empire during the early 20th century.

In a solo-exhibition and lecture performance for The Return Gallery, Judith Raum will follow a few narrative threads from this research.

In 1888, the Ottoman Empire commissioned a corporation founded by Deutsche Bank and German construction firms to construct the Anatolian Railway – a railway crossing present-day Turkey, which was intended eventually to reach the oilfields around Baghdad. The infrastructural system into Anatolia enabled fluent trade of goods,

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Bridget O’Gorman – Vitreous Humour Vitreous Humour is an evolving collection of drawings and found, invented or crafted objects. Informed by themes of mass-production and consumption, the cast porcelain figurine relates specific association whilst simulating life. Referencing art history and 19th Century artefact, the work alludes to an ethos of anthropomorphism and collation, raising questions about value and function of the inanimate as well as the construction of fiction as a human requirement or didactic device.

May 12 – June 12 Hillsboro Fine Art 49 Parnell Square West, D1 Ross Bleckner and Jeff Schneider ‘New York Paintings’ May 26 – June 18 LUST: Fiona Dowling, John Kindness and Sheila Rennick June 23 – July 22 Hugh Lane Parnell Square North, D1 The Golden Bough: Sean Shanahan Sean Shanahan’s installation for the Golden Bough is neither a painting nor a sculpture, but an open space: an interludium inviting reflection upon the social function and authority of the museum and the canons it values. Painting and drawing, placing and framing are the nuts and bolts of his response to gallery 8.

Shanahan’s work is concerned with foreground and background, light and colour and the power of colour quantities to morph

IMMA Military Road, D8

Old Master Prints An exhibition of Old Master prints by many of the most famous artists ever to work with print-making. Works by Albrecht Dürer, Francisco de Goya, William Hogarth and Rembrandt van Rijn are all featured in Old Master Prints: The Madden Arnholz Collection, which is drawn from the Madden Arnholz Collection. It was donated to the Royal Hospital Kilmainham (RHK) in 1989 by Claire Madden, prior to the opening of the Museum in 1991. The exhibition is curated by Janet and John Banville.

March 23 – June 26 Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera: Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection Masterpieces of the Jacques and Natasha Gelman Collection, presents the iconic paintings of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, the two central figures of Mexican Modernism.

Few artists have captured the public’s imagination with the force of Mexican painter Frida Kahlo (1907 – 1954) and her husband, the Mexican painter and muralist Diego Rivera (1886 – 1957). The myths that surrounded them in their lifetime arose not only from their significant body of work, but also from their active participation in the life of their time, their friendships (and conflicts) with leading figures, their imposing physical appearance and spirited natures. The paintings exhibited include key images by Kahlo such as Self Portrait with Monkeys, and Self Portrait as a Tehuana or Diego in My Thoughts, and the major work by Rivera, Calla Lily Vendors (all 1943). The paintings are supplemented by other works including diaries, lithographs, drawings, pastels and collages – all offering a rich visual experience for the visitor. Also included are striking photographs of Kahlo and Rivera by Lucienne Bloch, Héctor García, Martin Munkacsi, Nickolas Muray and Bernard Silberstein.

April 6 – June 26 Les Levine: Three Works from the 1970s Regarded as the founder of Media Art, New York based, Irish artist Les Levine has donated to IMMA three series of etching and photographic works made in the 1970s. In the works, he mixes text and image to reinforce his belief that social and political problems are valid concerns for art.

March 23 – June 12 Twenty As part of the celebrations marking the Irish Museum of Modern Art’s 20th anniversary, Twenty, an exhibition featuring twenty artists, opens to the public on the 28 May 2011. The

exhibition presents a younger generation of Irish and international artists whose work is seen increasingly on the international stage.

Commonalties and dialogues appear between the artworks in Twenty, but the exhibition seeks to allow sufficient space that each artists’ work may be viewed as an individual practice. The show includes installations, photography, painting and sculpture, and featured are artworks from IMMA’s Collection

by Orla Barry, Stephen Brandes, Nina Canell, Fergus Feehily, Patrick M FitzGerald, John Gerrard, David Godbold, Katie Holten, Paddy Jolley, Nevan Lahart, Niamh McCann, Willie McKeown, Perry Ogden, Liam O’Callaghan, Niamh O’Malley, Alan Phelan, Garrett Phelan, Eva Rothschild and Corban Walker. The exhibition also features a borrowed piece by Irish artist Sean Lynch.

