Culture File
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The Culture File Weekly: Dublin's Hallelujah
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Walking a few momentous blocks of Dublin on the scent of a constellation of chancers, charities, literal bigwigs, choristers and 18th century It Girls...
The Fingal Mummers | Culture File
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Irish Institute of Music and Song in Balbriggan's "Pathway to the Well" offer children in North County Dublin experiences of Irish music and tradi...
The Cloud of Unknowing | Culture File
17 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Fairy tales, they're not just for kids you know, suggests Tadhg O'Sullivan in his latest Cloud of Unknowing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy in...
Wìngéd Muses: The Swift | Culture File
16 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A taste of our forthcoming Culture File Debate: Wìngéd Muses, for which we asked some of our favourite writers—Orit Gat, Sara Baume, The Naturalis...
The Culture File Debate: Seeing Natures
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
How do artists capture the limitless beauty and complexity of the natural world? Paddy Woodworth chairs a panel of image-makers, featuring Jane Carkil...
Culture File "Likes": Renata Pekowska
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artist and perception wrangler, Renata Pekowska, on a few of her favourite things, which include a book about religious relics and the smell of tomato...
Seeing The Emergency | Culture File
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a taster for this week's Culture File Debate: Seeing Natures, Paddy Woodworth asks his panel of nature image-makers - Jane Carkill, Melissa Culhane...
Cartoon Networking | Culture File
11 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Conversations, impressions and quick sketches from this year's Galway Cartoon Festival, in cartoonist Caoimhe Lavelle's festival notebook.See omnystud...
Magic and Hyper-Reality | Culture File
10 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
VR visionary, Curtis Hickman, on how even good old-fashioned legerdemain can teach a creator about working with the "hyper-reality" of VR storytelling...
The Naturalist's Bookshelf "The Signature of All Things" | Culture File
09 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paddy Woodworth's latest selection for his ideal shelf of nature books is The Signature Of All Things by 'Eat, Pray, Love' author, Elizabeth Gilbert.S...
The Culture File Weekly 071224: Pain, Fog, halleluiah
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Conductor and researcher, Peter Whelan on what we're still learning about Handel in Dublin; Orit Gat attempts to see Monet in London through the fog, ...
Culture File "Likes": Till Holzapfel
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Neuroscientist and cyberdelic evangelist, Till Holzapfel, on some of his favourite things, including Alejandro Jodorowsky's The Magic Mountain and the...
Sound, mind, body | Culture File
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Among the ingredients for Rada Iva Sibila sound installations are the Zagreb artist's spoken words, captured as she experiences the pain of arthritis....
Orit Gat's Voice Notes | Culture File
04 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Is it possible to see once-breathtaking images from Monet or Van Gogh at all now? Orit Gat gives it a go at two current London shows from the Modernis...
What Did Handel's Messiah Sound Like? | Culture File
03 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What did George Frideric Handel hear at the Messiah's first performance in Dublin in 1743? Irish Baroque Orchestra's Peter Whelan turns his attention ...
A Return To Fishamble Street | Culture File
02 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (4/4)See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
The Culture File Weekly 301124:
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
On the trail of the probably German writer behind The Treasure of the Sierra Madre with Tadhg O'Sulllivan, the art of playing the violin while recitin...
Culture File "Likes":
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Composer, John McLachlan shares some of his favourite things, which include all six volumes of Karl Ove Knausgård's My Struggle, and that perennial s...
Room Taken | Culture File
28 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A couch-surfing homeless immigrant who doesn’t know his luck encounters a blind woman who doesn't know he's there, in director TJ O'Grady-Peyton's R...
At The Art Cabin | Culture File
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Culture File makes a studio visit to the "Art Cabin" at Brother Russell House in Limerick City.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
The Cloud of Unknowing | Culture File
26 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Tadhg O'Sullivan's latest journey into the cloud attempts to follow the elusive author of The Treasure of The Sierra Madre, B. Traven.See omnystudio.c...
A Return To Fishamble Street | Culture File
25 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Rewalking a memorable path through "Handel's Dublin" in the company of the late historian, Jonathan Bardon. (3/4)See omnystudio.com/listener for priva...
The Culture File Weekly 231124: Cold Snap Edition
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At IMMA, an audio guide provides a platform for kids' takes on contemporary art; uilleann piper, Cillian Vallely teams up with Fidelio Quarter for wha...
Culture File "Likes": Timothy Brock
22 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Some of the good things as rated by composer, Timothy Brock, including Vincenzo Lamagna's re-score for Akram Khan's Giselle, and a certain bowl of pas...
Everything You Can Learn About Contemporary Art From A 7-Year-Old | Culture File
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Kids offer the insights for a new audio guide at IMMA's "Take a Breath" exhibition.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.