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Reparations 2023 | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.653470
In her latest report from the recent Conference on Afrikan Reparations in London, Louise Williams follows discussions on what reparations might mean for British museums. (3/3)
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The Culture File Weekly 041123: Reparations 2023 from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.649554
Artists, curators, archivists, politicians, lawyers and activists gathered at the Reparations 2023 conference in London recently to explore the shapes reparations for the Afrikan slave trade might ...
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Culture File "Likes": Iarlaith Ní Fheorais from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.645915
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, curator of this year's TULCA visual arts festival in Galway, shares a few of her favourite things for watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Tulca '23 | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.641769
Iarlaith Ní Fheorais, curator of Tulca, Galway's festival of visual arts, on the Tulca's focus on experiences of disability, including that of J.J. Beegan, a Ballinasloe-born artist and sculptor, w...
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: Diary of a Left-Handed Bird Watcher | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.638892
Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for slipping on to our shelf of ideal books of nature writing is Diary of a Left-Handed Bird Watcher, a 1996 volume by Californian writer, Leonard Nathan
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Worm Manoeuvres | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.635757
Light Moves Festival welcomes a wriggly collaboration between dance artist, Aiobhinn O’Dea and Limerick sonic improvisers, Péist.
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Lost Lear | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.632497
Another chance to hear creator, Dan Colley on Lost Lear, his puppets 'n' people show about using Shakespeare in the care of a former actor with dementia, which is now on a national tour.
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Culture File "Likes": Hugh Clark from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.557536
Music producer and IIMSCC vocalist, Hugh Clarke shares some of his tops in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly 021223: The Lark, Patrick Rafter's Marble City Music Festival, Orit Gat's Voice Notes from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.552376
A brand new concert hall The Lark, with a brand new choir the IIMS Chamber Choir; talking on the concert stage with Patrick Rafter at his Marble City Music Festival, and Orit Gat on a retrospective...
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Psychedelic Ecology | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.546594
Dr Sam Gandy on what psychedelics, such as psilocybin may offer both in clinical settings and to the environmental movement.
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Radical Hearts | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.540714
Ciara Hyland's documentary "Croíthe Radacacha" tells the stories of Queer women in revolutionary Ireland.
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Moot Tapes | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.534914
Sending signals and waving flags with producer Peter Lawlor and artist-illustrator, Stephen Morton and their DIY tangible record label, Moot Tapes.
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Robots of Stockholm | Culture File from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.528659
Cybernetic gossip from Sweden, as the creator of robo-cellist, Magnhild brings news of her relationship with a post-feminist performance-artist robot called Harmony.
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Culture File "Likes": Ciara Hyland from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.523918
Documentary maker, Ciara Hyland (Croíthe Radacacha, 74 Days: The Hunger Strike of Terence MacSwiney) on a few of her favourite things.
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The Culture File Weekly 091223: from 2023-12-14T00:33:35.518086
Digging up the revolution that dare not speak its name in Ciara Hyland's documentary, Croíthe Radacacha; Sam Gandy on a new future for psychedelics; Kilkenny's Moot Tapes collective celebrates five...
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The Rules of Tangletrad | Culture File from 2023-12-12T16:00
Conductor and violinist, Sinead Hayes on "Tangletrad" - her 20 rules for creative intervention at your local seisiun (2/2)
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Candles and Strings | Culture File from 2023-12-11T16:00
Conductor and violinist, Sinead Hayes has a masterplan for developing musical infrastructure in the West of Ireland involving, among other things, a large number of candles (1/2)
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Voice Notes | Culture File from 2023-11-30T16:00
French-born, US artist, Nicole Eisenman's retrospective in London takes a sampling of 30 years of the artist's work, and in turn is sampled by Orti Gatt for her latest Voice Notes.
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Marble City Seasons | Culture File from 2023-11-29T16:00
World-renowned Irish violinist, Patrick Rafter has created The Marble City Music Festival in his home city of Kilkenny - and The Four Seasons are at the heart of it.
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The Lark Ascending Further | Culture File from 2023-11-28T16:00
In Balbriggan, choral master Jo-Michael Scheibe is in rehearsals with the IIMS Chamber Choir at The Lark concert hall. (2/2)
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The Lark Ascending | Culture File from 2023-11-27T16:00
A visit to Balbriggan to meet the people behind Irish Institute of Music and Song and its associated brand new 400 seat concert hall, The Lark. (1/2)
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The Culture File Weekly 251123: from 2023-11-24T16:00
Composer, Ailis Ni Rhiann meets up with a contrabass flute in search of some deep inspiration; a dazzling performance of Eriks Eshevald's hymn to the aurora borealis, Rivers of Light; and John Fran...
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Culture File "Likes": Caroline Shaw from 2023-11-24T16:00
A favourite voice on some of her favourite things, as vocalist and composer, Caroline Shaw marks selects some watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling
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John Francis Flynn | Culture File from 2023-11-23T16:00
Irish folk renaissance man, John Francis Flynn on picking up an electric guitar for the first time and other stirrings in the force of contemporary trad.
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Rivers of Light | Culture File from 2023-11-22T16:00
Michael Dawson and Maynooth University Chamber Choir come into the studio for a live Culture File celebrating Rivers of Light, a choral hymn to aurora borealis from Latvian composer, Eriks Ešenvalds.
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Maynooth University Chamber Choir live in Studio 1 from 2023-11-22T16:00
Maynooth University Chamber Choir performing Rivers of Light, a choral hymn to aurora borealis from Latvian composer, Eriks Ešenvalds.
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Tenor Gavan Ring live in Studio 1 from 2023-11-22T16:00
Gavan Ring performs 'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd schön', an aria from The Magic Flute by Mozart, with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra as part of the Classic Drive Winter Special live from Studio 1.
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Mezzo Soprano Sharon Carty live in Studio 1 from 2023-11-22T16:00
Sharon Carty joins Lorcan Murray for the Winter Special of Classic Drive live from Studio 1 in Donnybrook. Sharon performs Siébel's Aria from Gounod's Faust with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra.
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Sharon Carty and Gavan Ring duetting live in Studio 1 from 2023-11-22T16:00
Sharon Carty and Gavan Ring performing Et Misericordia from Bach's Magnificat with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra live in Studio 1 in Donnybrook for the Classic Drive Winter Special.
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A Short List of Lists | Culture File from 2023-11-21T16:00
Media theorist, Liam Cole Young, on the darkest kind of list and listmakers, as well as the explosive effect on intellectual life of one short list created by the Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borge...
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A New Flute | Culture File from 2023-11-20T16:00
A musical playdate in Dublin as composer Ailís Ní Ríain and flautist Lina Andonovska meetup to see what music they, along with a brand new contrabass flute, might make.
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The Culture File Debate: The "Wild" Word from 2023-11-17T16:00
Recorded live at Dublin Book Festival, writer and artist, Lisa Fingleton, Nature File's Anja Murray, sailor and artist, Gwen Wilkinson, along with The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, join L...
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Culture File "Likes": Peter Broderick from 2023-11-17T16:00
Composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and Japanophile, Peter Broderick shares a few of his favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.
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"The "Wild" Word | Culture File from 2023-11-16T16:00
Previewing our Culture File Debate, Paddy Woodworth explores the word wild, and its place in the book trade and the future of the planet.
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The Many Arts of Héloïse Werner (2/2) | Culture File from 2023-11-15T16:00
Soprano, cellist, improvisor, composer and writer, Héloïse Werner on finding a place in the musical world when you’re a cello-playing soprano who likes to do comedy. (2/2)
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The Many Arts of Héloïse Werner (1/2) | Culture File from 2023-11-14T16:00
Soprano, cellist, impovisor, composer and writer, Héloïse Werner on her childhood in the choral hothouse of France's Maîtrise de Radio France’, and ending up on the festival comedy stage.
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Jennifer Walshe’s Things Know Things | Culture File from 2023-11-13T16:00
Birdcast: A summer running route brings an encounter with birds and wires for Jennifer Walsh, recorded in her latest postcard from the technological edge.
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The Culture File Weekly 111123: Tulca, Peist, Lost Lear, Paddy Woodworth from 2023-11-10T16:00
Galway's Tulca visual art festival kicks off; earthy Limerick improvisers, Peist collaborate with dancer, Aiobhinn O’Dea; Dan Colley's Lost Lear mashes up puppets, people and Shakespear to explore ...
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Culture File "Likes": Brenda Molloy from 2023-11-10T16:00
Harpist, early music specialist, and Alice Coltrane admirer, Brenda Molloy shares some of her favourite things in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.
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The Joy of The Pause Button | Culture File from 2022-04-22T06:56:39.245793
Nicholas Rombes is the creator of a unique approach to film criticism: just look at the frames at 10th, 40th and 70th minute of any film.
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Mabanzo | Culture File from 2022-04-22T06:56:39.243182
Junita Euka's first album sees the Congo-born, Argentina-raised and British-based singer-songwriter find her voice in Lingala, French, Spanish and English.
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The Red Thread | Culture File from 2022-04-22T06:56:39.238350
Artist Kerry Guinan's biggest project yet involves connecting Dublin and Bangalore via a set of Arduino-enabled sewing machines.
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Nicholas Rombes | Culture File from 2022-04-22T06:56:39.235545
Writer, academic and inventor of the 10/40/70 film review, Nicholas Rombes shares some of his favourite things in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly April 9th: Jennifer Walshe, Juanita Euka, Kerry Guinan, Nicholas Rombes from 2022-04-22T06:56:39.202389
From Kinshasa to Buenos Aires via London with musician Juanita Euka; from Dublin to Bengaluru with artist Kerry Guinan; how to read a film from just three frames with Nick Rombes, and Jennifer Wals...
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Sound Farming | Culture File from 2022-04-20T16:00
Leitrim-based sound artist and composer, Natalia Beylis harvests the music of her neighbourhood, from birdsong to woodshed work and decomposing pianos.
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Walking in the Way | Culture File from 2022-04-19T16:00
Artists Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti on their long-running performance series in which they wander through the streets of European cities in the guise of men.
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Rhona Clarke's Sempiternam | Culture File from 2022-04-14T16:00
Rhona Clarke's retrospective CD recalls the composer's work for choirs over 30 years.
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Music for 5 Silent Poems | Culture File from 2022-04-13T16:00
Composer George Higgs on the place of sign language (and smoke canons) in his music.
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Bajazet Wins Olivier | Culture File from 2022-04-12T16:00
Peter Whelan on INO's production of Vivaldi's Bajazet, which has won this year's Olivier for Outstanding Achievement in Opera.
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The Daffodils (Remix) | Culture File from 2022-04-11T16:00
A timely spring hymn to the daffodils - and their pickers - with Dutch "conceptual choreographer" Edd Schouten.
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Culture File "Likes: Mark Francis from 2022-04-04T09:31:45.152248
Painter and mushroom fancier, Mark Francis on some of the things he's been enjoying in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly April 2nd from 2022-04-04T09:31:45.149394
From the heart of Europe to Galways via the string quartet; the immerise electronics of Éliane Radigue in Berlin; hacking anti-skate architecture in Dublin; and swaying to the samba in a forest in ...
