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Limerick ZineFest 2025:
Open Mic Night
May 2025Limerick School of Art and Design Poetry Society and Limerick Zine Fest are come together again for a cozy night of music and poetry.

Limerick Zine Fest is a five-day festival celebrating the power of DIY-culture and independent publishing.
Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines
April 2025Listening at the Edge of the Staff Lines is a workshop focussing on participatory, embodied listening through sound-making, text scores, verbal notation and visual map-making. Working with the sound meditations and practices of composer Pauline Oliveros, participants will go on a sound walk, exploring collective cartographies, as well as engaging in improvised listening and response exercises to sonic compositions. 

This workshop is created and facilitated by Helping Hands / Gabrielle Stoddard in collaboration with Thea Martin.
             


Irish Neutrality Roadshow

May 2025The Irish Neutrality Roadshow comes to Limerick to share facts and facilitate discussion on Irish Neutrality and the Triple Lock. Joining this event was life-long peace activist and former UN peacekeeper Ed Horgan.

Headed by Niamh Ní Bhriain of the Transnational Institute and featuring a host of expert speakers, the Neutrality Roadshow tours the country for one month, creating spaces for open dialogue and discussion. 

https://keepirelandneutral.ie/
Palestine Cinema Days
UL BDS & STARLING

November 2024UL BDS & STARLING in an effort to amplify Palestinian voices on the anniversary of the Balfour Declaration are screening "The Wanted 18" directed by Amer Shomali & Paul Cowen.

أيّام فلسطين السينمائيّة في ليمريك
في ذكرى وعد بلفور، التي تصادف الثاني من تشرين الثاني/نوفمبر، وحرصاً منا على إيصال الأصوات الفلسطينية، نعرض فيلم "المطلويون ال١٨" للمخرجان 'عامر شوملي وبول كُوِن' في تمام الساعة الرابعة مساءً، في "سالرلينغ"، ليمريك، ايرلندا.
العرض مجاني.

This screening  is a partnership with UL BDS – student and staff promoting the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions campaign at the University of Limerick.

Primavolta Weekender workshops with Celaviedmai & Wastefellow
November 2024Irish artists Celaviedmai & Wastefellow discuss their creative process in relation to songwriting and music production – providing insights into the experience of being an independent musician in Ireland.

Primavolta is a Limerick-based collective that provides a platform for Irish artists. Through gigs and promotions, the collective introduces some of the country’s finest talent to fresh new ears. With a focus on left-field hip-hop, jazz, and beat-orientated music, the weekender hosted an array of International and local artists.


40th EVA International

31 August – 29 October 2023Diane Severin Nguyen, IF REVOLUTION IS A SICKNESS, 2021.

A film that follows the character of a Vietnamese child who grew up to be absorbed into a South Korean pop-inspired dance group. The spectacle was disrupted by the voice over culled from various and often contradictory writings on political revolution by Hannah Arendt, Ulrike Meinhof and Mao Zedong among others.

Diane Severin Nguyen is a visual artist who lives between Los Angeles and New York (US). Nguyen has presented work at public arts institutions and galleries including Sculpture Center, New York (US), Salt Beyoğlu, Istanbul (TR) and The Renaissance Society, Chicago (US).

EVA International is Ireland’s Biennial of Contemporary Art. EVA leads in the commissioning and curating of contemporary art by Irish and international artists, culminating in a programme of artistic encounters, exhibitions, and education projects, that takes place every two years across venues in Limerick city and beyond.
Limerick Zine Fest; STARLING with the Freedom shop & Rebel Reads

May 3rd & 4th, 2024As part of Limerick’s first Zinefest STARLING partners independent book shops; Rebel Reads (IE) and The Freedom Shop (NZ) to bring a selection of political publications, zines, and books to Limerick city.

Rebel Reads is a radical book shop, meeting space and center for leftist activity and alternative groups and individuals in Cork city. The Freedom Shop is a not-for-profit anarchist bookshop and info-centre in support of DIY anarchist culture through the publication and distribution of accessible information, based in Te Whanganui-A-Tara / Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand.

This exchange was facilitated by Kathleen Winter (Freedom shop, Wellington Zinefest) and Decy (Rebel Reads). Zines sent over from Aotearoa were circulated between vendors and visitors to the stall, traded for Irish zinemakers content. Limerick Zinefest is held at the Wickham Way in Limerick City.

A selection of publications and zines from Rebel Reads and the Freedom Shop are available to view in Limerick, get in touch with us if you’re interested.

aemi tour: Spirit Messages
April 2024 Spirit Messages brings together exciting new moving image work by Irish and international artists. Alongside a variety of other concerns, the artists featured in this programme employ a diverse set of creative strategies to reveal an interconnected world, one in which the medium is not just the message but the means through which the paranormal can engage our attention. From folk tales to esotericism, poppers training videos, horror flicks and sci-fi, the films in Spirit Messages draw from an eclectic array of sources to suggest that the idiosyncratic forms of communication we adopt are often choices that are as subversive as they are functional.

Ross McClean, Echo, 2023,
Amanda Rice, The Flesh of Language, 2023
Niall Cullen, The Dog Who Became a Frog, 2023
Jamie Crewe, False Wife, 2022
Luis Arnías, Terror Has No Shape, 2021
Dan Guthrie, Coaley Peak (A Fragment), 2021

aemi (Artists' & Experimental Moving Image) is a Dublin-based initiative that supports and regularly exhibits moving image works by artists and experimental filmmakers.