From the curator who brought you La Cat Salons, and the event organizer who brings you Lady Windermere's Caffeinated Salons, Synapsis Productions presents EMBRYONYX, a womb for nourishing novelty, a platform in the heart of the city where a black-box theatre is opened to blue-sky thinking. We're looking for a multi-media mish-mash of audiovisuals, storytellers, physical theatre, boundary-breaking novelty and uncategorizable performance experiences! Send your concepts to LadyW at lacatsalons [at] gmail [dot] com if you want to be a part of it.

Or, drop round to the Hangar (just off Wicklow Street - formerly St. Andrew's Lane Theatre) for our unofficial launch party, next Friday (27th February 2015, at 22:30). Say the password "Lady Windermere" at the door for a 50% discount if you arrive before 11pm. Affordable beverages on offer from the Hangar throughout the night, DJ Glamo Frowney spinning the decks and a LIVE set from disco-synth-pop-funksters Plutonic Dust.

See you there to discuss future concepts. Dream big! Official launch scheduled for March 13th.

Beyond Conception

Scene & Screen Cinemas - Temple Bar

In partnership with Lady Windermere, the La Cat Salons team are bringing you evening screenings of classic films based on the work of Dublin writers, accompanied by live performances, every Thursday at 7pm and 9.30pm in Temple Bar (just off Cow's Lane). We have popcorn, homemade lemonade, flashmobs, live music, book readings and quirky happenings, packing a tent draped in elaborate fabrics and vintage charm.

For a full list of films and further details, visit the listing on Lady Windermere's blog.

Larry Beau: Mad as Mist and Snow

Sunday, 15^th December, 7pm

Larry Beau leads a gathering of vagabonds and minstrels for ‘Mad as Mist and Snow’ an unconventional Christmas concert and celebration of all tides Yule at the Back Loft venue. Far from the marketing madness of tinsel-topped shopping sprees, let Beau lead you on a journey of festive feasting and frolics, storytelling songs and lyrical lore, amid live musical marvels and audiovisual awesomeness, mulled wine, royal chai tea and hot incredible edibles!

Larry Beau is a Galway born minstrel, composer and songwriter. He began as resident musician with San Francisco's Omnicircus, before developing his identity as a modern- day Irish Minstrel after twelve months’ story collecting in Dingle in 2002. Since then he has traveled with his show to New York, Hollywood, Edinburgh, Florence and Berlin's traveling vintage tavern -Spiegeltent. Beau has released three critically acclaimed albums to date, including William The Brave and  I Dream of Tiger Rose. He has performed at the Electric Picnic, live on RTE Radio1, Tg4 and Tv3. ‘Mad as Mist and Snow’ will feature special performances of songs from his forthcoming album The Sundance Vagabonds, a celebration of the hope, love and survival of society’s underdogs.

If Kate Bush and John Lennon had a love-child, Larry Beau would be their shy black-clad son. - THE TIMES

Like a stray from the nether regions of Neil Jordan’s Interview with the Vampire, Larry Beau inhabits a gothic underworld where decadence, lust and horror vie with one another for his, and our, attentions. ‘I Dream Of Tiger Rose’ is a heady amalgam of high-camp cabaret and doleful balladry - IRISH TIMES

 

Heartstopping - HOTPRESS

V*A*P*I*D Video Salon

La Cat Explore invited you to V*A*P*I*D, a special Sunday salon of Video Artistic Photographic Imagery Displays; where the videos are anything but vapid!

We offered:
Visual Animated Panoramic Imaginative Diversity!  
Virtual Alternative Pixellated Innovative Dreams!!

Featuring 3D audiovisual-mapping sculptures and kinetic, interactive video installations from media master Jeff O'Riordan, live VJ video-mixing by Mr. Marco Gutierrez, a full line-up of film and animation from local and international filmmaking talent: Moran Been-noon, Stephanie Golden, Lesley Ann Daley, Kate McElroy, Pierre Jolivet, Angie Duignan, Marqu Pop, John Freeman, Lemeh42, Pierpaolo Vitale, Sean Hanrahan, Ciarna Hackett, Marek Bogacki Staszkiewicz, Brigit McCone, Raoul Simpson and Darragh O'Callaghan.

