Welcome to Five Lamps Arts Festival

I am delighted to warmly welcome you to the 2019 Five Lamps Arts Festival, our 12th annual event, which promises to be another exciting multi-disciplinary showcase retaining the high standards we have built over the past 11 years. The Five Lamps Arts Festival was established in 2007 through Marino College of Further Education and we are delighted with the continued support of the college, which has contributed to the success and growth of the event year on year. Our mission to promote community development and social inclusion through the arts and to showcase the uniqueness of the area - can be seen throughout the programme and we aspire to bring to the community of the North East Inner City a variety of accessible arts experiences in their locality. Most of the venues are nearby and a lot of the artists live in the community. I would like to thank the many supporters and sponsors of this year’s event. In particular City Council and NEIC who have shown great faith, backing and assistance with the festival. A special thanks to Jim Sheridan who has been a continuous friend and advocate of the festival since its early days and kindly agreed to officially launch this year’s event. I am honoured to sit as the Chair of the festival and work with a de- dicated board. I would like to extend sincere thanks to our tireless Artistic Di- rector Roisin Lonergan and her team of volunteers headed by project manager Marcela Parducci. Looking forward to seeing you all at one of this year’s events. I hope that the breadth of programming offers something for each of you.

Sean Mulchinock Chair - Five Lamps Arts Festival Dublin North East Inner City Botanic Gardens The 2017 Mulvey Report Dublin North East Inner City : Creating a Bright Future – The Social and Economic Regeneration of Dublin’s North East Inner City recommended increased opportunities in the Arts and also referenced the merits of “.. a whole community based Arts Festival.” The Five Lamps Arts Festival is one of the best examples of a genuine community based Arts Festival in the city. It has been in existence for over a decade and has become firmly embedded not only in the community around the iconic five lamps focal point i.e. junction of North Strand Road, Seville Place, , Portland Row and Killarney Street but in the wider North East Inner Binns Bridge City area and beyond. Ballybouth Clasac Community Centre Annesley House The Festival has evolved year after year due to the tireless commitment and passion of a core group of people who give generously of their time on a Norman House Cloud Cafe voluntary basis. This dedication to the local community and promotion of the wealth of talent and creativity that exists here is worthy of continued Marino College support by state agencies. I am very happy therefore to commit my sup- Poetry LYCS

port to the 2019 Festival through the North East Inner City Initiative. This Sean McDermott Street Saint Mary’s Road is in recognition of the work that is being done by the Five Lamps Arts Fe- stival to positively promote the area not only during the Festival itself but Talbot Street St Laurence O’Toole throughout the year through their involvement in a range of other activities Marborough Place and events. Liberty Hall Theatre The Grand Social ODEON Point Square I congratulate the Festival Committee on the quality and range of the 2019

Festival Programme and wish it every success.

Michael Stone Grand Canal Dock Chairman NEIC Programme Implementation Board The Return of Spring Every year in Whistleberry Forest, all look forward Monday 1st Monday 1st to the end of the Winter, and to the beginning 10 a.m. & 11.30 a.m. of Spring. This year was different however, as Sean O’Casey Theatre Spring arrived much earlier than usual. All the Booking hibernating animals, except for Huggy the [email protected] hedgehog, were still fast asleep. Huggy must go on a quest in search of evidence of Spring if he is to convince his friends that it is time to wake up!

Project 45 From Monday 1st Project 45’ is an exhibition of artwork made to Saturday 6th by the 4th class students from St Vincent’s GNS. 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. 2019 marks 45 years since restoration began Marino College on The . Its potential as a Free event recreational, educational and ecological amenity was recognised. In a rapidly changing environment, the exhibition presents a vision of The Royal Canal over the next 45 years.