May 27 – October 31 Barrie Cooke Organised to mark Barrie Cooke’s 80th birthday, this exhibition includes some 70 paintings and sculptural works from the early 1960s to the present. It draws from the Museum’s own significant holding of his works, including Slow Dance Forest Floor , 1976, Megaceros Hibernicus , 1983 and Electric Elk, 1996, as well as loans from various private and institutional collections.

June 15 – September 2011 Instituto Cervantes

on loss and love, the dead and the living, and the indestructibility of the human spirit.

Taking Michaels’ themes of archaeology, memory, loss and the body as central concerns, the artists articulate these ideas through their individual work processes.

June 8 - 14 Kerlin Gallery Anne’s Lane, D2 Repo Man Released in 1984, Repo Man is a film produced and set in the economic recession of the 1980s and follows a young punk rocker in L.A. who falls into his first ever job - a repossession agent. Both the role of repossession agent and the film’s underlying theme of youth in revolt present loose departure points to consider the assemblage of respective practices presented in Repo Man at Kerlin Gallery. Sam Keogh, Fiona Hallinan, Ruth Lyons, and Joseph Noonan-Ganley have developed distinctive practices that consider their positions as both artists and political subjects. What is commonly termed in fine art as ‘appropriation’ may also be viewed as ‘repossession’. Time ensures repossession is an inevitable process and although authorship is protected posthumously, future generations will most likely appropriate aspects of work into new contexts, often changing meaning and blurring originality.

May 20 – June 25

May 12 – June 10 Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Carlos Araya Vargas For the first time in Ireland, the Instituto Cervantes together with the Embassy of Chile are pleased to invite you to enjoy the most recent work from the renowned Chilean artist Carlos Araya Vargas – “Carlanga”, with his collection ‘Bucolic Landscapes’ made up of 10 oil canvasses in big format. He trained in the School of Fine Arts at the University of Chile, and has resided for over 20 years in Paris.

Carlanga has had a long career as a graphic artist and has won prestigious awards in Chile, France and other countries. In addition, this artist is one of the most relevant representatives of the Chilean current contemporary scene of the last 20 years.

May 12 – June 10

Chancery Lane, D8 Mark McGreevy June 2 – 25 Vanessa Donoso Lopez June 30 – July 23 KTContemporary 25-27 Donnybrook Road, D4 Danleo The first big solo show of the London-born Dublin-based graphic designer and street artist. Presented by le cool Dublin.

May 12 – June 18

The Ivy House MadArt Gallery 114 Upper Drumcondra Road, D9 56 Lower Gardiner Street, D1 Grace O’Sullivan – Out of Eden Art at The Ivy House is delighted to present the first solo exhibition by artist Grace O’Sullivan.

Grace’s interest in gender representation and religious belief systems comes together in this exhibition entitled Out of Eden. She is fascinated by signs and symbols, myths, mysticism and illusion which are always important elements in her work to create layers of meaning. The work in the exhibition developed from her research into newspaper photography and an ongoing interest in the powerful affect religion has had on society and in particular the repercussions of the story of Adam and Eve. The series of photographs explores the ideas of power and religion, and has a subtle narrative, allowing the viewer some freedom to interpret the work and draw their own conclusions. All the photographs were taken in a former Magdalene Laundry. The paintings developed from the photographs and as such are an extension of the friction between outside powers and the self, and the legacy of the story of genesis.

May 5 – August 1 The Joinery Arbour Hill, Stoneybatter, D7 Yvonne Woods & Susan Montgomery Susan Montgomery and Yvonne Woods have created work inspired by the prose of the Canadian writer Anne Michaels. Their inspiration is drawn directly from Michaels’ 1996 novel ‘Fugitive Pieces,’ a profound meditation

Jacqueline Nicholson “Thus the shadow of the object fell upon the ego” is Jacqueline Nicholson’s first solo exhibition since graduating from IADT in 2010 with a BA (Hons) Degree in Visual Arts Practice. This exhibition is a continuation of her graduation piece “Templates” along with new paintings and drawings. Jacqueline’s work explores the theories of psychoanalytical concepts. For this exhibition she has studied Freud’s theory of mourning and melancholia and how this concept affects, shapes and impinges on our lives. This new work is Jacqueline’s understanding of mourning and melancholia.

