> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://www.dublininquirer.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # Things To Do: Listen to medieval hyperpop, visit a waiting room, share poems with the winter deity, read her papers - URL: https://www.dublininquirer.com/things-to-do-listen-to-medieval-hyperpop-visit-a-waiting-room-share-poems-with-the-winter-deity-read-her-papers/ - Published: 2026-11-05T12:54:26.000Z - Updated: 2026-11-05T12:54:26.000Z - Description: Our latest recommendations, and community noticeboard listings. - Author: Michael Lanigan - Tags: Things To Do ## Our Picks *Our recommendations – no sponsored content, or adverts, just stuff we like.* **They Are, I Am, Feeding You Myself** This evening, multimedia artist Whorlasmz will be launching their debut solo exhibition They Are, I Am, Feeding You Myself in GalleryX. Whorlasmz, otherwise known as Orla O’Boyle, brings together in this show a new body of work that is rooted in self-portraiture, Blackness and queerness. Curated by Ishmael Claxton, the exhibition uses painting and drawing to look at how Black queer figures become “reflections of different selves, with the body, hair, sexuality and gender acting as markers of time and personal change.” At the heart of the show, O’Boyle is asking “what it means to see yourself represented and to create the versions of yourself that may not otherwise exist.” They Are, I Am, Feeding You Myself launches at 6pm today, Thursday 5 November and will run until 21 November. **Winter Papers 12** The Dublin Book Festival kicked off on Wednesday, and one of the highlights this weekend is the launch of the twelfth edition of Winter Papers anthology for the arts. Edited by Olivia Smith and Kevin Barry, the anthology’s latest edition is set to feature contributions from Tenaya Steed, Naoise Dolan, Isadora Epstein, Mary Costello, Jill Beecher, Conor Horgan, Tim MacGabhann, Steve Pyke and Clair Wills among many more. Published earlier this week, and available [here](https://shop.winterpapers.com/product/volume-12-pre-orders?ref=dublininquirer.com), its official launch will be held in the Royal Irish Academy of Music on Saturday 7 November at 12:30pm. To mark the occasion, there will be readings from Naoise Dolan, Tim MacGabhann and Tenaya Steed, as well as a conversation with the contributors and co-editor Kevin Barry. Tickets are free, but booking is advised, and can be done [here](https://dublinbookfestival.com/event/winter-papers-launch-3/?ref=dublininquirer.com). The Dublin Book Festival will run until Sunday 8 November, and to see what else is on the line-up, check out the full programme [here](https://dublinbookfestival.com/explore-the-programme/?ref=dublininquirer.com). **Salon Rógaire** Later, on Saturday evening, [Salon Rógaire](https://www.dublininquirer.com/on-ormond-quay-a-literary-salon-meets-as-gaeilge/), the bilingual, bisexual literary salon makes its return to Fumbally Stables. Now entering its second year, this latest gathering will draw inspiration from the Celtic Deity of the Winter: An Chailleach. An Chailleach, which also translates to “hag” or “witch”, is a god who heralds a time of rest, rebirth, reflection and the “slow, deep work of change.” And as the salon reconvenes in the Liberties, its founder and host Róisín nic Ghearailt promises a line-up of writers, artists and musicians who will be "weaving together threads of contemporary Éire with our Celtic past.” The event kicks off at 6:30pm. Tickets are available [here](https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/salon-rogaire-an-chailleach-tickets-2003201324085?ref=dublininquirer.com), and each attendee will receive a complimentary zine made by visual artist Zoë Greenway. ***Ollamh*** Back in May 2025, the cinematographer, DJ and artist Murky Anyango released [*Memento Vivre*](https://murkyanyango.bandcamp.com/album/memento-vivere?ref=dublininquirer.com), a twelve track odyssey of underground music. Leaping from hyperpop and IDM to shoegaze and math rock, her debut solo record flitted effortlessly between glitchy collages over frantic drum‘n’bass and 90s guitar anthems. Now, she’s returned with *Ollamh*, a concept album in a genre seldom explored: medieval hyperpop. According to Anyango’s Instagram page, the album follows a bard and warrior who has come to Ireland from a foreign land. She brags about triumphing over mythical figures, and sets out a plan to fortify and defend Ireland. Like all good medieval tales, the story is delivered by distorted and autotuned voices shouting, singing and rapping over a flood of manic beats, the occasional booming dub bassline, cascading bells and tender harps. The album is streaming over on Bandcamp [here](https://murkyanyango.bandcamp.com/album/ollamh?ref=dublininquirer.com), and it is, Anyango says “the loudest album about Medieval Ireland.” ***A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death*** Another record that dropped on Friday is *A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death* by SSMMÜTT. SSMMÜTT is the experimental, psychedelic metal project helmed by producer, illustrator and [occasional Onion Boys bassist](https://www.dublininquirer.com/big-loud-messy-and-ramshackle-the-onion-boys-play-the-hut-in-phibsboro/) Robert Mirolo. Formed in 2017, the group has featured a myriad of artists from groups including [Acid Granny](https://www.dublininquirer.com/in-the-heart-of-the-city-a-drummer-plays-the-streets/), [Earthslayer ](https://www.dublininquirer.com/twelve-years-in-experimental-metal-band-earthslayer-are-ready-to-take-their-apocalyptic-sound-to-the-live-circuit/)and [Throwing