Better than Chocolate, an exhibition From Monday 1st An exhibition of art by members of the Adult to Saturday 6th Programme at LYCS: Lourdes Youth and Commu- 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. nity Services. From beginners to very accompli- LYCS shed, the talent and commitment of the artists is Free event evident in the exciting diversity of this showcase. Ceramics, paintings, drawings, stained glass and sewn works are on show; some are for sale. EXHIBITION Pat’s Chats Community artist Steve Doody has worked North Wall Stories by Paul Kelly From Monday 1st through a series of Poetry slam workshops ‘North Wall Stories’ introduces the viewer to to Saturday 6th with Mr. Haughey ‘s sixth class from O’Connell’s a community that is filled with human stories Marino College Multiple Venues often played out in a very public arena. School event School on Richmond Street through fun poetry FILM Filming is ongoing and the team will produce more info writing tasks, funny sentence construction and Thursday & Friday a full-length documentary in 2020. www.fivelampsarts.ie poem recital, all in front of an audio studio mic! 5.30 p.m. Reading both the work of Pat Ingoldsby and Odeon at the Point masterpieces from themselves. Free event

Let us grow together An Ghaeilge Mór Thimpeall Orainn This is a community project devised by artist Seeing the language Steve Doody. It sees the reimagining and re-ap- ‘An Ghaeilge mór-thimpeall orainn /Seeing From Monday Multiple Venues propriating of unused and underused parts of the Language’ is a photographic project which 1st to Sunday 7th more info Dublin. There are many small areas in the city illustrates the visible presence of the Irish Talbot Street www.fivelampsarts.ie which are closed off to the public, surrounded by language in everyday discourse in Ireland. shopfronts tall metal fences. This will be an investigation into The project is a collaboration between photo- reusing these areas to be of benefit to the city’s graphers Fionán O’Connell and John Carroll. children and inhabitants.

Terrain Group Show A group show featuring artists Cora Cummins, From 1st to Circles, Colour and Light From Monday 1st James Hanley, Jonathan Hunter, Stephen Martina Galvin’s project with St. Laurence 30th April Loughman and Alison Pilkington. Terrain brings 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. to Sunday 7th O’Toole’s newly amalgamated National 8 a.m. - 4 p.m. together artists who have a connection to the School will involve working with Charleville Five Lamps area. They respond to the theme of Mall Library Cloud Cafe 6th Class senior girls, senior infant Free event ‘place’ both physical and psychological. Their boys and girls. Free event work highlights the different approach visual artists take to the idea of landscape. From Monday 1st Art of the Wake, “riverrun exhibition” Finnegans Wake is a timeless masterpiece which to Sunday 7th Carol Wade believes wasn’t written for the academic but 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. for the ordinary man and woman. It is the voice of Dublin, Waterways Visitor the voice that breaks through a dream, filled with humor, Centre, Grand Canal Dock honesty and unpretentiousness. The objective of this Free event exhibitions is to create an environment where this work will resonate with those who view it and begin conversations about Joyce’s Dublin. Carol keeps a Twitter diary recording the progress of her work through individual pieces with annotations and explanations. It is also a means of connecting with like-minded Joyceans. There are almost 5,000 people actively monitoring and commenting on the platform sparking international interest and offers to speak at Trieste, Texas and Mexico City. The Vienna Centre for Irish Studies have bought the rights to use one of Carol’s Finnegans Wake illustrations for their summer school this year. She will also be featured at the Burning Man Festival through a group project. The Exhibition will premiere at the Five Lamps Arts Festival 1st April and Carol will follow to Mexico City, invited to present her work at the Joyce Without Borders symposium in Mexico City in June 2019 and to Austin Texas after that. Comedy Improv for kids What’s the Story?? Danny & Paul love stories - tuesday 2nd Tuesday 2nd silly stories, scary stories, anything-out-of-your- 1 p.m. - 2.30 p.m. head stories and they need your help! These two St. Laurence O’Tooles comedy guys want to bring you on a nonsense, School event fun, gobbledygook journey using your suggestions and their comedy improv skills!

