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aemi’s 2026 touring programme ‘Desire Lines’
The Model, Sligo, Saturday, October 31 at 10:00 AM GMT
aemi’s new touring programme ‘Desire Lines’ premiered at the Irish Film Institute on Thursday 22nd January 2026. Featuring films by Chloe Brenan, Collectif Faire Part, Eóin Heaney, Olivia Normile and Basma al-Sharif, the programme will tour to Irish and international venues across 2026.
Upcoming screenings:
aemi @ The Model: ‘Desire Lines’ – showing from September 2nd to October 31st
aemi & Louth International Film Festival: ‘Desire Lines’ – 25th September
aemi & Mermaid Arts Centre: ‘Desire Lines’ – 6th October
‘Desire Lines’ is a term from the field of landscape architecture used, as Sara Ahmed writes in Queer Phenomenology (2006) to ‘describe unofficial paths, those marks left on the ground that show everyday comings and goings, where people deviate from the paths they are supposed to follow.’ Taken as a whole, the films featured in ‘Desire Lines’ by Basma al-Sharif, Chloe Brenan, Olivia Normile, Collectif Faire Part and Eóin Heaney, offer up a picture of imposed and chosen deviation, a picture that takes in experiences of isolation and displacement alongside those of collective resistance and revelation, taking care to capture the fleeting moments where these possibilities can briefly intersect.
‘Desire Lines’ is aemi’s 2026 touring programme, an annual selection of artist and experimental film that brings together a range of voices from Irish and international contemporary practice.
https://flypost.ie/event/aemis-2026-touring-programme-desire-lines
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We Are Making A Film About Mark Fisher
The (A) Centre, Sunday, July 26 at 06:30 PM GMT+1
6:30 PM. Free - suggested donation £5
https://flypost.ie/event/we-are-making-a-film-about-mark-fisher
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Music in the round, Milk Rain and Dom Byrne
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, the Liberties, Saturday, July 25 at 03:30 PM GMT+1
Indie Rock Sweethearts Milk Rain, and some friends are delighted to present to you an afternoon of blues, rock and roll, performed in the round inside the Kevin Kavanagh Contemporary Art Gallery. An afternoon of celebrating the cutting edge of Dublin culture with two local bands while surrounded by incredible Irish art.
Milk Rain have been described as “a modern national treasure” (Timpeall on Torann, Zine, 2025) with sounds inspired by garage, surf and art rock, with an Irish twist. They hope to make you dance, laugh and reflect on the highs and lows of modern love in our capital city.
The event will take place at the Liberties Festival, Saturday the 25th of July, doors open at 3.30 and will run until 5pm, feel free to dance, take in some fabulous contemporary art and enjoy the show.
https://flypost.ie/event/music-in-the-round-milk-rain-and-dom-byrne
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The Deadlians, Will Whyte & The Brain, Kuldesak
Whelan's Main Room, Saturday, July 18 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Last minute gig, Saturday the 18th The Deadlians play in Whelans with support from Will Whyte and The Brain, and Kuldesak.
A pal of ours over in Australia was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer, so we're doing this to raise some funds to send our Eoin over to visit him.
https://flypost.ie/event/the-deadlians-will-whyte-and-the-brain-kuldesak
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Dublin Hedge School
Kirkos, Wednesday, July 29 at 07:00 PM GMT+1
Come learn and play at our hedge school! This week we will be talking about freedom.
Dublin Hedge School is a community education project. Our aim is to provide an opportunity for people to become better versed in some of the salient socio-political issues of our time. By providing a reading list and leading an open discussion, we hope to empower people to become more critically engaged with the world around them. The aim of these groups is to approach political topics in the spirit of play and creativity. By the end of the evening, we want people to feel empowered to develop and apply political ideas in their own lives. We want to make activism feel like an achievable goal. We want to inspire and radicalise!
Tickets (€0): Link coming soon.
