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Wednesday, 13 July – Aideen Barry: Brittlefield, 11-19:00, Free, Royal Hibernian Academy

The RHA is hosting Aideen Barry’s first major solo show, running until 21 August. The Cork artist is known for her work in performance, sculpture and installation, with some of her most
recent performative pieces made in response to Carol Rama’s works at IMMA. The RHA has commissioned an immersive installation from Aideen Barry, using her current film work, focusing on neuroses and obsessive behaviour, as its starting point. Barry uses space and architecture to respond to these behaviours, merging the media and the viewer. Further detailshere.

Thursday, 14 July – Pieter Hugo: Thirteen works, 11-18:00, Free, Gallery of Photography

Three series of works from photographer Pieter Hugo are being shown at the Gallery of Photography in Meeting House Square: “The Hyena and Other Men”, “Nollywood” and “Permanent Error”. Hugo is known for his portraits, which blend documentary and art traditions in their exploration of identity in post-colonial Africa. In each series he takes a specific element of African cultural expression: “The Hyena and Other Men” looks at the myth of the “hyena men”, Nigeria’s liminal-space-inhabiting performing vagabonds; “Nollywood” uses a team of actors and assistants to interpret the Nigerian film industry and its myths and symbols. The exhibition has been organised in partnership with Belfast’s MAC. More here.

Friday, 15 July – The Enquiry at IMMA, 14:00, Free, IMMA

The Enquiry series, hosted by IMMA, is in association with the Graduate School for Creative Arts and Media. Research is presented through live performance and specially dedicated printed material. Inspired by Jean-François Lyotard conception of immateriality – that is, the digitisation of artistic and cultural practices, and the public’s changing perception of such art – The Enquiry begins in IMMA’s old bookshop and moves to the lecture room for screenings and presentations. The event is free, and no booking is required. The Facebook event page is here.

Saturday, 16 July – Repeater BYOB Day Party, 14:00, €5/7, The New Space (Rialto)

Record label and collective Repeater is hosting its second BYOB all-dayer at 41 St Anthony’s Road. Zines and T-shirts are on sale in the space, and there’ll be a whole rake of DJ sets from the Repeater gang, including Dream Cycles, Lumigraph, Melly and Sias. Art from Miles Really, Eva Richardson, Emma Conway, Bentley Allison, Niall Cullen, Gary Merrin and Coilin O’Connell. Detailed directions to the space are on the Facebook page: here.

Sunday, 17 July – Gem Fest, 14:00, Free, The Bandstand in Phoenix Park

The Little Gem family are hosting an all-ages open-air concert at the bandstand in Phoenix Park this Sunday, with performances from Patrick Kelleher, Roslyn Steer, Fuzzy Hell and Cobra Truth. Check out some recent material from relevant Bandcamps here, here andhere. Visit the Facebook event page here.

Monday, 18 July – InSight #4 Taquin & Jessie Keenan Dance, 20:00, €14/12, Smock Alley Theatre

Tonnta Music and the Irish Composers’ Collective have teamed up for InSight #4, hosting Taquin & Jessie Keenan Dance at the Smock Alley Theatre. The InSight series, which began in March of this year and runs until the end of the month, is a showcase of musical work and its visual representation. Choreographer Jessie Keenan has interpreted Irish percussion outfit Taquin’s five new musical works with the help of three dance performers: herself, Lucia Kickham and Marion Cronin. Taquin consists of Kate Ellis on cello, Nick Roth on saxophone and Francesco Turrisi for percussion. Facebook event page here, and more details here.

Tuesday, 19 July – Paul McVeigh in Conversation (Irish Times Book Club), 19:30, €4/6, Irish Writers’ Centre

Paul McVeigh, who is originally from Belfast, has enjoyed a varied career as a playwright and short-story writer, and released his debut novel, The Good Son, last year. His comedies have been performed at the Edinburgh Fringe, and his work has been translated into seven languages and adapted for both stage and radio. He’ll be speaking with Martin Doyle about his first novel, narrated by a young boy trying to explore his sexuality in the threatening world of 1980s Belfast. The Facebook event page is here and you can book a ticket here.

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Wednesday, 6 July – Historias Inmediatas, 18:00-20:00, Free, Instituto Cervantes

PhotoIreland and the Istituto Europeo di Design Madrid (IED Madrid) have teamed up to showcase seven projects by recent graduates in IED Madrid’s European Master of Fine Art Photography. Paulina Lara has curated the work of Shiv Ankit Ahuja, Anubhav Syal, Gazi Nafis Ahmed, Natalia Queirolo Calmet, Shane Green, Paulina Lara, Ana Sofía Ayarzagoitia and Duarte Amaral Neto in a study of the interaction between identity, place, and memory. The graduates have each given a personal response to these notion and that of material representation, using subjects such as the Manzanares River, the humans (and their stories) populating refugee camps, fictional archaeological research from demolished houses in Madrid and found material from Google Maps. Details of the launch here and here.

Friday, 8 July – PhotoIreland 2016: UU MFA, 18:00, Free, Unit 3 Artbox

As part of PhotoIreland 2016, Ulster University’s Belfast School of Fine Art is exhibiting work from the MA in Fine Art in Photography. The opening reception is Thursday, and there will be work from Aaron Dickson, Richard Gosnold, Dianne Whyte, Tim West, Dalyce Wilson and Katrina Taggart dealing with topics such as suppression and identity, and the psychological impact political issues have upon already vulnerable strata in society. The show continues to 23 July. Details here.

Friday, 8 July – Zehr Gut presents: Sevensol (Kann), Sleep Thieves & Liza Flume, 21:00, €8/€12/€15, BYOB, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Zehr Gut, a collaborative event between the Goethe Institut and Homebeat, was created to bring and promote German arts in Ireland. Dana Ruh played in Tengu as part of the series a few months ago, and this Friday sees the event move back to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. Homebeat DJs will precede Liza Flume, Sleep Thieves and quietly polished house producer Sevensol, the label founder of Leipzig’s Kann. Details here.

Saturday, 9 July – Out To Lunch presents Jayda G & Dip & Sam De La Rosa, 22:00, €7/€12, Tengu

Making a much anticipated return after her November set at Jigsaw, Jayda G is back at the Dip decks this weekend at Tengu, hosted by the Out to Lunch series. Moving between Vancouver and Berlin, Jayda G uses her sets to mix disco and house with chopped-up dubby beats. She also founded the Freakout Cult label with DJ Fett Burger, adding Italo and soul to the groove. Sam De La Rosa and Simon Conway will be on hand with synth and Italo in Room 2. Details here and here.

Sunday, 10 July – CEAD Art Exhibition 2016, 14:00-17:00, Free, NCAD

NCAD’s annual CEAD exhibition showcases the work of its part-time students across painting, sculpture, ceramics, textiles, and other media. The artworks on display will be diverse, not simply in terms of medium, but also in terms of mixing the work of professional, amateur, and award-winning artists. Details here.

Monday, 11 July – The Neon Demon, 15:40, €9, IFI

The director of Drive is back with a decidedly trashier, even more neon take on a different side of the West Coast’s underbelly. In Nicolas Winding Refin’s The Neon Demon, Elle Fanning plays Jesse, a young new talent at a Hollywood modelling agency, taken under the wing of the always commanding Christina Hendricks. What follows is an increasingly sordid and gory horror story in the spirit of Italian trash maestro Dario Argento. Undeniably glossy, it’s debatable whether Refin’s new flamboyant venture delivers any lasting drama. The film opens in the IFI on 8 July. Details here.

Tuesday, 12 July – New Irish Works, 11:00-18:00, Free, Library Project

New Irish Works comprises 20 projects from 20 photographers, chosen by a panel of 23, as an example of Ireland’s diverse range of photographic practices, and the “moment” that Ireland is experiencing in its photography scene. The year-long project is in collaboration with PhotoEspaña and the Irish embassy in Madrid, and Paris Photo, with the support of the Centre Culturel Irlandais. There’s a hefty list of artists involved, including Ailbhe Ní Bhriain, Aisling McCoy, Caitriona Dunnett, Dara McGrath, Daragh Soden, David Thomas Smith, Eanna de Freine, Emer Gillespie, Enda Bowe, Jan McCullough, Jill Quigley, Kate Nolan, Mandy O’Neill, Matthew Thompson, Miriam O’Connor, Noel Bowler, Robert McCormack, Roseanne Lynch, Shane Lynam, and Yvette Monahan. Details here.

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Wednesday, 29 June – The Stinging Fly: Launch of Summer 2016 Issue, Free, 18:30, Books Upstairs

The Stinging Fly‘s summer 2016 issue arrived in post boxes the other week, and features new fiction from Nicole Flattery, Liz Gallagher, Wendy Erskine and more, an interview of Michael McCormack by Ian Maleney, and reviews of Olivia Laing, Matthew Sweeney and Derek Mahon. This Wednesday will see its launch, with readings from Wendy Erskine, Roisin Kelly, Patrick O’Flaherty and Dave Tynan. Details here.

Thursday, 30 June – Brian Maguire: Opening Reception, Free, 18:00, Kerlin Gallery

Over Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up is a collection of new works by Irish painter Brian Maguire, in which he extends his sociopolitical focus, which began during the Troubles, to exploring migration, borders and displacement. His sensitivity to his subjects sets him apart, having worked in prisons, asylums and shelters, and he has shown a committed and immersive approach throughout. The title for this new body of work comes from Primo Levi’s If This Be a Man, itself a quote from Dante’s “Inferno”. The significance, here, is displacement and unrest, and a concern with storytelling and narrative rather than voyeurism – a difficult line to walk. Maguire’s sources are photographic, impactful in their contrast of aesthetic and subject matter. Details here.

