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RTÉ News
22-05-2025
- Entertainment
- RTÉ News
Things to do in Dublin this weekend (May 23-25)
From summer markets and walking tours to free film screenings and community street feasts, there is plenty to be doing in Dublin this weekend. South Dublin Summer Markets When: Saturday, 24 May Where: Tymon Park North, Tallaght, Dublin How much: Free entry The Tymon Park North Summer Markets are a weekly outdoor event, bringing together the best of local food, craft stalls, and family entertainment in one of Dublin's most scenic parks. Held from 11am-3pm, these markets are the perfect way to enjoy the weekend with kids, friends, or a solo adventure in the sunshine. On Saturday, the markets will be celebrating Africa Day. Expect artisan stalls, street food trucks, and plenty of live entertainment. When: Saturday, 24 May at 11am Where: Meeting Point: Hippocampus Merrion Square Park How much: €16 As part of International Literature Festival Dublin, James Murray is hosting a walking tour that explores Dublin's intimate relationship with the written word. People, places and texts of the city's queer past are explored on this unique new tour, which runs on Sat 24 May. Suitable for those aged 18 and over. Buy your ticket at ILFDublin. Dublin Dance Festival: Mosh by Rachel Ní Bhraonáin When: Friday, 23 May & Saturday, 24 May Where: Project Arts Centre, Space How much: €22 Get ready to dive into the heart-pounding chaos of the mosh pit, where dance and release collide. Taking place as part of the Dublin Dance Festival, this 60 minute performance is suitable for those aged 12+ and features loud music, smoke machines, strobe lighting and strong language, as well as references to adult topics and violence. Buy your ticket at Dublin Dance Festival. Hike and Film Screening When: Saturday, 24 May Where: Patagonia Dublin, 24 - 26 Exchequer Street How much: Reserve for free Patagonia has released Disaster Style, a new short film series following climber Zoe Hart as she navigates backcountry skiing, alpine living, and the messy, joyful reality of raising two young boys—Mika and Mathias—with her husband Max, in the mountains. The film will have screenings across Europe with a Dublin date set for Saturday, 24 May. Suitable for those ages 8 and up, the morning hike will take place in Glendalough, Co Wicklow, from 10am - 2pm. Then, the screening will open in Patagonia Dublin at 5:30pm, with free kid-friendly food and refreshments ahead of the film rolling around 6pm. Expect little people to be heading home to bed around 7:30pm. Head to Parenting: Disaster Style for more info and to reserve your spot. What A Difference A Day Made When: Saturday, 24 May, 11am - 7pm Where: Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, D07 XKV4 How much: Free / Donations accepted Celebrate the difference the YES vote made with a free community festival in Collins Barracks. This is a celebration of love, progress, and community — and everyone is welcome. There will be live music and performances from Gloria, Dublin Gay Men's Chorus, Choral Confusion and The Belle Harmonics along with some very special guests. Reserve your spot on Eventbrite. Luxury Exchange Pop Up When: Thursday, 22 May - Sunday, 25 May Where: Studio 10 on Dublin's Wicklow Street How much: Free to enter Luxury Exchange, an Irish start-up that curates collections of pre-loved designer handbags, clothing, and accessories, all at incredible value, is popping up in Dublin city centre from Thursday, 22 May - Sunday, 25 May. Each day upon opening the first visitors will receive a raffle ticket with one winner chosen daily to receive a €500 voucher for use in the pop-up. Cookbook Club X TANGO When: Sunday, 25 May from 5:30pm to 8:30pm Where: Camerino Bakery, Blackrock How much: €99-€120 A celebration of heritage, comfort food and bold Argentine flavour, every course of the Cookbook Club's TANGO event tells a story. The intimate event will bring the pages of this colourful cookbook to life through a specially curated menu. Guests will enjoy a multi-course supper at Camerino Bakery, Blackrock, along with a signed copy of TANGO to take home. Authors, Facundo and Pamela, will be there on the night, hosting a Q&A between courses. Tickets available on Eventbrite. Street Feast 2025 When: 24 & 25 May Where: Your area! How much: Whatever you put into food & drinks Host a party with your neighbours on 24 & 25 of May as part of Streat Feast 2025. Sponsored by Tesco Ireland, this neighbourhood network initiative encourages people to bring people together in front gardens, on streets and greens, in car parks, laneways, local parks and community centres. You must register your street feast at Change X and be sure to check out their website to get your free bunting, invites, posters and an informational folder. To kick the weekend off a little early, check out the improvised musical that is set to be Ireland's biggest ever homegrown fully-improvised show! After a year of sold out performances, including Scene+Heard and Dublin Fringe, Bum Notes are taking to the stage of Dublin's Royal Irish Academy of Music's Whyte Recital Hall. Get your tickets here.
