TODAY, at the Triskel Art Centre in Cork A very very very rare opportunity to see the film 'Chumlum' (1964) by experimental american filmmaker Jack Smith  More info: http://filmireland.net/2013/04/30/black-sun-cinema-presents-ron-rices-chumlum/ ......................................  Swift Satire Festival, Trim brings Poetry in Motion to Temple Bar TradFest 2013, Dublin Poetry in Motion Venue: Fownes St.
Lower/Temple Bar Square, and its environs
It’s poetry. And it’s on the move from street to street.
http://www.templebartrad.com/ 22nd – 27th January 2013
Swift Satire Festival, Trim http://swiftsatirefestival.com/ 4th – 7th July 2013 ..................................................................................  Austen + the Irish queer connection Jane Austen scholar and blogger Arnie Perlstein has written a number of amazing miniature essays on the goddess herself. In the blog entry below, he discusses his discovery of a subtextual lesbian link between Pride and Prejudice and the sensational lives of the Irish ‘Ladies of Llangollen’. The Ladies were two aristocratic women from Kilkenny who, in 1778, eloped to Whales and set up household together. Their ‘perfect friendship’ became a key referent and a pilgrimage destination for educated queer people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A selection of The Ladies’ diary and letters, wonderfully prepared by editor Elizabeth Mavor, was published by Penguin a few years ago under the title A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen. As for Austen, the character of Charlotte in Pride and Prejudice, the best friend of the protagonist Elizabeth, has been read by some critics as lesbian. Here is some exciting new scholarship on the Charlotte-Elizabeth relationship, published by Perlstein just as it is being researched (check his blog for updates). Enjoy!
Arnie Perlstein “The Ladies of LLang--- .....Pemberley?: Oh, dear, one case out of ten, indeed!” (December 19, 2011, BLOG of the “Sharp Elves Society: Jane Austen’s Shadow Stories”) http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2011/12/ladies-of-llang-pemberley-oh-dear-one.html  “Latin America at a Crossroads: Globalisation and Regionalisation” conference 23-24 May 2013 Dublin: University College Dublin CALL FOR PANEL AND PAPER PROPOSALS!!! IMPORTANT DEADLINES
For more information, visit: www.sites.google.com/site/laciconference Contact: LACI@ucd.ie TYPES OF SUBMISSIONS We welcome submissions in the form of empirical and scholarly analysis, theoretical papers and creative writing from emerging or established scholars, graduate students, independent scholars, and activists. We invite individual papers and panel session proposals from all disciplines and mixed-methods research.
TOPICS Proposals are welcomed on (though are by no means limited to) the following issues:
ABOUT LACI While Latin America is assuming a new role in global geopolitics and its migrant population is reshaping the USA and Europe, “For most Europeans and (US) Americans, Latin America is still little more than their underdeveloped sibling, its inhabitants pitching up on its shores or struggling across the Rio Grande into the USA. It’s a place of exuberant music, mesmerising football, extravagant beauty, fantastic literature, drug trafficking and guerrilla warfare in short, exotic, dangerous and exciting” (Guardiola-Rivera). In this Conference, we are interested in challenging stereotypical ideas and representations of Latin America presented in the Global North. As a diverse region of many cultures, nationalities and identities, Latin America is part of a complex, globalised world where interesting economic, political and cultural changes have been taking place. This Conference builds upon the previous work that scholars have undertaken in Ireland in seeking to strengthen the understanding of and reinforce the links with Latin America and Iberia. As an international gathering, it will also provide a valuable opportunity for insights arising from conceptual, empirical and activist work in the Latin American context, in turn, to contribute to innovations in the study of globalisation and social change in other parts of the world. Find us on Facebook And The Gathering 2013 Ireland ............................................................................................................................... 1-2 February 2013 4th Irish Psychoanalytic Film Festival (featuring a presentation on a film recently screened at the Film Qlub: Pixote)  ...............................................................................................................................  ............................................................................................................................... Call Me Kuchu (Dirs. Katherine Fairfax Wright, and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, 2012) IS BEING SCREENED AT THE LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA, DUBLIN. DO NOT MISS IT!!!  anyone with an interest in human rights or LGBTQ history and activism should watch this film more info: http://callmekuchu.com/ ............................................................................................................................... Take a look at this Music Quiz charity fundraiser for the GUIDE HIV Clinic on Tuesday, 16 October at 8pm at the George Bar. They have loads of awesome prizes, including hotel stays, spa treatments, drinks, and vouchers for restaurants, cafes, and even tattoos/piercings. It's only 5 Euro to enter the music quiz. All money raised is going towards the New Fill Project, which offeres therapy to people living with HIV who have suffered facial muscle waisting as a result of antiretroviral therapy.  ............................................................................................................................... Irish LGBT Helpline  As part of our National Fundraising Day, we will be holding a Table Quiz in The Front Lounge Parliament Street Dublin 2 on the 25th of October 2012 at 8pm A great night's entertainment is guaranteed and we will also have some great prizes! So come along and test your knowledge while supporting us too! more information: info@lgbt.iewww.lgbt.ie http://www.lgbt.ie/ ............................................................................................................................... GAZE! Dublin LGBTQ Film Festival 2-6 August 2012 GAZE has launched this year's program. And a very fine one it is too! Plenty of good films for everyone. The Opening Film alone has us levitating in anticipation: Circumstance (2011), an Iranian co-production, promises to be a fine addition to the absolutely extraordinary outpouring of brilliant films associated with the country in the last few years. The director of this groundbreaking lesbian film, the Iranian-American Maryam Keshavarz, has been forbidden to set foot on Iranian soil by the government. For anyone who thinks films are harmless pastimes, here is a reminder that cinema matters. It is a powerful tool. It can change lives. GAZE program and Festival information: www.gaze.ie from all of us at the Dublin Film Qlub, best wishes to the GAZE Festival team! ............................................................................................................................... If you have no plans for friday the 3rd, make a mark in your diary... THE GAME  a once-off performance of Louise Bryant's play!!!!
............................................................................................................................... One of our favourite bands plays in the National Concert Hall this friday! The concert takes place in the John Field Room -- the venue is stylish and spacious yet homely and versatile. Just like their music really. [see below for Press Release] ZRAZY Friday 27th July, 1:05pm National Concert Hall, Dublin John Field Room Prices: €15 (concessions €13) Maria Walsh: vocals, flute, percussion Carole Nelson: piano Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson of ZRAZY bring their "unquenchable love of what they do" back to The National Concert Hall. www.zrazy.comMusically sophisticated and lyrically smart, Zrazy inhabit a unique place in contemporary music in Ireland. The garlanded songwriting team of expressive singer Maria and pianist/saxophanist Carole dip into their extensive catalogue of sensuous and sophisticated songs, the fruit of a lengthy and critically acclaimed creative partnership that has yielded five albums. Steeped in jazz, latin, R’n’B and soul, they return for a lunchtime concert guaranteed to put a spring in your step and a smile in your heart. Familiar or new, the OutMusic and GLAMA USA Award winners will leave you with “hips swivelling and brainwaves firing, hungry for more” Siobhain Long (Irish Times) ............................................................................................................................... by Denis Kehoe a groundbreaking literary event Denis Kehoe's new novel is a multimedia experience/experiment: the novel will be serialised on the internet, sections will be read by actors, fragments will be dropped at local spots, extracts will be posted to strangers. And it's all happening in... STONEYBATTER, DUBLIN!!!  [PRESS RELEASE] Traces of the Flood is the new novel by Denis Kehoe, author of Nights Beneath the Nation and Walking on Dry Land. Traces of the Flood is a novel written as a realistic diary/notebook and will be serialised on the Internet as a blog over a seven month period, beginning on 13th July 2012. The project is a site-specific work, related to Stoneybatter and its surrounding area, exploring how a family’s history, as well as an individual’s psyche, can be mapped onto a specific urban space. The diary entries that form the novel will be edited and uploaded to the Internet every day. They will also be printed, aged and sent through the post to a different person connected with the area each day. In addition to this, daily entries will be left in various spots in the district. Readings will take place in homes, shops and other settings, with the author, as well as the residents of these homes, shops etc, reading from the novel. An ‘invisible campaign’ has already started, with copies of the title graphic printed, aged, tied with ribbon and dispersed throughout the Phoenix Park and the streets of Stoneybatter. A notebook brimming with musings, drawings, songs and quotations, Traces of the Flood is the story of an everyday guy living in an ambiguous, post-colonial urban space. It is a book which looks at what we repress as nations, families and individuals, and the traces that remain. www.tracesoftheflood.blogspot.com ............................................................................................................................... Jane McCarthy's "Overtime" A remarkable play. There is a seamless craftsmanship in Jane McCarthy's use of every-day speech, a breath-taking courage in her grabbing the bull of allegory by the horns, and a masterful organization of some deceptively inconspicuous material.  July 23. New Theatre. Be there................................................................................................................................ The New Theatre (in Association with The Alchemist) Presents... 'A PLAY IN A DAY'* Friday 8th June at 8pm  The idea is simple: June 7th @ 8pm the Writers assemble to pen a script, June 8th @ 8am the Actors and Director are given the script... ...and at 8pm they take to the stage, for your enjoyment and for one performance only... *This is a fundraising event for 'Overtime' which runs from July 23rd to July 28th, so entry is donation based! There will also be a cake sale and a wine reception before and after the show. Keep the date! Written by Jane McCarthy and Paul Simon McCarthy, Directed by Tracy Martin. Performed by Crissy O' Donovan, Nathan Gordon, Diane Jennings, Danny Kehoe and Sharon Mannion. Special thanks to Lisa Krugel Email: jane.thenewtheatre@gmail.com Tel: 087-9332844 The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 Website: www.thenewtheatre.com Email: info@thenewtheatre.com Tel: 01-6703361 ............................................................................................................................... SCREENING of C.T. DREYER'S silent masterpiece VAMPYR (1924) with A NEW SCORE by STEVEN SEVERIN (from Siouxie and the Banshees) >>Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, sunday 20 May 2012 A visual meditation on death, lesbian desire, and the power of cinema to make miracles and ghosts
You will remember that in 2010, for our "Silent LGBTQ" film season, the Film Qlub revisited the rarely screened classic gay film "Michael" (1924), directed by Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer. Dreyer's experimental silent film "Vampyr" (1932) is also one of our favourite films. It has a lesbian scene (loosely inspired by the classic lesbian vampire novel "Carmilla", published by Irish writer Sheridan le Fanu in 1872), and, arguably, a gay male subtext. It is an absolutely beautiful film, very brave, and very original. Steven Severin, of classic punk group "Siouxie and the Banshees", has written a new score for Dreyer's "Vampyr"! There is an opportunity to hear it at the special screening of the film in the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, on 20th May 2012. If you are interested in silent films, if you are interested in experimental films, if you are interested in LGBTQ films, or if you simply love GOOD films, this is one for the calendar. ............................................................................................................................... And... two more! The IFI is doing a retrospective of Carl Theodor Dreyer, one of our favourite directors. At our silent gay season, we offered a very rare screening of his gay film Michael (1924). For those of you who missed it at the Qlub, or want to watch it again, check out: http://www.ifi.ie/film/michael-2/ ... We are even more excited about another Dreyer film in the IFI retrospective, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1922), with an absolutely stunning performance by Renée Jeanne Falconetti (pictured above), and filmed with an intensity befitting the subject.
