Phizzfest 2022

Thanks so much to everyone who made this year's festival fantastic!

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Our 2022 festival has passed but you can still see our wonderful programme below

Phizzfest 2022 Programme

13th to 15th May

"The best named festival in Ireland" Roddy Doyle

Friday 13th May

Phizzfest Opening Event

New Public Art Work by Niamh Synnott

Phizzfest commissioned ceramic artist Niamh Synnott to create a sculptural work that brings the elements of art, community and fun together. Niamh came up with the idea of a ceramic clad bench that would bring some colour to the centre of Phibsborough village.

Niamh worked with the pupils of St Peter’s NS to come up with this fabulous playful design and we will be joined by some of the young artists from the school with music from the St Peter's Chamber Choir.

We are very grateful to have received the generous support of DCC’s LEIP committee.

The launch coincides with the first day of the much anticipated outdoor market along the Royal Canal Park
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📍 Volunteer Statue, North Circular Road
📆 Friday 13th May @ 1pm
🎟 FREE! All Welcome!

Exhibition

SÚIL EILE
by Ronan Fox

Documentary & drama Director of Photography and long time Phibsborough resident Ronan Fox, exhibits a series of abstract photographs taken on Shandon Drive, Phibsborough. An alternate view of every day objects and places.
"Súil Eile translates directly as Another Eye, but to me, it’s Another Way Of Seeing".
More info...
📍 The Space, Phibsborough Shopping Centre
📆 Opening hours: Friday 12 - 7, Saturday 12 - 8, Sunday 12 - 6
🎟 FREE!

Exhibition

You Are Phibsborough
by Eoin Whelehan

Artist Eoin Whelehan exhibits a series of illustrated portraits, the subjects of which comprise some of the local traders in the Phibsborough area. Their faces, familiar to some yet unknown to many, will reveal the stories of the diverse and vibrant community working and living in the village.

📍 Monck's Green
📆 All weekend
🎟 FREE!

Exhibition

Exhibition
Contemporary Mexican Art

Casa Mexico host an exhibition of works by contemporary Mexican artists. The event will open on Friday night with free cocktails and finger food and live music from Spanish Cello player Santerria. Mexican Ambassador, Miguel Malfavón, will open the exhibition.
📍 Casa Mexico, 35 Phibsborough Rd.
📆 Friday 13th May opening @ 5.30pm
Running until 13th June - All welcome!
🎟 FREE!

Poetry & Music

Boetry in Motion
Intercultural Poetry & Music

Poetry by and for refugees on the Eala canal barge followed by an intercultural music and poetry session at the Bernard Shaw. Refugee students from the language training charity, Intercultural Language Service, and local poets and musicians will sail into Phibsboro on the barge Eala and perform poems and music from their own cultures.
📍 Eala Barge, Cross Guns Bridge
📆 Friday 13th May @ 6 - 8pm
🎟 Barge show FREE!

Theatre

The Humours of Bandon
Margaret McAuliffe

On the eve of the Irish Open championship, we meet Annie, a 16 year old Dubliner, as she charts us through the various successes and disappointments of her Irish Dancing life. We share her mind numbing commitment and burning desire to win the Irish Open title. Will she win and, if so, in what way?
More info...
Running time: 55 minutes
📍 McGeough's Bar
📆 Friday 13th May @ 6pm
🎟 €10

Film

Phibsborough Picture House

Love Yourself Today (2021) 79 mins. Introduced by the film's Director Ross Killeen. The film centres around the music of Irish singer songwriter Damien Dempsey but also turns the lens onto his fans. Love Yourself Today is an emotive celebration of modern spirituality and the power of music to heal.
📍 1st Floor, Doyles Pub
📆 Friday 13th May @ 6.30pm
🎟 €10 - (ticket sales go to Red Cross Ukraine Appeal)

Music

Cormac Begley - Album Launch

Cormac plays a concert and launches his incredible new album "B" at Phizzfest. A leading light in traditional Irish music, Cormac plays concertinas that range from Bass to Piccolo register. More info...
📍 Dalymount Park
📆 Friday 13th May @ 7.30pm
🎟 €15

Poetry & Music

The Friday Evening Supplement

A night of traditional music, poetry and prose, with the odd song thrown in for good measure in an informal setting. Featuring local writers Cian Ferriter and Kevin Lynch and renowned piper Eoin Dillon.
📍 The Back Page
📆 Friday 13th May @ 9pm
🎟 €10

Saturday 14th May

Yoga

Morning Yoga
with Nicola Lewis

Start your day gently with a 1 hour yoga practice in the park, led by Nicola Lewis. Wear comfortable clothing and bring a mat or towel.
Weather dependent.
📍 Great Western Square
📆 Saturday 14th May @ 10am
🎟 FREE! (donations welcome)

Walking Tour

Joyceborough
with Andrew Basquille

Ulysses @ 100. A walk with readings and song to mark the centenary of the publication of James Joyce's masterpiece in the company of Andrew Basquille, singer songmaker and Joycean.

