Greater use of red-light cameras on Dublin roads inches closer
On Monday, the National Transport Authority published a tender looking for someone to help it plan and oversee the roll-out of red-light and speed cameras.
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At Bodyjam, You Learn to Use Your Body as Material to Make Art With
The monthly workshops for working and aspiring performance artists are like guided meditations, encouraging people to express themselves physically.
The Pawnbroker’s Reward, Reviewed
“Full of heart and heartbreak”, this book by singer-songwriter Declan O’Rourke “resurrects the time of the famine with care and honesty”.
Holy Island, Reviewed
This second feature film by Robert Manson is “a fascinating, willfully obtuse story of two travellers on a layover between life and The Great Beyond”.
For Immigrant Arts Graduates, Chasing the Right to Stay in Ireland Can Mean Abandoning Dreams
Many arts-sector jobs are freelance gigs, and immigrants can’t get work permits and permission to stay in the country based on them.
Council Proposes to Replace Artist Studios on Chatham Row with New Civic Museum
PressUp’s Dean Arts Studios have use of the former DIT School of Music for only 12 months. After that, what will become of the building? Undecided.
Long Hidden, Don Wood’s Photos of Dublin’s Queer Community in the Early 1980s Emerge
Few of the photos have seen the light of day since they were originally taken, in 1980–83. Now they’re due to be presented to the Irish Queer Archive.
This Book Will Change Your Mind About Mental Health, Reviewed
The author, Nathan Filer, “has chosen his interview subjects with care. There are stories of both tragedy and triumph, and of shades in between”.
Artist Proposes Soda Bread as Ireland’s National Cake
Analysing feminism, women’s work and post-colonialism, April Gertler’s hybrid lecture and performance “Take the Cake” assigns cakes to countries.
Dean: Jermiside and The Expert’s Intercontinental Rap Alliance is About Humanity’s Worst Impulses
“Across a full-length album, Jermiside and The Expert fit together like puzzle pieces, complementing each other’s styles as two separate entities that synthesise perfectly.”
Róise & Frank, Reviewed
It’s “the intertwining of humour and heart that makes for such a successful and charming film”.
An Odyssey into Underground Queer Club Spaces
Nick Nikolaou’s new show Anatomy of a Night is an exploration of memory and identity through dance, spoken word, runways and lip-syncing.
“Stray Magazine” Aims to Inject a Sense of Hope into Dublin’s Arts Scene
“We don’t want to be ‘Dublin is shit, everything is bad and hard,’” says co-founder Aiesha Wong.