S|R ::: CALENDAR
DIY FAIRGROUND FUN-FAIR [On Deck - All Week]
Tues-Thurs 18:00-23:00 Fri 18:00-00:00 Sat 14:00-00:00 ::: [Mechanical Rides | Art Installation ]
A collection of humorous, ‘hand-cranked’ rides by artist/inventor Paddy Bloomer. - Serving unhealthy snacks during programme break times…
Independent-Space Programme 17th | 18th
UNSYMPOSIUM DAY 1
HOLD 1 ::: 13:00-28:00
[Talks | Workshops | Screenings] - Free Drop-In
A DIY symposium created by participants, exploring the history, legacy and current state of independent cultural space. Informal and drop-in: any session can be enjoyed on its own. View the schedule/take part in the process here.
SpaceKraft Kino: Double-Bill
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-23:00
[Film Screenings] - Ticketed
Two feature documentaries portraying the recent histories of independent art projects emerging from the underground, with links and historic parallels to Spacecraft. The films explore the role of charismatic figures within complex collective ventures, and the challenges and paradoxes facing alternative projects claiming space and negotiating an ongoing existence within a wider world and economy.
Invisible Circus: No Dress Rehearsal [99] Dir Naomi Smyth
Charismatic ringmaster, Doug Francis leads his anarchist circus from margins to mainstream with the motto 'If it's not impossible, we're not interested'. The 3-year span of the film takes them from chaotic squat crew to licensed building managers with huge show budgets - via rotting garages, crumbling cathedrals and finally a takeover of Bristol's ex-police HQ. Relationships in the close team reveal the gain and the pain of success, but 3 years on they're still working for free. Profit or loss?
Second film [TBC]
What would you like to see? Suggestions are welcome at spacecraftireland@gmail.com
Considering these films:
Aufgestanden in Ruinen - Projekt Tacheles [97] Dir Klaus Tuschen
Lost in Vagueness [85} Dir Sofia Olins
UNSYMPOSIUM DAY 2
HOLD 1 ::: 13:00-28:00
[Talks | Workshops | Screenings] - Free Drop-In
A DIY symposium created by participants, exploring the history, legacy and current state of independent cultural space. Informal and drop-in: any session can be enjoyed on its own. View the schedule/take part in the process here.
SpaceKraft Kino: FEATURE
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-21:30
[Film Screenings] - Ticketed
The SpaceKraft Kino programme closes with a documentary about one of the most high-stakes and ambitious projects ever to emerge from the counterculture: the replica closed ecosystem of Biosphere 2. The story starts with a theatre ship, explores the complex realities of collaborative utopian ventures with a wider world, and concludes with the appearance of Steve Bannon, as the capitalist saviour / ‘monetiser’ of the ragged remains of the project.
Spaceship Earth Biosphere 2 [114] Dir by Matt Wolf
Spaceship Earth is the true, stranger-than-fiction, adventure of eight visionaries who in 1991 spent two years quarantined inside of a self-engineered replica of Earth’s ecosystem called BIOSPHERE 2. The experiment was a worldwide phenomenon, chronicling daily existence in the face of life threatening ecological disaster and a growing criticism that it was nothing more than a cult. The bizarre story is both a cautionary tale and a hopeful lesson of how a small group of dreamers can potentially reimagine a new world.
The SpaceKraft Quiz Gameshow
HOLD 4 ::: 21:30-23:00
[ Audience quiz with live DJ ] - Ticketed
The Independent-Space Programme concludes with a quiz! Hosted by SpaceKraft Quizmaster Jack O'Donnell [TPM] with our Stoopid Request Line DJ live-mixing YOUR tunes in real time! Bring your quiz wizards, space geeks and alternative history nerds, or pick up random team members at the bar. - Prizes to be won!
[Interactive]
Live Performance Programme 19th | 20th | 21st
TRADIATORS: The Try-Outs & Training Camp
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-23:00
[Performance, live music and DJs] - Ticketed
Meet reigning TRADIATORS and learn the traditional fighting styles of the Irish drinking man! Test your metal in entry challenges and train to become a TRADIATOR in Saturday’s TRADIATORS: The Tournament!
