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ARTIFACTING: A Collaborative Storytelling Workshop

A4 Sounds, Wednesday, November 25 at 06:30 PM GMT

ARTIFACTING:
A collaborative storytelling workshop

w/ Ríon Duffy Murphy

How do we understand a place which is unknown to us, but strangely familiar? Start with a peculiar spoon (or hat, or chair, or record player, or rock, or hen house-) and wander outwards from there.

In this workshop we will become visitors to the fictional island of Inis Eile. Using a system similar to solo tabletop role playing games, we will discover artifacts on the island, tell stories about them together, and decide how they shape the history and culture of the island.

Participants will be provided with ARTIFACTING zines and guided through using them together. You don’t need any previous experience in TTRPGs, writing, or storytelling - just curiosity and a desire to play.

Details

Wed 24th Nov | 6:30pm - 8:30pm
10 participants
Tiered Tickets: €5.00 - €15.00

Book: https://a4sounds.org/shop/artifacting/

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ARTIFACTING:
A zine

2026

Inis Eile is a socially engaged, participatory project, exploring Irish national identity, collective myth-making, and utopian dreaming. The island acts as a mirror of Ireland, and a testing ground for speculative futures. Its history and culture are constructed together by the artist and members of the public, through collaborative storytelling, play and discussion based workshops, and other interactions.

Copies of the zine will be available at the gallery for audiences to take home.

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Ríon Duffy Murphy

Ríon Duffy Murphy (they/them) is a visual artist specialising in textiles. Their work explores queerness, play, belonging, and disability. Creating opportunities for dialogue, curiosity, softness, and connection is key to their practice.

Ríon's recent textile work consists of interactive human-scale soft sculptures, intended to provide positive sensory input and to disrupt the usual choreography of gallery visitors. They are in the process of developing Inis Eile, a socially engaged, participatory project exploring Irish national identity, speculative futures, and collective utopian dreaming through collaborative storytelling and discussion-based workshops.

Ríon holds a BFA in Textiles from NCAD and an MA in Gender Studies from UCD. They were awarded the Arts Council Agility Award in 2023, Create’s AIC Mentoring Award in 2024, and a residency in GOMA, Waterford in 2026. Their solo exhibition, SQUISHY!, was held in the Project Arts Centre as part of Disrupt Disability Arts Festival 2025. 

Exhibition Profile: https://www.weonlywantthe.earth/born-to-be-alive/ron-duffy-murphy

https://flypost.ie/event/artifacting-a-collaborative-storytelling-workshop

Bhob Rainey / David Lacey / Aonghus McEvoy

Kirkos, Thursday, November 26 at 08:00 PM GMT

We're thrilled to welcome Bhob Rainey back to Dublin for his first performance in over 20 years! Alongside a solo set, we're excited to present the first time performance of the trio Rainey, Lacey & McEvoy.

Bhob Rainey is a saxophonist, composer, and improviser. On the saxophone he has developed a distinctive, hallucinatory vocabulary that often sounds electronic, interspersed with an uncanny mastery of multiphonics. In 1998 he co-founded the duo nmperign with trumpeter Greg Kelley, touring extensively while upending a host of improvisational givens. Seeking to bring rigor to improvisation at a larger scale, he later formed The BSC, an eight-piece ensemble that navigated the challenges of group improvisation without relying on predetermined structures or cues. Their work and practices were explored in the 2011 book and album, Manual. Rainey additionally has a long list of collaborators and an especially refined solo saxophone style. He was awarded a Pew Fellowship in the Arts in 2013 for his work in this field.

In the realm of composition, Rainey focuses heavily on heterogenous electroacoustic work, combining sometimes extreme digital synthesis and processing with field recordings, live instruments, and other acoustic sources. He often explores the idea that a "human" is much more than just the idea of "human", and much stranger. A SuperCollider "power user", he is known for his contributions of plugins, algorithmic works such as Peev and These are They, and digital instruments like xynthii and Dumber from Another Mother.

Rainey has long-running, multidisciplinary collaborations, especially in theater and dance. He has worked closely with Whit MacLaughlin / New Paradise Laboratories since 2012, integrating often unsettling music and sound design into their uniquely generative process of developing plays. In 2014, he began working with dancer / choreographer JungWoong Kim, collaborating on both large-scale, site-specific pieces and fully improvised events. Rainey has additionally made music for films and Chinese puppetry.

https://flypost.ie/event/bhob-rainey-david-lacey-aonghus-mcevoy

Meitheal

Kirkos, Thursday, November 19 at 06:45 PM GMT

FLINTA electronic music skill share. Zero to lots of experience encouraged to attend.

https://flypost.ie/event/meitheal-1

Improv Club

Kirkos, Wednesday, November 18 at 06:45 PM GMT

The Improv Club is open to all members of the public, no prior experience with improvisation or music is needed: we only ask you to bring curious ears and an open mind.

If you play an instrument, please bring it - but if you don't, We'll be able to provide objects for you to improvise with. It will be very informal, low stakes, and unintimidating! It will last about two hours.

https://flypost.ie/event/improv-club-10

CHORAL FIXATION - a (new <3) community choir

Kirkos, Tuesday, November 17 at 06:45 PM GMT

We are starting a new community choir in Dublin! All about getting back into singing next to other people ad feeling how lovely that is. The aim is to learn 1x song per session, with all experience and voices welcome. We will use sheet music, but don't worry! You don't need to read music to join, it's just about practicing and being together.

https://flypost.ie/event/choral-fixation-a-new-love-community-choir

Testbed

Kirkos, Wednesday, November 11 at 06:45 PM GMT

The goal of TESTBED is to foster a meeting group of artists with overlapping practices who can support and push each other.

https://flypost.ie/event/testbed