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Arts Programme: We Only Want the Earth
Studios: Memberships Open / 10 regular memberships available / private workspaces full
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We currently have 10 regular studio memberships available at A4 Sounds. We are looking for artists from the following disciplines to join our studio community: Sculpture Print Photography Ceramics Textiles Media Memberships start at €100 per month with the option to add a storage locker for materials for €10-60pm. Interested? Applications can be made via our online form. Please visit our website for full information about our studio and application process: a4sounds.org/join-us or click the link in our bio __________ Facility Descriptions Sculpture Our workshop facility includes - A Large Build Area - Two Large Workbenches - A Large Range of Power and Hand Tools - Storage Areas and a collection of shared materials and consumables. Print Our print facility includes - Screenprinting Press - Printing Press - Glass Table for Monoprinting and Lino Printing - Heat Press - Drying Rack and a large collection of small hand tools and shared materials Please see our next post for information about our other facilities! Image Descriptions 10 text based images about memberships available at our studios, the artistic disciplines memberships are open to, and images and facility descriptions of our workshop and print areas. The text from the slides is repeated in the post above. Slides 5 & 6 are images of our workshop. Image 5 is a room view of a large workshop with 2 large benches in the centre, and a large wood storage area on the left. To the back of the image there are shelves with different types of tools. Image 6 is a close up of a tool area. There is a range of hand tools hung on the wall including saws, screwdrivers and hammers. Slides 8 & 9 are images of our print area. Image 8 is of a large lightbox, drying rack, shelves with paper and inks, and a collection of printing tools hanging on the wall. On the left there is a large table with a glass top that can be used for mono printing. Image 9 is of a printing press, screenprinting press, flash dryer, heatpress and screen storage racks. The equipment is stored in a line against the wall and on wheels so they can be moved and used as needed. taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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OPEN CALL!! Born to be alive. A brief A4 Sounds invites artists to propose work for our upcoming exhibition Born to be alive. as part of our We Only Want the Earth Programme. Over the course of 6 weeks, the exhibition will be formed, built, born from the works submitted, beginning with six building blocks from our research. We invite submissions of completed works that respond to our brief (linked in bio) which is a visual representation of some threads from our ongoing research. The exhibition is a continuation of our previous group show The Cosmos, The Earth, and Us. Born to be alive. acts as a mechanism for an ongoing iterative conversation between A4 Sounds, artists, and audiences about the goals and strategies of social change: what kind of society do we want and how should we get there? ____ The Context The context for We Only Want the Earth is ongoing, unpredictable social change. The perceived legitimacy of international institutions and international law is collapsing. Climate change is accelerating, and the border regimes of the countries that have benefitted the most from its causes are increasingly violent, preventing escape for those suffering the worst of its effects. Ireland participates as a junior partner in and beneficiary of Western imperialism, at the cost of much of its sovereignty; popular legislation aligned with international law cannot be enacted due to a fear of the US response, while Irish neutrality is ever closer to being dismantled despite broad public opposition. Domestically, the crises of inequality, cost of living, and homelessness continue to worsen. We are living through Gramsci’s interregnum: the old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. New opportunities for radical social change present themselves, but they are accompanied by reactionary violence that seeks to return to an imagined idyllic past. In this context, deliberative and discursive arts practices are urgently needed. ____ Full information can be found on our website. WOWTE is funded by @artscouncilireland A polaroid photo on a white background. Along the top it reads A brief. The photo is of a volcanic site in Ireland. There is a hill or a small mountain in the background with lots of green fields in front. taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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After a short break The Rookery Stories is back again Tuesday 4th August! Session Six starts at 6:30pm. If you haven't been before you are very welcome along! Upcoming Sessions Tuesday 4th August @6:30pm Tuesday 1st September @6:30pm Tuesday 6th October @6:30pm Tiered Ticketing €0.00 - €10.00 (Link in Bio) _______________ THE ROOKERY STORIES Storytelling sessions