Shapes](https://www.dublininquirer.com/a-supergroup-of-experimental-musicians-look-to-fuse-synthesisers-with-the-world-within-the-irish-harp/). Earlier this year, Mirolo announced that *A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death* would be the last album he releases under the moniker before it stops indefinitely. Mirolo’s swansong is an eleven track voyage into a dense fog of groaning feedback, hissing ambient soundscapes, sludgy guitars, primal drumming and howling voices. If you have a proclivity towards the ethereal gothic rock of early Dead Can Dance, the doomy drone metal of Sunn O))), the hypnotically motorik beat of krautrock, or the Japanese stoner rock visionaries Boris (whose album *Akuma no Uta* is referenced by Mirolo on the cover (which, fun fact, in itself copied the album cover for Bryter Lyter by Nick Drake)), then this is most certainly a record for you. If however, nothing in the above sentence made a lick of sense to you, then I’ll put it in terms that don’t make me sound like an insufferable music snob. *A Blight on the Perfect Organism of Death* is absolutely and unequivocally an acquired taste. But if you’re up for trying something new, and that something new is experimental metal, then this most certainly meets that criteria. The album is streaming over on Bandcamp [here](https://cursedmonk.bandcamp.com/album/a-blight-on-the-perfect-organism-of-death?ref=dublininquirer.com). **Waiting Room** On Wednesday evening, the composer, sound artist and founder of Dublin Modular Tadhg Kinsella will be presenting a pop-up installation and performance at the Contemporary Music Centre. Titled *Waiting Room*, the performance is billed as an exploration between sound, technology and identity and which Kinsella has devised in response to the architecture and acoustics of the CMC’s Creative Space. Performing within an installation, Kinsella will use improvisation and “electronic processes” to develop *Waiting Room* in real time, with the event offering an opportunity to observe their practice in a more intimate setting. Doors open at 6pm, and the performance will begin at 6:30pm. Tickets are free. But [booking is essential](https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/waiting-room-sound-technology-consumption-by-tadhg-kinsella-tickets-2003616317341?ref=dublininquirer.com). Things to Do is free to read, but it's not free to produce. So we'd be grateful if you'd consider contributing a little bit each month to help keep it going. [€1/month](https://www.dublininquirer.com/#/portal/signup/69cabdc47eef0d000192fe0e/monthly) [€2/month](https://www.dublininquirer.com/#/portal/signup/69ca80b57eef0d000192fc2b/monthly) [€3/month](https://www.dublininquirer.com/#/portal/signup/69cabe107eef0d000192fe14/monthly) ## Noticeboard *Listings of events submitted by readers – you can submit yours for next week's newsletter, via* [*this form*](https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Wl8SBMTRIT1rNHcy57%5FYWEsDtoBf1kdOF8xkCJXMqX8/edit?ts=680f92a4&ref=dublininquirer.com)*.* **Balbriggan active travel survey** Dublin City University and Fingal County Council's Active Travel Department are looking for Balbriggan locals to take part in a short survey exploring how people experience Balbriggan town, from everyday access to environmental changes and interventions shaping the area. The survey is intended to help build a better understanding of how urban and coastal spaces are used, experienced, and shared and inform better design and implementation of inclusive green active travel infrastructure. Participation is voluntary and anonymous. The survey is available [here](https://dcusurveys.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV%5FcNkjWbYefuBfmqG?fbclid=IwY2xjawVYmo5leHRuA2FlbQIxMABwZG9mAWJyaWQRMHlDZk8xSWZLQm81MWMxRVlzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEfuYy%5FbjLz4Fs6-GQ%5FxVvJSLRx%5FwiYRJfbTpDCRKE71dFjlRlWPGcCN6WhEIg%5Faem%5Fky8c8rseMn9GB5OVZazNeQ&ref=dublininquirer.com). **Rupture Cinema open call** Rupture Cinema, the radical, guerrilla cinema collective is seeking ideas and proposals for spaces to screen films. They are calling on anyone with locations or sites in mind that could facilitate a screening, and are more than open to interesting spots too whether an old bus stop, a vacant building, a shed or a tunnel. Send your proposals for spaces to [rupturecinema@proton.me](mailto:rupturecinema@proton.me), or contact them on their Instagram page [here](https://www.instagram.com/rupturecinema/?ref=dublininquirer.com). **Fidelio Trio Winter Chamber Music Festival 2026** From 27 to 29 November, Belvedere House, DCU and the National Botanic Gardens will be hosting the Winter Chamber Music Festival 2026. The 14th edition of the festival is set to feature a diverse programme of classical music favourites and new music, including the world-class Fidelio Trio alongside guest artists Elizabeth Cooney, Fiona Bonds and Mark Padmore. For more information and to secure tickets, visit the festival website [here](https://www.fideliotriowinterfestival.org/?ref=dublininquirer.com). **Research on data centres in Blanchardstown** Trinity College Dublin’s Department of Geography is looking for research participants to share their view on data centres in the Blanchardstown area. Participants over the age of 18 and living in the Dublin 15 area are invited to take part in a conversation which will look at their awareness and views on the development of data centres. This study is an undergraduate dissertation in the Department of Geography. If you are interested, get in touch with Sarah Eogan at Eogans@tcd.ie.