Exchange Words is a spoken word showcase in Exchange Dublin, and arts centre in Temple Bar. Each week we bring you a new podcast of spoken word performances at our Exchange Words show.
Welcome to the 14th Exchange Words Podcast. Each week we release a new performance from our monthly showcase in Dublin’s Temple Bar. This weeks episode was recorded on Friday 13th of November 2009, and features a performance by actor and storyteller Cathal McGuire.
Exchange Words intro music is a public domain recording of Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 ‘Wanderer’ – III. Presto written by Franz Schubert and performed by Daniel Blanch, made available by the Musopen Project.
Welcome to the 13th Exchange Words Podcast. Each week we release a new performance from our monthly showcase in Dublin’s Temple Bar. This weeks episode was recorded on Friday 13th of November 2009, and features a performance by comedian Ronan Grace.
Exchange Words intro music is a public domain recording of Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 ‘Wanderer’ – III. Presto written by Franz Schubert and performed by Daniel Blanch, made available by the Musopen Project.
Welcome to the 11th Exchange Words Podcast. Each week we release a new performance from our monthly showcase in Dublin’s Temple Bar. This weeks episode was recorded on Friday 13th of November 2009, and features a performance by poet Aoife Coughlan.
Exchange Words intro music is a public domain recording of Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 ‘Wanderer’ – III. Presto written by Franz Schubert and performed by Daniel Blanch, made available by the Musopen Project.
Welcome to the 11th Exchange Words Podcast. Each week we release a new performance from our monthly showcase in Dublin’s Temple Bar. This weeks episode was recorded on Friday 13th of November 2009, and features the first performance by sketch group Shinoxy. Due to the visual nature of this weeks episode, no audio podcast is available.
Exchange Words intro music is a public domain recording of Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 ‘Wanderer’ – III. Presto written by Franz Schubert and performed by Daniel Blanch, made available by the Musopen Project.
Welcome to the 10th Exchange Words Podcast. Each week we release a new performance from our monthly showcase in Dublin’s Temple Bar. This weeks episode was recorded on Friday 13th of November 2009, and features a performance by poet Dylan McDonough.
Exchange Words intro music is a public domain recording of Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 ‘Wanderer’ – III. Presto written by Franz Schubert and performed by Daniel Blanch, made available by the Musopen Project.
We’ll be running an event named Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus at Exchange Dublin on 14th of May, 2010. If the events a success we plan to make it a regular home for alternative comedy in Dublin, featuring writers, comedians, storytellers and visual humorists from film makers, to animators and artists. Thanks for all your support in the past, we hope you’ll enjoy a night of something different in Dublin: Dark uncensored literary comedy, in an all ages, alcohol free space. You can hop on the Facebook event here. Here’s the bumf…
You are cordially invited to the first ever Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus night. An evening of dark and mysterious comedy from a variety of Ireland’s most talented writers, comedians and storytellers.
Our first event features comedian’s Shane Langan, and Ronan Grace; Milk and Cookie Stories star storyteller Tom Rowley; journalist and humourist Cian Hallinan; writer and publisher Andrew Booth; and animation from artist Sarah Devereux, as well as several surprise guests.
The event will be presented and curated by writer and comedian Gareth Stack, who’ll be performing material featured in Piranha!, Ladyboy Jesus online magazine, and the upcoming darkly comic novel Jackdaw Fool. Gareth has been described as across between across between Vincent Price and Stewie from family guy.
Expect darkness, hilarity and literary japes. This is not a standup comedy night. There may even be marshmallows.
Price is €5 / €3 concessions, with all profits donated to Exchange Dublin.
Our wonderful poster is designed by the very talented Sarah Quigley, and includes assets from radioPooh used with permission.
Voices in the City marks the fourth event to be run in Exchange Dublin springing out of the Exchange Words initiative. This time Andrej LeSaint takes the reigns, curating an event featuring some of Dublin’s best up and coming poets.
The event will also include the first screening of a short documentary on the Exchange Words project, produced by a group of students of National University of Ireland, Maynooth Scealta Siamsaiochta.
Tickets are only 5 euro, with proceeds going to Exchange Dublin.
Doors are 7.30PM, Friday the 9th of April, 2010.
Here’s the lineup:
Andrej LeSaint is a spoken word performer whose influences range from Baudelaire to Mos Def, and has been a regular on Dublin’s performing circuit since 2005. He has performed at Electric Picnic, the DLR Festival of World Cultures, Poets’ Express and many more, and has been published in a number of journals and an anthology.
Karl Parkinson is a poet who lives and was raised in inner city Dublin. His work has been published by Revival, Baby Beef and Seven Towers. In 2009 he was the winner of the prize for most entertaining video on BalconyTV Dublin.
Mike Igoe is a Cavan-born performance poet living in Dublin. Along with a group of bards and brawlers he organises the Naked Lunch open mic, which provides a platform for poets and musicians to perform their work. He has been published by Baby Beef.
Performance Poet Cah-44 has been living in a ramshackle post-Gorey house in North Dublin with an international rotating collective of a dubious, if opaque, nature. He needs a cat. But no mere cat. Perhaps a meercat.
Welcome to the ninth Exchange Words Podcast. Each week we release a new performance from our monthly showcase in Dublin’s Temple Bar. This weeks episode was recorded on Friday 9th of October 2009, and features a workshop performance of ‘And the Angels Shall Rejoice’, by Roger Gregg and the Crazy Dog Audio Theatre company.
