Wandering Voices
LITERARY | DANCE | PERFORMANCE
Wandering Voices
Ferocity and Resilience
Sat 12 July | 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Sat 12 July | 2pm, 3pm & 4pm
Duration:
30 minutes per episode
Event Categories:
Literary, Dance, Performance
Admission:
€8 per episode | €20 for all 3 episodes
Age Suitability:
12+
Venue:
The Factory Performance Space, Lower Quay St.
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Wandering Voices is a trail of short performances taking place in 3 different locations with 6 different artists from around the island and close to home.
In a time where we must collectively muster the courage to fight for a better world, the theme this year is Ferocity and Resilience. Co-curators Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and Patrick Curley have assembled a diverse group of artists across poetry, music and movement who explore the theme in a short series of acts, with stories ranging from gentle strength to roaring fury.
This year’s Wandering Voices artists are Aepril Schaile, Andrew Galvin, Anna D, Filmore!, Subhashini and Taryn Devere. Each Act features two artists, is approximately 30 minutes long and will take place in different venues.
Aepril Schaile is an American dancer, poet and performance artist living in the west of Ireland. Her art explores the twin mysteries of Eros/Thanatos, their meeting both an undoing and a calling in of power, like opposing fronts in a thunderstorm. Aepril has been a performer, instructor and speaker at events in Europe, the UK and the US. Her work is inspired by mythological stories and archetypes; her praxis is grounded in both traditional and antinomial expressions of Bellydance. Aepril holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from Goddard College.
Andrew Galvin is a Donegal-born playwright, performer, musician and poet based in Sligo. They have written, performed and produced theatre for the Earagail Arts Festival in Donegal (The Crowning Guest; The Fool & the Moon) and the Scene + Heard festival in Dublin (Cleanup On Aisle Masculinity). Galvin’s poetry has been published in The Cormorant and, in 2023, they won the Connaught heat of the All-Ireland Poetry Slam competition. In 2023 Galvin collaborated with poet Chris Sparks and multi-disciplinary artist Tara Baoth Mooney on the six song EP The Healing Wound. They are currently exploring creative practice as research with a focus on grief, grief processing and masculinity and have delivered papers on this work at conferences of the Irish Society for Theatre Research and the International Federation for Theatre Research. Galvin is currently developing his newest play, Grief Eater, with the support of the Arts Council of Ireland.
Anna D is a spoken word poet from Dublin. She has won multiple poetry slams and competitions, including the All-Ireland Poetry Slam. She has competed and performed her work internationally in The European Poetry Slam in Slovakia and Ideogramma International Poetry Slam in Cyprus. Anna has an interest in the interplay between emotions and patterns of behaviour, family and collective trauma and the impact of oppressive systems on how we relate to each other and the world today. Her poems are raw, honest and relatable portrayals of her experience of the human condition in all its grime and glory.
Filmore! is the moniker of Irish singer, songwriter, rapper and visual artist Max Zanga, leaning into the absurdity of the world today with a strong focus on power and violence using immersive storytelling throughout his music.
Subhashini Goda is a multidisciplinary artist and an academic specialising in the Indian dance form Bharatanatyam. She is the recipient of the Emma O'Kane Bursary Award 2024 and one of the Dublin Fringe Weft Studio Artists 2024-25. Her interdisciplinary works are informed by Indian dance-theatre traditions and are grounded in reconsidering how Bharatanatyam is perceived, practised and performed in varied translocal contexts. Since moving to Ireland in 2021, she has showcased her artistic work at multiple festivals and has delivered movement workshops at reputed arts centres. As a scholar-practitioner, she has also just completed a PhD in dance anthropology.
Taryn de Vere is a Bringer of Joy. Taryn is an autistic and genderqueer performance artist, published poet and author, and award-winning curator and creative producer. Often using delight and humour, her work explores neurodiversity, sex, gender, activism and the impact of authenticity.