After The Currency reported the idea of the council moving its HQ, councillors were talking about and thinking through the pros and cons and implications.
Anthony Freeman’s moss art, which can be seen around the Oliver Bond flats, is inspired by growth. “People grow, people evolve and this represents them.”
A Girl from Mogadishu is an earnest championing of an inspirational and courageous activist. The film works best as an overview of, or a jumping-off point into, Ifrah Ahmed’s life and work.
“My dad and his friends formed a football team called the Dorset Boys in the seventies,” says Patrick Osborne. This was an inspiration for his book, Baxter’s Boys.
In The Connacht Peep Show, by The Deadlians, the poems of Seumas O’Kelly are set to melodies. “His poems are a bit melancholic but there is a bit of humour in them,” says singer Sean Fitzgerald.
The Castle follows a three-generation Lithuanian household in Dublin, worn down by Ireland’s carelessness and hostility to the hopes and dreams of immigrants.
The project, On Chorus, started on 16 November and runs through to 29 November. “It’s a way of connecting people during a time where we have to be distant,” says creator Christopher Steenson.