June 2 – 9 Monster Truck Gallery 4 Temple Bar, D2 Meadhbh O’Connor - Biosphere Biosphere is the first solo show by Dublinbased artist Meadhbh O’ Connor. The show brings together new works arising from the experimental path O’ Connor’s practice has taken since graduating from IADT in 2009.

Working predominately through installation, over the last year O’ Connor has begun to experiment with the use of living organisms in her work such as various plants and fungi. The show will also feature a text by Dublin-based curator Seán O’ Sullivan.

May 28 – June 7

Two years shy of his fortieth birthday and Conor McPherson is certainly living up to his reputation for helping relight the torch sparked by Synge, Shaw and O’Casey. With his plays preformed globally, he’s also dripped his ink across the the nation’s silverscreens with a trio of movies (I Went Down, The Actors, The Eclipse) that may not have hit the mark, precisely, but at least don’t stench out the provincial box office like Wide Open Spaces.

Having caught the writing bug in UCD’s Drama Soc he spread the virus through his love of monologued drama, casting the most noticeable stylistic shadow over Celtic Tiger-era theater. He may have fallen into it as a way to meet the meager means of the small theatre company he set up after college, Fly By Night, but soon every new Bic that hoped to leap from page to stage was scrawling out their own soliloquies on the contents of the kitty’s litter.

“It seemed to happen that within a couple of years of me doing it, a lot of monologue theatre started to appear. And part of the reason I didn’t want to go back there [he hasn’t written a monologue piece since 2001] was because it had become bit much.

I was glad to move on. It was a phase I went through more than anything I was consciously trying to achieve.”

But the dye was set and McPherson’s brand of theatre was as distinct to the Irish stage of the time as the tacky café lattés, brown envelopes and grind school educations that popped

up elsewhere. What does McPherson think of its legacy?

“I think that what we realize now is that all the shit that was going on in the State at the time was an illusion.

And these smaller plays were small because they needed to protect what was real. Because what was going on around us was not real. Somehow the darkness could only be addressed in a very private, personal way.”

This darkness appears to be the calling card of the Irish writer. “There is a lot of darkness in our society. An awful lot of addiction and violence.

Throw in the heady mix of Catholicism and I don’t know what else we could have written about. “ But what is it that international audiences have latched onto in McPherson’s work, given that his plays are usually set in a very localized environment and the people in them are as bound to one place as possible?

“Perhaps it’s because there is a big supernatural element to a lot of my work. Those fears and questions we have about the afterlife - God, salvation - are things that preoccupy people in other cultures. It transcends borders.”

There have been a few good days at the office of late, with his production of The Birds winning near universal acclaim and The Sea Farer about to

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Festivals June Mary Swander, Seamus Cashman, and Joan McBreen

festival cleverly draws on Dalkey’s great numbers of literary residents.

9th June, Irish Writer’s Centre Poetry Ireland in association with the Irish Writer’s Centre and Dublin UNESCO city of Literature. Iowa’s Poet Laureate, Mary Swander, will give a reading. Swander is author of several memoirs and three books of poetry. www.writerscentre.ie

Ulysses Day aka Bloomsday

Taste of Dublin 9th-12th June, Iveagh Gardens Entry from €15 Held in Iveagh Gardens, Taste of Dublin is a gathering of the city’s most exciting gastronomical offerings, a four-day outdoor foodie playground. Go for the eleven top chefs taking part in the ‘chef theatre’, the wine tastings, and over a hundred artisan food producers. www.tastefestivals.ie Salmon Poetry Book Launch 10th June, 7pm, Irish Writer’s Centre The launch of two new collections of poetry, Joseph Lennon’s Fell Hunger and Padraig O’Morain’s The Blue Guitar.