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Samba In The Forest | Culture File from 2022-03-31T12:00
Bianca Fachel has created Music In The Forest, a sustainable hybrid festival at her Roscommon base, bringing together Brazilian and Irish sounds.
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Cancelling Dublin | Culture File from 2022-03-30T12:00
Artist and and skateboarder, Matthew Stickland has been tracking the ways his city cancels his right to roll.
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Slipping into Radigue | Culture File from 2022-03-29T12:00
Music writer, Liam Cagney underwent some deep immersion at a recent Berlin celebration of the pioneering French composer, Eliane Radigue.
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From Europe With Love | Culture File from 2022-03-28T12:00
After much travel into the unknown and unexpected, a Galway project to play string quartets from all 27 EU states is nearly complete.
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Culture File "Likes": Mary Morrissy from 2022-03-25T12:00
Journalist, writer and curator, Mary Morrissy on some of her current favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly Mar 26th: Jennifer Walshe, Claire Halpin; Michelle Doyle; Kit Fryatt from 2022-03-25T12:00
Jennifer Walshe on the latest twists in robot technology, which involve a robot goat; Claire Halpin deals on her exhibition created from random playing cards found on the streets; we peep through t...
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The Culture File Debate Mar 26th: Troubling The Museum from 2022-03-25T12:00
Sara Greavu, Curator of Visual Arts at Project Arts Centre, Laura Raicovich author of Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest, artist Emma Roche and curator at Kilmainham Gaol Museum/P...
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Do Androids Dream of Medieval Frescoes? | Culture File from 2022-03-24T12:00
Poet Kit Fryatt has been collaborating with an AI to create text about a long-lost medieval painting as part of an ‘algorithmic storytelling’ performance.
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The Art of Practice | Culture File from 2022-03-23T12:00
Artist Michelle Doyle's latest work, Models of Practice, encouraged the public to eavesdrop on the creative process of Limerick metal bands, such as Red Sun Alert
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Deck | Culture File from 2022-03-22T12:00
Artist, Claire Halpin is finally at the end of her project to assemble an entire deck via finding random playing cards on the street
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Things Know Things | Culture File from 2022-03-21T12:00
Jennifer Walshe sifts through the products at the world's biggest robots trade fair, Tokyo's IREX 2022.
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The Culture File Weekly Mar 19th: Una Watters, Dabbledomusic, The Naturalist's Bookshelf from 2022-03-16T12:00
Mary Morrissy remembers the glowy moment she discovered a love for the paintings of Una Watters; Paddy Woodworth breaks the rules by adding a second book by Helen Macdonald to The Naturalist Booksh...
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A Little Dabbledoo | Culture File from 2022-03-16T12:00
Music done otherwise is the business of Dabbledoo, a program that aims to give young learners the best possible first taste of listening, performing and composing.
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Watershed | Culture File from 2022-03-16T08:54:20.246537
How to articulate the inarticulable, in a new song cycle from composer Ailis Ni Riain, inspired by and featuring the poetry of Jessica Brown
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The Little Organ | Culture File from 2022-03-16T08:54:20.234978
Martynas Levickis, the virtuoso who brought both Vivaldi and Lady Gaga to the accordion, celebrates a poignant Lithuanian Restoration of Independence Day.
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Walking in The Rain with Una Watters | Culture File from 2022-03-14T12:00
Writer, Mary Morrissy on the painting that launched her journey into the work of Irish 20th Century painter, Una Watters
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The Culture File Weekly Mar 12th: Martynas Levickis, Jennifer Walshe, Metabolic Time, Watershed from 2022-03-11T12:00
Lithuanian accordion virtuoso, Martynas Levickis on folk music and sanctions, the curators of Metabolic Time on rethinking the museum, Ailis Ni Rian's new salty song cycle, Watershed, and Jennifer ...
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Culture File "Likes": Robert Curgenven from 2022-03-11T12:00
Composer and organist, Robert Curgenven on some of his favourite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Museums ordered otherwise | Culture File from 2022-03-10T12:00
Sara Greavu and Cairo Clarke on thinking time - and museums - differently in Metabolic Time, their co-curated exhibition at Project, Dublin.
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Refunk | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:20.002371
Dublin upcycling startup, Refunk, has a plan to stop good, old furniture heading to landfill.
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A Ghost Choir | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.893152
Laetare Vocal Ensemble's seasonal new album showcases new choral work by Irish composers inspired by wintery texts from writers living and dead.
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Bach To The Future | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.890631
Xenia Pestova Bennet takes on composer, Karlheinz Essl's Gold.Berg.Werk, which blends a Bach landmark with contemporary electronics and specialised audio
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Culture File "Likes": Refunk from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.888281
Ellie Walters and Ellen Ryall of upcycling startup, Refunk share some of their reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures
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The Culture File Weekly Nov 6th: Jennifer Walshe, Ghost Songs, Gold.Berg.Werk, Refunk from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.885837
Róisín Blunnie on her collection of wintery contemporary vocal music, Ghost Songs, Xenia Pestova Bennet on an electronic variation on the Goldberg variations, the start-up-cyclers behind Refunk, an...
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Monaghan's Forgotten Future | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.883007
Monaghan composer Michael Gallen's opera Elsewhere is inspired by the 1919 strike, occupation and declaration as a soviet of the local asylum.
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Reading The Cables | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.879202
TCD's Chris Morash explores the meanings of the first transatlantic cable running between Valentia island and Heart’s Content, Newfoundland,
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Made in Ireland | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.764683
A new open call exhibition at National Design and Craft Gallery gathers the best of contemporary Irish makers and their wares
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Robert Curgenven Moves Some Air | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.762315
Composer and organist, Robert Curgenven's organ works are as much about what listeners can feel through the floor as hear through their ears.
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The Culture File Weekly Dec 4th: Organs, robots, elms and flies. from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.759903
The earthshaking organ music of Robert Curgenven, Jennifer Walshe on a surprise hookup between robots and ecology, the Made in Ireland craft show in Kilkenny and Moyra Davey dares to re-examine the...
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Gol | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.757668
The latest from Galway's Brú Theatre Company, who've recently been exploring VR, go with the ancient technology of keening in their show Gol
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Oblivion | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.755251
Aideen Barry collaborative artwork, Oblivion / Seachmalltacht finds images of global collapse in the archive of harp music savior, Edward Bunting.
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Women of The Pipes | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.753019
Piper Louise Mulcahy's new documentary, Mná na bPíob, rights an historical wrong, restoring women uilleann pipers' place in musical history.
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Welcome Home | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.750094
LA-based artist, dj and activist, Yves B Golden's latest radio poem for Culture File is Welcome Home.
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Women of The Baton | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.644121
Helping improve gender balance on the podium is the Female Conductor Programme at the NCH, led by conductor Alice Farnham.
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Why You've Been Doing Joyce All Wrong | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.641255
Updating a traditional Jocean celebration at Davy Byrne's pub with some Orange Curacao.
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Explaining Painting To A Dead Hare | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.603650
Ciarán Murphy continues a hypnotic journey into paint inspired by an encounter at Dublin's Natural History Museum.
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Culture File "Likes": Stuart Ritchie from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.601369
"Science Fictions" author, Stuart Ritchie shares some of his favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly Feb 5th: Breathing, Conducting, Painting, Drinking. from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.598845
Pandemic nostalgia with Carpet Theatre's Breath, the fleeting painted world of Ciarán Murphy, nurturing Irish female conductors at The National Concert Hall, and to Davy Byrnes for a glassful of li...
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Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.593211
Katsura Sunshine, the Canadian immigrant to Japan who currently has Rakugo traditional Japanese storytelling shows running both on Broadway and in the West End.
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Katsura Sunshine's Rakugo (Part 2) | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.589889
Katsura Sunshine on the codes and the gags of Rakugo, traditional Japanese comedy storytelling.
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LA Postcard #2 | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.550745
Culture File's Aine Gallagher has been using her post-pandemic freedom to return to Los Angeles, where this time she brings her mic to the bubbling tar at La Brea Tar Pits.
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A Real Culture War | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.548082
From Valery Gergiev, Anna Netrebko to the Eurovision Song Contest, Russian artists and performers are finding themselves targeted in a wave of anti-invasion sentiment. The Irish Times' Laura Slatte...
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Mark Francis, Timetraveller | Culture File from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.545670
For his latest show at Kerlin Gallery, the painter started with some crate diving. He talked to Culture File about time, space, paint and sound. And crisps. (Although not that much about crisps, TBH.)
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Culture File "Likes": Regan Dunn from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.543275
Paleobotanist at La Brea Tar Pits, Regan Dunn on some of her favorite things in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
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The Culture File Weekly March 5th: Maebe A. Girl, Laura Slattery, Mark Francis from 2022-03-07T08:32:19.540172
Aine Gallagher's postcard from LA, with the first drag queen elected to public office in the US; the history and power of cultural sanctions with Laura Slattery; and a show combining new and old wo...
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LA Postcard #1 | Culture File from 2022-02-28T12:00
Culture File's Aine Gallagher has been using her post-pandemic freedom to return to Los Angeles, where she's noted changes in the Echo Park neighborhood.
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The Culture File Weekly Feb 22nd: The Genetic Lottery, Maureen, Kimberley Biscuits from 2022-02-25T12:00
Prof Paige Harden, author of The Genetic Lottery, on using genetics for equality; Giita Hammond's images of her grandmother for whom she is a carer; and Jennifer Walshe on the post-human world of K...
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Culture File "Likes": Kathryn Paige Harden from 2022-02-25T12:00
Paige Harden, author of The Genetic Lottery, on some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
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Maureen | Culture File from 2022-02-24T12:00
Irish/Icelandic visual artist and photographer Giita Hammond's new exhibition centres on the world of her grandmother, Maureen, who is living with dementia.
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The Genetic Lottery (Part 2) | Culture File from 2022-02-23T12:00
Prof Paige Harden's book The Genetic Lottery explores at how genetics might be used against discrimination and inequality. This time, a thought experiment about redheads.
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The Genetic Lottery (Part 1) | Culture File from 2022-02-22T12:00
Prof Paige Harden's book The Genetic Lottery explores at how genetics might be used against discrimination and inequality. This time, GWAS and how genetics changed since you were at school.
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The Culture File Debate Oct 9th: What Can Art Do For Ecology? from 2022-02-18T12:40:22.186664
This month, Luke Clancy and a panel featuring ecologists Bill Jordan and Catherine Farrel, composer Karen Power and The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, discuss the places where art and ecol...
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The Culture File Weekly Feb 19th: "Like gold to airy thinness beat" from 2022-02-18T12:00
The Irish artist-physicist team exhibiting at the International Space Station, Paddy Woodworth on the only book about Hawks you may ever need, on the trail of collective art action in Ennistymon, a...
