Christodoulos Makris

I'm partnering once again with Kildare County Council Arts and Libraries Service, Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge, Co Kildare, and the European Poetry Festival through its director SJ Fowler, to co-programme my third European Poetry Festival event in Ireland, following editions in 2019 and 2022 . Thursday 2 May 2024, Riverbank Arts Centre. 7.30pm start. Click here to book your free ticket . Full details through the link, and below. A special event offering a unique approach to poetry in performance: 5 poets/artists based in Ireland and 4 visiting poets/artists from the rest of Europe pair up to produce brand new, specially commissioned collaborative works to premiere on the night. Representing a legacy of poet Christodoulos Makris’ spell as Writer in Residence at Maynooth University and Kildare County Council Arts & Library Service, this is his third programming partnership with European Poetry Festival to be presented at Riverbank Arts Centre . The European Poetry Festival...

Join us on Tuesday 23 April 2024 in the Recital Hall at Technological University (TU) Dublin Conservatoire for the premiere of a new work - a sonic-poetic treatment of Ireland's housing data composed and performed in collaboration with David Bremner (piano) and Larissa O'Grady (violin). Produced and curated by David Bremner, and supported by the Arts Council of Ireland, this project has been in development over several months during which David, Larissa and I engaged in regular generative sessions where we gathered, sifted, discussed, and crunched vast amounts of data - numerical and linguistic - from a wide range of sources including the Central Statistics Office, Council meetings and Dáil sessions, public testimonies and media reports, The Central Bank, Global Property Guides, and more, on the causes and effects of the severe housing crisis in Ireland. We then converted these data points directly to a multi-movement work for violin, piano, and text, through which patterns r...