Five Lamps Arts Audio Walks Coláiste Dhúlaigh have made an audio map of Dublin’s North Inner City. There will be several walks; a 1916 adventure, an alternate Universe, another will bring to life residents in various key points along the docklands, and another will look at one day in the life of 5 women in Dublin’s Inner City in 1963. Go to Charleville Mall Library and check the QR Code to get information about the walks. www.soundcloud.com/cdcfe

The Noble Call written by Michael Harnett Tuesday 2nd and THE NOBLE CALL is an emotional roller coaster Wednesday 3rd where Da meets his match in Mona, a strong-wil- 8 p.m. led divorced mother of teenage twins. In a battle Sean O’Casey Theatre of wits that’s often poignant, yet also humorous, Tickets €14/€10 Vinnie McCabe playing Da, and Noni Stapleton as Mona, combine together to produce a powerful and moving performance of Michael Harnett’s new play which is set on the Northside. The Five Lamps Arts Mapping Project wednesday 3rd The people in this area are proud Office we produced the North Wall of the place that they come from map and the Monto map and book- and they want the world to know it. let. We made five films animating We at the Five Lamps Arts Festival the maps and we are producing a have celebrated the area with a se- Sean McDermott street map for the ries of maps illustrated by artist John 2019 festival. We are showcasing a D Ruddy who has collaborated with local mapping project by students from historian/folklorist Terry Fagan and local Colaiste Dhulaigh CDETB where you historian Hugo McGuinness. With follow several maps on your phone or the support of the NEIC Programme other devices.

Mapping the North Wall - Videos https://goo.gl/WzCMpp Fiona Dowling - Public Painter of Postcards The artist will sit at a desk, ready with materials. Wednesday 3rd People come to the venue and tell the artist Cloud Cafe Will you be home for dinner? about a person in their lives that they would like & Thursday 4th A play by Ciara O’Sullivan to get a postcard made for and describe a Wednesday 3rd Marino College Ever get the feeling life’s just screwing with ye a bit? particular image that would be meaningful 7 p.m. 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Two twenty-something girls try to make grown to that person and the artist makes the Marino College Free event up life happen against all the odds in this tragic postcard for them. Tickets €10 comedy set in post-economic crash, housing- crisis-filled Dublin… sound familiar?

Paula Meehan and Colm Keegan - Poetry reading Paula Meehan was born and raised in north inner city Dublin. She studied at Trinity College, Wednesday 3rd Dublin, and at Eastern Washington University. 7 p.m. Her work has garnered both critical and popular Poetry Ireland acclaim. Her poetry has been translated into Tickets €8 many languages. Colm Keegan is a poet from Revolting Women Dublin. He has been shortlisted four times for Wednesday 3rd, A rebel cabaret is about women in Irish history who the Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, for both Thursday 4th, have fought for their country, for their honour, for poetry and fiction. Saturday 6th & love and for respect. Revolting Women remembers Sunday 7th women lost to Irish history, bringing them to life 8.30 p.m. and telling their stories through song, dance, film, “The Magic of Water” with Vanessa Daws Annesley House poetry and drama. It is a show of honesty, disgust, This is an art installation created by local Wednesday 3rd Tickets €10 delight, heartbreak and strength Revolting Women: swimmers with the artist Vanessa Daws. 6.30 p.m. a rebel cabaret is well beyond a night of the arts. The work is based on the myth of Hy Brasil. Sean McDermot St It is a celebration of the power of women. The groups involved have created floating Community sculptures and a sound piece that will be Swimming Pool brought to life with a performance Free event choreographed by synchronised swimmer Aoife Drumm. Bathnight in Henrietta Street Thursday 4th This takes place on the 24th of July, 1969? thursday 4th 11 a.m. & 2 p.m. An important date in the Armstrong household. Ballybough Comunity Why?It’s Bathnight on Henrietta Street. Centre & Lourdes That’s as big as man landing on the moon, any Daycare Centre day! There’s the water, that has to be lugged Free event up the four flights of stairs, then heated the old way, over the stove…

Thursday 4th Monto walking tour 11 a.m. A Walk Back in Time Marino College A walk with Terry Fagan of the North starting point Inner City Folklore Project features stories Free event from around Dublin’s famous red-light Booking essential district known as Monto.

