Ireland’s first mental health arts festival starts its second week this morning with so much still to come. The excellent “Dont be Scared” exhibition continues in Film Base and Dublin Exchange. The Therapy Sessions in the Workman’s Club have been an amazing mix of great poetry, great music and buzzng audiences and the final Therapy Session takes place this Wednesday, so if you have missed...
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Quietly and gently Michael from Lemeh42 who comes from Ancona on the east coast of Italy is drifting around the studio space at the Exchange, beautifully filled with light down in the old part of Temple Bar – in the other rooms people are meeting boisterously, conversing and at the window kids and mothers stare in to see the creations unfold on the walls
Morgan Of course no better time than New Years Day to spend some time with Morgan, we met up for a quick chat and to literally get me to help him put up his piece for the FirstFortnight fest we are both working on, It’s been a testing year for him so the timing and idea seemed apt, here’s the first of a set of audio and photographs that...
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Fear. When I close my eyes and imagine what it looks like I see a huge ball of black mála. Right at the top of my chest. When I eat, food has to make its way around it and I have to breathe extra hard just so the air can get to my lungs. I used to wake up with the fear. No, not the...
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The lineup for this coming Wednesday’s Therapy Session in The Workman’s Club has been unveiled. The first of 3 intimate sessions will feature spoken word performances from Vickey Curtis, Sarah Marie Griffin and Alex Barclay. There will also be acoustic music performances from VerseChorusVerse, Thomas Walsh, Tieranniesaur and Mark Geary. Tickets for this event are only €5 and are available here.
As part of First Fortnight 2012 a number of street artists have agreed to share their time and talent and produce pieces of art across the city centre. The first of these pieces to go up was done by the immensly talented ADW and can be seen on the side door of Filmbase, Templebar. ADW has also been kind enough to produce this time lapse...
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It just keeps growing 🙂 The line up for First Fortnight continues to grow, and today we are very excited about two new additions to the festival. Tieranniesaur (who have taken the Irish music scene by storm in recent months) and Thomas Walsh (Pugwash front-man) have both been confirmed for The Therapy Sessions gigs in The Workman’s Club.
We are very happy to announce that the winner of a night’s stay in luxury Dublin hotel The Clarence is…. Alan Grace. Alan was one of the many funders who donated to First Fortnight during our recent Fundit campaign. On behalf of the whole First Fornight team, a huge thank you to everyone who funded and spread the word about this years festival!
Entertainment.ie have named one of First Fortnight favourite acts albums as the number 1 Irish album of the year! ‘Laserdisc Nights II’ which is the Dublin based bands first full length album was choosen as the websites number 5 album of the year aswell as the number 1 Irish album!!!
As you may know, we recently ran a Fund It campaign with the aim of raising €5000 in just 2 weeks to help make First Fortnight possible and to ensure our message could stretch as far as possible. We were blown away by the response. Genuinely humbled and amazed at the generosity shown by so many of you.