Approx. 1 hour
📍Meet at Broadstone Plaza (beside Luas Stop)
📆 Saturday 14th May @ 11am
🎟 FREE! (donations welcome)

Discussion

Ulysses - Feel the Fear & Read it Anyway with Dr. Eibhlin Evans

Dr Eibhlin Evans talks about how to approach reading Joyce. Feel The Fear And Read It Anyway is aimed at general readers who have not so far tackled Ulysses or those that have been defeated by it! Eibhlin teaches Irish literature in Boston University.

Approx. 1 hour
📍 The Hut
📆 Saturday 14th May @ 1pm
🎟 FREE! (donations welcome)

Family Event

Royal Canal
Family Events

Watch in awe as the highly skilled Royal Canal Kayak Club and Cabra Kayak club compete with each other at polo, also a selection of junior competitions.

Take a gamble on a rubber duck and shout for yours to win the duck race! Prizes are fantastic - a gorgeous family trip down the Royal Canal on a stunning barge and cash! Look out for people selling lines - each duck €3.
📍 Royal Canal, by Cross Guns Bridge
📆 Saturday 14th May from 2 to 4.30pm
🎟 FREE!

Talk

Sanctuary - A conversation with writer Gavin Kostick

This event will be live streamed on You Tube, due to demand

Live Stream Here

Gavin’s Jewish grandparents arrived in Ireland from Lublin, Poland escaping pogroms and worse. As a boy, Gavin's father borrowed books for his parents from Phibsborough library to improve their English. Their experience has inspired Gavin’s work. Gavin will be joined in conversation by his brother the writer, Conor Kostick.
📍Phibsborough Library
📆 Saturday 14th May @ 2pm
🎟 FREE! (limited seating)

Music and Storytelling

The Wandering Songster
Thomas McCarthy

Irish Traveller, singer and storyteller Thomas McCarthy will meander around Phibsborough cafés and pubs telling his wonderful stories and singing in the old tradition.
His journey will finish with a 30 minute show on the Shallakybooky Barge at Cross Guns Bridge.
📍Pubs & Cafés around Phibsborough from 2pm
📍Finishing on the Shallakybooky barge at Cross Guns Bridge @ 3 - 3.30pm
📆 Saturday 14th May
🎟 FREE!

Music

Contemporary Songster
Deirdre Murphy

Musician and multi-disciplinary artist, Deirdre Murphy will perform some of her original compositions in the beautiful setting of the Shallakybooky barge on the Royal Canal.
📍 Shallakybooky Barge, Cross Guns Bridge @ 2.30 - 3pm
📆 Saturday 14th May
🎟 FREE!

Music & Dance

Mariachi from Mexico
Traditional Song & Dance

Join singer and guitar player Johnny Arias,  aka "Charro Dublin", as he showcases traditional Mexican Mariachi music. Charro is joined by  dancers Tania Pantoja Amdie and Juan Carlos Moron, who dance in traditional Mexican costume. This performance is on in two locations.
📍 Casa Mexico, 35 Phibsborough Rd. @ 3pm
📍 Shallakybooky Barge, Cross Guns Bridge @ 3.45pm
📆 Saturday 14th May
🎟 FREE!

Music

The Walkeleles
35 Piece Ukelele Band

The fabulous Walkeleles will perform all around the streets of Phibsborough stopping wherever they can fit! Starting at Phibsborough Library and culminating in a concert in the outside area of McGeough's pub.
📍Streets of Phibsborough and along the Royal Canal from 6pm
📍 Finishing at McGeough's @ 7pm
📆 Saturday 14th May
🎟 FREE!