Friday, 1 July – The Walking Dead Interactive Cinema Club, €5, 18:30, Fringe Lab

Alt Event Labs have knocked together a voting app that will allow an entire audience to direct the action of the much-loved Telltale Games’ The Walking Dead – the emotionally fraught point-and-click video game based on Robert Kirkman’s zombie apocalypse comic-book series. Audiences are invited to bring their smart phones. After booking your ticket, you’ll receive a link and login details to access the voting app, allowing you to chip in when characters are presented with a choice. Details here andhere.

Saturday, 2 July – My Brilliant Friend, Free, 11:00–18:00, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios

Five artists were invited to consider Ireland’s tumultuous year, amidst increased radicalisation in social-change movements for abortion rights and housing, a hung Dáil and ongoing crises in healthcare, homelessness and unemployment. In their response, they explore female solidarity in the face of injustice and disappointment, through the solidarity and warmth they have for one another. Work comes from Michelle Browne, Avril Corroon, Ella de Búrca and Lisamarie Johnson, and Vaari Claffey and Mason Leaver Yap under the moniker of Laugh a Defiance, a project conceived out of Jesse Jones’s No More Fun and Games that uses the euphoric and absurd power of laughter to activate agency. Details here.

Sunday, 3 July – Dublin City Block Party 2016, €43.10, 14:00–Late, Francis Street: Tivoli Grounds

The two-day Dublin City Block Party sees Todd Terje & The Olsens, Late Nite Tuff Guy, Jape, Get Down Edits, Kelly-Anne Byrne and Nialler9 & Stevie G performing an all-dayer on the grounds of the Tivoli Theatre. Weekend tickets are sold out, but you can still nab day passes. Details here and here.

Monday, 4 July – Irish Game Dev: Netrunner, Free, 18:30, Against the Grain

For anyone not yet in the know, Netrunner is a game of collectible cards involving two decks per player: one, a menacing cyberpunk organisation, the other a hacker or “runner”. Players use either deck to try to take down opponents, with runners trying to take the corp’s “agenda” cards by hacking into their decks, and the corporation’s attempts in turn to advance their plans while keeping their cool. Created by the same man behind Magic: The Gathering, Netrunner is an addictive mix of bluffing and obsessive deck-making, with tournaments dedicated to it worldwide. A bunch of Irish game developers will be playing in Against the Grain next Monday, with spare starter decks for newcomers. Details here.

Tuesday, 5 July – Not Necessarily Naughty, 10:00–16:00, RUA RED

The Young Curators Group of 2016 began working together in March of this year, facilitated by Andy Parsons. Sofya Mikhaylova, Nessa Finnegan, Sophie Carroll Hunt and Nicola Horner have selected artworks from voices who have yet to receive much exposure, tied together in theme by their provocative nature. Curated by: Chiara Pizza, Edana Gorham, Ellen Redmond, Karl Graham, Orla Mcgovern, Roisin White and Shauna Blanchfield. Details here.

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Wednesday 22 June – Listen, Hissen, Hessin!, 18:30, Free, IMMA

This Wednesday will see a one-night performance inspired by the incredible Carol Rama exhibition currently on show in IMMA until 1 August. Six Dublin-based visual artists collaborating under the name Hissen, will give their first public performance as an experimental sound group, in response to the Carol Rama artworks on display. The improvisational performance will make use of voice, touch, found objects, musical instruments, and digital elements. The collective consists of Karl Burke, Jessica Conway, Teresa Gillespie, Jonathan Mayhew, Suzanne Walsh and Lee Welch. More here.

Image Courtesy of Dragana Jurisic.

Thursday 23 June – Paul Gaffney & Dragana Jurisic, 18:00, Free, Oliver Sears Gallery

Dragana Jurisic is exhibiting My Own Unknown, a collection of recent work dealing with issues of identity and sexuality, inspired by the disappearance of her aunt, Gordana Čavić, from rural Yugoslavia in the 1950s, and the story of L’Inconnue de la Seine. L’Inconnue was the name given to a body allegedly found in the River Seine, whose death mask became a source of inspiration for Man Ray, Anais Nin, and many others. Dragana Jurisic’s research into L’Inconnue led her to create the 100 Muses project as an exploration of the reversal of the male gaze. Paul Gaffney’s ‘Stray’ collection will be on the first floor. Facebook event page here.

Friday 24 June – KantCope Album Launch: Roslyn Steer // Fixity, 20:00, €5 (Suggested Donation), Little Gem Records

Cork singer-songwriter Roslyn Steer uses drone and psychedelia throughout her strikingly intimate musical collection “You’ll Know”, which she is releasing on her own label KantCope. Recorded and produced by Dan Walsh with help from Kevin Terry, the songs were written over several years by Steer in Iniscarra, Co. Cork. Dan Walsh will also be performing as Fixity, a collaborative project based on improvisation. It’ll be a mesmerising affair. More here.

Saturday 25 June – NADIE, Strong Boys, SISSY, Disguise, 20:00, €8, Tenterhooks

Hypnotic punk Barcelonians NADIE are playing their first Dublin show in the tragically soon-to-be defunct Tenterhooks space. They include members from The Love Triangle, Belgrado, The Splits and Sect. They’ll be accompanied by hardcore bigwigs Disguise, SISSY, Strong Boys. Read more.

Sunday 26 June – Bannermaking BBQ Fundraiser: Rally for Choice, 13:00, €5-€10 (Suggested Donation), Jigsaw

In anticipation of the Rally for Choice march in Belfast on 2 July there’ll be an all-day fundraiser banner-making and BBQ event hosted by Jigsaw and organised by Need Abortion Ireland, Solidarity Times, and the Workers Solidarity Movement. All the money raised will go directly towards transporting Dublin-based protestors to the rally, in support of free, safe, and legal abortions. Event page here.

Monday 27 June – Remainder, 18:30/20:00, €9, IFI

Omer Fast has brought Tom McCarthy’s postmodern masterpiece to the screen in what looks to be a slick adaptation. Told in loops and fragments, Remainder opens with the unnamed protagonist (played by Tom Sturridge) struck by an unidentified object plummeting from the sky, then tracks his recovery as he attempts to piece his past together using the bribe he has been paid to remain silent about the accident. More on the IFI page here.

Tuesday 28 June – Alice Maher: The Glorious Maids of the Charnel House, 10:30-17:30, Free, Kevin Kavanagh

Alice Maher’s nine drawings are an exploration of metamorphosis via the human body, and orbit a range forms and emotions: human, animal and hybrid; pain, ecstasy and defiance. Distinctions between human and object are playfully muddled, and physical and metaphysical realities are explored. Maher is currently showing at EVA International, and represented Ireland at the Sao Paolo Biennale in 1994. Read more.

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Wednesday, 15 June – Phonica: Three, 20:00, Free, Jack Nealon’s

Michelle Hall, Keith Lindsay, Aodán McCardle, Michael Naghten Shanks, Dylan Tighe, and Suzanne Walsh are performing at the third session of Phonica, a multi-disciplinary night put together by Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska.

The evening was set up as a collaborative space, in which artists from different practices can explore and present new ideas. Previous Phonica events have featured soundscape composition and improvisation using field recordings and invented instruments, poetry, and collaborative performance.

The curators will host one of their fullest sessions yet this week, with a mix of installation and sound artists, writers and songwriters. There are more details here.

Thursday, 16 June – The Invisible Empire, 18:00, Free, Gallery X

Juha Arvid Helminen’s portraits seek to explore the beauty left after the dehumanising impact of mask and uniform. Helminen has both taught photography and worked as a photographer, and is particularly concerned with power and its misuse. Influenced by the Helsinki Smash ASEM demonstration in 2006, Helminen was fascinated by the authority commanded by the Finnish police force and saw their uniform and anonymity as key to this power. More about the event here.

Friday, 17 June – No Monster Club & Richard Album, 00:00, Free, Whelan’s

No surprise if you can’t afford the picnic this year – you could practically fly elsewhere and catch the same lineup somewhere warm. If you didn’t have €200 to spare this June, No Monster Club and Richard Album are playing a free midnight show. Self-professed “prom king” of Dublin, Richard Album has been busy bringing synth pop to America’s Midwest, while über catchy fuzz-pop peddlers No Monster Club have just put out I Feel Magic, building on an already hefty discography, with more expected this summer. To get in free, click “Attending” and post a comment on the Facebook event pagehere.

Saturday, 18 June – Hollywood Babylon: Society, 22:30, €10/€8, Light House Cinema

Brian Yuzna’s high-school cult classic Society is an exercise in some of the most disgusting body horror you are likely to catch this side of David Cronenberg. Yuzna was also responsible for the production of trash-gore masterpiece The Re-Animator. While just as absurd, Society reaches new levels of grossness. Bill, handsome and gormless, is the classic paranoid teen outsider, concerned that he is different to his sister and parents and the privileged elite that form their social circle. Just how different, he does not find out until the film’s famous half-hour stomach-churning denouement. Facebook page here and tickets here.

Sunday, 19 June – Cemetery of Splendour, 16:15, €9, IFI

Voluntary nurse Jenjira (Jenjira Pongpas) strikes up a friendship with another volunteer, Keng (Jarinpattra Rueangram), who is also a medium, and soldier Itt, at a new care unit set up for soldiers suffering an intense sleeping malady. Keng is able to connect with the soldiers’ hibernating thoughts and relay them. Palme d’Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul blends the real and the unknown, and looks at the situation of modern Thai identity and culture. More here.

Monday, 20 June– Ryou-Un Maru, 11-19:00, Free, Project Arts Centre

Ryou-Un Maru was a Japanese fishing boat swept out to sea in 2011, following the Tōhoku Tsunami and earthquake. For the next 391 days the craft floated through international waters. Brian Duggan’s giant installation, commissioned by the Project Arts Centre and curated by Tessa Gibbon, explores the representation of disaster and the confrontation between Earth’s powerful tides, currents and tectonic plates, and man-made borders and nation states. Duggan is currently participating in the Art and Science residency programme in UCD’s School of Physics. You can learn more here.