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Culture File "Likes": Sara Foust from 2022-02-18T12:00
Clare artist and gallerist, Sara Foust on some of her current favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
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To The Moon | Culture File from 2022-02-17T12:00
Artist/physicist team of Gillian Fitzpatrick and Justin Donnelly have collaborated on a micro artwork destined for a display in outer space.
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Oedipus Sings | Culture File from 2022-02-17T09:47:32.136310
Paul Hillier and Chamber Choir Ireland polish a lost gem in Andrea Gabrieli’s 1585 Italian choral take on Oedipus Rex
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Culture File "Likes": Adam Gibney from 2022-02-17T09:47:32.097616
Artist and soldering-iron wielder, Adam Gibney shares some of his favourite reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Ennistymon Art Trail | Culture File from 2022-02-16T12:00
How the artists of Ennistymon discovered they were stronger together.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Sunflower Forest | Culture File from 2022-02-16T04:59:11.244668
Paddy Woodworth adds William Jordan's exploration of 'restoration ecology' to his shelf stocked with essential nature writing.
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From 1D to 3D | Culture File from 2022-02-15T12:00
What Harry Styles' phygital cardigan tells us about the exploding world of digital fashion, from virtual couture to screen-based crochet.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf | Culture File from 2022-02-14T12:00
Paddy Woodworth's latest choice for inserting on his shelf of essential nature writing is Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk.
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The Culture File Weekly Feb 12th: Jennifer Walshe, Katsura Sunshine, Caitriona Frost from 2022-02-11T12:00
Katsura Sunshine on the sit down comedy of rakugo, the traditional Japanese art of comic storytelling; Caitriona Frost on whatever good things a musician might have learnt in these past two years, ...
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Culture File "Likes": Annie Fletcher from 2022-02-11T12:00
Director of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Annie Fletcher on some of her favs in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
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A Bittersweet Symphony | Culture File from 2022-02-10T12:00
During the pandemic, violinist Cliodhna Ryan recorded frank conversations with some of her musician friends and colleagues - this time percussionist, Caitriona Frost - about the path they've chosen.
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Biosecurity Theatre | Culture File from 2022-02-01T14:47:25.086121
As a post-pandemic Dublin Theatre Festival opens, Luke Clancy attends a biosecure opening night
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The Fine Art of Breathing | Culture File from 2022-01-31T12:00
Director, Ciaran Taylor, actor Karl Quinn and fiddler and multi-instrumentalist, Steve Wickham collaborate in a show exploring the little worlds of the pandemic.
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Culture File "Likes": Eyal Weizman from 2022-01-28T12:00
Director of Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, on some of the things he's been enjoying listening to, watching, reading, tasting and smelling
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The Culture File Weekly Jan 29th: Jennifer Walshe, Aisling Kelliher, Marie Hanlon, sfiiinx from 2022-01-28T12:00
Jennifer Walshe on the machines learning to farm, Aisling Kelliher on why you don't need any NFTs, the many meanings of water with artist, Marie Hanlon, and escaping the classical trap with avant p...
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NFTs Save The World | Culture File from 2022-01-27T12:00
How many of humanity's problems can blockchain tech really fix? Prof Aisling Kelliher on some recent twists in the crypto tale.
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Let It Flow | Culture File from 2022-01-26T12:00
Water's presence in everything from fracking to pee inspires the installation work in artist, Marie Hanlon's exhibition Water - More or Less.
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The Magma Chamber | Culture File from 2022-01-25T12:00
Vocalist and composer, Síobhra Quinlan, on building her own musical space outside "bel canto" and "spectralism"
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The Culture File Debate: NFT: Wow or WTF? from 2022-01-25T12:00
Do blockchain technologies represent new hope for artists to control their own work, or are they just another twist in the financialization of art? On the panel to discuss, Virginia Tech's Aisling ...
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The Culture File Weekly Jan 22nd: Forensic Architecture, Chinese Animation, The Peregrine from 2022-01-21T12:00
Founder and leader of activist art/research group, Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman on investigating racism in the polluted air of the deep South, Xueting Christine Ni on the rise of donghua, or...
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Culture File "Likes": sfiiinx from 2022-01-21T12:00
Si´obhra Quinlan, vocalist and composer behind sfiiinx, shares some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
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Environmental Racism in Death Alley | Culture File from 2022-01-20T12:00
Forensic Architecture founder, Eyal Weizman on investigating the racist roots of pollution in the American South
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The Problem of Mapping Clouds | Culture File from 2022-01-19T12:00
Forensic Architecture founder, Eyal Weizman on how the research group began to look at violence that comes in the form of gas, of clouds.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Peregrine | Culture File from 2022-01-18T12:00
Paddy Woodworth finds shelf space for J.A. Baker's 1960s classic evocation of English birdworlds, The Peregrine.
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Xueting Christine Ni | Culture File from 2022-01-17T12:00
Xueting Christine Ni on the deep roots of new Chinese animation blockbusters such as Netflix' White Snake and Pixar's forthcoming, Turning Red.
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The Culture File Debate Jan 15th: "Not Knowing" from 2022-01-13T12:00
This month, the panel discusses "not knowing" in all its flavours - from how artists employ not knowing, to what knowing could mean for the future of all our institutions. Joining Luke Clancy are: ...
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Culture File "Likes": Yves B Golden from 2022-01-13T12:00
Culture File correspondent and radio poet, Yves B Golden shares some of her delights in sound, words, sights, tastes and smells
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The Culture File Weekly Jan 15th: Emoji Choreography; Bittersweet Symphony; Bajazet, Shein from 2022-01-13T12:00
A new orchestral podcast listens to the voices from the pit; the rise of ultrafast fashion giant, Shein; Jennifer Walshe on emojis in real life, and INO's touring production of Vivaldi's "mixtape" ...
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Cliodhna Ryan's Bittersweet Symphony | Culture File from 2022-01-13T12:00
Violinist, Cliodhna Ryan used her "pandemic pause" to join the ranks of podcasters, with an intimate look at the life of working (and pausing) musicians
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Bajazet | Culture File from 2022-01-12T12:00
Conductor and harpsichordist, Peter Whelan on what Vivaldi's opera, Bajazet, has in common with your favourite mixtape.
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Shein's Data Fashion | Culture File from 2022-01-11T12:00
Fashion researcher, Amelia O'Mahony-Brady on the rise of hyper-fast fashion pioneer, Shein.
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The Culture File Debate Sept 4th: Scents from 2021-12-20T02:53:25.350715
An all-star noses panel featuring writer, Harold McGee, perfumer, Meabh McCurtin, neuroscientist, AS Barwich, zoologist, Matthew Cobb, and artist, Aleesa Cohene join Luke Clancy to discuss what the...
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Bruff's Young Dreams | Culture File from 2021-12-20T02:53:25.349927
A riverside park bench is a key to Young Dreams, a youth arts festival in Bruff Co. Limerick, marking what would have been Dolores O’Riordan's 50th birthday
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Common Ground | Culture File from 2021-12-20T02:53:25.349103
Stepping into the garden - and a new world of colour - in the latest show from painter and sculptor, Maighread Tobin.
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Glór's Wild Atlantic Tales | Culture File from 2021-12-20T02:53:25.348310
Niall deBurca sets off on a voyage to show how traditional storytelling can win out in a world of clicks and touchscreens
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Culture File "Likes": Maighread Tobin from 2021-12-20T02:53:25.347464
Painter and sculptor, Maighread Tobin, share some of her recent finds in readings, watching, listening, smelling and tasting.
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Another Lady Thatcher | Culture File from 2021-12-20T02:53:25.346318
Among the craftspeople keeping the West of Ireland's thatch rooves Atlantic-proof is Dutchwoman, Marika Leen.
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The Culture File Weekly Dec 18th: Jennifer Walshe, Yves B Golden, Hilary Moss, Robert Curgenven from 2021-12-17T12:00
Jennifer Walshe on the enigma of Loot NFTs, the story of refugee journeys in We All Come From Somewhere, a choir map of Ireland, a journey into winter with Robert Curgenven, and Yves B Golden on en...
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Decide | Culture File from 2021-12-17T12:00
LA-based artist, dj and activist, Yves B Golden's latest radio poem for Culture File contemplates a year's endings.
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Winterval Frequencies | Culture File from 2021-12-16T12:00
Composer and organist, Robert Curgenven mails an audio postcard from a winter spent inside the Arctic Circle.
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The Singing Map | Culture File from 2021-12-15T12:00
A new map of choral activity in Ireland helps join the dots for music in health and wellbeing.
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We All Come From Somewhere | Culture File from 2021-12-14T12:00
Inclusive theatre companies in Italy, Czech Republic, Greece and Ireland spent years planning a continent-spanning show together. But then... [gestures broadly at everything].
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The Culture File Weekly Dec 11th: Oblivion, Mná na Píob, Yves B Golden, Gol from 2021-12-10T12:00
Apocalyptic sights and sounds of Aideen Barry's Oblivion; that state of keening in 2021 in Brú Theatre's show, Gol; finding the lost women of uilleann pipes; and a night at the Walt Disney Theatre ...
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Culture File "Likes": James Riordan from 2021-12-10T12:00
The selections in watching, listening, readings, tasting and smelling of James Riordan of Galway's Brú Theatre
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The Culture File Debate Aug 7th: A New World For Travel Writing from 2021-12-04T12:18:28.782999
Luke Clancy and guests discuss the freighted pursuit of travel writing in a post-pandemic world. Helping to check our papers are QUB's Prof Margaret Topping, travel writers, Dana Givens and Aaron M...
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Looking with Hujar | Culture File from 2021-11-30T12:00
For The Shabbiness of Beauty, artist Moyra Davey created a new body of work in response to the innovative, questing images of photographer Peter Hujar.
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The Lighthouse on Tour | Culture File from 2021-11-24T12:00
Elaine Kelly's new role as INO's first conductor in residence sees her sailing The Lighthouse, Peter Maxwell Davies' story of odd going on among the 'keepers.
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Finally Floating on a Dead Sea | Culture File from 2021-11-23T12:00
Catherine Young Dance's long postponed, Irish-Palestinian dance collab, Floating on a Dead Sea opens in Longford.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: Desert Solitaire | Culture File from 2021-11-22T12:00
Paddy Woodworth picks Edward Abbey's memoir, Desert Solitaire as the latest volume for his ideal shelf of nature writing.
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Culture File "Likes": Eugene Birman from 2021-11-18T12:00
Some of the best things in listening, reading, watching, tasting and smelling, according to composer, Eugene Birman.
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Narrating The Nation | Culture File from 2021-11-18T12:00
At the Narrating The Nation conference, Oein DeBhairduin and Rosa Meehan talked about the future of Traveller representation in Irish museums.
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The Culture File Weekly Nov 20th: Stuart Ritchie, Jennifer Walshe, Narrating The Nation from 2021-11-18T12:00
How not to do science, according to Stuart Ritchie; changing ideas of representation at the recent Narrating The Nation museums conference, and Jennifer Walshe takes on the Zuckeraverse.