Puppeteer Julie - Rose McCormick Outitude a film by Sonya Mulliagan presents Chinese princess This film tries to get to the core of what it means to be lesbian - exploring what defines Based on a Dai folk legend of an evil Chinese Thursday 4th Thursday 4th warrior King who has taken everything from his us. Conducting numerous interviews and group and Friday 5th 5.30 p.m. discussions with members of the Irish LGBTQI+ people and locked up the Princess in the palace. 11 a.m. Odeon at the Point When a Cricket arrives to help a little old lady who community of all ages and walks of life, the film Sheriff Street - Tickets €10 delves into the lives of rural and urban lesbians, has been bullied by the king, the cricket transforms Marlborough Street to save everybody and becomes a superhero. poets, writers, activists, self-professed bar dykes, School event and queer and curious women. Women Who Rock Writing for a Change: Flash Fiction The “Women Who Rock” will take to the stage Thursday 4th Thursday 4th Competition on 4th April at the Grand Social at 8pm for a very 8 p.m. 7.30 p.m. unique show. Featuring Rachel Lavelle, i am niamh, The Grand Social Botanic Gardens The Irish Writers Centre is Montauk Hotel and Ellen Love. These ambitious Tickets €10 Free event pleased to partner with the National young women each have an incredible list of Botanic Gardens and the Five Lamps Arts musical experience and success and will bring Festival in presenting a bilingual Flash their own unique styles of songwriting and Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction performing to the stage to showcase all that is competition themed around climate change entitled great about Ireland’s female artists. Writing For A Change.

To celebrate the winners, we are hosting a showcase Thursday 4th event in the beautiful surroundings of National Botanic Roxane by Romi Cruanas Gardens, where the four winners will read their winning entries Roxane – is set in the bedroom of a fictional 7 p.m. in Irish and English, from the under 30s and over 30s groups. hotel, a rendezvous point for two online strangers. Sean O’Casey She’s there first. Sitting on the bed, chilly in her Theatre They will be joined by judges Gavin Corbett, lingerie but he’s late. Then she hears the door card Elizabeth Murray and Orna Ní Choileáin, who have been being fumbled with outside… commissioned to write original pieces in response to the Followed by theme. It promises to be a night of good ideas, strong insights and fierce determination to change our ailing world.

Unfit for Purpose All welcome! Mental health is higher on the public agenda Thursday 4th than ever before. ‘Unfit for Purpose’ looks 8.30 p.m. wryly at the faded coping mechanisms of a Sean O’Casey jaded system. When a young man reluctantly Theatre goes to his GP to talk about his depression, Tickets €12 the “eccentric” yet somewhat inept doctor for both plays devises a flurry of treatments. The Image you Missed a film by Donal Foreman ‘The Image You Missed’ is a film that weaves friday 5th Friday 5th together a history of the Northern Irish 5.30 p.m. ‘Troubles’ with the story of a son’s search Odeon at the Point for his father. It has won many prizes in film Tickets €10 festivals all over the world. Q&A after the show with Donal Foreman.

The Song of Amergin by Ciara McElhom A night of original compositions music and song, Friday 5th by traditional musician and composer, Ciara 8 p.m. McElholm. The evening will include a performance Clasac of The Song of Amergin. According to the 11th Alfie Byrne Road Century Book of Invasions, this was the song sung Tickets €10 by the Celts when they first arrived off the coast of Ireland. The concert will feature the Brian Boru Choir and a range of instruments including uileann pipes, concertinas, cello, fiddle, and brass.

Six Days a play by Frank Shouldice This is a re-imagining of Easter Week at North Friday 5th King Street during the Rising. Based largely on 8.30 p.m. the personal accounts of those who lived through Sean O’Casey Theatre those events “Six Days” will be performed by Tickets €12/€10 playwright Frank Shouldice, whose grandfather and namesake was a sniper at the Jameson Malthouse until his arrest. He will be accompanied by cellist Frieda Freytag. STRIKE by Joe O’Byrne Friday 5th Strike-World War-Revolt-War-Civil War is the 7.30 p.m. story of Davy Doran and Rose O’Connor. Davy is from Marino College Gym the North Wall, his father was a docker, who lost his Tickets €10 job after the lock-out. Davy enlists for WW1, despite that fact he is too young, and that his family and in particular his father will consider him a traitor to Ireland. Rose O’Connor was born in London to an Irish woman who left Ireland when she became pregnant out of wedlock. Rose’s mother worked as a servant in a big house, and when she died of cancer, Rose took her job even though she was barely of working age, but it was better than an orphanage. Rose is alone in the world, and when she hears everyone talking about the war and enlisting, she decides to become a nurse and go. Davy meets Rose at the field hospital and a friendship develops. The story is told in the form of a music hall event but it is also a dance-theatre piece, with much of the action movement, gesture, sound and image. About the author: O’Byrne is a playwright, screenwriter and director. He was artistic director of Co-motion Theatre Company and directed a number of his own plays for the company, including Departed, The Ghost of Saint Joan and The Sinking of the Titanic. He also directed many other shows for Co-motion, including Caberet/Kabarett and Frank Pig Says Hello. He wrote the screenplay for the film Korea, and directed his first feature film, Pete’s Meteor, in 1998. Mud Island saturday 6th Saturday 6th Saturday April 6th Mud Island garden is 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. launching its monthly pop up shop Mud Island Garden with cafe, garden tours and live music Free event curated by D Light studios. This is a family friendly event.

