Culture File Weekly No. 7

Voices from Mexico, Belfast and the land of the imagination on this week's weekly, as we explore the figure of the spornosexual, discuss stoking interest in symphonic music via Instagram with Alondra de la Parra, and hear from composer, Jennifer Walshe, about the feat of musical speculation that is the Avant Garde Archive of Ireland. (aisteach.org)

Culture File: Vitrual and Augmented Reality Trends

MS Hololens, Magic Leap, Oculus Rift, Google Glass...Prof Aisling Kelliher appraises recent promises and products in the area of Virtual and Augmented Reality.

Culture File: Mexican Conductor, Alondra de la Parra

Do you follow the conductor on Instagram? Mexican conductor, Alondra de la Parra, on the modern maestro.

Culture File: The Avant-Garde Archive of Ireland

Jennifer Walshe is a prominent Irish composer. Actually, she’s several prominent Irish composers, only one of them real.

Culture File: Spornosexual Dining

Spornosexual-friendly dining with the crew at Belfast's Home restaurant. A spornosexual is a man who aspires to the toned and muscled body-type of professional sportsmen.

Culture Weekly No. 6

This week Culture File moves from high on a hill above Cork city, remembering conductor, composer and teacher, Aloys Fleischmann, to diving down into the fathomless depths of International Klein Blue with writer and Yves Klein scholar, Nuit Bania.

Culture File: Yves Klein Blue

What is it about the colour blue? Yves Klein, colour and commerce with critic and writer, Nuit Banai.

Culture File: Yves Klein

The many deaths of Yves Klein, with Nuit Banai, author of a new book on the trickster inventor of Klein International Blue.

Culture File Weekly No. 5

This week we spend a little time with groundbreaking British performance artist and self-professed Republican, Stuart Brisley, visit a shop selling what poet, Paul Durcan calls "Celtic Fashion" and go underground, in Cork, where the rivers run free.

Culture File: On Musical Snobbery

Is Puccini too popular to be good? George Fleeton on the pervasiveness of Puccini and musical snobbery.

Culture File: On Musical Snobbery

Is Puccini too popular to be good? George Fleeton on the pervasiveness of Puccini and musical snobbery.

Culture File - Cleo on Kildare St.

Come with us behind the red door at No. 18, Kildare Street, inside Cleo, keeps the flame of the Irish handknit (and its smell) alive.

Culture File: Stuart Brisley. Artist II

Sixty-plus years of art making and counting: the work of British artist, Stuart Brisley’s work, at the MAC, Belfast.

Culture File: Stuart Brisley, Artist PI

The many directions of veteran artist/educator, Stuart Brisley, from landscape painter to transgressive performance artist and back.

Culture File Weekly No. 4

This week Culture File has been roaming the Dublin docks not helping much with the installation of a new art project, listening to cellist, Matthew Barley experiment with healing music, welcoming composer, performer and reverb fanatic, Brigid Power-Rice, and journeying a little deeper into a century of scent, with scent historian, Odette Toilette.

Culture File: The Scent of Success in the 1930s

Odette Toilette's voyage into scent reaches the 1930s, and Joy, a perfume to appeal to the 30s super rich.

Culture File Weekly No. 4

This week Culture File has been roaming the Dublin docks not helping much with the installation of a new art project, listening to cellist, Matthew Barley experiment with healing music, welcoming composer, performer and reverb fanatic, Brigid Power-Rice, and journeying a little deeper into a century of scent, with scent historian, Odette Toilette.

Culture File: Cork's Waterways in Sound

Composer, Tom Lane and performer, OlwenFouéré, offer a headphones tour of Cork's waterways.

Culture File: On Acting in A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing

Aoife Duffin on becoming the girl in question in Corn Exchange's stage version of Emer McBride's novel, A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing.

Culture File: Songwriter Brigid Power-Ryce

Tales of an abandoned underground carpark and the ideal way to stress test freshly-composed songs, with Brigid Power-Ryce.

Culture File - Cellist Matthew Barley

Cellist, Matthew Barley, on the therapeutic power of sound and music.

Culture File - Dublin Ships

The Arklow Venus and all the other ships moving via Dublin Port get their names in lights courtesy of artist, Cliona Harmey.

Culture File: Odetette Toilette and the Smell of Chanel

Odette Toilette continues her voyage into the scents of the 20th century, with a squirt of Chanel No.5.