In the MindField Arena throughout the weekend:

Alice in Wonderland.

Following the spectacular success of A Midsummer Night’s Dream (July 2008), Animal Farm (August 2009) and Macbeth (April 2010) Upstart Theatre Company is delighted to be bringing their brand new production of Lewis Carroll’s cherished classic ALICE IN WONDERLAND from Ravensdale, Dundalk, to the Electric Picnic!

ALICE IN WONDERLAND is one of the finest children’s books ever written, and Upstart has sought to capture its humour, vibrancy and fun in a way that would appeal as much to those who read the book fifty years ago as to the kids today who might only have ever seen the movie. This highly interactive, unique show is a promenade piece, meaning the audience will be totally transported into the crazy world of Wonderland as Alice leads them from scene to scene.

Featuring the trademark high energy, physical style that the company has become known for, and performed by a stellar ensemble cast, this show is certain to be one of the theatrical highlights of the summer.

So whatever you do, don’t be late for this very important date! Upstart invite you and all the family to join Alice’s adventures – come follow the White Rabbit, drink tea with the Mad Hatter, play croquet with the Queen of Hearts, and meet many more fantastic characters in a spectacular show that will delight and entertain audiences of all ages. Running time: 60mins approx.

Leviathan Stage

Friday, 3 September.

17:30pm – 19:00

Leviathan Political Cabaret: David McWilliams hosts a discussion on Politics in the Internet Age with David Cochrane of Politics.ie; Amanda Brown, Cybersorter Column in The Irish Times; Twitterer-in-chief, Senator Dan Boyle; and Gavin Sheridan of TheStory.ie and KildareStreet.com.

Saturday, 4 September.

12:00 – 13:30

The MindField News Quiz: The voice of RTÉ Radio One’s News at One, Sean O’Rourke, takes a lighthearted look at the year’s news stories so far and tests an eclectic panel of festival personalities on their knowledge of current affairs.

13:45 – 15:15

History Ireland Hedge School: Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland hosts a timely discussion on Irish Neutrality: Principled or Pragmatic with former Respect MP, George Galloway, Eunan O Hailpin (TCD, Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War), Eamon Delaney (An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service); and T. Ryle Dwyer (Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phoney Neutrality During World War Two).

16:00 – 17:30

Unknown Pleasures. RTÉ 2FM’s Dave Fanning hosts a fascinating talk about the past, present and future of the music business in the company of some of its enduring legends. Peter Hook, former bass player with Joy Division and New Order teams up with Mr. Nice, Howard Marks in a frank conversation about the fraught past; former Wham manager, Simon Napier-Bell joins them to talk about the present and legendary DJ, photographer and Viscount of Vibes, BP Fallon looks into the future.

17:30 – 19:00

Graphic Content: The Big Comics Chat. A chaotic and fun-stuffed rocket ride through the inner and outer reaches of the comics and cartooning universes.  Our intrepid and esteemed panel – Pat Mills (2000 AD), Steve Bell (Guardian), Emma Vieceli (Manga Shakespeare), Phil Barrett (Matter) and Mel Gibson (Northumbria University) - will cheerily dissect and debate the “sequential art” scene as it and was: offering thoughts, opinions and recollections on a wide range of topics, including: Classic British comics, Manga, Bande dessinée, Girls’ comics, John Major’s underpants, the Irish small presses, and much, much more. Masked and caped crusaders may also get an occasional mention…

19:00 – 20:30

Leviathan: Political Cabaret. David McWilliams hosts a debate about whether Can There Ever Be Peace in the Middle East? with panellists, former Respect MP, George Galloway, journalist and political activist, Eamonn McCann, former Fox News commentator, Rachel Marsden and founder of The Gulf Intelligence news service, Seán Evers. Satirical music from Paddy Cullivan and the Camembert Quartet and stand-up comedy from Kevin Gildea.

20:30 – 21:30

Jinx Lennon. Leviathan favourite and Dundalk’s finest. Part punk folk poet troubadour, part gospel music energy preacher.

Sunday, 5^th September.

12:00 – 13:00

Ryan Tubridy’s Picnic Brunch. Direct from his first Late Late Show of the new season, one of Ireland’s top broadcasters, Ryan Tubridy, hosts a show of chat, banter, newspaper reviews and general chaotic hangover-friendly fun with an esoteric bunch of festival guests.

13:45 – 15:15

History Ireland Hedge School: A fascinating historical discussion about the Great O’Neill: Mafiosi or Machiavelli, hosted by History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham with special guests actor Stephen Rea, Hiram Morgan (UCC, Tyrone’s Rebellion), Ciaran Brady (TCD, The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536 – 1588) and Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Conor Lenihan.

