A surfeit of Margaux (that’s the plural) this time around for your delectation: here’s some fine ways to spend you weekend:
Block T Dark Room Launch
Thursday 6 March | Block T, Smithfield Square, D7 | 7pm, free
A whole host of activities are planned for the Launch party for Block T’s Darkroom including and exhibition of photography and short film, a 1950s style photoshoot where attendees can smile for the camera like they’re in a Steely Dan tune, tours of the darkrooms facilities with a chance to create your own photogram which is a kind of cameraless photography (we had to look it up too) and you can create your own pinhole camera. Not sated? Why not sign up to one of their many new courses by getting in touch with them right here: skillsets@blockt.ie
Full details available here
Wes Anderson Fancy Dress Party
Friday 7 March | Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield Square, D7 | 8pm, free
The fantastic universe that Wes Anderson has brought to life over the course of eight wonderful films is full of skewed versions of our own reality, reimagined through prisms of nostalgia, handicraft and analog warmth. In our mag this month we interviewed Annie Atkins on the realities of working on an Anderson picture, and the intricacies of designing props graphics for The Grand Hotel Budapest however, aside from all the wonderful accoutrements, Anderson films are also replete with memorable characters full of the same charm, from the mescaline-addict and utiliser of “obsolete vernacular” Eli Cash in The Royal Tenenbaums to Jeff Goldblum’s hilariously pompous rival oceanographer Alistair Hennessey in The Life Aquatic to the precocious penpals Sam Shakusky and Suzy Bishop in Moonrise Kingdom. We’re predicting a lot of Margots, red Adidas tracksuits, retro tennis sweatbands and holding-hands to Rolling Stones 7 inches. If you’re looking for us, we’ll be dressed as the Bond Company Stooge.
The party is free from 8pm, with three late showings of The Grand Budapest Hotel for €9/€7.50 Full details available here.
This Is Elvis
Saturday 8 March | The IFI, Eustace St., Dublin 2 | 4pm, €10
This singin’ fella, they call him ‘The King’. This is a film about him. Presented by pop-iconographer Bob Stanley, erstwhile member of St. Etienne and author of Yeah Yeah Yeah: The Story Of Modern Pop. Michael Hayden notes “This is Elvis still has a claim on telling the definitive story. While it doesn’t indulge in dirt digging, there is plenty of jaw-droppingly powerful archive footage of performances and interviews, which, from Memphis Flash to the Vegas years, serve to illustrate what a force Elvis was.”
The screening is taking place as part of the IFI’s Rock&Roll, a three-month season dedicated to excess, presenting examples of how cinema has taken on sex, drugs and rock ‘n’ roll.
Book tickets over here.
Junior Spesh: Jacques Greene // John Heckle
Saturday 8 March | Twisted Pepper | 10pm, €15/12 [members]
Jacques Greene returns to the Twisted Pepper this Saturday to showcase his brand new audio-visual show for the first time in Dublin while the infamously turbulent John Heckle is on basement duty and is use to make you and them walls sweaty in true TP basement style. Full details on the show are here.
Hidden Agenda presents: DJ Koze 4 Hour Set
Saturday 8 March | Button Factory | 11pm, €15+fees
The cover of his 2013 record Amygdala may have scratched our retinas but the tunes within were a thing of real joy, and it was no surprise to the record that he referred to as his Sgt. Pepper’s make plenty of end-of-year lists come December. Hidden Agenda’s hot streak of excellent DJ nights in Button Factory continues here with a 4-hour set from this eclectic German producer and DJ.
Full details of the show here.
Snow Angels
Sunday 9 March | Project Arts Centre | €15/12, 12pm
Running until Sunday the 9th of March, Snow Angels is a play about the expectations placed on young men in contemporary Ireland today by society, family and friends. It centres around three young lads who have just moved into a new house on the outskirts of the city and wake up one morning hungover and snowed in with no food and no heat. Full of black humour and “part psychological thriller, part ghost story, this is a modern tale, full of tension and mystery.”
Full details on the show are here
Muro Mini-Fest
Sunday 9 March | Generator Hostel | Free
Muro Arts Collective are putting on a day long festival in The Generator Hostel this Sunday. Expect everything you would normally find at a festival and more from food stalls and swap shops to print workshops, live painting, installations and spoken word and of course a steady supply of tunes from a host of DJ’s to take us through the day.
Visit the event page here.
