RESEARCH ON LGBTQ PEOPLE & ANXIETY

--SEEKING VOLUNTEERS FOR STUDY

 Anxiety in Sexual Minorities Study -- funded by the Irish Research Council, the study is headed Conor Mahon, supervised by Professor Pamela Gallagher (Professor of Psychology), and Dr. Gemma Kiernan (Associate Professor of Psychotherapy), and in receipt of ethical approval from the DCU Research Ethics Committee. The team is conducting research to develop a more comprehensive understanding of social anxiety in sexual minority adults, and the factors that may be related to it. For those who wish to be involved, participation involves a one-on-one telephone or face-to-face interview, lasting approximately one hour. Further details regarding our target sample are outlined below.

1. Aged 18+

2. Identify as a sexual minority (non-heterosexual)

3. Believe social anxiety is an issue in their life

4. Speak fluent English

5. Currently live in Ireland

Please contact Conor Mahon directly if you wish to participate and assist with the study.

 conor.mahon24@mail.dcu.ie 

RESEARCH ON TRANS MASCULINITY IN IRELAND

Theresa Schilling is a Gender Studies masters student at Trinity College Dublin. Her research dissertation explores the relationship between offline media representation and the experiences and identities of people living in Ireland who identify as trans masculine. Part of the research I am conducting includes a confidential online survey exploring offline media consumption, and the effects of trans representation in such media.

This survey is for anyone who identifies as trans masculine and/or trans man, AFAB, FTM, or a related identity, and is over 18 years of age.

The survey should take less than 15 minutes to complete

(anyone who participates will be added into a lottery with the chance to win a 50 euro money voucher). 

Schilling wants to honour the experiences and stories of trans masculine people living in Ireland.

The survey can be found at this address:

https://transmascsurveyblog.tumblr.com/.

LAUNCH OF

SPORTING PRIDE IRELAND

association

Sporting Pride is Ireland's sports organisation for the LGBTQ+ community. 

We aim to promote participation in sport which will result in improved mental and physical health in the LGBTQ+ community. 

Sporting Pride follows on from the success of Team Ireland at the World Gay Games in Paris last year.

Sporting Pride is committed to making sport a more inclusive and diverse environment for members of the LGBTQ+ community 

and  promoting the positive benefits of fitness and exercise to one’s physical and mental wellbeing. 

More info:

 www.sportingpride.ie 

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SEEKING PARTICIPANTS 

FOR EU SURVEY

Irish LGBTIQ participants needed 

for EU's largest LGBTIQ survey 

https://gcn.ie/share-experience-impact-lgbti-rights-eu-ireland/

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SEEKING PARTICIPANTS 

FOR NETFLIX SHORT

The talk and screening is free but spaces are limited and should be booked in advance on Eventbrite: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/a-different-country-lgbt-oral-history-tickets-57401403142

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https://www.facebook.com/events/1936360113091311/

In 1918, Arthur Cravan, a now forgotten enfant terrible of art of his time, disappeared after taking off the south coast of Mexico on a sailboat. Cravan, a poet, a boxer, and, last but not least, Oscar Wilde's nephew, spent a significant part of his short life creating an imaginary world populated with real life characters. His work blended reality and fiction with ease and elegance. 

Cravan VS Cravan, a film by Isaki Lacuesta, puts this master of mystification inside an imagined narrative of its own merit. This screening is a closing event of the project The House of Oscar Wilde, as imagined by Arthur Cravan, and will be followed by a discussion led by the curator and the anonymous artist behind the project.

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new study seeks participants: 

Anxiety in Sexual Minorities

Dublin City University

The study is being carried out by Conor Mahon, Professor Pamela Gallagher (Professor of Psychology), and Dr Gemma Kiernan (Associate Professor of Psychotherapy). 

The study has received ethical approval from the DCU Research Ethics Committee.

The overall aim of the research is to further develop an understanding of social anxiety in sexual minority adults, and the factors that may be related to it. After the findings of the LGBTIreland study a couple of years back, the team thought it appropriate to further study mental health difficulties in the community and chose to focus on one of the more prevalent issues in social anxiety. For those who wish to be involved, their participation in the study involves the completion of a 30 min online survey. 

If you would like to participate, please contact:

https://www.facebook.com/Anxiety.Sex.Minority.Study/

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a project on bi visibility in Ireland

a final year Visual Communication Design student at DIT is engaged in a project... 

..."to produce media which increases bi visibility on the streets of Dublin 

which will hopefully gain enough traffic to reach a national level. 

The idea will probably take form as a mural similar to Maser's Repeal the 8th 

or Caslin's George's Street art during the campaign for the Yes vote in the marriage referendum."

She is collecting primary research into bisexuals' feelings on the perceptions about their sexuality in Ireland. 

She is looking for opinions from bisexuals of all ages in order to gather different amounts of life experience. 