Tuesday, 21 June – Euclid, I Miss You, 11-17:00, Free, ArtBox

Euclid, I Miss You is Adam Gibney’s new solo exhibition, questioning the arbitrary and temporary delineations imposed by descriptions of reality upon our experience of it. Gibney graduated from IADT in 2010, and received the IMOCA Graduate Award, the Aileen MacKeogh Award and the Siamsa Tíre Emerging Artist Award. His solo shows have used sculpture, sound and video to create immersive experiences and explore technology and language. Further details here.

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Wednesday, 8 June – Mudhoney & Bob Log, 19:30, €23, Whelan’s

Sub Pop Records’ first-born, Mudhoney, had a sound that spawned Nirvana and Soundgarden, formed out of members from Green River and the pre-California Melvins. Though they did not see the same long-lasting fame, they were instrumental (probably to their chagrin) in putting Seattle firmly on the map as grunge’s official capital city, taking the primitivism and bravado of punk and blending it with 60s fuzz. Details here.

Thursday, 9 June – Fried Plantain Collective: Born in Flames! 19:00, €3/6, The Beerhouse

The Fried Plantain Collective is a new night of poetry, song and black female performance, bringing readings, talks, open mic, screenings, and raffles. The organisers describe it as a “pro ethnic dykes, pro women, pro feminist, Black Lives Matter, etc. etc. LGBTQ event”. The cover is €3 for “Black women” and €6 for “allies”, according to the Facebook event page.

This Thursday, Justine Nantale provides music, with spoken word from Clara Rose Thornton, Toyin Odelade, Sahar Ali and Niamh Beirne. There’ll also be a screening of Lizzie Borden’s Born in Flames, a feminist science-fiction flick, set in a future New York City where America has become a socialist democracy, and in which two gangs of women rally the population via rival pirate-radio stations.

Friday, 10 June – Fuzzy Hell: Hex Songs Album Launch & Frances Chang, Little Gem Records

Fuzzy Hell is Kanye West’s alter-ego when he gets bored and wants to sing sad songs, or so says noise and lo-fi guitarist and singer Frances Chang. Little Gem are hosting her album launch on Sofia Records, building on a backlog of acoustic performance distorted and projected through effect pedals and amps. Facebook event page here.

Saturday, 11 June – Precarious Subjects: Gender and Sexualities Conference, 15:00, €8, Trinity Long Room Hub

A two-day conference takes place in Trinity’s Long Room Hub this Friday and Saturday, inspired by Judith Butler’s idea of precarity: economic or social conditions that endanger the safety and survival of non-normative gender expressions and dissident sexualities. Precarious Subjects aims to give postgraduates and researchers in those fields a space in which to share, nurture and expand their ideas. Dr Anne Mulhall, MA coordinator in gender, sexuality, and culture at UCD, has been announced as the keynote speaker, with a series of 20-minute papers selected by organisers Laura Byrne and Gavin Doyle. Facebook event page here, tickets here.

Sunday, 12 June – Embrace of the Serpent, 18:00, €9, IFI

Set in 1909, in this film German scientist Theodore Koch-Grunberg is seeking to cure himself by locating the sacred yakruna plant, guided by the young shaman Karamakate. Switching between this story and Richard Evans’s attempt, years later, to find Karamakate and the plant, director Ciro Guerra explores the impact of colonialism on indigenous peoples in striking monochrome. Detailshere.

Monday, 13 June – Penny Dreadful‘s Launch of The Hierophants, 19:30, Free, Liquor Rooms

Penny Dreadful and Oisín Fagan launch The Hierophants, winner of the 2016 Penny Dreadful Novella Prize, selected by Sara Baume, Paul McVeigh, and Colin Barrett. Oisín Fagan has had a string of published work in The Stinging Fly, New Planet Cabaret, and the Young Irelandersanthology, as well as having exhibited in IMMA. His short-story collection Hostages is out with New Island this autumn. Facebook event here.

Tuesday, 14 June – Dorothy Smith: Made and Considered, 10-17:30, Free, darcspace, 26 North Great George’s Street

Smith is an assiduous urban taxonomist, using Dublin’s north inner city to defamiliarise and reevaluate the temporary and permanent, functional and abandoned urban structures. Her collection will be housed at darcspace until 17 June.

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Wednesday, 1 June – Dither & Eidolan, 18:00, Free, MART Gallery Rathmines

As part of Rue Red’s Glitch Festival 2016, Kevin Freeney of (Algorithm and CLU) and filmmaker and choreographer Janna Kemperman will be showing “Dither”, an installation exploring body and communication, in MART’s Gallery 1. In two parts, Freeney and Kemperman use audiovisual elements to look at the interaction between our digital identities and physical form. Helen McMahon’s “Eidolon”, a projection piece inspired by the relationship between artwork and viewer, will be in Gallery 2. McMahon focuses on the role that memory plays in the perception of artwork, and the limitless versions of the artwork that are created anew in the viewer’s mind. More detailshere.

Thursday, 2 June – Spellbound, 17:00, Free, Filmbase

Spellbound is an exhibition of illustrations and picture-book art, as well as a pop-up print shop. Presented by Adrienne Geoghegan, it opens this Thursday and features works by Nadia Cardoso, Emma Lanigan, Brid Fanning, Elsa Green, Victoria Best, Rachel Barton, Daniele Archimedes, Rosie Pender, Eadaoin Moore, and Hannah Maguire. More details here.

Friday, 3 June – Pender Street Steppers / Terriers / Bong Guzzling / Sias / Barry Redsetta, 22:00, €6/15, Yamamori Tengu

Out to Lunch are back with a jam-packed booking in Tengu, with loungey vibes from Pender Street Steppers of Vancouver collective Mood Hut, and Dublin synth duo Terriers. The downtempo composition and moody atmospherics should make for an exceptionally chill affair. Accompanying them on the night are DJ Bong Guzzling, Sias (aka Frank B) and Barry Redsetta of the Major Problems gang. Details here, and here.

Saturday, 4 June – Rats Blood / SISSY / Xylem / Arboreal Lung, 13:00, €10, Bohemian Football Club Phoenix Bar

The Bohs are hosting a daytime gig for all ages in their Phoenix Bar Drumcondra home, a portion of the proceeds of which will go to the Bohemians Youth Development programme. Fuzzy politically charged garage punk comes from SISSY, and scuzzy hardcore from Rats Blood. Details here.

Sunday, 5 June – Carl Craig & The Black Madonna, 23:00, €10/15/18, Opium Rooms

Carl Craig, grand master of house himself, is in Opium Rooms this bank-holiday weekend with The Black Madonna, purveyor of anthemic, blissed-out productions. Known for her ebullient vinyl sets and maverick creative direction, The Black Madonna was made a resident of Smart Bar, alongside Frankie Knuckles and Derrick Carter, and quickly become its chief programme director, bringing new blood and more diverse events. Details here, and here.

Monday, 6 June – Hurt, 10:30-18:00, Hillsboro Art Centre

Opening this Thursday, eight artists have created responses to Trent Reznor and Johnny Cash’s versions of “Hurt”. Written and recorded by Reznor as part of the magisterial The Downward Spiral (1994), “Hurt” was reinterpreted by Johnny Cash in 2002, alongside an emotional video featuring himself and his wife June Carter in the dilapidated House of Cash museum in Tennessee. The song’s emotional desolation lives in both versions – Reznor’s youthful expression of disgust and loneliness, and Cash’s seasoned pathos and nostalgia. The show features the work of Basil Beattie, Lawrence Carroll, Sandro Chia, Enzo Cucchi, Patrick Graham, Catherine Lee, Alice Maher, and Michael Warren. Morehere.

Tuesday, June – Eel / The Wankys / Disguise / Gaze, 23:00, €10, Tenterhooks

Tenterhooks is bringing back Disguise and Gaze for an evening of high-octane hardcore, with Eel and The Wankys over for their only Irish show and headlining on the night. It’s BYOB and payment as suggested donation. Details here.

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Wednesday, 25 May – Cloud of Skin, 18:30, €10.50, IFI

Following on the heels of Tarkovsky season, the IFI are bringing their focus to new work in Irish film.Cloud of Skin is a dreamlike portrayal of a man’s revisited love affair with a blind woman with mysterious visionary powers. Shot in a series of Irish locations made uncanny, with moody sound from composer Karen Power. The screening will be followed by a conversation between director Maximilian Le Cain and Dean Kavanagh. The Facebook event page is here, or visit the IFI websitehere.

Thursday, 26 May – Nothing Tastes as Good launch, 18:30, Eason, O’Connell Street

Claire Hennessy, creative writing teacher and editor of Puffin Ireland and Banshee, is launching her new book at Eason this Thursday. When Annabel is assigned to guide Julia Jacobs from beyond the grave, she tries to “fix” Julia’s unhappiness by addressing what she sees as its obvious root: her weight. As she gets to know Julia, though, Annabel realises that happiness and unhappiness perhaps come down to something more than just this. The result is a beautifully complex depiction of relationships and body disorders.

Friday, 27 May – Junior Magazine launch, 18:00, Library Bar

Ellius Grace and George Voronov have teamed up to produce a journal giving other young photographers a chance to flex their muscles and reach a wider audience, all in an aesthetically pleasing format. They’re running a crowdfunding campaign to cover printing costs, and it’s still only a tenner to pledge for their first copy. Issue number one, appropriately themed “youth”, features the work of Ben Hickey, Cait Fahey, Mark McGuinness and Nicholas Harpur (as well as their own). The Kickstarter is still live here. The Facebook event page is here.