A sports-themed evening of absurdist performance on a wrestling show format, with live music intervals and DJ accompaniment. The night will showcase current Heros and Heels, enlist fans and cede the floor to any daring audience contenders wishing to compete
[Interactive]
TRADIATORS: The DIY Sportswear Sweatshop
HOLD 1 ::: 15:00-18:00
[Workshop] - Ticketed
Contenders, fans and supporters create DIY sportswear in our post-consumerist sweatshop! Bring spare T-shirts, sweatshirts and hoodies, and come away with your own custom merch, that bigs up your fave TRADIATOR, your Sports Club and your SELF!
[Interactive]
Ultimate Trad-Wife Pageant School
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-20:00
[Themed space hosted by Trad-Wife Competition characters] - Ticketed
The Ultimate Trad-Wife Competition, a headline event of our Saturday late-night programme, invites lovely ladies of the public (all genders) to enrol in their Pageant School for Trad-Wife training, make-overs and stage-trial coaching
Saturday’s Competition event offers a riotous send-up of Trad-Wife styles and postures, a Rose of Tralee, Reality-TV car-crash Alt-Wrong WTF! Think hair-raising backstories, catfights, and songs. - A quintessentially Irish exploration of (Trad-) modern loving…
[Interactive]
Trad Wives, Techno & Banjos - in Space!
HOLD 4 ::: 19:00-04:00 [Doors 19:00]
[All-Night Live Performance Programme] - Ticketed
Trad-Wife Pageant School: The Stage Trials (19:30-20:30). Hopeful lovely ladies pass a series of dress-up and interview challenges to test their readiness for Saturday’s headlining Ultimate Trad-Wife Competition.
Space-themed acts and bands spanning high camp to black comedy (20:30-03:00) With Spacers, Spudgun, Rare Witch: Rocket-Science, Hugh Cooney: Folklord, and The Fist - a parody ‘BDSM-Sex-Party’ techno-punk stage show and band, with short, absurdist variety interludes, followed by…
Gamified live DJ sets from Stoopid Request Line and Time Capsule Roulette: Elyas Khan (03:00-4:00)
OPEN SPACE
HOLD 1 ::: 13.00-18.00
[Open space with light resident hosting] - Ticketed
Hold 1, which has contained the SpaceKraft Resident Artists and Indiependent-Space Programme for a week is open to the public as an Informal hangout space, with light presence/hosting maintained by residents. The space will display rolling recorded content, exhibits, and materials collected and generated during the residency.
The Dublin-Reeperbahn DIY Ballad Workshop
HOLD 1 ::: 15:00-18:00
[Workshop] - Ticketed
Participants dive into the art of ballad-writing as a DIY living art form, using traditional song forms from known Dublin and Hamburg Balladeers to capture life as it is lived now, in new original work. Led by Sean Fitzgerald with further insights from Jinx Lennon, Rare Witch and others
[Interactive]
TRADIATORS: The Supporters-Club
HOLD 1 ::: 19:00-20:00
[Themed space hosted by TRADIATORS] - Ticketed
Reigning TRADIATORS welcomes fans and Tournament contenders in the ‘Supporters-Club’ and dressing room as they prepare for the night’s BIG Tournament.
DIY Sportswear from Friday’s Sweatshop can be picked up!
[Interactive]
Jinxing the Rave: Trad, Porn & Fighting…
HOLD 4 ::: 19:00-04:00 [Doors 19:00]
[All-Night Live Performance Programme] - Ticketed
Top 10 Hits Der Woche: The DIY Balade Hit-Parade (19:30-20:30) Showcasing new songs and collaborations from the Dublin-Reeperbahn DIY Balad Workshop.
TRADIATORS: The Tournament (21:00-22:00). The Heros and Heels of Trad-Fighting, with their fans and followers in tow, battle it out with fresh Hamburg faces for the title of reigning TRADIATOR!
Irish artists and musicians explore, expand and satirise folk forms (22:00-04:00). With The Goblinz, Branwen Kavanagh, ‘Punk Urban Poet’ Jinx Lennon*, The Ruskavellas, Trad Porn: Cowboys and Hoors [The Musical!], The Four-Horsemen of The Apocalypse Derby (Death, Famine or War?! Place your bets and win BIG!) with storytelling and céilí-calling by Hugh Cooney, for The Ultimate Trad Wife: Competition and Céilí, spilling into a Trad Rave finale!
* “Ireland's premier punk-poet” The Irish Times