Friday, November 30, 2012

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Mark Cantan, the writer behind Rough Magic’s latest comedy, Jezebel, explains why the best training for writing farce maybe a degree in mathematics.

Thursday, November 29, 2012

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Michael Haneke’s latest film Amour? Do I really have to see it? If the prospect is simply too much for you, give us 5 minutes and we’ll save you the trouble. (NB: It’s actually more like 7, but you’re still saving hours!)

Wednesday, November 28, 2012

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How do you get from the Lewis Street to the Ulster Museum? The winding route of painter, John Luke, in a new Belfast exhibition of the Ulster Modernist

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

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Didn’t have time in the end to hear Ronan on the rice-filled balloons…so here they are in all their hissy glory.

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One of 10 young Irish musicians making a mentored debut with the RTE NSO this week is 19-year-old multi-instrumentalist and video blogger, Ronan Dikker.

19-year-old multi-instrumentalist and video blogger, Ronan Dikker, who runs the thisisprojectrebirth vlog. Which may or may not relate to percussion. And those are his rice filled balloons. 


He talks to us about the art of the percussionist here
And plays them rice-filled balloons here.  

Monday, November 26, 2012

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Artist John Byrne tells us about his “Good Works Art Service” a kind of contemporary art mass, which has its second coming at IMMA, in Dublin.

Friday, November 23, 2012

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In the third part of our Shetland visit, we take the ferry further North still this time, to Whalsay, one of the smaller islands, to meet the two Whalsay natives who guard the memory of poet, Hugh MacDiarmid’s escape to their island. (3 of 3)



For more about Shetland, visit http://www.visitscotland.com/creative

Thursday, November 22, 2012

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Cerys Matthews flies her explosively eclectic new project to 60 degrees North* (That’s Lerwick, in Shetland, by the way) (2 of 3).



For more about Shetland, visit http://www.visitscotland.com/creative

Wednesday, November 21, 2012

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Northwards ho, for the opening of the Mareel Arts Centre, on Shetland, a shimmering harbour-side venue that holds the title of these island’s most Northerly arts centre. (1 of 3).


For more about Shetland, visit http://www.visitscotland.com/creative

Tuesday, November 20, 2012

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Culture File travels to 1960s San Francisco to uncover the story of Compton Cafeteria Riot, a tiny rising often eclipsed in LGBT (Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgender) culture by the more famous, but later, Stonewall Riot.

Monday, November 19, 2012

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Tapeworm is a Berlin based label that aims to keep cassettes alive, by releasing all their material on cassette. And only on cassette. Tapeworm in chief, Philip Marshall, explains why

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Can you dance ballet in an Aran jumper? Former pupils of Joan Denise “Miss” Moriarty remember a dance pioneer.

Thursday, November 15, 2012

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Say ‘hi!’ to 18 year old cellist, Sinead O’Halloran, winner of Ireland’s largest classical music scholarship for post-primary schools, the Fr Frank Maher Music Awards sponsored by Top Security.

Wednesday, November 14, 2012

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Since its earliest days, Black Metal has been as adept at generating lurid myths as making music. But, according to Nick Richardson, one of the contributors to Beyond The Darkness, a new study of the music and its aesthetic, the genre’s visual sophistication is often overlooked.

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Culture File joins a hybrid book club that meets at Dublin’s Lighthouse cinema to debate the hottest of topics: which was better, the book or the film?

Monday, November 12, 2012

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Do women design differently from men? A Design Week event in Dublin brings together three prominent design world women to attempt some answers to this question — while also bigging up women in design.

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Artist filmmaker, Luke Fowler, on adult education, elitism and The Late Late Show, as well as his film on historian, EP Thompson, The Poor Stockinger, the Luddite Cropper and the Deluded Followers of Joanna Southcote.

Friday, November 9, 2012

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If Don Draper existed, American Modernist designer Paul Rand would be on his rollerdex. We visit a Dublin exhibition of “the designer’s designer” who gave everybody from IBM to Enron their logos.

Thursday, November 8, 2012

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The Women’s Institute as participatory art project? Don’t snort until you’ve met the Dalston Darlings, the Shoreditch Sisters, Gothic Valley WI, or Stoke-Newington WI.

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

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Thomas Edison called it “The Eighth Wonder of the World” It completed the revolution that Gutenberg started. But now you can hardly pay someone to take one off your hands! Doug Wilson, director of Linotype: The Film tells us about the machine that kickstarted the Information Age.

Tuesday, November 6, 2012

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Say hello to Si Schroeder, experimental music maker and reluctant conscript into the standing army of Irish singer-songwriters.

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Take a walk with Guillaume Ollendorff, author of Berlin Sampler: From Cabaret to Techno: 1904-2012, through the wintry streets of Kreuzberg, to listen to the sound of the city.

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The long puppet roots of Anglo: The Musical, a shocking satire set in a mythical land filled with fools and their money, written by Paul “@RossOCK” Howard.

Thursday, November 1, 2012

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Bone up on the reproductive life of snails and Greek gods tonight — as well as the hidden connections between Domenico Ghirlandaio and the Thomson Twins — as we tour Alice Maher’s current IMMA exhibition in the company of the artist.