Saturday, 28 May – Julia Kent & David Donohoe, €14.99, Freemason’s Hall

Cellist and composer Julia Kent uses layered strings, looped electronics, and refined field recordings to reflect the relationship between the human and natural world, creating a rich and intensely romantic sound. She has worked and performed with, among others, Antony and the Johnsons, Stars of the Lid, Jarboe, and Michael Gira’s Angels of Light, releasing her first solo album in 2007. Accompanying Kent on Saturday will be David Donohoe, performing a solo extemporisation on piano, synth and electronics. Get your ticket here, and click to follow the Facebook event page here.

Sunday, 29 May – Sex Siopa’s Economics of Sex, 18:00, €16.99, The Liquor Rooms

Shawna Scott of Sex Siopa and economist Peter Antonioni are bringing their much-loved festival show to Dublin for one night only. Peter and Shawna discuss sex work, sex toys, online dating and porn all in the name of exploring economics in a jargon-free space. More here and tickets here.

Monday, 30 May – Perspectives: Max Richter Ensemble, 20:00, €40/35/25, National Concert Hall

Staggeringly prolific and ever innovative, Max Richter and a selected ensemble of musicians will perform from The Blue Notebooks and his popular new release, Sleep. His eight-hour piece, a personal score for the sleeping state and “manifesto for a slower pace of existence”, was composed in consultation with David Eagleman, neuroscientist and director of the Laboratory for Perception and Action. A public interview with Max Richter will take place in the Kevin Barry Recital Room before the performance. More here and here.

Tuesday, 31 May – James O’Connor: Collages and Paintings (2014-2016), 10:30-17:30, Free, Taylor Galleries

O’Connor’s collages are vividly hued and direct, an at-first small project that began on coloured paper and cardboard material that had surfaced in his studio, commandeering an increasing amount of time and energy. The process – hand-to-eye rhythm and emerging shapes – is encapsulated in this resulting collection of frank and distinctive pieces. Learn more here.

Editor’s Note: Wednesday, 1 June – Dublin Inquirer’s 1st Birthday Party, 19:00, Free, Beerhouse, Capel Street

On 3 June, it’ll have been exactly one year since Dublin Inquirer released its first weekly online edition into the world. Somehow, we’re still around! And we want to invite you to come celebrate. Heads up: it won’t be anything fancy. Just balloons and beer in the Beerhouse on Capel Street, because, well, we haven’t had time to organise anything extravagant. But we’d love it if you came by to say hello, and tell us what you’d like to see more of and less of, as we head into our second year. We’ve got a Facebook event page here.

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Wednesday, 18 May – Samiyam (live), 20:00, Free, Bernard Shaw

Sam Baker hails from LA via Michigan, drawing upon the West Coast beat aesthetic and mixing that with a background in piano, clarinet and video games. In 2008 he worked with Flying Lotus to produce his debut, Rap Beats Vol. 1, on the Brainfeeder label, later adding Earl Sweatshirt, Captain Murphy, and Pharaoh Monch to his catalogue of collaborations. His 2016 release Animals Have Feelings, on the Stones Throw label, builds on Rap Beats Vol. 1, with much of the same vibe in beats as the former, but new collaborative work with Action Bronson, Earl Sweatshirt and Jeremiah Jae. Support for the night will come from Junior Spesh, All City Records, and Bodytonic Music DJs. The event is online here.

Thursday, 19 May – Caoimhe Kilfeather/Turkmen & Uzbek Children’s Clothes, 18:00, Free, The Douglas Hyde

Opening this Thursday, the Douglas Hyde will host, in Gallery 1, Caoimhe Kilfeather’s assortment of objects, chosen to evoke the ambivalence of twilight and the hope given by transformation, all in a light-filled installation.

Alongside this, Gallery 2 will house an exhibition of early to late twentieth-century Uzbek and Turkmen children’s clothes, identical to adult attire, bar small amulets worn to protect the children from harm. Decorative trimming on the fabric, all brightly coloured, intricately patterned and imported from Russian mills, served the same purpose. The Facebook page for the opening is here, and both exhibitions run until 27 July.

Friday, 20 May – Eamonn Doyle: End., 19:00, Free, The Library Project

End., the conclusion to a trilogy in which i and ON formed the first parts, is a collaboration between Eamonn Doyle, Niall Sweeney and Dave Donohoe, and it is launching this Friday in Library Project. Though ostensibly a concluding work, the photobook is an ongoing conversation exploring the collected material – photographs, illustration and sound – of all three, in which the city’s inhabitants are set against their metamorphosing urban world. More information on the collection and launch is here.

Saturday, 21 May – All City Tivoli Jam, 10:00, €5/10, Tivoli Theatre

All City are back for their annual get together in the sprawling yard of the Tivoli Theatre, the longstanding graffiti mecca of Dublin’s street-art scene. It’ll be the usual b-boy jam day of art-making, BMX-skidding and record-spinning, with graffiti jams and a b-boy competition to top it off. More information here, and tickets here.

Sunday, 22 May – Juan Gabriel Vásquez, 18:00, €10/12, Smock Alley Theatre

The Irish Literature Festival runs until 29 May with plenty to choose from, but this Sunday’s talk by Colombian novelist Juan Gabriel Vasquez may be of particular interest to those looking to learn more about contemporary South American literature. Chaired by Mick Heaney, Vásquez will no doubt discuss his 2014 IMPAC award-winning work on the drug trade in The Sound of Things Falling, as well as his topical new novel Reputations, in which a political cartoonist is driven to confront a long-forgotten part of his past. Tickets to the event can be purchased here.

Monday, 23 May – Stano: In Between Silence, Where We Really Exist, 18:30, €6/8, Light House Cinema

Composer, producer and visual artist Stano has created scores for thirty Irish stories from some of the country’s greatest writers. The stories will take place on a “story trail” that links venues across the city, from Windmill Lane to the New Theatre, the Hugh Lane to City Assembly House. Tickets can be booked on the Irish Literature Festival website, here.

Tuesday, 24 May – Mirror, 15:15, €9, IFI

Andrei Tarkovsky’s most autobiographical work, and the film which perhaps captures his aesthetic most fully, is an associative dreamscape blending individual and collective memory, set mostly in WWII Russia, but also moving between the mid-1930s and early 1970s. Memories – of his son, a neighbouring Spanish family, an orphan at a military school, and his ex-wife and mother (both played by Margarita Terekhova) – are unfolded in such a way as to evoke an entire psychological portrait. As part of the IFI’s Tarkovsky season, screenings of Mirror are set to run until next Thursday. You can purchase a ticket here.

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Wednesday, 11 May – Wire Spine / Luxury Mollusc, 20:00, €5 suggested donation, Little Gem Records

Darkwave Canadian band Wire Spine – a new collaboration with Robert Katerwol of industrially leaning Weird Candle – are being supported by Dublin scrap noise subaquatic drift merchants Luxury Mollusc, in the new home to Little Gem records on Kildare Street. There’s a Facebook event here.

Thursday, 12 May – Steven Maybury: Anicca, Library Project

Steven Maybury’s Anicca project takes, as its starting point, a Pali word of inconstant meaning, often used in Buddhism in relation to the doctrine of impermanence. Taking everyday found objects, Maybury uses choreographed routine to study the cultural and artistic concerns and associated rituals of that object, to reveal unexpected beauty and our obsession with permanence and record-keeping. There’s a Facebook event here.

Friday, 13 May – Hen’s Teeth Prints: Artists in Residency Exhibition, 17:30, 62 St Alban’s Road

The Hen’s Teeth posse are hosting an exhibition of their resident artists, both international and Irish – namely Marina Esmeraldo, Maria Lax, Mason London, Rami Afifi, Sophie de Vere, One Strong Arm, Marie Varley and Studio FNT. It’ll be an evening of mixed graphic media – collage, collaborative letterpress and more – with all prints available to purchase on the night. There’s a Facebook event here.

Saturday, 14 May – Ciaran Lavery, 20:30, €12/17, Freemason’s Hall

Homebeat are launching Ciaran Lavery’s new album, Let Bad In, at the Freemason’s Hall this Saturday, with support from Carriages. Lavery’s music is infused with folksy Americana truth-telling, though he has received substantial praise for the diversity of his output. Carriages, meanwhile, comprised of Dubliners Harry Bookless and Aaron Page, look to invoke the cityscape with warm electronica and field recordings captured in parks and museums, in coastlines and at concert halls; 2016 saw the release of their new track, “Like A Child”. There’s a Facebook event here. Tickets here.

Sunday, 15 May – Andrei Rublev (1966), 15:00, €10.50, IFI

Tarkovsky casts Anatoliy Solonitsyn as Andrei Rublev, the highly esteemed painter of religious iconography. After witnessing a battle in which he becomes involved, Rublev turns away from his work and takes a vow of silence, but ultimately becomes drawn to painting once more. All 205 minutes are tightly woven with symbolic meaning, finally reaching a sublime, technicolor peak. Details here.

Monday, 16 May – Merlin James, Kerlin Gallery

Merlin James, originally Welsh and now based in Glasgow, has been producing quality work for over a decade, but has only recently been getting some well-earned recognition. In an age where painting has been largely dethroned as a medium, James has been celebrated for pushing the boundaries and exploring what it means to call oneself a painter. Incorporating wood and studio detritus (and even, in one instance, tufts of hair), James’s subject matter varies from the rural to the graphically sexual. Opening at Kerlin Thursday, his show runs until 25 June. Details here.

Tuesday, 17 May – Elaine Byrne: Whenceness, Kevin Kavanagh

Pure Codology and Rakoczy March were developed in New York City, during Elaine Byrne’s fellowship at the Whitney Independent Study Programme. Alongside 24 collected print works, Byrne has focused on episode 12 of Joyce’s Ulysses: Cyclops, and, specifically, the relationship between essence and meaning and the positioning of racial identification within Irishness. Details here.

