TrinityA rtsFesti val2015 26-30 January // 10th Anniversary
Trinity Arts Festival 2015 26-30 january Welcome all to Trinity Arts Festival 2015! This year marks the festival’s tenth anniversary and we are thrilled to be celebrating this with you. Since its beginning in 2006 TAF has steadily evolved to become one of the most exciting weeks of the college calendar and we expect this year to be no different. We have taken inspiration from the highlights of the festival over the past nine years to bring to you what is hopefully the best TAF yet. This year’s line up includes some of the TAF classics such as the Provost’s House Tour, the Guerrilla Gigs and the esteemed Speakers Series, as well as an eclectic mix of some more unusual events, most notably an interactive Murder Mystery aboard a train, a performance art installation, PAIN, and a photography exhibition documenting diversity within Trinity, 24. TAF is a week filled with fantastic events from morning till night and there are so many more wonderful surprises in store for you. All our events, bar one, are open free to attend so make sure to check out our timetable and not to miss your favourites. We are absolutely delighted to be working with so many inspiring, creative and dedicated people and we very much look forward to seeing their hard work come to life during the festival. TAF has enjoyed a great year so far from the Trinity Arts Walk in Freshers’ Week to Paradise Lost in Fourth Week and now that the festival is finally upon us we hope it proves to be just as fun as all that has gone before and we wish you the greatest TAF week imaginable!
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THE COMMITTEE Festival Director: Dara McElligott Secretary: Shannon Buckley Barnes Treasurer: Paul Behan Publicity Officer: Grace Nuttall Day Events Manager: Matthew Brazel Night Events Manager: Clare McDonald Speakers Liaison: Clare Ní Cheallaigh Ordinary Committee Members: Aifric Ní Chriodain, Jim Connell-Moylan, Cliodhna Kirk Design: Grace Nuttall
Happy tenth Birthday TAF!
ABOUT Trinity Arts Festival is the only student-run arts festival in Ireland. It is a weeklong festival of day and night events including a vast range of practical workshops, interesting and inspiring talks, tours on campus, film screenings, concerts, exhibitions, theatre performances and everything in between. All events are open free to the staff and students of Trinity College Dublin. TAF aims to highlight and cultivate the creative dimension of the college community with a particular focus on the talent already existent within the arts-based societies. It is one of Trinity’s most diverse events and unites more societies than any other. TAF provides a really brilliant opportunity for staff and students to engage with the best of what Trinity’s creatives have to offer. While TAF strives to encourage a greater interest in the arts, remember, it is not just for arts students! GET INVOLVED!
thanks The Trinity Arts Festival committee would like to sincerely thank all our friends, volunteers and sponsors for their kind support. Special thanks to: Lucy O’Connell, Emma Matthews, Joe O’Gorman and all of the Central Societies Committee, the Students Union Café, Trinity Ents, the Equality Fund, the Provost’s Visual and Performing Arts Fund, Catherine Giltrap, Christine Casey, Anne Marie Diffley, Carolyn Kelly, the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Jim FitzPatrick, Will St Leger, Siobhan Parkinson, JJ Rolfe, Jamie McCartney, Pixie Woo, DUPA, DU Players, VisArts, The Phil, The Hist, Fashion Soc, LitSoc, T-JoLT, Jazz Soc, Indian Soc, Trinity Arts Workshop, Juggling and Circus Soc, Trinitones, Arc Soc, DU Music, Cal Soc, DUDJs, Bram Stoker Paper-Readings, Afro-Carribean Soc, Law Soc, Singers, Food & Drink, Film Soc, TTV, Basenji, Mount Hollow, The Noel Fortune Orchestra, The Dead Sets, Morgan MacIntyre, Slí An Chroí, Novel-T Cakes, Dave Leahy, Finn Murphy, Grant Tierney,Yutaka Kumagai, Ian Blake, Rachael Lavelle, Aoife Leonard, Kean Kavanagh, Emily Collins, David Magee, Aine Connell, Erica Murray, Oonagh O’Donovan, Heather Walsh, Sam Ford, Sarah Elizabeth Byrne, James Ringland, Ronan Denyer, Jeff Courtney, Paul Miller, Luke Casserly, Caitríona Sheil, Irene Ho, Rachel Botha, Kate Finegan, Julia Helmes, Matthew Nuding, Conn’s Cameras, The Journeymen Project, Ensemble Music, Block T, Evolve Urban Art, Samuel Foxton, Gearoid Gibbs, Ruth Kavanagh, & Hiriko Marutani.
