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Love Frequency presents Palestine Fundraiser

This evening, dance music collective Love Frequency is taking over Hen’s Teeth in Blackpitts for a multi-genre fundraiser in aid of the Palestine Children’s Relief Fund.

Recently formed, this will be the collective’s first event. It boasts an eclectic line-up, including rapper and creator of the wrestling live music event Clash at the Quays, Ahmed, With Love, as well as electronic artist Pippa Molony, Shutter Select DJs, Suckerfish, and the incomparable, idiosyncratic Wobblin' Jude.

Also on the night, tattoo artist Hannah Molloy, aka Scarface Ink, will be in the venue to provide flash tattoos, which, I recently learned, means pre-designed tattoos and not temporary.

The event starts at 6pm. Tickets are €10 and will be on sale at the door.

For more information, visit the Hen’s Teeth event page here.

The Depot Sessions

This Friday, The Complex warehouse is bringing back its ongoing live music series The Depot Sessions.

Typically, the sessions' line-up comprises artists both emerging and established, with a headline act and a handful of openers, all brought together under a striking audio-visual set-up.

But, for this latest installation, they are changing up the format a bit.

For the first time, The Depot Sessions is being handed over to Kirkos, the experimental music ensemble. Kirkos, one of The Complex’s newest studio members, will take complete creative control for the evening.

Billed as a “Fluxus Open Mic”, a nod to the highly experimental 1960s artist collective Fluxus, Kirkos and its collaborators are planning to create an immersive, boundary-challenging event, in which “sound, performance, and visual installation will unfold around the audience in non-linear ways”. More than likely, that means you’ll be an active participant in whatever they have in mind.

Doors open at 6.30pm, and the event will begin at 7pm. Tickets are available here.

Break a leg. You’re going to be great out there.

AANI Frederic Douglas

On Saturday afternoon, the African Advocacy Network Ireland will be over at the Blanchardstown Library to delve into the deep historical ties between Ireland and different communities in Africa.

Frederick Douglass to present day: African connections to Ireland is an event that will explore historic and contemporary connections between Ireland and Africa. Aiming to highlight how such links have shaped these cultures over centuries, it will look at such influential figures as the slave abolitionist Frederick Douglass, who, after escaping slavery, visited Ireland in the 1840s.

The event will run from 12pm to 4pm. Tickets are available here.

Dawson Chorus

If you’re out and about on Saturday evening, it might be nice to drop down to the Central Plaza on Dame Street.

At 7:30pm, the recently formed pop choir, The Dawson Chorus, will be bringing together 140 voices both from their own ranks as well as those in the London City Voices choir.

While I don’t have a setlist, the choir has promised a slew of pop songs as well as a few Christmas classics. The event is free, and will run for an hour.

For more information, follow The Dawson Chorus over on Instagram here.

Salon Rógaire

Salon Rógaire, the Irish-language literary salon, is returning this Saturday for its sixth edition.

Hosted by writer and musician Róisín Nic Ghearailt, the salon brings together poets, writers, playwrights and musicians who will be reading or performing works that use or reflect on the Irish language. For this special event, titled Dublin, My Diva, the salon will be celebrating its first anniversary.

To mark that occasion, Nic Ghearailt has curated a pretty spectacular line-up that includes artist Osaro Azams, actor and writer Evanne Kilgannon, poets Mikey Cullen, Lily Breathnach, writer Shanaia Kapoor, and journalist Kelly Earley, whose Substack newsletter is worth checking out here.

The event will be on at the Teacher’s Club on Parnell Square West at 7pm. Tickets are available here. All profits from the night will be going to Sex Works Alliance Ireland.

Pilot

Next Thursday, The Lab Gallery on Foley Street is hosting Pilot, an exhibition of new works by TU Dublin’s fourth year fine art students.

From its origins in the Greek word “pedon”, meaning “steering oar”, to its later use in aviation and television, the exhibition will be reflecting on the notion of the pilot as both a metaphor and method. “Pilot is the artistic act of setting out without a fixed map, motivated by instinct and curiosity and navigating by the tools of art practice,” writes artist and TU Dublin lecturer Barbara Knežević.

The artists who will feature in the exhibition are: Niamh Cahill, Clive Casey, Kate Clancy, Seán Connolly, Daniela Jevdokimova, Sara-Jane Mooney, Rachel Cameron Byrne, Marta Ortiz González, Rebekah Reilly, Jane Singleton, Kenneth Kelly,  Evan Lynam, Jools Reilly, Tansy Clarke, Sinéad Maher and Niamh McKitterick.

Pilot will launch on Thursday, 27 November, at 6pm, and will run until Saturday, 29 November.

For more information, visit The Lab Gallery’s website here.

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Hive Mind

The Pearse Centre, on 29 November, will be the venue for an interactive gaming experience where the audience plays a mix of games and puzzles.

Guided by the host, the audience will use their phones to control what is happening on a big screen, working together to balance a see-saw, complete a quiz, solve a crossword and more.

Hive Mind starts at 8pm. Tickets are available here.

Nuala Clarke, artist talk at dlr LexIcon

ArtNetdlr is organising its latest Artist Talk with abstract painter Nuala Clarke at dlr LexIcon theatre in Dun Laoghaire.

The talk, which begins at 11am on Saturday, 22 November, will include a Q&A session.

Tickets are available here.

Oíche na hÓige / Youth Night 2025

On Friday, 21 November, to celebrate Oíche na hÓige/Youth Night, a new national celebration for young people, 66th Naomh Eoin Clontarf Scout Group is hosting The Scout Zone.

The event will run from 7 to 10pm at their den on Brian Boru Street, showcasing all the activities they have on offer.

St. Paul’s Youth Club in Artane will also be hosting Youth Night and is showcasing an art exhibition from 6 to 9pm.

The Smeds and the Smoos

In December, the Pavilion Theatre in Dún Laoghaire will be staging a new theatrical adaptation of Julia Donaldson’s children's book The Smeds and the Smoos.

The production, which was nominated for an Olivier Award, will be running from 16 to 28 December.

For more information and to book your tickets, visit the Pavilion website here.