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Wednesday, 4 May – Hiatus Kaiyote/Feather, 20:00, €20, Sugar Club

ChoiceCuts are bringing Grammy-nominated dreamweaver spirit-questers Hiatus Kaiyote over from Melbourne for a night of avant-garde soul, with support from Feather. Repurposing psychedelia and scat within polyrhythmic jazz, Nai Pal, Paul Bender, Simon Mavin and Perrin Moss have been showered in accolades, including 2013 Best Breakthrough Artist at Giles Peterson’s Worldwide Awards, The Age Music Victoria Best Emerging Artist, and their Grammy nomination for best R&B performance, which was as a result of their collaboration on a new version of “Nakamarra” with A Tribe Called Quest’s Q-Tip. The Facebook event page is here. Online, tickets are sold out, but there will be 30-40 for sale at the door, first come, first served, according to ChoiceCuts.

Thursday, 5 May – Mariachi San Patricio play Cinco de Mayo, 20:00, €10, Grand Social

In Mexico, the holiday Cinco de Mayo (Spanish for “5 May”) celebrates the David-and-Goliath-like Mexican victory over an invading French army at Puebla, in southern Mexico, in 1862. Broke Mexico had issued a two-year moratorium on repaying its foreign debts, and Britain, Spain and France had sent their navies to object, but only France had actually invaded – and its forces took a whipping (in this initial battle, at least). To celebrate giving foreign bondholders the finger then, get down to the Grand Social to hear this 10-piece mariachi band play songs of “love, loss and patriotism”, and to enjoy some Mexican food and beer.

Friday, 6 May – Prince: a Celebration with Purple Rain, 22:30, €10, Lighthouse Cinema

Prince’s death, at the age of only 57, doesn’t even come at a time when we’d stopped listening to, discussing and generally being turned on by that kaleidoscopic maverick. His impact, like Bowie’s, has been as wide-reaching as it has been personal. Hollywood Babylon give their own tribute this Friday in a screening of Purple Rain, with all proceeds going to the Musical Youth Foundation. Facebook event page here, and pick up tickets here.

Saturday, 7 May – Rue//Dowth, 21:00, Free, The Hut

You’ll find a cornucopia of tunes, songs, beats and drones at The Hut in Phibsboro this Saturday. Cormac Dermody (fiddle), Radie Peat (concertina and harmonium) and Brian Flanagan (five-string banjo) play Irish murder ballads and whaling songs, and Dowth play from their 2016 winter LP. Morehere.

Sunday, 8 May – Evolution, 20:00, €9, IFI

In 2004, Lucile Hadžihalilović released her directorial debut, Innocence, an unsettling body horror about a group of young women in a remote forest boarding school. Evolution continues in much the same vein, set on an otherworldly island where strange experiments are being carried out involving boys and starfish. More here.

Monday, 9 May – Natural History of Hope, 20:00, €15/12, Project Arts Centre

Performance artist Fiona Whelan is working in collaboration with Rialto Youth Project (“Policing Dialogues”) in collaboration with Brokentalkers to give visibility to testimonies involving class and gender inequality from hundreds of young women in the area. More on this live performance here.

Tuesday, 10 May – DubLUDO XXV, 18:30, Free, Wigwam

DubLUDO are back for their annual meet-up! The motley crew behind gamesdevelopers.ie gather each year to exchange thoughts on their projects, provide help to people looking to create games and test out their new material. If you’d like to get involved, meet some Irish devs or even just ask around for a coding course that will help you bring your work to life, you should come along. The Facebook page is here.

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Wednesday, 27 April – Artist’s Talk: Liam Gillick, 17:30, Free, Dublin City Gallery/The Hugh Lane

Liam Gillick is a conceptual artist producing work across an incredibly broad spectrum, giving ambiguous reference to structuralism and typography through striking Plexiglas sculptures, wall text and drawings, installations, film-making, writing and other collaborative projects. He’ll be giving a talk in the Hugh Lane on conspiracy, behaviouralism, and the delusions surrounding modernism, in a deconstruction of the forces impacting twentieth-century selfhood. The Facebook event page ishere.

Thursday, 28 April – Hugh Cooney live at Good Name, 20:00, Free, Bernard Shaw

Hugh Cooney – comic, bard, artiste – is back in the bosom of the old country on the heels of a successful new short. Before heading off to the Edinburgh Fringe, he’ll be sharing his London vibes this Thursday in the Shaw, with a #‎totalbadarse‬ multimedia show involving works of art such as this, this, and this. Learn more about Cooney here, and visit the Facebook event pagehere.

Friday, 29 April – 4 da footwork: a Tribute to DJ Rashad, 20:00, Free, Wigwam

Back in 2014, DJ Rashad played a frenetic set in the Twisted Pepper that ended up being his final Irish show. There were many tributes and documentaries following his death later that spring. Junior Spesh will be giving its own this Friday. Alongside Bobofunk, Doktah Irie, Dylan Higgins, Rosbeg, Wastefellow and others, the boys are hosting Japanese footwork dancer Weezy from Era Footwork Crew. Double Cup, Rashad Harden’s final full-length release, was the most vibrant footwork album to have come out in years, and brought with it a rapid and widespread appreciation of the genre amongst a new audience. The Teklife label, which has been in gestation for about a year, has come out with a timely 14-track set of collaborations between Rashad at the footwork crew – Phil, Spin, a dulcet Traxman and new kid on the block Paypal. LIGHT IT UP. The Facebook event page is here.

Saturday, 30 April – MMTV: MMT Graduate Showcase, €10, 19:00, Samuel Beckett Theatre

Trinity’s Music and Media Technologies master’s has seen a brilliant range of musicians through its programme: Eomac, Somadrome, and both David and Robbie Kitt. Their graduate show never fails to be a surreal mix of technological musical expression, and this should be no less, with cello, robotics, virtual reality, generative audiovisual performance, and outdoor theatre. More here.

Sunday, 1 May – Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, 15:00, €9, Lighthouse Cinema

Studio Ghibli need little introduction – the Tokyo animation studio is loved worldwide, and is one of Japan’s most prominent cultural exports (second only to Sakuraba, the Gracie Hunter, perhaps). The Lighthouse Cinema is hosting a three-month season of Sunday Ghibli gems, all at a tantalising hangover-o’clock: 3 pm and 6 pm. The season kicks off on 1 May with Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, and peaks in mid June with a Spirited Away costume party. First prize goes to whoever can pull off the best grotesque giant baby. Tell them you’re interested here.

Monday, 2 May – Ryley Walker with Brigid May Power & Fuzzy Hell, 20:00, €14, Whelan’s

Ryley Walker typifies the roving American guitar player, but pushes beyond the pastoral into the psychedelic, picking up inflections from across the pond on the way. What he gives away in stylistic pretensions he makes up for in charisma – the music is free-flowing, and most impactful when his guitar does the speaking. Support comes from Brigid May Power, whose debut album comes out this June on Tompkin Square Park Records, and Long Island’s Fuzzy Hell. Event page here.

Tuesday, 3 May – Inhabitance, 20:15, €16/14, Project Arts Centre

Lucy Hill is missing. Does anybody care? Previewing next Tuesday and opening on 4 May, Inhabitance is from Glass Doll Productions, written by Peter Dunne and directed by assistant Abbey director and associate Rough Magic director Ronan Phelan, in collaboration with award-winning set and light designer Zia Holly. Peter Dunne’s last work, which sold out at the Fringe, was loosely based on the Stanford prison experiments. It should give audiences some idea of what to expect. More here.

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Wednesday, 20 April – Gorse No. 5 Launch, 19:30, Free, Liquor Rooms

Gorse No. 5 launches on Wednesday, with readings from D. Joyce-Ahearne, Darragh McCausland, Alan Jude Moore, Nathan Hugh O’Donnell and Eimear Ryan. Styled in the manner of the modernist “little magazine”, Gorse has received substantial international and national attention in literary communities. Edited by Susan Tomaselli and Christodoulos Makris (of Phonica, Capel Street’s new multidisciplinary evening), its fifth iteration has submissions from Irish- and English-language poets, short story writers, novelists and a co-editor of literary journal Banshee. The event’s Facebook page is here, or check out the Gorse website here.

Thursday, 21 April – Medium Wavelength: Video and Sculpture by Susan MacWilliam, Free, Bleed Gallery

Bleed Gallery is a temporary, six-month project. It will be exhibiting Susan MacWilliam’s response to their name and concept, referencing both the design term for excess, to-be-disposed material, and the functions of draining, escape and release. MacWilliam’s manipulated video sequence uses objects and furniture from her studio, and give attention to obscure histories and perceptual phenomena and the paranormal. Find out more here.

Friday, 22 April – Out to Lunch: Hieroglyphic Being x John Heckle = Mathematics, 22:00, €6/€20, Tengu Yamamori

Jamal Moss (aka Hieroglyphic Being/I.B.M.) is making his Irish debut this Friday alongside John Heckle. Both will be dishing out frenetic, jazz-infused Chicago house. Moss, on whose Mathematics label John Heckle is signed, is strongly rooted in the Chicago scene, born and reared within its original 1980s club culture. His music in particular is a noisy refraction of everything from Coltrane to Sun Ra. More information and tickets available here and here.

Saturday, 23 April – Need Abortion Ireland Fundraiser, 18:00, €10/Pay What You Can, Jigsaw

Need Abortion Ireland (N.A.I.) are a new grassroots abortion support provider, with a text support service open daily from 6pm to 9pm, aimed at providing practical information, support and care packages of pyjamas, sanitary pads, heat pads and other gestures of solidarity (chocolate) to people in Ireland seeking abortions. There’ll be dancing and psychedelic, garage and new-wave punk from Joni, Its Mai, SISSY, Cal Folger Day and MHAOL, as well as Fine Gael and Labour effigies for on-site defacement via glitter. More information available here and here.