PARADI SELOST Fourth Week GMB Event
As has been tradition for the past few years, Trinity Arts Festival took over the GMB for its Fourth Week event and transformed the usually austere four-story castle into an alternative realm filled with music, art and wonder. This year, TAF drew its inspiration from Milton’s epic poem Paradise Lost and crafted a journey for the audience that traced the doomed path of the Fall of Man. To do this TAF brought together twenty of Trinity’s best societies who each employed their own unique talents to convey a section of the story. By carefully assembling all of these elements TAF created an atmospheric ascent from the heavenly chamber to the fires of hell. The night began to the tune of choral signing when the audience were finally welcomed out of the thundering rain and into the world of the poem. Each room of the GMB represented a different setting from the story. In Heaven the audience were first met by Milton, Satan and God, who introduced them to the tale of Paradise Lost. Upstairs, Paradise was filled with an abundance of entertainment and the Tree of Knowledge, upon which all sins must be confessed, stood glowing in the centre of the room. Satan and the snake roamed the stairwell enticing people to venture forth to hell. Further along Night and Chaos forced the audience to navigate their way through an obstacle course blindfolded while drums and literary recitations rung loudly in their ears. The last stop was Hell, a silent disco of the most abrasive techno where only the truly fallen could dance in rhythm. Paradise Lost, which became everything we didn’t expect it to as soon as the front door opened, was a truly tremendous evening. We hope that everybody enjoyed The Fall and we very much look forward to next year’s Fourth Week. Photography: Gearóid Gibbs
TA F T HR O U
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2006 Pearl O’Sullivan, Festival Director I was chairperson of the Trinity Arts Workshop society when myself and some fellow students began thinking about the possibility of having an arts festival on campus. I knew people in other societies such as the visual arts society, drama society, music society and film society who had expressed a similar interest. There was lots of potential for inter-disciplinary events and we felt that as a collective we could garner more support from the Central Societies Committee to create a platform for creativity on Trinity campus. The founding committee included undergraduate students from a wide range of courses - arts, social science and natural-sciences and some masters students on the music and multimedia technology courses at the time. It was potent mix of enthusiasm and talent. It was a very exciting time. What was your favourite TAF event? That is a tough question. A lot of my time was spent running about between events during the festival week. However, I remember a magical day when I spent the morning in a clothes customising workshop, then saw a performance art piece by a group from NCAD as I crossed Front Square on my way to the tour of the Provost’s House art collection. That evening I seem to remember a digital art display projected against the Dining Hall and the night was spent in WAX night club where Bodytonic (then a fledgling outfit) hosted an amazing dance and film projection event. I just remember the week as a blaze of fun interactive events going on all the time. What did you learn from organising and participating in TAF? I learned how to project manage. There was a committee of myself, vice chairperson, secretary, print and media officers and lots of others who looked after individual events and tasks. I had a friend who was studying events production at the time in another university, so I roped him in to help too, however, it was up to me to pull it all together. There were lots of meetings with the Central Societies Committee until they finally agreed that the festival program was worth supporting. I found the whole process really empowering and it is fantastic that the festival has continued to happen every year. I was delighted when I was awarded a Student Award from the Trinity Annual Fund for my project management of the festival. Have you any funny stories from your time with TAF? I remember watching the progression of the free for all ‘paint a blank canvas’ we had installed in the Hamilton and Arts blocks over the week. There was some really funny stuff painted/written on there they looked fantastic by the end of the week. I also remember that my birthday happened towards the end of the festival week. I hadn’t planned to do anything as there was so much going on but a co-organiser (and great friend) secretly bought a birthday cake and surprised me by producing it when I least expected. How do you think TAF will be celebrating in 10 years time (fingers crossed!) I certainly hope TAF will still be going in 2025 - and why not with all the fresh ideas that each group of organisers and volunteers bring to it each year. It would be great to make a film or a series of podcast interviews to mark a milestone in the festival’s history - maybe engage with the public on campus and some of the cultural institutions around the city. The possibilities are endless!
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rts festival. here’s a look through the years!
2007 Bebhinn Cronin, Festival Co-Ordinator
that way. It was very satisfying to see people engage with the events.
I was part of the founding committee so I felt like we had to keep it going! It was difficult to do it in my final year of college but a few of us felt it was important to keep it running as an annual event.
Have you any funny stories from your time with TAF? I can’t recall a specific story but we had a lot of fun, I’m sure most of it is documented on the TAF Bebo page.
How did you find being on the organising side of things? I can’t really remember! It’s difficult to run events with no experience and running the whole thing on good will. It came together in the end though.
How do you think TAF will be celebrating in 10 years time? Well I think the TAF team should go all out and commemorate with a really ambitious program and apply for more funding than usual! Really well done to everyone for keeping it alive for 10 years.