 Also, if anyone would like to get involved in the production of murals in the next few weeks, she would like to hear from you:

link: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/QJY5J9N

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Special Screening and Fundraiser 

ASTRAL 

(Documentary)

(Dir. Ramon Lara, Jordi Évole, 2016)

Spanish, Catalan, French with English Subtitles

Post-screening panel discussion with:

Caoimhe Butterly — Resilience Beyond Borders

Caroline Reid — Irish Refugee Council

 Lucky Khambule — MASI 

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Saturday 22 April 2017

2:30 pm.

(doors open at 2pm)

The New Theatre

43 East Essex Steet

Temple Bar

Dublin 2

Suggested Donation: €10

All proceeds go to Proactiva Open Arms

Spanish journalist Jordi Évole embarks on a journey aboard a luxury vessel donated by a millionaire to Proactiva Open Arms, 

a non-governmental organisation from Badalona (Barcelona, Spain) 

whose main mission is to rescue refugees from the sea arriving to Europe fleeing war, persecution or poverty.

The NGO began its work on the beaches of Lesbos in 2015 and has already saved more than 6,500 lives off the Libyan coast. 

For more information: https://www.proactivaopenarms.org/en/

Facebook link: https://www.facebook.com/events/400015480368847/ 

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The Dublin Front Runners, 

a lgbt running club, 

are organising a Couch to 5 km program 

which starts on April 1st.

 It's a 9 week training 

and the aim is to get people running 

so they can participate at our 5km Pride run 

on June 16th.

 More information:  

http://dublinfrontrunners.ie/wp/index.php/event/couch-5k-programm-kicks-off/

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The Wicklow Dance Club is back!

Sat 11 Feb 2017 @9pm

All welcome!

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SEEKING GAY PARTICIPANTS 

IN PROSTATE CANCER STUDY

A Urology nurse in Galway University Hospital is seeking gay men to interview for a dissertation/study 

( part of an MSc. Prostate Cancer Care with Sheffield Hallam University) on prostate cancer.

Prostate cancer mainly affects older men and about 3000 cases are diagnosed in Ireland each year.  

It is the third most common cause of cancer death in Irish men.  

The aim of the project is to conduct a study on the lived experience 

of gay men with prostate cancer in Ireland 

using face to face interviews to collect and record the information.   

All data will be treated in confidence and used anonymously.  

Ethical approval has been granted by Sheffield Hallam University Ethics Committee.

to register interest and/or request a participation flier, contact:

robert.mcconkey@student.shu.ac.uk 

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AUDITIONS!

(nov-dec 2016)

interested in auditioning for a comedy on trans representation in film?

Pondering Media, the producers of this short comedy, 

are looking for an actor to play a trans woman mid 20s +. 

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Ghost Empire: Roger Casement, Human Rights and Missing films

Screening/lecture Wednesday 29 June - 11.30am to 1.30pm Dublin Castle with writer and filmmaker Susan Thomson

In this centenary year of the Easter Rising and the beginning of the end of colonial rule in Ireland, what are the other continuing legacies of British colonialism in a worldwide context?

Currently, British colonial laws (or revised versions) are responsible for criminalizing LGBT people in 39 countries. Ghost Empire is a film project series exploring this legacy in a series of films, on Cyprus, Singapore and Belize which also explore other colonial laws such as sedition or detention without trial which are still in use in many countries. There will be a screening of Ghost Empire § Cyprus as well as clips from the other films. Ghost Empire § Cyprus looks at the internationally unrecognized North of Cyprus, the last divided capital of Europe, and explores the ghosts of European history (and perhaps future) such as nationalism. Similar to Ireland, Cyprus is a divided country, split in two by religious and militaristic nationalisms which were heightened by colonialism, but whose border was finally opened in 2003, paving the way towards a possible reunification. Prior to repeal in 2014, it was illegal to be gay in the North, while civil partnerships were being discussed in the South. This lecture and screening will take place in Dublin Castle, former seat of British colonial power as well as site of historic recent change for LGBT people in the 2015 equal marriage referendum.

In addition, there will also be a short story/performance about the translator for Roger Casement’s Irish Brigade in Germany.

Meet at information desk, State Apartments, Dublin Castle upper yard. To book a place (or for more information), please e-mail: Jenny.Papassotiriou@opw.ie (or tel: 01 645 8812)

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results of new research on LBGTQ mental health in Ireland

 the latest research on LGBTQ social connectivity, 

interest sharing, and mental health, 

conducted in Ireland by Nerilee Ceatha, just published!

http://jrn.sagepub.com/content/21/3/199.abstract?rss=1

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Nerilee Ceatha. "Mastering wellness: LGBT people’s understanding of wellbeing through interest sharing". 

Journal of Research in Nursing, 21 (May 2016): 199-209. 

New Research on Gay Fathers

A researcher based in Trinity College is seeking participants for a study on gay men who are currently fathering children.

The main stipulation is that the men became fathers after coming out, and that their children are currently under 18.

if you are interested in participating, please contact the principal researcher -- details below

Conn Dorai-Raj 

dorairac@tcd.ie

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Dublin, 1916.   

The Irish volunteer army march singing “Óró Sé do Beatha ‘Bhaile”,  

a song about 16th century Irish chieftain Gráinne O’Malley…   

But who was she?

