Wandering Voices
MUSIC | LITERARY
Wandering Voices
Thurs 11 July | Various Times
Event Details
Times & Dates:
Thurs 11 July
1pm Rebecca Massey & Ayesha
Venue : The Nest, Lower Quay St
2pm Ikenna & Taf Hassam
Venue: Sligo City Hall, Quay St
3pm Osaro & Owen Kilfeatherbr
Venue: Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge
4pm Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan & Diarmuid MacDiarmada
Venue: Pulled Studio, JFK Parade
5pm Tara Baoth Mooney & Jess Kav
Venue: Pulled Studio, JFK Parade
Duration:
Each Act is 30 minutes
Event Categories:
Music, Literary
Admission:
€8 per act or €20 for 5 acts
Age Suitability:
All Ages
Venue:
Various
Wandering Voices is a trail of short performances taking place in 5 different locations with 10 different artists from around the island and close to home. Connected by the theme of Mythos and Movement, co-curators Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan and Patrick Curley have assembled a diverse group of artists across poetry, music, and cabaret who explore the theme in a short series of Acts.
Each Act features two artists, is approximately 30 minutes long and will take place in different venues. Audiences can dip in and out of the trail or attend all 5 performances and be rewarded at the end with a Cairde goodie tote bag!
For full details of the Wandering Voices trail times, venues and participating artists please see below.
1pm Rebecca Massey & Ayesha
Venue: The Nest, Lower Quay St
Rebecca Massey is an Australian born Irish artist based in the North West of Ireland who holds a Higher Degree in Fine Art from Sligo ATU and an MSC in Film Making from Staffordshire University and Filmbase in Dublin. Rebecca has worked across a broad range of media from drawing to film production, installation and music, exhibiting works around Ireland and the UK. Working mainly with digital and traditional drawing techniques, her work uses playful introspection as a means to communicate notions and emotions of being with the viewer, essentially seeking to poke the darker side of everyday life with a stick, then run and hide beneath sheets of paper.
shaéirah, aka Ayesha, an adopted Dubliner of Pakistani-Swiss roots, is a writer, theatre maker, creative director and social justice advocate. As a third culture kid, she is avidly curious about the themes of identity, belonging, migration and decolonisation - with her Sufi lineage guiding her artistic practice. She is the Managing Editor of the @BlindianProject, a platform that celebrates Black x Brown communities while addressing the plethora of social issues that impact us, especially racism and anti-blackness.
2pm Ikenna & Warmer Climes
Venue: Sligo City Hall, Quay St
Ikenna is a Nigerian-Irish actor, writer, musician, and assistant dramaturg. Ikenna was awarded the ‘Baptiste Programme’ with Smock Alley in 2022, as well as the ‘Axis Assemble 2022’ with Axis Ballymun. During this period, he also he also performed as part of an ensemble for a four-month tour of the play ‘The Kinds of Sex You Might Have in College’ with Active* Consent. He has been awarded the ‘Irish Seed Grant’ by the Irish Hospice Foundation, for his multi-media-based poetry installation ‘I Know the Sun Must Set’ a collaboration with visual artist Maclaine Black, that premiered in April 2023. This year Ikenna received an Agility Award to write and develop his play currently ‘After the End, There Is Confetti.’ Furthermore, he was also brought in as an ensemble member for Moonfish Theatre’s ‘The Crow’s Way’ which debuted as part of the Fringe Festival in the Abbey Theatre. Ikenna believes that art “should be a space of radical change, renewal and acceptance”.
Warmer Climes is artist/music producer, Taf Hassam. A graduate of The Dutch Art Institute, andThe Gerrit Rietveld Academie, he is Co-founder of both Second Culture Press and the underground art space New Conditions, Amsterdam, the Netherlands. Based now in Sligo, Taf is a frequent contributor to Turn It On! Music collective, founder of the experimental music platform, BRRR BRRR BRRR and performs as part of the music trio, Star Of The Sea, with Tara Baoth Mooney, and Diarmuid MacDiarmada.
3pm Osaro & Owen Kilfeather
Venue: Yeats Building, Hyde Bridge
A noir femme during summer time and a dark masc in the winter season, Osaro delves into the literal Black arts of lonesome prayers, sensual poetry and guttural vocal chorals which she infuses in her live performances during the spring and hermit seasons. Osaro is the Founder of the Fried Plantains Collective which celebrates the melodious voices of African+ & Irish artists through her award winning event 'Black Jam' which took place at Abbey Theatre, The Complex, Bello Bar and at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in France.