Theatre

BEFORE
By Pat Kinevane

From the team that brought you Forgotten, Underneath and the Olivier Award-winning Silent,  Before is a new play with music, set in Clery’s of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store  shuts - for good. Pontius is inside, trying to choose a gift for his estranged daughter, whom he hasn’t  seen for almost 20 years. He will meet her in an hour. This father’s journey is both beautiful and  strange, from the isolation of his Midlands home, to the madness of O’Connell Street. Some folk are  impossible to buy for…
More info...
📍 Phibsborough Scout Hall
📆 Saturday 14th May @ 7pm
🎟 €15

Aerial Performance

Taking Flight
Showcase of Aerial Arts

A showcase of Taking Flight's resident artists and instructors with both established works and works in progress. The event is free of charge, with an optional charitable donation to Phibsboro Aid, St. Peters Church, whose main initiative is to house, heat and help the elderly in the local community. All Welcome!
📍Taking Flight, Cross Guns Business Park
📆 Saturday 14th @ 8pm
🎟 FREE!

Music

Blood Sex Death
Ciara Sidine

Blood Sex Death, a captivating evening of song, story and spoken word by acclaimed Dublin singer songwriter Ciara Sidine, inspired by female heroines of the folk music canon. Accompanied by Conor Brady, a driving folk/roots sound platforms original and adapted songs of women whose brave often embattled lives are offered new expression in unexpected ways. Gothic tragedy, twisted tenderness, mayhem and fierceness abound.

📍McGeough's Pub, Phibsborough
📆 Saturday 14th May doors @ 8pm
🎟 €15

Sunday 15th May

Yoga

Morning Laughter Yoga
With Irene Bicocchi

Laughter Yoga practice combines playful laughter and breathing exercises to boost our immune system, release all the feel good chemicals in our bodies and connects us with our laughing companions. Exercises suit every age and fitness ability. Standing session but feel free to bring a mat or folding chair and wear loose comfy clothes.

Max capacity 20 people so come early to secure your place.

📍 Great Western Square, Phibsborough
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 10 - 11am
🎟 FREE! (Donations welcome)

Art

Drawing the Everyday
with Dorothy Smith

Do you enjoy drawing? Would you like to meet and draw with other people in a relaxed session with artist Dorothy Smith? An opportunity to take time and have a closer look at our urban environment. For those with and without experience. Some materials will be available (camp stools, sketch books, pencils, charcoal) but participants also welcome to bring their own.
For all ages. Children should be accompanied by an adult.

📍Cross Guns Bridge
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 12 - 1.30pm
🎟 FREE!

Family Film

Phibsborough Picture House
Slapstick Sunday

Introduced by film historian Denis Condon. Come and see the antics of the classic slapstick comedians of a century ago, Charlie Chaplin and Buster Keaton. In A Dog’s Life( 1918), Charlie rescues a dog, but will they be able to find anything to eat? In Neighbors (1920), Buster and the girl next door are in love, but their parents are bitter enemies.

📍Doyle's Pub, Phibsborough
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 12pm
🎟 FREE! Donations welcome for the Red Cross Ukranian Crisis Appeal

Walking Tour

Quarantine The Past
With Dr. Kim Rice

Urban archaeologist Dr. Kim Rice will guide you on a fascinating journey from the edge of Phibsborough through to the adjacent Grangegorman campus. On this tour you will learn about the historical buildings, discussing their varied uses such as asylums, fever hospitals and women’s prisons.

📍Meet at Broadstone Plaza (beside Luas Stop)
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 12pm
🎟 FREE!

Team Event

Hidden in Plain Sight
Treasure Hunt

Spend an entertaining afternoon deciphering cryptic clues on this leisurely two-hour hunt through Phibsborough’s past & present. Collect clue-scripts between 12.30 - 1.00pm at the Soldier Statue opposite the library. Concluding with après hunt at Hedigan’s for refreshments, chats & prizes.

3.5km route (approx. 2+ hours)

Adults and brainy kids - not suitable for little ones.

📍 Start at the Volunteer Statue, NCR
📆 Sunday 15th May from 12.30
🎟 €20 per team of 4

History Ireland Hedge School

Sister Against Sister: Women, The Treaty Split and the Civil War

Given their activism in the revolutionary period, now widely acknowledged by historians, why were Irish women and their organizations on the margins of deliberations on the Treaty? Why were Irish women under 30 denied the vote in the June 1922 general election? To what extent were they the victims of gendered violence (by either side) during the Civil War? Join History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham, in discussion with Siobhra Aikan (Queen’s, Belfast), Leeann Lane (DCU), Mary McAuliffe (UCD), and Margaret Ward (Queen’s, Belfast)

Image: Kate O’Callaghan (left) and Mary McSwiney (centre) on their way to the Treaty debates in Earlsford Terrace. Both TDs made passionate speeches against acceptance of the Treaty.