15:30 – 16:30

Jon Ronson presents: The Men Who Stare At Goats and Other True Tales of Craziness at the Heart of Power. A funny and strange illustrated talk in which Jon Ronson tells the true story behind the Men Who Stare At Goats movie (he wrote the book) and the Bohemian Grove  (a secret club he once infiltrated where powerful business people and politicians take part in  a ritual that culminates in a mock human sacrifice). He will read from his forthcoming book, The Psychopath Test, which looks once again at madness at the heart of power.

17:00 – 19:00

Leviathan: Political Cabaret. David McWilliams hosts another interactive discussion on A Vision for Ireland in 2020 with guests, Minister for Communciation, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan; journalist and activist, Eamonn McCann; satirical music from Paddy Cullivan and the Camembert Quartet and standup comedy from Colm O’Regan.

19:00 – 20:30

Jinx Lennon: Closing out the Leviathan stage at Electric Picnic.

Arts Council Literary Stage

Friday, 3 September

17:00-17:30 Mike Scott of the Waterboys reads from his new memoir
17:45-18:45 Conall Morrison in conversation with Mark Patrick Hederman
19:00-20:00 Paul Murray and Chris Binchy, hosted by Cormac Kinsella

Saturday, 4 September
12:00 – 13:00 Tom Sykes on Isabella Blow and much more.
13:15-14:15 The Science of Flann O’Brien
14:30-15:30 Dermot Bolger hosts  Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh
15:45-16:45 Drivetime Four Savvy Women: Mary Wilson with Justine
McCarthy, Tara Buckley, Kathy Sheridan and Sara Burke
17:00-18:00 Dermot Bolger in conversation with Carlo Gébler and Gerard Smyth
18:15-19:15 Crime Writing with Declan Burke, Arlene Hunt, Declan
Hughes and Gene Kerrigan
19:30-20:30 John Waters and Johnny Duhan

Sunday, 5 September

12:00-13:00 Kids Literature: David O’Donoghue and David Maybury
13:15-14:15 Pat Boran, Leanne O’Sullivan and Rita Ann Higgins, hosted by Louis de Paor
14:30-15:30 Paul Muldoon in conversation with Philip King
15:45-16.45 Drivetime Four Savvy Women: Mary Wilson with Justine McCarthy, Tara Buckley, Kathy Sheridan and Sara Burke
17:00-18:00 Julian Gough and Greg Baxter
18:15 -19:15 Mike McCormack and Claire Kilroy
19:30-20:30 Louis de Paor with Ronan Browne

Science Gallery

Science Gallery brings their blockbuster summer show BIORHYTHM: Music and the Body to Electric Picnic 2010 to present BIORHYTHM LIVE. With over 35,000 visitors so far, BIORHYTHM is the hottest ticket in Dublin, so we’re taking the show on the road bringing sonically minded festival-goers buzz-worthy, pop performances, acoustic experiments and workshops exploring the natural forces that drive us to sing, strum, drum and dance.

We’ll also be bringing Science Gallery favorites IGNITE, Mindball Tournament and Irish Robotics Club along with world record attempts and performing BIORHYTHM scientists. Of course Science Gallery Shop will be at the ready with the best electro-accessories to kit out tech-savvy picnicers.

SCIENCE GALLERY TENT DAILY

12:00-18:00

SCIENCE GALLERY MAKE AND TAKE WORKSHOPS AND DEMO AREA

Drop in and chose from our Make and Take menu to pimp your T-shirt with LED’s or an iron-on visualization of your voice by using ‘See Your Voice’ software. We’ll also go low-tech with Grace Digney’s Eidophone where you become an acoustic artist as your voice manipulates grains of sands into different images. Build your own friends with Irish Robotics Club. Open to the robot curious, novice bot builders and tech experts. Share your stories or drop by to ask all your robot questions.

Feeling drained? Charge your body AND phone with Energy Bikes - our sneak preview to Science Gallery’s autumn show GREEN MACHINES. Robot guru Pete Redmond’s designer bikes let you make sure you body is looking good and you have full bars when your picnic love sends a text.

SATURDAY WORKSHOP SCHEDULE:

12:00-14:00 Eidophone Grace Digney’s voice visualization workshop

13:00-15:00 Irish Robotics Club

ALL DAY Pimp your T-shirt

MINDBALL

Brain fried from the weekend? See how mellow you really are by playing the Mindball Game where you can square off against your mates to control the ball by becoming more relaxed and more focused. The more relaxed you are, the better you will do.

SG SHOP @ ELECTRIC PICNIC

Shop til you drop at our portable shop on location at EP. We’ve got gadgets and gizmos a plenty for everyone from eco-friendly campers to fashion conscious ravers. Poi spinning kits, wind-up torches that can charge your phone, T-qualizer t-shirts that light up when the volume is right, SG hoodies and Picnic Survival Kits will all be on offer.

