Culture File: Who cares about Glam now?

Simon Reynolds' Shock and Awe, explores glitter 'n' feather boas, but also crowds, charisma & the rise of Trump

Culture File: Vickey Curtis Isn't Sorry

For her latest show, Vickey Curtis, invites audiences to her Dublin city centre home for a "sorry" intervention

Culture File: Trevor Moran whips up Tennessee-style かき氷

Dublin-born Nashville chef, Trevor Moran, on the elevated version of shaved ice the Japanese call ???.

#WakingAnneKarenina

"People are always waiting for the next white great male prophet," says Marina Carr. "...a woman will never be that." More at 6.05pm @LyricLorcan @RTElyricfm #wakingthefeminists

Culture File: Cool In The Pool (Part 2/2)

In the 1960s, the Aboriginal peoples' struggle for civil rights reached the segregated Australian swimming pool

Culture File: Cool In The Pool

Australia architect, Amelia Holiday, on BBQs, bodies and Australia's special relationship with its swimming places

The Black Panther Cookbook

The Black Panthers' pre-school breakfast program and other revolutionary surprises with chef/activist, Saqib Keval, of the People's Kitchen Collective.

The Culture File Weekly No 97 (Josef Sudek, Daoirí Farrell, Aisling Kelliher on Venmo and Steve Forbert)

This weekly we get authentic as we spend some time in Claddagh records with our communion money and Daoirí Farrell; enter a wicklow cottage in search of Czech photographer, Josef Sudek, beam into Virginia Tech to discuss Venmo and splitting the bill 21st century style, while Steve Forbert makes a good case for life on the road

Culture File: The Real Josef Sudek

John Hutchinson on the unfashionable authenticity of Prague photographer, Josef Sudek

Culture File Xtra: Saqib Keval's recipe for Scrambled Tofu

Activist and chef, Saqib Keval's recipe for Scrambled Tofu just like the serve it at the People's Food Collective in Oakland, Calif.

Culture File: Daoirí Farrell

Childhood visits to the Claddagh Records with his communion money set Daoirí Farrell on his musical road

Culture File: Prof Aisling Kelliher Venmos her dues

Already an Urban Dictionary verb, Venmo is the bill sharing app that might just replace traditional banking

The Culture File Weekly No. 96 (The Burglar's Guide to the City, documentary painting, #FreakFood)

This weekly: unpicking the secrets of like-worthy #FreakFood, a walk 'n' talk with the evil genius behind The Burglar's Guide to the City, and painting a documentary of Waterford to rival a 1735 record of the city

Culture File: The Burglar's Guide to the City (Part 2)

If there is one creature that knows the architecture of the city even better than a burglar, it's the rat. (2/2)

Culture File: The Burglar's Guide to the City (part 2)

If there is one creature who knows the architecture of the city even better than a burglar, it's the rat. (2/2)

Culture File: The Burglar's Guide to the City

Who really knows a building best? The developer? The architect? The occupier? None of the above says Geoff Manaugh

Culture File: #FreakFood

When snapping a dish is an inevitable part of a restaurant meal, the chef's job is as much about memes as menus.

Culture File: Blaise Smith surveys Waterford

The application of pencil to paper and other artworld quiddities with artist-pianist, Blaise Smith

Culture File: Andean foraging with Virgilio Martínez (FOTE 2016)

The brand new, centuries old ingredients one Peruvian chef is bringing from the Andes into the kitchen

The Culture File Weekly No. 95 (Andean treats, Czech Black Light Theatre, Marina Carr's Wicklow, Process Philosophy)

This weekly, French ballet dancer turned "black light" star, Thomas Bettinelli, Laura Marks on the bold promises of Process philosophy, Virgilio Martínez's new world of Andean food and the drowned valley in Marina Carr's Mary Gordon

Culture File: Process Philosophy for Dummies

Prof Laura Marks there on Process Philosophy and what it means to film, dance and washing the dishes

Culture File: The Drowned World of Marina Carr

300 voices from community choirs around Wicklow bring the playwright's oratorio, Mary Gordon to the concert hall

Culture File: In Prague, and in the dark

Thomas Bettinelli trained in ballet at home in France, but on a visit to Prague discovered black light theatre

Culture File: Tina Gorjanc's speculative design project, Pure Human

Would you let me use your DNA to create laboratory grown skin? Could you stop me?

The Culture File Weekly No. 94 (Harps, Pure Humans, FOTE 2016 and Wexford Festival Opera)

This weekly...the bright lights of Wexford with opera director, Rodula Gaitano; Galway's Food On The Edge global grub symposium; how to make your own harp, and the possibility of skin having a life after it's owner has departed...

