Thanks to 30 fabulous supporters of our crowd-funding campaign on www.FUNDIT.ie, we are 173% funded, and can go ahead to celebrate Canada 150 with: TRUE NORTH @ THE DARK ROOM, CANADA DAY, July 1st 2017 Celebrating 150 years of Canada this Canada Day, July 1st,…
We have launched a short crowd-funder to make “TRUE NORTH: Paud Mulrooney’s Irish-Canadian Adventures in Super 8” to celebrate Canada 150 next month at The Dark Room (www.darkroom.ie)! Please jump on board and throw in a tenner to our campaign by clicking here: https://fundit.ie/project/funders/irish-canadian-adventures-in-super-8…
Hitch a free ride with me to former Yugoslavia! After its premiere at the Belgrade-Irish Festival, and subsequent screenings at Photoireland Festival, Guth Gafa International Documentary Festival, and the Sarajevo-Irish Festival Bealtaine Festival at Pearse Street Library are offering another chance to catch my documentary…
I’m delighted that my TG4 documentary Damhsa na hEigeandala/ Dance Emergency is making its CANADIAN PREMIERE at the Irish Film Festival, Ottawa, at 2pm on Sunday April 2nd! It will be followed by a skype interview with yours truly. Here is a…
Set around the narrator’s overlooked inner city Dublin windowsill, on which, according to local lore Eamon De Valera allegedly signed his 1916 surrender, this documentary rescues this lost anti-heroic moment in what has transformed from erstwhile Poor Law Dispensary to NAMA HQ, and most recently…
“Surrender is an active participation with the universe”. Join Yogi & Trailblazer Supremo Kathy Scott, for a special pop-up yoga class inspired by the theme of “Surrender” at FRINGE LAB on Monday February 6th, 6.30pm – 7.30pm (€12). On top of being a longtime wonderful…
On Saturday I was a little shocked to read the Irish TImes Dance Critic contribution to “Culture Shock”, and provoked to pen a letter to the editor of the Irish TImes in response. Here’s the letter. Dear Sir, I was surprised to read…
For Nollaig na mBan [Women’s Christmas & Feast of the Epiphany] this Friday, RTE Lyric FM are broadcasting “Georgie’s Vision”, the first ever documentary about the extraordinary, and overlooked Mrs. WB Yeats. Hear Olwen Fouéré channel George’s voices; Pat Laffan as WB Yeats; the recently…
I really enjoyed playwright Marina Carr’s adaptation of Tolstoy classic Anna Karenina at Dublin’s Abbey Theatre. You can catch this mammoth 3 hour production, directed by Wayne Jordan, with a stunning cast of 21 until the end of January 2017. Read my article in the…
I am busy making my current BAI-funded radio documentary project “Surrender on Grand Canal Street”, for broadcast on Newstalk – more of which when the time is right! In the meantime, I enjoyed seeing Merce Cunningham’s 1958 choreography “Night Wandering”, and John Scott’s ebullient latest…