SPARE ROOM

08/07/2022

PLEASE JOIN US THIS SUNDAY 12 - 5PM FOR A FUNDRAISER OPEN DAY AT LIVING COMMONS ON SHANDON STREET.

We will have CAKE, ARTS, CRAFTS, VINTAGE RAILS, HEAD MASSAGE, and the wonderful STEVIE G will set the vibe. 😍

LIVING COMMONS IS A CREATIVE COMMUNITY SPACE THAT PROVIDES A PLACE TO SHARE IDEAS, NEEDS, EXPERIENCE AND CREATIVE PRACTICE AS A MEANS OF CREATING LONGTERM SUSTAINABLE SOCIAL AND CULTURAL PROGRAMMES

26/02/2022

Act 1: The Apology
https://vimeo.com/679215440
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12/02/2022

06/12/2021

Create and the Irish Local Development Network are delighted to announce Kate O’Shea as the recipient of the Artist in the Community Scheme Bursary Award 2021: Collaborative Arts and Community Development Kate is a multi-disciplinary social practice artist working across printmaking, large-scale i...

28/10/2021

Book your visit to see Next To None! The show runs until 7th November.

Booking: https://a4sounds.org/next-to-none/

We have some spots available today before 4pm and after 6pm if you would like to drop in!

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NEXT TO NONE | MARIA MAARBJERG
22nd Oct – 7th Nov 2021 | A4 Sounds Gallery

Next to None is a multimedia installation exploring the precarity and emotional experience of renting in Dublin. Drawing on her experiences over the past 8 years, Maria uses sound, sculpture and photography to capture quieter moments of frustration, stress and anger living in poorly maintained apartments, and daydreams of a future out of reach.

The stage for this work is a full scale floor plan of the cheapest apartment currently available to buy in Dublin. An apartment not fit for purpose, without a bedroom that will inevitably be purchased by a landlord and released onto the rental market. The work is performed on its unstable walls and a spoken text echoes through the gallery in Danish.

WOWTE Residency Award 3 is in partnership with Fire Station Artists' Studios and Migrants and Ethnic-minorities for Reproductive Justice - MERJ and funded by Arts Council Ireland

Exhibition Documentation: Kate Bowe O'Brien
https://www.boweobrienphotography.com/art-documentation

15/10/2021

https://londonmexicosolidarity.wordpress.com/2021/10/14/journey-for-life-wise-islands-day-1-2-in-ireland/

Days 1 – 3 ★ Ireland ★ The Zapatista delegation breathes in the ocean in the West of Ireland. October 13th. Credit: On the evening of October 12th, a group of Zapatista men a…

12/07/2021

Final week to see Our Demands Most Moderate Are by Fiadh Trevaskis Hoskin.
A4 Sounds Gallery Bookings: https://a4sounds.org/shop/our-demands-most-moderate-are-exhibition-visits/
Tue – Fri | 12pm – 7:30pm
Sat | 12pm – 6:45pm
Sun | 12pm – 5:15pm
We Only Want the Earth is kindly supported by Art Grant Funding 2021.

15/06/2021

Next Tuesday!

Next Tuesday, 19.00

WILLIAM THOMPSON FORUM

Eve Olney
The Living Commons: Reconfiguring the Social for Unknown Futures
Tuesday, 22 June, 19.00 – 20.00
Zoom

The Living Commons is a holistic, social and ecological living, working and learning scheme in Cork city with a focus on aiding the economic and culturally disadvantaged. It is informed by Murray Bookchin’s concept of communalism/libertarian municipalism; Cornelius Castoriadis’s ‘project of autonomy’ as an alternative ‘social imaginary’; and Silvia Federici’s challenges to the patriarchy. This talk explores the project’s conceptual framework, past and current developments, and objectives around social change.

Free; registration via Eventbrite (Zoom link in ticket order email confirmation).

https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/william-thompson-forum-tickets-148063587175?aff=erelpanelorg

Eve Olney is an artist, activist, educator and researcher. Her latest essays can be found in Passepartout’s issue 40, ‘New Infrastructures’ (2021) and the book Enlightenment and Ecology: The Legacy of Murray Bookchin in the 21st Century (2021).


📸: The Living Commons poster. Source: Eve Olney
WILLIAM THOMPSON FORUM

The Cork-based philosopher, politician and social reformer William Thompson (1775–1833) was a progressive thinker and a champion of equality, women’s rights, vegetarianism, trade unionism and the cooperative movement. The William Thompson Forum, initiated and developed by SIRIUS, is a series of talks and discussions, celebrating and informed by Thompson’s ideas and legacy.