BODY SNATCHER

Ever found it strange to hear your voice played back to you? What does your heart beat sound like remixed? Can the sounds of your body make a hit song? Find out with BODY SNATCHER at Electric Picnic. BODY SNATCHER is an audiovisual installation by artists Alex Dowling and Sinéad Meaney that captures and manipulates sounds that visitors create using their bodies. Have the sounds of your body chopped up, stretched and mangled while immersive visuals shift around the walls of Science Gallery’s tent.

CHAIN OF EMOTION

12:00-15:00

Join the Music, Sensors & Emotion (MuSE) team from Queens University’s Sonic Arts Research Centre (SARC), as they turn picnicers into human wires in Chain of Emotion. First, find the metallic contact points hidden throughout the Science Gallery Tent. Next, grab your friends - or any nearby body - to create a human chain and connect the points to complete the sound-generating circuit. Different contact points trigger various sounds throughout the tent, creating an interactive environment of elaborate soundscapes. To explore the sonic options adjust the length of the chain and the people in it then hear how it affects the sound…and just for funsies, adjust your level of flesh on flesh contact to vary the total resistance of the wire and mutate the audio even further!

IGNITE

15:00-17:00

What is Ignite?

Ignite is an O’Reilly event and was started in Seattle in 2006 by Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis. There are thriving Ignite communities in Seattle, Portland, Paris, and NYC- and now Stradbally! Fast-paced, fun, thought-provoking, social, local, global-Ignite is all of these and more. It’s a high-energy evening of 5-minute talks by people who have an idea-and the guts to get onstage and share it with their hometown crowd. Run by local volunteers who are connected through the global Ignite network, Ignite is a force for raising the collective IQ and building connections in each city. And, via streaming and archived videos of local talks, local Ignites share all that knowledge and passion with the world. Be part of the buzz by following us on Twitter @IgniteDublin and @sciencegallery

See more info about Ignite Dublin here and view past Ignite Dublin nights on Science Gallery’s youtube channel.

LINE UP:

Rosie Ellis: Welcome and Introduction

Mark Congiusta: “Go ahead and pirate that record label’s music. They’ll make more.”

Aoife McLysaght: “Incest and Bestiality” 

Jane Ruffino: “404 Not Found”

Roger Duckworth: “Ramblings of an old fart”

Margaret E Ward: “Seven things you should never say if you’re human: debunking jargon for homo sapiens”

Cristin Leach: “Femme Maison: creativity v maternity, the late Louise Bourgeoise and the print that got away…”

Garry McMahon: “Resurrecting the electric vehicle”

Simone Mancini: “Conservation in the National Gallery of Ireland: a behind the scenes look at the physical care of the Collection”

Julia Sigwart: “Patchwork Lion’s Mane Jellyfish”

White Noise: Beatboxer

Martin Codyre: “Skin in the Game”

BP Fallon: “Now & Zen: Mind Your Mind And Your Mind Will Mind You”

MuSE: Music Sensors Emotion Queens University Belfast

5Camp aka Cart Driver: “A Brief History of Anime”

Naoise Nunn: “Great Speeches Can Change the World”

Martin McCabe: “Need More Brains?: Zombieland and the Smart Economy”

Steve Daley: “There ain’t no time for chastity”

Fiona Keaney: “MIXTAPES: popular music and contemporary art”

Dermot McCabe: “Analog architecture”

Gareth Dyke: “Tall tales and long tails: Stories of the Dinosaur Hunters

ARRIVE EARLY TO SCIENCE GALLERY TENT TO MAKE SURE YOU GET A SEAT!

(Wellie-wearers welcome and a special picnic offer of free smiles to those wearing a Science Gallery badge!)

BIORHTYHM LIVE: Live performances with SG’s science serenaders and friends

19:00-21:00

Forget scientists who moonlight as superheroes (ala Tony Stark/Iron Man) our scientists lead the ultimate double life creating earth changing experiments by day and electro beats by night.

19:00                         DJ 2Bit

2BiT has been a mainstay of the Irish electronic music scene for years, playing bass-driven, richly melodic braindance music. He’s played all over Ireland and the UK alongside artists such as Hank Shocklee, The Advent, DJ /rupture, Distance and Digital Mystiks. Following a career as a sound engineer and educator, 2Bit recently became a Master of Sonic Arts and is currently working towards his PhD, examining the potential of biosignals as a performance tool.

20:00                         BP Fallon

‘BP Fallon is to rock’n'roll what a stamp is to an envelope.’ Music industry legend, Irish DJ, photographer and author BP Fallon will hit the decks in Science Gallery tent on Saturday night. BP has recently worked with U2, My Bloody Valentine, The Kills and his most recent album Fame#9 is a collaboration with Jack White.

