Who Will Be There

Katie Kim
Katie Kim
The Dublin based artist enters a new epoch as this raring release is set to be her concluding album under the Katie Kim moniker. A sonically opulent and majestic new territory, written and recorded while in the process of moving to New York and subsequently mixed after being forced back to Ireland during a global pandemic, Hour of the Ox tells a story of longing, alienation and desperation for something connected. An incompatible, disparate but devoted view of the world, told through lush strings, an orchestra of synthesizers, up front vocals and live minimalist style drums.

David Keenan
David Keenan
David Keenan is the critically-acclaimed author of five novels, the cult classic This Is Memorial Device (Faber & Faber), For The Good Times (Faber & Faber), which won the Gordon Burn Prize 2019, The Towers The Fields The Transmitters (White Rabbit), Xstabeth (White Rabbit) and Monument Maker (White Rabbit), the latter a 900 page monolith released in June of 2021. He is also the co-designer, alongside the illustrator Sophy Hollington, of his own tarot deck, the Autonomic Tarot, published by Rough Trade Books.

Mia Mullarkey
Mia Mullarkey
Mia’s short documentaries, including MOTHER & BABY and THROWLINE, have received awards from international festivals such as Aesthetica, Flickers’ Rhode Island, Galway Fleadh and São Paulo. In 2018 she received the Discovery Award from Dublin Film Critics’ Circle for her body of work. She went on to direct a number of TV documentaries, including the TG4 music series CUMASC (2022). Mia’s debut short drama THE PASSION was nominated for an IFTA in 2022, and SAFE AS HOUSES is Mia’s second short drama. Alongside narrative work Mia directs Commercials and music videos.

Mark Graham
Mark Graham
Mark Graham is a lecturer in the Department of Arts at SETU (South-East Technical University), he is currently working towards a PhD in the area of Music Industry Ethics. Mark spent 10 years performing at home and abroad with the band KingKong Company. He has previously worked for Today FM and RTE Radio. His book, A Year of Festivals in Ireland, documented his quest to attend three festivals per week for an entire year.
Louise Gaffney
Louise Gaffney
Louise Gaffney is a visual artist and electronic musician from the West of Ireland. Predominantly film and sound led, she has been working professionally for a number of years as a director, and graphic designer in the music sphere, collaborating with many artists both at home and abroad, whilst maintaining a practice of music composition in her own right.

Myles O’Reilly
Myles O’Reilly
Myles O’Reilly is a musician, composer and filmmaker from Dublin, Ireland. Since first lifting a camera in 2010, multi-tasking O’Reilly has filmed, directed and edited over 100 music videos and 20+ music documentary short films. In the global pandemic lockdown, Myles produced the first two albums in his critically acclaimed [Indistinct Chatter] series of minimal ambient recordings, Cabin Lights Off (2020) and My Mothers Star (2021), followed in 2022 by a collection of ambient folk songs titled ‘Cocooning Heart’
Branwen
Branwen

Erin Fornoff
Erin Fornoff
Erin Fornoff has published a poetry collection Hymn to the Reckless (Dedalus Press) shortlisted for the Shine/Strong Award as well as a chapbook Folk Heroes (Stewed Rhubarb Press). She has performed her poetry at hundreds of events including three times at Glastonbury Festival, RTE Culture Night at Dublin Castle, and a national Irish tour with poet Hollie McNish. She has featured on BBC3 and her poems have been included in Best New English and Irish Poets 2016. Her essays have been featured in The Journal, The Irish Times, Architecture Ireland, and Winter Papers. The Irish Times said of her work ‘Erin Fornoff is blazing a trail as the non-traditional poet.” and the Glastonbury blogger said of Erin, ‘she excels in word portraits in a few spare words..she talks about loss in such a fluid, beautiful way that it eases it, somehow.’ She wrote and performed We Are An Archipelago in Dublin Fringe Fest 2022, a poetry show set to a live score, which received a four star review in The Irish Times. She is currently Writer in Residence for the Inland Waterways Association of Ireland.