Viewers were invited to roam around and explore our special video niches for a solo viewing experience: our Media Tank of Audiovisual Assault features intense video works from Lynda Phelan, Naomi Vone, Darragh O'Callaghan and Sarawut Chutiwongpeti. Our Mysterious Musings television space screened meditative works from filmmakers Karen Forrester, Catherine Harty and John Thompson and Eva Richardson McCrea.

The event was absolutely free, on Sunday 8th December from 4 - 9p.m. Featuring a fully stocked cafe with feasting, frolics and great raffle prizes.  

La Cat Explore is part of the inhouse-curated programme of the Back Loft venue, 7-11 St. Augustine Street, Dublin 8, and is sponsored by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme.

V*A*P*I*D! - Video Art Salon Needs You!

La Cat Explore is proud to announce a one-of-a-kind salon of Video Artistic Photographic Imagery Displays - V*A*P*I*D! lighting up the depths of winter with screenings of short experimental films, video art, animations and visual explorations on Sunday, December 8th.

We are looking for:
Visually Amazing Picturesque Imaginative Dioramas!
Virtual Animated Pixellated Innovative Displays!
Va-va-voom! Alternative, Panoramic, Intriguing Delights!

vapid (ˈvæpɪd ) - adjective

1.

offering nothing that is stimulating or challenging; bland.

synonyms:

uninspired,colourless, uninteresting, feeble, flat, dead, dull, boring, tedious, tired, unexciting, unimaginative, lifeless, zestless, spiritless, sterile, anaemic, tame, bloodless, jejune, vacuous, bland, stale, trite, pallid, wishy-washy, watery, tasteless, milk-and-water, flavourless

So if your vid's not vapid, submit it to V*A*P*I*D!

Submission deadline: Sunday 24th November. 

Maximum length - 15 minutes approx. 

Email your submissions to lacatsalons@gmail.com with either a link to an on-line screener of the film (e.g. vimeo / youtube), or sending the film in .mp4 or .mov format via a file-sharing programme.

Story-smelling line-up!

 

La Cat Explore, proudly presents the Story-smelling Salon on Tuesday 12 November, at 7pm! 

A unique multi-sensory storytelling experience, we implore you to smell, feel and hear the tales come to life all around you. Featuring the delicate Gothic eeriness of Nadia Gativa, the shivering psychological thrills of Devon Baur and Jack Murphy, the uncanny jolt of Ken McGrath's short fiction, the narrative windings of James Moran (of the BlueBottle Collective), tales from West Cork by Johnny 'Donkey' Morrissey, and a lyrical Celtic folktale given a new spin by Brigit McCone. Also featuring special surprise guests and one piece of frankly filthy and reprehensible pornographic smut offering fifty shades of farce.

So don't miss it ... only €5 entry to help fund a bowl of soup for our starving artists (this is not a joke, their children need wine).

Mamuska returns 8th November!

Mamuska Dublin swings back into action on Friday 8th November, featuring a packed line-up of live performance and video screenings to challenge and inspire. Audience and artists mingle in an atmosphere of play and discovery. Doors open 7pm. Show starts 7.30 sharp.

Mamuska Dublin is a free event supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme and curated by the La Cat Salons inhouse programme of La Catedral Studios. Come one, come all!

EVENT LINE-UP

1. EL Putnam  - 'Tea for Two' - PERFORMANCE

2. Tommie Soro (dir) - 'Branded'  and Katya Torres (dir) 'Honey' - VIDEO ART

3. Enda Moran - 'Lostness' - MULTIMEDIA AERIAL PERFORMANCE

4. Ciara Lindsey - 'Regret' - VIDEO ART / LIVE MUSIC

5. Marcus and Marco - 'Why the Stars Hold Their Peace' - MULTIMEDIA STORYTELLING

6. John Freeman (dir.) - 'Murder of Crows' / Roland Gomez and Adiraj Sharma - 'Duo Hang and Tabla' VIDEO ART / LIVE MUSIC
7. Boaz and Vered Zur - 'Relationships' -  PERFORMANCE

8. John Freeman (dir) 'You're the One That I'm Thinking of' followed by Odette 'Sleeping Beauty' - VIDEO ART / DANCE - MIME

9.  David Bickley (dir.) 'Under' and Lesley-Ann Daley 'Primary Narcissism' - VIDEO ART

FEATURED IMAGE: A still from 'Primary Narcissism' by Lesley-Ann Daley

CALL FOR STORYTELLERS/ACTORS: Story-smelling Salon!