SpeakEasy Stage

Saturday, 4 September and Sunday, 5 September.

12:00 – 15:00 Salon Du Chat

The lovely Salon du Chat people return for a fourth year at MindField with their hugely popular original conversation installation, first featured at Daghda Dance Company’s Mamuska in Limerick.

When you’re tired of moaning about the weather and hearing people complain about pay cuts, Salon du Chat offers stimulating conversation without the small talk. Enter the grass carpeted restaurant, where you will be offered tea and home made cookies and an opportunity to relax and peruse the menu of tasty conversation topics. While seated at a table for four, a waitress takes your conversation orders for a starter, main course and dessert. Chat without the chit. Speed debating at its best.

This year’s menu for your delectation:

STARTERS:

I’m new here

The horrors

Literacy 4 ever. LOL

Bees needs

Cultured Ireland

Laissez faire Eire

Expense formtastic

Superfood fight

Babies are a boom boom

MAINS:

Poorcraft

Thousands are sailing

Future of learning

It’s the political system stupid!

Mary Coughlan – Enemy of the State

Join the army - see the World

Armchair revolutionaries

Republicans not dead

Triathlon Junkies

Trolley traumas

Everyone’s a witness

Allotmentality

The man that rocks the cradle…

All the Uachtarain’s men

Headshop come down

MeteoroILOGICAL

Dessert:

Any place, any where, any time

Cumann na Cougar

The shorter the skirt…

Time to cover up

Sloppy seconds

S-TDs

Crouchin tiger hidden naggin

Are Wii fit?

Global thrills and spills

Twit for tat politics

15:00 – 16:00 The AntiRoom Blog. The home of various Irish ladies writing about everything from fashion to feminism, pop culture to politics. The blog was founded in 2008 by four Dublin-based journalists, including Anna Carey, Edel Coffey and Sinéad Gleeson, who initially wrote under pseudonyms. Now with Carey, Coffey and Gleeson as the site’s managers and editors, the blog has expanded to welcome a wide range of regular contributors.

The Anti-Room will present two lively and light-hearted panel discussions at this year’s Electric Picnic. Women and the Media, will look at everything from TV to radio and glossy magazines, and will ask what the Internet can do for women that mainstream media can’t. Female Stereotypes will cast an eye over female stereotypes, from brainless bimbos to humourless feminists; from saintly mothers to icy career women.

The panels will feature editors contributors crime novelist Arlene Hunt, journalist Aoife Barry, writer June Caldwell, filmmaker Aoife Kelleher and journalist Rosemary MacCabe.

www.theantiroom.wordpress.com

16:00 – 18:00 Chaos Thaoghaire. The fevered brainchild of Jane Ruffino and Amiee Curran and usually to be found on a regular basis in Dublin’s Sugar Club or Odessa, Chaos is a night (or day) of games, storytelling, posturing, judge-bribing, one-upmanship and cursing. Interspersed with personal tales told by invited guests, there are rounds of games, each increasing in competitiveness, confusion and potential for humble pie. www.chaosthaoghaire.com

Featuring John Waters, Sorca McGrath, Simon Napier Bell, Jon Ronson and Greg Baxter on Saturday and Pat O’Mahony, Nick Kelly, Moira Averill, Una Mullally and Abie Philbin Bowman on Sunday. Plus many more to be announced.

18:00 – 20:00 (Saturday) Cáca Milis Cabaret. Poet and performer Helena Mulkerns present the hugely popular Wexford-based cabaret. Featuring fiction from Peter Murphy, poetry from Tom Mooney, music from Martina Keane and bands the Darling Sins and Ripcord 64, comic short film from Laura Way, as well as jazz and cabaret classics from Helena accompanied by Cyril Murphy on piano.

The Word Stage

Friday 3rd Sept

17.00 Poetry Ireland Presents Stephen Jones

18.00 New voices ( Karl Parkinson, Coni t Poni, Saskia Byrne, Suzanne Doyle )

19.00 The Poetry Divas are a glittery group of poets who’ve read at lots of cool events - CastlePalooza (main stage,) Electric Picnic and Flat Lake festivals. Each lineup and show is different, blended to the occastion but we guarantee a deliciously infectious show that’s bound to touch a nerve and blur the wobbly boundaries between page and stage.

