Friday Events 2nd May

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Dermot Bolger in 
Conversation with  Carlo Gebler

Venue: McGeough’s Bohemian Lounge
Date: Friday May 2nd | Time:8.00pm (Doors 7.30 pm) | Cost: €12  Booking Essential

Dermot Bolger’s annual public conversation with a leading writer had become an integral part of each Phizzfest. This year he interviews a writer whose family had deep roots in Cabra and Glasnevin about his complex relationship with his father. 
Dublin in 1954, Carlo Gébler is the son of the writers Edna O¹Brien and Ernest Gébler. After their separation when he was ten his father made him sit down and write a letter declaring which parent he wished to live with. Carlo was raised by his mother and endured difficult visits to Dublin see his Cabra-born father, who was initially a more famous writer than his mother but became an reclusive and contrary figure until he succumbed to Alzheimer’s and Carlo became his father’s guardian.
Carlo Gebler’s first novel The Eleventh Summer was published in 1985. This was followed by others including Life of a Drum; The Cure;  How To Murder a Man and A Good Day for A Dog. His classic memoir, Father and I, explores what it is like to be a writer who is the son of writers. His most recent novel, The Dead Eight is inspired by a famous 1940 murder and subsequent miscarriage of justice in Tipperary.

He is currently writing a book about his father whose childhood was spent in Marguerite Road, Botanic Ave, Phibsboro Road and Cabra Grove. He says: “I didn’t really know my father, what his childhood was like, who his parents were or where they came from. This was because we didn’t speak much.  However, before his Alzheimer’s swept in, he tried to write his autobiography.  The material is chaotic and contradictory but it does, albeit in a confusing way, tell a story – his story; his musician father’s courtship of his Glasnevin mother, his strange neglected childhood in Glasnevin, Düsseldorf, and Wolverhampton before his return to Cabra (1933), his miserable young adulthood as a cinema projectionist in Dublin, his early success as a writer in the late 1940s, his disastrous first marriage to an American starlet, his even worse marriage to my mother and his final anguished years of peevish petulant alienation.” 
Back in his father’s childhood heartland, Carlo discusses with Dermot Bolger the remarkable and chaotic story of the Gebler family of Cabra.
Dermot Bolger is one of Ireland’s best known writers. His ten novels include The Journey Home, The Family on Paradise Pier and, most recently The Fall of Ireland. His first play, The Lament for Arthur Cleary, received the Samuel Beckett Award; his acclaimed Ballymun Trilogy of plays has been staged in several countries and his works translated into numerous languages. His poetry sequence, The Venice Suite: A Voyage Through Loss, was recently performed by John Kavanagh on RTE Radio. Bolger writes for most of Ireland’s leading newspapers and in 2012 was named Commentator of the Year at the Irish Newspaper awards. 
The Brian Boru
11.00am  

Phizzfest Stitchers 

Join the Phizzfest Stitchers for a relaxing morning of ‘stitch and chat’.
All Saints Hall, Phibsborough Rd.
12.00noon to 2.00pm  Admission:  Free

Arts Clinic Lunchtime Seminar

Sinead Moloney - Creative Arts Therapist & Arts Coordinator of the Twilight Programme, St Patricks Mental Health Services.
Eilbhe Brennan - Visual Artist, studying for a Masters in Art Therapy at the CIT Cork.
Anne Gannon & Anne-Marie Kelly  - Dublin City Librarians, Literature and Health. The ‘Bibliotherapy’ initiative, a partnership between the HSE and the Libraries.
The Check Up Collective - Artist collective show plans for their ambitious and innovative new project to tour the Creative Check Up to festivals and health settings.
McGowan’s of Phibsboro
4.00pm 
Admission:  Free