                                                                            Born to Burn productions presents the world premiere of…

                                                                             GRÁINNE              

                                  a ‘trickster’ play about fate, battles, family feuds, history, games & riddles,

                                       based on the life of Gráinne O’Malley, pirate queen of Connaught

A unique collaboration between writers J. Costello, K. Doyle, L. Errity, and A.L. Mentxaka,

and a unique project on the Irish stage: nine women actors perform male and female parts

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TUE 24 - THUR 26 November 2015, @ 7pm

ABBEY HOTEL Theatre

52 Middle Abbey Street, Dublin 1

FRI 27 - SAT 28 November 2015, @ 7pm

PEARSE MUSEUM Theatre

Enda’s Park, Rathfarnham, Dublin 14

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tickets €10

available online or at the door

www.borntoburnproductions.com

fox image by Skia.

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                                                                                The book The Complete Guide to Gay Life for New Explorers, by Michael Ryan, has just been published. 

                                                                                                               To learn more about the book, or forward any queries:

                                                                                                                Email – completegayguide@gmail.com

                                                                                                                Book Website - www.gaycomingoutbook.com

                                                                                                               Twitter - @comingoutguide

                                                                                                                Facebook Page - http://goo.gl/hSQNBc

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Converge/Diverge

At The Back Loft. St Augustin Lane, Off Thomas St

Visual artist Paola Catizone and choreographer Fiona Quilligan 

push, pull, and play with the conventions behind their respective practices.

Where do the lines cross, run parallel converge or diverge?

Setting the initial stage with drawings and objects derived from past live events,

 the artists will gradually build an installation and present a series of performances 

during their week in The Back Loft.

Performances :

Preview:26th of May at 8pm €5

27th and 28 of May at 8pm €10 (€5 concession)

Exhibition opening hours: 

10 - 2pm      

27th - 29th May

Closing Event:

Join us for a glass of wine and view the exhibition on Friday the 29th from 5pm until 9pm. 

Music on the night by DJ Nigel Wood. Free of charge.

Book now on 

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/convergediverge-tickets-16720030060

https://www.facebook.com/events/101697106828395/

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Dublin Greek Film Festival

 23-26 April 2015

dont miss the LGBT-interest, award-winning film...

Xenia 

(Dir. Panos H. Koutras, 2014)

Sunday 26th of Apri

 The New Theatre, Temple Bar

For more information: 

www.greekfilmfestival.ie 

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IFI SPOTLIGHT 2015

seminar

Irish Film Centre

Eustace street, Dublin 2

a day-long space for in-depth critical engagement with current Irish media culture

filmmakers, critics, academics and consumers 

review the Irish film and television output of the last 12 months 

and evaluate the health of Irish moving image culture 

in national and international terms

IFI Spotlight believes that considered reflection is essential 

for the development of a healthy Irish film culture, 

an informed production community, 

and a cine-literate audience

More information and booking:

ifi.ie/spotlight

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Good Dog Theatre is staging the gay-themed play IN ON IT  from April 20th - 25th at Smock Alley Theatre, in aid of Marriage Equality. 

Three intertwining stories about control in a world where accidents happen: a dying man makes plans for the end, a gay couple tries to make it work and a grieving writer struggles to create a play. IN ON IT is a humorous and fast-paced, yet moving piece of theatre which challenges theatre’s claim to be simply ‘realistic’. Through a medley of different styles – from intimate conversations to histrionics, from parody to melodrama, from ironic reflection to candid confession – this play examines and questions life’s uncanny likeness to art and will keep you guessing to the end.

‘Staging of ‘In on It’ an important contribution to referendum debate’ – Irish Examiner. March 26th, 2015

‘MacIvor’s play examines the blurring of lines between reality and art…At its heart is the story of an ordinary gay couple dealing with the universal issues that affect us all.’ – GCN April 2015 Edition

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THE BALTIMORE WALTZ, BY PAULA VOGEL

NEW THEATRE, TEMPLE BAR, DUBLIN 2

7.30 every nite until April 4th!

The Sunday Business Post's 'Don't Miss' event of the week

Some reviews: 

"This is a wonderful production of Vogel's play, acted excellently, never over done, and giving the serious tones their space and due, while allowing us to laugh along the way, showing off some great comedy skills." Red Curtain Reviews

"a series of unlikely vignettes which proclaims the truth that laughter is the best medicine. Well done to the fledgling Blue Heart Theatre Company bringing this American treasure...to the Irish stage." No more work horse

"There are several laugh out loud moments and many giggles to be had......The Baltimore Waltz still packs a punch when it comes to the absurd stigma that surrounds those living with HIV" Review by David Keane

Blue Heart Theatre are having a wonderful run of The Baltimore Waltz by Paula Vogel. Be sure to see it at The New Theatre, Templebar at 7.30pm every night til April 4th. Running time is approximately 75 min straight through. 

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SURPRISE FILM NITE!!

weds 11 march + weds 18 march, at 7pm,

MART gallery Rathmines, Dublin ^.