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Frustrated Writers' Group
Kirkos, Tuesday, July 14 at 07:00 PM GMT+1
Frustrated Writers' Group is a twice-monthly writers' group & publishers in Dublin, Ireland
Contact them here https://frustratedwriters.group/contact/ to enquire about joining!
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Marrowbone, Morebegs, Flyparts
Daylight Glasnevin, Friday, July 17 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
A cluster of post harcore, noise rock, trad, and alt country to boot. Swing on by. €10 at the door.
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Vsevolod Plotkin X Using Washroom, Clitoris, Gynophobia
Kirkos, Thursday, July 30 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Fraternal noise freakout duo performance between local deviants Vsevolod Plotkin and Calgary's Using Washroom. This is a delayed release show for the collab tape "Do Full Sex/Eh Eh Beating" from the tail end of 2025. Vsevolod Plotkin are no strangers to Kirkos, but this will be Using Washroom's first performance anywhere. Expect broken guitars, fucked up samples and VOLUME.
Support comes from Drogheda noise duo Clitoris who jam a distinctly Irish mix of spooky texture and muscular violence as heard on their excellent (and sold out) self titled tape on Hibernian Leather.
Also supporting is Gynophobia. Fresh off of the release of Sound & Sight, a montage of 2 guitar destruction performances from last summer, guitar hating maniac Gynophobia is ready to kill again.https://flypost.ie/event/vsevolod-plotkin-x-using-washroom-clitoris-gynophobia
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Bahfiddle, Eskrima, Fleshgild and INSTRUCTION
Daylight Glasnevin, Friday, July 24 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
The summer of Bahfiddle kicks off in Daylight, Glasnevin on 24 July 2026 with Eskrima, Fleshgild and INSTRUCTION. Expect powerviolence, hardcore, death metal, grind, crabwalks, noise, horror, misery (and laughs).
8pm doors, tenner in (fiver for Daylight members), byob, notaflof.
Bahfiddle are a powerviolence/grindcore band from Tuam, County Galway. Formed as a duo in 2008 by John and Patrick Ryan (Vsevolod Plotkin, Using Washroom) and inactive since 2012, they released a demo tape in 2025 and are playing shows with new songs this summer. They will be playing with a bassist for the first time (Mike Moran, Vsevolod Plotkin). FFO Man is the Bastard/Bastard Noise, side 1 of Scum, Gluey Porch Treatments.
https://flypost.ie/event/bahfiddle-eskrima-fleshgild-and-instruction
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Noise Show @ Kirkos feat. Acid 87, The Gall & Enola Christ Metalizer
Kirkos, Monday, July 20 at 07:30 PM GMT+1
A night of performance art, sound art and the unexpected for those who refuse to settle for the ordinary. It will be loud.
€15 on the door.
No one turned away for lack of funds.
20th of July 2026.
Kirkos.Acid 87 are... American titans of noise and improvisational sounds. Rough Music for the cartoonish politically charged. Automatic ramblings of folklore and legend pierced with guttural screams for more power. In basic terms, storytelling mixed with harsh noise done in a performance art fashion. Their performance may contain candles.
FFO: Whitehouse, Throbbing Gristle, Joseph Beuys, Negativland.The Gall are... An experimental outfit from Scotland fusing punk, black metal, breakcore, goth, industrial and more.
Enola Christ Metalizer is... Only noise.