Mark Logan
Mark Logan
Mark Logan is an artist writer and director. He is the co founder of Collective Films. His work focuses on powerful untold stories which aim to push cognition. His work to date has been expressed in documentaries, podcasts, exhibitions, aligned brand content and music videos. Mark has previously worked with Bono, Barry Keoghan, Fontaines DC, Denise Chaila and many more and in the brand world has worked with Doctors Without Borders, Guinness and The National Lottery to name a few. Mark also recently launched Collective Film School.

Margaret O’Connor
Margaret O’Connor
Margaret O’Connor is an Irish-based Independent Accessories Designer, DJ and Conceptual Artist. She’s is best known for her work with millinery, Margaret recently launched her first accessories range in the National Gallery of Ireland. Her creations have attracted the attention and been worn by a broad range of celebrities, ranging from Supermodel Kate Moss, Lady Gaga, Years and Years, Pink Floyd.She produces hand made eclectic couture designs and commercial millinery collections from her studio base in 68 Dame St, Temple Bar, Dublin,

The Curly Organ
The Curly Organ
Donal McConnon ( AKA T h e C u r l y O r g a n ) is an artist/composer/producer who has for one month successfully merged his everyday experiences with record production (4 EPs(2017)), who regularly has conversations with strangers through a non-verbal musical binary (Do You Speak Bell? (2018/2019)) and has developed an all-encompassing live performance making use of hand-drawn visuals and guided meditations.
Chase Bliss
Chase Bliss
Chase Bliss is a boutique Minnesota-based company that makes high-end electronic audio processors, known as effects pedals, used for the electric guitar, synthesizer, or for manipulating audio in a recording studio. The brand has built a reputation among audio purists for their forward thinking effects and their high functionality

Manchán Magan
Manchán Magan
Manchán Magan is a writer and documentary-maker. He has written books on his travels in Africa, India and South America and two novels.He writes occasionally for The Irish Times on culture & travel, presents the RTÉ podcast The Almanac of Ireland, and is author of the award-winning, best-selling Thirty-Two Words For Field, and Tree Dogs, Banshees Fingers and other Irish Words for Nature. His new book, Listen to the Land Speak is due Oct 2022. He has made dozens of documentaries on issues of world culture for TG4, RTÉ & Travel Channel.

Ceara Conway
Ceara Conway
Ceara Conway is an award-winning singer and visual artist. She creates experiential performance works that utilise traditional songs (Irish and International), contemporary vocal compositions and visual art to explore social issues such as migration, the ecological crisis and feminist concerns. In 2021 Ceara released CAOIN, an album of traditional song and laments that explore the sensibility of the ‘’cry’’ produced and arranged by Seán Mac Erlaine. CAOIN just completed a national tour and is nominated for ‘’best track’’ with the RTE Folk Awards 2022. Ceara has shown and performed work widely internationally and in Ireland, including the Katzen Arts Centre, Washington, the Barbican, UK, Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Taigh Chearsabhaigh Museum, Galway Arts Centre and the National Gallery of Ireland. Recent commissions include Bealtaine Festival ‘Of Scent and Song (2021), Viriditas, Galway ECOC & Saolta Arts.

Elizabeth Reapy
Elizabeth Reapy
Elizabeth Reapy is the award-winning novelist of ‘Red Dirt’ and ‘Skin.’ She has a Postgraduate Diploma in Education (UCC), a Masters in Creative Writing (Queen’s) and is a certified hypnotherapist (EICH). In 2021, she was Mayo Writer-in-Residence. She is currently completing her debut feature-length screenplay and a therapeutic picture book series.

McCloud Zicmuse
McCloud Zicmuse
McCloud Zicmuse is an artist and Prince Carnival of Schaærbeek, Belgium. A hybrid aquisition of skills through a combination of traditional education and self-directed learning/life experiences, has lead McCloud to express ideas through various media: guided singing tours, pottery that encourages social interaction, letterpress ephemera promoting everyday events, installations of temporary nations, graphic design for nonexistant entities, handsown costumes for one-off rituals, writing children’s books, holding instrument building workshops, making musical groups tht celebrate local folklore & 8mm films. The unifying factor in the work is that of giving form to, and sharing the present: the ephemeral moment.