Curator Jenny Taylor has prepared two art house screenings in MART Cinema

it's a surprise film night -- a fundraiser for the MART gallery programme.

Jenny Taylor is curating a very exciting series of performance lectures at MART

-- a very exciting project, which needs your support

5 EURO -- BYOB

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Butoh Film Festival at The New Theatre - 22nd February. 2015.1-9pm

Curated and organised by Ambra Bergamasco and Fergus Byrne.

Session  ticket €12/€10,   Day ticket    €33/€30.

Educational group rates: €28  Day Ticket for groups of ten or more.

Booking via www.thenewtheatre.com           

Gala Opening

Wednesday 19th November, 20.00

Bande de Filles (tr. Girlhood)

Director: Céline Sciamma

112 minutes // France // 2014

Directors’ Fortnight Selection,

Cannes International Film Festival 2014

more information:

http://www.ambafrance-ie.org/French-Film-Festival-yes-we-Cannes

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CIUDAD FUROR -- FILM FESTIVAL in Dublin

                                                                                                                7th to 11th of November

                                                                                                                            Filmbase

                                                                                                        Curved Street,Temple Bar. Dublin 

Ciudad Furor is a Festival focusing on Urban Space. It is co-organised by the Latin America Solidarity  Centre (Ireland) and CinemaAttic Productions CIC, and funded by the Spanish Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport. It consists of screenings from Latin America and Spain, seminars, workshops and roundtables organised in cooperation with local partners. The aim is to reflect on the urban fabric of cities in Ireland and Latin America and to explore local grass-

roots initiatives which reconfigure public spaces for cultural, economic or social use.

                                                                                                            FOR MORE INFORMATION:

                                                                                                                    www.ciudadfuror.tk   

                                                                                                                        events@lasc.ie

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Fingal Film Festival is feeling generous and they've given a promo code for you all. Buy one ticket and get the second half price on all their 4pm Screenings Fri 26th-Sun 28th! Heres a taster of whats on offer on Friday at 4pm. Comment here and they will send you the code!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meUa-BkRlHo

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The Dublin Gay Men's Chorus, Ireland's newest (and, ahem, only) all-male gay choir, is holding auditions to join our gorgeous troupe of boys on Monday September 15 from 7.15pm-8.45pm in Liberty Hall, Dublin 1.

It's all very informal - auditionees are asked to just sing something they know or even Happy Birthday.

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FESTIVAL PROGRAMME:

The Feminist Film Festival is delighted to announce its feature programme. The Feminist Film Festival is Ireland’s first independent, stand-alone, weekender ‘Feminist Film Festival’* The festival programme includes the IRISH PREMIERE of Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me, a documentary about world-renowned US Emmy and Tony winner who passed away last month. 

Saturday August 30th:

11.30am: Bananas on the Breadboards  - 2009, 54mins (+ short film) [5 euro]

1pm: Persepolis - 2007, 96mins (+ short film) [10 euro]

3.15pm: Orlando - 1992, 94mins (+ short film) [10 euro]

Sunday August 31st:

11.30am: Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles - 1975, 201mins [10 euro]

3pm: Fish Tank - 2009, 123mins (+ short film) [10 euro]

5.30pm: Elaine Stritch, Shoot Me - 2014, 81mins (IRISH PREMIERE) (+ short film) [10 euro]

7.15pm: Final event - 2 x screenings: The Irreducible Difference of the Other (2013, 27mins) & She Had her Gun All Ready (1978, 27mins) and Q&A with the director Vivienne Dick - 90mins [10 euro]

PLEASE NOTE: The short film details will be announced next week. All screenings are subject to licence. Tickets are available on the door or on entertainment.ie from August 9th

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After the sellout success and standing ovations for their show 'Women Dont Bite' in May, Born to Burn productions is revisiting their much loved full-length play...

'The ladies' are back!

The show that caused a sensation last year is on stage again in Dublin for one week only. Do not miss this opportunity to see it in a new production in the stunning setting of the 'Boys School Theatre' at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin.

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Born to Burn productions presents…

A Pair of New Eyes: A Play

by A.L. Mentxaka

~ a multimedia period drama for the crashed generation ~

Sun 24th to Sat 30th August 2014, 8pm

‘Boys School’ @ Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin 

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tickets ON SALE NOW!

Smock Alley Box Office

http://smockalley.com/new-pair-eyes/

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LGBTI Ireland are conducting a new survey on the mental health and wellbeing

of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Intersex (LGBTI) people in the country.

We are looking for your help to reach the widest possible number of LGBTI people in Ireland

and to encourage them to complete the survey. 

All LGBTI people over 14 years of age and living in Ireland are eligible to complete the survey.

 www.lgbtireland.net

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After the enthusiastic response to the play A Pair of New Eyes last year,

Born to Burn productions are back with another groundbreaking project. 

WOMEN DON’T BITE presents, in one show, six short plays by new Irish writers:

rousing, chilling, hilarious, thought-provoking, delightful, and plain mental!

=WOMEN DON’T BITE=

World Premiere: sunday 18th May 2014

First Run: 18th to 23th May 2014

One daily evening show at 7.30pm

Doors open at 7.00pm

B52 Theatre

@ “Bar 52”, Middle Abbey street (across the road from Arnotts), Dublin 1

“The other Abbey Theatre”.