Sunday, 24 April – Dublin Greek Film Festival: Refugee Fundraiser, 16:00, Sugar Club

Sugar Club is hosting a screening of A Family Affair, followed by music from Greek/Balkan all-female combo Pakow! A Family Affair is a documentary by Angeliki Aristomenopoulou following three generations of the Xylouris family, a famous musical Cretan clan: Antonis Xylouris (known as Psarantonis), his son, lute player and singer George Xylouris (Psarogiorgis) and his three children Nikos, Antonis and Apollonia. More details here and here.

Monday, 25 April – Live Well Dublin 2016, 19:00, €7.50/10, Wigwam

Totally Dublin and Yelp have teamed up to host a panel on nutrition and wellness. Speakers include Aidan Healy and Emer Duffy from Unplug.ie, Mary Jennings from ForgetTheGym and kickboxing champion Liam Dale. Wigwam chef Pedro Ferez will provide complementary snacks. Tickets availablehere, more information is here.

Tuesday, 26 April – Declan Clark: The Hopeless End of a Great Dream, 11-18:00, Free, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios

Declan Clarke’s 16mm film commission, shot on the grounds of Trinity College Dublin, uses Trinity’s architecture as a backdrop and starting point to explore 100 years of Irish history. Episodes that have remained overlooked are represented in the present-day, in moments of disjointed, discrete narrative that blur the real and imagined, referencing post-war European cinema. The film will be screened in the Ed Burke Theatre in Trinity College on 20 April, before moving to TBG+S until 18 June. More information here.

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Wednesday, 13 April – Phonica: Two, 20:00, Free, Jack Nealon’s

For its second outing, Christodoulos Makris and Olesya Zdorovetska’s poetry and music venture will feature performances from Fergus Kelly, James King, Paul Roe and Catherine Walsh. Focused on multiformity, Makris and Zdorovetska have invited a diverse group of artists working with sound (field recordings, soundscape compositions and improvisation), performance, teaching, and writing to converse and collaborate in an environment open to practitioners in different art forms. The Facebook event page is here.

Thursday, 14 April – The First International Conference of Ultimology, 10:00-15:00, Free, Trinity Long Room Hub

Established in January of this year at Trinity College Dublin by Fiona Hallinan and Kate Strain, the Department of Ultimology devotes itself to studying that which is dead or dying. In essence, the department explores the cycle of knowledge-formation. The inaugural conference will use screenings, talks, tests and exploratory research to connect researchers of ultimology, and is free but ticketed. The Facebook event page is here.

Friday, 15 April – 11th Dublin Anarchist Book Fair, Free, Generator Hostel

Smithfield Square will host a series of meetings and panels on Friday and Saturday: on environmental protest, rebuilding trade unions from the bottom up, challenging the Special Criminal Court, and the merits of a basic income, as well as discussions of racism from the perspectives of the Traveller community, migrant workers and those in direct provision. The Cobblestone will join in too, hosting a talk on bodily autonomy. Exchanges on community resistance and grassroots activism will take place in the Generator. Admission is free, but donations are welcome. Visit the Facebook event page here.

Saturday, 16 April – Record Store Day, Little Gem Records and The Record Spot, Free, 13:00-20:00, Kildare Street and Fade Street

Little Gem are celebrating their first Record Store Day in their Kildare Street digs, with music from Laura Ann Brady, Robert John Ardiff, Cal Folger Day, Ewa Gigon, Fuzzy Hell, Divil A Bit and Strength. The Fade Street open-air party, meanwhile, will feature Me and My Dog, Oh Boland, Paddy Hanna and Tandem Felix, with DJ sets from Robbie and Enda of DIP, DJ Dennis and We Three Kings. There’ll be €300 worth of free records floating about the place and complimentary R.A.G.E. totes. BYOB if you’re feeling crafty. More here and here.

Sunday, 17 April – ActionAid Tax-Justice Photo Exhibition Launch, Free, 13:00-15:00, Hugh Lane

Visiting speakers from Malawi, Zambia and Nigeria are launching ActionAid’s tax-justice photo exhibition this Sunday, hosted by chairman Rodney Rice. The talks will look at the impact of tax avoidance by multinational companies in Africa, and will be accompanied by twenty personal images relating to tax injustice. The speakers include Ene Agbo, who has been volunteering with ActionAid Nigeria since 2012, Cecilia Mulenga, a tax-justice advocate with ActionAid Zambia and Gertrude Chirwa, a young activist working with universities in Malawi.

Monday, 18 April – Metropolis, €10, IFI

Fritz Lang’s Weimar masterpiece is being screened in the IFI, introduced by Lynn Scarf, director of the Science Gallery. In this 1927 projection of a segregated dystopian society, a privileged youth discovers his city’s grim underbelly. After a chance encounter with revolutionary teacher Maria, Freder is awoken to his own complacency and rails against the system within which he has thrived. Visit the IFI’s website here.

Tuesday, 19 April – Vice & Verses: Neo-Soul Brigade, 20:00, €6-€12, Liquor Rooms

Inspired by New York City’s Nuyorican Poets Café, Vice & Verses focuses on collaboration between storytellers and musicians – specifically, spoken-word artists and jazz, hip-hop and neo-soul musicians. The Nuyorican Poets Café has for 40 years been a site of empowerment for multicultural and minority artists, underrepresented within mainstream entertainment or academia. This Dublin equivalent will feature two-time Leinster poetry-slam champion Clara-Rose Thornton, and headliner John Connors, an actor, screenwriter, documentary-maker and Traveller-rights activist. Support will come from SIYO (Suzanne Blue). Grab tickets here, and visit the Facebook event page here.

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Wednesday, 6 April – Ran,17:25, €9, IFI

Kurosawa’s interpretation of King Lear was ten years in the making, meticulously devised over a series of painted storyboards that were published with the screenplay. He combined Shakespeare with legends of daimyō Mōri Motonari, and filmed almost entirely in long shots on the slopes of Japan’s largest active volcano, Mount Aso, with a cast of 1,400. Buy your tickets here.

Thursday, 7 April – Typeset, 19:00, Free, Image Now

A broad range of contemporary Irish typographic design is being showcased in the Image Now gallery space. The changing face of Irish design will be expressed through animation, gifs and 3D illustrations, as an expression of the trends and experimentation happening within the industry. Image Now has a strong connection with typographic design, having exhibited shows such as Josef Müller-Brockmann, 50 Years of Helvetica and Neue Grafik. The Facebook event page is here.

Friday, 8 April – Precarity, 16:00, Free (book in advance), ATRL

Precarity is a video installation by Mieke Bal and Michelle Williams Gamaker. Commissioned to coincide with the Deleuze and Art conference, the five-screen installation uses precarious economic situations as a platform to explore precarity in different social contexts, from relationships to health, labour laws and human rights. The exhibition is based on Flaubert’s Madame Bovary, the five screens representing her temptation, seduction, and descent into economic ruin. Mieke Bal’s documentaries on migration and identity have been exhibited internationally, and she has written on video installation, sculpture and abstraction. Grab a ticket here.

Saturday, 9 April – Overhead, The Albatross, 20:00, pay what you like, The Workman’s

After the much anticipated Learning to Growl was released earlier this month, post-rock six-piece Overhead, The Albatross will be performing their new material in The Workman’s this Saturday. Several years in production, it took decamping to a studio in the Czech Republic to get to preproduction phase, with tracks being laid over and added organically as the band worked out what direction their sound should take. The finished LP is filled with soaring highs and lows, all in their signature orchestral style. It amounts to a mesmerising experience; Saturday’s performance should be no less. Visit the Facebook event page here.

Sunday, 10 April – Phototropism, 12:00 – 18:00, Free, Library Project

Phototropism opens in the Library Project this Thursday, but its growing botanic display will take place over a month-long installation. Eleven photographers give their responses to the significance of a plant’s movement towards a light source, interpreted as a search for subsistence that we all share and, ultimately, a search for a common good. The Library Project bookshop will be offering a specially curated selection of literature to accompany the exhibition and an assortment of succulents and cacti. More here.

Monday, 11 April – Tom Climent: In Its Reflection, 10:00 – 17:30, Free, Solomon Fine Art

Tom Climent, originally trained as an engineer, looks at structured spaces through representation and abstraction. His debut solo exhibition balances colour and texture, using memory and feeling to explore the exchange between the subconscious and physical processes of painting. More here.

Tuesday, 12 April – Michael Boran, Through the Undergrowth, 10:30-17:30, Free, Kevin Kavanagh

Michael Boran’s photographs, filled with pylons, plant stocks and natural and human-made monuments of every kind, relate to one another intuitively, through viewpoint and desire. By keeping background detail to a minimum and collating each piece, the subjects are given a purity that remains compromised by limitations in depth and temporality. Read more here.

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Wednesday, 30 March – Marguerite, 18:00, €9.10/€10.50, IFI

Marguerite is the tragicomic story of wealthy socialite Marguerite Dumont (played by Catherine Frot). Tone-deaf but determined to sing, she finds support in her loyal chauffeur, who indulges her, and a young intellectual crowd that see in her singing an eccentric and potentially anarchic power. Xavier Giannoli gives a compassionate take on the story of Florence-Foster Jenkins, on whom the story is partly based. Details here.

Thursday, 31 March – Exhibition Time, 19:00, Free, Bernard Shaw

OFFSET and Robert Mirolo’s homage to the much-loved Adventure Time television series takes place this Thursday in the Shaw, and features the work of Cesca Saunders, Cyan Ryan, Mick Minogue, Robert Ickis Mirolo, Steve McCarthy and Mica Warren, with more to be announced. Details here.

