Boundless & Bare

Boundless & Bare
Boundless & Bare

A podcast by the Irish Spoken Word agency Boundless & Bare

Episodes

  1. Hazel Hogan On Being Earnest

    13/12/2019

    Hazel Hogan On Being Earnest

    In this episode of the Boundless & Bare podcast Melissa Ridge sits down with Hazel Hogan, a 26 year old poet from Dublin. Hazel Hogan who started when she was ten discusses everything from Grangegorman to her brand new podcast Being Earnest with Hazel Hogan. Hazel Hogan is a 24 year old poet from Dublin, Ireland. Her poem ‘Grangegorman’ is on the recommended list to be studied as part of the Junior Certificate English curriculum. Her poetry was submitted into the Irish Poetry Reading Archive as part of the UCD digital library. She was selected to take part in the Dublin City of Literature project, Dublin:A Year in Words curated by Stephan James Smith and Linda Devlin and supported by UNESCO. Hazel is a member of the spoken word and Graffiti collective OutStraight a concept-based show combining spoken word theater with visual art graffiti. She was the co-founder and the currator of the variety night Words in the Warehouse. She was recently featured in Episode four of Myles O'Reilly and Donal Dineen 'This Ain't No Disco'. "Those are some fighting words" Saul Williams. "A true warrior of words" RTE Culture. "Powerful stuff" Brenda Donohue, The Ray D’Arcy Show. Follow Hazel Hogan below @hazel.hogan Facebook Listen to Being Earnest with Hazel Hogan here: https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/being-earnest-with-hazel-hogan/id1487890058 http://beingearnestwithhazelhogan.libsyn.com/being-earnest-with-hazel-hogan-0 Echo of Love by Hazel Hogan Grangegorman by Hazel Hogan Stories & Strikes by Hazel Hogan Read more about Hazel and First Fortnight here:

    53 min
  2. Raven on Home

    26/07/2019

    Raven on Home

    For the halfway point for Season 2 Melissa and Melanie sit down with the acclaimed Raven. Raven is a multi-disciplinary artist – writer, performer, filmmaker and arts educator originally from San Francisco, California, now living in Dublin. In addition to being an Emmy award-winning videographer, his written work has appeared in print in the U.S. and Ireland in numerous anthologies, magazines and in his collection, The Living, the Dead and Americans. He is also an acclaimed performer, having captivated audiences as a poet, rapper and actor on stages at literary, music and arts festivals and events in Ireland, the US, South Africa and the UK for twenty years. As an educator he has taught workshops and courses in poetics, creative writing and filmmaking for even longer; he has worked with children and adults, often with special needs or challenges. He has given private instruction, lectures and taught in diverse settings, in Ireland and abroad – the Junior Certificate School Program (eleven Dublin schools), Migrant Rights Centre Ireland (Dublin), National Institute for Intellectual Disabilities (Trinity College, Dublin), National Council for the Blind in Ireland (Dublin), Creativity Explored (San Francisco), and University of Kwazulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa), amongst others Ophelia McCabe Raven & The Crone Produced by Willem McCarthy Check out more from Raven Here Mental Health Services Samaritans Childline Aware 1800 80 48 48 DRCC 1800 77 8888 Boundless & Bare Links Spoken Word Gig Guide BND Blog Follow us on: Twitter Facebook Instagram

    1h 8m
  3. Bibi June on Spoken Word Theatre

    17/05/2019

    Bibi June on Spoken Word Theatre

    In this episode the two Mels chat to Bibi June! Bibi June is a poet, producer and theatre maker originally from Amsterdam, now an import Glaswegian. Through personal experience, their work explores narratives of race, queerness, migration and social inequalities. They mix Glasgow’s down-to-earth culture with Dutch directness in an intimate high-energy performance. In spring 2017 they received funding from the Workers Theatre to develop their first show, 'Daughter, Mother, Truth', as part of the Megaphone residency, created to promote artists of colour in Scotland. Their first pamphlet ‘Begin Again’ was published by Speculative Books in December 2017. It is a collection of poems on queer life and happiness. Their work has been published in the Beyond Boundaries, Now That’s What I Call Poetry and We Were Always Here anthologies. In 2018, they were part of the judging panel at the National Scottish Poetry Slam, were selected for the Young Arts Industry Programme at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and received both a Disrupter Grant and a Nurturing Talent fund. They run ‘In The Works’, a spoken word theatre company co-founded with Ross McFarlane and Ellen Renton. ITW was set up to promote innovative spoken word theatre and develop an accessible, diverse and sustainable tradition for the art form. Their first production, A Matter of Time', debuted as part of the Edinburgh Free Fringe 2017. Their second show ‘The 900 Club’ received 4 and 5 star reviews from The Wee Review and The Sunday Post, and SGFringe respectively for its run at the Scottish Poetry Library as part of the Edinburgh Fringe 2018. It has since been performed in Glasgow, Perth and Nottingham. Their newest show, Make/Shift, is currently touring spoken word events across the UK & Ireland. If you’d like to hear more from Bibi Visit: https://www.facebook.com/BibiJunePoetry/  https://www.twitter.com/BibiJuneS/ https://www.instagram.com/beebeejune/ https://www.intheworkstheatre.com/ The 900 Club You can buy Begin Again here Mental Health Services Samaritans Childline Aware 1800 80 48 48 DRCC 1800 77 8888 Boundless & Bare Links Spoken Word Gig Guide BND Blog Follow us on: Twitter Facebook Instagram

    1h 13m

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