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Join us in Solidarity Books on Wed. May 22nd 9pm for a ThreePenny showing of "Network (1976)" Dir: Ingmar Bergman Stars: Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch

Film description follows :
" A TV network cynically exploits a deranged ex-TV anchor's ravings and revelations about the media for their own profit.

In the 1970s, terrorist violence is the stuff of networks' nightly news programming and the corporate structure of the UBS Television Network is changing. Meanwhile, Howard Beale, the aging UBS news anchor, has lost his once strong ratings share and so the network fires him. Beale reacts in an unexpected way. We then see how this affects the fortunes of Beale, his coworkers (Max Schumacher and Diana Christensen), and the network.

The film won four Academy Awards, in the categories of Best Actor (Finch), Best Actress (Dunaway), Best Supporting Actress (Straight), and Best Original Screenplay (Chayefsky).

In 2000, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". In 2002, it was inducted into the Producers Guild of America Hall of Fame as a film that has "set an enduring standard for U.S. American entertainment".[2] In 2006, Chayefsky's script was voted one of the top-ten screenplays by the Writers Guild of America, East.

In 2007, the film was 64th among the 100 greatest American films as chosen by the American Film Institute, a ranking slightly higher than the one AFI had given it ten years earlier.
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All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated. As always, books, t-shirts, badges or Zapatista coffee can all be purchased on the night.

Trailer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnGgsJ26dao

Related link: http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/threepenny-kino-network-1976

** 8pm ** Amnesty Documentary Screening of 'A People Uncounted: The Untold Story of the Roma' Wednesday June 12th at the earlier time of 8pm

Join us in Solidarity Books Wednesday June 12th 8pm where we will host an Amnesty Documentary Screening Amnesty Documentary Screening of 'A People Uncounted: The Untold Story of the Roma'

Nominated for Producers Guild of America Award (2013), this feature-length documentary recounts the persecution of the Roma throughout history, and explores the effects of racism and genocide on the lives of the Roma today.

‘A People Uncounted’ brings the Romani history to life through the rich interplay of their poetry, music, and compelling first-hand accounts.

For reviews, a trailer, and more see: http://www.apeopleuncounted.com/index.html

Event link to 'join' is:
https://www.facebook.com/events/597547670256975/

Organised by Amnesty International Cork, this screening will take place on Wednesday, June 12th, 2013 at 8pm in Solidarity Books, 43 Douglas St.

Venue information can be found at www.solidaritybooks.org

Spaces are limited so email amnesty.cork@gmail.com to book your seat!

All welcome. Admission is free and donations are appreciated. As always, books, t-shirts, badges or Zapatista coffee can all be purchased on the night.

Trailer: http://www.apeopleuncounted.com/index.html

Related link: http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/amnesty-documentary-a-people-uncounted

https://www.facebook.com/events/597547670256975/

ThreePenny Kino – “Thank you for smoking” Dir. Jason Reitman Wednesday November 27th Nov 8pm

The Three-Penny Kino Film Programme for every Wednesday in November at 8pm!

Join us in Solidarity Books on Wednesday November 27th for an 8pm showing of our fourth November film, the satirical comedy, “Thank you for smoking” Dir. Jason Reitman

Film description follows :

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Thank you for smoking

He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people.

Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBELC_vxqhI
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All welcome, entry is Free and donations are appreciated. As always, books, t-shirts, badges or Zapatista coffee can all be purchased on the night.

Related link: http://www.solidaritybooks.org/events/threepenny-kino-thank-you-for-smoking

http://www.facebook.com/solidaritybooks

Film Trailer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBELC_vxqhI

See the full November programme and poster below


Wednesday November 6 – 8pm – all watched over my machines of loving grace

Wednesday November 13 – 8pm – Lucio Anarquista

Wednesday November 20 – 8pm – My brother is an only child

Wednesday November 27 – 8pm – Thank you for smoking



all watched over my machines of loving grace

after the succes of episode 1 and 2 last week, we'll finish it with the last episode!
a 2011 BBC documentary by filmmaker Adam Curtis. The series argues that computers have failed to liberate humanity and instead have "distorted and simplified our view of the world around us".
in the first episode, it is explained how the new computer technology, cybernetics, and the philosophies of Ayan Rand helped shape the modern economy. the second episode explained how the same technology and the myth of a natural balance (old ecology) gave birth to new ideas of freedom and social balance, and like the first episode, without the interference of a government.

the third episode 'the monkey in the machine, and the machine in the monkey'
This programme looked into the Selfish gene theory which holds that humans are machines controlled by genes which was invented by William Hamilton. Adam Curtis also covered the source of ethnic conflict that was created by Belgian colonialism's artificial creation of a racial divide and the ensuing slaughter that occurred in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, which is a source of raw material for computers and cell phones.

