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Choreographers Lis and Jenny Roche lead fellow dance artists on a journey deep into words, written and spoken, in their Modes of Capture workshop. (Part 4 of 5)

Street dance battle kingpin and founder of Top 8 Street Dance Battle, Tobi Omotesso on the past, present and future of his art. (Part 3 of 5)

Amala Dianor gathered dance artists from across West Africa to create Siguifin, a contemporary dance show nourished by dance from Mali, Senegal and Burkina Faso. (Part 2 of 5)

Dublin Dance Festival artistic director, Jazmin Chiodi on her first steps in dance, and imagining the future through dance. (Part 1)

Musician, producer and curlew collaborator, Merlyn Driver shares some of his favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

Cork-born Lisbon-based DIY producers, Garden Collective heads into the undergrowth of crypto, NFTs and DAOs; Hildegard Ryan and Eva O'Connor seek solutions with their climate arts festival, Future Limerick; and Benoit Nicol on the trail of the world's best smells.

The scent hunter behind Irish brand, The Nature of Things, Benoit Nicol on the business of special smells.

It's about time there was an arts festival facing up to the climate emergency, suggest Eva O’ Connor and Hildegard Ryan, co-directors of Future Limerick climate arts festival.

Cork-born In Lisbon-based Garden Collective are discovering what the blockchain has to offer cultural producers. (Part 2 of 2)

In Lisbon, Cork-born DIY cultural organisation, Garden Collective has found a welcoming home. (Part 1 of 2)

Kerry Guinan, the Dublin artist behind The Red Thread, shares some of her pleasures in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling

Merlyn Driver on the "simmerdim" bird sounds of his childhood home on Orkney, composer Anselm McDonnell on why all his music is religious music for him, and Colombian sculptor, Iván Argote takes a stroll through St Anne's Park in Dublin.

Colombian artist, Ivan Argote's commision for St Anne's Park in Dublin, Elevation, will offer the people a plinth's-eye view of their park.

Belfast composer Anselm McDonnell on the unwanted distinction between secular and non-secular music.

Musician and producer, Merlyn Driver gathered musicians including The Unthanks and Talvin Sigh to do a little sonic PR for the endangered Eurasian Curlew.

Sound artist, composer, musician and New Music Dublin artist, Natalia Beylis on some of her favourites in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

In the thick of the New Music Dublin festival, we talk to one of the charismatic megafauna of contemporary music, John Luther Adams. Pianist, Izumi Kumura has been improvising to the soundscape of Dun Laoghaire; and Louise William encounters some traditional Japanese cherry blossom patisserie.

Pianist, Izumi Kimura flavours the NCH Chamber Series with the sounds of Dun Laoghaire, with help from sound artist, Anthony Kelly.

John Luther Adams' on where his environmentalism and his music meet (Part 2)

Environmentalist-turned-composer, John Luther Adams' latest sortie into musical landscape plunges deep into the Grand Canyon (Part 1)

A Brief Descent into Deep Time is a choral work by American composer, John Luther Adams having its Irish premier at this weekend's New Music Dublin festival. The work sings us downward two billions years through the Grand Canyon, layer by rocky layer. John Luther Adams ("One of the most original musical thinkers of the new century" according to @newyorkers @AlexRoss) speaks to Culture File from hi...

Michiko Ishimoto's Gopan Bakery is cooking up seasonal Japanese treats, such as sakura ampun and sakura mochi in Bray Co Wicklow.

Accordionist and performer for next week's New Music Dublin premier of Jennifer Walshe's PERSONHOOD, Andreas Borregaard shares a few of his favs in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling.

The rural soundworlds of Leitrim-based composer, Natalia Beylis; the long, disguised walks of performance artists, Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti; and life beyond Ensemble Klang for Saskia Lankhoorn and Pete Harden in their "almost song" but-not-quite-pop project, Avenue Azure, which arrives in Ireland as part of New Music Dublin 2022.

New Music Dublin visitors, Saskia Lankhoorn and Pete Harden formed their duo, Avenue Azure as a place to create new music they'd never found on the page.