with Hog & Dice The collective noun for Rooks is a Storytelling, so it follows that the collective noun for Storytellers must be a Rookery. Storytellers at every level, from fledglings to old crows are invited to join our Rookery every month at A4 sounds to swap stories, develop their craft and find community in an inclusive and accessible environment that centres the queer and the disabled. This tradition and this art was once the province of the marginalised, who now find ourselves excluded all too often, join us in reclaiming it. Hog & Dice Once described as being like “a lovely loaf of fresh baked bread served at a satanic orgy” Fáin is an oral storyteller with a multidisciplinary background who loves to discuss the bizarre, the subversive and the deviant while creating an atmosphere of comfort, safety and comradery. Fáin studied Irish Folklore at UCD, laboured in the story mines of The National Leprechaun Museum, and has produced various multi-media projects including podcasts, audio-dramas, Alternative Reality Games and video essays. Often involving weird little puppets. Their influences include Growler, Tom Waits, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and the local crows. Profile: @hoganddice Green and Blue graphic poster for The Rookery Sessions. The poster has a bright green background with a large blue textured lino cut bird. The birds wings are flapping upwards and it looks like it is about to pounce on some prey. On the poster is also text with name of the event and dates of upcoming sessions. taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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Are you thinking of applying to our WOWTE Residency Awards? If so, we have some tips for the weekend to help you get the process started! Click through to read. Last Slide Not Included: DAYDREAM FOR THE WEEKEND! Now you have read all the information, give yourself a few days to think it over and see what ideas might come! Come back to it on Monday! ____ Our full guidelines and application form can be found on our website. For easy access a PDF version of both can be downloaded from our bio. Application Deadline: 5pm, Thursday 6th August 2026 ____ WOWTE is supported by @artscouncilireland 2020 - 2026 ____ Image descriptions included in ALT text and below: All images are text based images. The text from each image is below. WOWTE Awards Weekend Tips 1. Applications are now open! There is no one correct way to write an application. However, we have put together some tips that might be helpful and make the process a bit easier for you! 2. Check if you are eligible. Before beginning your application, make sure to check if you are eligible first! 3. Visual Artists Currently Living in Ireland. From four priority communities. Full info can be found a the top of our guidelines. 4. Download the Guidelines You can download a PDF directly from our bio. Or visit our website for webpage or word doc versions. 5. Dowbload the Application Questions You can download a PDF directly from our bio. Or visit our website for online or word doc versions. 6. Read the Guidelines We suggest reading through the guidelines completely first. Then, take a 10 minute break. 7. Then, Read the Guidelines Again. This time taking notes of the important things. Highlight, Underline, or Copy and Paste notes into a document. Then take a break! 8. Read the Application Questions Read through the form questions completely to get an initial idea of what is involed in the application process. 9. Guidance Notes Each question has guidance notes to help you write your answers. 10. Make Some Notes Or A To Do List Go back through each question and make some quick notes or bullet points under each one. What information or materials do you need to gather? WOWTE Awards Weekend Tips. Applications are now open! There is no one correct way to write an application. However, we have put together some tips that might be helpful and make the process a bit easier for you! taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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WOWTE Residency Awards 2026 are now open for applications!! __________ A4 Sounds invites applications from visual artists for two residency awards as part of our We Only Want the Earth Programme 2026. Each residency aims to support an artist currently living in Ireland to develop their arts practice. The awards are open to visual artists from four priority communities: - Artists who are transgender, nonbinary, or gender nonconforming, - Artists who are from racially or ethnically minoritised backgrounds including members of the Traveller Community - Artists who are from countries in the Global South - Artists who are disabled DEADLINE: 5pm, Thursday 6th August 2026 _____ Successful artists will receive a monthly stipend of €1,600 (total €8,000). An additional access budget is also available. Full Guidelines & How to Apply : www.a4sounds.org/wowte-awards (Link in bio) ___________ We Only Want the Earth is a yearly programme of awards, exhibitions, and events that seeks to interrogate the goals and strategies of social change: what kind of society do we