Tickets €10

now for sale on the B2B website

www.borntoburnproductions.com

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BREDA LARKIN ON TOUR

Breda Larkin is a lesbian comedian and performance artist who is taking her one woman comedy 'The Word of Breda' on a tour of Ireland this year, visiting the small and big towns of Ireland via the lesbian and gay network. She has asked us to put her press release on our notice board:

"The Word of Breda, previously performed at the Edinburgh Fringe and the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival, explores life through the triple lenses of sexuality, religion and em...facial hair. My plan is to perform my show in small, smaller and smallest Irish towns, while at the same time exploring themes of comedy, sexuality, religion and gender (...and possibly facial hair) through interactions with members of each community.  My travels begin on the 3rd of June in Ballydehob via Ballinspittle and will finish on the 15th of August in Ballinasloe (my hometown). Now, I just need LGBTQ people to stay with. Anyone out there willing to put me up for 2 nights while I perform my show in your town?"

 You can contact her on thewordofbreda@gmail.com

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the Zrazy Odessa gigs are moving to a monthly interval

They will be the last Sunday of every month

The next live gig is Sun April 27 from 4-6pm , with a Zrazy DJ party dance set immediately after the gig until 7pm

So get your dancing shoes on!

€5 entry

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open discussion event for Catholics:

Who Am I To Judge?

Finding the Joy of Being Fully Human, Gay, and Catholic

weds 26 feb 2014

6-9.30pm /no cover charge

Liberty Hall Theatre, Dublin 1

organised by SIPTU LGBTQ  

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Marriage Equality, Relationship Recognition and Non-Discrimination: 

Securing Equality and Rights?

One day conference

 March 28th 2014, 11.00 – 5.00pm

University College Cork

http://www.uccconferencing.ie/product/marriage-equality-relationship-recognition-non-discrimination-securing-equality-rights/

Email: ccjhr@ucc.ie

Registration Fees      Full rate: €60     Reduced rate: €30     Student rate: €20

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The Dublin Film Festival has contacted us to let us know of a few LGBTQ-interest films in this year's programme. Here they are:

Jameson Dublin International Film Festival

13 - 23 February 2014

A Street In Palermo    Fri 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 8.30pm / 90 minutes.    Director: Emma Dante 2013 Italy/Switzerland/France

Stranger By The Lake   Feb / Light House 1 / 9pm / 92 minutes.    Writer-director: Alain Guiraudie 2013 France

It’s All So Quiet     Sat 15 Feb / Light House 3 / 6pm / 93 minutes.    Writer-director: Nanouk Leopold 2013 Netherlands

Concussion     Fri 21 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 6.15pm / 97 minutes.     Writer-director: Stacie Passon 2012 US

Reaching For The Moon     Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 12pm / 118 minutes.    Director: Bruno Barreto 2013 Brazil

Dual     Sat 22 Feb / Cineworld 8 / 1pm / 102 minutes.    Writer-director: Nejc Gazvoda 2013 Slovenia/Denmark/Croatia

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Comedian Licky Rake is launching a Lesbian Comedy Speed Dating night

on Thursday 6th February,

in Nealons Bar on Capel Street, Dublin.

This is a night made by lesbians, for lesbians.

Licky Rake has contacted us

to offer women with a Film Qlub membership

a half price entry fee - €7 (usually €15)

You can contact Licky Rake on:

lickyrake2014@gmail.com

More information:

www.lickyrakedublin.com

http://youtu.be/Ou2b7Zy291I

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limerick RED RIBBON PROJECT IS ON THE MOVE!

www.facebook.com/rrproject

From September Red Ribbon Project and Rainbow at Red Ribbon Project will be moving premises.

We will bid a fond farewell to our current offices at the end of August but to allow for us to move and relocate we will be closed for a number of days at the end of August and start of September. Some pictures detailing the work that is currently ongoing at our new centre are available on our Facebook Page

Please Note: during the week of September 2nd -8th we will be open temporarily for some events as part of Limerick LGBTQ Pride Festival.

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From Freddie to Louis

a conjectural piece about Louis MacNeice

written and performed by Howard Linnane

http://www.facebook.com/pages/CINE-CAFE.PictureShow

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Taking a Chance on God

(Dir. Brendan Fay, 2011)

A documentary on the life of John McNeill, priest, and gay rights activist

http://www.takingachanceongod.com/

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www.Indianfilmfestivalofireland.ie

facebook/indianfilmfestival ofireland

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TODAY, at the Triskel Art Centre in Cork

A very very very rare opportunity to see the film 'Chumlum' (1964)

by experimental american filmmaker Jack Smith

The annual Cork Wild Women's Weekend, an institution in the LGBTQ calendar and the biggest annual migration of 'Dublin birds', is on this weekend too. If the girls have any time to squeeze in a bit of cinema...