Dalkey Book Festival 16th-19th June www.dalkeybookfestival.org Roddy Doyle, Maeve Binchy, Neil Jordan, John Simpson and Sinead Moriarty are just some of the writer’s who will be taking part in the Dalkey Book Festival, now in it’s second year.

Set up as a response to the community’s dwindling trade during the recession, the

11th-16th June Sophie Mayer & Nina Karacosta 16th June Cat and Cage, Upper Drumcondra Road Poetry Ireland in association with Wurm Im Apfel.

Street Performance World Championship 16th-19th June Merrion Square, Free Contortionists, magicians, breakdancers, comedians and world class jesters will all be battling it out in Merrion Square for the AIB street performance world championship title. www.spwc.ie Where’s Wally World Record 18th-19th June Merrion Square, Price €12 per costume Building upon the success of last year’s space hopper world record, the street performance festival is hoping to gather together a worldrecord breaking Where’s Wally gathering. Tens of thousands of Wallys are needed, so head down and show the love.

Dublin LGBTQ Pride Festival 17th-26th June Head down for the visual spectacular that is the pride parade (second only to the St. Pat-

rick’s day festival in size), to be held on June 25th, whether your LGBTQ, have friends or family who are, or are simply interested in celebrating diversity and creating mutual respect. Alongside the parade itself, the festival will feature events like the sports day and dog show, the day of dance, poetry, and song, and stage performances at the post-parade party.

Check out www.dublinpride.ie for more information.

25th-26th June Maracycle is co-operation Ireland’s flagship bike challenge, a 200 mile a day cycle over 2 days, which will starts off in Dublin and heads up to Belfast via the scenic route. Cyclists will have the choice of cycling on either Saturday (the Dublin to Belfast route) or the return journey on Sunday. Hardcore cyclists can participate in both journeys if they wish, and there’s even a Minicycle of 50 miles for the less manic. www.cooperationireland.org/maracycle

Dublin 30km Lunar Walk

Taking place as part of the aforementioned Dance Theatre of Ireland’s “Block Party, Summer Tour”. www.dancetheatreireland.com

Poet and Co-organiser of Over The Edge Reading Series. www.writerscentre.ie Irish Youth Dance Festival

Squarebound 3rd July, 19:15pm, Free Pavilion Theatre Taking place as part of the aforementioned Dance Theatre of Ireland’s “Block Party, Summer Tour”. www.dancetheatreireland.com

18th June, Irish Writers Centre A One-Day Comics Event concentrating on Irish Comics Creators, both in small and mainstream press here at home, and breaking into bigger markets overseas.

A Night of Prose and Poetry 25th-26th June, 10pm The diabetes foundation of Ireland holds its second sponsored Lunar Walk through the streets of Dublin, this year venturing North to the coast, ending with a sunrise and a big breakfast at the Burlington. To register or seek out more information, contact Kate Moran on 1850909909 / 018764571, email her at kate. moran@diabetes.ie, or check out www.diabetes.ie Dance Theatre of Ireland’s Block Party 26th June, 2pm, Free A smorgasbord of music, architecture, and dance. The troupe of dancers and musicians have performed throughout Ireland, Korea, and Europe. Brian Flemming and friends will be providing the percussions. Come and be immersed in a world of gigantic toy blocks.

For more details, get on to www.dancetheatreireland.com, email danceire@iol.ie, or phone in to 012803455 Maracycle

30th June, 7pm Irish Writer’s Centre Readings will be given from some of the students at the Irish Writer’s Centre. www.writerscentre.ie Publishing Seminar: Poetry and Short Stories 2nd July, 10:30am Irish Writer’s Centre A day-long Poetry and Short Stories Publishing Seminar with leading figures across a variety of branches of the publishing industry. Talks will be given by Ciaran Carty, Editor of New Irish Writing; Declan Meade, Editor of the Stinging Fly; Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director of Salmon Poetry; Kevin Barry, Short Story Writer and Novelist; and Kevin Higgins, Poet and Co-organiser of Over The Edge Reading Series. www.writerscentre.ie Irish Youth Dance Festival 3rd July, 19:15pm, Free Pavilion Theatre

Squarebound Outré Fizz Presents Le Cirque Électronique The Grand Social, July 1st A surreal electronic circus and masquerade ball

18th June, Irish Writers Centre A One-Day Comics Event concentrating on Irish Comics Creators, both in small and mainstream press here at home, and breaking into bigger markets overseas.

