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LGBT Noise March for Marriage Equality photos

10 August 09 gaymarriage Comments (0)

Twittering birds on a tree

The Arts Council New Media Conference was a very enjoyable day, not least because there was a lot of optimism around, people were very friendly, and there was a real interest in the topic. Perhaps those interested in the arts know, more than most, who invention’s mother is, and, as we are bracing ourselves for [...]

27 November 08 arts
blogging
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The Arts Council New Media Conference

Am spending the day in Dublin Castle at the Arts Council New Media Conference. It seems to be a lively  and interesting crowd, with enough differing viewpoints to make it a very worthwhile day.  I had a fab dinner with some of the other speakers last night, cooked by Niall Harbison of ifoods.tv.
I suppose I [...]

25 November 08 arts
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Fringe Festival: Bastien & Bastienne – Opera Theatre Company – St Patrick’s Park Dublin

When Mozart was 12 he wrote an operetta called  Bastien & Bastienne. Opera Theatre Company offered a free performance as part of the Fringe Festival in the shadow of St Patrick’s Cathedral, and despite the rain and a dodgy radio mike, an enjoyable time was had by all.

12 September 08 fringefestival
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Filmbase Camera & Lighting DV/HDV Course

Just finished four days of training at Filmbase doing a Camera & Lighting course. It’s been a long time since I have had such pleasure learning something, not since college in London, five or six years ago, doing my MA.
Dubliner Raja Nundlall is one of those special teachers who make their enthusiasm and passion for [...]

11 September 08 film Comments (2)

Bootboy: Leonardo and the Codex Leicester

Leonardo da Vinci was a scientist, mathematician, engineer, inventor, anatomist, painter, sculptor, architect, musician, and writer. One of his great works, the notebook called the Codex Leicester, is on display in Dublin at the moment. I went along to re-acquaint myself with a man I haven’t really considered since school, and I found myself in [...]

4 August 07 art
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creativity
history
homosexuality
men
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Review: The Big House – Abbey Theatre

Lennox Robinson’s 1926 play, The Big House, resurrected after 75 years at the Abbey Theatre in a production by Conall Morrison, is, on the face of it, something of a curate’s egg. The important questions, whether it is worth reviving, and whether or not I would recommend it, are not easy to answer.
In order to [...]

2 August 07 abbeytheatre
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Review: Same Same But Different – Project Theatre

It’s been quite a while* since I’ve been to a show like this: physical theatre, depending as much on the choreography of gesture and movement as much as the narrative. After an exciting start, I felt sad that the show was playing to a half-full house, given that it’s only on till Saturday 28th July, [...]

27 July 07 dance
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Review: Taylor Mac at the Project Theatre Dublin

New Yorker Taylor Mac played on Sunday at the Project, a benefit for Belong2, in a wonderfully life-affirming performance art piece – or, as he would describe it, a play. This was entertainment using play in all its meanings: child’s play, theatrical play, sex play, wordplay. Highly intelligent and fluidly articulate, musically gifted and haunting, [...]

16 July 07 drag
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Home from home

I am away in my beloved Tuscany on holiday, and it’s wonderful to be here, especially to be back in the beautiful Chiusure where I spent my sabbatical. I consider myself blessed to have a sense of having two places that feel like home, and realise that, even though I’m only ten months back in [...]

21 June 07 gatetheatre
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