Registration is closed for this event but there will be seats on the day. Do come along early and put yourself on the wait list. You can look around the fabulous Glasnevin Cemetery Museum while you wait!

After the event, you can take a free tour of Glasnevin Cemetery - booking is essential and you must book through the cemetery website - Book Here
📍Milestone Gallery, Glasnevin Cemetery
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 1.30pm
🎟 FREE!

For Teenagers

How to Write A Rap
With John Cummins

Interested in learning the basics of R.A.P.? Want to write your own tracks? Join John Cummins, Bohs Poet in Residence and member of Dublin band Shakalak, for a fun and friendly workshop. Spend a bit of time and play a bit with rhyme!

2 x 1.5 hour workshops available
📍Upstairs in the Tower, Phibsborough Shopping Centre (the old gym)
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 2pm & 3.30pm
🎟 €5 pay at door

Music & Storytelling

The Wandering Songster
Thomas McCarthy

Irish Traveller, singer and storyteller Thomas McCarthy will meander around Phibsborough cafés and pubs telling his wonderful stories and singing in the old tradition.
His journey will finish with a 30 minute show on the Shallakybooky Barge at Cross Guns Bridge.
📍Pubs & Cafés around Phibsborough. Finishing on the Barge at Cross Guns Bridge
📆 Sunday 15th May, from 2pm - finishing show @ 3pm
🎟 FREE!

Walking Tour

Food Waste & Foraging Tour
Bohs Climate Collective

The Bohemian Way, a Creative Climate Action project led by Bohemian Football Club, is teaming up with the Phizzfest and the Rediscovery Centre to bring a food waste tour to Phibsborough. The event will help participants understand where food waste comes from, the harm it causes to our planet and what we can do individually and collectively to fight it. Musician Samuel Arnold Keane will join the tour to teach us about foraging in the city and perform a few tunes.
📍 Meet at Dalymount Park
📆 Sunday 15th May 2pm to 4pm
🎟 FREE! Booking with Bohs recommended Book Here

Workshop

Intro To Aerials
Taking Flight Studios

A two hour introduction to aerial technique, spanning from trapeze, cocoon and silks. The workshop will give beginners a taste of how it feels to fly in the air. From conditioning and strength training to wrap techniques and basic positions. You will walk away from this with an idea of whether or not aerial circus is for you.
📍Taking Flight, Cross Guns Business Park
📆 Sunday 15th May, 2 - 4pm
🎟 Taking Flight Website - go to 'workshops' then 'Phizzfest taster' https://www.takingflight.ie/bookings

Walking Tour

Cemetery Tour
Glasnevin

From poets and presidents, singers and suffragettes, the ordinary and the extraordinary - the stories of those who shaped our nation's history are brought to life during a tour of Glasnevin Cemetery. Many of the figures who played a key role in the shaping of Irish history have been laid to rest here, including Michael Collins, Daniel O’Connell, Éamon de Valera and Constance Markievicz.
 📍 Glasnevin Cemetery
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 3pm
🎟 FREE! Booking essential through cemetery website.
Book here

Illustrated Film Talk

Music, the Moving Image and Ireland with Dr. John O'Flynn

An illustrated talk with Dr. John O'Flynn about his new book Music, the Moving Image & Ireland 1897-2017.
John teaches popular music and film music in DCU.
📍1st Floor, Doyle's Pub
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 4pm
🎟 FREE! (donations welcome to Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal)

Conversation

In Conversation
Ann and Róisín Ingle

Phibsborough resident Ann Ingle talks about her recently published memoir, Openhearted, describing 80 years of love, loss, laughter and letting go. Ann will be in conversation with her daughter, Irish Times journalist, Róisín Ingle.
📍 Upstairs, McGeoughs Pub
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 5pm
🎟 €10

Film

Phibsborough Picture House
Donbass (2018)

Donbass is an internationally co-produced film directed by Sergei Loznitsa. It was selected as the opening film at the 2018 Cannes Film Festival. The bleak reality of every day life in occupied territory is portrayed in this drama. The film was made four years ago, but the war in Ukraine has given it a new urgency and relevance as we struggle to understand the effects of propaganda and manipulation in the war against Ukraine. The film with be introduced by Dr John Paul Newman, Associate Professor of History and specialist in east European history at Maynooth University.