want and how should we get there? WOWTE is supported by @artscouncilireland 2020 - 2026 Image for WOWTE Awards 2026. The image is text based in the style of an element on the periodoc table. Inside a handdrawn square box it reads: Awards Open, We Only Want the Earth 2026. taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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Last week to catch UNDERGROUND at our gallery! We are open Wed-Sun! Times Wed - Fri: 2pm - 7pm Sat & Sun: 1pm - 6pm ____________________ UNDERGROUND by Kat Lalor UNDERGROUND is a recognition and celebration of existence beneath the surface. Informed by Irish Vampiric Mythologies, this exhibition entangles underground cultures, Queer infrastructures, and the quiet, regenerating presence of the vampire. Paying homage to Drag as a resilient political power, the exhibition features a performative film set within soil; the living, renewing, connective tissue, humanised and tenderised by processes of decay. The film is visually led by a viscous green liquid, the source of infection, regeneration, and preservation amongst an ecosystem of underground vampires. As this liquid travels, it bathes and permeates the soil, flowing around, through, and between various vampiric bodies, each in a varying state of preservation, transformation, or euphoria. Holding reference to silent film, the work slowly renews, grows, and mutates temporally into an ode to Queer Club and Ballroom scenes, the deep and unyielding roots of community, activism, and political resistance, collapsing Queer time into a pulsing pool of immortality. __________________ Artist: Kat Lalor @katlalor.va Curator: Lisa Crowne @sitex.link Assistant Curator: Indigo Woolfrey @mother_woolf Documentation: Bowe O'Brien Photography @katebowe_obrien UNDERGROUND forms part of our We Only Want the Earth Programme and is funded by @artscouncilireland Full information on our website! Photo of the gallery installation. A film still is on a large screen in the backgroun with Underground text and green goo dripping through a soil background. In the foreground are 3 coffins with soil and aretfacts buried in them. they could be the remains of the bodies of creatures. taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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UNDERGROUND by Kat Lalor UNDERGROUND runs until May 24th 2026!! Opening Times Wed - Fri: 2pm - 7pm Sat & Sun: 1pm - 6pm Mon & Tue: Closed Documentation: Images 1 - 4 by Bowe O'Brien Photography @katebowe_obrien __________________ UNDERGROUND is a recognition and celebration of existence beneath the surface. Informed by Irish Vampiric Mythologies, this exhibition entangles underground cultures, Queer infrastructures, and the quiet, regenerating presence of the vampire. Paying homage to Drag as a resilient political power, the exhibition features a performative film set within soil; the living, renewing, connective tissue, humanised and tenderised by processes of decay. The film is visually led by a viscous green liquid, the source of infection, regeneration, and preservation amongst an ecosystem of underground vampires. As this liquid travels, it bathes and permeates the soil, flowing around, through, and between various vampiric bodies, each in a varying state of preservation, transformation, or euphoria. Holding reference to silent film, the work slowly renews, grows, and mutates temporally into an ode to Queer Club and Ballroom scenes, the deep and unyielding roots of community, activism, and political resistance, collapsing Queer time into a pulsing pool of immortality. __________________ Artist: Kat Lalor @katlalor.va Curator: Lisa Crowne @sitex.link Assistant Curator: Indigo Woolfrey @mother_woolf _Artwork Credits_ UNDERGROUND Film Written & Directed: @katlalor.va Videography: Rebecca Behan @becsbehanphotos Audio Technician: VUYO @vuyo_wm Crew: Kaz Reynolds Special Thanks: Imogen Hinojosa @imogen__blue MOUTHFUL OF STONES & UPSIDE DOWN Vinyl Prints Artist & Direction: @katlalor.va Photography: Rebecca Behan MEMORIAL BURIAL BOUNDARY Artist: Kat Lalor Eden Munroe @edenmunroe.va Lisa Crowne Indigo Woolfrey Fionn Pluincéid _Exhibition Team_ Installation Team Dámhín McKeown @gothdome Fionn Pluincéid @soul_swamp Aideen Farrell @aideenfarrellart Richard Reep @richardreep Lucy Carrick @luzyc_art Documentation Kate-Bowe O'Brien Poster & Promotion Kat Lalor Lisa Crowne Linda Kavanagh UNDERGROUND is supported by @artscouncilireland A landscape exhibition photograph on a grey background. The photo is of a full gallery view of the exhibition. In the foreground to the left there is a tall brown freestanding wall with a photograph on one side. The image is of a person lying down. We can see their head and shoulders. They are wearing a hairnet, and their skin is covered in soil dust. There is a pile or stack of about 8-10 rocks coming from their mouth. The rest of the image is in darkness. Behind the wall there are sculptural pieces in the centre of the room that look like coffins. Above them is a large neon green chandelier that looks like stalactites. On the back wall is a large projection screen with a still from the video