More info:

http://filmireland.net/2013/04/30/black-sun-cinema-presents-ron-rices-chumlum/

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Swift Satire Festival, Trim brings

POETRY IN MOTION

to Temple Bar TradFest 2013, Dublin

Venue: Fownes St. Lower/Temple Bar Square, and its environs

Times: Saturday 26th at the Temple Bar TradFest, 12 noon, 2.30pm, 4pm

It’s poetry. And it’s on the move from street to street.

You stand on the soapbox and you proclaim verse to the passers-by. Some stop to listen, others hasten onwards.

Poetry in Motion is open to all visitors, who are invited to dip into our bag of poetry books and read aloud a poem of their choice. Don’t knock it till you’ve tried it! And it doesn’t cost anything.

This simple recipe has been a big hit in our annual Swift Satire Festival, Trim. Some people come along in period costume, stand in the queue and wait their turn to read outside the local supermarket or the Credit Union or the video store. Others take a few minutes from their shopping to stand and listen; some of these eventually pluck up the courage to step forward and read or recite their favourite poem — and 20 minutes later they’re still there, listening or declaiming! Take our word for it: it’s addictive!

Every half-hour or so, the soapbox is picked up and the group moves to a different location or a different street.

http://www.templebartrad.com/  22nd – 27th January 2013

Swift Satire Festival, Trim  http://swiftsatirefestival.com/  4th – 7th July 2013

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Austen + the Irish queer connection

Jane Austen scholar and blogger Arnie Perlstein has written a number of amazing miniature essays on the goddess herself. In the blog entry below, he discusses his discovery of a subtextual lesbian link between Pride and Prejudice and the sensational lives of the Irish ‘Ladies of Llangollen’.

The Ladies were two aristocratic women from Kilkenny who, in 1778, eloped to Whales and set up household together. Their ‘perfect friendship’ became a key referent and a pilgrimage destination for educated queer people in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. A selection of The Ladies’ diary and letters, wonderfully prepared by editor Elizabeth Mavor, was published by Penguin a few years ago under the title A Year with the Ladies of Llangollen.

As for Austen, the character of Charlotte in Pride and Prejudice, the best friend of the protagonist Elizabeth, has been read by some critics as lesbian. Here is some exciting new scholarship on the Charlotte-Elizabeth relationship, published by Perlstein just as it is being researched (check his blog for updates).

Enjoy!

Arnie Perlstein

 “The Ladies of LLang--- .....Pemberley?: Oh, dear, one case out of ten, indeed!”  

(December 19, 2011,  BLOG of the “Sharp Elves Society: Jane Austen’s Shadow Stories”)

http://sharpelvessociety.blogspot.com/2011/12/ladies-of-llang-pemberley-oh-dear-one.html

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“Latin America at a Crossroads:

Globalisation and Regionalisation”

conference

23-24 May 2013 

Dublin: University College Dublin

For more information, visit: 

www.sites.google.com/site/laciconference 

Contact: LACI@ucd.ie 

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And The Gathering 2013 Ireland

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1-2 February 2013

4th Irish Psychoanalytic Film Festival

(featuring a presentation on a film recently screened at the Film Qlub: Pixote)

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Call Me Kuchu

(Dirs. Katherine Fairfax Wright, and Malika Zouhali-Worrall, 2012)

IS BEING SCREENED AT THE LIGHTHOUSE CINEMA, DUBLIN.

DO NOT MISS IT!!!

anyone with an interest in human rights or LGBTQ history and activism

should watch this film

more info:

http://callmekuchu.com/

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Take a look at this Music Quiz charity fundraiser for the GUIDE HIV Clinic on Tuesday, 16 October at 8pm at the George Bar.

They have loads of awesome prizes, including hotel stays, spa treatments, drinks, and vouchers for restaurants, cafes, and even tattoos/piercings.  It's only 5 Euro to enter the music quiz.

All money raised is going towards the New Fill Project, which offeres therapy to people living with HIV who have suffered facial muscle waisting as a result of antiretroviral therapy.

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Irish LGBT Helpline

As part of our National Fundraising Day, we will be holding a

Table Quiz

in The Front Lounge

Parliament Street

Dublin 2

on the 25th of October 2012

at 8pm

A great night's entertainment is guaranteed

and we will also have some great prizes!

So come along and test your knowledge while supporting us too!

more information:

info@lgbt.iewww.lgbt.ie

http://www.lgbt.ie/

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GAZE!

Dublin LGBTQ Film Festival

2-6 August 2012

GAZE has launched this year's program. And a very fine one it is too! Plenty of good films for everyone. The Opening Film alone has us levitating in anticipation: Circumstance (2011), an Iranian co-production, promises to be a fine addition to the absolutely extraordinary outpouring of brilliant films associated with the country in the last few years. The director of this groundbreaking lesbian film, the Iranian-American Maryam Keshavarz, has been forbidden to set foot on Iranian soil by the government. For anyone who thinks films are harmless pastimes, here is a reminder that cinema matters. It is a powerful tool. It can change lives.

GAZE program and Festival information: www.gaze.ie

from all of us at the Dublin Film Qlub, best wishes to the GAZE Festival team!

