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BeLong | BíAnn Artists Podcast A series of live conversations and performances with artists and guests, featuring each of the 21 branches of Dublin City Libraries. The guests and artists will chat about their relationship with their local libraries, through the lens of arts and culture, highlighting the impact these public spaces have had on their lives and wellbeing. Each podcast episode will feature events from the libraries, and will follow general themes - offering something for fans of music, history, visual art, poetry, literature, nature and more!
Episodes
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
BeLong BíAnn Ep.12: TKB & Black Queer Book Club
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
BeLong BíAnn Ep.12 with TKB, Black Queer Book Club
Playwright and actor Thommas Kane Byrne (aka TKB) chats to host Sorcha Keane about his work, where he draws inspiration, and how he minds himself, and members of the Black Queer Book Club speak about the importance of building a community, a space of creativity, safety, friendship and support for black queer people in Ireland. Including discussion with Anne Gannon, Librarian Charleville Mall.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
BeLong BíAnn Ep.11: Aideen McBride, Juliette Saumande & Tarsila Kruse
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
BeLong BíAnn Ep.11 with Aideen McBride, Juliette Saumande & Tarsila Kruse
Join host Sorcha Keane as she explores storytelling and story-making in this episode. Storyteller & collector Aideen McBride shares the process of story collecting and the importance of stories, while children's author Juliette Saumande & illustrator Tarsila Krüse explore how their collaboration came to be, and introduce their recent work - My Little Album of Ireland.
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.10: Francesca La Morgia, Kirsi Hanifin & Ines Khai
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
Tuesday Feb 01, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.10 with Francesca La Morgia, Kirsi Hanifin and Ines Khai.
Language, music and culture combine in this episode. Guadeloupean singer Ines Khai shares songs and stories of her career with host Sorcha Keane, while Francesca La Morgia from Mothertongues and Kirsi Hanifin from Post Primary Languages Ireland explain how important and powerful languages are.
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.9: Ruth Guest & Silvia Loeffler
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Podcast Ep.9 with Ruth Guest and Silvia Loeffler
Visual Art is the focus of this episode - Street Photographer Ruth Guest chats to host Sorcha Keane about her work in nightclubs and on the streets of Dublin, while visual artist Silvia Loeffler explores the city streets in her project with the Central Library - City Routes
RUTH GUEST
Ruth Guest is a multi-disciplinary photographer and visual artist, based in Dublin, Ireland. Throughout her career, Ruth has shaped a fresh and distinctive outlook in her work capturing Ireland's youth, music and fashion culture. Her recent publication ‘We’ve Lost Dancing’ is an interactive audio/visual photo book showcasing a collection of portraits and images taken over the last ten years of working as a nightclub photographer in Dublin.
Dr Silvia Loeffler
Dr Silvia Loeffler is an artist, researcher and educator who works across disciplines to map the psychology of a space and its people. As part of the Create Artist in the Community Award, Silvia has worked with Dublin City Libraries on “City Routes: A Deep Mapping of Dublin’s Central Library”, an artistic mapping cartography project that documents changes and memories of the Central Library and its place in Henry Street / Moore Street.
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.8: Chandrika Narayanan Mohan & Collie Ennis
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.8: Chandrika Narayanan Mohan and Collie Ennis
Chandrika Narayanan Mohan, poet & performer, and Collie Ennis, zooligist, chat to host Sorcha Keane about their work, how art & science mix, nature and biodiversity. Collie gives us some tips for biodiversity in gardens, and Chandrika shares some beautiful poetry with us.
BeLong | BíAnn Podcast
A series of live conversations and performances with artists and guests, featuring each of the 21 branches ofDublin City Libraries. The guests and artists will chat about their relationship with their local libraries, through the lens of arts and culture, highlighting the impact these public spaces have had on their lives and wellbeing. Each podcast episode will feature events from the libraries, and will follow general themes - offering something for fans of music, history, visual art, poetry, literature, nature and more!
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan
Chandrika Narayanan-Mohan is a Dublin-based writer and performer from India, whose 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 from Lifeboat Press, Banshee, and Poetry Ireland Review, amongst others. Chandrika was editor of Poetry Ireland’s Trumpet issue 9, is book reviewer for Children’s Books Ireland’s Inis magazine, and is on the Board of the Irish Writers Centre.
Collie Ennis
Zoology Research Associate - Trinity College Dublin
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.7: Áine O’Hara
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
Tuesday Jan 25, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Podcast Ep.7 with Áine O'Hara
Sport and Art - do they mix? Visual Artist and designer Áine O'Hara would say yes! She chats to host Sorcha Keane about her love of both, and how her work celebrates both sport and art
Áine O’Hara is an award winning theatre-maker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. She is currently at a pivotal stage in her career as she reimagines how she creates work following her diagnosis with fibromyalgia. O’Hara is a graduate of the Institute of Art and Design, Dun Laoghaire.