 

La Cat Explore, the home of oddity and the offbeat, announces the Story-smelling Salon on Tuesday 12 November, at 7pm. We are seeking writers and storytellers to provide the tales - from poetry to prose, from modern life to the mythical and marvellous. While the storytellers read or recite, the blind-folded audience will experience the touch, whispers and smell sensations within the story, as brought to life by a cast of volunteers. Recreating the magic of a late-night storytelling session for your adult selves, the event is not to be missed!

Send your most sensation-packed, smell-filled, touchable tales by email to lacatsalons@gmail.com if you would like to be involved, or, if you'd prefer to act as part of the volunteer crew on the night, please drop us an email.

Deadline for submissions: Monday 21st October.

Mamuska Dublin: Call for Work (8th Nov)

  *MAMUSKA DUBLIN  returns Friday 8th November 2013 @ THE BACK LOFT, 7.30pm*

 La Cat Salons calls local, national and international artists to participate in the upcoming Mamuska Dublin! This is a regular platform for presenting, viewing and discussing evolving works,  raw ideas, unrehearsed visions, trials and errors, short masterpieces,  playful nonsense, first steps... all in the context of an informal  environment where like-minded artists meet, mingle and receive  feedback from the audience. Be a part of it!

A maximum of ten artists will present their work, with lively musical breaks.

Submission criteria:

 * open to works in the fields of dance, live performance, live installation, sound and video art
 * all works must be under 10 minutes long
 * all works must have very simple technical set up and requirements
 * send title, duration and brief description of work submitted
 * include a brief bio of the artists involved
 * inclusion of supporting material is recommended

 *Closing Date For Submissions: Monday 21st October*

 Email all submissions to La Cat Salons curator Brigit McCone at lacatsalons@gmail.com. Mamuska Dublin is supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme and is an inhouse production of La Catedral Studios. Pictured artists: Erika Capello and Monica Insinga.

Mamuska Dublin: 1st March

Mamuska Dublin takes the stage again on Friday 1st March


featuring a packed line-up of live performance and video screenings to challenge and inspire. Audience and artists mingle in an atmosphere of play and discovery. Doors open 7pm. Show starts 7.30pm.

EVENT LINE-UP

Intro screening - Dir: David Bickley - 'World Riddle 2d' - FILM

1. Emma Pearson - 'Who the Hell is Stuntman Mike?' - PERFORMANCE

2. Cóilín the Oh-Aissieux and Patrick McGlynn - 'Bards' Blocks' - INTERACTIVE PERFORMANCE

3. Erika Capello and Monica Insinga - 'Commedia dell'Arte Improv' - PERFORMANCE

4. Rik Peel - 'The Washing Line / A Very Strange Thing' - ANIMATION

5. Emily Aoibheann - 'UR Eternity: A Solo Self-suspension' - PERFORMANCE

6. Áine Ó'Hara - 'Mary Sweets' - PERFORMANCE

7.  Ambra Bergamasco and Enda Moran - 'Love My Heart' - DANCE

8. Peter Duffy - Making a Meal of It' - PERFORMANCE
9. Wojtek Bratus and Lisa Tighe - 'Electric Shock Risk' - DANCE

Mamuska Dublin is supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme and is an inhouse production of La Catedral Studios. Pictured artists: Hillary Williams and Carol Walsh, photographed by Ciarna Hackett.

Salon d'Exploration

ART HOUSE PRESENTS ‘SALON D’EXPLORATION’

Opening: 6pm -10pm Wednesday 13th February
Continuing til Wednesday the 20th of February 2013

‘Salon D’Exploration’, is a collaborative initiative between La Cat Salons, the in-house programme of La Catedral Studios/The Back Loft and Art-House, a group of seven fine artists recently graduated from NCAD and DIT, which aims to establish an art studio in Dublin.

The Back Loft is a multi-disciplinary space in what was a Victorian textile factory for the Saint Bernard Brand. During the 80s it was also a warehouse space used to store rental televisions and it was hence nicknamed “Telly building”.