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If you have no plans for friday the 3rd, make a mark in your diary...

THE GAME

a once-off performance of Louise Bryant's play!!!!

• • • • Friday, August 3, 2012

      • 7:00pm until 7:30pm

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One of our favourite bands plays in the National Concert Hall this friday!

The concert takes place in the John Field Room -- the venue is stylish and spacious yet homely and versatile.

Just like their music really.

[see below for Press Release]

ZRAZY

Friday 27th July, 1:05pm

National Concert Hall, Dublin

John Field Room

Prices: €15 (concessions €13)

Maria Walsh: vocals, flute, percussion

Carole Nelson: piano

Maria Walsh and Carole Nelson of ZRAZY bring their "unquenchable love of what they do" back to The National Concert Hall.

Musically sophisticated and lyrically smart, Zrazy inhabit a unique place in contemporary music in Ireland.

The garlanded songwriting team of expressive singer Maria and pianist/saxophanist Carole dip into their extensive catalogue of sensuous and sophisticated songs, the fruit of a lengthy and critically acclaimed creative partnership that has yielded five albums. Steeped in jazz, latin, R’n’B and soul, they return for a lunchtime concert guaranteed to put a spring in your step and a smile in your heart.

Familiar or new, the OutMusic and GLAMA USA Award winners will leave you with “hips swivelling and brainwaves firing, hungry for more” Siobhain Long (Irish Times)

www.zrazy.com

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Traces of the Flood

by Denis Kehoe

a groundbreaking literary event

Denis Kehoe's new novel is a multimedia experience/experiment:

the novel will be serialised on the internet,

sections will be read by actors,

fragments will be dropped at local spots,

extracts will be posted to strangers.

And it's all happening in...

STONEYBATTER, DUBLIN!!!

[PRESS RELEASE]

Traces of the Flood is the new novel by Denis Kehoe, author of Nights Beneath the Nation and Walking on Dry Land. Traces of the Flood is a novel written as a realistic diary/notebook and will beserialised on the Internet as a blog over a seven month period, beginning on 13th July 2012. The project is a site-specific work, related to Stoneybatter and its surrounding area, exploring how a family’s history, as well as an individual’s psyche, can be mapped onto a specific urban space. The diary entries that form the novel will be edited and uploaded to the Internet every day. They will also be printed, aged and sent through the post to a different person connected with the area each day. In addition to this, daily entries will be left in various spots in the district. Readings will take place in homes, shops and other settings, with the author, as well as the residents of these homes, shops etc, reading from the novel. An ‘invisible campaign’ has already started, with copies of the title graphic printed, aged, tied with ribbon and dispersed throughout the Phoenix Park and the streets of Stoneybatter.

A notebook brimming with musings, drawings, songs and quotations, Traces of the Flood is the story of an everyday guy living in an ambiguous, post-colonial urban space. It is a book which looks at what we repress as nations, families and individuals, and the traces that remain.

www.tracesoftheflood.blogspot.com

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 Jane McCarthy's "Overtime"

A remarkable play. There is a seamless craftsmanship in Jane McCarthy's use of every-day speech, a breath-taking courage

in her grabbing the bull of allegory by the horns, and a masterful organization of some deceptively inconspicuous material.

July 23. New Theatre. Be there.

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The New Theatre

(in Association with The Alchemist)

Presents...

'A PLAY IN A DAY'*

Friday 8th June at 8pm

The idea is simple:

June 7th @ 8pm the Writers assemble to pen a script,

June 8th @ 8am the Actors and Director are given the script...

...and at 8pm they take to the stage, for your enjoyment and for one performance only...

*This is a fundraising event for 'Overtime' which runs from July 23rd to July 28th, so entry is donation based!

There will also be a cake sale and a wine reception before and after the show.

Keep the date!

Written by Jane McCarthy and Paul Simon McCarthy,

Directed by Tracy Martin.

Performed by Crissy O' Donovan, Nathan Gordon, Diane Jennings, Danny Kehoe and Sharon Mannion.

Special thanks to Lisa Krugel

Email: jane.thenewtheatre@gmail.com

Tel: 087-9332844

The New Theatre,

43 East Essex Street,

Temple Bar,

Dublin 2

Website: www.thenewtheatre.com

Email: info@thenewtheatre.com

Tel: 01-6703361

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SCREENING of C.T. DREYER'S silent masterpiece VAMPYR (1924)

with A NEW SCORE by STEVEN SEVERIN (from Siouxie and the Banshees)

>>Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, sunday 20 May 2012

A visual meditation on death, lesbian desire, and the power of cinema to make miracles and ghosts

You will remember that in 2010, for our "Silent LGBTQ" film season, the Film Qlub revisited  the rarely screened classic gay film "Michael" (1924), directed by Danish master Carl Theodor Dreyer. Dreyer's experimental silent film "Vampyr" (1932) is also one of our favourite films. It has a lesbian scene (loosely inspired by the classic lesbian vampire novel "Carmilla", published by Irish writer Sheridan le Fanu in 1872), and, arguably, a gay male subtext. It is an absolutely beautiful film, very brave, and very original. Steven Severin, of classic punk group "Siouxie and the Banshees", has written a new score for Dreyer's "Vampyr"! There is an opportunity to hear it at the special screening of the film in the Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, on 20th May 2012. If you are interested in silent films, if you are interested in experimental films, if you are interested in LGBTQ films, or if you simply love GOOD films, this is one for the calendar.

http://www.mermaidartscentre.ie/events/details/steven-severins-vampyr1

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And... two more!

