EVA Symposium
OUR next EVA, exhibition of visual + art of international contemporary visual art works, chimes with 2014 City of Culture status. One if its first events will be a symposium straddling Ireland and Marrakesh and there’s a prequel series that begins in Mary Immaculate College this weekend. On Saturday 14, Omar Berrada curates a unit titled ‘Documenting, Rewriting, Forgetting, Excavating: Doing History Justice’.
It’s part of EVA International’s concept of ‘Artistic Justice: Positions on the Place of Justice in Art’ which will be played out in various symposia for Ireland’s biennial. Berrada is from Casablanca and co-curator Doreen Mende is based in Berlin.
Subject matters for the MIC event are: Post-Troubles art in Ireland; anti-colonial liberation struggles in Guinea-Bissau; The Equity and Reconciliation Commission in Morocco; The Rwandan Genocide seen through the eyes of Finnish lawyers; and the Spanish Civil War through the archives of a German writer.
The symposium will conclude with a screening of “Nos lieux interdits” (Our Forbidden Places), directed by Leila Kilani, 2008–9. See.www.eva.ie
Brass Band
ST Joseph’s Church will be venue to The Boherbuoy Band’s Christmas concert this year, taking place on Sunday 22 at 4.45pm before mass at 5.30pm.
Musical director Yianglong Jiang is over this free concert to which everyone is welcome. In fact, it’s just one in a busy month of performance by Boherbuoy, established in 1850 and winners several times over of national titles.
Every December Saturday between 12noon and 1pm, this group performs in Thomas Street. We can hear the result of their well rehearsed pipes when The Boherbuoy Brass Group will play in Crescent Shopping Centre on Friday December 13 and Thursday 19. On the morning of Sunday 22, the band will be in the arrivals hall of Shannon Airport to give homecoming Irish a proper Christmas welcome.
Band rehearsals are weekly on Wednesday nights at 8.30pm and on Sundays at 11.30am and new members are welcome.
Evening of music
ST Vincent de Paul will be beneficiary of the collection at a delightful “evening of music, song and readings” at Grange Church on Sunday December 22 at 7.30pm. The choir is Cór na Nollag which will be accompanied by Noreen O’Sullivan on piano and flute, with Jade Dillon as conductor.
It is a parish venture with 25 singers from Bruff, Grange and Meanus coming together. Admission is free and everyone is welcome to this joyful event that encourages the concept of Christmas as a time for reflection.
All Thumbs
OCCUPY Space’s new headquarters at No. 9 Lower Cecil Street is proving fertile ground for a variety of events. This Friday 13 at 7pm, ‘Hammering it out – All Thumbs’ will trace the narrative of beating stone and the problem of mis-hits.
The audience of artists will hear Mike Fitzpatrick of LSAD and Sean Lynch, along with slide and video projections by Lynch not seen previously.
Occupy Space is to participate in SUPERMARKET 2014 in Stockholm in February with a video installation by Carla Burns whose work looks at self-help and spirituality.