A Night of Prose and Poetry Outré Fizz Presents Le Cirque Électronique

30th June, 7pm Irish Writer’s Centre Readings will be given from some of the students at the Irish Writer’s Centre. www.writerscentre.ie

The Grand Social, July 1st A surreal electronic circus and masquerade ball A Night of Prose and Poetry

Publishing Seminar: Poetry and Short Stories 2nd July, 10:30am Irish Writer’s Centre A day-long Poetry and Short Stories Publishing Seminar with leading figures across a variety of branches of the publishing industry. Talks will be given by Ciaran Carty, Editor of New Irish Writing; Declan Meade, Editor of the Stinging Fly; Jessie Lendennie, Managing Director of Salmon Poetry; Kevin Barry, Short Story Writer and Novelist; and Kevin Higgins,

30th June, 7pm Irish Writer’s Centre Readings will be given from some of the students at the Irish Writer’s Centre. www.writerscentre.ie Publishing Seminar: Poetry and Short Stories 2nd July, 10:30am Irish Writer’s Centre A day-long Poetry and Short Stories Publishin

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Walting Street, Usher’s Island, D8 Kevin Cosgrove June 1 – July 9 National Botanic Gardens

Macbeth

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The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin In ‘Macbeth’, Verdi created the first Shakespearean opera to alter operatic convention to suit the play rather than attempt to force the play into the operatic mould. Verdi wrote of Shakespeare ‘ I have had him in my hands from my earliest youth, and I read and reread him continually’. ‘Macbeth’ is considered to be Verdi’s most original and exhilarating work. It premiered in Florence in1847 to critical acclaim.

8pm, €25- €120 14th November – 22nd November

Adolf

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The Tivoli Theatre, Francis Street Pip Utton’s challenging one man show Adolf is not another play about the Second World War or the psyche of Hitler but a terrifying chilling and diverse political play that demonstrates the power of rhetoric and mass manipulation of societal prejudices.

12.30pm/7.30pm, €20/€12 2nd November – 14th November

The Poor Mouth / An Béal Bocht Draiocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown.

A brand new adaptation for the stage

by Bríd Ó Gallchoir with contributions from Gearóid Ó Caireállain and Owen McCafferty. Welcome to the surreal world of Corkadoragha in Western Ireland and the home of Bonaparte O’Coonassa.

8.15pm, €16 / €12 5th December

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The Peacock Theatre, Abbey Street Terminus was a roaring hit when it received its world premiere at the Abbey Theatre in 2007. Now it makes a welcome return to the Peacock stage following a hugely successful run in New York’s Public Theater, and having picked up a prestigious Scotsman Fringe First Award at the 2008 Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

8pm, €20/25 10th November – 5th December

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The Abbey Theatre, Abbey Street Following its sell out success earlier this year, we are delighted to welcome Ages of the Moon back to the Abbey stage for a limited run. Byron and Ames are old friends, re-united by mutual desperation.

Over bourbon on ice, they sit, reflect and bicker until fifty years of love, friendship and rivalry are put to the test at the barrel of a gun.

7.30 pm €18/€15 17th November – 28th November July 2nd - 20th

Glasnevin, D9 Transformations An exhibition of work by the West Cork Craft and Design Guild. The 15 exhibitors work in a variety of media including: jewellery design, textile design, lace making, wood turning, green wood chair making, ceramics, knife making, blacksmithing and wood/furnituresculpting. ‘Transformations’ focuses on the inspiration, the materials and the process – the design, skill and craftsmanship behind the making of individual pieces. This theme is taken up by the screening of ‘An Inspired Gathering’ – the Guild’s DVD – showing beautiful and accomplished pieces produced with tremendous skill and patience from raw materials, using basic tools and equipment.