What was your favourite TAF memory? There are so many, I guess it was amazing to see the presence we had on campus for the week of the festival. Most of us came from the art history department and weren’t used to taking over the college in
2008 Kasia Murphy, Festival Secretary While I had volunteered at the 2007 festival and enjoyed a number of the activities held that year, it was really down to the fact that a number of the festival organisers and co-founders were both friends and fellow History of Art students – it almost felt like a duty to pick up the baton and see the festival into the next year! It was an interesting – and sometimes daunting – experience! Looking back, I think it was the first time many of us had had to combine our creative, management and academic skills in an organised, engaged and practical way. Being on the committee taught me a lot about myself, collaboration, managing group dynamics and my ability to interact with the multitude of stakeholders involved in putting an event like this together: from the committee itself to other heads of Trinity society groups, or the CSC permanent staff to the college building maintenance team (who I’m sure had utterly despaired of us by the end of it all).
My favourite memory is a sentimental one – it has to have been dancing into the early hours with the other committee T*Arts (as we christened ourselves) to The Japanese Popstars in the Button Factory. I would hope that TAF’s 20-year birthday would see the biggest of the many, amazing Trinity societies get together and throw a TAF like no other! I would love to see different clubs or societies invited to hold an event that responds in some way to TAF’s aims, ethos or history. Wouldn’t it be great if the Food & Drink Society held a Renaissance styled-banquet? Or Players attempted to recreate a Dada-style cabaret? Or the Socialist Workers Student Society held a revolutionary poster making night? Not only would it be an opportunity for each society to showcase the best of what they do, but it would also show how experiencing and engaging with the arts are essential to our (university) lives!
Unfortunately, we couldn’t reach 2009 or 2010’s committees! However, from what we hear they were excellent years.
2011 Claire Harrington, Festival Director I first heard of TAF through the History of Art and Architecture department (where I was studying) when the Chair spoke to us about the festival and was looking for volunteers. It was TAF’s 6th year running and then it was a lot more focused on visual art - most of the committee were studying History of Art. When I joined as chair I was taking over from Dylan (who was in my year of History of Art). I found it really exciting how it was becoming more involved with all of the arts based societies in Trinity. I had never actually done anything in other societies up until then so I was pretty inexperienced! I was really lucky though, as the committee for my year at TAF were all extremely enthusiastic and hard working. I think our year sparked a major change in the way TAF was run. It really opened it up to a lot more people. I remember that there was a huge turnout for the AGM at the end of the year and almost everyone who was elected studied something different. We had a great event called The Way We Wore which Aoife Van Wolvelaere (Evening Events Officer)
came up with. Irish Times fashion editor, Deirdre McQuillan, judged contestants who put together an outfit which they bought second-hand for under 20e. It was a brilliant success! There was a great turn out and our presenter, Eoghan Quinn, was hilarious. Another event which was excellent (and may still be running?) was the Provost’s House tour with Dr Christine Casey. She’s just incredible and it was a good chance to have an educated ‘nosey’. We also ran a swap shop which was sponsored by American Apparel where they provided us with loads of socks and thongs to hand out (hmm). They also wanted to dress a few members of the committee in their clothes to wear at the event. They basically dressed me up as a Spanish matador.
2012 Hannah McCarthy, Festival Director
What attracted you to TAF? The hot chicks. How did you find being on the organising side of things while being on committee? Mad craic proudly sponsored by Bank of Ireland. What was your favourite TAF event? Robbie Blake on TAF committee organised an interactive choral concert called Cacophany in the Music Dept/ House 5. The building had been lit up with special lighting and there was about four different choirs arranged in different parts of the building. The performance allowed the audience to move around the space and soak up the singing before listening to a contemporary piano recital by candelight in the Boydell Recital Room at the top of the building. I thought it was a really high calibre event and showed what a student run arts festival can do when it gets the right support and talent.
Have you any funny stories from your time with TAF? The Junior Dean misread my application for permission to use the Exam Hall. He thought I was hosting a concert by Trinity Singers, instead of a concert featuring different bands and singers (some of whom were actually from Trinity). Their mistake resulted in an incredible night with some fantastic live acts playing within the hallowed environs of The Exam Hall. How do you think TAF will be celebrating in 10 years time? I wouldn’t try to guess because I think the best part of TAF is how much it changes from year to year. I would hope that it continues to think big and do beautiful things.
TAF HISTORY
2006 - TAF is born! 2009 - TAF wins Best Event at CSC Awards 2012 - TAF wins Best Event at CSC Awards 2012 - TAF starts a spooky tradition with their new Fourth Week event 2014 - TAF wins Best Event at CSC Awards for Through The Looking Glass Flower Crowns take over Trinity after TAF’s most popular workshop ever 2015 - TAF, Players & Trinity Ents commandeer a train for the Murder Mystery...