Poster by Enola Christ Metalizer
https://flypost.ie/event/noise-show-kirkos-feat-acid-87-the-gall-and-enola-christ-metalizer
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Alison Cotton (Glitterbeat Records)
Bello Bar, Thursday, December 3 at 08:00 PM GMT
“Cotton may expand folk’s raw emotions into more avant garde territories, but they still feel possessed by a blood-red muscle memory that goes back centuries.” – The Quietus
“Her exquisite voice calls to mind both the chill of the best British folk…and the psychedelic detail of Occitanian traditional song” – Uncut Magazine
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Alison Cotton (Glitterbeat)
with special guest tba
Thursday 3rd December
Bello Bar
Doors 8pm
Tickets €20 via https://billetto.ie/e/alison-cotton-glitterbeat-tickets-1958027
Alison Cotton is a London‑based composer, vocalist, and multi‑instrumentalist whose music centres on viola, harmonium, and layered vocal drones. Originally from Sunderland, she first emerged in the UK underground in bands including Saloon, The Eighteenth Day of May, and more recently, The Left Outsides before beginning her solo career in 2018.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0WqdFcsAF7E
Her debut, All Is Quiet at the Ancient Theatre introduced her long‑form, place‑inspired approach to composition. This was followed with Only Darkness Now and The Portrait You Painted of Me, both acclaimed for their immersive atmospheres and emotional depth. All three albums appeared in The Quietus’ End of Year lists, with Only Darkness Now topping their New Weird Britain chart and The Portrait You Painted of Me was also Folk Record of the Month in The Guardian.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qmeo0bEkEgs
In 2024, Cotton released Engelchen, a work inspired by the lives of Ida and Louise Cook and their efforts to help refugees escape Nazi Germany. The album deepened her interest in narrative composition, blending historical research with her distinctive drone‑based sound.
Her music has received regular airplay on BBC Radio 3 and BBC 6 Music, and she has recorded sessions for Late Junction, Riley & Coe, and The New Music Show. Cotton tours widely across the UK and Europe and has appeared at festivals including Le Guess Who?, Roadburn, Krankenhaus, Supernormal and Acid Horse. Her records have been released by Rocket Recordings, Feeding Tube Records, Cardinal Fuzz, Bloxham Tapes,Clay Pipe Music and now Glitterbeat.
Alison Cotton’s fifth solo album is a mesmerizing weave of haunted atmospherics and avant-folk songcraft. Built around her viola, harmonium, and transportive vocals, the album moves between stark drone passages and more layered arrangements with piano, percussion, and synths.
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Drag Of Colour Variety Show
Project Arts Centre, Friday, June 12 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Drag of Colour Variety Show: a vibrant celebration bringing together trans and queer BIPOC creativity for the opening night of Queer Spectrum Film Festival 2026 on June 12. A series of guest artists will combine their performances and art forms with their own interpretations of drag in a multilingual, multicultural Variety Show.
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Creepy Future with special guests Burning Realm
Anseo, Saturday, June 13 at 08:30 PM GMT+1
We're heading back to our adopted home of Anseo for a Saturday night of banging tunes, loads of laughs and possibly a few cold drinks.
To celebrate the occasion, we'll be joined by the always fabulous Burning Realm. Tenner on the door, doors at 8.30 See you there!
https://creepyfuture.bandcamp.com/album/brace-yourself
https://burningrealm.bandcamp.com/album/face-the-fire
https://flypost.ie/event/creepy-future-with-special-guests-burning-realm
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The Kite Ballet — Thaís Muniz
The Dock Arts Centre, Saturday, June 20 at 10:00 AM GMT+1
The Kite Ballet is a multidisciplinary series comprising the eponymous film, alongside textiles and sculpture. The work reflects on territoriality, community, joy, and degrowth, while advocating for play in adulthood as a revolutionary act.
The Kite Ballet by Thaís Muniz intertwines poetic and mythical elements with political, historical, and symbolic themes, amplifying the voices of local activists from the Itapuã area in Salvador, Brazil. The film portrays a group of kite runners in their weekly communal ritual, highlighting the threat of private development and ecological displacement of Afro-Indigenous sacred territory, where joy and spiritual practices have thrived for centuries. The film advocates for play and negotiation with nature as revolutionary acts.