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Fixing Science (Part 2) | Culture File from 2021-11-17T12:00
Stuart Ritchie on the necessary work of the website, Retraction Watch, and the problem with "instinct" in scientific experiments. (Part 2)
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Fixing Science | Culture File from 2021-11-16T12:00
Stuart Ritchie on "the replication crisis" and other malfunctions in how we are doing science.
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The Culture File Weekly Nov 13th: Narrating The Nation from 2021-11-11T12:00
The Monaghan Asylum Soviet becomes an opera from Michael Gallen and the Abbey Theatre, Chris Morash decodes the messages of the first transatlantic cable, composer Eugene Birman on his avant choir ...
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Culture File "Likes": Xenia Pestova Bennet from 2021-11-11T12:00
Pianist Xenia Pestova Bennet shares some of her favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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The Future of The Past | Culture File from 2021-11-11T12:00
Prof Clémentine Deliss has a vision for the future of museums she calls "The Metabolic Museum" she told NCAD/NMI's recent Narrating The Nation conference in Dublin.
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Expanding The Choir | Culture File from 2021-11-10T12:00
Composer Eugene Birman's contemporary choral work, Lamentations explores the boundlessness of the human voice.
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The Culture File Weekly Oct 30th: Bridges, Looms and Druids from 2021-10-28T12:00
Channelling Joseph Beuys with Druid performance artist, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh, listening to the looms at Studio Donegal and walking Shannonside with the man behind a concept album for Limerick pedest...
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Culture File "Likes": Fehdah from 2021-10-28T12:00
Singer and composer, Fehdah shares some of her favourite reading, listening, watching, tasting and smelling.
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The Looms of Donegal | Culture File from 2021-10-28T12:00
Aine Gallagher brings her recorder to Studio Donegal, in Kilcar, to listen to the looms, and their operators.
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Channeling Beuys, literally? | Culture File from 2021-10-27T12:00
The art and ideas of Joseph Beuys inspire the Irish painter, performance artist and shamanic conduit, Rónán Ó Raghallaigh.
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Culture File "Likes": Sarah Rimkus from 2021-10-26T20:45:48.240259
American choral composer, Sarah Rimkus on some of her favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly July 3rd: Britney Spears, Nietzsche's Way, Women's Self-portraits from 2021-10-26T20:45:48.239041
Women as they saw themselves in Jennifer Higgie's tour of self-portraits by women painters through history, hiking the Chemin De Nietzche but looking for Bono, and the robotic life of Britney.
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Ecce Bono | Culture File from 2021-10-26T20:45:48.238029
Hiking the Chemin de Nietzsche, in the South of France, near the Summer palace of Bono, writer, Liam Cagney gets all philosophically hot and bothered.
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The Culture File Weekly July 10th: All the Rembrandts, srsly. from 2021-10-26T20:45:48.236313
In this special All-Rembrandt-All-The-Time edition, we travel to Amsterdam to join in the Netherland's celebrations of the 350th Anniversary of Rembrandt Van Rijn, during which the Rijksmuseum put ...
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The Three Bridges Walk | Culture File from 2021-10-26T12:00
In Limerick, a popular Shannon walk inspired a concept album for pedestrians from local act, Anna's Anchor.
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The Culture File Weekly Oct 23rd: Elaine Hoey, Jennifer Walsh, Brillon de Jouy, Arracht from 2021-10-21T12:00
Inside the headset studio of digital artist, Elaine Hoey, Jennifer Walshe on the joy of objects you might touch, the music of pre-revolutionary Paris, and prepping for the famine in Irish language ...
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Hearing Again Brillon de Jouy | Culture File from 2021-10-21T12:00
Her Parisian salon was legendary for its famous guests, but equally for the music Anne Louise Brillon de Jouy played there.
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Elaine Hoey's Mimesis | Culture File from 2021-10-20T12:00
The stupidity of crowds meets the amorality of technology in a new solo show from digital artist, Elaine Hoey
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The name's Sharkey, Colmán Sharkey | Culture File from 2021-10-19T12:00
James Bond has some stern competition in Colmán Sharkey, the central character of Tom Sullivan's famine drama.
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Jennifer Walshe's Things Know Things | Culture File from 2021-10-18T12:00
Two enigmatic stoneworks, 700-odd miles apart, remind Jennifer Walshe of the uses and attractions of non-virtual objects.
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Karmageddon | Culture File from 2021-10-14T12:00
Yves B Golden returns with a new radio poem called Karmageddon
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Jennifer Walshe (XXL version) | Culture File from 2021-10-13T12:00
Extended version of this week's conversation with composer, artist and Oxford Prof of Composition, Jennifer Walshe, touching on, prepping, hugging walls, William Gibson, Meredith Monk, Databots, Ea...
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Swimming Along Together | Culture File from 2021-10-13T12:00
Pioneering long distance swimmer, Mercedes Gleitze celebrated in the work of Dublin-based artist -- and long distance swimmer -- Vanessa Daws
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Yanny's Garden | Culture File from 2021-10-12T12:00
Botanical artist, Yanny Petters, spent much of her time in recent months studying the garden her German parents began in Co Wicklow in the 1960s.
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Jennifer Walshe | Culture File from 2021-10-11T12:00
Composer, artist and Things Know Things creator, Jennifer Walshe on her new role as Professor of Composition at Oxford.
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Radio Haunting | Culture File from 2021-10-09T18:57:53.933597
Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates a radiophonic summer space for Culture File.
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Matters Unknown | Culture File from 2021-10-09T18:57:53.932811
Jonny Enser, trumpeter and co-founder of UK collective, Nubiyan Twist on the progressive mixes of his solo project, Matters Unknown.
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Eoghan Daltun's Forest | Culture File from 2021-10-06T07:32:39.458887
West Cork artist-conservationist, Eoghan Daltun has turned his skills to tending back to life what he calls an Irish rainforest in West Cork.
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(What's Your) Vaccination Situation? | Culture File from 2021-10-06T07:32:39.382145
New York-based musician, Smoota's "Pandemic Threesome" of releases explores sexuality in the post-COVID world.
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The Culture File Weekly Oct 2nd: Pi(e) Edition from 2021-09-30T12:00
A global history of the soft power of hummus; what happens when an AI helps create a gallery press release; the complex business of pie (ie, money) slicing on Spotify; and Silvija Šcerbaviciute's j...
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Culture File "Likes": Larissa O'Grady from 2021-09-30T12:00
Some reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling favourites from violinist and crash ensemble member, Larissa O'Grady.
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Can_you_breathe_for_me? | Culture File from 2021-09-30T12:00
Hobby computers armed with sensors for everything from noise to humidity animate the complex, sometimes humorous work of Dublin artist, Adam Gibney.
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Sharing The Music Streaming Pie | Culture File from 2021-09-29T12:00
Is the pie (ie, the money) of music streaming services getting sliced fairly, wonders Prof Aisling Kelliher.
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Silvija Š?erbavi?i?t? | Culture File from 2021-09-28T12:00
Flute is a famly business for RTÉ Concert Orchestra principal flute, Silvija Šcerbaviciute
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Hummus Now | Culture File from 2021-09-27T12:00
Harriet Nussbaum's new book traces the history of hummus, from its early Christian roots to the 40 shades of hummus now sloshing over supermarkets around the globe.
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The Culture File Weekly Sept 25th: The Music of Skateboarding from 2021-09-23T12:00
The grind and clatter of skateboarding enter contemporary music, in violinist, Larrisa O'Grady's latest project; artist and percussionist, Cevdet Erek, on his beat-based exhibition at Void in Derry...
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Culture File "Likes": Darragh Morgan from 2021-09-23T12:00
Some recent watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling delights from the violinist, Darragh Morgan.
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The Music of Skateboards | Culture File from 2021-09-23T12:00
Violinist, Larissa O'Grady's latest journey into new music means playing accompanied by the sounds of live skateboarders, in composer, Sam Perkin's Dis-cord.
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The Heart of A Tree | Culture File from 2021-09-22T12:00
Artist-filmmaker, Clare Langan on her latest film, The Heart of A Tree, and the complex art of making films of a world in peril.
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What Can A Choir Be? | Culture File from 2021-09-21T12:00
Composer, conductor and instigator of #BlackVoicesMatter, Alexander Lloyd Blake on the LA ensemble he founded to rethink what a choral group is, and what it can do.
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Cevdet Erek at Void, Derry | Culture File from 2021-09-20T12:00
Mounting artist and percussionist, Cevdet Erek's new show at Derry's Void involved, among other things, mailing a bodhran to Istanbul.
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Culture File "Likes": Niall de Búrca from 2021-09-16T12:00
Traditional storyteller, Niall de Búrca shares a few of his favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Fehdah | Culture File from 2021-09-16T12:00
After a season recording in Sierra Leone, Fehdah returns to Ireland with a hard drive full of afrofuturist soul.
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Software For Less (Part 3) | Culture File from 2021-09-15T12:00
Ben Grosser on his software response to the NFT boom, Tokenize This, a system for creating unique and instantly vanishing artwork.
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Software For Less (Part 2) | Culture File from 2021-09-14T12:00
Digital artist Ben Grosser's exploration of what our online world would be like without its terminal drive for "more" led him to create Minus, a strictly finite social network.
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Software for Less (Part 1) | Culture File from 2021-09-13T12:00
Digital artist and Facebook critic, Ben Grosser on his journeys into the omnivorous nudge and crave mechanics of the online world. (Part 1)
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Culture File "Likes": Oddsound from 2021-09-10T10:13:12.163745
Music technologists, Damon Hancock and Oli Cash of Oddsound shares some of their favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Rita Marcalo's ...As If Trying Not To Own The Earth | Culture File from 2021-09-10T10:13:12.162656
Dancing about architecture is proverbially a bad idea, but what about dancing about gardening, or dancing about sourdough?
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Deep Model Worker | Culture File from 2021-09-09T04:06:16.311901
Composer, Darragh Kelly on creating music in collaboration with an AI nourished on a "who's who" of contemporary Irish composition.
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The Culture File Debate Aug 28th: Musical Health from 2021-08-26T12:00
Has music found fresh importance in the pandemic era, via its impact on health and wellness? Musician and researcher, Hannah Davis, Goldsmiths' Prof. Lauren Stewart, IWAMD's Dr Hilary Moss, and Sha...
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The Culture File Debate Aug 21st: What Cities Want from 2021-08-19T12:00
Luke Clancy and guests explore cities: how they are - and how we dream they'll be; who they serve and who they hinder. On the panel, artist, Sven Anderson, architect, Noreile Breen, curator, Lar Jo...
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The Culture File Debate Sat Aug 14th: NFT: Wow or WTF? from 2021-08-12T12:00
Do blockchain technologies represent new hope for artists to control their own work, or are they just another twist in the financialization of art? On the panel to discuss, Virginia Tech's Aisling ...