The Gramophone Saturday 6th The Gramophone made its debut at the 9 a.m. - 8 p.m. 2016 Galway International Arts Festival. The Outside Charleville larger-than-life gramophone travelled to 3 Mall/Marino College locations every day over the course of a week. Free event It will be located outside Charleville Mall Library and also Marino College on North Strand.

Rainbow Music A fun Music workshop that allows the child to discover their own singing voice through fun Saturday 6th games, dances and songs. We use percussive 10.15 & 11.15 a.m. instruments, such as the gathering drum and Charleville Mall beautiful bells. The Workshops cater for ages Library 18 mths to 6 years and run for 45 minutes. The Free event workshop times are 18mths - 3yrs at 10.15am and 3-6 yrs at 11.15am at Charleville Mall Library. DANCE WORKSHOP Actions by John Scott Saturday 6th ACTIONS is a physical conversation between Act the Maggot - workshop Saturday 6th Four workshops: 11 a.m. 11 a.m. & 12 p.m. two individuals in empty space. Two outstanding Creative Writing for Beginners (over 18s only) - 11am Marino College (gym) Marino College male dancers merge and break apart - a forceful Mindfulness for Beginners (over 16s only )- 11am Tickets €5 Tickets €5 per resistance to merging and the breaking up is the Drawing for Beginners (over 18s only) - 12pm workshop motivation for the movement. The dance material Improv for Beginners (over 18s only) - 12pm is a battle through the space using physicality, lifts, falls, text and sound with the dancers alternately PERFORMANCES throwing their bodies together then fragmenting Saturday 6th into threads of raw movement. ACTIONS is funny 1 p.m. and tender and human. It is performed as a form Migrant Roots - plant based pop-up cuisine at Charleville Mall The focus is on fine dining taster menus, 8 p.m. or “work in progress”. The dancers are engaged in with a large range of world food using Saturday 6th Marino College (gym) a task of executing difficult and exerting dance but traditional dishes from all around the world 12 p.m. also commenting on the dance, their states of mind. and turning them into something completely Marino College With choreography by John Scott and new and tasty, as well as sharing the infinite Pay as you eat music fragments by Meredith Monk and Michael Galasso, ACTIONS possibilities for vegan food and the great displays not only impressive sheer athleticism, but is skillfully placed experience that it can be. and full of small surprises.

WALK Royal Canal Walk+Talk - with Peter Clarke Saturday 6th Come along the Royal Canal and learn all about 2 p.m. how this almost forgotten waterway was built. Binns Bridge This interesting walk along the Dublin section of starting point the canal. It begins at Binns Bridge, Dorset Street. This walk, through canal and local history will TALK take about an hour and a half. Peterr Clarke will 4 p.m. give a talk about the Royal Canal at 4p.m. Charlevile Mall Free event Ballet Poulet The Adventure Project Two world class Olympian-level idiots bring Have a go on the canal. Adventure project Saturday 6th Saturday 6th to you their latest masterpiece. She has will supply you with a wetsuit and a buoyancy 12 p.m. 4.30 p.m. prepared a poetic, delicate and tender ballet. aid so come on and have a go in a Canal Marino College He has prepared a bad-ass display of mayhem. canoe/kayak on the Royal Canal at Free event Free event She loves dancing, he loves chickens. Charleville Mall from 12 noon to 3pm. Nut-cracking and Swan Faking their way into your lives, these two will make you really question which came first…her tutu or his toupée?