2013 Cat O’Shea, Festival Director I reckon TAF was one of my favourite things about Trinity, it was just always a hugely fun, silly, interesting week. There are so many hugely creative people in Trinity, and some of them come in and start their courses and suddenly let that side of themselves go, and it’s great to shove cameras in their hands and get them tie-dying their underwear in the Atrium - and then some of them don’t let that side go at all, but continue creating and thinking, and it’s really great to give those people another opportunity to display their talents to Trinity at large. I think it attracts a really diverse group of students, not just the ones who are always involved in society life, because it’s pretty low-commitment; just a week, just a drop-in class, just a talk. And it’s a really good chance to bring external creatives into Trinity, and then maybe Trinity students will go and look up their work after the festival too. TAF never had a room because it was so small, you know, only one week, so all of our committee meet-
ings were in people’s rooms on campus, sitting around someone’s living room or on omeone’s bed, and that’s also where we stored most things we needed. And that was what was nice about it, it was very free, just a load of ideas coming out of bedrooms over tea and biscuits ORIGAMI! LIVE-ART CANVASSES! KNITTING THE POMODORO! FIND THE HIGHEST PLACE ON CAMPUS! BOLLYWOOD DANCING! VAMPIRES! - and then all these props and equipment and people flowing in and out of those same bedrooms during the festival itself. It felt very very homegrown. My favourite events were always the ones that got different societies and individuals collaborating. I loved our yoga rave with DUDJs, the Yoga society and lighting by Players. That might have been my favourite. And our Welcome Fourth Week event was great too, which we got help from nearly every society under the sun for - a big big GMB takeover to get people warmed up for the actual festival. I think TAF has done that every year since as well; which is nice to think about.
2014 Grace Healy, Publicity Officer Getting involved with TAF was definitely one of the best decisions I ever made in college. My first introduction to the festival was through their fourth week event in (ohmygosh) 2012. I was Publicity Officer for Players at the time and we were one of many socieities collaborating on Welcome, a immersive art installation that was reminiscent of a haunted house and loosely inspired by Sleep No More, the Macbeth piece everyone saw on their J1s. Sitting on the brains trust of this operation, a group of representatives from all the collaborating societies brimming with ideas for all the various rooms and with only slightly less notion of how it was all going to tie together, was a fantastic introduction to #TAF. And it went fantastically well, we’ll have you know. Of course, I had always really wanted to be more involved in TAF, and like everyone else who had always wanted to be more involved in TAF, I ran for committee. Unsuccessfully. Not that I would have let that stop me from volunteering and being at every single event and workshop they put on however!!! But thankfully after a quick EGM in week 1, I was voted in and never had to prove that statement. I was extremely lucky to get to work with the fantastic team that I did, and under the magical leadership of Sarah O’Neill, TAF 2014 was always going to be incredible. As soon as we got in a room together, we were hurriedly planning our own Fourth Week Event, continuing what is truly a great tradition of taking over the GMB with as many daft society heads in costume as we could squeeze in there. Through the Looking Glass was TAF in a nutshell: colourful, collaborative, crazy and a little bit creepy*? And while we’re lamely listing things that begin with C, we even won a CSC award for it! The people have spoken. TAF reigns supreme. (*Although we did want to hang a mannequin dressed as Alice by her neck from the ceiling of the GMB so it could have been worse.) Of course, the real magic of the Trinity Arts Festi
val isn’t just the small team that plan it, but all the people from the other societies and the amazing volunteers that come together with them to make it the crazy runaway train of art, music and, let’s face it, partyin’ that it ends up being. The week itself, once all the stress was over (lol jk the stress is never over, and that’s ok) was a whirlwind. As I look back now, it feels like it lasted about a second, but I distinctly remember tie-dying t-shirts, snacking on KC Peaches, watching Bepo & Co in the cosy Sugar Club after torrential rain, fingerpainting, lots of live tweeting, attempting the tapdance, mastering the bodhrán, bunting, bopping in some choice locations across the city (the final night featuring Klangkuenstler in EDEN deserves a special mention) and generally just being overjoyed and overtired. So maybe it was longer than a second. But definitely no more than five. And that was TAF 2014. As for TAF 2015, I was lucky enough to find myself at this year’s Fourth Week event, an amazing and EXTREMELY SCARY (anyone that was in the blindfold room will attest to this) display of the imagination, creativity and talent that the Trinity population are simply bursting with, and that this year’s team are harnessing. They have shown already through their Paradise Lost-inspired art experience, and whatever hype I have already gleaned from their plans, that this year’s festival, as always, is going to be bigger and better than ever. So instead of coming along and doing, like, one or two things then saying ‘man I wish I had gotten more involved with the arts festival’ - just do it! There is nothing you’ll do in your time in college as unique and exciting as volunteering for TAF, it’s an opportunity to work with people from every part of college and totally step out of your little bubble. And you can blow bubbles! Maybe. Almost definitely. What might start out as nothing but your desire for a free t-shirt will almost certainly turn into one of the best weeks of your life.