19.45 Glen McMahon

20.05 Brendan Hickey

Brendan Hickey is a man who is likely to be known as the driving force behind “On The Verge”, which, since 1995, has promoted original music through the “On The Verge Live” radio show (Dublin South FM), a popular website www.ontheverge.ie and showcase gigs. Brendan is the guy who came across the raw talents of artists like Paddy Casey, Mundy, Damien Dempsey, Gemma Hayes and Declan O’Rourke (to name but a few)

20.35 Dave Lordan with Elaine Feeney and Guests Radical Picnic

Dave is an Irish writer, performer, and cultural and political activist, a crossover poet who combines excellence on the page and on the stage, He was runner up in the Patrick Kavanagh Award, Ireland’s most prestigious poetry award in 2002, and he won it in 2005. In 2006 he appeared in the finals of the Cuirt Grand Slam and was a winner of the renowned North Beach Nights Slam.

Elaine has performed at many venues including The Edinburgh Fringe Festival, The Electric Picnic, The Vilenica Festival and The Cúirt International Literature Festival.

21:00 Picnic Preview ( A taste of whats to come over the weekend at The Word)

22:00 Glamedy ( Comedy Cabaret )

23.00 Project Guest d.j Special Guest to be announced

Saturday 4th September

12.00 The Big Smoke Writing Factory (Writers Workshops) We’ll be supplying writing tips, inspiration, cups of tea and an opportunity for YOU to write and contribute.

13.00 The Pig Executive (Poetry, Prose, Story Telling from Lovely Leitrim)

14.00 International Perfomance Poets featuring Cah44 (Kentucky), Mikey Mikey (L.A.), Andrej LeSaint (Sarajevo) Brendan Hickey

15.00 Poetry Ireland Presents Michael O’Loughlin, Aoife Casby, Shirley McClure (Poetry Ireland is the national organization for poetry in Ireland)

16.00 The Glor Sessions featuring Stephen James Smith, Kalle Ryan, Catherine Behan, (The Glór Sessions is Dublin’s only weekly music and poetry event. Normally held in the basement of The International Bar in Wicklow Street.)

17.00 Foil Arms and Hog (Comedy sketch group) Best of the Fest and pick of the Fringe 2009 Following sell out shows at Edinburgh Fringe 2009/10

18.00 The Poetry Chicks featuring Pamela Brown and Abbey Olliveria. Lauded by acclaimed author Pat McCabe as “the biz!” The chicks touch raw nerves, confront sacred cows and generally make you nervous, so nervous you’ll laugh your leg off!

18.40 Dave Payton For the past few years, Dave has been gigging extensively and trying out his new material on crowds around Ireland and across the water. He has been very fortunate with gigs, having shared stages in small venues and big festivals with Irelands finest, The Frames, The Blizzards, Mundy, The Pogues, The Hothouse Flowers,

19.00 Kate Tempest and The Sound Of Rum (Kate is a spoken word artist who will absolutely stun you with her performance, her presence is pure emotion, and her words pierce your soul and intertwine with your emotions, backed by Sound of Rum a London based three piece fusing jazz rhythms with street wise hip hop rap.)

20.00 The Book Club Boutique featuring Salena Godden, Salena lead singer and lyricist of underground eclectic ska-break band SaltPeter, doesn’t let her achievements rest there: she’s written a memoir, and now she produces and hosts The Book Club Boutique (BCB), Soho’s hippest literary salon – and home of the BCB band. They’ll be bringing their special brand of books, booze, boogie-woogie and all-star musicians, authors and poets .

21.00 Raven and Harry Muschops (Beat Poetry with Beats) One of San Francisco’s finest performance poets.

21.30 Marty Mulligan with the Aftermath (Slam poetry rocked up) A rock, rap and roll rollercoaster.

22.00 The Aftermath The Aftermath are a Mod Pop band based in the Midlands of Ireland. They have so far had 3 top 20 singles along with their critically acclaimed top 20 debut album Friendlier up here released in Ireland in 2008.

23.00 Slam Jam (beat poets versus DJs)

Sunday 5th September

12.00 The Big Smoke Writing (Writing Workshop) We’ll be supplying writing tips, inspiration, cups of tea and an opportunity for YOU to write and contribute.

13.00 Writer’s Reading featuring Colm Liddy ,Alan Murphy and Eddie Stack. Eddie is an Irish writer and an American Small Press of the Year Award recipient. He received a Top 100 Irish American Award in response to his book of short fiction, The West: Stories from Ireland,

Colm Liddy has a great debut book out with Penguin Ireland called ‘40 fights between husbands and wives, Alan Murphy’s book “The Mona Lisa’s on our Fridge” was reviewed in the Irish Times as one of the best children’s poetry books of 2009.

