The Trash Culture Revue

10th Jun 2010

THE TRASH CULTURE REVUE

The Trash Culture Revue will be held from Wednesday 16 - Sunday 20 June, in Cork and will be run through mutantspace.ie, an Irish online arts resource that's run on the gift economy principle. With over 500 members across the country and over 1500 skills in its resource bank mutantspace.ie is the largest independent resource of its kind in the country and is in the perfect position to provide free practical support to the development and production of this Revue.

It is this alternative production system that lies at the heart of The Trash Culture Revue. It is this freedom to create that allows us to give people a new space in which to experiment, fail, make and play no matter who they are, where they are, what they do or when they do it.

This Revue is also about autonomy and no compromise and in order to reinforce that we will be running the entire programme on no money. Instead we will be using our own collective skills and resources in place of monetary exchange.

This revue is taking a stand. This Revue wants to take positive action and show that through co-operation we can create a viable creative economy, a real alternative to the current economic arts structure that is based on state funding bodies, local authorities, bureaucracy and red tape.

Members of mutantspace will be working on all aspects of the production, programming, management and PR of the Revue. Designers, promoters, venue owners, drivers, sound engineers, volunteers, etc are giving their time for free and in doing so will create a unique atmosphere, a community of people who want to make things happen in their area, want to participate, want to see things change. And this is only the beginning. We hope to see The Revue travel around the country and work with mutantspace members in all 32 counties.

Over the last 3 months we have left the door open to everyone with an idea, a show, an exhibition, film, dance, song and we have been delighted to receive such varied, interesting and exciting submissions. Most of the work is by young artists and quite a number of them will be taking a spot at our Mutant Cabaret on Friday 18th June at the Savoy Theatre.
As a flavour of what to expect during The Trash Culture Revue we'll be kicking off with our own celebration of Bloomsday on Wednesday 16th June. We'll be hosting an evening of music, readings, gorgonzola, kidneys and wine.

Later that same night The Poetry Chicks, from Derry, will be performing their new show, 'Blashemy'. This provocative entertainment questions the Irish blasphemy legislation enacted in 2009 and explores the myriad belief systems that afflict mankind (particularly in Ireland!). This is performance poetry at its sharpest from an award winning writing team coupled with original songs and music from rising piano star Connor Kelly.

We're delighted to have the Irish Grand Slam Poet Champion 2009, Stephen James Smith performing in Cork. He currently runs The Glor Sessions in Dublin and has performed in London, Amsterdam, New York as well as Universities in NYC, Boston, and Washington D.C. His poetry is included on an American University Syllabus (along with Tupac!) and he's recently been involved with lectures to professors and students on a number of creative writing classes including in an Irish Literary course for his recitals of Yeats Poetry

Punk poet Jinx Lennon will be using his words, electro beats, a six string and bullhorn to expose his cracked mirror view of Hibernia and society in general, drawing the audience into his world like a drowsy insect into the mouth of a flesh eating plant

We're delighted to be hosting an open workshop called Better Questions an initiative that emerged out of conversations between people engaged in either social movement practices and/or thought on radical social change.

We'll also be running a short film competition, a story slam, a number of gigs, film screenings, performance art installations, readings and lunchtime theatre events.
The Trash Culture Revue is not just about the performers, it is about the collective will that comes from a shared idea.

It is about everyone getting stuck in from the performer to the ticket collector, the producer to the venue owner. This Revue wants to show people that by working together we can create a new space that promotes and encourages artistic endeavour. A space that is not subject to commercial or bureaucratic pressures. A space that defies the generic nature of festivals around our country.


Here is a quick timetable of the events. You can download the timetable below

Wednesday 16
1pm A Pool of Scarlett
Rehearsed reading@The Roundy Upstairs: 50 mins

6pm Policed: Subject 1 + Policed: Subject A
Short films@The Roundy Upstairs: 30 mins

6pm Bloomspace
Performance/food@The Sextant: 120 mins

Thursday 17
1pm Two
Theatre@The Roundy Upstairs: 50 mins Tickets: €5

6pm Policed: Subject 1 + Policed: Subject A
Short films@The Roundy Upstairs: 30 mins

8pm The Celtic Tiger
Readings and performance@Meades Upstairs: 80 mins Tickets: €5

9pm Keith Mullins
Music@The Roundy Upstairs: 120 mins Tickets: €7/5

10pm Mutant Shorts Film Competition
Films@The Savoy Theatre: 90 mins Tickets: €5

Friday 18
24hrs Window Trasher
Art Installation TBC

1pm Two
Theatre:@The Roundy Upstairs: 50 mins Tickets: €5

6pm Surveillance Through The Flowers
Art Installation@Basement Project Space: 30 mins

6pm Policed: Subject 1 + Policed: Subject A
Short films@The Roundy Upstairs: 30 mins

8.30pm Eden
Theatre@Meades Upstairs: 90 mins

9pm Jinx Lennon
Music@The Roundy Upstairs: 120 mins Tickets: €10/7

10pm Mutant Cabaret
Performance@The Savoy Theatre: 180 mins Tickets: €5

Saturday 19
1pm Aaargggh Say It As You Really Want To
Theatre@The Roundy Upstairs: 60 mins Tickets: €5

2.30pm Better Questions
Talks and workshop@Meades Downstairs: 90 mins

3pm Shape Changing
Rehearsed readings@The Roundy Upstairs: 120 mins

4pm Chunky Planet
Music@The ESB sub – station: 90 mins

6pm Policed: Subject 1 + Policed: Subject A
Short films@The Roundy Upstairs: 30 mins

6pm Bedbound
Rehearsed readings@Meades Upstairs: 90 mins

8pm Story Slam + Eleventyfour
Perfomance@Meades Upstairs: 120 mins

10pm Pearse McGlouglin + Harry Bird and the Rubber Wellies
Music@Meades Upstairs: 90 mins Tickets: €5

Sunday 20
3pm Trash Country Boogie
Music/food@The Sextant: 180 mins

3pm Shape Changing
Rehearsed readings@The Roundy Upstairs: 120 mins

9pm Nassau
Music@The Roundy Upstairs: 120 mins

For more information on all our acts go to:
http://themutation.com/the-trash-culture-revue

http://www.facebook.com/trashculturerevue

for more information on mutantspace.ie arts resource and gift economies go to:
http://www.mutantspace.ie