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11am 24: Camera Collection Arts Block Tables
11am ArcSoc: Play Dough Games Atrium
12pm Cake Styling Hist Convo Room
12pm Shamanic Journey Venue TBC
1pm Guerilla Gig: Aoife Leonard Berkley Podium
1pm Guerilla Gig: Chamber Concert
1pm TAW Pottery Part 1 Studios (Goldsmith)
1pm DU Players: Free Show Players Theatre
2pm Indian Soc: Henna Art Venue TBC
2:30pm Jim Fitzpatrick Phil Convo Room GMB
3pm Photogram Workshop Room 50 (Atrium)
3pm Arts Collection Tour Meet at Dining Hall
4pm CalSoc: Reeling Venue TBC
4pm J-ToLT: Google Translate Hist Convo Room GMB
5pm Tales From The Shadows GMB Resource Room
5pm PAIN Players Theatre
6pm Fire Juggling Show Front Square
6pm HILLSTREET with JJ Rolfe Venue TBC
8pm DECADE Smock Alley Theatre
8pm SELECTIONS The Chocolate Factory
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11am Bram Paper Phil Convo Room GMB
11am Mail Art Eliz Room
11am Art Therapy Eliz Room
12pm Old Library Tour Meet at Library entrance
12pm Exhibition Tour Douglas Hyde Gallery
12pm Provost’s House Tour Meet at Campanile
1pm uerilla Gig: Kean Kavanagh Printing House Porch
1pm Guerilla Gig: Trinitones Boardwalk
1pm Guerilla Gig: Rachael Lavelle Campanile
1pm Fashion Soc: Tie-Dye Venue TBC
1pm TAW Pottery Part 2 Studios (Goldsmith)
1pm Siobhán Parkinson GMB Chamber
3pm Pinhole Photography Room 50 (Atrium)
2-4pm Will St Leger Players Theatre
2pm Jamie McCartney Venue TBC 3pm Life Drawing Atrium
4pm LitSoc: Illustrated Words VisArts Room House 6
4pm Burlesque Dance Class Room 50 (Atrium)
4pm Japanese Calligraphy Venue TBC
5pm DU Players: Free Show Players Theatre
5pm Pixie Woo Drag Workshop Venue TBC
5pm DUPA: Darkroom Class Room 1 (Atrium)
6pm DUPA: Darkroom Class Room 1 (Atrium)
6pm 24: Exhibition Atrium
7:30pm MURDER MYSTERY Connolly Station
7:30pm TAG Tengu Bar, Yamamori
7pm WRAP PARTY Block T & The Generator
day events Explore our Festival events, from workshops to talks. Check our timetable for a full list! Reeling Masterclass with DU CalSoc
Pinhole Camera Workshop with DUPA
‘Illustrated Words’ with LitSoc
Ever wanted to learn to dance like a Scottish highlander? Does the Braveheart theme tune make you feel a ceilidh-sized hole within you that you never knew existed? Ever been to a Scottish formal event and wondered what in hell was all that circular dancing people were doing after dinner? Well look no further, you’ve come to the right place. DU CalSoc in partnership with TAF will be holding a reeling masterclass designed to get you up to speed with the latest in Scottish country dancing. From the ‘Dashing White Seargant’ to ‘The Reel of the 51st’, come along and never stand awkwardly at the side of a dance floor at a Scottish wedding again!
Would you like to go back to the old ages of photography when all they had were boxes and photographic paper? Probably not, but hey it promises to be an interesting process to try! This workshop is tailored especially for anyone who would like to get to know a little more about pinhole photography and gain experience in darkroom development. It’s a practical hands-on course where participants will be shown how to build a pinhole camera. You will then use the prepared pinhole cameras to expose photographic paper, which will then be developed in the darkroom. Capacity: 10
A workshop exploring the collaboration of writers and illustrators. From the profound inky lines of Quentin Blake and Shel Silverstein to the wry New Yorker work of JJ Sempé, words and pictures have proved that they go together like toast and marmalade. Profound, spellbinding marmalade. The session will begin with a brief discussion of classic book illustrations, followed by prompts and exercises in order to get a bit more hands-on. For those that would like it, the workshop will do its best to set up writer-illustrator pairs among its attendees, and get them to produce a mock-up of a story with pictures.
