Hotel Ballymun 

Featuring award winning poet Dave Lordan, writer and poet Theresa Lally, Raven, African American Beat poet. Poets Noel Sweeney and Fintan O Higgins. Also artist talk with Fergus Byrne and music by Q Pop.

Alphabet set:
Thalamus, Blue Food, A-force

Revolt Video Collective Screening

Symes / Nolan / Watkins
Improvised musical ensemble

Seomra Spraoi is a social centre in Dublin's city centre, run by the people who use it. It has a kitchen and a library and is used for film screenings, music events, meetings, children's days, craft workshops, cafe days and more.

Some of the people involved in Seomra Spraoi will give a short talk and slide show about Seomra Spraoi, where it's been and where it's going. This will be followed by an open discussion in which you are invited to share your experiences of organising community space (e.g. community centres, after-school groups, sports clubs) and your ideas about what a social centre can be. The evening will finish with music and finger food. We hope to see you there.

Aine Philips, Sasha Perfect, Joyce Duffy, Lisa Marie Johnson, Aoife Desmond and Karl Hymn Preformance event Music by Ciaran Murphy

Lazybird: Rigmarole + Deep Burial

Dichell - more info soon...

Dog Media event - more info to follow...

Theatre practioner Victor Merriman and established Playwright Dermot Bolger will talk about their work and connections with Ballymun plus Readings from local creative writers group

John Montague, local historian will present a talk on Ballymun's architectural heritage

Urban Intelligence, Local Rappers

H*E*R*D Eunhye Hwang & Declan Rooney
"i'd run right into hell and back" performance
plus Lazybird –Chequerboard music event

Invisible Agent brings together a myriad of diverse artists. This night will
comprise of a showcase of electronic visuals, art installations, live music,
sonic experiments and interactive multimedia.

Art Installations by Enagh Farrell and Dermot Finn

Live Music & Sonic Experiments by: Corrugated Tunnel (a.k.a Edwin James),
Ebauche (aka Alex Leonard), Jonathan O'Riordan (aka Love Rhino), Warren Daly

Special interactive Multimedia installation by Warren Daly:

Video & Sound (not live) by: Dan Gorman , Jason Pogo , Chris Palmer

Divine harp music in the clouds from Ann Tuite and the Heavenly Harpers - Mary Farrell, Aedin Martin and Sorcha Ni Cheallaigh

BRL band The Archives

Peter Sheridan is a writer, theatre director, playwright, screenwriter, and film director. He was one of the founder members of Project Arts Centre. He has worked with Charabanc Theatre Company and the Royal Court Theatre where he directed his own plays, The Liberty Suit and Emigrants. Sheridan directed The Balcony Belles, an award-winning documentary for Temple Films, and in 1998 he wrote and directed The Breakfast, a short film which won the Prix Arte Europe Award at the Brest International Film Festival in November '98. In 2000 he wrote and directed the film Borstal Boy, based upon Brendan Behan's memoir. He is author of 44 - A Dublin Memoir (PanMacmillan, 1999) and Forty-Seven Roses (PanMacmillan 2001).

He is will be joined on the night by Maura Clancy and Ciara Doyle

The Clinic's 'Caucus Memorial' Day Out.
The Clinic is a simple response by Art / not art to what it regards as Cork City's poverty of intellectual life. While the city may host (if not support) a large body of artists, writers, scholars and scientists, there is little in the way of a genuine exchange of ideas. The Clinic addresses this lack by providing an informal occasion for such exchange, avoiding in the process the bureaucratisation of conversation that often occurs with such projects.

All that is required once the occasion is declared is that you drop by. Buy a drink and look around. Bring a book – you can always read if no one else attends. There\'s a lot to be said for a pint and a quiet read.

more info to follow...

Writer Roddy Doyle will be joined by Victoria Sargent and Andre Venchard from the Ballymun Creative Writers Group.

Vaginal Vinyl are a trio of performance and sound installation artists. Barbara Nealon, Tara Kennedy and Jennie Moran use songs, noises, costumes, props and lighting to make people feel romantic, nostalgic and thrilled. From March 2005 to June 2006 they spent Thursday nights playing records in Dublin's Dice Bar. They have also performed in London's 'On the Rocks', at 'Ard Bia Gallery' in Galway, for Sirens in Belfast's '10 Square' and were commissioned to play records in a caravan on the banks of the river Liffey in February 2006. Recent events also include performing as invited artists at Re-production, a weekend event for Strand 2 of Kilkenny Arts Festival 2006. In September 2006 they played records on Dublin’s Nitelink bus in a performance entitled 'Slow Set' for Out of Site, Dublin Fringe Festival (pictured above).

Jennie Moran, Tara Kennedy and Barbara Nealon are also engaged in a variety of interactive public art practices.

www.myspace.com/thingumajigsaw Early event between 6:30 and 7:30 thingumajigsaw will be recording a live album to be released in June.

Later event, Liam O Maonlai performance