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WOMAD is having a 30 birthday party this year in a field in Wiltshire. And once more, the event has been programmed by Paula Henderson, the woman whose job is to scour the planet all year long to fill the festival’s program of music and culture from around the world.

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Tenderness, sleep and ecstasy, the frugality of needs and the pleasure of the senses are the prescription for “After The Future”. Italian critic and activist, Franco ‘Bifo’ Berardi on life on a dying planet.

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Does it matter if the workshop window looks out on rolling hills or a car park, or even the main road from Limerick to Tralee? These and other questions answered in a new exhibition of Irish craft, My Place, in Liverpool.

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The first time Hauschka visited Iceland it was along with violinist, Hilary Hahn and on a mission: to start improvising and see what happened…spoiler alert: what happened was the CD, Silfra

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Everyone is welcome at the Dublin Comic Jam, where each month a brand new comic story is drawn collaboratively.

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Which would you rather be in an ideal free market, a goat or a human? Julian Gough’s neoliberal satire, The Great Goat Bubble, at Galway Arts Festival will possibly not help with your decision. But it could make you laugh.

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As the supernatural riff on folk song, The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart gets to entertaining the Galway Arts Festival, we talk again to Prudencia herself, Madeleine Worrall.

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After a hiatus in which Rufus Wainwright wrote his first opera and performed a Judy Garland tribute show at Carnegie Hall, the Canadian singer, songwriter composer — and Garland impersonator — is back in pop game.

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For this year’s Galway Arts Festival, Crash Ensemble have commissioned dimmerswitch, a new work from one-time Virgin Prune, Daniel Figgis.

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They haven’t gone away you know…the WAGs. And to prove it, a new play on that very subject opens in Dublin called…W.A.G.

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Hip hop in the concert hall with Gabriel Prokofiev, Nonclassical founder and composer of a Concerto for Turntable and Orchestra. (Part 3 of 3)

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A disappointment at Blackheath prompts Gabriel Prokofiev, founder of the London-based Nonclassical organisation, to think again about where classical music should be played, and heard. (Part 2 of 3)

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Come with us to meet Gabriel Prokofiev,the man who got club kids to mix with Penderecki freaks and the music of Xenakis with the sound of The XX. (Part 1 of 3)

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What a theatre artist might bring to - or indeed, take away from - the place where daily activity involved the search for ‘the god particle’, with That’s About The Size of It performer, Niamh Shaw.

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JELLY: Turns out, Beyonce was right. You can’t handle it. At least, not unless you do so with the kind of care for which 5 year olds are not known. Kids at the Jellytown event at the 2012 Kinsale Arts Week.

Hear the sound of breaking jelly, here on our Jellytown podcast. 

Photos: Peter Carroll

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The curators of The Skibbereen Museum of Miniatures explain the fine art of “brown paper packages tied up with strings”.

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Are you ready for this jelly? Architect, Peter Carroll reveals the hidden potential of jelly as a building material at Kinsale Arts Week.

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Baton down the hatches! The storm is coming, in the shape of the hyperspeed verbals of Finglas rapper, Temper-Mental Misselayneous.

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Bring your Bartok pizz and your col legno if you’re planning a trip to The Dark Side of the Moon. The Trinity Orchestra tackle Pink Floyd’s classic album.

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What’s a traditional potter to do in the age of conceptual craft? We’re off on a kiln all-nighter with Mandy Parslow for some answers.

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Anyone for pie? A “data dining” experience, along with dozen of hacktivist workshops and open source lectures made up the Open Here festival at the Science Gallery, Dublin.

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What’s your handle, Handel? A short history of pseudonyms and the art of making a name for yourself, online and off.

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Insect media theorist, Jussi Parrika, one of the contributors to this week’s open here conference in Dublin talks insects, ecology and media.

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Pianist Ivan Ilic on his discovery of the music of Morton Feldman and why he’d like to surprise play the composer’s music for fans of Brahms. (part 2 of 2)

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Pianist, Ivan Ilic unlocks the sinister secrets of left handed piano music, with some help from Chopin, Ravel and Godowsky. (Part 1 of 2)

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How Dublin artist Garrett Phelan enlisted thebell-ringersof the city’s two cathedrals to collaboate on his New Faith Love Song.

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The beauty of creaking escalators and the role of podcasts in the work of young Irish composers, with Dylan Rynhart and Emma O Halloran of The Irish Composers Collective

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For the best improv music, just add some good friends, advises a current multi instrumentalist practitioner of the art, Sean Mac Erlaine.

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Come with us into the doctor’s waiting room where the painist plays every Thursday, with Prof Tim Lynch.

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Why have so many great musicians been struck with the neurlogical disorder, dystonia? Prof Steve Frucht on understanding and treating the condition.

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Is there a Facebook exodus underway? We hear about one person’s decision to leave the social network, with THISISPOPBABY’s Jenny Jennings.

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Musician, Liam Ó Maonlaí, choreographer Michael Keegan-Dolan, along with composer, Donnacha Dennehy, discuss the musical powers of Sean O’Riada, who inspired the globetrotting dance show, Rian.

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Albanian artist, Anri Sala, and American composer, Ari Benjamin Meyers, on humming, breathing and their film,1395 Days Without Red

If you listen to the end of our report on the Serendipitor app, you’ll hear mention of a sketch of our reporter, Louise Williams, created by some eight year olds in Smithfield, Dublin. Well, this is that sketch. And this is exactly what Louise Williams look like. 

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Artist, Mark Shephard and his Serendipitor app help us discover a Dublin of happy accidents

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Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya! Mick Minogue’s real life (sorta) model of the Nyan Cat. He explains himself here (audio, 7mins). Although, Nyan cat still keeps schtum.

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Giving physical form to the internet’s biggest memes with Dublin-based artist, Mick Minogue.

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Limerick Art collective, Faber Studios,on making good use of the things the everyday folks leave behind for their EVA 2012 project, re-possession. (3/3)

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EVA contributors, Art Links Limerick on social practice and scary monsters in the Shannon. (2/3)

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EVA curator, Annie Fletcher, tells about her motives and her choices for this year’s Limerick’s Biennale, as well as about the exhibition’s title, After The Future. (1/3)

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Unstoppable travel writer and author of The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt, Mary Russell, shows us around the place she calls home.

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Artist papermaker, Tunde Toth, on getting the passing crowds making paper for her Silk Garden at this year’s Bloom in the Phoenix Park, Dublin.

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One common link between John Cage, The Beatles and Aphex Twin is that they’ve all been reworked by champion new music ensemble, Alarm Will Sound. We talk to the outfit’s Alan Pierson.

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Why are writers of Young Adult fiction leaving Dystopia behind and setting sail for The Big C? Books blogger, David Maybury explains.

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Michael J Nelson, star and writer on Mystery Science Theater 3000 on the strange compulsion to make fun of movies, and his latest project, Rifftrax.

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Glass artist Róisín de Buitléir gives the kiss of life to Irish glass, with the help of the masters at The Irish Handmade Glass company

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"Drop Everything" was the title of a crowd-funded free festival in the unlikely location of Inis Oirr last weekend. Louise Williams shipped out for Culture File

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"Like Disneyland for Geeks!" Niamh Shaw, star of That’s About The Size Of It, on life at CERN and how to put string theory on stage.

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Hear how the words of WB Yeats inspired UK theatre company Ad Infinitum’s Translunar Paradise, a drama with no words at all.

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In the final part of our interview, Pascal Bruckner, concludes his dissection of the culture of happiness with an offer of some alternatives to the pursuit of that ellusive state. (Part 3 of 3)