Daily Archives: November 30, 2010

Queer Notions: The Big Deal @ Project Arts Centre

  By ElaineBucko | November 30, 2010 - 12:53 pm | Performance Art, The Arts, The Culch, Theatre
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Following on from recent Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival hit show 565+, and nationwide success of the stunningly moving Victor and Gord, Una McKevitt directs this poignant and gritty work-in-progress showing based on letters and emails between two real life friends undergoing male to female gender reassignment. This is THE BIG DEAL. I’ve always been a woman. All this time I’ve had a penis and to be fair he never did me any harm. In fact he worked very well, but I’ve waited my whole life to have my own vagina. This is my first email to you. I hope it doesn’t in any way shape your thoughts on what you should do. If there is any chance it might, please don’t read it. It is the night before my operation. I am remarkably calm. Shouldn’t I be crying my eyes out or having second thoughts? Shouldn’t I be doing … There’s more →

Competition: You Could be Lifted High on Ocean Drive

  By Darren Byrne | November 30, 2010 - 11:15 am | Competitions, Music, The Culch
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Yesterday, I was on a nostalgia trip with The Human League. Today, another part of my youth fell into my Inbox. Easy listening never sounded as good as when Lighthouse Family’s Lifted wafted from my radio on constant repeat in the mid-nineties. Lighthouse Family have announced a new Tour for February / March 2011, their first major tour in seven years, where they’ll be playing all their hits from 1995′s Ocean Drive album all the way up to 2001′s Whatever Gets You Through the Day (which included great versions of Nina Simone’s I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free and U2′s One). They open the tour with Irish dates at The Olympia Theatre, Dublin, on 26th February and The Waterfront Hall, Belfast, on 27th February. Tickets go on sale this Friday, 26th November at 9am, but readers of Culch.ie have the chance to win a pair … There’s more →