Anna Mullarkey
Anna Mullarkey
Anna Mullarkey is an award-winning composer and performer from Galway, whose music weaves electronics with piano and voice. Having grown up in the West of Ireland, Anna draws inspiration from the sea for her compositions.The Irish Times called her “phenomenal” and Irish Theatre Magazine described her music as “if a sultry ménage of Björk/Billie Holiday/Philip Glass got together at the Wickerman Festival.” Her original score for the film The Passion (2021) has won awards in Ireland and Europe.

Stephen James Smith
Stephen James Smith
Stephen James Smith is a Dublin poet and playwright central to the rise of the Irish spoken word scene. His poetry videos have amassed over 3 million views online, including ‘My Ireland’, a short poetry film commissioned by St. Patrick’s Festival. Stephen has performed extensively at top venues and events such as Electric Picnic, Other Voices, the National Concert Hall, the Abbey Theatre (Noble Call), Vicar Street (alongside Oscar winner Glen Hansard), the London Palladium, the Oscar Wilde Awards (LA), Glastonbury Festival and George Town Literary Festival (ML). His debut collection, Fear Not, is published by Arlen House with a launch due in June 2018.

TARA HOWLEY
TARA HOWLEY
Tara Howley is an award winning multi instrumentalist, singer and dancer from Kilfenora Co. Clare. She is a two-time senior all Ireland champion on the uilleann pipes. Starting both classical and traditional music at the age of 4, Tara has numerous all Ireland titles in solo competitions and with bands and groups in various instruments such as concertina, fiddle, drums, mouthorgan, piano, whistle and uilleann pipes. In 2014 Tara toured Britain and Ireland with the group Macalla na hEireann and The Echoes of Erin. She produced and launched her debut solo album in April 2015 and is currently studying Irish music and dance in the Irish World Academy at the University of Limerick.

Kevin Murphy,
Kevin Murphy,
Kevin Murphy, a celebrated cellist, multi-instrumentalist, composer and songwriter from Cork Ireland. He is also a founding member of critically acclaimed Irish experimental bands Slow Moving Clouds and Seti The First. Blind Stitch has just released a new album The Emperor’s Lung. He has also featured as a guest musician with many Irish and international artists such as The National, Bon Iver, Jenny Lewis, Lisa Hannigan, Gavin Friday, Rick Danko Seamus Fogarty, Adrian Crowley and Dave Gahan of Depeche Mode. He has also collaborated with Irish traditional and folk musicians such as John Spillane, Cathy Jordan, Phil Callery Cormac Breathnach, and Ger Wolfe in live settings and on recordings. His band Seti The First co-wrote two songs on The Waterboys 2017 album Out Of All This Blue. He also participates in the People collective spearheaded by Justin Vernon (Bon Iver) and Bryce and Aaron Dessner (The National). This has resulted in collaborations with the above artists and others in festivals across Europe in recent years including the Funkhaus in Berlin 2018 and Sounds from a Safe Harbour Cork in 2017 and 2019.

OLGA
OLGA
OLGA is a Clare based visual artist with a background in animation and motion design and in more years expanded to the field of live visuals.

ThorpyFx
ThorpyFx
“ThorpyFx was founded in 2014 by Adrian Thorpe MBE and his wife Georgia. Since its inception ThorpyFx has sought to design, build, and deliver pedals that are as good as they can be. Musicians worldwide can depend on the brand to deliver both on the biggest stadium stages and smallest home rigs too. These pedals are built with an attention to detail that borders on the obsessive, this obsession over details is the foundation for how ThorpyFx designs its pedals.