Most of the work in the Salon’s exhibition is site-specific since it explores the architecture and the history of the Back Loft building. The artists use a wide variety of media including sculpture, painting, embroidery, photography, projection and video work. One of the artists will be collaborating with Eamonn Kennedy who’s doing a PhD on the Physics of nanoscale imaging and its application to cancer research.

This exhibition will also feature the Back Loft Café, a recently built-in charming cafe-saloon created with reclaimed materials and inspired by art deco style, where members of the audience will be invited to relax and mingle whilst sampling creative delights during the Salon’s rich calendar of satellite performances.
As part of the Salon, Art House will also host a number of events including a poetry performance night, a piano music salon and a series of curator and artist talks. A list of these events and a calendar will be available at http://arthousedublin.tumblr.com/, and http://salondexploration.wordpress.com/

SALON'S EVENT PROGRAMME

PLEASE CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE FULL PROGRAMME

Art House Artists:
Ian Nolan http://iannolan.weebly.com/index.html
Ruth Kerr & Eamonn Kennedy http://kerrut.blogspot.ie/
Steph Gallagher http://www.stephgallagher.com/
Nollaig Molloy http://nollaigmolloy.wordpress.com/
Amanda Doran http://amandadoranartist.tumblr.com/
Aisling Ní Chlaonadh http://aislingnich.tumblr.com/
Dona Stankune http://www.flickr.com/photos/dona-snapkauskaite/

Curated by Roisin Power Hackett

Mamuska Dublin

Mamuska Dublin returns on Friday 30th November, featuring a packed line-up of experimental video work and live performance to challenge and inspire. Audience and artists mingle in an atmosphere of play and discovery. Starts 7.30pm. 

EVENT LINE-UP

1. Carol Walsh - 'A Medley of Shakespeare' - CLOWNING

2. Hillary Williams - 'Scars' - VERBAL PERFORMANCE ART
3. TheOpenRehearsals - PERFORMANCE

4. Paco Torres - 'The Rattle of Benghazi' - FILM

5. Roisin Power Hackett 'The Roche Limit' - SPOKEN WORD

6. Peter Moran - INTERACTIVE MUSIC / VOCAL PERFORMANCE
7. Sandra Estrada - 'The Hand of the Inert' - FILM

8. Peter Duffy - A Political Movement - PERFORMANCE PIECE
9. Rose Lawless - 'The Virgin Mary rap' - PERFORMANCE

Mamuska Dublin is a free event supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme and curated by La Cat Salons inhouse programme of La Catedral Studios.

Tickling the Ivories

100 Years of Experimental Piano

At The Back Loft

Thursday 29^th November 7.30 pm, Doors open at 7pmpm

€8/€5

The Back Loft/La Cat Acoustic is delighted to present an evening of experimental piano music in collaboration with curator/composer Peter Moran, with special guests Kian Geiselbrechtinger on piano and vocalist Olesya Zdorovetska.

This concert spans one hundred years of musical innovators, including acoustic, electro-acoustic and audio-visual works from Arnold Schoenberg, Henry Cowell, John Cage, György Ligeti, John Zorn and Irish composer Jennifer Walshe. The latter part of the programme will feature a selection of Peter Moran’s recent piano music, including the first full performance of “The Dublin Miniatures” – a collection of piano miniatures composed in different parts of Dublin city earlier this year, and performed with video projections of the locations where they were written.

Programme

Piano Sonata No.9, Op.68 (1910)                               Alexander Scriabin

Excerpts from Six Little Piano Pieces, Op.19 (1913)   Arnold Schoenberg

The Banshee (1923)                                                    Henry Cowell

The Wonderful Widow of Eighteen Springs (1942)        John Cage

Musica Ricercarta (1953)                                           György Ligeti

Memories of You (1964)                                             Cornelius Cardew

Cobra (1984)                                                               John Zorn

Table-ism (2005)                                                         Peter Moran

He Was She Was (2008)                                             Jennifer Walshe

Stahl (2008)                                                                 Samuel Gfrörer

Six Beageens and other piano miniatures (2010-11)       Peter Moran

New Work (2012)                                                        Kian Geiselbrechtinger

The Dublin Miniatures (2012)                                                Peter Moran

More info: http://irishmusiceducation@gmail.com

Peter Moran and La Cat Acoustic are supported by the Irish Arts Council/An Comhairle Ealaíon

La Cat Acoustic is La Cat Salons' acoustic strand. La Cat Salons is the in-house programme of La Catedral Studios.