Exchange Words intro music is a public domain recording of Fantasy in C Major Op.15 D.760 ‘Wanderer’ – III. Presto written by Franz Schubert and performed by Daniel Blanch, made available by the Musopen Project.
Exchange Words, an evening inspired by the current spoken word revival, takes place every month at the Exchange in Temple Bar. With more interest than ever in storytelling, standup comedy, book readings, live radio theatre and a burgeoning Irish performance poetry scene, now is the perfect time to visit a regular spoken word showcase in the heart of Dublin. Exchange Words gives comedians, writers, actors and storytellers the chance to collaborate and develop their work for performance in a welcoming, all ages, alcohol free environment
Following two successful in October and November, Exchange Words is delighted to announce our final spoken word event of 2009. An evening of stand up comedy, poetry and theatre, Exchange Words III.
Exchange Words III delivers another evening of home grown talent guaranteed to amuse, astound and astonish. Performers on the night include nationally recognised poets Andrej Kapor & Stephen James Smith (Cuirt Slam Champion & MC at ‘The Glor Sessions’ in Dublin’s International bar), a new dramatic piece by Christopher Samuel Carroll artistic director of the Bare Witness Theatre Company, comedy from Ireland’s most anarchic standup Enda Muldoon, and a new play from writer & comedian Gareth Stack, bringing his infamous ‘Invisible Tour Guide’ series of podcasts to the stage for the first time.
The event will take place on Friday 18th December @ Exchange Dublin, Temple Bar. Tickets € 5 / € 3 available at the door.
About Exchange Dublin
Exchange Dublin is a new collective arts centre in Temple Bar, Dublin run entirely by young people and holding discussions, gigs, visual arts and performance. Most projects originate from the autonomous “Exchange Groups” that use the space as a hub for their activity. Representatives from these groups form the general Exchange Dublin Collective that programmes and coordinates events in the space. All work is voluntary and no one is paid.
Anyone interested in performing at future events, or looking for more information, can email or phone on 083 355 1282.
Even if you’re not performing, if you’re interested in helping out with sound, lighting, recording, or just volunteering at the event, we’d love to hear from you.
Gareth Stack is a writer and standup comedian. Having co-produced the 2008 edition of infamous Trinity College satire magazine ‘Piranha!’, Gareth established the online comedy website ‘Marshmallow Ladyboy Jesus’ with writing partner Andrew Booth. He began the ‘Virgin Standup‘ project in August 2008, with the goal filming and releasing every performance of a brand new standup comedian (18 gigs so far!). Last year he created ‘The Invisible Tour Guide’, a comedic tour of historic Dublin, recording six genuinely fictional audio tours and one mockumentary ‘Behind The Tour Guide’.
‘The Invisible Tour Guide, Revealed’ brings the mad world of Professor Byron Chaffinch Frump to the stage for the first time.
Sarah Maria Griffin, Poetry
Sarah Griffin reintroduces the Maria to her name in an effort to seem slighly more interesting. She writes plays abd stories and is finishing a degree in English, Media and Cultural Stuies- which very nearly made ger give up writing poetry and stories and plays altogether.
Christopher Samuel Carroll, storytelling
Christopher Samuel Carroll is artistic director of the Bare Witness Theatre Company: He recently produced a piece at Project Arts Centre as part of the Theatre Machine Turns You On festival, which he wrote and devised with Roseanne Lynch. He is an actor and a theatre artist.
Andrej was born in Sarajevo and has since lived and performed just about everywhere between here and there, including the Electric Picnic, the DLR Festival of World Cultures, Poets Express, and a wide variety of spoken word events and open mics in Ireland and abroad. He is one of the poets on the “Naked & Hungry” spoken word release, and his work has also been published by Revival Press and BabyBeef.
Enda Muldoon, Standup Comedy
Enda Muldoon began comedy four years ago in a bid to deal with deep seated childhood psycholgical trauma. This badly thought out attempt at purging his demons in public proved not only to be unsuccessfull, but has involved many of his shows ending with his admission to a psychiatric unit. Not strictly a comedian, watching Enda perform is a dark view at the fragility of the human psyche. The fact that anyone would give him a microphone, is proof in itself that the collapse of society is imminent. THE RACE TO THE BOTTOM IS OVER, COME SEE THE WINNER.
Poetry from Cuirt Slam Champion (Poetry). MC @ The Glor Sessions. Spoken word organiser @ Festival of World Cultures ’09. Performed all over the country & beyond.
Rachel Nobel & Cathal O’Gara, Epistolary Drama
Rachel Noble & Cathal O’Gara are two nonchalant friends studying in the fields of English & Drama. Rachel’s field isn’t as well kempt as Cathal’s, as her farmer does not realise that it is in fact a literary field; his chopping down of her literary crops is quite unproductive.
Philip Kenny, poetry
Current Ma philosophy student in NUIM. Philip has studied speech and drama for the royal Irish academy of music for a number of years. Having written since his youth, is now focusing on bringing his writing stylings to an audience and has delighted in the development of works appealing to the ear above all.
Gareth Stack, ‘The Invisible Tour Guide Revealed’
Sarah Maria Griffin, Poetry
Christopher Samuel Carroll, storytelling
Andrej Kapor, Performance Poetry
Enda Muldoon, Standup Comedy
Stephen James Smith, Performance Poetry
Rachel Nobel & Cathal O’Gara, Epistolary Drama
Philip Kenny, poetry
