I was invited to go North in February to see, be part of, help with, a performance week Sinead O’Donnell was curating with others in Belfast. There was to be a Canadian Performance artist one of whom was Paul Couillard. The various Performances, discussions, and collaborations were around the theme “Chaos” A Condition or place of great disorder and confusion and to be held/seen in Belfast’s Catalyst Art Centre, Black box, theatre space, and other Not for Profit Art Spaces.

Hy Mayerson and Sean Corcoran step onboard an Amtrak train in Miami on the 12th of March for a not so ordinary journey. They travel for 30 hours through 11 states covering a distance of over 1500 miles until it reaches New York. The entire journey will be captured on camera. Hy is an experienced videographer and Sean uses photography as a tool of his trade.

Cauliflower is especially plentiful and delicious this time of year. It grows enclosed in its swirling green leaves – and so the head and its undeveloped flowers remain pale (unlike its tan sibling broccoli who grows up near naked). It’s rich in those classically autumnal tastes – milkyness and nuttiness - but is spearheaded by a sweetness which keeps it relevant through spring.

Let’s make this clear. No ambiguity. Culture has been appropriated and compartmentalised and departmentalised and soon that is all we’ll know. Before long culture will become a facsimile of itself - our knowledge will only extend to what we’re sold, spoonfed. Independent thought will become so marginalised that it will become ineffectual – it will longer play a role in our cultural development and makers who refuse to co-operate will be relentlessly driven to the margins, to the badlands. Unseen, unheard, unimportant.

It’s getting an audience in to see a punk poet or a bunch of likeminded people to enjoy your art form and are willing to give up an evening to take a chance on something new. My poetry is inspired by the likes of John Cooper Clarke and bands such as Joy Division and The Fall more than the traditional poets.

Exchange Dublin is a collaborative artspace, an extended tribe, a social experiment, and a bit of a laugh. We were established halfway through 2009, and have been open to the world since October, running a miscellany of groups and projects both within and beyond our walls. These range from visual art and installations (and outstallations), dance, comedy and drama, film, electronica and circuitbending, hardcore punk to hardcore crochet, and any mutant-mongrel genre-halfbreed that can be reasonably be called ‘art’.

This is the second series of tracks that have inspired Stanley most over the last 10 years. He’ll be adding them - 2 or 3 at a time - to the player below over the next few issues. There is a bit of info about each track at the bottom of the page. Enjoy

So. Two people. Initially, at a point, they bumped, in a victual shop, a library, a friend’s home, an educational zone, the work place, wherever. And a magnetic simply was, drawing them, pulling them, tugging them, an increasing centrifugal incongruity propelling an inexplicable, centralising exclusivity, transmuting individuals into one.

 
John, Shelly & the Creatures: Dinosaur
John Shelly and the Creatures are on the crest of a wave, garnering much momentum, with National TV appearances and support from Radio all over, it’s high time Ireland spat out another contender for the International playing field. And John, Shelly and The Creatures are it.
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Jay Flavin is an actor based in Youghal, Co. Cork. He has been a professional actor for the past 6 years and has been in a number of TV programmes and Films including; Ealu 2, The House, Between the canals, The Dark Room, Summer Blues and Walkers. His most recent film, “Between Canals”, was premiered at the Dublin Jameson Film Festival.