The Gentian Press
The Gentian Press
The Gentian Press is a letterpress print and design studio in Lisdoonvarna.
Conor Burke is an Art educator at Mary Immaculate Lisdoonvarna, a Letterpress printmaker and Graphic Designer. He holds an MA in Psychology in Education from Mary Immaculate College, Limerick and a Joint Hons Bachelor’s Degree in Design and Education from the National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Rainger FX
Rainger FX
Set up by David Rainger in 2009, Rainger FX is a North West London-based guitar effects company, designing and building new kinds of effects pedals, and providing new sounds inspired by music around right now – with a totally distinctive visual style and use. Pedals should sound great, be totally reliable, and be fun; we like LEDs a lot – and a visual representation of the sound (from a basic on/off indicator upwards) is very important. And if the whole thing can be done simply – then that’s best of all.

Suzanne Walsh
Suzanne Walsh
Suzanne Walsh is an artist and writer working mainly with performance, audio, and text. They have an interest in non-human worlds, from animals to the esoteric, and in creating rifts through which new meanings and realities can emerge. They also publish essays, art-writing, poetry, and fiction in literary publications including gorse journal, Fallowmedia, Winter Papers, as well as various art publications. Their practice has been supported by Culture Ireland, Fire Station Studios, and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. The Arts Council recently added one of their vocal performance works, BirdBecomeBird, to their collection, the first acquisition of its kind.

Steven Murray
Steven Murray
Stephen Murray is an award winning poet and the founder of Inspireland. He has published two collections of poetry with Salmon Poetry to widespread critical acclaim. He is regarded as Ireland’s leading poetry workshop provider for young people and has delivered workshops to over 50,000 young people in Ireland. His work has featured on Nationwide, RTE TwoTube, TV3, Arena, BBC 2, The Irish Times, the Independent and Hot Press.

Grace Wells
Grace Wells
Grace Wells is an award-winning eco-poet and environmental writer, winner of the Eilís Dillon award and the Shine Strong award. Her third collection of poems ‘The Church of the Love of the World’ was published by Dedalus Press in 2022. Grace Wells was selected by Poetry Ireland and Clare County Council as Poet Laureate for Ennistymon which propelled her into writing a book-length poem about the town, its past, present and future. Published by Doolin Arts, ‘Everyone Has a Different Ennistymon’ will be launched at Hedgeschool, on Sunday 29th at 7.30pm.

Rollercoaster Records
Rollercoaster Records
Trading since 1990 under our present guise of Rollercoaster Records. Led by the legendary Willie Meighan, until he sadly passed away in 2017, Rollercoaster has long been and continues to be the hub of the music scene in the south east of Ireland. The Rollercoaster Records label has been releasing records since 2016 .Malojian and Arborist amongst our key releases. We have plans for a series of releases in 2023.
James Conor Patterson
James Conor Patterson
James Conor Patterson is a writer from Newry, Co. Down. His debut poetry collection bandit country (Picador) received an Eric Gregory Award in 2019 and has been nominated for the 2022 TS Eliot Prize. He is also editor of The New Frontier: Reflections from the Irish Border, which was published by New Island Books in 2021.

Emmet Homebeat
Emmet Homebeat
Emmet has been making music connections through various forms of musical endeavour with his Homebeat project and of course, the beloved Another Love Story for over a decade now, and can be regularly found playing at festivals such as ALS, Body & Soul, Electric Picnic and more, as well as genre spanning sets in bars such as The Big Romance, The Other Hand and the odd village hall and beer garden to boot.

Emily S. Cooper
Emily S. Cooper
Emily Cooper’s poetry and prose has been published widely in journals and anthologies. She has been a recipient of the Next Generation Award, Literature Bursary Award and SIAP funding from ACNI. Her poetry debut Glass was published in 2021 by Makina Books and she is a contributing editor for The Pig’s Back literary journal.

Robbie Perry
Robbie Perry
Robbie Perry musician, composer and performer with Dead Can Dance, lives in Co Cavan, Ireland. When not writing or performing he creates musical instruments and machines, both manual and automated, electronic and mechanical for art installations and creative workshops. As co-founder of APO-33, he is currently producing live film scores for experimental film.

in.stance by Maeve Garvan and Darren Kirwan
in.stance by Maeve Garvan and Darren Kirwan
Maeve and Darren began their creative collaborations during their undergrad studies of Music, Media and Performance Technology at the University of Limerick. They maintained this collaborative relationship in the years since, despite living great distances apart, and have exhibited at the contemporary music centre in Dublin, performed at Quarter Block Party festival in Cork and at the Wexford Arts Centre. Maeve is a multi-instrumental musician and music producer and Darren is a sound and light artist.