Information on this screening, which features live music accompaniment, can be found here: http://www.ifi.ie/film/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc/ We saw the film with live music a good few years ago in the IFI, and it was an unforgettable experience. ............................................................................................................................... Climate. Culture. Change Film Series  April, May, June 2012 | Filmbase | Dublin PRESS RELEASE Provocative films and discussions highlighting the social dimension of climate change in the lead-up to Rio +20. Designed to challenge, illuminate and inspire, the series presents a panorama of interconnections from the causes of climate change to the roles of individuals and societies in addressing the issues. The films and speakers in Climate. Culture. Change are from six European countries giving an international perspective on the issues around climate change. Cultivate’s Davie Philip will facilitate the discussion after each screening with film makers, activists and scientists. .
...............................................................................................................................  ............................................................................................................................... Here's another silent masterpiece! A film version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring John Barrymore The man with the secret life + the inner demons + the suspicious friends who see another man coming in and out of his house at ungodly hours + the criminality = a gay allegory? You'll have to watch it to decide. 20th of April 2012 8pm Monsktown Parish Church With live organ accompaniment! E 15.00  This screening is a fundriser by filmmaker Robert Mason, who is trying to get his film "Dublin Berlin" off the ground. For more information: ............................................................................................................................... One of our favourite gay writers talks about the work of one of our favourite queer writers. It's all happening on thursday 19th April at 4:40 in the Abbey theatre. Tickets are free but you must book (see below). If you can attend, dont miss this opportunity!!! The UCD/Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures 2012
13 April, UCD: Shakespeare’s Universality: The Revolutionary Imagination Prof. Kiernan Ryan (Royal Holloway, University of London) 19 April, Abbey Theatre: Do You Believe in Magic? Shakespeare’s Macbeth Prof. Frank McGuinness (UCD)4 May, UCD: Shakespeare and World Cinema: Romeo and Juliet Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast)
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............................................................................................................................... JAMESON DUBLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2012 Will screen a number of LGBTQ interest films, such as: Beauty (Skoonheid)
25 February, at 19.30, in The Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield
Beauty opens with a tracking shot through a wedding reception until the camera eventually stops to linger on a good-looking young man. The point of view is that of the father of the bride, François (Deon Lotz). The young man is Christian, ... (click to read more) ............................................................................................................................... 3rd PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FILM FESTIVAL Dublin, 3-4 February 2012 note: the festival has an LGBTQ strand
http://www.independentcolleges.ie/news/3rd-annual-i-f-p-p-psychoanalysis-and-film-festival
............................................................................................................................... Book launch of A.L. Mentxaka's Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity (McFarland, 2011). The book includes a discussion of the influence of film on the work of lesbian Irish writer Kate O'Brien.
BOOK LAUNCH
3 december 2011
[Kate O'Brien's birthday]
New Theatre
Dublin
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GAY FILMS ~ at SHEBEEN FLICK film qlub
(downstairs, Shebeen Chic pub, George st)
18 oct 2011
7 pm
free
 Shebeen Flick is sowing two Irish LGBTQ interest films this evening:
the documentaries Hold on Tight and Growing up Gay
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PRESS RELEASE Film Fatale celebrates summer with Audrey Hepburn in ‘Roman Holiday’
The Sugar Club will be transformed into a 1950s Little Italy for a screening of the perfect classic summer film, ‘Roman Holiday’, on Saturday the 6th of August. Join the young and radiant Audrey Hepburn as princess Ann who breaks free from her regal duties to spend the day frolicking in Rome with handsome reporter Joe Bradley (Gregory Peck). Eat gelato on the Spanish Steps; place your hand in the mouth of truth, hop on a Vespa and ride around this vibrant city at the height of its glamour in the fabulous fifties. All from the comfort of your seat as you watch this timeless classic while enjoying pizza, wine and other Italian delights. The screening will be followed by a Italian-themed after-party with live performances and Film Fatale’s resident DJs, The Andrews Sisters’ Brothers who will play music from the era with a summer twist. The audience is invited to help set the scene by dressing up in their vintage finest, paying homage to 1950s Italian style or mirroring the characters of Hepburn and Peck. Tickets €15 are available at www.tickets.ie from 6th July.  Film Fatale presents ‘Casablanca’