Thaís Muniz is a Brazilian-Irish visual artist and researcher working across multiple mediums to explore the intersections of inherited and acquired identities, memory, transit, and inward love. Her community-oriented practice unfolds through intimate communal learning processes, including workshop, performance, installation, sculpture, and film. Her work also spans photography, celebrations, and activations, often incorporating archives, personal memorabilia, and symbology.
Muniz’s practice engages with the reimagination of realities through mechanisms of refusal, dreaming, and personal magic, challenging and expanding canonical systems of representation, building connections, and opening conversations. A central aspect of her work involves activating spaces through presence and critically engaging with the geopolitics of place.
More information about this exhibition can be found via The Dock's website.
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aemi & IFI present: TRANCE FILMS
Irish Film Institute (IFI), Tuesday, June 30 at 06:30 PM GMT+1
aemi presents a very special international programme of experimental ‘trance films’.
The films selected here bypass comprehension, these are works that are experienced first and understood later (if at all). In his notes on Austrian filmmaker Jung an Tagen’s A Flock of Rotations Christian Höller describes how ‘there is no boundary here, no outside, no escape’ and this applies across a selection of films that take us from an explicitly digital realm to the far more earthly realm of the Atacama Desert in Daïchi Saïto’s EARTHEARTHEARTH (screening here in a beautiful 35mm print). As Alejandro Bachmann notes in relation to Happy Doom ‘the boundaries between inside and outside, me and the world, the virtual and the material, all become permeable, ambiguous, irrelevant’. A perfect descriptor for a programme that skirts the outer realm of psychedelia and cinema.
The screening includes two works screening from 35mm prints, both courtesy of Light Cone.
FILM INFO:
A Flock of Rotations, Jung an Tagen, 2026, Austria, 11 mins
Fuddy Duddy, Siegfried A. Fruhauf, 2016, Austria, 5 mins
Happy Doom,Billy Roisz, 2023, Austria, 3 mins
Ville Maria, Alexandre Larose, 2006-2009, Canada, 12 mins
EARTHEARTHEARTH, Daïchi Saïto, 2021, Japan, 30 minsTotal running time: 61 minutes
A Flock of Rotations – Jung an Tagen
Continuously falling pitches – descending into infinity.
Fuddy Duddy – Siegfried A. Fruhauf
In Siegfried A. Fruhauf´s Fuddy Duddy, something resembling a big bang is seen, with an energy resulting from the struggle between order and chaos. Everything we see takes place within a linear force field – whatever happens in the black and white images that arise from invisible sources of artistic creativity, whatever reveals its presence the instant it disappears. The lines themselves begin to flicker. It is as if they emerge from lidless eyes – were it only possible – yet they do not give way. The crucial grid underlying classical aesthetics of harmony and measurement begins to glow, but it does not go up in flames- Bert Rebhandl
Happy Doom – Billy Roisz
HAPPY DOOM is an audiovisual poem, an ode to color intoxication and vertigo. The screen a vibrating membrane that simultaneously spits and swallows colors and noisy beats – a hypnotic deformed circumpolar psychedelic short trip.
Ville Maria – Alexandre Larose
This film is inspired from a dream during which I fall from the top of a high-rise building facing the sky- Alexandre Larose
EARTHEARTHEARTH – Daïchi Saïto
Dawn breaks where land is flesh
And bones’ echoes;
You’ve lived through extinctions –
Stars, skies, sand and seas;
Future is catching us up at last,
And all the dead are ahead of us.A major film from a singular artist, earthearthearth is a pulsing, painterly tour de force. – Michael Sicinski
With special thanks to our colleagues at SixpackFilm and Light Cone
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Declan Synnott & d.stine 'Meat + Milk' album launch with Mineral Stunting
plugd, Thursday, June 25 at 07:00 PM GMT+1
Declan Synnott & d.stine launch their new album 'Meat + Milk' in Plugd records with Mineral Stunting
Thursday, 25th June, Plugd, Cork, €7, doors at 7
https://flypost.ie/event/declan-synnott-and-dstine-meat-milk-album-launch-with-mineral-stunting
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Last Eden, R. Denham, Enola Christ Metalizer, Katie Gerardine O'Neill, Sleet Walls
Daylight Glasnevin, Friday, June 12 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Music in the vein of dark ambient, industrial, deep haunted house. Ticket price is €10 at the door.