Dora Gola
Dora Gola
A haunting journey of dark electro-pop, interwoven with elements of slavic folk, brooding synths, and lavish Eastern sounds, all driven by a hybrid 80s funk groove. Dora Gola’s powerful and sensual vocal draws the listener in, telling of the Earth’s consciousness and human longing.

Donal Dineen
Donal Dineen
Donal Dineen is a recovering DJ, photographer and broadcaster from Kerry. He is the presenter of the Irish music internet TV show This Ain’t No Disco and publisher of both the Make Me An Island and We Are The Makers podcast series.

Ciaróg
Ciaróg

Enda Gallery
Enda Gallery
Enda Gallery offers up his truest realisations and experiences in his songs and accompanies poetic lyrics with deeply moving piano playing. His purpose is to create beautiful and liberating art. Enda currently performs in an intimate set up with piano and vocals. For 8 years he lived and performed in Berlin, a city which is itself a character within his songs and has inspired feelings of challenge and liberation in all of its forms.

Myriam Riand
Myriam Riand
Myriam Riand is a visual artist based in Ennistymon, Co. Clare. Her recent work has been inspired by the vibrant local music scene where she has collaborated with a variety of artists to create album artwork & promotional material. Using film photography as her medium of choice she adapts her designs to incorporate the texture and deliberate imperfections of analog image making.

Bob Gallagher
Bob Gallagher
Bob Gallagher is an award-winning filmmaker described by Werner Herzog as a ‘good soldier of cinema’ and by Totally Dublin as ‘one of the nation’s premiere creative forces in the visual arts’. Gallagher was hand-picked to be mentored by Herzog at the EICTV in Cuba, emerging with two short documentaries – ‘Salon’ and ‘The Impossible Flight of the Stone’. He is also the creator of some of the most iconoclastic music videos to emerge from Ireland in recent years, working with acts such as Gilla Band, Junior Brother and Lankum. Gallagher is a member of the Inishowen Traditional Singers’ Circle and recently completed his first feature documentary ‘A Fine Thing to Sing’ in collaboration with the community about singing on the peninsula. He is currently in pre-production writing and directing his debut narrative feature, as well as developing his second feature documentary.
Workshops

Build your own synth with Robbie Perry
Build your own synth with Robbie Perry
Robbie Perry will be guiding participants through the assembly of their own portable functional knob twiddling musical synthesiser. Based on the Arduino microprocessor the final product has a built in speaker. Once constructed, the participants will be encouraged to take their sonic pet wonders and let them sing in a cosmic sonic jam roundup of the session!
2 hour workshop
€55 sur charge for parts is required
limited 10 participants so early booking advised
9:00 – 11:00 Saturday 28th Jan
Email info@hoteldoolin.ie when booking to reserve your spot.

Letterpress Printmaking with The Gentian Press
Letterpress Printmaking with The Gentian Press
Get hands on and inky with the age old craft of Letterpress, in this fast paced 3 hour Letterpress workshop with Conor Burke of The Gentian Press. This workshop will begin with an an overview of letterpress printing and it’s history, an explanation of hand setting type and an introduction to the various presses and their functions. Participants will have a hands-on and inky experience whilst creating a letterpress print using all of its processes, from composition (hand-setting, spacing and locking-up wood and metal type) to printing (inking and pulling the paper over the press). Participants are invited to create their own letterpress poster (A2/A3) of one of their favourite quotes. They will then use a selection of woodtype & metaltype from our library of over 700 fonts. Beautiful results can be achieved by playing with the layout, ink effects, and the texture of the wood type. Think big and Bold! These Quotes will be printed by hand on to handmade paper using our FAG Swissproof 40 and Fag control 800 proofing presses. *Please prepare a number of quotes you may like to print in advance. These could be from your favourite writer, film, song etc. No prior experience of letterpress, typography or design necessary. All materials will be provided but.
What is included on workshops
Everything you need for printing eg paper, ink etc. A tube will be provided for you to take you poster away in. Suitable clothing I use oil based inks which will stain your clothes! We recommend wearing an old jumper or shirt that you don’t mind getting ink on. Aprons will also be provided.
10:00 – 13:00 Saturday 28th Jan Limited to 10 places
Off site in Lisdoonvarna
Email info@hoteldoolin.ie when booking to reserve your spot.