Monday Jan 17, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.6: Dermot Bolger & Liz Nugent
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Podcast Ep.6 with Dermot Bolger and Liz Nugent
What is it about books and libraries we love so much? Authors Dermot Bolger and Liz Nugent explore their relationship with books and libraries, and why they are so important to us.
Dermot Bolger: The novelist, poet and playwright, Dermot Bolger, is one of Ireland’s best known authors and was, for a time, the worst library assistant in the history of Dublin County Council, being banished to the Siberian Salt Mines of the mobile libraries. His fourteen novels include An Ark of Light and his tenth poetry collection, Other People’s Lives, is published in April 2022.
Liz Nugent is a bestselling writer of award-winning psychological suspense novels. Her books have been optioned for screen adaptations and have also been translated into 16 languages. She has written extensively for radio and television in drama and animation.
BeLong | BíAnn Podcast
A series of live conversations and performances with artists and guests, featuring each of the 21 branches ofDublin City Libraries. The guests and artists will chat about their relationship with their local libraries, through the lens of arts and culture, highlighting the impact these public spaces have had on their lives and wellbeing. Each podcast episode will feature events from the libraries, and will follow general themes - offering something for fans of music, history, visual art, poetry, literature, nature and more!
Monday Jan 17, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.5: Library in the Community
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.5: Library in the Community - Louise Tobin & Kristin Kristjansdottir
The Library in the Community is a new service from Dublin City Libraries. In this episode, librarian Louise Tobin tells us all about the work of this great service, while Kristin Kristjansdottir from the Dublin Volunteer Centre explains how the DVC got involved in the Home Deliveries during lockdown.
Louise Tobin is the Librarian in the Library in the Community service. This service provides access to books and other materials, and to library programming, for communities and individuals who do not have easy access to a branch library.
Kristin Kristjansdottir is our Placement Officer. She works directly with volunteers and helps them find an opportunity and an organisation that is a right fit. She also runs our Experience Counts Coffee morning and Volunteer Information Evenings. If you would like to find out more about volunteering or any of these events, you can contact her on info@volunteerdublincity.ie
BeLong | BíAnn Podcast
A series of live conversations and performances with artists and guests, featuring each of the 21 branches ofDublin City Libraries. The guests and artists will chat about their relationship with their local libraries, through the lens of arts and culture, highlighting the impact these public spaces have had on their lives and wellbeing. Each podcast episode will feature events from the libraries, and will follow general themes - offering something for fans of music, history, visual art, poetry, literature, nature and more!
Monday Jan 17, 2022
BeLong Bí Ann Ep.4: Sharyn Ward
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Monday Jan 17, 2022
Host Sorcha Keane is joined by singer Sharyn Ward. In this episode, we hear how important music is to Sharyn and to the Traveller Community, the power of music and song in Sharyn's own life, and Sharyn performs two beautiful songs.
Sharyn Ward
Sharyn Ward is a proud Traveller woman and Irish singer. In 2019, Sharyn was a finalist in Irelands Got Talent. Today she continue to perform across Ireland while juggling motherhood and life in the music studio
BeLong | BíAnn Podcast
A series of live conversations and performances with artists and guests, featuring each of the 21 branches ofDublin City Libraries. The guests and artists will chat about their relationship with their local libraries, through the lens of arts and culture, highlighting the impact these public spaces have had on their lives and wellbeing. Each podcast episode will feature events from the libraries, and will follow general themes - offering something for fans of music, history, visual art, poetry, literature, nature and more!
Friday Jan 14, 2022
BONUS EPISODE: OPEN HEARTED - Ann Ingle In Conversation
Friday Jan 14, 2022
Friday Jan 14, 2022
axis Ballymun in partnership with First Fortnight present... Open-Hearted: A Conversation with Ann Ingle
Open-Hearted is the compelling memoir by Ann Ingle, candidly reflecting on everything from mental health, to love, heartbreak, writing, and ageing.
Tune in to this discussion with Ann Ingle about the loss of her husband, creativity and mental health, her relationship with libraries, and writing her first book at 82. This podcast is presented in partnership with Axis Ballymun, as part of the BeLong | Bí Ann project by Dublin City Libraries and Axis Ballymun, funded by the Dormant Accounts Funds. BeLong | Bí Ann is an invitation from your local Dublin City Library to celebrate art, culture, literature, music & community via a whole host of exciting events, podcasts, animations, live talks, fun facts & more!
See axisballmun.ie and dublincitylibraries.ie for all the details. Join the conversation: #BeLongBiAnn