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| After much ado, it looks like we’re set to move from our current website to a new one on Wednesday. |
| If things get a little janky during the transition, I apologise in advance – please flag issues with me and I will sort them as quickly and as best I can. |
| Once we’ve made the move and settled into the new site, hopefully it’ll be quicker and smoother and nicer for you to use. You can get a preview here. |
| If you’re interested in these things, we’re moving away from a Newspack-managed, WordPress-based system with WooCommerce handling subscriptions and Stripe handling payments and Mailchimp for email newsletters and Google Analytics. We’re moving to Ghost’s platform, which integrates a website and newsletters, with a Outpost.pub handling our paywall and a few other things, Plausible analytics, and Stripe still processing payments. |
| Little Gems. Over in Anseo, the weekly Little Gem live sessions is bringing out the big underground experimental music guns for Easter Sunday. It’s a double-bill gig, starting slightly earlier at 6pm. Cellist and composer Anna Clock is the night’s headliner, while Alan White, founder of both the Little Gem live sessions and its record label, will be making a rare live outing with the Little Gem Band, playing their first gig in almost two years |
| Casimir Markievicz in Dublin Castle. From Tuesday, Dublin Castle is set to put on display the works of Casimir Markievicz, the Polish painter, playwright, bohemian and husband of the revolutionary Constance Markievicz. With more than 80 artworks and artefacts on loan to Dublin Castle until September, the exhibition will offer visitors a rare insight into Markievicz life and work, while also looking at the historic links between Ireland, Poland and Ukraine. In the case of the latter, his birthplace, Markievicz’s relatives have provided the exhibition his photographs and paintings of Ukraine, many of which, according to Heritage Ireland, have not been seen in Ireland for more than a century. |
| Stories About Nature. Earth Day is coming up on Tuesday, and to tie in with the global event for raising awareness around environmental protection, the Bohemian Climate Cooperative is going to be holding a storytelling session over in the Mono Bar at Dalymount Park on Wednesday evening. Organised in partnership with the grassroots Climate Love Ireland campaign, the night is going to be reflecting specifically on the theme of “nature.” |
| Entangled in the History of the Idea. Opening on Thursday night over in Pallas Projects/Studios is Entangled in the History of the Idea, the new exhibition by Irish-Sri Lankan painter Michella Perera, and the second exhibit in the gallery’s 2025 Artist-Initiated Projects programme. Through acrylic paint, Perera creates a speculative world built on an archive of storytelling and mythology, focusing particularly on those shared within South Asian immigrant communities. As part of the exhibit, which runs until 10 May, Perera will also be organising a two day workshop (3 and 10 May) for adults who are connected to countries with a history of using the Batik dyeing technique. |
| Frustrated Writers Group at the Irish Writers Centre. The Frustrated Writers Group has announced that it is collaborating with the Irish Writers Centre on Parnell Square to deliver a series of talks over the coming months, beginning this month. Featuring novelists, poets, visual art writers and editors, the series, titled Observe, a flea, is set to kick off on Saturday, 26 April, as FWG founder Tom Roseingrave interviews Niamh Campbell, author of This Happy and We Were Young, about her practice. Down the line, between May and October, the talks will also include guests such as poet Stephen Sexton, PVA co-editor Nathan O’Donnell and author and editor Lisa McInerney.Tickets for the 2.30pm talk with Campbell are €5 and can be booked |
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