V/O: Stephen Rea

Animation: Aaron Copeland & Johnny Fitzsimons

Sound: Eoin Campbell

UpStart is a non-profit arts collective which aims to put creativity at the centre of public consciousness during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011. We plan to do this by reinterpreting the spaces commonly used for displaying election campaign posters in Dublin City and are calling on all artists to submit work for this exhibition.

The objectives of UpStart are to encourage a debate on the role of the arts in this state. We hope to highlight the importance of creativity and ingenuity when society is in need of direction and solutions, and to emphasize the value of the arts to public life. We believe that the future development of the country requires a healthy cultivation of the Arts.

We are asking for submissions to this project from the full range of artistic disciplines. Our aim is to receive 500 submissions from writers and visual artists, photographers, painters and graphic designers. These works will be duplicated and 1000 pieces will be printed as election size posters and be erected throughout Dublin city. We are also accepting works from musicians and film makers which will be hosted and exhibited through our website which will be launched on the day of the electoral poster campaign.

UpStart comprises artists and writers from Ireland and abroad and are non-aligned to any political party. UpStart respects and follows Dublin City Council litter regulations and operates within the requirements of Irish law.

Big thanks to Emma Somers and Leo Byrne

Punt, edited by Emma Somers, is a new platform for narrative journalism in Ireland, providing critical but optimistic analysis, along with a healthy dose of the arts, photography and illustration, interviews and satire. The October issue is out now at a cost of €2 featuring an utterly brilliant cover by Mr. Steve McCarthy as well as contributions from comics creators Luke F, Pablo Mayer and Eoin Ryan. For a list of places you can pick it up, click here.

big thanks to Leo Byrne, Anne Marie Menzies, Davey Moor,  and Stephen James Smyth

admission free

PLEASE NOTE NEW START TIME 6pm. This is is to accommodate a very
special venue. the chapterhouse of St Mary's Abbey is all that remains
of a 12th century Cistercian foundation. It's the oldest surviving
building on the northside, and owing to differences in street level
over the centuries has the appearance of an underground chamber.
"Silken" Thomas Fitzgerald began his rebellion against Henry VIII here
in the 16th century, so ...it's the perfect place for dissidents to
speak a few words. The acoustics are pretty fierce too.

Kevin Higgins is co-organiser of Over The Edge literary events in
Galway, Ireland. He facilitates poetry workshops at Galway Arts
Centre; teaches creative writing at Galway Technical Institute and on
the Brothers of Charity Away With Words programme. He is also
Writer-in-Residence at Merlin Park Hospital and the poetry critic of
the Galway Advertiser. His first collection of poems The Boy With No
Face was published by Salmon in February 2005 and was short-listed for
the 2006 Strong Award. His second collection, Time Gentlemen, Please,
was published in March 2008 by Salmon. One of the poems from Time
Gentlemen, Please, ‘My Militant Tendency’, featured in the Forward
Book of Poetry 2009. His work also features in the anthology Identity
Parade – New British and Irish Poets (Ed Roddy Lumsden, Bloodaxe,
2010). Frightening New Furniture is his third collection of poems and
was published in April by Salmon Poetry.

Karl Parkinson was the winner of the most entertaining video for
Dublin 2009 @ the Balcony TV Awards. He has had poems published in
Revival, Census and the Seven Towers anthology, and has been on stage
at Electric Picnic, the Glor sessions, t-box, Brown Bread Mixtape,
Exchange Words, and many more venues.

Admission is free. All welcome. Sorry about the early start time; if
you can't make it because of work commitments, we'll be convening in
O'Byrnes on the corner of King St & Bolton St afterwards for pints of
strong red Lithuanian ale.

Thanks to the OPW, especially Richard and Pauline, for their help in
organising the chapterhouse for events. If you want to use the Abbey
for music, poetry or more, email casinomarino@opw.ie.
http://www.wurmimapfel.net