The Back Loft is a spacious and light filled open-plan loft located at the back of La Catedral Studios, This inspired space functions as an informal artists' playground, available for hire for art-related projects, (e.g. art exhibitions, live art events, salons, theatrical performances, rehearsals and drama workshops, dance, life drawing, photoshoots, film locations, video projections etc.) For more information, contact lacatedralstudios@yahoo.com
La Catedral Studios is located in a restored former Victorian factory in the Liberties. The current premises is comprised of 24 artists' studios and a multi-disciplinary space for artistic events, otherwise known as The Back Loft.
LA CAT ACOUSTIC presents 'A FRIENDLY VISIT' brought to you by the crew of the "Kitchen Concerts"....
Wednesday 22nd August, 2012
at THE BACK LOFT,
Doors open at 7pm, concert starts at 7.30pm
Featuring: Tony Mac Mahon on accordion
and Steve Cooney on guitar
An intimate evening of soulful music, poetry & stories presented by numerous guests in the framework of an intimate Salon. Snacks provided - but bring your own bottle!
No cover charge, donations are welcome!
This event is supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme and is part of "La Cat Salons", the in-house programming of la Catedral Studios curated by Bridgit Mc Cone and produced by Antonella Scanu. RSVP, if possible, to rosheen.callender@gmail.com (tel. 01-2881-821 or 087-2551-746).
The first Butoh Festival Dublin will be held in both Back Loft and Dance House with a fine programme, presenting Irish and international artists.
On four days, ButohDublin will give you the exciting opportunity to fully emerge yourself into exploring Butoh from different angles and through various channels like live-performances, workshops, lectures and films.
Performances by Bridget Scott (Japan) on Thursday, Ambra Bergamasco (Ireland) on Friday and Ken Mai (Finland) on Saturday will give you fine examples of the many approaches to Butoh, while you can viscerally explore the ideas in the Workshops led by those three exceptional artists on Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
Lectures will be held by social anthropologist and performer Dr. Michael Weiss (Austria) on Convergences toward the Ritual Transmission of ButÅ through Ohno Yoshito, and visual and performing artist Fergus Byrne will introduce you to Beckett and his Footfall's Dark Steps.
International short films will be presented in a BringYourOwnBreakfast morning (we'll make coffee and tea) and together with Ambra Bergamasco's live-performance on Friday evening.
More information on how to register for the workshops and how to get your tickets for the performances on www.butohfestivaldublin.com, where you can also find information about the artists and their work.
You can also find us on facebook! Www.facebook.com/butohfestivaldublin
The Festival is supported by Back Loft, Dance Ireland and the individuals who pledged for our crowd-funding campaign.
Butoh is a contemporary dance form originated in Japan in the 1960s, in the aftermath of the nuclear bombing and the destruction caused. Butoh is described as a profoundly humane art form, speaking from soul to soul, where the dancers create archetypical images through movement, which are not bound to codified shapes. In Butoh, we can witness the beauty of creation and decay, experience silence and explore many forms of human expressions.
Butoh Dublin are a small but dedicated group of people who got together to organise a one of kind intimate festival that would facilitate a kinetic, visual and audible engagement with butoh, one that is speaking to the mind and the body equally through performance, open workshops, talks and film screening.
Dutch
photographer Jos Menting will open his Solo Exhibition 'Circle of
Light' at the Back Loft on Sunday July 15th as part of the PhotoIreland
Festival
All of Menting's photos are shot on film and his black and white work is printed
on fibre based paper. Print making in the darkroom is an integral part
of Mentings photography 'This
photography exhibition explores the synchronicity of 3 vastly differing
worlds that I witnessed and captured over the last 10 years. I
experienced the complexity of life, the continual cycles of struggles,
conflict and joy within the power of nature in an ever changing light.
The projects involve images from the Streets of Dublin, Nigeria –
Primary school, Jos, Plateau State and Kona Village and my Garden
Series'
'Circle of Light' Opening Sunday July 15th. Show runs until Thursday July 19th
This show is part of The PhotoIreland Festival
http://2012.photoireland.org/intro/index.html
For more information on Jos Menting see: http://www.josmenting.com
Join Leafzang and the Matthew Halpin group for a special gig
in The Back Loft (BYOB) with accompanying art and photography from Kathrina
Rupit and Nina 'Core' Franco. There will be CDs and art for sale, great jazz
and some tasty bites and wine available also.