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Culture File "Likes": Tom Keeley from 2021-08-10T18:40:11.887609
Architect and researcher, Tom Keeley shares some of his lockdown pleasures in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly April 3rd: Facsimelies of Mirth & Other Kind Strategies from 2021-08-10T18:40:11.886684
This week, Custy's Traditional Irish Music shop sails through the pandemic, Rob Long has some lessons in the execution and timing of the courtesy laugh, comedian Marise Gaughan gets around to missi...
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Berlin Lichtinstallation (Redux) | Culture File from 2021-08-10T18:40:11.884843
A return visit to American artist, James Turrell's light installation at Dorotheenstädtischer Cemetery, Berlin.
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Culture File "Likes": Donal Dineen from 2021-08-10T18:40:11.884223
DJ and creator of the We Are The Makers podcast, Donal Dineen, on some of his current loves in reading, watching, listening & smelling
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The Culture File Weekly July 31th: Bleeps, Bongs and Cryptic Messages from 2021-07-30T12:00
Violinist, Darragh Morgan on retooling the Valentia Chamber Music Festival for the times we live in, the AI-flavoured podcast that's never the same twice, and everything humanity has learned from m...
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Culture File "Likes": Joseph McBrinn from 2021-07-30T12:00
The watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling choices of academic and author of "Queering the Subversive Stitch," Joseph McBrinn.
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Neutrinowatch | Culture File from 2021-07-29T12:00
Neutrinowatch is a podcast that's also a mini-network of daily, imaginary, constantly changing podcasts, created by Martin Zaltz Austwick (Answer Me This) and Jeff Emtman (Here Be Monsters).
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Valentia Chamber Music Festival | Culture File from 2021-07-28T12:00
Violinist, Darragh Morgan on remixing the annual chamber music festival on the island of Valentia in a world of travel restrictions.
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Murcott's Mods | Culture File from 2021-07-27T12:00
Composer and teacher, Dominic Murcott on the musical magic that hides in the circuits of old-fashioned synthesisers. (Part 2 of 2)
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Dominic Murcott | Culture File from 2021-07-26T12:00
The musical journeys of drummer, composer, tinkerer and educator, Dominic Murcott. (Part 1 of 2)
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Men With Needles | Culture File from 2021-07-22T12:00
In his new book, Joseph McBrinn unpicks how ideas of gender and needlework are sewn together.
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The Culture File Weekly Jul 24th: Needlepoints and Checkpoints from 2021-07-22T12:00
The pandemic season on Ireland's amdram circuit; some tentative, but fun steps towards live performance in the People's Park in Limerick City; Josephy McBrinn on men's relationship to needlecraft; ...
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Amateur Drama's Pandemic Season | Culture File from 2021-07-21T12:00
How Castelblayney Players, like groups around the island, nurtured the amdram flame through the pandemic season.
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Waiting for Poirot | Culture File from 2021-07-20T12:00
Theatre comes to Limerick's People's Park in the shape of a knockabout comedy set at a performance by a travelling theatre troupe
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Jennifer Walshe's Things Know Thing | Culture File from 2021-07-19T12:00
Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe dives into the scifi of Ursula Le Guin and contemplates simultaneity, as she waits at the boarding gates.
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Culture File "Likes": Dominic Murcott from 2021-07-16T12:00
Musicmaker, curator and educator, Dominic Murcott shares some of the listenings, watchings, readings, tastings and smellings he'd recommend.
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"The Silver River" | Culture File from 2021-07-15T12:00
Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates another radiophonic summer space for Culture File.
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The 8 to 10 Faces of Reggae | Culture File from 2021-07-14T12:00
Dub innovator and impresario, Mad Professor leads a warp-speed voyage through the family tree of reggae.
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Taking Space | Culture File from 2021-07-13T12:00
The twinkling appearance of the Starlink satellite train in the skies above Beara propels Aine Gallagher into some space exploration.
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COVID-clay | Culture File from 2021-07-09T16:29:39.103191
Artist Emma McKeagney's lockdown project spreads the gospel of sustainable, home-based clay harvesting.
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The Culture File Weekly Mar 6th: The Work of Art in The Age of Cryptocurrency from 2021-07-09T16:29:39.102220
We weigh up a little punt on Non-Fungible Tokens with Prof Aisling Kelliher, Marise Gaughan remembers her sparkling, lost future as a child star; artist, Emma McKeagney thinks we might all benefit ...
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Culture File "Likes": Jennie Guy from 2021-07-09T16:29:39.101491
Curator, Jennie Guy offers some of her current favourite reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Pain (Pt 1/2) | Culture File from 2021-07-09T16:29:39.098881
Philosopher, Jennifer Corns explores the world of pain, in all its degrees and kinds. (Part 1 of 2)
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The Mirror and the Palette (Part 2) | Culture File from 2021-06-30T12:00
Art critic, Jennifer Higgie has been looking at the missing stories of historical women artists (including this time Artemisia Gentileschi) through the genre to which they had the greatest access: ...
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Marise Feishes Up | Culture File from 2021-06-30T08:27:38.203790
Writer, comedian and failed child actor, Marise Gaughan on her childhood streak as a Speech and Drama champ.
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Get Your Non-Fungible Tokens! Lovely Non-Fungible Tokens! | Culture File from 2021-06-30T08:27:38.202814
Digital art emerges as a potential safe harbour for the millions you've made cryptocurrencies. What do you mean you haven’t made millions on cryptocurrencies?
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The Mirror and the Palette (part 1) | Culture File from 2021-06-29T12:00
Art critic, Jennifer Higgie has been looking at the missing stories of historical women artists via the genre to which they had the greatest access: self-portraiture.
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Jennifer Walshe's Thing Know Things from 2021-06-28T12:00
In her latest "Things Know Things" composer, Jennifer Walshe notices the hamstrung existences of Britany Spears and a robot. (More from the series here: https://bit.ly/3A9xsdy
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"Stendhal and Me" | Culture File from 2021-06-24T12:00
Los Angeles-based poet and musician, Yves B Golden creates another radiophonic summer space for Culture File.
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Culture File "Likes": Katherine Boucher Beug from 2021-06-24T12:00
Reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling pleasures of artist, Katherine Boucher Beug,
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The Culture File Weekly June 26th: Darkfield, Sarah Rimkus, Yves B Golden from 2021-06-24T12:00
On the air this week is our latest Culture File Debate: We Shall Dance Again, but in this here podcast-only edition we'll have choral acts of remembrance, with US composer, Sarah Rimkus, Jeremy Til...
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The Culture File Debate June 26th: #WeWillDanceAgain from 2021-06-24T12:00
#WeWillDanceAgain emerged in the heart of the pandemic as an evocative slogan of resilience. But what does dance have to offer to a post-pandemic world? On our panel, Michael Klien, Professor of th...
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Sarah Rimkus' Uprooted | Culture File from 2021-06-23T12:00
Sarah Rimkus' choral setting of interviews with survivors of the US's WWII internment of Japanese-Americans gets its Irish premiere this week from Chamber Choir Ireland.
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Darkfield Radio | Culture File from 2021-06-22T12:00
Darkfield co-directors, David Rosenberg and Glen Neath began using smartphones as a way to make theatre in the streets of London, but ended up creating the perfect pandemic artform.
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The Design of Scarcity (redux) | Culture File from 2021-06-21T12:00
Jeremy Till on a mission for art and design beyond creating objects that inspire ever-increasing consumption.
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Jennifer Alford | Culture File from 2021-06-17T12:00
Jennifer Alford was among a group of Irish markers invited to create in craft a personal response to an object in the National Museum.
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Music Beyond Five Lines and Four Spaces | Culture File from 2021-06-16T12:00
Soprano, Elizabeth Hilliard lets her voice "out of the box" in a new work by Gráinne Mulvey celebrating "Great Women".
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The Double Life of Lizzie | Culture File from 2021-06-15T12:00
To the fans, she's singer/guitarist with Irish rockers, Bitch Falcon; or perhaps electronic artist and remixer, Cool Girl. But that's only half the story of Lizzie Fitzpatrick
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The Culture File Weekly February 6th: OlfactoStroll; Cottagecore; COVID clubbing; Martini Shot from 2021-06-11T06:47:30.483057
Half an hour of audio excursions, taking you from a smell-lead audio tour of whenever you happen to be, to Berlin after dark and after COVID, to a rural idyll in the rosy digital dreams of #cottage...
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Savours of North London and Carrick-on-Shannon | Culture File from 2021-06-11T06:47:30.481394
Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe finds a neighbourhood takeaway back brings memories of home.
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More Tunes from The Goodman Manuscripts | Culture File from 2021-06-11T06:47:30.480634
Musician Emer Mayock has been diving once more in the 19th-century trad song reservoir of Canon James Goodman.
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Culture File Weekly 12/06 - Azores High Edition from 2021-06-10T12:00
Aisling Kelliher on the problem with solutions in the contemporary design process, a page of radio poetry from Los Angeles by poet-DJ, Yves B Golden; and Jonny Ensor of Nubiyan Twist on his solo pr...
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The End of Solutionism | Culture File from 2021-06-10T12:00
Prof Aisling Kelliher on the limitations of Silicon Valley's reflex of treating the world as a series of problem to be solved
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Culture File "Likes": Smoota from 2021-06-10T12:00
NYC-based songwriter and trombonist, Smoota counts some of the returning pleasure of his home town.
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The Digital Bucolic of Cottagecore | Culture File from 2021-06-10T03:58:45.660830
Is an internet subculture that sees bliss in an idealised country life really a progressive force?
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COVID Times at the KitKat | Culture File from 2021-06-02T07:45:49.561231
Irish writer and adopted Berliner, Liam Cagney makes two very different journeys to Berlin's KitKat Club.
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Olfactostrolling | Culture File from 2021-06-02T07:45:49.560051
Artist, Jan Uprichard has created a self-directed smell walk, in podcast form, to help us practice "Deep Smelling".
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121 Stories | Culture File from 2021-05-27T12:00
Harpist and sound artist Una Monaghan's "121 Stories" project throws light on the impact of gender on participation in trad.
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Culture File "Likes": Philip Connaughton from 2021-05-27T12:00
A few of choreographer, Philip Connaughton's favourite things in listening, watching, reading, tasting and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly May 29th: Na Cailleacha from 2021-05-27T12:00
The art collective of women 70-plus that lockdown created, the history of the 5-string fiddle with 10 String Symphony, 121 stories from the struggle for equality in Trad, and the Galway-born winner...
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10 String Symphony Speak | Culture File from 2021-05-26T12:00
As they start their virtual Irish tour, "avant 'grass" duo, 10 String Symphony, talk five-stringed fiddles, working with members of Lau, and how to make a virtual touring authentic.
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Na Cailleacha | Culture File from 2021-05-25T12:00
Na Cailleacha the name of a collective of older women artists in Ireland who podded together during lockdown and began to make art collaboratively.
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Irish FPL Soccer Triumph | Culture File from 2021-05-24T12:00
Galwayman, Michael Coone won out over more than 8million other managers of the Fantasy Premier League to become 2021 World Champion.
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Baroque n Roll Kids | Culture File from 2021-05-20T12:00
The Baroque roots of earworms from Eddie Cochran to Bob Marley and Led Zeppelin at Galway Early Music Festival 2021.