You can check out some of the music playing at the links below:
https://lastedenofficial.bandcamp.com/album/in-earth-3https://rdenham.bandcamp.com/album/beating-ep
https://katieoneill.bandcamp.com/album/solas-ci-in
https://enolaxmetalizer.bandcamp.com/
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BIND | Eimearjean Mc Cormack
Cork Printmakers, Tuesday, June 2 at 10:00 AM GMT+1
BIND is a programme of three exhibitions of individual artist books as part of Cork Printmakers artist book library across 2026.
The programme will activate the existing library and celebrate the new and innovative approaches to artists books as a both social and intimate durational art object.
The first in the series will present the work of Eimearjean Mc Cormack. Limited-edition books and experimental publications have become an integral extension of Eimearjean’s printmaking practice. For her the book format functions simultaneously as an archive of process and as a platform for new ideas to emerge.
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aemi & Docs Ireland present: Desire Lines + Q&A with Chloe Brenan, Eóin Heaney & Olivia Normile
Queen's Film Theatre, Belfast, Wednesday, June 17 at 06:00 PM GMT+1
aemi is thrilled to partner once again with Docs Ireland in Belfast to present a special screening of our 2026 touring programme 'Desire Lines' followed by a Q&A with featured filmmakers led by Rose Baker, Head of Programming at Belfast International Film Festival.
aemi & Docs Ireland present: Desire Lines
aemi is delighted to present ‘Desire Lines‘ at the eighth edition of the very brilliant Docs Ireland. This year’s edition of the aemi touring programme brings together a variety of innovative approaches to the documentary form from contemporary Irish and international filmmakers.
Featuring films by Chloe Brenan, Collectif Faire Part, Eóin Heaney, Olivia Normile and Basma al-Sharif, the programme is touring to Irish and international venues across 2026.
‘Desire Lines’ is a term from the field of landscape architecture used, as Sara Ahmed writes in Queer Phenomenology (2006) to ‘describe unofficial paths, those marks left on the ground that show everyday comings and goings, where people deviate from the paths they are supposed to follow.’ Taken as a whole, the films featured in ‘Desire Lines’ offer up a picture of imposed and chosen deviation, a picture that takes in experiences of isolation and displacement alongside those of collective resistance and revelation, taking care to capture the fleeting moments where these possibilities can briefly intersect.
This screening will be followed by a Q&A led by Rose Baker, Head of Programming at Belfast International Film Festival with featured filmmakers Chloe Brenan, Eóin Heaney and Olivia Normile.
FILM INFORMATION
Morning Circle / Morgenkreis, Basma al-Sharif, 2025, Canada/UAE, 21minutes
Verdigris, Chloe Brenan, 2025, Ireland 12 minutes
as above, so below (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 3 minutes
Speech For A Melting Statue, Collectif Faire Part, 2023, Belgium, Congo, Democratic Republic, 10 minutes
Body Diagrams (Limits and Demonstrations), Olivia Normile, 2025, Ireland, 1 minute 30 seconds
PARISH, Eóin Heaney, 2024, Ireland, 27 minutesTotal running time 75 minutes -
Svartþoka (Svartthoka) Live
Thomas House, Friday, May 22 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
Live:
Svartþoka (Svartthoka)
Experimental electronic noise metal trio from Reykjavík (Iceland)
Support: Natamorta
Admission: 10 Euro on the door, 8 Euro in advance
Thomas House
Friday 22 May 8:00pm
Tickets from the Svartthoka Bandcamp:
https://svartthoka.bandcamp.com/merch/gig-ticket-dublin-may-22nd
Ticket price includes a free download of the album Draumsóleyjahafið
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STRINGS FOREVER
Kirkos, Friday, May 22 at 07:30 PM GMT+1
STRINGS FOREVER is a new monthly concert series curated by Joanna Mattrey that showcases the full range of string playing, alongside other creative disciplines.