David Keenan - Magick workshop
David Keenan - Magick workshop
An open introduction to magick, a conversation where people will be encouraged to ask questions as we go, introducing people to various ‘divinatory’ methods, like sigils and tarot spreads, which they can try on their own, as well as some thought experiments and koans, and giving some explanation of how I believe they work, and what their actual efficacy and point is.
11:00 – 13:00 Saturday 28th Jan

Poetic Prose -James Conor Patterson
Poetic Prose -James Conor Patterson
‘Poetic Prose: An Introduction’ and I envisage it consisting of Claudia Rankine’s ‘Citizen: An American Lyric’, James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’, Stephanie Sy-Quia’s ‘Amnion’, and discussion about the works of Max Porter, Lord Byron and Charles Baudelaire, among others.

Hedge School pedal party
Hedge School pedal party
Chase Bliss, Rainger FX and Thorpyfx are coming for a 2 hour pedal party. Pedals will be demoed through guitars, synths, mics you name it, There will be a Q&A and opportunity for the audience to jam and try out some gear. Hosted by pedal meth-head Robbie Perry.
12:00 – 15:00 Saturday the 28th

Capturing the Glimmers - Erin Fornoff
Capturing the Glimmers - Erin Fornoff
Join poet and writer Erin Fornoff in a writing workshop on the glimmer method. Glimmers is a tool of writing that can be adaptable to many art forms, and inform your creativity. We will be writing small fragments and vignettes about moments in your life that have resonated with you – drawn from the physical world, images and moments that have compelled us, points of resonance. We will operate as though we’ve forgotten our cameras, and have to capture the image and feeling without one. A glimmer might be an overheard conversation, the time you saw a valley bathed in moonlight on your first trip alone, the time you painted your house just before a rainstorm, the thing your father said in anger you’ll never forget. We will work to bring these glimmers alive on the page, focusing on vivid sensory detail and allowing them to fit together in new and surprising ways, creating a collage of these exquisite moments. No writing experience required.

Caoin - Sounding Loss - lament workshop
Caoin - Sounding Loss - lament workshop
Caoineadh ‘’ to cry, to keen and lament’’ is a both a traditional Irish and global practice of lamenting the dead, a communal practice that both eulogised and critiqued the living and the deceased. In Ireland it was traditionally the bean caoineadh, the keening woman’s role to facilitate this ceremony, to hold and create a liminal space using sound recitation and song. In this workshop you will learn about Irish and global keening practices, hear examples of Irish and International lament and we will sing a lament together.
9:00 – 11:00 Saturday the 28th Jan

Instant Instrument Workshop
Instant Instrument Workshop
Maverick improviser, luthier & composer McCloud Zicmuse invites you to participate in a unique creation: the INSTANT INSTRUMENT WORKSHOP. Using materials found in the environment around us, we construct our own musical instruments and then play them as part of the INSTANT INSTRUMENT WORKSHOP ENSEMBLE. McCloud leads you on the path of musical discovery through the garbage heap & recycling bin where everything is possible: tin can guitars, cardboard drum sets, shakers made from bottle caps & so much more. At the end of the construction phase, comes playing on the stage. We’ll get to know our new creations and after practicing a few times we play a concert (or at least a few songs) for friends & family alike.
10:00 – 12:00 Sunday the 29th

