Culture File

Xueting Christine Ni on the deep roots of new Chinese animation blockbusters such as Netflix' White Snake and Pixar's forthcoming, Turning Red.

Culture File correspondent and radio poet, Yves B Golden shares some of her delights in sound, words, sights, tastes and smells

A new orchestral podcast listens to the voices from the pit; the rise of ultrafast fashion giant, Shein; Jennifer Walshe on emojis in real life, and INO's touring production of Vivaldi's "mixtape" opera, Bajazet.

This month, the panel discusses "not knowing" in all its flavours - from how artists employ not knowing, to what knowing could mean for the future of all our institutions. Joining Luke Clancy are: Prof Rebecca Fortnum, author of On Not Knowing: How Artists Think; filmmaker, Tadhg O’Sullivan; and dramaturg and educator, Steve Valk.

Violinist, Cliodhna Ryan used her "pandemic pause" to join the ranks of podcasters, with an intimate look at the life of working (and pausing) musicians

Conductor and harpsichordist, Peter Whelan on what Vivaldi's opera, Bajazet, has in common with your favourite mixtape.

Fashion researcher, Amelia O'Mahony-Brady on the rise of hyper-fast fashion pioneer, Shein.

Jennifer Washe on the unexpected ways in which emojis are changing how we communicate - offline.

Jennifer Walshe on the enigma of Loot NFTs, the story of refugee journeys in We All Come From Somewhere, a choir map of Ireland, a journey into winter with Robert Curgenven, and Yves B Golden on ending and beginnings.

LA-based artist, dj and activist, Yves B Golden's latest radio poem for Culture File contemplates a year's endings.

Composer and organist, Robert Curgenven mails an audio postcard from a winter spent inside the Arctic Circle.

A new map of choral activity in Ireland helps join the dots for music in health and wellbeing.

Inclusive theatre companies in Italy, Czech Republic, Greece and Ireland spent years planning a continent-spanning show together. But then... [gestures broadly at everything].

Jennifer Walshe's seasonal 'gift' guide continues with a look at Loot NFTs and their community of fans

The selections in watching, listening, readings, tasting and smelling of James Riordan of Galway's Brú Theatre

Apocalyptic sights and sounds of Aideen Barry's Oblivion; that state of keening in 2021 in Brú Theatre's show, Gol; finding the lost women of uilleann pipes; and a night at the Walt Disney Theatre to catch the LA Phil.

LA-based artist, dj and activist, Yves B Golden's latest radio poem for Culture File is Welcome Home.

Yves B Golden returns with a new radio poem called Karmageddon

Piper Louise Mulcahy's new documentary, Mná na Píob, rights an historical wrong, restoring women uilleann pipers' place in musical history.

Aideen Barry collaborative artwork, Oblivion / Seachmalltacht / ???????????? finds images of global collapse in the archive of harp music savior, Edward Bunting.

The latest from Galway's Brú Theatre Company, who've recently been exploring VR, go with the ancient technology of keening in their show Gol

A few of the favourite things in reading, watching, listening, tasting and smelling of digital artist, Elaine Hoey

The earthshaking organ music of Robert Curgenven, Jennifer Walshe on a surprise hookup between robots and ecology, the Made in Ireland craft show in Kilkenny and Moyra Davey dares to re-examine the photography of Peter Hujar.

Composer and organist, Robert Curgenven's organ works are as much about what listeners can feel through the floor as hear through their ears.

A new open call exhibition at National Design and Craft Gallery gathers the best of contemporary Irish makers and their wares