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Landless
The Sugar Club, Friday, November 6 at 08:00 PM GMT
“Long-term Celtic music fans should flock to them – they’re a deliciously doomier Clannad – while devotees of Ireland’s current, brilliant scene should also respond to their stunning intensity.” – The Guardian Folk Album Of The Year
“While their albums are wonderful, seeing Landless live took my love of them to an entirely new level...They give me goosebumps from the very first note, every time." – Songlines
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Landless (Glittebeat)
with special guest
Seamus Hyland
The Sugar Club
Friday 6th November 2026
Tickets €24 via https://billetto.ie/e/landless-glitterbeat-records-tickets-1922733
Landless are: Lily Power, Méabh Meir, Ruth Clinton and Sinéad Lynch. The Irish quartet sings centuries old ballads as well as more recently penned folk songs. Sometimes unaccompanied and at times with subtle instrumentation, their vocally rich music is dark and patient; spellbinding and gorgeous.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cu3HZEr_NAE
Lúireach, their second album, was named Folk Album of the Year 2024 by The Guardian. Lúireach is an album of quiet power, soaked in tradition but finding new and exciting ways to present these remarkable songs, songs that are full of melancholy, love, death and mystery.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6cbbq1GZ_gA
Working once again with John ‘Spud’ Murphy (the Lankum producer and ØXN member), Lúireach
sees the quartet adding sparingly-used instrumentation – Ruth’s aching pump organ on Death & The
Lady, Méabh’s shruti box on Ej Husari, Lankum’s Cormac MacDiarmada on fiddle, viola and banjo
throughout, even some mournful trombone from Alex Borwick on The Newry Highwayman. As Lily explains, “A lot of the instrumentation happened organically as we were recording, while some
elements we have used live for years, like the organ. We tend not to make these kinds of decisions in
advance, but make suggestions as we go and see how everyone feels about it. Hopefully the album still has the impact of the unaccompanied singing, with a bit of variation this time around.”
The songs on Lúireach are from remarkably diverse sources and eras: the likes of Blackwaterside, Death & The Lady and My Lagan Love (learned from Traveller Paddy Doran, Norma Waterson and Méabh’s late father respectively) are probably known to even the casual fan of traditional music, while Lúireach Bhríde was commissioned for the RTÉ Folk Awards in 2018 and the closing song Ej Husari was learned from teacher and singer Eva Brunovská at the annual Rozhybkosti festival in Slovakia. Some of these songs are centuries old, some remarkably recent, yet when sung by Landless, they all sound timeless and eternal.
Seamas Hyland
Seamas Hyland is a multi-instrumentalist and composer who focuses on both traditional and experimental music. He enjoys exploring the varied sonic capabilities of the button accordion and creating tonal landscapes using field recordings he collects.Seamas recently released his debut solo album ‘Maidin Domhnaigh’ and was nominated for an RTÉ Folk award for best emerging artist in 2025. He has also collaborated with artists like John Francis Flynn, Jennie Moran and Eimear Walshe, and is particularly intrigued by the contrasting nature of traditional and contemporary music and how/if these can be presented together.
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girlfriend. + Therapy Horse
Dali, Saturday, May 9 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
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Scouts Hall Yoga Chapelizod W Brownsauce
Scout Hall Chapelizod, Thursday, May 7 at 08:15 PM GMT+1
Hello, Jack O’Flynn here, or Brownsauce. I’m running a weekly evening yoga class in the newly built Scouts Hall in Chapelizod.
The goal is to make space in the evening to step away from our phones , get our hearts pumping with dynamic movement, and drop into deep somatic relaxation before bed.