📍 Upstairs, Doyle's Pub
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 6.30pm
🎟 €10 - proceeds to Red Cross Ukraine Crisis Appeal

Music & Dancing

Balfolk Dance Session
With Live Music

The Balfolk Dublin group invites you to a Balfolk Dance Session and workshop. With a live ensemble of folk musicians, we will show you the most beautiful folk dances from across Europe (France, Poland, Italy, Spain, Sweden, Portugal…) Learn new dances meet new friends, enjoy music and culture. The main steps of traditional dances are easy, and then tend to more diverse interpretations through variation and improvisation, as you become more familiar. If you think that the Polka or the Waltz is outdated - we will show you a different side of it! Just put on comfortable shoes and let yourself go! No previous experience required.

📍 McGowan's Pub
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 7.30pm
🎟 FREE!

Imeacht Gaeilge

Pop Up
Gaeltacht

Bailíonn Gaeil i dtithe tábhairne, chun ól like.
📍 The Hut Pub
📆 Dé Domhnaigh 15ú Bealtaine
@ 7.30
🎟 SAOR!
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Music & Much Dancing!

Phizzfest Festival Finale
Playback re-enact Talking Head's Stop Making Sense

You’ve watched the film, heard the album and gone to the screenings in the Sugar Club, the Lighthouse and Electric Picnic. Now Playback bring you a live re-enactment of Talking Head's Stop Making Sense.

Floor lamp? Check. Big suit? Check. A tape they’d like to play? Check. Come and watch as the band blast through all sixteen of the songs from the film, including classics like “Psycho Killer”, “Once in a Lifetime”, “Burning Down the House” and “This Must Be the Place”. Playback is an “album tribute band” made up of some of Dublin’s finest singers and musicians. They have expanded to an eight-piece for this show in order to do justice to the movie’s backing vocals, synth solos and conga workouts.

📍 The Back Page, Phibsborough
📆 Sunday 15th May @ 8pm
🎟 €15

Other events over the weekend

We've had lots of requests to add other events, that are happening in the Phibsborough community over the weekend, to our programme. We are delighted to do so and will be adding as they come in.

National Bike Week

Join us at Dalymount Park to celebrate Women's Football and Bike Week 2022!
  • 2-6pm A variety of activities in the carpark (off St. Peter's Road) including music, coffee, crepes and more!
  • Learn about biodiversity planting and get free plants to take home and try.
  • A kid's corner with face painting and a bike decoration station.
  • 3pm Bicycle maintenance demo and workshop.
  • 4.30pm Critical Mass cycling through Dublin 7, leaving and returning to Dalymount.
  • 6pm Break the record for attendance at a Women's LOI Match - Bohs v. Shelbourne.
  • Free admission to the match if you arrive on bicycle!

Follow Boh's Climate Cooperative
https://www.instagram.com/bfcdublin_clico/ 

📍 Dalymount Park (Off St. Peter's Rd.)
📆 Saturday 14th May from 1pm
🎟 FREE!

Pop Up Shop

Climate Club

Phibsborough Village Tidy Towns have developed an Energy Master Plan, a Biodiversity Plan and a Circular Economy Map. Come along to our stand at the Bohs National Bike week event to find out more about these plans, actions for our local area and how you can become involved. Information on home retrofits, free business audits and biodiversity will be available. There's also some free plants! 

📍 Dalymount Park (Off St. Peter's Rd.)
📆 Saturday 14th May from 2pm
🎟 FREE!

Soccer Match

Bohemian FC vs Shelbourne FC. Not only will this be a very exciting match, the teams are attempting to break an Irish record for the greatest number of fans in the audience for a women's League of Ireland match. At the moment it's 1,100 fans so come help break the record and make it 1,200!

📍 Dalymount Park (Off St. Peter's Rd.)
📆 Saturday 14th May @ 6pm
🎟 Kids - FREE!
Arrive on a bike - FREE!
​General tickets €5

Massive thanks

These are the businesses that helped to make Phizzfest a great festival. All venues were provided free of charge. Thank you, we couldn't have done it without you!
Casa Mexico
Dalymount Park
Doyles Pub
Glasnevin Cemetery Museum
McGowans Pub
Monck’s Green Restaurant
Panama Scouts Hall
Phibsborough Library
Phibsborough Shopping Centre
Taking Flight Studios
The Back Page Bar
The Bohemian Lounge, McGeoughs
The Hut Pub

Shallakybooky Barge

A huge thanks to Jenny Wren, Royal Canal Boat Trips, for not only providing her beautiful barge for gigs on Saturday and Sunday but also for donating a wondrous trip as a prize for the duck race, thanks Jenny!

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