14.00 Cúirt Literary Festival (Slam Poetry Showcase )The Cúirt International Festival of Literature is Ireland’s premier literary event

15.00 Poetry Ireland Presents Michael O’Loughlin, Aoife Casby, Shirley McClure (Poetry Ireland is the national organisation for poetry in Ireland)

16.00 Poetry Rocks featuring Judith Mok, Mick Pyro and special guests to be announced. Judith who has traveled the world as a Soprano and published novels and poetry collections  will present  Rock Stars reading the poems that inspired them to write some of their songs. Mick Pyro lead singer of the Republic of Loose and a Very Special Guest will be reading while Judith will sing songs accompanied on the guitar by Shane Booth that inspired her to write her poems for her new book of poetry

17.00 Olaf Tyaransen

Olaf is an Irish author and journalist and is a contributing editor with Dublin’s Hot Press magazine and the Evening Herald. His journalism has appeared in Rolling Stone, Mojo, Penthouse, Sunday Independent, and other publications.

17.30 The Atlantis Collective presents Faceless Monsters

The Atlantis Collective write stories in a cave at the bottom of the sea, when they surface they bring along a double bass and guitar to bring their tales to life.

18.00 Guitar Slinging Wordsmiths featuring Sophie Coyle and Colm Lynch. Sophie brings us some quirky lyrics and catchy tunes with a folk-jazz, old-timey feel. Since the release of his first album “A Whisper in a Riot” in 2006, Colm has been on a musical mission that has brought him to all four corners of the land and beyond.

19.00 The Gonzo Caberet incorporate poetry, spoken word and a variety of different music genres with musicians tripling up on instruments and roles.

20.00 Kate Tempest and The Sound of Rum “Her works are truly of enlightment and betterment” Roots Manuva

21.00 The Book Club Boutique (London’s hottest literary night live featuring Salena Godden bring you Books ,Booze and Boogie Woogie)

22.00 Marty Mulligan and The Aftermath

The Spoken Word Rocked Up

23.00 The Slam Jam (live beat poets)

An Puball Gaeilge

Theatre Stage

]]> http://leviathan.ie/2010/09/01/updated-mindfield-running-order-for-this-weekend/feed/ http://leviathan.ie/2010/08/30/mindfield-at-electric-picnic/ http://leviathan.ie/2010/08/30/mindfield-at-electric-picnic/#comments Mon, 30 Aug 2010 09:22:11 +0000 amandab http://leviathan.ie/?p=436 Here’s the running order for the Leviathan and Arts Council Literary Stages in MindField at Electric Picnic

Running orders for the Theatre Stage, The Word, Science Gallery, An Puball Gaeilge and SpeakEasy will be posted tomorrow.

MindField Schedule

Leviathan Stage

Friday, 3 September.

17:30pm – 19:00

Leviathan Political Cabaret: David McWilliams hosts a discussion on Politics in the Internet Age with David Cochrane of Politics.ie; Amanda Brown, Cybersorter Column in The Irish Times; Twitterer-in-chief, Senator Dan Boyle; and Gavin Sheridan of TheStory.ie and KildareStreet.com. Special musical guests, White Cholera.

Saturday, 4 September.

12:00 – 13:30

The MindField News Quiz: The voice of RTÉ Radio One’s News at One, Sean O’Rourke, takes a lighthearted look at the year’s news stories so far and tests an eclectic panel of festival personalities on their knowledge of current affairs.

13:45 – 15:15

History Ireland Hedge School: Tommy Graham, editor of History Ireland hosts a timely discussion on Irish Neutrality: Principled or Pragmatic with former Respect MP, George Galloway, Eunan O Hailpin (TCD, Spying on Ireland: British Intelligence and Irish Neutrality During the Second World War), Eamon Delaney (An Accidental Diplomat: My Years in the Irish Foreign Service); and T. Ryle Dwyer (Behind the Green Curtain: Ireland’s Phoney Neutrality During World War Two).

16:00 – 17:30

Unknown Pleasures. RTÉ 2FM’s Dave Fanning hosts a fascinating talk about the past, present and future of the music business in the company of some of its enduring legends. Peter Hook, former bass player with Joy Division and New Order teams up with Mr. Nice, Howard Marks in a frank conversation about the fraught past; former Wham manager, Simon Napier-Bell joins them to talk about the present and legendary DJ, photographer and Viscount of Vibes, BP Fallon looks into the future.

17:30 – 19:00

Graphic Content: The Big Comics Chat. A chaotic and fun-stuffed rocket ride through the inner and outer reaches of the comics and cartooning universes.  Our intrepid and esteemed panel – Pat Mills (2000 AD), Steve Bell (Guardian), Emma Vieceli (Manga Shakespeare), Phil Barrett (Matter) and Mel Gibson (Northumbria University) - will cheerily dissect and debate the “sequential art” scene as it and was: offering thoughts, opinions and recollections on a wide range of topics, including: Classic British comics, Manga, Bande dessinée, Girls’ comics, John Major’s underpants, the Irish small presses, and much, much more. Masked and caped crusaders may also get an occasional mention…

19:00 – 20:30

Leviathan: Political Cabaret. David McWilliams hosts a debate about whether Can There Ever Be Peace in the Middle East? with panellists, former Respect MP, George Galloway, journalist and political activist, Eamonn McCann, former Fox News commentator, Rachel Marsden and founder of The Gulf Intelligence news service, Seán Evers. Satirical music from Paddy Cullivan and the Camembert Quartet and stand-up comedy from Kevin Gildea.

