FILM: French Film Festival
Ireland's largest French cultural event runs for twelve days at the IFI and online on IFI@Home from Wednesday 17th to Sunday 28th November. Highlights of this year's festival include Julia Ducournau's 2021 Palme d'Or-winning body horror Titane, Jacques Audiard's black and white Paris 13th District, Thomas Kruihof's Promises with the legendary Isabelle Huppert, and Portrait Of A Lady On Fire director Céline Sciamma's new feature Petite Maman. Find out more here.
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EXHIBITION: Living With Pride
As the National Library's Living with Pride series draws to a close, there's still time to catch the exhibition, a celebration the life and work of LGBT+ activist Christopher Robson, who documented decades of Irish LGBT+ life. - you can view an online version here.
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Watch: Living with Pride: Bill Foley in conversation with Aifric Ní Chríodáin
THEATRE: Straight To Video
Dublin Old School creator Emmet Kirwan writes and stars in this new comedy, set in a video store Kirwan's native Tallaght in the mid 90s, against the backdrop of the Drugs Out marches, and featuring a sterling ensemble that includes Stephen Brennan, Colin Campbell, Lloyd Cooney, Derbhle Crotty, Callan Cummins and Kate Gilmore. Philip McMahon directs, and it's at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin, until December 11th - find out more here.
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AUCTION: Better Than Socks
The Better Than Socks Xmas Auction & Dinner is back this year, taking place at 6.30 pm on Friday, 12th November at The Chocolate Factory on King's Inn Street, Dublin. The auction, organised by not-for-profit SCOOP Foundation, will raise funds to support the ongoing development and delivery of educational programmes for young people living in direct provision centres in Ireland and in the Bajed Kandala camp in Iraq. Items on the block include everything from a walk-on part on RTÉ's Fair City to an online drumming lesson with Fontaines D.C.’s Tom Coll - find out more here.
BOOK: Shared Notes by Martin Hayes
Fiddler Martin Hayes spent his childhood on a farm in County Clare, in a household steeped in musical tradition. After a free-spirited youth, he headed to the United States where he built a career that led to a life of unforgettable musical performance on stages all over the world, notably in collaboration with guitarist Denis Cahill and as part of nu-trad supergroup The Gloaming. His new memoir makes for illuminating reading - he talks to Miriam O'Callaghan below.
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