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On this week's Artbeat, presented Ciara Murphy spoke to Artistic Director of Anu Productions Louise Lowe about her current show 'Vardo'. 'Vardo' is currently running as part of the Dublin Theatre Festival.
Ciara also spoke to Lynette Moran, Producer for Anu Productions about the 'Now-Then-Now' Symposium taking place in The Lab on October 7th and 8th.

Artbeat Presenter Ciara Murphy attended this years Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival and made a documentary about her experience. Ciara spoke to patrons of the festival and volunteers over the two week duration. She also spoke to Artistic Director Kris Nelson, Award nominee Phelim Drew, Fishamble Artistic Director Jim Culleton, previous award winner Peter Daly and many more.

Welcome to this special edition of Artbeat on Dublin City FM. This week, appropriately enough for a radio programme, we're going to look at the extraordinary growth in speech and art radio content over recent years. This upcoming weekend (5/6 September) sees Sounds Alive - Dublin’s Audio Festival take place in the Freemasons Hall. Des FitzGerald brought Julien Clancy from Sounds Alive into the station to talk all things aural and press play to share some of his favourite recordings...

See soundsalive.ie for full details

In this show Ciara talks to Liam Halligan about his role as Director of 'The Importance of Being Honest' showing in Bewley's Café Theatre until September 6th.

Tom Lane, composer of 'HARP: A RIver Cantata' talks to Artbeat about this amazing spectacle which is set to open the TIger Dublin Fringe Festival 2014.

Finally Artbeat talks to Bert Wright, the curator of 'Mountains to Sea' Dun Laogharire Rathdown book festival.

In this edition of Artbeat, Adrian Colwell talks to Padraig Naughton, Director of Arts and Disability Ireland which is a national organisation that champions the creativity of artists with disabilities, promotes inclusive experiences for audiences with disabilities and works to enhance the disability-related capacity of arts organisations.

In the interview Padraig discusses his own art practice, the history of Arts and Disability Ireland and the new performing arts residency that ADI are running in conjunction with Axis Ballymun. Following several successful residencies across various disciplines, ADI and Axis will work together to offer a residency and bursary to an artist with a disability who is interested in developing their performing arts practice.

This year is Benjamin Britten's centenary and the RTÉ Symphony Orchestra is celebrating in some style with the second in a series entitled Big on Britten. Declan McGovern, RTÉ NSO General Manager joined Artbeat's Des FitzGerald to talk about this fascinating composer.

Born in the fishing port of Lowestoft in Suffolk, on England’s east coast, the sea always had a strong pull on Britten and the Four Sea Interludes is the the most outstanding example of this influence. Composed as orchestral pieces to divide the opera Peter Grimes: Dawn; Sunday Morning; Moonlight and Storm capture the North Sea in all its moods. Britten spent the early part of the Second World War in America and the concert reflects this with Bernstein’s On the Town (Three Dance Episodes) and Copland’s ballet score Appalachian Spring. Britten’s Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings, based on a selection of six nocturnal poems by, among others, Blake, Jonson and Keats also features.

Big On Britten: Britten & America
RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra
Friday 18 October at 8pm
National Concert Hall
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