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Culture File "Likes": Denis Scully from 2021-05-20T12:00
Multi-instrumentalist and sax player with Nubiyan Twist, Denis Scully shares some of the watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling he's been enjoying
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The Culture File Weekly May 22nd: Noel Redding in Clonakilty from 2021-05-20T12:00
A chorus of West Cork voices recall the Clonakilty days of legendary psychedelic bassist, Noel Redding; the musical memes that bring Bob Marley and Johann Sebastian Bach together at Galway Early M...
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Noel Redding's Clonakilty (Pt. 2) | Culture File from 2021-05-19T12:00
Second part of our audio history of Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player, Noel Redding's life in Clonakilty, as told by the people who shared it with him (part 2)
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Noel Redding's Clonakilty (Pt. 1) | Culture File from 2021-05-18T12:00
An audio history of Jimi Hendrix Experience bass player, Noel Redding's life in Clonakilty, as told by the people who shared it with him (part 1)
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The End of Nature | Culture File from 2021-05-13T12:00
Paddy Woodworth's voyage along a bookshelf of essential nature writing reaches Bill McKibben's The End of Nature.
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The Culture File Weekly May 15th: Woops, Apocalypse! from 2021-05-13T12:00
Things take an apocalyptic turn this time, in artist Danny Osborne's visions melting ice and molten lava, Heather O'Donoghue's reading of the old Norse image of Yggdrasill, and in Bill McKibben's c...
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The Dangerous Power of Old Norse Myth | Culture File from 2021-05-12T12:00
How the stories and heroes of Old Norse continue to shape 21st-century minds (Yggdrasill Remix)
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Danny Osborne (Pt. 2) | Culture File from 2021-05-11T12:00
Artist and explorer, Danny Osborne, on the draw and danger of his favourite material, molten lava. (2/2)
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Danny Osborne | Culture File from 2021-05-10T12:00
From the Arctic to the Andes, via the Beara Peninsula, with artist and explorer, Danny Osborne.
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Worrying The Border (Pt.2) | Culture File from 2021-04-29T12:00
Tom Keeley on the materials and the forms that mark "the Irish borderlands" and which are catalogued in his long-running Border-walking project (2/2)
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The Culture File Weekly May 1st: (podcast-only edition) Noemi Lefebvre, Tom Keeley, Paddy Woodworth from 2021-04-29T12:00
From France under a state of emergency, with novelist, Noemi Lefebvre, to the Irish borderlands under the foot of Tom Keeley, and Yosemite National Park, revisited by its original custodians in Pad...
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Culture File "Likes": Darragh Kelly from 2021-04-29T12:00
Composer, Darragh Kelly on some of the reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling he's been enjoying recently
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Worrying The Border (Pt.1) | Culture File from 2021-04-28T12:00
How a find in a Derry bookshop inspired Tom Keeley's ongoing patrol of the Irish border's landscape and architecture.
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Poetics of Work | Culture File from 2021-04-27T12:00
Noemi Lefebvre and her regular translator, Sophie Lewis, on welcoming into English "Poetics of Work" an experimental novel of post-Bataclan France,
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: Landscape and Memory | Culture File from 2021-04-26T12:00
Paddy Woodworth on the prescient and hopeful message embedded in Simon Schama's 1995 exploration of humans and their home planet, Landscape and Memory
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What's the Oddsound? | Culture File from 2021-04-22T12:00
Making life easier for Aphex Twin and other composers lured by life beyond twelve tones of equal temperament.
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Hearing The Colours | Culture File from 2021-04-21T12:00
Improvising musician and composer, Lara Gallagher, on her New Music Dublin premiere, Phoenicia, a work for Crash Ensemble - and an onstage painter.
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Yes, But Do You Care? | Culture File from 2021-04-19T12:00
Artist Marie Brett, dancer-choreographer, Philip Connaughton, and The Dementia Carers Campaign Network collaborate on an online meditation about family carers in Ireland.
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The Culture File Weekly April 17th: A Demon-Haunted Land from 2021-04-15T12:00
A bizarre epidemic of cases of paralysis in West Germany after the war inspired historian, Monica Black's latest body of research, tracing the rise and fall of superstar faith healers, witchbusters...
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Martini Shot x Culture File from 2021-04-15T12:00
In his latest epistle from Hollywood, writer and producer, Rob Long has his mind on his money and his money on his mind.
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The Culture File Weekly Dec 4th | Eimear O'Connor, Jennie Guy, Marise Gaughan, Rob Long from 2021-04-15T04:11:50.078474
How the Chicago Word's Fair came to be graced with two "genuine" Irish villages, a long-running plot to bring contemporary art and contemporary schoolkids together, Marise Gaughan on a Spanish styl...
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Jennifer Walshe's Pandemic Diary | Culture File from 2021-04-15T04:11:50.076193
Artist and composer, Jennifer Walshe dares some old haunts from pre-pandemic London.
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Seeing Hilma af Klint | Culture File from 2021-04-15T04:11:50.075069
What kept the pioneering abstract paintings of Hilma af Klint out of art history until long after her death?
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: Arctic Dreams | Culture File from 2021-04-15T04:11:50.074382
For his latest suggestion for stocking an ideal shelfful of nature writing, Paddy Woodworth makes a case for Barry Lopez writings on the far North.
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Martini Shot x Rob Long from 2021-04-15T04:11:49.948158
Comedy writer, Rob Long on the fatal attraction comedy writers feel towards poor taste jokes. Contains examples.
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The Culture File Weekly April 10th: Virtual Pets, Berlin Cemeteries, Steam Irons & Bad Taste Gags from 2021-04-15T04:11:49.946256
Rob Long attempts to unpick the fatal attraction between terrible taste gags and professional comedy writers; we relive a twilight trip to a cemetery in Berlin, get into repetition with artist Liz ...
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A Demon-Haunted Land (Part 2) | Culture File from 2021-04-14T12:00
Historian, Monica Black on the belief in witches and witchcraft in Germany in the aftermath of WWII. (part 2)
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A Demon-Haunted Land | Culture File from 2021-04-13T12:00
Historian, Monica Black on post-WWII Germany's apparently epidemic of mysterious maladies and "wonder doctors" ready to cure them.
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Marise Gaughan Goes To Church | Culture File from 2021-04-12T12:00
Writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan finds mass little changed in the many years since she last attended.
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Art School | Culture File from 2021-04-07T07:12:12.996346
Curator Jennie Guy has been introducing the world of school to the world of contemporary art practice
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Genuine Irish Art | Culture File from 2021-04-07T07:12:12.995452
Historian, Eimear O'Connor on the sometimes wobbly cultural exchange between Ireland and the US in the early 20th century
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MSCHF's "Satan Shoes" | Culture File from 2021-03-31T12:00
Drops don't come much more seismic than the sneaker collaboration between rapper, Lil Nas X and viral art group, MSCHF, the "Satan Shoe"
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Custy's World | Culture File from 2021-03-30T12:00
How a little red shop in a back lane in Ennis became a global hub for Irish traditional music
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Marise Gaughan Almost Misses Company | Culture File from 2021-03-29T12:00
For comedian Marise Gaughan, it has this much pandemic to realise one particular absence was indeed a lack: the absence of irritating people.
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Culture File "Likes": Sophie Lewis from 2021-03-25T12:00
Editor and translator, Sophie Lewis on some of her pleasures in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.
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The Consolations of Pop | Culture File from 2021-03-24T12:00
Kevin Brew celebrates sound in a trilogy of audio epiphanies, on the soundworld of the young Franz Kafka, the joy of feedback and the consolations of pop. With thanks to Aidan Mathews, Kerstin Aqua...
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The Galway Cello | Culture File from 2021-03-23T12:00
Kuros Torkzadeh on the life of a luthier, his love of Amati instruments and his own creation, The Galway Cello, commissioned by the city's Cellissimo festival.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Birds of Heaven | Culture File from 2021-03-22T12:00
Paddy Woodworth's latest inclusion for the ideal nature writing bookshelf is Peter Matthiessen's crane chronicle, The Birds of Heaven.
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Culture File "Likes": Philip Sheppard from 2021-03-18T12:00
Philip Sheppard, of Sheppard’s Irish Auction House in Durrow, County Laois, shares some of his favourite reading, watching, listening, eating and smelling.
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The Culture File Weekly March 20th: Love, procrastination & cabinetmaking from 2021-03-18T12:00
Marise Gaughan explores the possibility of, if not love at first sight, then at least marriage; auctioneer, Philip Sheppard tells tales from The Shamrock Table; we take a few moments for some remot...
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The Shamrock Table | Culture File from 2021-03-17T12:00
Eleanor Flegg on the story of a table so beloved when it was shipped across the Atlantic it inspired a ballad, "The Lament On Fletcher’s Shamrock Table On Its Departure for The New York Exhibition"
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Contemplative Dance | Culture File from 2021-03-16T12:00
With some help from Whatsapp and Zoom, dance artist, Bernadette Divilly's work turns out to be gently suited to the socially distanced moment
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Marise Gaughan Is Booking Imaginary Tables For One | Culture File from 2021-03-15T12:00
Writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan has been giving her attention to the reality dating show, Married At First Sight.
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Culture File "Likes": Loré Lixenberg from 2021-03-11T12:00
Experimental vocalist, Loré Lixenberg shares some of the listening, watching, reading, tasting and smelling she's be enjoying
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Pain (Pt 2/2) | Culture File from 2021-03-10T12:00
Philosopher, Jennifer Corns explores the world of pain, in all its degrees, and all its kinds. (Part 2 of 2)
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ACHES does Cork | Culture File from 2021-03-06T01:26:29.467175
With galleries shuttered, the open-air colours of Cork's Ardú street art festival -- including a mammoth hurler by ACHES -- couldn't come at a better time
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Eternal Audio | Culture File from 2021-03-06T01:26:29.464611
At this year's Bram Stoker Festival "Eternal" used audio to create a socially distanced horror event. TCD's Jennifer O’Meara sees it as part of a growing turn from watching to listening.
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Marise Gaughan is Prejudiced Against Billionaires | Culture File from 2021-03-06T01:26:29.455230
Comedian and writer, Marise Gaughan has some radical ideas for curtailing the global pandemic of billionaires.
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The Culture File Debate: Healthy Music from 2021-02-26T12:00
Has music found fresh importance in the pandemic era, via its impact on health and wellness? Musician and researcher, Hannah Davis, Goldsmiths' Prof. Lauren Stewart, Irish World Academy of Music an...
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Culture File "Likes": Mary Burke from 2021-02-25T12:00
Visual artist and grass fancier, Mary Burke, on some of her listening, watching, reading, tasting and smelling pleasures.
