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 |
A site specific installation by Alan Counihan.
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. For more information visit the website and Facebook |
St Peter’s Church, Phibsborough
8.00 pm Admission: Free |
Phizzfest Launch with Poet Paula Meehan
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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.
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