Leafzang is a Dublin-based instrumental acoustic Sextet led by guitarist Paddy
Groenland, including Matthew Halpin on Tenor Saxophone, Matthew Berril on
Clarinet, Lioba Petrie on Cello, Neil O'Loghlen on double bass and Andre
Antunes on Drumkit. Performing original music which takes its cue from ECM
European jazz and soundrack-like atmosphericisms. Here they will present their
debut eponymous CD.
The Matthew Halpin group is made up of brilliant young international musicians
who excel in both traditional and contemporary jazz. In Matthew's own words;
'The group features Christian Li (piano), Mike Bono (guitar), Jared Henderson
(bass) and Roberto Giaquinto (drums). Each of these musicians are stand out
players in their own right, most of them studying on full scholarship at
Berklee College of Music.
I'm currently composing a set of music specific to this group that I think will
show off the highly interactive capabilities and the incredible soloing skills
each musician has. The style of music that I'm writing is a result of the music
that I've been playing and studying in the past three years, taking influence
from jazz standards and the original music we have worked on together. What I
am trying to make most prominent in the music is the enjoyment and humor that
we find in playing together and which has always come naturally to us, while
being true to the intensity and emotional depth of the music which we all
love.'
A
group of guests arrive for a weekend in a country house, built to resemble
a ship. It is occupied by a siren-like woman, her peacock husband, and presided
over by a crazy old sea captain. They soon learn that there is something in the
atmosphere of this curious house that drives people to act in unpredictable
ways, and under its topsy-turvy influence more than one of them will experience
heartbreak.
Spoonlight
Theatre Company is a brand-new unfunded theatre
collective, based in Dublin, and founded by recent graduates.
Heartbreak
House is the first production of this
exciting new company, We hope to offer audiences a rare chance to experience
the topsy-turvy, intriguing world of Heartbreak House.
Spoonlight Theatre was founded by three recent graduates, Ronan Murphy, Sam
Coll, and Liza Cox, who met in Trinity College, and came together to form the
theatre company, over a shared love of and wish to create engaged and engaging
theatre.
Liza
Cox is the show's director and has
varied experience in amateur theatre, in various capacities, including
directing an adaptation of Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman in December
2011.
Sam
Coll has acted in a diverse range of
professional and amateur film and television productions, from the Gaiety to Bollywood
film, and will play the eccentric and fascinating Captain Shotover.
Ronan Murphy is a professional
musician and also has a wide ride range of theatrical experience, including
developing and staging a play based on Joyce's Finnegans Wake.
Husni Hafid the show's producer is a
film student with a passionate love of theatre, and a broad range of experience
in production
Dublin-based Slow Skies release an debut EP "Silhouettes" on June
16th with a very special launch gig in The Back Loft, Dublin with live visuals
from April Keane.
Slow Skies is the musical project of Karen Sheridan; who following the release
of her debut EP with “much buzzed about trio” Kasette at the end of 2010 moved
to London to concentrate on her song writing and music. A chance encounter with
producer and multi-instrumentalist Conal Herron led the duo to perform loads of
gigs throughout London including a lauded support slot with electronic music
duo LAMB at Somerset House in July 2011.
The pair have since returned to Ireland and recorded Slow Skies’ debut EP
"Silhouettes" together in the winter of 2011/12 in an array of
sitting rooms in Dublin, Donegal and Wexford. A special blend of folk melodies
with strings, harmonium, kitchen cabinet percussion and soft guitars; Slow
Skies weighs somewhere between folk and pop music. With a collective-style
approach Karen plans to play her gigs with different friends in different
cities over the summer and winter months of 2012.
"Silhouettes" will be released under Sleeping Giants Records an
independent label established by Karen, Conal and a group of friends. SlowSkies
play Body and Soul Festival in June, Oh My Garden event in Brussels on June
29th and 10 Days in Dublin festival in July with many more dates in Dublin,
London and Brussels soon to be announced over the coming weeks.
The track Walk Me Home (attached) will be available for download from Friday
18th May on Slow Skies’ Bandcamp and Soundcloud pages.