20:30 – 21:30

Jinx Lennon. Leviathan favourite and Dundalk’s finest. Part punk folk poet troubadour, part gospel music energy preacher.

Sunday, 5^th September.

12:00 – 13:00

Ryan Tubridy’s Picnic Brunch. Direct from his first Late Late Show of the new season, one of Ireland’s top broadcasters, Ryan Tubridy, hosts a show of chat, banter, newspaper reviews and general chaotic hangover-friendly fun with an esoteric bunch of festival guests.

13:45 – 15:15

History Ireland Hedge School: A fascinating historical discussion about the Great O’Neill: Mafiosi or Machiavelli, hosted by History Ireland editor, Tommy Graham with special guests actor Stephen Rea, Hiram Morgan (UCC, Tyrone’s Rebellion), Ciaran Brady (TCD, The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536 – 1588) and Minister of State at the Department of Enterprise, Trade and Innovation, Conor Lenihan.

15:30 – 16:30

Jon Ronson presents: The Men Who Stare At Goats and Other True Tales of Craziness at the Heart of Power. A funny and strange illustrated talk in which Jon Ronson tells the true story behind the Men Who Stare At Goats movie (he wrote the book) and the Bohemian Grove  (a secret club he once infiltrated where powerful business people and politicians take part in  a ritual that culminates in a mock human sacrifice). He will read from his forthcoming book, The Psychopath Test, which looks once again at madness at the heart of power.

17:00 – 19:00

Leviathan: Political Cabaret. David McWilliams hosts another interactive discussion on A Vision for Ireland in 2020 with guests, Minister for Communciation, Energy and Natural Resources, Eamon Ryan; journalist and activist, Eamonn McCann; satirical music from Paddy Cullivan and the Camembert Quartet and standup comedy from Colm O’Regan.

19:00 – 20:30

Jinx Lennon: Closing out the Leviathan stage at Electric Picnic.

Arts Council Literary Stage

Friday, 3 September

17:00-17:30 Mike Scott of the Waterboys reads from his new memoir
17:45-18:45 Conall Morrison in conversation with Mark Patrick Hederman
19:00-20:00 Paul Murray and Chris Binchy, hosted by Cormac Kinsella

Saturday, 4 September

12:00 – 13:00 Tom Sykes on Isabella Blow and much more.
13:15-14:15 The Science of Flann O’Brien
14:30-15:30 Dermot Bolger hosts  Roddy Doyle and Irvine Welsh
15:45-16:45 Drivetime Four Savvy Women: Mary Wilson with Justine
McCarthy, Tara Buckley, Kathy Sheridan and Sara Burke
17:00-18:00 Dermot Bolger in conversation with Carlo Gébler and Gerard Smyth
18:15-19:15 Crime Writing with Declan Burke, Arlene Hunt, Declan
Hughes and Gene Kerrigan
19:30-20:30 John Waters and Johnny Duhan

Sunday, 5 September

12:00-13:00 Kids Literature: David O’Donoghue and David Maybury
13:15-14:15 Pat Boran, Leanne O’Sullivan and Rita Ann Higgins, hosted by Louis de Paor
14:30-15:30 Paul Muldoon in conversation with Philip King
15:45-16.45 Drivetime Four Savvy Women: Mary Wilson with Justine McCarthy, Tara Buckley, Kathy Sheridan and Sara Burke
17:00-18:00 Julian Gough and Greg Baxter
18:15 -19:15 Mike McCormack and Claire Kilroy
19:30-20:30 Louis de Paor with Ronan Browne

Limerick’s Northside Learning Hub is delighted to co-host the city’s first Leviathan Political Cabaret in Dolans Warehouse May 19th 8pm.

David Mc Williams hosts an evening of musical satire and discussion with music from Paddy Cullivan of the Camenbert Quartet and Limerick’s own Brad Pitt Light Orchestra . We also hope to have an exciting new performance by Limerick’s Junior Jazz ensemble to showcase the potential of young people in the city.

The panel includes Dr Stephen Kinsella, Dept of Economics UL, Tommy Collison of “Trust Tommy” blogging fame and 3rd year student of Castletroy College, Dr Aoife McLysaght of TCD’s Department of Genetics, Tom O’Sullivan Assistant General Secretary of the INTO, Tony McKernan Secondary School teacher and ASTI executive member, Jennifer Moroney-Ward, Manager of the Northside Learning Hub and Kieran Mac Sweeney, Consulting Partner of the Discovery Partnership, former MD and Senior Vice President of Avocent International and new President of Limerick Chamber.