Tony Bardon Song Writing Workshop The Songwriting Workshop, which will be held in A Conversation Salon Saturday 6th Marino College, will be facilitated by Tony Bardon Are you tired of superficial chit chat and Saturday 6th 6 p.m. (www.tonybardon.com) and Danai Kelleher, both of long for deep and meaningful conversation? 3 p.m. - 6 p.m. Marino College whom have extensive experience of running Come and be inspired, exchange ideas, Marino College Free event music workshops in Ireland and in Europe. There will gain insights, experience some light bulb Free event be an opportunity to co-write with other moments and emerge with fresh thinking. participants. We will repair to Lloyd’s pub for a Hosted by Heather Bourke. session after the singing workshop.

Punch Lion Kids’ Comedy Family friendly stand-up comedy Saturday 6th Recommended age 6+. Duration 55 mins. 2.30 p.m. Age appropriate show for kids. Charleville Mall library Established stand-up comics from the comedy Free event clubs and festivals make you giggle and grin and laugh out loud at silly jokes, songs and lots of nonsense. Balfolk - European Folklore Band Popular social dance from Western Europe that Saturday 6th has evolved from the recent revival of 5.30 p.m. traditional, mostly French folk dances. Marino College Bourée, Jig, Gavotte, Mazurka, Waltz or Scottish Heartbeat ...It includes partner dances as well as group dances in circle or chains.They are fun and easy to learn, you do not need a partner or experience.

Rob Lowe aka PM Spunk - POETRY He is also a published author & stand-up Saturday 6th comic of an alternative nature. PM is a Visionary. 6 p.m. He is also a promotor and digital artist/ Marino College marketing wiz. PM advocates for Mental Heartbeat Health as he has had to battle his demons over the years and still suffers with crippling A mini festival featuring Music, Dance, Photography, Writing, Exhibitions, anxiety and depression. Literature, Visual Arts, Workshops; activities that can lead us to explore new ways of communication and expression leading to the finding of new abilities. Homeless by Gerry McDonnell Inspired by today’s society and its lack of presence, the aim is to cause This is a monologue by a man living rough in the questioning, sparking a discussion about the way we live and interact Phoenix Park. He cannot remember the event that Saturday 6th with the outer world, focusing on what motivates us from the inside out. has him homeless but he can’t move on until he 6.30 p.m. does. He tries to use the letters of the alphabet to jog Marino College Dreaming while awake, focus on your target and there is no mistake... his memory. He remembers sexual abuse in a foster Heartbeat home. The monologue was performed at The Galway All the folowed events are part of the HeARTbeat. Fringe Festival and at The Ranelagh Arts Festival. It Tickets €10 was published in The Honest Ulsterman in 2018.

photo by Shai Afsai Let’s Set Sail Let’s Set Sail began as a songwriting project Colm Keegan Poet Saturday 6th for two students studying classical music Colm Keegan is a writer and poet from Dublin. 7.30 p.m. Saturday 6th composition. Now it is a 4-piece band, He has been shortlisted four times for the Marino College 7 p.m. tastefully blending acoustic and synthetic Hennessy New Irish Writing Award, for both Heartbeat Marino College textures to produce well-crafted electronic poetry and fiction and has won the All Ireland Heartbeat folk songs. These songs contain honest, Poetry Slam. His first book “Don’t Go There” was relatable lyrics with a distinctly Dublin flavour. released to critical acclaim in 2012. His latest Let’s Set Sail’s EP, ‘The Nothingness of Now’, collection “Randomer” is out now and available is out now on Homebeat Presents. from Salmon poetry.

