Five For Your Radar: Cork Tea Dance, Bridgerton, and more...
Evelyn Grant and Bridgerton are included in this week's Five For Your Radar.
A midwinter music and arts weekender, A Sliver of Light returns to Hotel Doolin for its second edition, inviting us all to escape to the edge of the island together. It features a stellar lineup, such as German electronic act Session Victim, Berlin DJ Nick Hoppner, and Icelandic singer JFDR. Irish acts - all names to keep an eye on in the year ahead - include Citrus Fresh, Goldbug, and, Smithereens. Lyric Fm will be hosting and broadcasting a special edition of their acclaimed show Ambient Orbit live from the festival too.
The Triskel has been marking what would have been the director’s 80th birthday with , screening some of cinema’s defining cult classics.
As they explain, the term ‘Lynchian’ is used to describe something that has a dreamlike quality with an air of mystery or menace. His work was also laced with a wonderfully off-the-wall sense of humour. has been dubbed by some as the greatest film of the century so far — what better way to experience it — and Naomi Watts’ breakout performance — than on the big screen?
City Hall plays host to the annual intergenerational “Tea Dance” this weekend, with Evelyn Grant and the Cork Pops Orchestra leading a programme of Strauss waltzes and polkas for the composer’s 200th anniversary.
The floor will be kept busy by winner Keith Hanley and rising star Emma Sophia, 9, with young people invited to bring an older person or a group of older people to the ‘Ball’. Proceeds from the day will benefit the Ethiopian Deaf Project.
George Saunders follows up his debut novel — winner of the 2017 Booker Prize — with a darkly funny and freely imaginative novel set at the bedside of oil tycoon KJ Boone in the final hours of his life.
As Boone insists he has nothing to regret, a parade of human, animal, and otherworldly visitors descend to challenge that certainty. It’s a tale that encompasses life and death, good and evil, and the inevitable question: Who else could we be but exactly who we are?
returns for season four and another swoon-worthy chapter of Regency matchmaking, split across two parts a month apart.
It centres on Benedict Bridgerton (Luke Thompson) as he falls for a mysterious “Lady in Silver” at a masquerade, only to later discover she’s Sophie (Yerin Ha) — a clever maid hiding in plain sight — setting up a will-they/won’t-they romance. Nicola Coughlan reprises her role narrating and needling high society.