Anima Libera

Admission €8, info on pre-sales: julyo78@gmail.com

Doors open at 4pm with a Grand Tea Salon hosted by "Lady Windermere Coffee Fan"

Show starts at 6pm sharp

"A show created with the brainwaves of the audience!"

ANiMA LiBERA is a music & video art initiative by a group of multi-media artists, which merges the exploration of human consciousness with the use of sophisticated technology. During the show the band will use a live "Interactive Brain Activity Visualizer" with selected members of the audience who will be interacting with the band's music and visuals.

This project features the participation of:

ANiMA LiBERA ( Julyo, Pietro Gabriele and Martyna Halas)

Louis Yagera

Olga Kuzmenko

Paul Power ( (Enfp Visuals) )

Ambra Bergamasco ( Butoh dance )

Tara Mc Guinness (Lady Windermere Coffe Fan)

More info: www.AnimaLiberaMusic.com

Promo video: http://youtu.be/fw_g7p6ebC8

Call for Work: Mamuska Dublin

 *MAMUSKA DUBLIN  returns Friday 30th November 2012 @ THE BACK LOFT, 8pm*

 La Cat Salons calls local, national and international artists to participate in the upcoming Mamuska Dublin! This is a unique occasion to present and view evolving works,  raw ideas, unrehearsed visions, trials and errors, short masterpieces,  playful nonsense, first steps... all in the context of an informal  environment where like-minded artists meet, mingle, discuss and receive  feedback from the audience. Be a part of it!

A maximum of ten artists will present their work, with lively musical breaks for discussion.

Submission criteria:

 * open to works in the fields of dance, live performance, live installation, sound and video art
 * all works must be under 10 minutes long
 * all works must have very simple technical set up and requirements
 * send title, duration and brief description of work submitted
 * send short CV of people involved
 * inclusion of supporting material is recommended

 *Closing Date For Submissions: Monday 12th November 2012*

 Email all submissions to La Cat Salons curator Brigit McCone at lacatsalons@gmail.com. Mamuska Dublin is supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme and is an inhouse production of La Catedral Studios.

Mamuska Dublin

Mamuska Dublin returns on Friday 28th September, featuring a packed line-up of live performance and experimental video work to challenge and inspire. Audience and artists mingle in an atmosphere of play and discovery. Starts 8pm. Mamuska Dublin is a free event curated by La Cat Salons and supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme.

EVENT LINEUP

1. Emma Pearson 'Wild Thing' - PERFORMANCE
2. Nuno Theodoro - 'Dungeon' - DANCE
3. David Bickley - 'waterland' - FILM

4. Ruth Lehane - CLOWNING

5. Raoul Simpson - 'Wall of Mirrors' - INTERACTIVE VIDEO INSTALLATION

6. Lynda Phelan - 'Animalicious' - VIDEO EXCLUSIVE

7. Ciosa Le Gear 'I Knit A River' / Roland Gomez 'hang' MUSIC/KNITTED INSTALLATION

8. Katya Semler - 'Enchanted' - DANCE

La Cat Acoustic presents

Tony MacMahon and Steve Cooney will be performing in the Back Loft on Wednesday 22nd August - doors open 7pm on what promises to be an intimate delight of a gig.

Exploriment! weekend 18th - 20th May

La Cat Explore presents the Exploriment! Dance Fringe Weekend, dedicated to celebrating the body without boundaries, making the physical fizz and igniting the imagination in action. The weekend is an open invitation to Dublin's dancers and dance-lovers to explore all the moods of movement in diverse workshops, to see fresh performance concepts staged before their very eyes and to play, discuss and dream at our open Corroboree Café evenings of improvisation, entertainment, beverage and biscuitry.