May 4 – June 12

Me Jewel & Darlin’ Me Jewel & Darlin’ is a public artwork on O’Connell Street, Dublin, beginning in January 2011. Inside a display case positioned metres north of the Spire of Dublin, an exhibition programme will showcase images and artefacts selected by artist Sean Lynch that evoke a variety of the city’s artistic and social histories.

With a nod to the by-now cultured Irish tradition of nicknames for public art, the title of the project is part of local slang, and is borrowed from Eamonn MacThomais’ 1974 book Me Jewel & Darlin’ Dublin. Located on the central axis of the city’s main thoroughfare, the display case suggests a loose alternative to the line of official monuments (Parnell, Spire, Larkin, O’Connell, etc.) that appear there.

Instead of commemorating historical achievements or momentous occasions, Me Jewel & Darlin’ will focus on incidental occurances and artistic practices that engage Dublin as a source and subject.

January 1 – June 30

and drawing emerge on carefully manipulated materials. The casting of the support mimics the layering of a painting and allows for control of the work from inception.

May 12 – June 14 Taylor Galleries 16 Kildare Street, D2 The Tenderness of Attention An exhibition in two parts by Melita Denaro June 10 – July 2 The Workman’s Club Wellington Quay, D2

RHA Ely Place, D2 181st Annual Exhibition May 24 – June 30

Pallas Projects

Pearse Street, D2

23 Lower Dominick Street, D1

Human + HUMAN+ is an interactive exhibition experience looking into the future of the human race.

Will enhancement of humans become the norm? What types of enhancements will we choose? What is our genetic future? Will computer technologies continue to change the way we socialise? HUMAN+ will explore the implications of enhancement on how we define ourselves. Could smart pills, personalised medicine, cognitive enhancement, or genetic manipulation change us into something other than human? Will converging technologies in robotics, biotechnology, nanotechnology, information technology and aesthetics create a new race?

April 15 – June 24

Traces of the Real An exhibition featuring long exposure photography by Hugh McCabe. Each image shows a gig in a Dublin venue – the shutter button being pressed at the start of a song and closed at the end, creating ghostly, ethereal images of live music performances.

May 5 - July Monster Truck

Alex Martinis Roe Workshops, archives, white boards and stenographers. The artworks, documents, objects, images (both moving and still) and texts in Alex Martinis Roe’s exhibitions are dependent on the artwork’s interlocutors (workshop participants and exhibition viewers) who record the history of their specific encounter or production without attempting to transparently communicate the content of that experience/activity. The artist employs the act of writing to engage thoughts and fantasies that are embedded within the human unconscious through interactive, performative sessions. Discussions become, via the coded products of a stenographer’s hand, abstract data banks hung on the gallery wall, while participants write upon white boards with white chalk, the next written layer overwrites the last, accumulations of dust gather beneath the writers’ feet.

May 6 – June 4

Talbot Gallery & Studios 51 Talbot Street, D1

I want to get off Simon Flemming and Jennifer Cunningham June 10th to June 28th DIT Design Show The Complex, Smithfield, Dublin A collaboration of innovative design solutions created by three DIT design courses; Visual Communication, and Interior & Furniture Design and Product Design.

June 7th - 11th DIT Graduate Photography Exhibition 2011 Gallery of Photography & The National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square, Dublin 2

Jane Fogarty - | p nti NG | Jane’s work roots itself in the realm of painting, exploring the ontology and materiality of the medium while placing a strong emphasis on the process of creation. | p nti NG | is a manifestation of a recent body of work in which equal importance is given to support, medium and action. Through the use of time based structures, contemplative paintings

June 7th - 26th

of lust, rejection, manipulation and self-denial - a darkly comic re-imaging of Shakespeare’s classic tale for the 21st Century Project Arts Centre, May 31st - June 18th, 8pm, €20/16

subsequent promotion, only for secrets and lies bubbling under the surface to emerge by the evening’s end, with devastating and lifechanging consequences for all. By Brian Friel Draiocht Theatre, June 7th - 10th, 8.15pm, €15

Iphigenia in Aulis

Zocorro Rose of Tralee

Philly lived and played for his team, the jersey, the parish, his friends - the very pitch his enemies are now trying to take from him to turn into a housing estate.