How it runs. The first half is dedicated to dynamic warmups. We breaking out of rigid movement patterns and let the body warm and loosen before any traditional yoga postures.
Then the main beat of the class is then structured around foundational yoga asanas. We move through drills and repeated patterns, so people of all levels can learn and deepen their understanding of these core postures, gradually building heat and heart rate so you feel the body has really worked.
Once we’re fully warmed up and loose, we move towards slow movements and yin postures for a real deep stretch. Finally, an extended savasana and body release meditation to end the day softly and drift off to bed, ready for a new one.
Please bring a mat as there are no spares x
• October: classes are €10 flat
• From 1 Nov: €15 drop-in, €12 concession, or a 5-class pass €65I hope to see you there :<)
https://flypost.ie/event/scouts-hall-yoga-chapelizod-w-brownsauce-18
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Gig For Women's Aid
Bogans Bar, Saturday, May 30 at 06:00 PM GMT+1
"🎸Biggest Band Night Ever to be Done in Omagh for Women’s Aid🎸
🎸Gig For Women’s Aid🎸
Come join us on May 30th as we look to raise money for Women’s Aid.
Woman’s Aid is the lead agency offering information, support and accommodation to women, children and young people experiencing domestic abuse.
For just £12 you can come and see these 12 Amazing Bands and will be helping us raise money for an amazing charity.
These 12 amazing bands are
@anjamusic
@_revolution_band_
@manchine.band
@thenewnormalbandni
@the.last.resort.band
@stardogbandcork
@kyroband_
@winter_bfs
@wearemyriadthings
@thelibres_band
@aneuteredfruit
An Púca
Starting Saturday 30th May 6pm we hope to see you all here
Presented by Quinn Entertainment" -
Live Collision
ddr studio - Flux, Friday, May 1 at 12:00 PM GMT+1
In 2026, Live Collision enters its fifteenth edition, and we are marking this milestone with a decisive evolution: the festival moves to a biennial model, anchored by the launch of Live Collision Salon. This is an ambitious step, designed to deepen the support we provide to artists and to extend the possibilities of Live Art in Ireland.
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LUNA
dlr LexIcon, Haigh Terrace, Moran Park, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, A96 H283, Ireland, Friday, May 1 at 03:00 PM GMT+1
LUNA - Contemporary Opera with a twist - This is a work in progress by composer and multidisciplinary artist Sal Stapleton.
Made in collaboration with Sebastian Adams and Ardu
Unfolding across eight movements shaped by the lunar cycle, it blends electronic music production and sound design with the choral voices and the string quartet.
From the shadowy emergence of the New Moon to the charged brilliance of the Full Moon, the work swells with tension, expansion, and release before returning to stillness. Drawing on ritual, folklore, and the pull of human desire, LUNA invites audiences into a hypnotic journey through darkness, illumination, and renewal.
The Studio theatre space is situated within Dun Laoghaire library ground floor next to roots
Supported by The Arts Council, DLR Arts, Fieldarts & Live Collision
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The Cosmic Dead
The Workmans Club, Friday, May 15 at 08:00 PM GMT+1
u:mack in association with Heavy Psych Sounds proudly presents The Cosmic Dead at The Workman's Club Friday 15th of May.
One of the greatest and loudest psychedelic space rock bands of recent times. Prepare to have your minds blown. Support on the night comes from local space rockers Wild Rocket.
The Cosmic Dead are an amorphous blob of space rock energy hailing from Glasgow, Scotland. Their exploratory compositions often reach levels of sonic destruction through reflective repetition and visceral harmony.
The band has taken many forms since forming in 2010 and has been declared 'The loudest psychedelic rock band on the planet." by legendary compere Kozmik Ken. At the base of the current sonic obliteration team is a rhythm section of Tommy Duffin and Omar Aborida, a thunderous and cohesive unit which is then further propelled into the outer realms by Luigi Pasquini providing frantic italo synthesized electronics along with Calum Calderwood's mind bending, sky-shattering fiddle acrobatics.