Friday 18th May
doors 8pm, starts 8.30. free entry

Embodying Visions and Dancing Senses

An introduction to BUTOH dance facilitated by Ambra Bergamasco. More information on THIS LINK

Saturday 19th May

11.15 am – 5pm - Don't Stop the Dance workshops

The weekend kicks off in style with a series of workshops by the legendary 'Don't Stop the Dance' collective: 11.15 to 12.15 yoga warm-up, 12.40 to 13.55 Acro-pole, 13.55 - 14.00 Acro-balance, 14.10 - 17.00 Aerial rope for beginners. – spacefiftyfour [at] gmail [dot] com

6pm– Chamber Dance - €10

For our Saturday show, we are delighted to present an exclusive preview of 'Chamber Dance', a new collaborative performance blending live classical piano and fluid movement for magical results, by dancer Rachel Mulcahy and veteran pianist Doug Lowe. Take a journey through the Romantic era with the most stunning works of Chopin, Schubert, Beethoven, Brahms and Gershwin brought to life with hypnotic simplicity. Composer, pianist and dancer merge in a beautiful harmony of pure expression. Savour the afterglow at our evening corroboree café...

8pm - 11pm – Lady Windermere's Corroboree Café

Free Entry All Night

Inspired by the Australian Aboriginal corroboree interactive dance concept, the corroboree cafes offer a chill-out space, spontaneous performances both comical and serious, open improvisatory dance opportunities, vintage dance-related cinematic visuals and reading matter, beverages and biscuitry. Come one, come all to dance, discuss and dream... Featuring masterful audiovisual maestro Marco Gutierrez, cult comic improv crew 'The Princes of Lagos', the sinuous Apollonia tribal bellydance and a jaw-dropping aerial acro-pole display by Lisette Krol.

Sunday 20th May

12pm– 2pm – Butoh Workshop

In preparation for the first ever Butoh Festival Dublin on 23rd- 26th August, get a taste for yourself of this unique Japanese dance form with an exclusive workshop facilitated by Ambra Bergamasco. Butoh is a profoundly human artform, that speaks from soul to soul through images rather than shapes, building philosophical mindfulness through the body. Email ambrabergamasco [at] gmail [dot] com to book.

3pm– 5pm– T.A.C. Workshop

From Far East to near at hand, the Traditional Arts Collective have been earning rave reviews across Ireland for their creative fusions of traditional dance and modern approach, putting the craic back into the ceol. Come and get a taste with this exclusive workshop and performance showcase, including an introduction to the basics of sean nós dance by Mary Beth Taylor. Email bardoimusic [at] yahoo [dot] com to book

6pm– Afternoon Avant-Garde - €10

Pushing the boundaries of dance and movement in all directions, this unique mixed bag of performances includes experimental dance piece 'In Whose Hands' by Deirdre Murphy, risqué performance art dance madness by Darren & Terence, tribal silhouette dance by Roisin Corrigan and musical mimo-mask physical theatre performance by Sandra Gonzalez Bandera. Over 18s only. Blending seamlessly into our evening's Corroboree café, speaking of which...

8pm– 11pm - Lady Windermere's Corroboree Café

Free Entry All Night

Rounding out Exploriment with another night of spontaneous performance and vintage visuals, this time with a dynamic cabaret twist including a provocatively funny musical show by the gorgeous Rose Lawless, and full-throated jazzy blues by Delta O'Hara and Johnny Rayge, with perhaps a sneak preview of Mr. Rayge's forthcoming album, at everyone's favourite decadent evening of beverage, biscuitry, vintage visuals, dance, discussion and dreaming...

EXPLORIMENT! Is supported by the Arts Council under the Small Festivals scheme and is presented by La Cat Explore, in collaboration with Corroboree Productions, as part of the La Cat Salons in-house curated programme at The Back Loft

Windermere Art Auction!!

Announcing Lady Windermere's Grand Winter Solstice Art Auction!!