New Theatre, June 13th - 18th, 8pm, €15/12

When Helen, Queen of Sparta, abandons her husband for the Prince of Troy a thousand ships are launched on a mission to reclaim her and to punish Troy. Performed by Classic Stage Ireland.

Project Arts Centre, June 17th - July 2nd, 8.15pm, €20/16

Lovers

Tarry Flynn

Zocorro is a Spanish testosterone-fuelled Nanny who tackles the giants of nannying Foxrock children, hospitals, leprechauns and Ryanair. She will sacrifice love and bare whatever is necessary to achieve her goal: to be crowned the Rose of Tralee, and win the keys to the Volvo that come with it Draiocht Theatre, June 17th - 18th, 2pm/8.15pm, €14

Brian Friel’s dark comedy classic.

New Theatre, June 27th - July 9th, 8pm, €15/12

Poet-farmer Tarry with his nose in a book, his head in the clouds, his hand on a spade and his heart yearning for love, is permanently at odds with the prosaic, hard-scrabble, smallhorizoned, backbiting existence of his fellow farmers in an adaptation of Patrick Kavanagh’s classic novel Mill Theatre, June 8th - 18th, 8pm, €18/15

Project Arts Centre 39 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, D2

Molesworth Street, D2

on the small French town of Le Blanc, where a coalition of local artisans and shopkeepers have created one of the last refuges for indigenous currencies. Le Blanc is still accepting the franc as payment for goods and services in certain shops although it is technically no longer legal tender, and will continue to accept it until 17 February 2012 a deadline imposed by the Banque de France. Produced against a backdrop of extreme economic vulnerability, both internationally and in Ireland, Browne’s project hones in on a community story that becomes the lens through which to examine the depth of emotional investment, and resistance to change, in economic systems.

May 5 – June 25

The Science Gallery

Oliver Sears Gallery Sarah Browne Sarah Browne’s new film installation focuses

Theatre June Pygmalion

mance Sundays), 7.30pm, €25-55

Bernard Shaw’s most popular play performed at the Abbey for the first time ever. Linguistic professor Henry Higgins accepts a bet to transform Cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle into a lady in this play, later adapted into the famous Broadway musical and Audrey Hephburn film My Fair Lady.

Abbey Theatre, April 27th – June 25th, 7.30pm, €15-40

Memoirs of a Dublin Bus Driver

A wealthy Southern family gathers to celebrate Big Daddy’s 65th birthday. Brick the alcoholic son, married to the beautiful Maggie ‘the Cat’ hasn’t slept with his wife since his friend Skipper died, leaving Maggie sexually frustrated and childless, unlike Brick’s brother Gooper and his wife’s generous brood of children.

Gate Theatre, Until 18th June, 8pm, €20 - 35 Blood Brothers The tale of twin boys separated at birth, only to be re-united by a twist of fate and a mother’s haunting secret. The score includes Bright New Day, Marilyn Monroe and Tell Me It’s Not True.

Gaiety Theatre, June 7th - 25th (No perfor-

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Mark Fairnington Born in 1957, Mark currently lives and works in London. He employs “the language of natural history to frame [his] pictorial fictions” and the results are exquisitely executed hybrid images of birds, flowers and insects. These mysterious almost mythical beasts exist alongside studies of real animals and natural history specimens, but in common they share a painstaking attention to detail and co-exist in a frequently luxurious habitat accentuated by the use of rich paint materials such as gold and palladium leaf.

This collection will include a body of new plant paintings entitled The Cuckoo Orchids and a painting entitled Zebra Box which depicts a display case from the Walter Rothschild Zoological Museum at Tring which has also been the source of inspiration for many of the bird specimens featured in previous work.

April 28 – June 9

by Rua O’Donnachu New Theatre, June 6th - 11th, 8pm, €15/12 The Pitch

Bloodknot The story of two half brothers trapped in the madness of South Africa’s apartheid.