Irish Times
09-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Irish Times
Queen of the Meadows review: A compelling, exciting exploration of memory, loss, renewal and the supernatural
Queen of the Meadows Project Arts Centre, Dublin ★★★★☆ Robyn Byrne is an award-winning dance artist based in the midlands. After graduating from Northern School of Contemporary Dance, in England, Byrne returned to Ireland in 2018, gaining recognition as a regular presence in productions by Junk Ensemble, Emma Martin and Philip Connaughton. The artist began developing her own vision in 2020 with O Before I. An evocative piece of filmed dance featuring her mother, Olive, it delved into their personal relationship as a way to reflect on maternal bonds more broadly. Two years later Byrne produced Glimmer, a dance installation that merged AI technology, music and movement. Performed by the propulsive Róisín Harten behind the glass of a commercial shopfront, the work indicated the shape of Byrne's evolving choreographic sensibilities The project also marked the beginning of her artistic partnership with the director Rachel Ní Bhraonáin , which continued with Mosh , from 2023, a heavy-metal-inspired performance involving five dancers and a drummer. READ MORE Byrne conceived Queen of the Meadows after the death of her grandmother, who trusted in folkloric habits such as knocking on wood for luck and using cobwebs to cover cuts and grazes. Themes of memory, loss, renewal and the supernatural filter through this new performance, in which Byrne's regular collaborators are joined by a new face, in the performer Susanne Engbo Andersen. The Danish dance artist, whom Byrne met at Northern, helped her develop the show's choreography, holding work-in-progress events at Dublin Dance Festival and Tanztendenz, in Munich, before this premiere at Project Arts Centre. Queen of the Meadows, created by Robyn Byrne and performed by Robyn Byrne and Susanne Engbo Andersen Queen of the Meadows, which is at Project as part of Live Collision International Festival , begins with a shrouded object slowly rotating in a pool of warm light. With each turn, sheets of diaphanous wrapping uncoil from it as hazy chords, strings and keys oscillate through the air, buoying the audience as they find their seats. When the show begins in earnest the mysterious object has already divested itself of several layers. We realise that beneath the muslin webbing are two people, and so the shroud, which carries connotations of death and burial, takes on a new meaning. Contrasting with its initial funereal impression, it is more like a chrysalis, or amniotic sac, from which the dancers emerge. Wriggling across the stage, these hatchlings perform a postpupation dance that slowly matures and gathers strength. Queen of the Meadows, created by Robyn Byrne and performed by Robyn Byrne and Susanne Engbo Andersen Byrne and Andersen are an excellent duo, highly attuned to one another. Each brings a distinct movement aesthetic to bear, the variation in their styles and capacities compellingly producing moments of disjunction and flow. In one particularly notable episode the performers skilfully reference signature music-video dance movements, though these forms degrade almost as soon as they appear. A brilliant final phase sees Byrne and Andersen engage heads, necks and spines in an intense rhythmic sequence, haloes of hair following the looping movements. Then a crack appears in the background, lightning-like across the stage, revealing a new world beyond. As the show closes, it raises the tantalising possibility of a second birth.