Lucio Anarquista

There are plenty of anarchists in the world. Many have committed robbery or smuggling for their cause. Fewer have discussed strategies with Che Guevara or saved the skin of Eldridge Cleaver, the leader of the Black Panthers. There is only one who has done all that, and also brought to its knees the most powerful bank on the planet by forging travellers cheques, without missing a single day of work in his construction job. He is Lucio Urtubia, from a tiny village in Navarra in North of Spain. Lucio, 75, now lives in Paris, still raising anarchist hell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PBVjEUmmrGs

My brother is an only child

Two brothers come of age in the 1960s in a town south of Rome. Manrico is handsome, sometimes feckless, a leftist making the revolution. His younger brother Accio ("Bully") is a seminarian when the story beings, soon home studying Latin and joining the Fascists. Francesca, an aristocratic student, becomes Manrico's lover and Accio's friend. Over the next ten years, these three experience family, love, attraction, politics, and the challenges of adult responsibility.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybkj1KOoQ6I

Thank you for smoking

Satirical comedy follows the machinations of Big Tobacco's chief spokesman, Nick Naylor, who spins on behalf of cigarettes while trying to remain a role model for his twelve-year-old son.

He is talented in speaking and spins argument to defend the cigarette industry in the most difficult situations. His best friends are Polly Bailey that works in the Moderation Council in alcohol business, and Bobby Jay Bliss of the gun business own advisory group SAFETY. They frequently meet each other in a bar and they self-entitle the Mod Squad a.k.a. Merchants of Death, disputing which industry has killed more people. Nick's greatest enemy is Vermont's Senator Ortolan Finistirre, who defends in the Senate the use a skull and crossed bones in the cigarette packs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBELC_vxqhI

CAL FOLGER DAY
Live in Gulpd
Thurs Jan 2nd
9pm
Adm: FREE



Cal Folger Day is an American songwriter and performer. She was born in Washington, D.C. and is now based in NYC and Dublin.

In May 2013 she released her first EP 'Drom-d'reau'
on 7" vinyl. Recorded on an 8-track at Basement Floods Studios in Brooklyn, the EP features the single Ghost Hands, "a catchy hook-laden piano-led track that will appeal to fans of Regina Spektor" (folkradio.co.uk). Her next EP, 'Miscreant', is slated for a February 2014 release.

Cal recently supported Alessi's Ark (Bella Union) for a week-long tour in Ireland, and in May supported Angel Olsen (Jagjaguwar) at the Cork Opera House. She has shared bills with Jeffrey Lewis, Toby Goodshank, Johnny Dowd, and Diane Cluck, and over the past six months she has played throughout the East Coast from Virginia to Montreal with her 4-piece band. New York City venues include the Marlin Room at Webster Hall, Rockwood Stage II, and Piano's.



Having studied chant under the direction of Benjamin Bagby (Sequentia) and Katarina Livljanic (Dialogos), Cal began performing original songs with a guitar at 21 while studying at university in the U.K. She later received an academic grant to study songwriting in her final year, before moving to New York to record demos. In 2012 she performed as part of Rayvon Browne, a "charming, torchy, lo-fi" (LucidCulture) project with songwriter Morgan Heringer and bassist Joel Kruzic, releasing two EPs that captured "the sound of a talented act confidently presenting its quirky tunes as they are" (Wavemaker) and conducting a return tour to the U.K.

For a year she played hostess to a hopping weekly open stage at Tribes, an art gallery and publishing house on the Lower East Side. She has published an illustrated chapbook, Domestic Labor Manual, a practical rhapsody based on her experiences as a professional part-time housecleaner. The Shooter at 92 is a transcription of an interview with John Doyel, a plastics pioneer who patented the Beadazzler. These and other volumes were featured at the Brooklyn and D.C. Zine Fests in 2013.

The 'Ghost Hands' music video was shot by Andrew Williams and features The Trachtenburg Family Slideshow Players. Its NYC release event incorporated movement by Katelyn Hales; performance by Julie LaMendola (Nature Theatre of Oklahoma); and a production of Djuna Barnes' 'A Passion Play', directed by Cal Folger Day and Erica Moroz. In August she directed a 12-person orchestra and chorus in a production of 6 Children's Choruses by Béla Bartók, a cycle written in 1936 by the modernist Hungarian composer, at the Jalopy Theatre.

"…a guitarist and chanteuse with jazz leanings, whose vocal control and onstage presence command attention"
The New Yorker

Messrs O' Toole are proud to present the inaugural Céilí by the Lee

An instructional evening in the fine art of Céilí dancing, held in the heart of Cork City. Recommended as an authentic sample of Irish culture and heritage, for visitors to our shores or locals wanting to relive the glory of days gone by.

