EVENT: WORLD BOOK DAY 2024
The 2024 World Book Day selection includes re-imagined classics, adventure tales, picture books and comic book and graphic stories, as the charity once again presents an original series of €1.50 books for young readers - every school-going child in Ireland receives a WBD voucher that can be redeemed against one of the titles. The two exclusive Irish titles are Inis Mara by Tristan Rosenstock and Mark Wickham, published by Irish-language publisher LeabhairCOMHAR, and The Curious Case of the Irish Yeti: Molly Malone and Bram Stoker by Alan Nolan and Shane Cluskey, published by The O'Brien Press (Bookshops nationwide, Thursday 7th March)
FILM: HIGH & LOW: JOHN GALIANO
In his new documentary, Oscar-winning director Kevin Macdonald (The Last King of Scotland, Touching the Void) offers a compelling investigation of cancel culture via the rapid ascent, fall from grace and journey onwards for controversial fashion designer John Galliano. Using a wealth of arhive footage, Macdonald investigates the career of the creative director of Givenchy and Dior in the 90s, including the decades of industry pressure and drug and alcohol addiction, that surrounded his downfall in 2011 (Selected cinemas nationwide)
ART: KAREN POWER
wondrous worlds within/without: interspecies gossip is the first solo show in a museum or gallery context from the talented Cork–based composer, performer, and educator Karen Power. It's an audio installation featuring a 'collage' of field recordings Power has collected during her travels over the past decade to the Arctic, the Amazon, the Namib Desert, the Australian Outback, New Zealand, and Antarctica – scenarios as much removed from human existence or interference as possible (Sirius Arts Centre, Cork until April 27th, 2024)
MUSIC: FINDING A VOICE
Finding a Voice is a festival of music by women composers through the ages and around the world, in celebration of International Women's Day on 8th March. Over the past seven years the festival has featured music by hundreds of women composers, from the twelfth-century nun Hildegard of Bingen to newly commissioned works by Irish composers; this year's event features performances by Musici Ireland, Duo Anima, Evlana, Amerghin, Gabriela Mayer, Patrick Rafter, Kelley Petcu, and many more, performing music by Elizabeth Maconchy, Ina Boyle, Mel Bonis, Jessie Montgomery, Rebecca Clarke, Lili Boulanger, Joan Trimble, and Joan Tower among other fabulous female composers, notably the world premières of new works by Jane O'Leary and Judith Ring (Various venues, Cork and Clonmel, until Sunday March 10th)
Don't miss this incredible event celebrating the power of the female voice in Amazigh culture🎶
— Finding A Voice (@FindingA_Voice_) February 26, 2024
Join singer-songwriter Iness Mezel & percussionist Nora Abdoun as they explore the rich Berber heritage through music. #BerberMusic #FemaleVoice #AmazighCulture pic.twitter.com/YHQDgxipmr
THEATRE: AGREEMENT
Following a sold-out run last spring, Owen McCafferty's acclaimed play return for a limited run at Belfast's Lyric Theatre prior to a run in New York; it's a vivid dramatisation of the last days of negotiations leading to the Good Friday Agreement, with a peerless ensemble that includes Dan Gordon as John Hume, Andrea Irvine as Mo Mowlam, Chris Corrigan as Gerry Adams and Richard Croxford as Senator George Mitchell (Lyric, Belfast, until 30th March 2024)
Hear the Culture 5 every Friday on Aedín in the Afternoon on RTÉ lyric fm, from 1 pm - listen back here.