Friday, 1 April – Anti-Patriarchy Chaos Social, 20:00, €5 suggested donation, BYOB, Jigsaw

The patriarchy is no joke! The Anti-Patriarchy Chaos collective are back in Jigsaw and inviting your participation in an open, feminist space where no assumptions will be made about your gender or sexuality, and where your boundaries and consent will be respected. Spoken word on the night will be from Day Magee, Dara Quigley, river blake and Miss Androgyny, with singing from Landless and a DJ set from Karen. Contribute music to their open Spotify playlist here. Details here.

Saturday, 2 April – Guts 5 Launch, 15:00, Free, Thirty Four

Guts are back to launch their fifth issue, Do As I Say Not As I Do, in which Aoife McElwain, Ana Kinsella, Jeannie Sutton, Sinead O’Shea, Luke McManus, Tim MacGabhann, Caitriona Lally, Neil Burkey and Roisin Agnew give their response to the concept of authority. From parents to police, the state to role models, these personal essays exploring domination are illustrated by Fuchsia MacAree, designed by Paddy Dunne and produced by Emily Horgan. Anne-Mieke Bishop will perform, and mysterious free things have also been promised. The theme was chosen back in 2014 by Kickstarter pledger Kevin Powell of Gruel Guerrilla. Details here.

Sunday, 3 April – Willis Earl Beal + Myles Manley, 19:30, Sugar Club

Experimental soulster Willis Earl Beal is joined by Sligo native and offbeat-pop maker Myles Manley in the Sugar Club this Sunday. Beal spent his 20s working in Chicago, and then moved to New Mexico, where he recorded music and left CD-Rs around Albuquerque (as well as illustrated flyers looking for a girlfriend). Found Magazine eventually featured him on their front cover and produced a limited-edition box set of his music. Modelling himself as a descendent of Tom Waits, Beal’s voice leads his music, from his jazz ballads to his recent mesmerising nocturnes. Details here, tickets here.

Monday, 4 April – Bread and Butter: OFFSITE, 18:30, The Odeon

OFFSET is back in full swing. As part of this year’s OFFSITE, Supermundane (aka Rob Lowe), Steve McCarthy, and David Smith and Brian Nolan will be having chats in the plush Odeon surroundings. Steve McCarthy and Rob Lowe are both illustrators and designers by trade, while David Smith and Brian Nolan curate the 100 Archive, which maps the past, present and future of Irish graphic design. Details here.

Tuesday, 5 April – Fiona Marron: Proving Ground, 11-17:00 ArtBox

Artist Fiona Marron’s newly commissioned work explores how Ireland’s (perceived) neutrality and geographic location have impacted its structures of communication, and the scientific tradition specific to the nation that has grown out of that. In a residency at the UCD, Marron has looked at social systems and their protagonists, working under the influence of mercantile and economic factors. Details here.

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Wednesday, 23 March – The Passion According to Carol Rama, 18:30, Free, Johnston Suite, IMMA

Italian artist Carol Rama, who died last September, is having her first substantial exhibition, with nearly 200 pieces gathered from the MACBA in Barcelona, Paris’s Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville and Finland’s EMMA. Self-taught, Rama was independent, distinctive and relatively unknown until her work was picked up by curator Lea Vergine in the 1980s. Born in 1918 in Turin, she grew up in Mussolini’s Italy. Her first exhibition was shut down for her explicit representations of the erotic and psychosexual, and she would become known for her representations of female sensuality. Curators Teresa Grandas (MACBA) and Paul B. Preciado (dOCUMENTA 14) will be discussing the impact of Rama’s vision on the avant-garde movements of the last century. Tickets are free but limited, and found here.

Thursday, 24 March – Good Name presents SpudGun, 20:00, Bernard Shaw

“They trekked through unruly landscape for three days and three nights until they came upon a lake filled with creamy, creamy, cream . . . ” (Gorgathians 08:01). So say SpudGun, Dublin’s newest intergalactic psychedelic jazz ensemble. They’ve crashed their starcraft at Wiley Fox and the Workman’s, and are due to land in the Shaw this Thursday. Details here.

Friday, 25 March – The Artist as Witness in Society: Our Kind, 10:00-17:00, Free, Hugh Lane

As its 2016 programming, the Hugh Lane has been running, since 11 February, a series exploring the positions of artists within the changing worlds they inhabit, and how they engage with conflict or sit at its peripheries. The Jesse Jones and Julie Merrimen exhibitions have formed parts of this series. The short film Our Kind is Alan Phelan’s contribution to the Artist as Witness. It is an imagining of Roger Casement’s future had he not been executed in 1916. It is set twenty-five years after his 1941 exile to Norway, with his manservant and partner Adler Christensen. Details here, and here.

Saturday, 26 March – At the Drive-In, 19:00, €31/46, Vicar Street

Post-hardcore band At the Drive-In are touring once more, this time with new material. After splitting from guitarist and founding member Jim Ward just a few days before the band reunited for a world tour, they’ve already premiered some new material alongside their well-loved backlist of emotive punk. Mhaoil and Rolo Tomassi are playing in the Parlour Room in Whelan’s for afters. Details here, and here.

Sunday, 27 March – Sim Simma & All City Easter Sunday with Tenderlonius, 22:00, €7/10, Wigwam

Sim Simma are hosting their final party in Wigwam this Sunday before moving on to southside pastures. Tenderlonius is the founder of 22a, the Peckham-based hip-hop, jazz and soul label responsible bringing us Mo Kolours and Henry Wu, associated with talent like Al Dobson Jr and Jean Bassa. Details here, and tickets here.

Monday, 28 March – Court, 15:50, €9, Irish Film Institute

Chaitanya Tamhane’s debut takes the action of the traditional courtroom drama and refocuses it on the community: in the power wielded throughout the corrupt social class strata, and the impact of a corrupt judicial system on the community. Narayan Kamble (Vira Sathidar), a Marathi folk singer and social activist, is arrested and accused of driving a manhole worker to commit suicide. The intricacies of the trial are astutely expressed in Tamhane’s detailing of the lives of each of those involved, and their powerlessness in the face of India’s labyrinthine legal system. Details here.

Tuesday, 29 March – So Through the Singing Land He Passed, 10:00-17:00, The LAB

In collaboration with the Centre for the Study of Irish Art and Dr Lisa Godson, curator Sabina Mac Mahon has invited five emerging artists to respond to Northern Irish artist Maimie Campbell’s 1929 painting, The Death of Cúchulainn. Mac Mahon came across Campbell’s letters while studying archival material, in which she offered the painting, on loan, for use within Cuimhneachán 1916, James White’s 1966 exhibition celebrating the Easter Rising. Campbell was a member of the South Down Society of Modern Art, established in 1927 in County Down to encourage the appreciation of modern painting and sculpture coming from mainland Europe. Details here.

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Wednesday, 16 March — Richard Gorman: Iwano, 18:00, Free, Kerlin Gallery

There’s somehow more going on this (eew) “Paddy’s Day Eve” than Paddy’s Day itself. Start your evening by checking out Richard Gorman’s exhibition Iwano in the Kerlin Gallery. Gorman’s works are noted for their pure explorations of colour and shape, and their playful quality. A Dubliner by birth, but resident in Milan, Gorman frequently travels to Japan to work with a paper factory in Echizen, located in the rural west and so renowned for its paper factories that it also hosts a temple to the paper goddess.

Iwano was a master paper producer who died at the start of this year, and the last works that Gorman made with him also happened to be his most ambitious pieces ever. All the pieces are handmade, and the colour is soaked into the pulp using moulds, lending it even more vibrancy. The Facebook event is here.

Thursday, 17 March — Telephones: Snakes on a Playground Party, 14:00, €10/15/20, BYOB, Schoolyard, Dublin 8

Spring is here and school is back in session, and Telephones is back in its original D8 schoolyard. John Mahon (The Locals) and Louis Scully (Discotekken) run the Telephones series, which this Thursday will serve up its usual mix of disco, Afrobeat, funk and Italo. Robbie Kitt, Liam Maher and Joma will also be on-set spinning records, and food will be provided by sandwich professionals Doughboys Sandwich Shop. Register your interest here.

Friday, 18 March — Portals and Pathways, 13:00-18:00, Free, MART

Opening this Wednesday, Eoin O’Connor’s show is a collection of works produced in the US and UK, Australia and Japan over the past twelve months. The preview night will include a screening of James Skeritt’s short documentary, recording his 2015 trip to Japan, and Eoin O’Connor’s long-exposure photography. More details here.

Saturday, 19 March — Launch: Jacobin 1916, 12:00, Free, Liberty Hall

The Irish edition of the Jacobin magazine is launching this Saturday in Liberty Hall, in association with SIPTU. The issue will examine 1916 and Ireland’s revolutionary period from a socialist perspective, and the day will comprise of a Workers’ Republic conference, featuring various performance and discussion groups.

Panels will include Jacobin editor Bhaskar Sunkara, Stephen Rea, Karan Casey and Jer O’Learly discussing the edition’s purpose; Tish Gibbons and Padraig Yeates from SIPTU, historian Niamh Puirseil, Come Here To Me‘s Donal Fallon, Sarah O’Rourke and Sarah-Anne Buckley talking about the Irish revolution; and Bernadette Devlin-McAliskey, Ethel Buckley, Robert Ballagh, Lynn Ruane, Dan Finn, Brian Hanley and Micheline Sheehy-Skeffington looking at the Irish Republic today. More here.