Exercise/Dance Hour

Ladies and Gentlemen.  Ages 35-80 yrs. Dancer/Choreographer Eileene McLoughlin will conduct this liberating exercise session. Tone-up, feel great and dance away to cinema hits from Chaplain to the Titanic and fabulous songs in between. Wear comfortable clothing, soft shoes OR maybe dress up in your favourite movie costume.
The Hut
5.00pm  
Admission:  Free

100 Years Ago Today - 2 May 1914

Presented by Dr. Paul Rouse, School of History and Archives UCD
Dr Paul Rouse will give a talk examining what was happening in Ireland exactly 100 years ago on 2 May 1914. This talk will look at the politics of Ireland, the prospects for Home Rule, the state of Dublin after the Lockout, and also at music, film, books, sport and daily life.
The Hut
6.30pm - 8.00pm     Admission: Free

(Numbers limited - places offered on first-come basis)

Creative Writing with the Irish Writers’ 
Centre Inkslingers Group. 

Inkslingers is an informal creative writing group that has been set up by the Irish Writers’ Centre to encourage people from all backgrounds and of all ages to pick up the pen, engage their imagination and write!  Facilitator Andrew MacEneffe and members of the Inkslingers group will take Phizzfest participants through their paces in this interactive session of creative writing.  Open to all.
This event is in association with the Bealtaine Festival 'celebrating creativity as we age' and is open to participants aged 55+ who are encouraged to attend
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The Mater Hospital Chapel (Entrance at 
Mortuary Gate, NCR)
7.00pm 
€10 Booking Essential

‘Sharing a Heritage’ Indian Classical 
Music Performance

in association with the Indian Classical Music Society of Ireland
Lovers of Indian classical music believe that this is a complete music in itself, meditative, interactive, simple, sophisticated, disciplined, improvised, classical, folk, peaceful, noisy, soulful and raucous - all things to all men.  Joyeeta and Debajyoti Danyal, stars of India’s young classical music world invite you to share this heritage.

Sitarist JOYEETA SANYAL , described as “one of the best – if not the very best – young women sitar players in the world today”, has a wonderfully creative and captivating style, and brings forth from her sitar a magical fusion of both soulful, haunting depths and tremendously dynamic heights.

Tabla player DEBAJYOTI SANYAL, older brother to Joyeeta, Debajyoti has an amazing touch on the tabla and is able to bring any melody to life with his magical sense of rhythm. He has a wonderful skill in being able to draw out all of the beautiful subtleties of the tabla even when playing with great speed and intensity.

Before the concert, local young dancers of Malayali origin, Saptha Raman Namboodiri, Amrita T V Super Dancer Junior 7 Fame, India and Aileen Elsa Reji from the Noopura School of Indian Classical Dance based in Phibsborough will demonstrate Bharatanatyam,  an ancient dance form which has evolved from the temple dancing tradition of South India. We are very lucky to have such an ancient dance tradition taking root in our local community.    
The Commitments
The King’s Inns Park
9pm (Doors 6.00pm)  Admission: 
€5 (at the gate)

If rained off event will happen on Sunday 4th May (weather permitting)

Happenings 
@ The King’s Inns - Outdoor Screening of 'The Commitments'

Happenings runs instant cultural outdoor events in Ireland with 36 hours notice when the weather is fine. At this years Phizzfest they will be collaborating with us to run an open air screening of The Commitments. Gates open at 6pm, food stalls serving hot food from Irish Village Markets will be on offer with dj and music performance before the movie. Bring what you want to sit on and warm clothes. This is a leave no trace event and it is €5 for the pleasure.    Stay tuned to Happenings on Phizzfest FB, Twitter and websites. 
Dalymount Park
9.45pm   
Admission:  Free 
(Club donations welcome)

Dalymount Sessions

Bohemians FC Present “Dalymount Sessions” after the Bohemians -v- Derry City Match.
Doors Open 9.45 pm - late. Gig Starts Immediately
Monthly Open Mic Acoustic Showcase Plus SPECIAL GUESTS
Singers, Songwriters, Comedians, Poets

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