KIRKOS IS HOLDING A TENTH ANNIVERSARY MINI-FESTIVAL IN UNIT 44, FROM JULY 28TH TO JULY 31ST.

We’d love to see you for a four-day celebration of the first ten years of Kirkos. Running July 28th through 31st, it will be an off-beat, musically adventurous way to spend the bank holiday weekend. Everything is free (though booking is recommended) and centres on our informal venue Unit 44 on Prussia Street, between Stoneybatter and Cabra.

Events include:

— an installation performance marking the recent launch of Susan Geaney’s release Tape Melt
— the first Dublin screening of Eimear Walshe’s Land Cruiser
— Dublin’s first, and possibly last, “Fluxus Open Mic” (all welcome to participate, if you dare)
— a trip to nearby Phoenix Park for outdoor performances of music by Robert Coleman and Karen Power
— and three concerts performed by Kirkos. These concerts include performances of newly commissioned work from some of our dearest collaborators: Robbie Blake, Éna Brennan and Jonathan Nangle.

SUNDAY 31 [6PM]:

The second concert in Unit 44 of the 10th Anniversary Festival

Sebastian Adams - New Work

Jonathan Nangle - Leise Abbendämmerung (Clarinet, Cello, Electric guitar) [World Premiere, New Commission]

Leise Abenddämmerung translates as “soft dusk”. It appears as a stage direction in the Liebestod, the final dramatic conclusion to Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. As Isolde mourns over Tristan’s dead body, she has a vision of him, star-haloed rising into the air. At this point, Wagner instructs a soft dusk to be projected onto the backdrop.

Andrew Hamilton - Ritual of Abduction (Violin, Viola, Cello)

A reflection on the impact on contemporary composers and musiciansthe of Rite of Spring, one of the twentieth century’s seminal works, one hundred years after its premiere in Paris. A series of 're-compositions' of parts of the work by selected Irish composers, with live visuals and performed by a string trio.

Fluxus Sequence devised by Kirkos

Andy Ingamells - Monument Piece