So, our mutantspace event series has been replaced. Has been amalgamated into something else, something bigger. Something better, The Trash Culture Revue.
The whole idea of the Revue is to create a space that encourages people to try, experiment, fail and play in. It is also about autonomy and no compromise and in order to reinforce that we produce the entire revue with no money. Yep, thats right, none at all, after all that’s what mutantspace is all about. That’s what we’re trying to do – use our own collective skills and resources in place of monetary exhange.   

Our first revue took place between 16 – 20 June 2010 and was a great success. We hosted a number events ranging from gigs to short films, theatre to talks and cabaret to theatre. The revue was produced, managed, promoted and administrated by members of mutantspace.ie arts resource. See previous mutant events page for details on our 1st Revue

THE NEXT TRASH CULTURE REVUE (4 – 6 November 2010)

If you’d like to get involved, have an idea, project, show, exhibition, workshop, talk, film let us know about it at admin@mutantspace.ie
This time round we’re looking to tour the Revue. The idea is that we’ll tour the towns and cities of Ireland of those involved in the revue in January/February 2011.

Why? Well for a start it makes organising venues and accommodation easier as we’ll have access to local knowledge.
Secondly we think it’ll be fun to bring the Revue to peoples hometowns. It could be anywhere small or big and we’ll adjust the revue to fit local venues and performers availability. I’d like to think we’ll pick up new shows on the way, sort of like a neverending tour, a circus. In June 2011 we’ll start the process again.

There isn’t much time left so get thinking, working on it. This time round anyone who wants to get involved in the revue HAS to be a member of mutantspace.ie. If you’re not and want to get involved then just join up. It’s free, will only take a minute to register and has a number of resources you can use for your own personal benefit

FILM

The 4th Mutant Shorts Competition
Friday 5th @ The Savoy Theatre, Cork. Starts at 7.45pm. Tickets: €5
This will be the 3rd Short Film competition in our Room series, the first two being The kitchen and The Sitting Room. This time round we’ll be looking into HALLWAYS. If you want to submit a film please download the form here:

MUSIC

‘Verbum’
Friday 5th November @ the Savoy Theatre, Cork. Starts at 6pm. Free entry
Verbum is a composition for mobile audience using sixteen speakers, and recorded choir. The piece is based on an Escher drawing of the same name

More details to follow…

Bill Coleman launching his EP ‘You Cant Buy Back Your Life’ 
Plugd Records @ The ESB Substation, Caroline St., Cork on Saturday 6th June @ 4pm. Free gig  
Bill Coleman released his debut album in 2003 back when he still had a real job. Since then he’s performed regularly, both in Ireland and the UK, with various people (David Kitt, Heathers, Declan O’Rourke and Grant Lee Phillips to name but a few), making waves with a guitar, a laptop and a whole load of live-recorded loops.

He releases his second album ‘You Can’t Buy Back Your Life’ in October of this year and will bring his live show to Cork on November 6th as part of the Mutantspace.ie Trash Culture Revue.  The event will take place in the home of Plugd Records and the Triskel Arts Centre – the ESB substation on Caroline Street -  and the backdrop to the music will be the special edition artwork conceived for the release.

To individualise each album cover Coleman put 1,000 together and spray-painted them with the name of the record – ‘You Can’t Buy Back Your Life’.  The final piece is nearly 36 metres square, about two stories tall by three parked cars wide.

‘You Can’t Buy Back Your Life’ is out October 15th on iTunes and in all good record stores.

“majorly jazzed up and spaced out…love that record”
Lauren Laverne, BBC 6 Music

‘Welcome to the Breakdown’ – “a seriously energetic piece that should get living people dancing like idiots”
Easy Music for Difficult Ears

“Bill Coleman is making great, great records”
Hot Press

www.bcoleman.com
www.facebook.com/billcolemanmusic

Many thanks to the Triskel, Black Mariah Gallery and Plugd Records for making this happen

Lady Grew
Saturday 6th November @ the Roundy upstairs. Doors @ 10pm. Tickets: €7/5
Lady Grew  is a singer/rapper hailing from Ohio via NYC. In Ireland, she has worked with Pearsquasher and Prince Kong (look out for her EP with Kong coming out in October), and currently gigs with Selekta Jahmaica.  Singing in a punky reggae hip-hop style, and together with her back-up dancers “the Flygirls”, Lady Grew leads a fiercely cheeky cheerleading squad.
www.myspace.com/ladygrewmusic

Chunky Planet + Miss Paula Flynn + Wasps vs Humans
Friday 5th @ The Crane Lane Theatre, Cork. Starts @ 9pm. Free event 
A husband and wife collaboration, Chunky Planet’s commentary style lyrics and alternative indie/folk sound is no recipe for nostalgic love songs. A ‘tell it how you see it’ approach, they switch from the sweet to the absurd, always bringing a certain edge and rawness to their music.

“Chunky Planet make it work because they think and play outside the box”
HOTPress Magazine
 
“Chunky Planet…Cork’s most likely candidates for better things”…
Tony Clayton-Lea, Irish Times

“Gripping Rhythms coupled with some wonderfully punchy vocals…like any good E.P it has the listener wanting more.”
LEG
 
A native of Forkhill, Co. Armagh, Paula Flynn grew up listening to the country, folk and bluegrass records that she found at home. Singing came naturally and she spent her teenage years winning talent competitions and sharing stages with iconic Irish figures like Joe Dolan. In the intervening years the voice has been put to good use accompanying agit-folk anti-hero Jinx Lennon in gigs at home and abroad as well as in the studio.