Sunday, 20 March — Future Composers, 19:00, €8, Chocolate Factory

In collaboration with St Patrick’s Festival, and as part of I Love My City, Ensemble Music are showcasing three inventive new Irish ensembles in the Chocolate Factory: hacker performance collective the Dublin Laptop Orchestra, contemporary classical ensemble Kirkos and choral group Tonnta Music. Using Ireland’s centenary celebrations as its springboard, Future Composers is looking to explore what the next century holds for the landscape of Irish music. As well as performing their own works, they’ll premiere Linda Buckley’s “Oblique”, specially commissioned for the evening. Book a ticket here or visit the Facebook event page here.

Monday, 21 March — High Rise, 15:40, €7.60, Irish Film Institute

J.G. Ballard is brought to the screen in glossy depiction by Ben Wheatley. Neurologist Robert Laing, played by Tom Hiddleton, moves to a skyscraper at the edge of an unnamed UK metropolis. Strictly divided by class – super-rich at the top, poor at the bottom – residents supposedly have all they need, until the disparity becomes clear and the lower residents take matters into their own hands. Aesthetically immaculate, Wheatley shifts from Ballard’s exposition of society’s delicate power structures to a more general look at degeneracy and survivalism. See the film listing here.

Tuesday, 22 March — Statecraft, 11:30-17:00, Irish Museum of Modern Art

Students from the IADT Masters in Art and Research Collaboration are using IMMA’s Project Space as a public research hub, exploring how art practice and art thinking can produce alternative forms of “statecraft”. The project joins together IMMA’s own residency programme, and the Free International University Model of Joseph Beuys and Dorothy Walker. It runs until 3 April, and includes events and activities such as the launch of Michelle Doyle’s sound art podcast Hit Parade this Wednesday, anaudio walk through IMMA with Amy Farrell and Susan Gogan and a workshop with Jai Thorn and Marie Thornton exploring embroidery and identity. Explore here.

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Wednesday, 9 March – “Pathfinder”, Talbot Gallery & Studios

Andrew Carson’s installation at Talbot Gallery presents his take on communication. The Nabta Playa area in Egypt’s western desert is home to numerous archaeological sites, including what are thought to be the world’s earliest archaeoastronomical devices: alignments of stone meant for observing the stars. “Pathfinder” uses this potential communal stargazing as a platform to explore interpersonal connections and communication through ritual. Carson won Foundation14’s Critic’s Choice Award, which came with this solo show and financial support for it; the show is also supported by Fingal County Council Arts Office. Facebook event here.

Thursday, 10 March – Knights of the Borrowed Dark Book Launch, 19:00, Smock Alley Theatre

Knights of the Borrowed Dark is the fantastical first installment to Dave Rudden’s three-part series. Orphan Denizen Hardwick finds himself thrust from his life at Crosscaper Orphanage by the promise of a long-lost aunt, but loses his way, and must decide whether to use his connection to a mysterious order of knights to fend off monstrous forces. Rudden has already won high praise for the first part of his trilogy, published by Penguin. It will be launched by Rick O’Shea. Facebook eventhere.

Friday, 11 March – Sim Simma x Sunday Times: Colm K, 22:00, €5/10, Wigwam

Cork DJ Colm K has been invited up to Dublin for this Friday’s Sim Simma. His sets feature some beautifully curated eclectic vinyl, and he’s got numerous residencies to his name. Part of the RBMA in 2004, he’s also released on Brooklyn label Bastard Jazz, and worked with TR-One, Choice Cuts and Hypnotic Brass Ensemble. Facebook event here, tickets here.

Saturday, 12 March – The Flex / Obstruct / Strong Boys / New Gods, 20:00, €8, BYOB, Tenterhooks

The Tenterhooks space is playing host to hardcore Leeds group The Flex. In its first iteration composed of members from Closure, Anguish and Broken Teeth, they traded instruments to get back to the frenetic vibes that propelled hardcore in its beginnings. They’re joined by Yorkshire straight-edge-rs Obstruct, with gay hardcore punkers Strong Boys and snotty garage from New Gods. Bring your own booze, but don’t be a prat. Facebook event here.

Sunday, 13 March – Ricardo Jacinto & Tristan Clutterbuck & Aonghus McEvoy, 19:30, €7, Jigsaw

Cellist Ricardo Jacinto divides his time between Belfast and Lisbon, and improvises alongside artists such as C Spencer Yeh , Manuel Mota, Ernesto Rodrigues and Simon Rose. The night will mix noise and drone with live electronics and guitar from Gavin Prior and Tuula Voutilainen, and the results of improvisational programming from Tristan Clutterbuck. Facebook event here.

Monday, 14 March – Asking for It Book Club, 18:30, €15/€18/€20, Button Factory

Opsh are hosting an open panel discussion on consent, using some of the issues raised by Louise O’Neill in her bestselling novel Asking for It. Louise is joined on the panel by blogger Rosie Connolly, journalist and blogger Louise Bruton and Image.ie senior features editor Jeanne Sutton. Aideen Finnegan of 98FM will host the discussion, which will explore how we deal with issues around consent and objectification in the digital age. Facebook event here, tickets here.

Tuesday, 15 March – The Witch, 17:30, €9, IFI

In seventeenth-century New England, a family of settlers are forced outside of their community, driven into isolation and, inevitably, gripped by religious hysteria, when their youngest child, cared for by their teenage daughter, mysteriously disappears. It looks to be a thoughtful addition to the substantial body of rural horror, exploring fears around female power and sexuality, and the ideological structures with which that feminine power could be controlled. The real horror, as with some of the best in the genre, is rooted in the domestic space. Director Robert Eggers says the film is highly influenced by his own childhood memories and fears. His painstakingly detailed recreation of Puritan New England is the result of four years spent perfecting the costume and script, consulting agricultural experts and researching Puritan prayer manuals.

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Wednesday, 2 March — The Penny Dreadful at Salon Nights, 20:00, Free, dlr Lexicon in Dún Laoghaire

Salon Nights is a monthly series for writers and readers that looks at Ireland’s new literary journals, or the “little magazines”. It is an initiative from writer-in-residence Selina Guinness. This Wednesday will see poet Jessica Traynor, who received the Ireland Chair of Poetry Bursary in 2014, read from her new collection, Liffey Swim. The event is free but ticketed, and hosted by John Keating and Marc O’Connell of The Penny Dreadful. You can check the Facebook event here, or jump right in and book your ticket here.

Thursday, 3 March — HomeBeat Presents: Lubomyr Melnyk, 20:30, €12/22, Dlight Studios

Ukrainian composer and pianist Lubomyr Melnyk will be propelling audiences into trance-like states this Thursday, with his new body of work, “Rivers and Streams”. Melnyk is engaged in what he calls “continuous music”, creating prismatic soundscapes that move between melancholy and euphoria, at times incorporating flute and acoustic guitar (in a dedication to the Amazon), and making liberal use of sustain throughout. Inspired by Terry Riley’s “In C” and drawing on Ravi Shankar and John McLaughlin, Melnyk combines lightning-speed delivery with repetition and sustain to transcendental effect. Facebook event here, and tickets here.

Friday, 4 March — Launch of Some Mark Made, 18:00, Free, Winding Stair Bookshop

Some Mark Made is a collection of experimental poetry, prose and criticism, edited by Sue Rainsford and incorporating the work of poets, visual artists, literary editors and curators hailing from Ireland, the US and Canada. They are: Shauna Barbosa, Caroline Doolin, Claire Farley, Michelle Hall, Julie Morrissey, Christodoulos Makris, Jonelle Mannion and Michael Naghten Shanks. More here.

Saturday, 5 March — Launch of Women of Notes / Mná na Notaí, 13:00, 34 Lennox Street

Coinciding with International Women’s Day, Women of Notes is a photographic and narrative series compiled by photographer Ruth Medjber and journalist Louise Bruton (ofLegless in Dublin fame), the first part of which is a celebration of some of Ireland’s most prominent female musicians. It will include portraits of, among others, Mary Black, Lisa Hannigan, MayKay of Fight Like Apes, SOAK, Heathers, Loah and Feather, Sorcha of Sleep Thieves, Wyvern Lingo, Saint Sister, Joniiiiiiiii and Sinéad White. Facebook event here.

Sunday, 6 March — International Women’s Day Pub Quiz Fundraiser for Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, 18:00, €5, Against the Grain

The second annual International Women’s Day Pub Quiz, with proceeds going to the Dublin Rape Crisis Centre, features some genuinely brilliant prizes. There’s gourmet pizza and wine for two in Oolong, gift bags from Fallon & Byrne, a one-year subscription to the Poetry Ireland Review, signed copies of Needlework by Deirdre Sullivan and Anna Liffey by Eavan Boland and a vibrator from Sex Siopa. All for a good cause. Facebook event here.

Monday, 7 March — Goodnight Mommy, 20:30, €9, IFI

This certifiably terrifying debut from Veronika Franz, co-directed by Severin Fiala, was Austria’s submission for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. You’ve probably seen stills if you’ve been anywhere near Tumblr during the last year, but there’s more going for it than its impeccable art-house cinematography. Recovering from surgery, a mother returns to her twin children, Elias and Lukas, and their isolated home. At first frightened by their mother’s new appearance, the twins become convinced that this woman is an impostor. Elias’s distrust of her deepens, and scenes brim with foreboding (a tank of hissing pet cockroaches, a crossbow) as the action peaks. Listed here.

Tuesday, 8 March — Carnage Visors, 10:00-18:00, Free, RUA RED

Carnage Visors is a group show exploring the validity of creating artwork in today’s geopolitical climate, squaring political awareness while keeping a work autonomous, and ultimately arguing for artwork as points of reflection within the stream of viral media. The collection features work from Neil Carroll, Amanda Coogan, Martin Healy, Juntae T.J. Hwang, Nevan Lahart, Amanda Rice, Sonia Shiel, Marcel Vidal and Richard T. Walker. More to convince you here.