STARLING x Féile Na Gréine

24–25 August 2024

STARLING collaborates with beloved Limerick music festival Féile Na Gréine this year to present a performance series this weekend 24-25th August, featuring Amir Sabra, entrd_, Olan Monk and Elvin Brandhi. The performances of these four artists span the fields of visual art, experimental sound, music, writing, choreography and movement. These artists offer a diverse range of ideas and experience, from the heavy distorted songwriting of Conamara based artist Olan Monk, to an exploration of intimacy through Palestinian Dabke in the rich choreography of Amir Sabra. This programme invites the Féile Na Gréine audience to experience these four distinctive acts that will unfold throughout the festival weekend.

Saturday 24th
Olan Monk is a musician, performer and writer from Conamara. They co-founded C.A.N.V.A.S. with Lugh O’Neill as an events series and record label, established in 2018 to give collective agency to an increasingly dispersed community of artists.

Their practice involves experimental and popular songwriting, performing solo and in collaboration with other musicians, including featured recordings and performances with Ashley Paul, Actress, Elvin Brandhi, James K, Maria Somerville and Michael Speers. Past releases include Love/Dead (2020) and Auto Life (2021) on C.A.N.V.A.S. and Dubplate 08 (2022) on AD 93.
and local artists and musicians. Bringing acts together, these events invite visiting artists to an Irish audience, as well as celebrating local music and arts practice.

Sunday 25th
Elvin Brandhi is an improvising lyricist, producer and sound artist from Bridgend, Wales, who builds aberrant beats from field recordings, tape, vinyl, instrument and voice. Using sound and voice as an expansive language, transgressing intrinsic systemics and inherited syntactical etiquettes, her live shows are unyielding bursts of erupting animation where a caustic stream of consciousness cavorts with restless, glitched out heaviness. Elvin Brandhi’s practice comprises a range of collaborations and endless nomadism. Her first E.P ‘Shelf life’ was released on ‘C.A.N.V.A.S’ in 2018. She is one half of father / daughter noise-improv berserkers Yeah You, and performs in collaborations such as the Avril Spleen project with Joseph Jadame (maltash), Bahk with Daniel Blumberg (MUTE), as well as contributions to Drew Mcdowall’s agalma.

Amir Sabra is a dance artist currently based in Ireland, and is a Co-founder of the Palestinian dance company Stereo48. Amir began his movement practice as a break-dancer, before paving his way through several dance companies; Le ballet c d la b (Belgium); Pokemon crew (France); Catherine Young dance (Ireland). Amir is the winner of the Technical Prize for Danse élargie 2022. Organized by Théâtre de la Ville in Paris.