Audience participation is a vital component of all Leviathan Political Cabaret so if you have something to say about the role of education in the future of Ireland, come and get involved!

Tickets: €10/ €8 concession from Dolan’s website HERE. (Registration required)

See Facebook page here : http://bit.ly/9yhLkM

in association with Newstalk 106-108

Join hosts David McWilliams and Amanda Brown from 8pm on Thursday May 6th in the D4 Berkeley Hotel with a panel of experts to review the UK general election campaign, predict results and reflect on what it all means.

Guests so far include Harry McGee of The Irish Times, Scott Millar of The Examiner, Mary Corcoran of NUI Maynooth, advertising expert Dena Walker , Labour Councillor Killian Forde, John Whelan of the Irish Exporters Association, John McGuirk and more.

There will be live rolling TV coverage as the results of one of the closest elections in a generation come in, together with musical satire and comedy from Paddy Cullivan and, of course, late pints.

Tickets €15 + booking fee from HERE.

The Button Factory, Curved Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2.

Thursday, April 8th.

Show: 8.30pm

In Association with Newstalk 106-108.

Leviathan returns to Dublin’s Button Factory on Thursday April 8th with host David McWilliams to ask “Can the Unions be Part of Ireland’s Economic Recovery?” with panelists John McGuinness TD; Blair Horan, General Secretary of the CPSU; Richard Delevan, Deputy MD of McConnellsintegrated; and Dr. Kieran Allen, lecturer in sociology at UCD.

Now that a deal has been done between the Government and the public service unions on pay and reform, Leviathan takes a look at how Irish unions operate, how they interact with Government and how thet relationship affects those outside the process and the country at large.

Do the unions have a role to play in Ireland’s economic recovery or are they an existential threat to the future?

Plus music and political satire from Paddy Cullivan and Carmody and Jones from The Emergency.

Tickets €17.50 including booking fee available HERE.

@colmtobin after a lively debate at #leviathan why is my heart telling me the constitution should be just one word, LEAVE. Yours cynically

orlaithf @eolai Whoever knew you could mix drink with open and rigorous political debate in Ireland without it resulting in a blood bath? #Leviathan

eolai Did I mention I enjoyed #Leviathan last night?

mrs_bopp Just falling into hotel bed after very entertaining evening. #Leviathan followed by the Sycamore club & a great mix of wit & banter

Conor_Dempsey #leviathan on constitutional change in Ireland. Consensus real change asap. That’s pretty radical only, since 1922, we don’t do radical!

janeruffino Killer night at #leviathan with @offmessagejen and @margareteward and half the internet. LOVED the racist nutjob in the audience.

peterdaly10 RT @fmacconghail: my sense is that we are slowly becoming politicised again. To encourage active citizenship is important. Tonight’s #leviathan was lively

What about a new version of Bunreacht na h-Éireann - a radical shake-up of the 1937 version for a new generation? A full separation of church and State, reform of the Dáil and Seanad, elections, local government and the civil service?

Commentators lament the lack of leadership among the political class, so why don’t we take it upon ourselves to give ourselves a new Constitution for a new era?

Leviathan returns in a new decade on February 4th in the Button Factory at 8.30pm hosted by Mark Little (late of RTÉ’s Primetime) with a panel including Brendan Halligan, chairman of the Institute of International and European Affairs; lecturer and columnist with The Irish Times, Elaine Byrne; Senator Rónán Mullen; and one of Ireland’s foremost constitutional experts Gerard Hogan SC. There will also be entertainment of a political and scandalous hue from Paddy Cullivan and The Emergency: Live.

Tickets €17.50 including booking fee available here.

Leviathan: West - Political Cabaret in association with Delta Index takes place Tuesday, 8th December at 8pm in Kelly’s Upstairs, Bridge Street, Galway.

Economist and broadcaster David McWilliams looks ahead to the following day’s Budget of Doom and analyses what’s in store for this country and the west in particular. David’s panel which includes Padraig Ó Céidigh of Aer Arann, Dave O’Connell of the Connacht Tribune and other special guests will also take a look at the bigger picture of where we’re at and where we’re going as a nation.

Musical satire and comedy from Paddy Cullivan aka Clint Velour from the Late Late Show house band - The Camembert Quartet.

Comedy film from Doris/Magee.

Tickets: €17.50 from the bar in Kelly’s and online HERE. ]]> http://leviathan.ie/2009/12/01/leviathan-west-eve-of-budget-special-galway/feed/