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 Dublin 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, Amiens Street, 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 Ireland 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 Royal Canal. 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.