Monday, 4pm
Wednesday, 3pm
Wednesday, 4pm
watch & discuss “Shaman as Artist – Artist as Shaman” Join shamanic teachers, ceremonialists and healers John Cantwell and Karen Ward of Slí An Chroí(Pathway Of The Heart) as they create an hour of indigenous experience that brings you to the Well where the shaman and the artist source new vision and new perception. John and Karen’s shamanic practice feeds a myriad of artistic, cultural and heritage expressions in Ireland and abroad. Check out www.slianchroi. ie/www.pathwayoftheheart.ie for more information about this fascinating talk! Tuesday, 12pm
Guerilla Gigs We’ll be turning several campus locations into outdoor stages to showcase some of Trinity’s most exciting musical talent. From chamber music, to acapella groups these 1pm performances are not to be missed! Check out our website for footage of some of last year’s great outdoor acts. Every day, 1pm
24 supported by Conns Cameras 24 is an exploration of college life, focusing on the similarities and differences of our daily routines. Students and staff are invited to participate, documenting 24 hours of their lives with disposable cameras. The photographs will be exhibited in an multi-faceted exhibition with music and spoken word. Collect cameras Monday, 11am. Exhibition Thursday, 6pm.
The Art of Google Translate with T-JoLT Translation plays a crucial role in the transmission of literature and popular culture; it’s a skill that takes years to hone with some translations taking decades to complete. So what happens when Google Translate takes over? With the help of our boisterous T-JoLT hosts your favourite poems, songs, monologues will be put through layers of Google Translate and performed for your pleasure (or confusion). This is an interactive event so feel free to shout out requests or even get up and sing a thrice-translated ballad. Just pick a language and off you go. It’s karaoke gone very very wrong. Tuesday, 4pm
Art Therapy supported by the Equality Fund What is art therapy? Art therapy is a mental health profession that uses the creative process of art making to improve and enhance the physical, mental and emotional well-being of individuals of all ages. Want to learn? Well TAF have you covered. This informative talk, kindly supported by the Equality Fund, will give you an insight into this fascinating form of therapy! Friday, 11am
HILL STREET Documentary Screening Featuring Tony Hawk, Hill Street is “a fascinating look at the early stages of the Irish skateboarding scene that is as much a wonderful introduction to a rich subculture as it is an exploration of a sport trying to legitimise itself against the backdrop of 80s Ireland.” Come along and explore one of the most vibrant cultural episodes in modern Irish memory. Tuesday, 6pm
PAIN with Vis Arts A study of the artist’s and the observer’s relationship with pain as a phenomenon, informed by the artist’s experiences with chronic illness. David Joseph Magee has performed live art pieces from the age of seventeen in schools, Grafton St, Exchange Dublin (as both a part of performance art collective Unit1 and a long line of solo pieces from 2011 to 2013), as well as most recently the 2014 Dublin Live Art Festival. Tuesday, 5pm
TOURS Trinity Art Collection & Senior Common Room Tour With a collection of more than 1,000 artworks, Trinity’s campus is graced with the paintings and sculptures of countless national and international artists. Displayed in both public and private locations around the college, come along with TAF and discover the stories behind the art that adorns our campus grounds. A tour of the mysterious Senior Common Room (usually the reserve of fellows and scholars!) will also be included. Tuesday, 3pm
Provost House Tour Ever wondered what secrets lay behind the doors of the Provost House? Join TAF as we take a tour of the famed Dublin residence and explore the art collection within, as well as uncover the wonders of the architecture itself. These doors only open on very few occasions throughout the year - don’t miss out, spaces are limited! Friday, 12pm
Old Library Tour Sixty-five metres in length, the home of over 200,000 of Trinity’s oldest books, and the inspiration behind the Jedi archives in George Lucas’ Star Wars - the Old Library is arguably the jewel in the college’s crown. Ever wanted to know a little more about Trinity’s most iconic location? Join TAF as we delve into the hidden history of the library. This tour includes a tour of the current exhibition Upon the Wild Waves - A Journey Through Myths in Children’s Books. Wednesday, 12pm
more arty fun Mail Art Workshop
Cake Styling with Novel-T Cakes
Mail art refers to the creation of a piece of work that can be sent via post. It can be as straightforward as the creation of a personal postcard to the sending of a sound performance piece dispatched in an envelope. Rather than simply hanging somewhere in a gallery, mail art embarks on a journey between sender and recipient. To learn more about mail art and to create your own work, stop by the mail art workshop. Participants can learn an easy folding technique for creating their own envelope, and be able to design their own postcard.
Feeling peckish? Feeling arty? Come along to our cake styling class and turn some cupcakes into delicious masterpieces with master cake decorator, Novel-T Cakes. Pick up some tips and learn new skills. Did we mention there will be cake?
