MIXTAPE PROJECT

November 23rd 
5pm - 10.30pm at the Back Loft. 
€11 in - and get a FREE special edition poster when you bring a Mixtape/cd for someone.

Taking some of the most creative people in dublin working in wildly different mediums, and jam them together in a big visual Mixtape. 

The event will feature a live Aerial performance where Emily from PaperDolls will have visuals projection mapped onto her body by Light wizards MIDAspaces, accompanied by music from Ickis Mirolo. 

We have a 2 live illustration Mixtape walls made up of 72 movable panels, with Kathi Burke, Fuschia Mac Aree, James Kirwan, mr Alan Clarke & Colm Athlaoich providing the drawing skills 

Kev & Robin from Gruel guerilla mixing up the culinary delights.

Complimentary beers provided by Tiger... 

...and Radiomade.ie will be broadcasting live on site all evening. all for €11!  

Further details and updates here: https://www.facebook.com/events/688536544490750/?fref=ts 

& tickets available here - http://www.eventbrite.ie/myevents

From the East to the West

"From the East to the West" is a 3 day long mini-festival on traditional music and dance. 
The series of events will highlight commonalities in traditional music and dance practices from the Eastern Mediterranean and the Celtic World. Interesting themes that will be explored are songs, circle dances and immigration. The project will provide three separate master classes introducing tradition to dancers/instructors, visual/audio artists and musicians through a holistic approach, which will offer a forum to compare and exchange experiences, and also to foster creative practices.

PROGRAMME @ the Back Loft:
6th December @7pm  
Folk Dance Workshop with Greek & Irish Musicians
Featuring: Michael Tubridy (flute), Bernie Hanley (accordion), Maureen O' Reilly (concertina), Nick Armagos (clarinet), Panos Gournakis (davul), Eoin Dillon (Uilleann Pipes/low whistle), Anthony Warde (banjo), Des Cahalan (guitar/voice)
7th december at 7pm
Talk: Tradition within the Modern Society, by P. Adrianopoulou
Concert with Los Caminos de Serkeci, feat. Efrén López, M. Encinas, S. Lampropoulou

From the East to the West will also present an off site event at Exchange Dublin at 8.30pm on Thursday 5th December: Audiovisual Workshop - Tradition & New Technologies by E. Kapros

The Pickled Body, launch of 1st issue

 

Join us at 8 pm on Friday, November 29th, 2013 in the Back Loft, for an evening full of duende and red shoes (wear yours if you have them) with readings from poets featured in Issue 1.1, including: 

 

Philip Casey

Afric McGlinchey

Kate O’Shea

Maurice Devitt

John Ennis

Ruairi Conneely

Shane Holohan

Kevin Higgins

Billy Ramsell

 

Your hosts will be Dimitra Xidous and Patrick Chapman, editors of The Pickled Body. It promises to be a gorgeous evening not to be missed. Music will be provided by our featured artist Ria Czerniak. You can buy prints of her work for the issue on the night, as well as limited edition postcards featuring the poems and prints.  Refreshments and snacks will be served. 

 

About the Pickled Body issue 1.1 The Red Shoes

Our call for submissions for the first issue was inspired by The Red Shoes – all of them. The Hans Christian Andersen fairytale, the wondrous Powell and Pressburger Film and the Kate Bush album released in November 1993. The sixteen pieces selected for Issue 1.1, complemented by the work of our featured artist Ria Czerniak, are by turns visceral and surreal, vibrant and raw.  

ENSEMBLE ERIU CD launch

Thursday 21st November

Admission: 10 euro (15 with a cd)

Doors & Back Loft Cafe open at 8pm, concert starts at 8.30 sharp

Drawing on the hypnotic repetition of minimalism and the organic improvisation spirit of jazz, the music of Ensemble Ériu weaves a rich acoustic tapestry around Irish traditional melodies. Developed by concertina player Jack Talty and double bassist and flute player Neil O’ Loghlen, Ensemble Ériu brings together a chamber ensemble of some of Ireland’s most exciting young musicians from a range of performance backgrounds. The result is a unique soundscape that is creatively progressive yet rooted in tradition Featuring: Jack Talty- concertina Neil O'Loghlen- bass,flute,whistle Matthew Berrill- clarinet Jeremy Spencer- fiddle Maeve O'Hara- marimba Cormac McCarthy- piano Paddy Groenland- guitar Matthew Jacobson- drums

SCHIAVOCAMPO

Stefano Schiavocampo, a contemporary Italian/Dubliner minstrel presents an evening of intimate music in the atmospheric setting of the Back Loft.  Featuring Katherine Humphreys (violin), Zoe Reardon (trumpet) and Hector Castels (visuals)

Wednesday 20th November
Doors and Back Loft Cafe open at 7.30 pm, concert starts at 8.30pm sharp.
E8 admission.

http://www.facebook.com/schiavocampo
http://schiavocampo.bandcamp.com/

ALIEN-NATION by Kidding Ensemble

Clowns, clowns, clowns, a show not to be missed, Thursday 14th to Sunday 17th November, 8pm sharp. 

ALIEN-NATION is a brand new silly show presented by Kidding Ensemble... Angelica Clown and Marie Clown are two friends living together with their perfect clown lives in order, until they decide to become aliens to break free of their routine and experience life with a new eye.

Directed by Ciaran Taylor.
Will also perform in Cork @Circus Square on 22nd & 23rd of November at 8pm.
Ticket €7/concession €5
Booking @ entertainement.ie (from Tuesday 5/11) info on 0857710519

CALL FOR WORK: V*A*P*I*D! Video Art Salon

La Cat Explore is proud to announce a one-of-a-kind salon of Video Artistic Photographic Imagery Displays - V*A*P*I*D! lighting up the depths of winter with screenings of short experimental films, video art, animations and visual explorations on Sunday, December 8th.

We are looking for:
Visually Amazing Picturesque Imaginative Dioramas!
Virtual Animated Pixellated Innovative Displays!
Va-va-voom! Alternative, Panoramic, Intriguing Delights!

vapid (ˈvæpɪd ) - adjective

1.

offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland.

synonyms:

uninspired,colourless, uninteresting, feeble, flat, dead, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, unimaginative, lifeless, zestless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, tame, bloodless, jejune, vacuous, bland, stale, trite, pallid, wishy-washy, watery, tasteless, milk-and-water, flavourless

So if your vid's not vapid, submit it to V*A*P*I*D!

Submission deadline: Sunday 24th November. 

Maximum length - 15 minutes approx. 

Email your submissions to lacatsalons@gmail.com with either a link to an on-line screener of the film (e.g. vimeo / youtube), or sending the film in .mp4 or .mov format via a file-sharing programme.