From 8 o clock our master of ceremonies will be explaining the intricacies of the céilí steps, then from 8.45 the hooly will start in earnest.

The night will combine the energy of a party in an ocean liner's steerage section with the nostalgia for halcyon days of Gaeltacht dances fadó. Neither aptitude nor experience are required, as the Messrs O' Toole are well renowned for their ability to turn two left feet into a matching pair.

Admission €5, complimentary beverage included.

For more information search for Céilí by the Lee on Facebook, or messrsotoole on twitter!

Plugd Records present
Sean Nicholas Savage (Montreal / Arbutus Records)

+ support: Myles Myles Manley, Cal Folger Day & Co.

Saturday Oct 11
The Black Mariah,
2nd Floor Triskel Arts Centre, Cork

Tickets €10 from plugd and Eventbrite Ireland.

Sean Nicholas Savage is a Canadian Singer and Ballad Composer.

In 2013 he released the record Other Life, his most emotionally thematic work and first in a year since he prolifically delivered three full length cassette albums; Flamingo, Won Ton Jaz and Trippple Midnight Karma in 2011. Savage touches always on a theory or profound observation and comes to at least a suggested point in his pop, drama compositions. Perhaps the pinnacle attraction of his work are these observations, learned wisdoms, the ongoing adventures shaping Savage himself, the Artist, the Performer, the Narrator.

A pop ‘character’, but with severe realness comparable to Punk/Pop greats, such as Sinead O’Connor, Boy George or fellow Canadian poetics Majical Cloudz and Mac DeMarco. However, with the way music is consumed today, comparisons of contemporaries fail to do any contemporary justice. A broad range of genres and movements; Jazz, Punk, Country and Bossa that must all leave a stain on an artist that is himself an art admirer.

Once a staple spectacle performance in Montreal's all night illegal party scene, Savage has since taken to consistent touring and producing wherever he may be, in the past two years.

The Frank & Walters
The Minutes
+ special guests Decky & Dave Rubyhorse (Acoustic Show) and more TBA


25th Anniversary Show

Cork Opera House
Saturday October 25

Fresh from a festival-filled summer that has seen them play Electric Picnic, Reading / Leeds Festival, Indiependence and Belsonic (with Queens of the Stone Age), The Minutes are announced as the first special guests to join The Frank and Walters 25th anniversary show at Cork Opera House on Saturday October 25.

The Dublin rockers are joined on an expanding bill by Dave and Decky from Rubyhorse, who will take to the Opera House stage for an acoustic outing of some of the band's hits over the years.

More special guests are expected to be announced in the coming weeks making this show a rare treat for music fans during the Guinness Cork Jazz Weekend.

The anniversary show will see the Frank and Walters dipping into one of the finest back catalogues recorded by any Irish band over the last 25 years and they are currently in the process of putting the finishing touches on their 7th studio album.

Tickets €25:

Cork Opera House Box Office - +353 21 4270022

THINGS TO DO IN CORK... One of the most amazing shows to grace the stage in Cork, 'Fred & Alice' by John Sheehy is back at the Cork Arts Theatre opening tonight, Wednesday 22nd October.

It stars Cork native and 'Game of Thrones' actor Ciarán Bermingham and Cora Fenton, a highly accomplished actress of stage and screen.

You really should get along to see this joyous celebration of individuality!

Fred & Alice has been described as...

“clever and absorbing stuff”…. “Imaginative and escapist theatricality” - The Irish Times

“A Captivating Carnival of Drama…Great Writing…Stunningly Effective…Terrific Cast” - Irish Theatre Magazine.

“One of the most inventive shows ever produced in the Mid-West”
- Limerick Post

Full details on times and ticket prices at... http://corkartstheatre.com/whatson.html#fredalice

Bookings: 021 4505624

Luchador Gigs & Venture Promotions Presents:

STEVE STRONG (UK experimental/instrumental)
DEADLIGHTS (Cork synth/sci-fi-horror-rock)
UNWINDING CABLES (Cork Afropunk)

The Gateway, Barrack St.
Saturday, November 15th
FREE IN

STEVE STRONG

Steve Strong is a one-man arsenal of beats, tapped guitar and lush, textural melodies. His music is as withheld as it is grandiose, as skeletal as it is layered, equal parts shimmering and pulsing.

It glimmers, swings and explodes in all the right places, sliding gracefully from one section to another, played as tightly as it is loose and free. Steve's ability to bridge the gap between technical ability and captivation is completely instinctual, tattooed onto his musical conscious like the art on his body. His music seems to encompass many different styles without feeling contrived or forced, every strand of inspiration in steve's music is carefully placed and melted. This music will not be held down!