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The Colour of Grass | Culture File from 2021-02-24T12:00
Painter Mary Burke's journey into daily life on farms surrounding Limerick captures in oils barns and outhouses, milking parlours and cattle, and grass, lots of grass,
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Artusi & The Italian Art of Eating Well | Culture File from 2021-02-23T12:00
Restaurateur, Giorgio Casari and culinary historian, Massimo Montanari, on the first gospel of Italian food, Pellegrino Artusi's Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well
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The Culture File Weekly Feb 20th: Pandemic Clowning; Weather Culture; Bad Habits; Martini Shot from 2021-02-18T12:00
Simon Thompson on the art of the clown in the post-COVID world, experiences of weather and its presence in human art and culture, Marise Gaughan good and bad habits, and Rob Long's Martini Shot
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Thinking About The Weather | Culture File from 2021-02-17T12:00
A new book, Weather: Spaces, Mobilities and Affects considers our relationship with light, wind, rain and fog, and how the experience of weather finds its way into human culture.
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Tears of A Lockdown Clown | Culture File from 2021-02-16T12:00
Lecoq-trained master clown, Simon Thompson on bringing his clown persona, Clown Noir, online as part of ICO's I Create Online web series.
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Marise Gaughan Has Some Bad Habits | Culture File from 2021-02-15T12:00
Writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan has been thinking about getting clear of some bad habits for the new year. Thinking about it.
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Culture File "Likes": Emer Mayock from 2021-02-11T12:00
Flautist and reanimator of Irish musical treasures, Emer Mayock shares some listening, watching, reading, tasting and smelling pleasures.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: Nature Cure | Culture File from 2021-02-10T12:00
The literary fruit of a crisis in the life of British writer, Richard Mabey is our latest suggestion for building the ideal shelf of nature writing
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The Culture File Weekly Nov 13th | Cuddly pathogens, spontaneous social apps, coffee shop perks & the trouble with billionaires. from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This weekly, the place where cuddly felt figures meet deadly pathogens in the art of Niki Collier, Rob Long on why character is fate when it comes to coffee shops, Aisling Kelliher on spontaneous s...
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Culture File "Likes" | Hugo from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The writer behind the breakfast epistles of Hugo, Michael O'Gorman shares with us some of his watching, reading, listening and smelling pleasures.
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The Culture File Weekly Nov 7th | Aches, Jennifer Walshe, Rob Long and Bram Stoker Festival from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Aches explains why street art is the perfect pandemic form; composer, Jennifer Walshe re-discovers the life of a travelling musician; Darkfield and Bram Stoker Festival rustle up the special chills...
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Culture File "Likes" | Denis Connolly from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Denis Connolly, of the artist duo, Cleary Connolly, shares with us some of favourite reading, listening, watching and tasting pleasures
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Marise Gaughan Loves French People. For Reals | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan hits the beach in the Midi in search of authenticity.
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Martini Shot | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Writer and producer, Rob Long, brings his lovingly acid takes on the US Storytelling-Industrial Complex to Culture File.
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Culture File "Likes" | Zélie Asava from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Writer and academic, Zélie Asava on some of the reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling she's been enjoying
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The Culture File Weekly Oct 22nd | Sean O'Gaoithin, Jennifer Walshe, The Caretaker, Rob Long from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Horticulturalist, Sean O'Gaoithin on the forgotten powers of roseroot; composer, Jennifer Walshe on keeping things Irish online; loss, memory and a Tiktok challenge with the Caretaker; and writer a...
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The Herb of The Athlete | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the garden that surrounds his cottage, near Drumnatinny Beach, Sean Ó’Gaoithin raises plants such as Roseroot, with an eye to their ancient uses.
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The Caretaker's Tiktok Challenge | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Ambient composer, The Caretaker's six-hour work exploring memory loss and dementia inspired a popular Tiktok challenge. It's 2020, after all.
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Culture File "Likes" | Keith Allen from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
York University-based philosopher of colour, Keth Allen shares some of the things he's been enjoying reading, watching, listening to and sniffing.
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Varo | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Consuelo Breschi and Lucie Azconaga, from Florence and Bordeaux respectively, have Dublin's Cobblestone bar to credit for the birth of their New Trad group, Varo
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The Show Must Go Online | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Theatre's flight online sees Dead Centre's To Be A Machine streamed to our desks from Project Arts Centre, and Anu's The Party to End All Parties live on YouTube.
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Marise Gaughan Speaks The English | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Comedian and writer, Marise Gaughan on the roots and resilience of her monoglot status
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Culture File "Likes" | Marise Gaughan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
From her South of France hideaway, writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan sends us some holiday-inspired favourites in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Illuminations | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The latest tilt at the question of what becomes of culture in a world of locked venues comes in the form of Illuminations, an online art space form RTÉ.
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Invisible Light | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How to make the invisible visible is the poetic idea behind the new Crawford exhibition, Invisible Light. But under Level 3 restrictions, it's also a logistical call to arms.
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Another Wave Of Limerick Hip-hop? | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hazey Haze, GavinDaVinci, Citrus Fresh, Aswell, Mankyy, DJ Replay, collectively known as PX Music, on what keeps Limerick's hip-hop scene vital.
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Culture File "Likes" | Gregory Coles from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Academic and author of Single, Gay, Christian, Gregory Coles shares some of his favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
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The Culture File Weekly Oct 3rd | Sara Stridsberg, Rob Long, The Art of The Stream from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Novelist, Sara Stridsberg on novel-writing as a way to discover the real Valerie Solanas, the woman who shot Andy Warhol. Rob Long comes to term with the changing meaning of fame in his latest Mart...
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The Art of The Stream | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What have we learnt about online art in the six months since the pandemic forced armies of artists in front of the webcam? Film studies academic, Jennifer O'Meara joins us to explore.
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Sara & Valerie (Part 2) | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Novelist, Sara Stridsberg on the contrary radicalism of Valerie Solanas (Part 2 of 2)
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Sara & Valerie | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Why has would-be Warhol assassin, Valerie Solanas finally found her allies and her moment? Stockholm-based novelist Sara Stridsberg on celebrating a complex art world figure.
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Culture File "Likes" | Neil Martin from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Belfast composer and musician, Neil Martin, shares some of the TV, music, food and scnets that have been filling his senses recently.
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The Culture File Weekly Sept 26th | Marise Gaughan, Rob Long's Martini Shot, The Meaning of Blue from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week, Marise Gaughan is spreading the body positivity, Rob Long's Martini Shot concerns the search for a happy ending; and even if you hate the phrase deep-dive, that's exactly what Aine Galla...
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Blue (Part 2) | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the second part of our journey into blue, Aine Gallagher looks a little more closely at her blue mug, with the help of the ceramicist, Jack Doherty. Send your images of your special objects to...
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Blue | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
What colour has your Tuesday been, assuming you assign a colour to days of the week?
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Wagnerism (long version) | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his new book, Alex Ross looks at the many and varied supporters Wagner's art found, among everyone from civil rights pioneers to Nazis. (Raw/long version).
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Marise Gaughan Has A Plan to Spread Body Positivity | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Comedian and writer, Marise Gaughan finds the scales tipping against her following the long days of lockdown. So what!
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The Culture File Debate Sept 19th | Cultural Cancellations from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Luke Clancy and panel, this week featuring Alex Ross, Zelie Asava, Gregory Cole and Christopher Riopelle explore the processes lately dubbed “cancel culture”. But are these shifts necessarily novel...
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Wagnerism (Part 2) | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In his new book, Alex Ross looks at the many and varied supporters Wagner's art found, among them pioneering African American theorist, WEB Dubois. (Part 2)
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Culture File "Likes": John Finucane from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Sharing his cultural picks this time, is John Finucane, RTÉ NSO's former principal clarinet
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The Culture File Weekly Sept 18th | Wagnerism, Piano Resurrection, Marise Gaughan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In this podcast only edition Alex Ross on Wagnerism, his epic study of Wagner-lovers and Wagner-haters; a spot of rock 'n' roll piano resurrection in Co Wicklow; and some timely adulting from comed...
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Wagnerism (Part 1) | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Wagnerism is Alex Ross' new study carefully tracing the composer's, let's call it varied, impact on world culture. (Part 1)
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Piano Ressurection In The Wicklow Hills | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In the Wicklow hills therapist, keyboard player and piano technician, Jamie Fox is welcoming near-dead pianos into a vivid new life.
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Marise Gaughan Is Quite Sensible, Actually | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
If you're worried about that thing, just get over yourself, sagely advises comedian, Marise Gaughan.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: A Year's Turning | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Paddy Woodworth places the first observer of Ireland, Michael Viney, on our growing shelf of essential writing about the natural world.
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The Culture File Weekly Sept 12 | David Brophy, Karen Power, Lore Lixenberg, Marise Gaughan, Paddy Woodworth from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This time, conductor, David Brophy on what a COVID-era orchestra looks like, Marise Gaughan on getting to know the family, the Soprano family; Paddy Woodworth suggests we add Michael Viney to the N...
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Culture File "Likes": Paul Herriott | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Presenter of the RTÉ NSO's new online concert series, Paul Herriott, shares some of his daily pleasures.
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Human Nature | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Composer and recordist, Karen Power and mezzo-soprano, Loré Lixenberg on collaborating with humans and beasts in lockdown.
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Marise Gaughan Will Never Be Married to The Mob | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A pause at the global content mills gifted writer and comedian, Marise Gaughan time to consume some classic mobster tv.
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A Symphony Season Unlike Any Other | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra's new season will be performed for audiences at home on their TVs, or laptops, or even phones. Conductor David Brophy on a whole new way of working.
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The Culture File Weekly Sept 4th: Jennifer Walshe's Diaries From A Plague Season from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This pandemic, composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe has been creating a plague diary for Culture File, tracking the moods and moodswings of lockdown and everything after. In this episode, we look b...
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The Culture File Weekly Aug 29th | The Culture File Debate: post-COVID conductors from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
How will conductors thrive in a post-pandemic world where their special skill of bringing people together has little place? Helping Luke Clancy understand the new space conductors must now build ar...
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Culture File Weekly | The Culture File Debate Lyric@Farmleigh Edition from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Recorded live at Farmleigh House to celebrate RTÉ lyric fm's 20th Birthday, musical evangelist, Jane O’Leary, multi-instrumentalist, Emer Mayock, singer, Michelle O'Rourke and Ergodos co-founder, G...
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Culture File "Likes" | Macdara Yeates from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Singer, producer and host of TSEAC's Zoom trad singing session, Macdara Yeates on some of his favourites in song, story, taste and smell.
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Jennifer Walshe's London Diary | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
In our latest post-lockdown diary, London-based Irish composer, Jennifer Walshe remembers a season out of time.
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The Culture File Weekly | TSEAC; Qasim Naqvi; Marise Gaughan; Jennifer Walshe from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
The trad singers of The Seamus Ennis Arts Centre find joy in Zoom; composer and Dawn of Midi mainstay, Qasim Naqvi introduces us to more joy in the form of modular synthesisers; Marise Gaughan uses...
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Qasim Naqvi's Synth | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
With his band, Dawn of Midi on hiatus, composer, Qasim Naqvi fell deep into the world of modular synthesisers.