Stephen Mullan - Ridiculous In a world where order is suffocating and anarchy Saturday 6th brings life, our comedy hero Stevie J has ended 8 p.m. up nowhere. Peanut butter and banana on toast Elga Fox Marino College is the fuel for ideas. He teaches his one-year-old Hailing from Co. Leitrim but now residing in Heartbeat daughter the meaning of life, by speaking whale. Dublin, Elga trained as an actress and singer, Saturday 6th You will have much more important things to do in before delving into songwriting several years ago. 7 p.m. your phone, this show is as our lives: ridiculous. The warmth and power of her soulful mellow Marino College vocals plays credence to her emotive and Heartbeat honest songwriting style. Her blues/folk/Irish overtones echo some of her many influences Peta Hz including Etta James, BB King, Bob Dylan, Sinead Saturday 6th An experience is just about to begin. O’Connor, Tracy Chapman and Luke Kelly. 8.30 p.m. New form to old songs, Peta Hz is a groovy Marino College vibration, a rereading of classic songs that Heartbeat will make you dance; playing with emotions, reviving memories and putting you in tune. Strands by Ellen Love Saturday 6th Aerial Performance 10 p.m. Caroline Toledo (aka Sirius Aerial Performance), A music show composed of dance, Marino College originally from Rio de Janeiro, is a performing artist acting, text and sounds. Many ways to Heartbeat based in Dublin. She has years of international Saturday 6th perceive life & art. Legends to sharpen experience in the performing arts as an actor, 8.30 p.m. your imagination, movement to make dancer and a singer and has been hard at work Marino College you play like a child. Animals and Gods developing her skills as an acrobat and aerialist for Heartbeat presenting deep layers of thoughts. the last five years. She is an active member of the Strands is a visceral performance, featuring a combination Dublin Circus Project, where she trains five days a of Brazilian-African rhythms, jazz and world music. week focusing on aerial rope, doubles acrobatics Exploring frequencies and its effects on peoples perception. and movement. Launching her new single “Lovebele”, Ellen Love intends to reach out to a significant public with the message of dreaming while awake; her show starts at 10 p.m., you better get in time for the storm. Vernon Jane Vernon Jane are a Jazz Punk band. They are a powerful presence live: an incredibly raucous, Saturday 6th unhinged presence. The band strikes you with 9 p.m. a wall of well-crafted, intertwined noise. Marino College For the untrained ear, it can be a lot of take Heartbeat in and make sense of. When they merge on a track; it’s rough, it’s loud, it’s angry. Five Lamps Arts Festival Finale Concert Sunday 7th sunday 7th This final concert is a mix of 7.30 p.m. vibrant energetic music - our last hurrah Liberty Hall Theatre until the next festival 2020. Tickets €10 Street Life – A Vibrant North Dublin Based Rock Orchestra. Formed in 2017, is a community-based Rock Orchestra based in north Dublin. It was formed with two main goals: To offer musicians and singers of the Dublin community a musical continuation in an alternative musical ensemble; To provide the wider community with vibrant entertainment to the highest professional level. Introducing Ireland’s definitive Blues Big Band “The Catfish Blues Orchestra” a truly unique musical experience. Catfish produce a high octane show with blistering guitar, creamy bass, steam train like percussion, melodic vocal work and true blues harp. The band had a very successful 2018 releasing their debut album and single “The Trip” receiving a BBC radio exclusive backed up by multiple live and festival appearances in UK and Ireland. 2019 will be another busy year for the band with the Five Lamps Arts Festival set to be one of the highlights. The Gardiner Street Gospel choir was set up in March 2000 by Kevin Kelly to encourage young people to return to mass and to make the mass a more joyful and meaningful experience for all. The choir have performed in various venues including The Olympia, National Concert Hall and the Gaiety and appear regularly on national TV and radio programmes. They released their first album One Love in 2002 and their first studio album Lift Your Voice in 2013. Cathy McEvoy is the current musical director. Walking tour of the Voyage of Amergin Download a New Original Audio Tour for Sunday 7th Clontarf and take a Sunday Morning Walk 11 a.m. five lamps arts fringe The Song of Amergin through History along the shoreline to participate The Bull Wall in the launch of this exciting new audio journey Clontarf the song sung by the Celts when they first arrived off the coast of Ireland. about the history of the early Celts and the Battle starting point by Ciara McElhom of Clontarf. It comprises original music, songs and Free event Uncut Diamonds audio drama. We will conclude the walk with The presents Song of Amergin by The Brian Boru Choir. “a one and one” Two short plays about contemporary social issues Sean O’Casey Theatre - St Marys Road East Wall Dublin 3 Performances Wednesday 10th to Friday 12th 7.30 p.m. Walking Tour of Sean McDermott Street Sunday 7th Tickets €5 Local historian Hugo McGuiness will bring 2 p.m. people on a walk through architectural history Aldborough House Under Pressure: a story of intimidation from “Lower Gloucester Street” which will starting point “The performance had a very strong impact on the audience with a number take in from Aldborough House up to the Free event of them voicing their own experiences immediately after the play; others Gloucester Diamond. You will get a map reflected how much the performance enhanced their understanding of the illustrated by John D Ruddy. reality of drug related intimation” Lives without fear: what works? Report of a conference Croke Park June 2018