DEADLIGHTS

Deadlights are an electronic rock duo based in Cork, Ireland. Their brooding anthemic tales of woe consist of Eoin Hayes on vocals, guitar, synths and programming and The Hypnotist on synths and backing vocals. They encompass a varied spectrum of electronic music from aggressive thumping beats to more mellow and melodic soundscapes.

Their dark transcendent style is heavily inspired by science fiction, the retro-futurist aesthetic, gothic horror, as well as esoteric principals and ancient beliefs. Their music allegorically touches on issues of frustration, politics, loss, agony, ecstasy and love in the guise of dark fantasy. Musical influences include Gary Numan, Sisters of Mercy, Type O Negative, Depeche Mode, Samhain, NIN and many more...

UNWINDING CABLES

“Cork has given us many things over the years and now it looks set to provide the first Irish Afro-Punk band. Formed by frontman Zelen and drummer Ovi (with the former’s twin brother Zen completing the line-up a little later), Unwinding Cables stand apart in a city whose music scene has itself been highly individual. Why it took so long for a band as exciting as this to emerge from the new look Irish population is one question, but let’s just be thankful that they’re finally here.” - Phil Udell, State Magazine

THE THIN AIR & FIFA Records presents:

The Vincent(s)
Hope is Noise
Jonny Rep
+ The Thin Air DJs

Saturday March 7th
Crane Lane, Cork
Free In
Doors: 8.30pm

The Thin Air Magazine launches in Cork! Global culture, with a local accent.

Founded in May, 2013, The Thin Air is an Irish music and culture website and physical magazine ran by an avid, ever-expanding group of writers, photographers, artists and musicians utterly passionate about the independent music and culture of the island of Ireland and much, much further afield.

Sharing a common desire to deliver, promote and share music, arts and culture news, features, articles, reviews and media content, we are a dedicated, driven and diverse bunch comprised of (only occasionally world-weary) music journalists, photographers based everywhere from New York to Sweden, go-getting film-makers, starry-eyed live reviewers and more.

March issue of The Thin Air magazine - featuring Cork psych-rockers The Altered Hours on the cover, and an Inbound piece on Cork soul crew Shookrah - will be available exclusively on the night.

THE VINCENT(S)

Although only formed in Aug 2012, The Vincent(s) have toured extensively throughout Ireland and abroad and have a strong fan base at home and further afield, they represent something of a sea change in music that has emerged from the Ireland of recent times.

Raw recordings, noise and psych are the orders of the day. Their roots lie in surf sounds and early 90s US alt-guitar groove, which sit alongside an unmistakable Irish vocal. The band are currently in studio working on their debut long player with an expected early 2015 release.

HOPE IS NOISE

“Hope is Noise”. From that one offhand, seemingly cryptic musing, came an unlikely spark, one that brought four childhood friends together and give them a singular purpose: music that moves you. Moves you to sing, to dance along, to get angry, to identify with it and get immersed in its world and muses.

Since bringing their body of work under the banner of Hope is Noise in late 2004, the Cork four-piece have built a dedicated following, drawn equally to their ability to construct a winning pop tune with seemingly little effort, and their incendiary, hardcore tendencies; the result is a sound that in places resonates with a more considered take on Husker Du & Foo Fighters' knack for a tune, and burns with a rage comparable to Hot Snakes or At-the Drive In. It's a seemingly odd dichotomy, but over the course of two E.P.s and two critically-acclaimed full-lengths (Applaud Friends... and Under Friendly Fire, available for download from the band's Bandcamp), it's one that has formed the basis of something very special indeed, keeping fans and critics alike, across a wide cross-section of genres, hanging on.

JONNY REP

Jonny Rep's drummer Niall hits the drums REALLY HARD!!

He's been playing drums for quite a while now and anyone who's seen him play (and quite a few have) will know that there won't be any half-measures. He'll tell you, as will all of Jonny Rep that IT’S ALL ABOUT THE MOMENT!! Nothing else really matters.

Niall was doing this with his first band, The Shanks, even as fellow Cork bands The Sultans and The Franks took their place in the spotlight in the 90s. Around that time, Jonny Rep members Pat (vocals), Derry (bass) and Fergus (guitar) crossed countless paths with Niall as they gigged with Cork alternative popsters LMNO Pelican. Derry and Fergus went on to play in Semi, and Niall also moved on to somewhat noisier things with rockers Rulers of the Planet, where Jonny Rep's other guitarist Dave also played.

Jonny Rep came about purely because the urge to make music would not fade... Pat, Derry and Fergus had started jamming and recording again, and were a little surprised how quickly the songs came together. A band name was required so a name very similar to that of a Dutch footballer from the seventies fitted the bill, a name that was friendly and individual but slightly unfamiliar. Equally, the new music needed to go live and so it was then Niall and Dave were asked to join in the fun.

Saturday 28th March, Mr. Bradley's

Mother Mooch
Ealadha
Solid Gold Rocketship

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