Catch IMDT's Kooky 'Body Duet' with Ipad at Project Arts Centre til March 3rd
BODY DUET is an energy packed, highly physical duet/duel; for New York’s Michelle Boulé and Ireland’s Philip Connaughton, two exceptional, spiritual and witty performers. The dancers fuse their different physicalities to create one body, using breath to create the movements. BODY DUET was commissioned by Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland. BODY DUET is in three sections, one part is furious, athletic …
Come and go to Yellow the film today at #JDIFF
This film of that event has as its premise that to endure is to live and finally to triumph. It engages with the shamanist ritual of healing. Each performance has at its foundation a simple three lined script written by Coogan and demands the performer submit to the masochistic endurance of the actions. These six extraordinary performances filmed in a series of epic takes is an Irish film unlike any other you’ll see this year.
Is it a basketball hoop? Is it a cross? No – it's art, on Bray Head!
Climb to the summit of Bray Head and ponder this witty arty intervention, vulgo-verse! Does one cancel out the other? Or not? We are loving it.
Date for your diary: Judith Mok's new poetry "Gods of Babel" launch in Dublin's Unitarian Church
Soprano and novelist Judith Mok is launching “Gods of Babel”, her innovative first volume of poetry in the English language at the Unitarian Church, 112 St. Stephen’s Green West, next Friday August 26th at 6pm. Curious? Well, you’re invited…
Be uplifted & inspired by Laurie Anderson at Cork Midsummer Festival this weekend.
First the Obama’s, and now – we’re delighted to see that Laurie Anderson is touching down on our woebegone island this weekend to lift our spirits and cheer us onward, with her show ‘Transitory Life’ at Cork Midsummer Festival, in Triskel Christchurch. Don’t miss it!
'Fast Portraits' by Rex Levitates Dance Company
Inspired by the realistic observations of the true human condition by artists Bill Viola and Caravaggio, Rex Levitates explore the layers of emotion and memory that infuse captured images and transfer them into movement.
VULGO loves Dalkey Book Festival! Margaret E Ward on interviewing Ryan Tubridy, for tasters…
Let it rain. We’re looking forward to some food for thought and a few relaxed drinks at Finnegan’s Pub at Dalkey Book Festival this weekend. Here, Margaret E Ward, who is interviewing Ryan Tubridy a la ‘inside the actor’s studio’, Saturday June 18th at 3pm shares her insider’s view of this innovative festival with VULGO:
Happy Bloomsday. Say yes.
Eat some innards, gorgonzola, a glass of whatever Leopold Bloom is having himself. Drop in to Davy Byrne’s. Stroll on Sandymount Strand. Encircle the Martello Tower at Sandycove. Have an epiphany on Dollymount Strand. Go to a funeral. Buy Lemon Soap. Say yes
VULGOverse Funding Opportunity! Dublin City Public Art
Attention to all out there in the VULGO-verse: Dublin City Council has launched its first Public Art Programme.
Dublin Diary of Free Stuff
Lack of funds need not stunt your enjoyment of arts and culture if you are in Dublin this month. Check out this quick glance at free stuff to do in our Fair City this month. Do let me know of other suggestions, and post comments of anything you see or hear!
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