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Going back to Ireland for Xmas?

The newly formed London-Irish Abortion Rights Campaign, the UK-based branch of the Irish movement to make abortion free, safe and legal, is launching a mass social media ‘check-in’ for Irish expats going home for Christmas.

Aoife writes:

We want those heading back to Ireland for the festive season to show support for women travelling in the other direction, by ‘checking in’ at ferry and airports and using the hashtag #choice4xmas.

The #choice4xmas campaign will run from December 16th. We’re asking ex-pats to check-in on social media at airports and ferry ports, with the suggested text:

“Travelling home to Ireland & thinking of the 11 women a day who travel to Britain for an abortion #choice4xmas #repealthe8th #Extend1967Act”.

Those who aren’t travelling can share and like our content to show their support.

London-Irish ARC’s next open meeting takes place at 18:30 on February 1 at Queen Mary’s University. Those interested in attending can book a place here.

 

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The first wave of acts for the third annual Quarter Block Party festival has just been announced over on their Twitter.

Cork City’s North and South Main Streets will be taken over again from February 3rd to the 5th, for a full weekend of independent music, conversation, street art and performance, courtesy of Makeshift Ensemble and the constituents of the recently-retired Southern Hospitality Board. Events this year will take place in, among other venues, St. Peter’s Church, An Spailpín Fánach and the Triskel Arts Centre.

Announced on the music end are Limerick weirdo beats don Naive Ted, singer-songwriter Ian Whitty, psych/ambient project Sky, Horse and Death, glitchy electronica purveyor Wastefellow, and Cork improv/ambient semi-supergroup Crevice.

International dance pieces get their first Irish airing, with Melanie Jame Wolf discussing stripping and the questions around it in Mira Fuchs, while Allie Hankins explores the dissonance between love and sex in Now Then: A Prologue. Resident artists have been invited to interact with the street as in previous years: this year will feature a Poetry Machine, a ladder-making workshop, a community dinner party and a marshland nature tour.

Our own Nialler9 will be in for a live chat as part of his How Music Works series, while Cork’s GASH Collective among others will be offering DJ Workshops.

Weekend tickets €35, more info here.

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To celebrate the birth of Jesus we’re giving away a voucher worth ONE HUNDRED EUROS to spend at any of the 14 Golden Discs stores nationwide.

All we ask is a tune we can play TOMORROW.

What new music made your 2016 bearable?

To enter, just complete this sentence:

‘The best thing I’ve heard all year was___________________________’

Lines MUST close at MIDNIGHT. Friday 9am!!

Golden Discs

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Helen Kelly writes:

We have a pop-up collective shop running in Filmbase, Curved St, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 until Friday night. All Irish designers involved. We are open tonight and Friday until 8pm. Stress free shopping in the city.

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Ranelagh Station, Dublin 6

Shona writes:

I know you don’t usually do this. But I found a sum of money at Ranelagh Station at around nine this morning. It’s the time of year where that might really matter to someone.

Any chance you might post this and put me in touch with anyone who can give the correct details of the amount and where I found it….

Broadsheet@broadsheet.ie, anyone?

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The exquisitely detailed feather carvings of artist Chris Maynard who’s been working with feathers (using forceps, eye surgery scissors, and magnifying glasses) since he was 12 years old. Maynard acquires feathers for his artwork from zoos and private aviaries.

More of his work here.

Previously: Feathercut Art

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