Thursday, 11am
PlayDough Games with ArcSoc Join ArcSoc for a constructive hour of fun and frivolity. C ome as a team or on your own and compete to build your most loyal interpretations of some of the world’s most famous architectural icons with our messy materials. Expect play-dough, expect lollipop sticks, expect Lego. There’ll be prizes and fun facts galore so just bring yourself, some friends and a childish sense of wonder. Tuesday, 11am
Life Drawing
Monday, 12pm
Photogram Workshop with DUPA In this workshop DUPA’s darkroom wizards will show you a simple technique to use traditional darkroom paper in an new way. Work with photographic paper and play with light to make surreal silhouette collages of natural and unnatural objects. This is a beginners class, so no previous experience is required. We recommend you bring along some small jewellery and other small items to play with in the light painting process, also plants and flowers produce a very cool effect. Capacity: 15 Monday, 3pm
Pottery Masterclass with Trinity Arts Workshop
If timeless escape attracts you, come to Life Drawing on Friday. Release those gnarled knuckles and find mindfulness by simply drawing the humble human form as before you. Acoustic set by GOB. Materials will be provided as well as quirky tips.
Consider yourself a sculptor in the making? Come get those creative juices flowing with this two-part masterclass in pottery making in the energetic confines of the Trinity Arts Workshop. It’s a popular one, and spaces are limited, so come early to avoid disappointment!
Friday, 3pm
Monday & Friday, 1pm
@NI GHT MONDAY: DECADE To kick off the week’s night events and celebrate TAF’s tenth anniversary we present to you DECADE, a night of swing and funk. This event will be held in the Boy’s School of Smock Alley Theatre, a beautifully unique and charming venue. Rachael Lavelle, the wonderfully talented singer, will perform with her jazz ensemble, while visual projections of jazz age movies and dance will be play alongside. The headline act of the night is the marvelous Noel Fortune Orchestra, a 1930s-style swing orchestra made up of 14 musicians that is quickly and deservingly becoming one of Trinity’s most famed music acts. DECADE will be an absolutely terrific night of music and we cannot wait!
8pm, Boys School Smock Alley Theatre
MURDER ON THE MYSTERY TOUR in association with Trinity Ents & DU Players All aboard the Orient Express for this year’s Murder Mystery brought to you by TAF, DU Players and Trinity Ents! The year is 1920, Venice, and the city of water is in uproar over the tragic and untimely death of “The Jewel of Italy”, Isadore Belle. Venice’s élite take to Isadore’s private train to mourn, but as the journey progresses, suspicions soon arise regarding the circumstances of her death. Is the murderer aboard your carriage? The interactive murder mystery, as played out by the marvelous actors of DU Players, will be for you to solve, while Ents and DUDJs spin tunes as we travel through the night. After a time the train will arrive at its mystery destination somewhere in Ireland where we will then be lead to a secret venue for a night of merriment and music! Our train will dutifully take us home once the festivities end. This event is TAF’s most ambitious yet! Tickets will be on sale for 2025 euro, grab yours before they’re gone!
7:30pm, Connolly Station
TUESDAY: SELECTIONS
THURSDAY: TAG
FRIDAY: WRAP PARTY
SELECTIONS is our night of spoken word, theatre and music. The old Williams and Woods building on King’s Inns Street will be home to an array of different performances for the night. Expect poetry by Sarah Elizabeth Byrne and spoken word from some of Trinity’s best artists. A short play ‘Oh, What a Lovely Rose’, taken straight from the Theatre Machine festival, will delve into the hilarity of the idea behind the Rose of Tralee. You can look forward to music from alt-rock band Mount Hollow and rising star and musician Morgan MacIntyre. This once chocolate factory, now artists studio is the perfect setting to showcase such exceptional talent. This event is certainly not to be missed.
TAG sees us screen the award winning and Oscar-nominated documentary Cutie and the Boxer. Capturing the lives of artists Ushio Shinohara and Noriko Shinohara united by marriage and their shared dedication to art-making, it explores the many challenges they face both as individuals seeking artistic identity and recognition, and as a couple. Following this, there will be a graffiti workshop led by an established street artist from the creative agency Evolve Urban Art. This will include an introduction to street art and the basic techniques of spray painting. Everyone will get the chance to practice the art of spray paint and create their own tag.
TAF 2015 will come to a close on Friday night with our WRAP PARTY, taking place in Block T. An exhibition of all the week’s work will be on display alongside a special showcase from DUPA and DU Music. The Journeymen Project, who have created a unique design for us, will be screen-printing all evening, so bring along a plain t-shirt or canvas bag to take part. To keep us entertained will be Dublin-based band Basenji and a special guest to be announced. After this we will then head over to The Generator where we shall dance the night away with Mother DJ, Ruth Kavanagh. TAF 2015 will begin and end in a flash so make sure to join us at the WRAP PARTY to send the festival well on its way ‘til next year!