Project Arts Centre, May 30th - June 11th, 8.15pm, €18/16

Living Quarters A Midsummer Night’s Dream Loose Canon is ripping A Midsummer Night’s Dream to shreds, exposing a sordid nightmare

Join the Butler family in Ballybeg, Donegal, as they gather together to celebrate their Army Commandant Father’s bravery in action and

Fast Portraits Inspired by the realistic observations of the true human condition by artists Bill Viola and Caravaggio, Rex Levitates Company explore the layers of emotion and memory that infuse captured images and transfer them into movement.

Project Arts Centre, June 22nd - 25th

ART WORTH THINKING ABOUT ANNE TALLENTIRE’S THIS, AND OTHER THINGS words // PADRAIG MORAN Let’s face it, IMMA’s miles away.

Tucked out past Colin’s Barracks, for most of us that means a bus and then a LUAS, a double Dublin transport whammy that we wouldn’t wish on our worst enemies. At the end of the day though, the upside of this trek is that it becomes a bit of a treat. You can’t just pop in on your lunch hour, nor stick your head in the door on the way to the post office. A trip to IMMA takes planning, takes thought. Sometimes, it takes a whole bloody Sunday, but once you’re there it can often mean a Sunday well spent.

Another consequence of location is that once there, you’re more likely to stay longer, and pay a bit more attention.

Which should come in handy, if you’re heading out to see Anne Tallentire’s ‘This, and other things’. The Armagh native has been living and working in London since 1984, where she is Professor of Fine Art at Central St Martins. In this survey exhibition, her densely-layered work is both politically and socially engaged, warranting close readings that highlight the role of the viewer and of perception itself.

Piqued by our recent visit to the show, Artsdesk caught up with Tallentire for a quick Q+A… I noticed a lot of the pieces in ‘This, and other things’ have been refigured or re-imagined for the IMMA space.

Is this attention to context something that’s quite important to you?

I am interested in how context contributes to meaning. In Drift, (2002-2010) consisting of 22 short video works, this concern is signaled directly in the use of subtitles. This naming device (each configuration is given a number) also provides a conceptual framework that extends the possibilities of the work according to the specific context it is exhibited in. For example in Drift: diagram xi (2010,) Dominic Stevens (who

Anne Tallentire, The Readers, 2010, Birch ply table, 224 x 122 x 84 cm; 10 paper stacks, 29.7 x 42 cm, Courtesy of the artist, Photo credit: Hilary Knox

worked as an architect on the construction of IMMA) brought knowledge of the building and an understanding of the physical structure of the space, that drew attention to the interplay of architecture and fine art disciplines.

Context seems to take on an even deeper dimension with The Readers, involving the very staff at IMMA themselves. Can you tell us a bit about the piece, and how it came about?

In 2006 I made an off-site work for Dublin City Library and Archive for Gallery 3, Douglas Hyde Gallery, that comprised a log of reading material returned to the library over the course of one day. For IMMA I used the same approach by gathering titles of books being read by employees at the gallery during the month of August 2009.

Titles and a line of text from each publication were collated and printed on sheets of paper that were made available to take away. I wanted this work to signify the often hidden contribution of those who work to make art visible and to acknowledge the potentialities of lives lived in and beyond the work place.

The level of interaction in your work could be seen as fostering a sense of community, though often it seems to be simultaneously highlighting aspects of contemporary isolation. Could you comment on this, perhaps in relation to Nowhere Else?

The city is a site of diverse communities defined by economic, social and

cultural factors and the transience and often alienating and isolating experience of urban life is reflected here [in this particular work]. Then to some extent, on another level Nowhere Else replicates something of the everyday experience where strangers momentarily come together. In this case to activate and then navigate the banks of images that comprise the work, images that record instances of incidental interruption or activity often determined by the environment and conditions that produce them.

How much of a role do your interests in the gaps of our visionary field and incomplete perception come into your collaborative work with John Seth?

How are such explorations approached/ altered when a second pair of eyes get involved?

Working with issues connected to the periphery is reflected in various strategies we have employed, including processes of chance and the use of rules relating to maneuverability. John and I have worked together since 1993 and over that time have established a dialogue that has been central to our way of working. It is by making visible the very activity of making that our work finds form. This approach has been employed and developed as a means to reinforce the relationship to temporality and interdependence.

Anne Tallentire - ‘This, and other things’ runs at IMMA until 3rd May 2010

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