PRESS RELEASE On Saturday the 4th of June, The Sugar Club will be transformed into Rick's Café Américain for a screening of one of the world’s all-time favourite films Casablanca. A screening of Casablanca will be followed by a Moroccan-themed 1940s after-party with “As Time Goes By’ on the piano and DJs, the Andrews Sisters’ Brothers, playing music from the era. The audience is invited to help set the scene by dressing in their vintage finest, playing homage to 1940s Hollywood or going all out with a military or Moroccan theme. Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman) must find safe transport out of WWII Morocco for herself and her resistance leader husband Victor Laszlo (Paul Henreid). With the Nazis hot on their trail, her only hope is old love, Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), an American expatriate and war profiteer who runs Rick’s Cafe. Join in with the battle of the National anthems, quote along with some of the finest dialogue in movie history, and get swept up by the greatest romance of all time. An ageless film that gets better with every viewing, there is no better way to watch Casablanca than with a cocktail in our own version of Rick’s Bar. Film Fatale presents ‘Casablanca’, 4th June at 8pm in the Sugar Club, 8 Lwr. Lesson St., Dublin 2. Tickets €15 at www.tickets.ie. After-party from 11pm with tickets at the door (€5). ). For more information see filmfataleevents.blogspot.com orfacebook.com/filmfataleevents.
 PRESS RELEASE ‘Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!’ star to introduce Midnight Movies / Friday 13th May / The Sugar Club
Midnight Movies, a new series of midnight cult cinema screenings, is delighted to announce that the star of ‘Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill!’ Lori Williams will be introducing the film via Skype on Friday the 13th of May in the Sugar Club, Dublin.
The audience will have the chance to find out first hand exactly what it was like filming one of the biggest cult films ever with one of the world’s most notorious film directors, Russ Meyer.
Midnight Movies will bridge the gap between conventional cinema and late-night fun, playing the best of grindhouse, blaxploitation, exploitation, horror, underground, and cult classics. The opening night brings the must-see cult film ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill Kill!’ back to the big screen. The first film in the history of cinema where a woman kills a man with her bare hands, ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’ has been described as "beyond a doubt, the best movie ever made” by cult film director John Waters (Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby). The film is unflinchingly exploitative, and features gratuitous violence, sexuality, provocative gender roles, campy dialogues and three extremely outrageous, thrill seeking go-go dancers. Tura Satana, Haji, and Lori Williams star as Varla, Rosie and Billy who, while racing cars in the desert, meet a young couple. After taking care of the boyfriend, they kidnap the girlfriend and head on a spree of mayhem. The screening will be followed by a special cult film retro set by DJ Shrem (Andrews Sisters’ Brothers). Midnight Movies launches with ‘Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’ on Friday the 13th of May, midnight at the Sugar Club 8 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin 2. Tickets priced €9 / €7 students (strictly over 18). Doors open at 11pm. Film starts: Midnight followed by DJ till late.
More information at http://midnightmovienights.blogspot.com or www.facebook.com/midnightmovienight.
Turn the Light On 2011 Sunday, 6 March, at the Exchange Collective Arts Centre Exchange street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2. There will be a Networking Session, a Roundtable discussion, an exhibition by local artists, and a series of screenings (including a few world premieres!) For more information on the event, including schedules, list of artworks, film blurbs, etc, please check out the Festival website or the Facebook page. ‘TURN THE LIGHT ON’ – CALL FOR FILM & ART SUBMISSIONS Films and Art by Women: Showcase and Networking Day in Dublin To celebrate International Women’s Day Saturday 5th March 2011, from 11 am to 11 pm. Website: https://sites.google.com/site/turnthelighton2011/ Email: turnthelighton2011@gmail.com  ...........Deaf Film night........... (Selected Deaf Films with English Subtitles)
**fundraising event**
Where: Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin Ticket: €10 Time: 7.30pm
:: Pre-film :: *Raffle* *Great Prizes* Organised by DLF (Deaf Lesbian Festival Committee) Contact: irishdlf2011@gmail.com Website: www.irishdlf.ie Note: the films are not gay themed. |
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