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Zooming Trad | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Is it possible that Zoom-hosted trad singing events might even have some advantages over their brick 'n' mortar equivalents?
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Marise Gaughan Wrote Her Thesis on ISIS | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Comedian and writer, Marise Gaughan has been wargaming some scenarios for "the second wave" with the help of her knowledge of terrorism and boy bands.
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Culture File "Likes" | Dee Conaghan from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Dee Conaghan, artistic director of Derry-based theatre company, Stage Beyond, shares some of the tv, music, tastes and smells that got her through the lockdown.
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Sun Ra in Outer Space (Remix) | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A return ticket to Saturn and environs in the company of late great jazz pioneer, Sun Ra, with DJ Gilles Peterson at the wheel
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The Culture File Weekly 230720: Hamlet, Price of Derry; Marise Gaughan; Paddy Woodworth; Gilles Peterson from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Hamlet walks the walls of Derry care of Stage Beyond theatre company; we discover some of the various things getting up the nose of Marise Gaughan; make a voyage into the music of Sun Ra, and Paddy...
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: A Sense of Wonder | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Rachel Carson is largely known for her chilling, prescient book, Silent Spring. But Paddy Woodworth believes there is other work from the writer ripe for revisiting
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Hamlet, Prince of Derry | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
A date on the radio saved an Irish update of Hamlet by Derry-based theatre company for adults with learning difficulties, Beyond Stage, from falling victim to COVID-19
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Marise Gaughan Is Getting A Funny Smell | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Comedian and writer Marise Gaughan on the practical limitations to 'cancel culture' and slurry
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Culture File 'Likes': Kate Zambreno from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Brooklyn-based novelist and essayist, Kate Zambreno delivers her selection of the best to read, watch, hear, taste and smell right now
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The Culture File Weekly 170720: (Kate Zambreno, Zelie Asava, Jennifer Walshe, Marise Gaughan) from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
This week on sale in the marketplace of ideas we ghost dogs (with Kate Zambreno) the sensation of a hand sweating inside a hygienic rubber glove (with Jennifer Walshe) bingo mass (with Marise Gaugh...
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Jennifer Walshe's Staying Alert London | Culture File from 2021-01-31T22:10:42.023393
Composer, Jennifer Walshe on post-pandemic fashion, and the hope of a hug
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Culture File "Likes": Meadh McCurtain from 2021-01-28T12:00
Ennis-born IFF perfumer, Meadh McCurtain on some of her favourite lockdown things.
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The Culture File Weekly January 30th: Sarods, Minecraft, Dead flower & Presidental Tips from 2021-01-28T12:00
Jennifer Walshe navigates towards the joy in Minecraft; Clare-based Indian classical music fan and musician, Matthew Noone find his in an electro-acoustic take on the sarode; painter, Catherine Bou...
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A Garden In The Before Times | Culture File from 2021-01-27T12:00
Painter, Katherine Boucher Beug explores her winter garden in search of floral subjects
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Matthew Noone and The Dream Sarod | Culture File from 2021-01-26T12:00
How the musical journeys of Australian-Irish musician and sarod player, Matthew Noone, fetched up in a rainy cabin in Co Clare.
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The Consolations of Minecraft | Culture File from 2021-01-25T12:00
Minecraft might not be the world we want, but it has its attractions, according to composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe
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Culture File "Likes": Matthew Noone from 2021-01-21T12:00
Limerick-based Irish-Australian sarod soloist and composer, Matthew Noone shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.
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Let The #QAnon Games Begin | Culture File from 2021-01-20T12:00
Gaming expert, Reed Berkowitz spies interactive storytelling techniques and alternative reality gaming mechanics in the #QAnon phenomenon.
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Hadi Maktabi's not-so-secret language of the loom | Culture File from 2021-01-19T12:00
Art historian-Instagrammer and dealer, Dr Hadi Maktabi on the woven languages of antique carpets
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Marise Gaughan Hatches Another Surefire Media Concept | Culture File from 2021-01-18T12:00
After deep research in both reality tv and documentary genres, comedian and writer Marise Gaughan has a plan.
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Culture File "Likes" | Matthew Cobb from 2021-01-14T12:00
Zoologist and smell specialist, Prof Matthew Cobb on some of his lockdown resources in books, video, podcasts, wine and food.
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The Story of Chinese Scifi (Part 2/2) | Culture File from 2021-01-13T12:00
Writer and translator, Xueting Christine Ni continues her time-travelling guide to ChiSciFi. (Part 2 of 2)
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The Story of Chinese Scifi (Part 1/2) | Culture File from 2021-01-12T12:00
A journey into the other worlds of Chinese Scifi with writer and translator, Xueting Christine Ni as our time-travelling guide. (Part 1 of 2)
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Jennifer Walshe's Neolithic New Year | Culture File from 2021-01-11T12:00
Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe attempts to orientate herself towards the sunny uplands, using tech both old and new.
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Jennifer Walshe's Plague Christmas Diary | Culture File from 2020-12-23T13:00
Composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe does everything she can to make Christmas happen.
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John Collin's Choral Dub | Culture File from 2020-12-22T13:00
North London music producer, John Collins, best known for his work with The Specials and Lovers Rock queen, Janet Kay, has fallen hard for Tallis, Byrd and Monteverdi.
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Bedside Light Of the World | Culture File from 2020-12-21T13:00
Even with today's Solstice behind us, most of us in these Northern parts are still leaning heavily on artificial lights that may not be pulling their weight.
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The Culture File Weekly Dec 19th: Harold McGee's Nose Dive (XXL podcast-only edition) from 2020-12-17T13:00
Harold McGee, arguable the world's most influential food writer, has just finished a decade-long dive into the world of smell, from prehistoric carrion to the art of listening to fragrance, from ch...
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Culture File "Likes": The Smell Squad from 2020-12-17T13:00
This month's Culture File Debate panel on smell, @Harold_McGee @smellosopher @matthewcobb @AleesaCohene @Meabh_Mc_Curtin, imagine new perfumes for the season.
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The Culture File Debate Dec 18th: Smell from 2020-12-17T13:00
This month's Zoom call takes all the angles on the sense of smell, with an all-star noses panel featuring: writer, @Harold_McGee; perfumer, @Meabh_Mc_Curtin; neuroscientist, @smellosopher; zoologis...
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Listening to Smell with Harold McGee (Pt.3) | Culture File from 2020-12-16T13:00
Harold McGee on why wine writing gets such a bad press, as well as his own sudden brush with anosmia, the loss of the sense of smell that can be an early sign of COVID infection. (3/3. Part of Cult...
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Listening to Smell with Harold McGee (Pt. 2) | Culture File from 2020-12-14T13:00
Harold McGee continues his "Nose Dive" taking us back to some of the earliest flowers, and the fragrant information that filled the prehistoric air. (2/3. Part of Culture File's Scent Week)
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Listening to Smell with Harold McGee | Culture File from 2020-12-14T13:00
Harold McGee, the scholar whose On Food And Cooking inspired a revolution in the kitchen, turns his attention to smell. (Part of Culture File's Scent Week)
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The Culture File Weekly Dec 12th: Jennifer Walshe, Halina Dyrschka, Paddy Woodworth, Rob Long. from 2020-12-10T13:00
This week, Jennifer Walshe's audio diary retraces the composer's first steps back into mid-pandemic Bloomsbury; German director, Halina Dyrschka talks sexism, spiritualism and the never-quite-lost ...
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Marise Gaughan May Have Developed A Vaccine | Culture File from 2020-11-30T13:00
A new lockdown has encouraged/forced comedian and writer, Marise Gaughan to re-familiarise herself with the contents of her kitchen.
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The Culture File Debate Nov 28th | What Cities Want from 2020-11-27T13:00
Luke Clancy and guests explore cities: how they are - and how we dream they'll be; who they serve and who they hinder, with guests artist, Sven Anderson, architect, Noreile Breen, curator, Lar Joyc...
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The Culture File Weekly Nov 28th | Podcast-Only Edition from 2020-11-26T13:00
This time, a journey deep into the darkweb with composer, Jennifer Walshe and her cat. Disco queen, Roísín Murphy starts up her machine, artist, Marie Brett rediscovers the strange tale of the Day ...
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Culture File "Likes" | Niki Collier from 2020-11-26T13:00
Felt virus artist, Niki Collier shares some of the good things in life, in reading, listening, tasting and smelling
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Roisin Murphy's Lockdown Creativity | Culture File from 2020-11-25T13:00
Roisin Murphy on why creativity is like yoga - you have to do it every day - and other lockdown learnings
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The Day of The Straws | Culture File from 2020-11-24T13:00
Artist, Marie Brett's new project was kickstarted by a strange tale from Ireland's 1832 cholera epidemic.
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Jennifer Walshe's London Lockdown 2.0 Diary | Culture File from 2020-11-23T13:00
In her latest lockdown diary, Jennifer Walshe's cat, Nomi, leads the composer down into the darkweb.
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The Culture File Weekly Nov 21st | WhatApp sounds; leafscape art; mountainous literature and sound advice from 2020-11-20T13:00
The clandestine art of the WhatsApp audio message; a leap into Jess Shepherd's leadscapes; the latest volume on Paddy Woodworth's Naturalist's Bookshelf; and Rob Long's well-earned Martini Shot
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Culture File "Likes" | Roisin Murphy from 2020-11-19T13:00
Arklow-reared composer, vocalist and producer, Roisin Murphy shares some of her favourite watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling
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The Art of the WhatsApp Audio Note | Culture File from 2020-11-18T13:00
Are regular users of WhatsApp's audio messaging uncovering fresh avenues of expression and communication?
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Remixing The Leafscape | Culture File from 2020-11-17T13:00
Botanical painter and sound recordist, Jess Shepherd, takes us kicking once more through the leaf-fall.
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Living Mountain | Culture File from 2020-11-16T13:00
Paddy Woodworth's latest selection is Nan Shepherd's elegy to the Cairngorms, The Living Mountain, which spent 30 years resting in the writer's drawer
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Viral Art | Culture File from 2020-11-11T13:00
There are no good guys and bad guys when it comes to viruses, according to Niki Colliers, who creates felt sculptures of her favourite deadly microorganism.
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Spontaneity Rediscovered | Culture File from 2020-11-10T13:00
A wave of apps offers to rewild conversation, explains Prof Aisling Kelliher, by introducing a touch of randomness back into online communication.
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The Culture File Weekly October 30th | Rob Long, Marise Gaughan, Paddy Woodworth from 2020-10-29T13:00
In this the podcast-only edition Rob Long's Martini Shot is full of lies, Marise Gaughan is lost in love with France, Paddy Woodworth on the nature writing of Julian Hoffman, and reporter, Aine Gal...
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pLearning | Culture File from 2020-10-28T13:00
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Learning In The Pandemic* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)
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The Naturalist's Bookshelf: The Small Heart of Thing | Culture File from 2020-10-27T13:00
Writer and environmentalist, Paddy Woodworth adds another book to our shelf of the best nature writing, Julian Hoffman's The Small Heart of Things.
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