The IFI is doing a retrospective of Carl Theodor Dreyer, one of our favourite directors. At our silent gay season, we offered a very rare screening of his gay film Michael (1924). For those of you who missed it at the Qlub, or want to watch it again, check out:

http://www.ifi.ie/film/michael-2/

... We are even more excited about another Dreyer film in the IFI retrospective, The Passion of Joan of Arc (1922), with an absolutely stunning performance by Renée Jeanne Falconetti (pictured above), and filmed with an intensity befitting the subject.

Information on this screening, which features live music accompaniment, can be found here:

http://www.ifi.ie/film/the-passion-of-joan-of-arc/

We saw the film with live music a good few years ago in the IFI, and it was an unforgettable experience.

While "The Passion of Joan of Arc" is not strictly-speaking a gay film, it pays homage to a historical woman who broke with convention in every possible way, by refusing to wear women's clothing, by leading an army, and by believing in... herself. Joan has become one of the most important lesbian and queer icons in history. Guess what? January 6th, 2012, was Joan's birthday -- her 600th birthday!!! What better way to celebrate it than to retrace her steps to glory by watching this amazing film!

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Climate. Culture. Change Film Series

April, May, June 2012 | Filmbase | Dublin

PRESS RELEASE

Provocative films and discussions highlighting the social dimension of climate change in the lead-up to Rio +20.

Designed to challenge, illuminate and inspire, the series presents a panorama of interconnections from the causes of climate change to the roles of individuals and societies in addressing the issues. The films and speakers in Climate. Culture. Change are from six European countries giving an international perspective on the issues around climate change. Cultivate’s Davie Philip will facilitate the discussion after each screening with film makers, activists and scientists.

http://www.cultivate.ie/learning-cultivatecentre-88889030/20-energy-a-climate/1165-climate-culture-change-film-series

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http://www.gaytheatre.ie/ 

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http://www.dayagainsthomophobia.org/-IDAHO-english,41-

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Here's another silent masterpiece!

A film version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde starring John Barrymore

The man with the secret life + the inner demons + the suspicious friends who see another man coming in and out of his house at ungodly hours + the criminality = a gay allegory? You'll have to watch it to decide.

20th of April 2012

8pm

Monsktown Parish Church

With live organ accompaniment!

E 15.00

This screening is a fundriser by filmmaker Robert Mason, who is trying to get his film "Dublin Berlin" off the ground.

For more information:

https://entertainment.ticketsolve.com/shows/126524922/events

https://www.facebook.com/events/202241363222041/

www.dublinberlin.com

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One of our favourite gay writers talks about the work of one of our favourite queer writers.

It's all happening on thursday 19th April at 4:40 in the Abbey theatre.

Tickets are free but you must book (see below). 

If you can attend, dont miss this opportunity!!!

The UCD/Abbey Theatre Shakespeare Lectures 2012

13 April, UCD:       Shakespeare’s Universality: The Revolutionary Imagination

                                    Prof. Kiernan Ryan (Royal Holloway, University of London)

19 April, Abbey Theatre:       Do You Believe in Magic? Shakespeare’s Macbeth

                                                                   Prof. Frank McGuinness (UCD)

4 May, UCD:       Shakespeare and World Cinema: Romeo and Juliet

                            Prof. Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen’s University Belfast)

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JAMESON DUBLIN FILM FESTIVAL 2012

Will screen a number of LGBTQ interest films, such as:

Beauty (Skoonheid)

25 February, at 19.30, in The Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield

Beauty opens with a tracking shot through a wedding reception until the camera eventually stops to linger on a good-looking young man. The point of view is that of the father of the bride, François (Deon Lotz). The young man is Christian, ... (click to read more)

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3rd PSYCHOANALYSIS AND FILM FESTIVAL

Dublin, 3-4 February 2012

note: the festival has an LGBTQ strand

http://www.independentcolleges.ie/news/3rd-annual-i-f-p-p-psychoanalysis-and-film-festival

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Book launch 

A.L. Mentxaka

Kate O'Brien and the Fiction of Identity 

(McFarland, 2011).

The book includes a discussion of the influence of film on the work of lesbian Irish writer Kate O'Brien.

...........Deaf Film night...........

(Selected Deaf Films with English Subtitles)

**fundraising event**

Date: 5th November 2010

Where: Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin

Ticket: €10

Time: 7.30pm

:: Pre-film :: 

* Wine Reception*

*Raffle*

*Great Prizes*

Organised by DLF (Deaf Lesbian Festival Committee)

Contact: irishdlf2011@gmail.com

Website: www.irishdlf.ie

Note: the films are not gay themed.