Culture File: Black and White Wexford

In search of just the right moment with Wexford's photographic chronicler, Pádraig Grant

Culture File: Radula Gaitanou sniffs out Barber's Vanessa

Director, Radula Gaitanou, on inspirations for her take on Barber's neglected opera

Culture File: Food on The Edge Hors D'Oeuvre

A first helping of voices and sizzle from Food on The Edge 2016 international culinary thinkathon in Galway

Culture File: Achill International Harp Festival

You don't need planning permission to build your own harp at Achill International Harp Festival

The Culture File Weekly No. 93 (Desperate Optimists, Harry Christophers & The Sixteen, old school Intersectionality, and Peter Hook)

This weekly, we take a walk through London Fields with Desperate Optimists, plus Harry Christophers on why The Sixteen are quite like the Rolling Stones, Maureen O'Connor on animal rights in the fight for human freedom and Peter Hook on the ostensibly inadvisable job of reworking acid house anthems in a classical style

Culture File: Animal Rights & Human Freedoms

Maureen O'Connor on animal rights in the fight for human freedom

Culture File: How Not to Tell The Story of Ambrose O'Higgins

Desperate Optimists, Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor, on truth, lies and documentary making

Culture File: Are You On One?

A seamless setlist of rave bangers played by full orchestra? Got just the right thing for you, Hacienda Classical

Culture File: It's Only Baroque 'n' Renaissance Polyphony (But I Like It)

At first, similarities between The Rolling Stones and the choral magic of The Sixteen are not completely obvious

Culture File: Wolves in the Octagon

Sculpture, Catherine Greene creates new work for the oldest purpose-built exhibition gallery in these islands

Culture File: How important is the label in art?

Curator, Louise Foott, on who is in and who is out of the art world, and who gets to decide

The Culture File Weekly no 92 (Ryan Estep, Organ Reframed, Claire Singer, Irene Buckley, Spire, Philip Jeck)

We get experimental this weekly as we attempt to tour a Dublin exhibition of artist, Ryan Estep, with its creator, while he remains on the other side of the Atlantic. Then we'll spend some time in the flickering half-light of Union Chapel, where the inaugural Organ Reframed festival, curated by chapel organist, Claire Singer, has been taking place

Culture File: A Knowing Space

Around the stairwell at Union Chapel, sound artist Bill Thompson has wired a flock of salvaged organ pipes

Culture File: A Dating Agency for Organs

Hooking up a roster of experimental musicians with some of the world's great pipe organs is the aim of Spire

Culture File: A Dating Agency for Organs (Organ Reframed 2)

Organising hook ups for a roster of experimental musicians with some of the world's greatest pipe organs is the business of Spire. The latest Spire took place as part of Union Chapel's Organ Reframed festival.

Culture File: A Knowing Space (Organ Reframed 3)

Around the stairwell at Union Chapel, Islington, sound artist, Bill Thompson has wired a flock of salvaged organ pipes to create a ringing, resonant installation at this year's Organ Reframed festival.

Culture File: The Organ gets Reframed at Union Chapel

Organ Reframed is a three-day festival of contemporary music and sound, for and about the organ

Culture File: Ryan Estep's New Tools

Invoking the shaky magic of the internet, we tour Ryan Estep's latest Dublin show in the artist's company

Culture File: Love after Death at FutureFest

The artists, techies, Instagram deities and purveyors of grasshopper power bars consider death at Futurefest 2016

The Culture File Weekly No 81 (FutureFest 2016)

This weekly, we join the crowds at FutureFest in London's Tobacco Dock, meet the Swede who runs chip insertion parties, look at the future of death, say hi to computer games "story paramedic" Rhianna Pratchett and of course, we'll walk the corridors of FutureFest, listening to the calls of the future barkers boosting their future wares

Culture File: Futurefest 3 "Chipping for Freedom"

Can inserting microchips in our own bodies be a resistance strategy?

Culture File: FutureFest 2

Narrative designer / story paramedic, Rhianna Pratchett, on the growing sophistication of storytelling in gaming

Culture File: At FutureFest 2016

Play future games, get chipped, die and scoff sci-fi ice-cream at the FutureFest, the funfair of "what's next?"

Culture File: Ali White's Timeless Tunes

Belfast-born Ali White is the latest in a growing line of actors to make their jazz debuts thanks to Shakespeare

Culture File: SP McCardle's Magical Travel Fiction

Spotting a gap in the market or inventing a genre? SP McCardle on developing a franchise of magical travel books