“An enchanting balladeer, Miss Paula Flynn is blessed with crystal clarity of expression reminiscent of classic country singers such as June Carter Cash and more contemporary exponents like Rilo Kiley’s Jenny Lewis”. (Limerick Event Guide)

“A soulful female, pure as driven”
Everett True – Plan B magazine

“Her goosebump inducing vocals go down a storm. She really gives it her all on stage”
Tribune Life

Tango Avenue
Saturday 6th @ Upstairs in Meades. Starts: 10pm. Tickets: €5
Tango Avenue is a Cork based Tango Trio that consists of Marcello Bruno (Piano, vocal), Fidelma Nuget (Accordion), Kathryn Doehner (Violin). Tango Avenue plays traditional Tango songs by well known composers such as Astor Piazzolla, Carlos Gardell and Osvaldo Pugliese 

LITERATURE

Catching the Moon with Coffee, Chocolate and Poetry
Saturday 6th @ O’Conaill’s Chocolate Shop, French Church street, Cork. Starts @ 1pm. Free event 
Four writers present a poetry performance which flows between their unique voices, each addressing the vibrant themes of love + sex; men and women; nature and home; body + soul

The performance lasts 50 minutes. Each woman will briefly introduce one of the themes, followed in each case by the reading of 2 poems on that theme by each of the performers. This format is designed to keep the listeners’ interest and highlight differences as well as resonances between very different poems. Catching the Moon is a project in development and the intention is to include music and photographic projections in future events.

Originally from a farm in Roscommon, Jane Clarke now lives in Wicklow. She has published widely and awards include Listowel Writers Week (2007); runner-up in the 2009 Fish Poetry Prize and the 2010 Windows Publications Prize. In 2009 she was selected for the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. She is currently studying for an MPhil in Writing with the University of Glamorgan, Wales. Her contemplative, lyrical poems with evocative rural imagery have an eye for the moments in life that might otherwise pass unnoticed.
 
Kathy D’Arcy is a Cork poet whose first collection, Encounter, was recently published by Lapwing Publications.  She currently studies and teaches Irish women’s literature, and works with homeless teenagers, but she originally qualified and worked as a doctor.  She writes musical accompaniments to some of her poems, and has been involved in theatre, dance and performance for many years.  Her short play, ‘Retreat’, was performed in the Granary Theatre in 2008. 

‘Encounter is the best first collection of poetry I’ve read for a long time’
Ian Parks

Shirley McClure was winner of  Cork Literary Review’s Manuscript  Competition 2009 and runner-up in the Patrick Kavanagh Poetry Award 2009, her début collection of poetry, Who’s Counting? (Bradshaw Books) will be launched by Poetry Ireland in September 2010.

“Quirky and wise, studded with razor-sharp double entendres and droll fantasies, these poems introduce a refreshing new voice in Irish poetry”
Bloodaxe poet Katie Donovan

Tina Pisco’s publications include two best-selling novels, translated into five different languages: “Only a Paper Moon” (Poolbeg 1998), and “Catch the Magpie” (Poolbeg 1999); a collection of newspaper columns: “A West Cork Life”, and a cookbook “West Cork Fusion” (both Random Animals Press). Included in the first Fish Short Story Prize Anthology, she was shortlisted for both RTE’s Storyland project, and Best Documentary and Best of Cork in the 2010 Fastnet Short Film Festival.
Writer-in-Residence at Tigh Filí, Cork, Tina Pisco’s first collection of poetry, “She Be” (Bradshaw Books) – about love life and laundry – will be launched at the Irish Writers Centre on November 4th 2010

THEATRE

Mutant Cabaret
Thursday 4th @ the Roundy upstairs. Doors @ 9pm. Tickets: €5
We’ll be co-producing this with the Glor Sessions from Dublin. If anyone is interested in taking a 10 - 15 minute spot please email me at admin@mutantspace.ie. We’re looking for odd mutant pieces of everything from poetry to theatre, music to art, comedy to dance and all else besides  

This is My Constitution by Ungovernable Bodies
Friday 5th + Saturday 6th @ upstairs in Meades. Doors: 7.45pm Tickets: €5
A unique piece drawing on previously-unused archive material;
a work of recovery, allowing forgotten voices to speak;
a celebration of Irish women’s history and of Irish women today;
a shocking comedy
a shocking tragedy
a challenge

‘This is my Constitution’ is based in part on material held in the National Archives, which documents the campaign initiated and run by Irish women in 1937 to have the wording of the proposed Irish Constitution changed. The wording in question stated (and still does) that ‘by her life within the home woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved’.

Over the course of the year, many talented and influential women wrote to de Valera and to the newspapers, and their eloquent and generally ignored or derided letters are the subject of the first part of this piece of work. We believe that these voices deserve to be heard again, and that what is said in the letters is as relevant today as it was in 1937, when the president and the press chose not to hear.
In the second part of the piece Ann Rossiter – one of the foremost pro-choice campaigners in Ireland -  will  be bringing the concerns of Irish women into the 21st century, where our ‘constitutions’ are still being controlled by ‘our’ constitution.   

If you’d like to get involved in any of these above events, in any capacity, or have ideas you’d like to try out let me know, anything at all from kids events to feasts, workshops to exhibitions, gardening to talks and so on. If you can help please get in touch. Deadline for ideas is Friday 24th September