She has recently performed 'The Girl Who Accidentally Married A Skull' as part of the Story Riot Crew at International Literature Festival Dublin 2024 and performed with her band 7of 9, at Open Ear Festival 2024. Osaro previously performed at Doolin Arts Hedge School Festival and at the Museum of Literature Ireland (MOLi)
Her performance for Wandering Voices is for an audience of 18+
Owen Kilfeather is a composer and multi-instrumentalist resident in Barcelona. Born into a musical family and resident of Barcelona since 2004, Owen Kilfeather studied piano with Kathleen O'Hara, guitar with Nicholas O'Sullivan, harmony with Joan Carles Sender and counterpoint and analysis with Patricia Balmaceda. Between 2012 and 2016 he served as composer, producer and curator for Barcelona-based avant-music label Discordian Records, being involved in the conception, composition, interpretation and production of some ten albums, including the soundtrack to Ten Miles to Bisbee (2014), winner of Best Original Score in the Noves Visions section of the Sitges Film Festival 2016, and composing for groups such as Filthy Habits Ensemble, Sin Anestesia and Discordian Community Ensemble. He also sings tenor with chamber choir ARSinNOVA and works as a for-hire arranger and lyricist.His collaborations are as eclectic (and eccentric) as his compositions.
4pm Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan & Diarmuid MacDiarmada
Venue: Pulled Studio, JFK Parade
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a Dublin-based writer, performer, and cultural consultant from India, who has also lived in North America, Sweden, Turkey, and the UK. Her work has been published in Writing Home: The ‘New Irish’ Poets and Local Wonders from Dedalus Press, the Irish Chair of Poetry’s Hold Open the Door anthology, Queering the Green by Lifeboat Press, Banshee, Honest Ulsterman, Stinging Fly, and Poetry Ireland Review, amongst others. Chandrika has been selected for the Irish Writers Centre’s XBorders programme twice, and in 2021 was a Poetry Ireland’s Introductions poet and a Science Gallery Dublin’s Rapid Residency Artist. Chandrika is on the Board of the Irish Writers Centre and was Writer in Residence for the institute of Physics for 2023.
Diarmuid MacDiarmada is a co-founder of ArdVoltas Art Space and a veteran of the Irish art and music scene, with three decades of manifold activities under his belt. As an educator and facilitator he has brought sound-art to many and varied groups for creative, remedial and fun purposes. Commissions have included many sculpture and mixed media installations as well as the music for the opening ceremony of the Solstice Arts Centre in Navan. Dermody’s theatre work includes soundtracks and workshops for Graffiti Theatre Company, Activate Youth Theatre, Limerick Youth Theatre, Helium Arts, Playback Theatre as well as many independent producers such as The Jimmy Cake and The Tycho Brahe, both of which achieved considerable success in Ireland and where Dermody was also able to exercise his visual skills on posters, videos and sleeve-art. As producer, session-musician and featured artist, Dermody has amassed a considerable catalogue of recorded work.
5pm Tara Baoth Mooney & Jess Kav
Venue: Pulled Studio, JFK Parade
Tara Baoth Mooney is an interdisciplinary artist whose work encompasses sound, performance, textiles, drawing, and video. Tara’s work is often site-specific and responds to events past and present which explore lived experience and the inter-relationship of people and practice, daily ritual and objects within their respective ecologies. The work oscillates between historical foundations of meaning making in context, current social constructive elements where self and meaning sit in context, and the interruption of self, the unmaking of meaning through destruction of context.
Jess Kav has been a key figure in creative communities in Ireland and abroad and a prominent fixture in the Irish music scene. Raised by an Irish-Nigerian mother and Soul enthusiast, she was fed a musical diet of Motown, Jazz and Irish Indie. After studying at London’s Institute of Contemporary Music Performance and Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Jess has focused on songwriting, touring, recording, writing, and social change. Jess has ventured into more interdisciplinary spaces, using spoken word and Ableton live to create soundscapes for her poetry and is performing for the first time as a solo artist releasing her debut single this Summer