Wednesday 21st December from 6pm

For the winter solstice finale of Lady Windermere's Salons, there will be an auction of artwork by over 30 artists from Ireland to Vietnam, in all shapes, sizes, colours and styles, to suit every taste and wallet! Come one, come all, art-lovers and panicked Christmas shoppers alike, for creative Christmas presents and treasured masterpieces! Support our starving artists and our salon hostesses! Bringing down the hammer from 6pm, along with special performances by musicians and performers, and concluding with a cockle-warming screening of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Beverages, mince pies and other treats supplied.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Caitriona Ni Threasaigh, Gavin O'Donoghue, Jaanika Talts, Imelda Reynolds, Sean Rushe, Carol O'Connor, Phan Van Duc, Angela Anderson, Denise French, Eleanore Nicolas, Andrew Carroll, Sue Rainsford, Sean Hillen, James Carroll, Nick Boon, Muriel Foxton, Nigel Holohan, Laura Ni Fhlaibhin, Joann O'Meara, Magda Nowacka, Shelly McDonnell, Lynne Mulville, Roisin Power Hackett, Bridget Ryan, Paola Catizone, Anthony Cullen, Leo Boyd, Olive Barrett, Tanya Turner, Amanda Doran and John McCann.

Lady Windermere's Line-Up

Lady Windermere has been over-joyed and over-bowled by the explosion of creativity and Christmas generosity that is filling her inbox! As well as the coffee, artwork, silent cinema, browsing, chilling and chat that will be on offer every afternoon Wednesday to Sunday til the winter solstice, we also offer the following special attractions (with much more to be announced!):

Thursday 8th December

Lady W will be serving her brews as a special guest at the Libertango Smokin' Club, a night of decaying glamour, passion and heat, of song and dance and dramatic theatrical performance. Doors open 8pm, €10 ticket.

Friday 9th December

Throwing open her doors for her first full salon day at 4pm, Lady W's opening bash features song, dance and madness along with the traditional cuppa, with acts including Fathers of Western Thought.

Saturday 10th December

'Remember This', a night in aid of Alzheimer's research with quirky, soulful Dublin outfit Kellie and the Scruffs and theatrical performance by 'Playback As Soon As You Hear' along with special guests, theatrical surprises and ambient DJs!

Sunday 11th December

A mellow musical Sunday afternoon, featuring hypnotic hang playing, sprightly piano ditties and Latin elegance from Arash Kazemi. Come and chill.

Wednesday 14th December

Slavonic song and cinema night, celebrating Eastern promise. Featuring bilingual Russian and Irish poetry, slavic song, classic silent film screenings (The Man with a Movie Camera) and finishing with the grand premiere of a new English subtitling of the madcap and subversive Bulgarian 60s satire of bureaucratic insanity 'Whale'

Thursday 15th December

A dance-themed night of movement, music and mystery, climaxing in AMOON's eclectic mix of bells, bass, bellydancers, darbuka and djembe.

Friday 16th December

Friday is a night of trippy trance with Madragula's visuals and featuring Ben Turner (winner - Radio Nova's 'Dublin's Best Busker' competition).

Saturday 17th December

A night of authentically gritty cabaret, 'Midnight in Paris', leads coffee-drinkers on a journey into the underworld with the dark spoken word of Kit Fryatt, the continental clowning of Carlo Jacucci and ends with a bang and a full evening in the company of the one-and-only, sultry and inimitable, rich-girl-gone-wrong Rose Lawless. Bring your bouquets to lay at her feet, dress in the style of the belle epoque and prepare for a heady evening's entertainment.

Sunday 18th December

Christmas Family Cracker. With only 7 days to Christmas, 'tis the season to be jolly (falalalalalala). Bringing the joyful beats of Philosophy of Sound together with games, clowns, jugglers, carol-singing, card-making, piano-playing, offbeat Czech and Russian cartoons, storytelling, mulled wine, mince pies, candy canes - this is an afternoon's delight for all ages. Discreetly slip our resident Christmas fairy a wrapped present (worth €5 or under) with your child's name clearly written on it for a magical surprise. The evening ends with a 7pm screening of the classic Wizard of Oz. We will also be raising funds for children's charity Barnardos.

BYOK (bring your own kids - or somebody else's*).

* Please ask permission before bringing other people's children. Lady W does not endorse kidnapping.

Wednesday 21st December

On the winter solstice, the longest night of the year, we say goodbye to Lady W's December salons in style: the legendary DJ Chuckleberry spins his homespun sounds while our madcap auctioneers bring the hammer down on our fabulous art collection. We will also be raising money for FocusIreland through the night.

With special thanks to the Back Loft and La Catedral Studios, without whose support and sponsorship these evenings would not be possible. Visit Lady Windermere's blog for details.