Conscious jamming
Conscious jamming
Conscious Jamming
(an alternative approach to musical improvisation)
How can a group of musicians from wildly diverse backgrounds gather in a room and share an uplifting musical experience? This is a question that has concerned musician and bandleader Donal McConnon for the last number of years. In this workshop, participants will explore The Art of the Jam-Session. We will sculpt a work of art in real-time making full usage of creative-flow exercises, hand gestures and simple instructions to arrive at a point of collective unity.The session will be recorded and sent back to participants at a later date so that they can reflect on their own playing, as well as their own artistic processes and development. Material from this session may be used, with the musicians’ consent, in the creation of the wider JWOFS project, curated by The Curly Organ and Enda Gallery. This workshop is open to musicians/singers of all background
9:00 – 12:00 Sunday 29th Jan
Maximum: 200 participants

Waves of Words - Suzanne Walsh
Waves of Words - Suzanne WalshWaves of Words - Suzanne Walsh
This workshop draws on the experiences of Suzanne Walsh from their career of working with vocalisation, text assemblage, and performative reading.
This oceanic themed workshop will explore vocal exercises and improvisations, methods of adding colour and expression to text delivery, and playing with text excerpts and sounds to create a group sound poem.
14:00 – 17:00 Saturday 28th

Grace Wells Poetry Workshop
Grace Wells Poetry WorkshopGrace Wells Poetry Workshop
Events

Friday night live
Friday night live

Saturday Events
Saturday Events

Sunday Events
Sunday Events

The Language Game with Stephen Murray, Timothy Emlyn Jones and Ruádhán
The Language Game with Stephen Murray, Timothy Emlyn Jones and Ruádhán
Join with Timothy Emlyn Jones, Stephen Murray and Ruádhán for a mind-bending poetic, musical, visual journey into the endless possibilities, improbabilities and spellcraft of language, where you, the audience, are players in an experiment determined to go wrong, if it works as it should, which it shouldn’t.
10pm- Open Mic The Attic

Rollercoaster Records pop up shop
Rollercoaster Records pop up shop
Kilkenny’s Rollercoaster Records Kilkenny will have a pop up records store at Hedge School featuring
Ambient, Electronic Records with a bit of weird stuff for good measure, with lots of Irish Artists.

The Untold Story of BalconyTV
The Untold Story of BalconyTV
Irish Music Industry podcaster Mark Graham explores the rise and success of an Irish cultural phenomenon that spread worldwide, but it also looks for lessons from a classic music industry tale: a record company signs a contract with a group of creative friends who eventually end up with nothing but hard-earned experience and some great stories. The fully story of BalconyTV has never been told, until now.
15:00 – 16:00 Saturday 28th Jan

Music Film makers panel
Music Film makers panel
Music Film makers panel
Myles O’Reilly of Arbutus Yarns will host a panel discussion with some of Irelands top music video film makers. Mark Logan, Louise Gaffney, Brendan Canty, and Mia Mullarkey. Each film maker will show a film and Myles will discus their approach to conveying the message. There will be a Q&A afterwards.
16:00 – 17:30 Saturday 28th Jan

MemLab
MemLab
Before each of us are born, our experiences of the world shaped us in ways we do not even comprehend. Our brains were not developed enough to make sense of our early lives and so these experiences become unresolved, unconscious memories. Through the medium of a tube video wall, guitar pedals, old phones and an Austrian ‘ Replicant ‘ psychotherapist, Simon O’Reilly will invite participants to connect with hidden memories and life experiences to form a collision of sensory delights.
19:30 – 20:30 Saturday 28th