'Beyond The Beyond' is the highly anticipated tenth studio album from inter-dimensional space travelling explorers The Cosmic Dead, the album takes listeners on a four track expedition into the deepest cosmos of the band. Recorded at Dystopia Recording Studio in Glasgow, 'Beyond The Beyond' features the riff rolling rhythm section of Tommy Duffin on drums and Omar Aborida on bass guitar alongside soaring fiddle acrobatics from Calum Calderwood and electronic textural bleeps and bloops from Luigi Pasquini on synthesizers, all wah laden and with phasers set to destroy - Turn on, tune in and immerse yourself in the sound of The Cosmic Dead.
"If the rings of Saturn could sing, this is the sound they would make." - Zero Tolerance -
Lit to the Tit x Women of Colour Belfast x Mental Health Arts NI: Belonging Spoken Word Night
The Watson, Thursday, May 14 at 07:00 PM GMT+1
Lit(erature) to the Tit and Women of Colour Belfast are coming together for a special evening as part of the Mental Health Arts NI Mindset Festival, inviting you to explore the theme of Belonging through spoken word, storytelling and poetry.
This night welcomes Poets, Storytellers and Artists to share work that reflects on home, identity, community, displacement, joy, grief and everything in between. Belonging can mean many things. It can be found in people, places, language, memory or in the act of speaking your truth out loud.
Whether you are performing or simply coming along to listen, this is a space rooted in care, creativity and connection. We especially encourage voices from communities who have not always been centred or heard. Come as you are. Bring a piece, bring a friend, or just bring yourself. You are welcome here.
Artists and Line-up to be announced end of April
ACCESSIBILITY INFORMATION: No lift available
WHEN: Thursday 14th May
DOORS OPEN: 7pm
WHERE: The Library Bar (upstairs in The Watson)
Supporting a Good Cause
Suggested donation is £10-£15 for the event, pay whatever you can. Money raised will be donated to Mental Health Arts NI Mindset Festival.
Ticket Policy:
No refunds (all for a good cause).
If you can no longer make it, let us know and we’ll offer your spot to someone on the waiting list.
Please note there will be photography and videography on the night for advertisement purposes
EVERYONE WELCOME, ALL AGES, ALL GENDERS XXXYZ
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Lit(erature) to the Tit: Silent Bookclub x Mental Health Arts NI
The Watson, Tuesday, May 12 at 07:00 PM GMT+1
About Event
📚 Lit(erature) to the Tit Bookclub x Mental Health Arts NI Presents:
Silent Bookclub
Join us for our cozy drop-in reading session designed to create a warm and welcoming space for our community. Whether you're devouring a book, jotting down your thoughts, writing creatively, or simply looking to catch up with like-minded people, this is the perfect place to slow down and connect.
📅 Date: Tuesday 12th May
🕒 Time: 7pm
📍 Location: The Library Bar (Upstairs in The Watson)What’s Happening?
Silent Bookclub – Come armed with your current read (no judgment). We’ll sip, snack, and read together in glorious silence for an hour.
Supporting a Good Cause
There’s a small fee to attend, with proceeds going to Mental Health Arts NI, our chosen charity of the month.Rules of Engagement:
Bring a book for you to read silently, or something you're working on - be it reading, writing, journaling or just some well deserved downtime.
Bring a few books to swap
The Watson serves up some NA alcoholic or alcoholic drinks at the bar for purchase, The Poke Club also serves food if you're feeling peckish
No spoilers unless specifically requested (and accompanied by proper gasp-faces).
Ticket Policy:
No refunds (all for a good cause).
If you can no longer make it, let us know and we’ll offer your spot to someone on the waiting list.
Why Come?
Because sometimes reading together without talking is the most social thing you can do.EVERYONE WELCOME, ALL AGES, ALL GENDERS XXXYZ
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