8pm, The Chocolate Factory King’s Inns Street
7:30pm, Tengu Bar Yamamori, Ormand Quay
7pm, Block T & Generator
GUE STS Jim Fitzpatrick
Jamie McCartney
JJ Rolfe
Jim Fitzpatrick is an Irish artist, most famous for his iconic image of Che Guevara, one of the most recognisable and cherished works of art of this century. Amongst his other impressive achievements he has produced album artwork for Thin Lizzie, The Darkness and Sinéad O’Connor. Fitzpatrick’s main focus however is Celtic art and he creates intricate and powerful depictions of Irish mythology and history in an attempt to bring these characters and events to life. His work covers the variety and diversity of our heritage from ancient heroes through to Pádraig Pearse and Phil Lynott. He is an artist with a lifetime of experience and a passion for what he does.
Jamie McCartney is a British artist based in Brighton. He is most well-known for his work The Great Wall of Vagina, comprising of 400 plaster casts of women’s vaginas arranged in panels in his studio. His work aims to celebrate the diversity of the female genitalia and challenge popular conceptions of a ‘normal vagina’. Similar to the Great Wall of Vagina, McCartney’s other artwork is provocative and experimental and covers a wide range of materials and subjects. He often deals with ideas of the human form and is a boundary-defying artist with a belief in the power of art to provoke new ideas and ways of thinking about the world.
JJ Rolfe is an Irish cinematographer who graduated from IADT in 2007. Since then he has worked on an impressive array of projects from the award-winning independent film Satellites & Meteorites to RTÉ’s Hardy Bucks. Rolfe also has a wealth of experience in shooting documentaries, including shooting Visiting Day for El Zorero Films, a short documentary about the effects of incarceration on families of prisoners and also Thilafushi: Lost in Paradise, a web-based documentary centred on the lives of migrant workers on the Maldivan Island of Thilafushi. The short films he has worked on include Just Saying and Rockmount, earning him recognition as one of the main players in the Irish film scene.
Tuesday, 2:30pm GMB
Friday, 2pm Venue TBC
Tuesday, 6pm Venue TBC
jamie mcCartney - lucky strike
will st leger - how soon is mao?
Will St Leger
Thursday, 2pm Players Theatre Will St Leger is a Dublin-based street artist, Radio DJ and Gay Rights activist as well as co-founder of the electronic duo ‘Faune’. St Leger is one of the biggest names on the Dublin street art scene and his work is inventive and intelligent, often with an overt political purpose. In 2008, for example, he placed 50,000 fake ‘Bertie bills’ on the statue of Molly Malone in protest to the N3’s incursion of the Hill of Tara and more recently has worked with Kenco coffee on their Coffee vs Gangs project. St Leger expertly combines activism with art and we can only wait and see what he has planned for the future.
Siobhán Parkinson
Wednesday, 1pm GMB Chamber Trinity alumnus Siobhán Parkinson is one of Ireland’s most prestigious and celebrated children’s writers. Since 1992 she has published more than twenty books including Sisters...No Way, Amelia, The Moon King and Call of the Whales which have influenced a generation of Irish children. In 2010 she was conferred the title of the first ever ‘Laureate na nÓg’ by President Mary McAleese which she held until 2012. She also has works as Publisher and Commissioning Editor at Little Island and has a lot of experience teaching creative writing workshops. There are few people that have her insight into the world of Children’s Literature.
Pixie Woo
DRAG MAKE-UP WORKSHOP: Thursday, 5pm Venue TBC One of the biggest icons of Dublin’s queer scene, Pixie’s career began when she moved to Dublin from deepest darkest Kilkenny five years ago. Four years later, Pixie Woo is one of the most talented, original queens on the scene. Whether it’s werqing as a hostess for PrHomo and Dragged Up, performing at Space n Veda/Pantibar, or spinning tunes at Plastic or WAR, Pixie is the hardest working girl in Dublin. Paired with her formidable skills as a professionally trained make up artist, and you have a bitch to be reckoned with. She’s coming down this week to show YOU huntys how to serve fish like only Pixie knows how. This Thursday also sees Pixie settling into her new throne as the queen supreme of PrHomo 2.0 in its second week at its new home in 4 Dame Lane. Bop over after the workshop with your new drag skills, have a kiki and see how the pro does it.
Leo Boyd, from The Journeymen Project, has created this unique design for us inspired by Trinity College. The two-person collective will be screen-printing all evening at our WRAP PARTY on Friday, so bring along a plain t-shirt or purchase a canvas bag from us and observe this ageold technique in practice!
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