The Midnight court
The Midnight court
“Unless there’s a spurt in procreation, we can bid goodbye to the Irish Nation…”The one they forgot to ban (in the 1950s): Sharp, witty, coarse, pithy, vicious, hilarious.
David Marcus’ translation of Brian Merriman’s epic poem is brought to life by Ger Howard in a show that enraptures and resonates with the thoughts, mores and preoccupations of every generation.
Duration 55 minutes, no interval.
17:00 – 18:300 Sunday 29th
PRICING
Weekend Ticket
- Weekend ticket includes entrance to all events throughout the weekend. If you wish to participate in workshops you must email info@hoteldoolin.ie to register. There are limited places on some workshops
Friday Day Ticket
Friday Evening Ticket
Saturday Day Ticket
Saturday Evening Ticket
Sunday Day Ticket
SCHEDULE
Friday 27th of January | |||
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WHEN | WHAT | WHERE | |
14:00 — 17:00 | Creative Mindset Workshop with Elizabeth Reapy | Cullinans | |
14:00 — 17:00 |
Poetic Prose with James Conor Patterson |
Attic | |
20:00 | Drinks reception | Barn | |
20:00 — 21:00 | Ciaróg & Olga Ambient & Visuals | Barn | |
21:30 — 22:30 |
Imbolc by Branwen |
Barn | |
22:00 — 00:00 |
Dónal Dineen |
Barn | |
00:00 — 01:00 |
Tara Howley & DJ Sharkey |
Barn | |
01:00 — Late |
Dora Gola |
Barn | |
Saturday 28th of January | |||
09:00 — 11:00 | Build your own synthesiser with Robbie Perry €55 surcharge for materials | Attic | |
09:00 — 11:00 | Caoin: Sounding Loss- Lament Workshop with Ceara Conway | Cullinans | |
09:00 — 11:00 | Catching the glimmers – with Erin Fornoff | Barn | |
10:00 — 13:00 | Letterpress Printmaking with Gentian Press (Off-site Lisdoonvarna) | Lisdoon | |
11:00 — 13:00 | Waves of Words with Suzanne Walsh | Cullinans | |
12:00 — 15:00 | Pedal Workshop with Chase Bliss, ThorpyFX & RaingerFX | Attic | |
15:30 – 17:30 | Magick with David Keenan | Attic | |
15:00 – 16:00 | The Untold Story of Balcony TV with Mark Graham | Barn | |
16:00 – 17:30 | Music Film Makers Panel hosted by Myles O’Reilly | Barn | |
18:00- 18:45 | David Keenan Reading | Attic | |
19:30 – 20:10 | in.stance with Darren Kirwan & Maeve Garvan | Barn | |
20:00 -20:50 | Memlab with Dr O’Reilly | Attic | |
21:00 – late |
‘The Language Game’ with Timothy Emlyn Jones, Stephen Murray and Ruadhan.
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Attic | |
21:00 – 00:30 | Ceara Conway and Kevin Murphy /Stephen James Smyth/Ana Mallarkey/Katie Kim | Barn | |
00:30 – Late | Emmet Condon Homebeat DJ | Barn | |
Sunday the 29th of January | |||
09:00 – 12:00 | Conscious Jamming with Curly Organ & Enda Gallery | Barn | |
09:30 – 11:30 | Grace Wells Poetry Video Workshop | Attic | |
10:00 – 12:00 | Instant Instrument Workshop with McCloud Zicmuse | Cullinans | |
12:00 – 13:00 | Sunday Mass & Brunch with High Priestess Erin Fornoff, and guests Suzanne Walsh & Emily Cooper | Barn | |
15:00 – 16:00 | Tree planting with Hometree | The field | |
17:00 – 18:00 | Play – The Midnight Court | Barn | |
18:30 – 19:30 | Manchán Magan an Saol Eile | Barn | |
19:30 – 20:30 | Grace Wells Doolin Arts Book Launch | Barn | |
21:00 – 22:00 | Time-Travelling Dance Party With Curly Organ | Attic | |
22:00 – Late | Margaret O’Connor Closing DJ set | Attic |
What is Hedge School?

Hedge School is for anyone who feels the need to create, anyone who creates for that simple inherent joy, regardless of reward. We invite you all to Doolin, to a magical setting for unique collaborations and intimate encounters between artist and audience, master & student. Hedge School is a not-for-profit, artist-run festival that puts the artist front and centre.
Accommodation & Travel
Accomodation in Doolin | |
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Hotel Doolin |
hoteldoolin.ie (065) 707 4111 |
Fiddle & Bow Hotel |
www.fiddleandbow.ie |
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