Amber: A girl in homelessland In the footsteps of Sean O’Casey - Walking Tour The story of a young girl struggling to come to terms with the stark reality Sean O’Casey once stood under the Five Lamps Sunday 7th of homelessness that has come to beset her and her family. what is going and promised to write a play that would tell 4 p.m. to happen her dog Rex? Can Amber a bouncing young girl full of dance and the real story of Dublin’s working class. He did The Five Lamps laughter find hope and kindness in a situation that is growing unbearable better and became one of Ireland’s most famous starting point and poisonous? playwrights. We will find the inspiration for Free event “Without self-pity the play hits all the buttons ; the terrible effect on young some of his most beloved characters and hear people the agony of parents and the underling prejudice of some people how he almost lost his life in Easter Week 1916. around the issue. A much see performance”. Fr Peter McVerry. Thank you Thank you to our festival sponsors, supporters and partners, North East Inner City, Dublin City Council, the Arts Office DCC, Arts Council, Waterways Ireland, Meehan Associates Architects, LCDC, Mason, Hayes and Curran, Charleville Mall Library, Poetry Ireland, The Writers’ Centre, The Ode- on Cinema, Sean O’Casey Theatre, LYCS, Volunteer Ireland, the Grand Social, Lloyd’s Pub, Annesley House, Fire Station Arts Studios, Cloud Cafe, local schools St. Laurence O’Tooles, St. Vincents NWS, Central Model Infant School, our me- dia partners Dublin City FM and the principal Mary McAteer and all the staff and students of Marino College of Further Education. Thank you to EU EYE Intern Michael Moudry, Amaride Ferrante and Marco Macaluso. Thank you to the fantastic volunteers headed by Marcela Parducci (Project manager), Juliana Lovato (Marketing & Design), Eduardo Nogueira (Designer & Filmmaker), Sany Dallarosa (Filmmaker), Ellen Love (Artistic Producer) Eoin O’Reilly (Data Analist), Tomas McElhinney (Accountant). And all the amazing volunteers who help the festival to be possible:Taty Verri, Jessica Chika, Alexander Barrett, Jade McGurk, Melissa Vadam, Renata Dias, Juliana Donzelli, Kieran Geoghegan, Sarah Coogan, Susan Marmion, Natalia Ibanez, Marla Gödeker, Dearbhla Ni Dhuinn and many others who support us throughout the year. With the support of Dublin City Council / NEIC Programme Office this year, we developed many different projects with local community groups and local schools. The festival board are working in the background throughout the year to make everything happen and we thank you all: Maureen Hennessy, Deirdre Flannery, Pia Polotto, Mick Rafferty, Laura MacNaughton, Jack Gilligan and chair- person Sean Mulchinock, the festival wouldn’t be the same without your support and advice. Roisin Lonergan Founder & Artistic Director April 2019 Venues Mon 1st tue 2nd wed 3rd thu 4th fri 5th sat 6th sun 7th 9 a.m. Project 45 7 p.m.Will you be 10 a.m.Public Painter 7.30 p.m. Strike by 11 a.m. Act the Maggot Marino College 12 p.m. Migrant Roots Marino College, 171 North Strand Road, D1 10 a.m. North home for dinner? of Postcards Joe O’Byrne Wall Stories 11 a.m. Monto 3 p.m. A Conversation walking tour Salon 4.30 p.m. Ballet Poulet 5.30 p.m. Heartbeat 6 p.m. Song Writing Work