Thursday EVENTS 1st may

The Long Stores, 
Old St. Brendan’s Hospital (Behind the Clocktower)
Lower Grangegorman, 
Dublin 7 
Thurs 1 May -  Sat 10 May 11.00am - 4.00pm

Personal Effects: A History of Possession

A site specific installation by Alan Counihan.   

Picture by Alan Counihan
Photo © Alan Counihan. 2014
For the past twenty months  Alan, alongside members of the Grangegorman Community Museum and under the guidance of the National Archives, sorted through mountains of loose paper records that were retrieved from the hospital’s attics. 

A selection of memorabilia, correspondence and documents have been used to create a work of art that has at its core the histories of  anonymous persons who lived, and were cared for, within the institution of the hospital.    

From the ceiling of one darkened room will hang a number of upended handbags and suitcases. The contents of each container will be suspended as though falling to the floor. A light source from within each upended container will illuminate its suspended contents below.  A looped soundtrack will play the recorded voices of actors reading from correspondence found within the containers, from case notes and from hospital management records.

A second darkened space will have drawings, along with images from the Grangegorman archives, projected onto movable ward screens accompanied by a soundtrack.

This first site-specific installation of the work will occur during Phizzfest 2014 two hundred years and two months after the first patient was admitted to the Richmond Lunatic Asylum in Grangegorman.

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St Peter’s Church, Phibsborough
8.00 pm  
Admission: Free 

Phizzfest Launch with Poet Paula Meehan
and The OffBeat Ensemble   

Paula Meehan was reared in the north inner city and Finglas. She has published six award winning collections of poetry and has written plays for both adults and children. She is Ireland Professor of Poetry for the years 2013 to 2016.
The Offbeat Ensemble, a late-starters string orchestra which rehearses in Phibsborough, presents an evening of wonderful music, including Somewhere Over the Rainbow, Scarborough Fair, William Tell, Wipe Out and pieces by Beethoven, Dvorak and Vivaldi. Directed by Nathan Sherman and Ciara Cavanagh.
(There will be a voluntary collection in aid of the restoration of the organ in St Peter’s Church following the launch.)
Clarkes Phibsborough House, Phibsborough Rd.
9.00pm  
Admission: Free

Keith Burke and The Little Black Book

Keith Burke released his EP ‘Say The Words Again’ in November 2013. A soulful vocalist and Dublin songwriter, he has assembled a merry band of the finest musicians on the circuit, including his long time collaborator pianist Anja Kuncic.  They mix Blues with Jazz and Soul at their gigs, along with original material and have garnered a dedicated following of music lovers around Dublin city.