work. The still is a close up of a face covered in a gooey liquid. The walls and floor are dark brown and the room is low lit. The walls are textured like soil and the room feels like you are underground. taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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UNDERGROUND | KAT LALOR 23rd April - 24 May 2026 A4 Sounds Gallery Exhibition Opening: Thursday 23rd April, 7pm - 10pm Link in Bio ______________ UNDERGROUND UNDERGROUND is a recognition and celebration of existence beneath the surface. Informed by Irish Vampiric Mythologies, this exhibition entangles underground cultures, Queer infrastructures, and the quiet, regenerating presence of the vampire. Paying homage to Drag as a resilient political power, the exhibition features a performative film set within soil; the living, renewing, connective tissue, humanised and tenderised by processes of decay. The film is visually led by a viscous green liquid, the source of infection, regeneration, and preservation amongst an ecosystem of underground vampires. As this liquid travels, it bathes and permeates the soil, flowing around, through, and between various vampiric bodies, each in a varying state of preservation, transformation, or euphoria. Holding reference to silent film, the work slowly renews, grows, and mutates temporally into an ode to Queer Club and Ballroom scenes, the deep and unyielding roots of community, activism, and political resistance, collapsing Queer time into a pulsing pool of immortality. KAT LALOR Kat Lalor is a Queer visual artist, generating a practice of worldbuilding through moving-image, performance and writing. They invoke their practice to interrogate constructed binary categories which limit the possibilities of Queer intelligibility. As someone existing between the gender binary, Kat’s practice acts as an explorative space for self-experimentation, perspective-switching, and speculative narrative building. They enact this by adapting Drag as a core methodology. Inspired by the writing of Renate Lorenz, Drag becomes a historical and political tool for symbiotic knowledge-making and knowledge-dismantling. With the performing body as the active site, Drag enables purposeful embodiments which can collapse the boundaries of truth/fiction, subjective/collective, and self/other. Profile: @katlalor.va ______________ UNDERGROUND forms part of our wider programme We Only Want the Earth. WOWTE is supported by @artscouncilireland Poster for the exhibition UNDERGROUND by Kat Lalor. The image is of a being underground. On the top of the image is a gray scale landscape photo of a large mound of rocks like a burial site.. Below is a green torso of a figure with their hands stretched with long nails. The body is bright green and glittery and in the background is soil and earth. In large letters across the middle it spells underground. taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory A three part film programme curated by @cindychehab Part One: Sat 28th Mar @ 6pm Emergency fundraiser in aid of displaced families in Beirut _________ Errans (67’, Iceland, Lebanon, 2020) Mira Adoumier A woman arrives in Lebanon searching for a man she met years earlier in Iceland who has since disappeared. In Beirut, where buildings still carry the scars of past wars, his absence echoes through the city’s empty, labyrinthine streets. The call of the sea draws her southward, toward what seems like the Earth’s hidden centre. Mira Adoumier Mira Adoumier (b. 1985, New York) is a filmmaker, visual artist and researcher based in Oslo, whose work is shaped by her experience of growing up in exile, moving across cultures, continents, and languages. Drawing on her academic studies in cinema, philosophy, biology, and psychology, her films explore landscapes at the intersection of center and periphery, real and imagined, weaving the multiple relationships between image, text, voice, and sound. A member of The Camelia Committee with Carine Doumit and Nour Ouayda, Mira is also a guest lecturer at Nordland Kunst- og Filmhøgskole in Kabelvåg, Norway. In addition, she programs and curates films for art institutions and festivals and does the cinematography for artist films. A member of The Camelia Committee with Carine Doumit and Nour Ouayda, Mira is also a guest lecturer at Nordland Kunst- og Filmhøgskole in Kabelvåg, Norway. In addition, she programs and curates films for art institutions and festivals. __________ Tickets Event: €7.00 - €21.00 Solidarity Ticket: €7.00 - €21.00 All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go directly to relief efforts in Beirut. Can't come but would like to support? You can purchase a solidarity ticket and/or make a donation via our website! _________ Accessibility Full information including event accessibility can be found on our website! Link in Bio This event forms part of our wider programme WOWTE, which is supported by @artscouncilireland taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory A three part film programme curated by @cindychehab Part One: Sat 28th Mar @ 6pm Emergency fundraiser in aid of displaced families in Beirut _________ Summer 91 (20’, Lebanon, 2014) Nadim Tabet & Karine Wehbé At a beach resort on the Lebanese coast, a young woman and a young man tell their shared story in different ways. Through their conflicting memories, the film explores youth, relationships, and the fragile nature of recollection, set against the lingering tensions of wartime Lebanon. Nadim Tabet & Karine Wehb Nadim Tabet is a film director with several short films under his belt and a feature film titled One of These Days which won Best Debut Feature at the Arab Film and Media Institute's 22nd Arab Film Festival in San Francisco. Along with his films, Nadim Tabet co-founded the Lebanese Film Festival and gives lectures on cinema in several universities across Lebanon. Whether in his short or feature films, Nadim has always been interested in the Lebanese youth and their relationship to history at large. How can trivial daily matters (boys meet girls, carelessness, desire for life etc.) resist the upheavals of Lebanese history? This slow contamination of intimacy by larger stakes is a way for Nadim to investigate questions around the notion of loss, time that passes, and melancholia. Karine Wehbé is a Lebanese artist and graphic designer whose practice spans drawing, photography, video, and installation. Her work explores questions of history, memory, and the relationship between people and their environments. Her projects have been presented at venues including ICC New York, Ashkal Alwan, Beirut Art Center, Beirut Art Residency, Takeover, and the Sursock Museum. Profiles: @lemmycaution40 @karinewehbe_studio __________ Full information including event accessibility can be found on our website! Link in Bio This event forms part of our wider programme WOWTE, which is supported by @artscouncilireland _________ Tickets All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go directly to relief efforts in Beirut. Can't come but would like to support? You can purchase a solidarity ticket via our website! taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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Our third Rookery Stories Session is happening next week, Tuesday 31st March !! All welcome, tickets via our bio. _______________ THE ROOKERY STORIES Storytelling sessions with Hog & Dice Tue 31st Mar | 6:30pm - 8:30pm(ish) Tickets: €0.00 - €10.00 The collective noun for Rooks is a Storytelling, so it follows that the collective noun for Storytellers must be a Rookery. Storytellers at every level, from fledglings to old crows are invited to join our Rookery every month at A4 sounds to swap stories, develop their craft and find community in an inclusive and accessible environment that centres the queer and the disabled. This tradition and this art was once the province of the marginalised, who now find ourselves excluded all too often, join us in reclaiming it. Hog & Dice Once described as being like “a lovely loaf of fresh baked bread served at a satanic orgy” Fáin is an oral storyteller with a multidisciplinary background who loves to discuss the bizarre, the subversive and the deviant while creating an atmosphere of comfort, safety and comradery. Fáin studied Irish Folklore at UCD, laboured in the story mines of The National Leprechaun Museum, and has produced various multi-media projects including podcasts, audio-dramas, Alternative Reality Games and video essays. Often involving weird little puppets. Their influences include Growler, Tom Waits, Screamin’ Jay Hawkins and the local crows. Profile: @hoganddice A high contrast blue and green poster. There are 3 large handdrawn crows in the foreground with simple text on a green background taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory A three part film programme curated by Cindy Chehab Part One: Sat 28th Mar @ 6pm Emergency fundraiser in aid of displaced families in Beirut _________ This haunting memory that is not my own (30’, Lebanon, Armenia, 2021) Panos Aprahamian Through semi-fictional storytelling, This Haunting Memory That Is Not My Own reflects on the links between economic growth, environmental degradation, and social injustice. Focusing on Beirut’s shoreline, its port, and the Karantina district, the film reveals landscapes marked by extraction and violence, places where both waste and lives have long been discarded. Panos Aprahamian Panos Aprahamian is a Berlin-based unfiction filmmaker, media artist, and writer from Beirut’s peripheral rustbelt. Through language, image, sound, and ritual, his practice explores the spectral presence of the future past in undead bodies, sacrificial landscapes, and social relations. Profile: @parmigiandon _________ The Sea as a Witness: An Archaeological Memory explores the sea as a site of memory, displacement, ecological crisis, and violent histories. Drawing from cinema across the Mediterranean, the programme positions the sea as both archive and witness, where sound, image, and motion carry stories that resist erasure. Curator Profile: @cindychehab Full information including event accessibility can be found on our website! Link in Bio This event forms part of our wider programme WOWTE, which is supported by @artscouncilireland _________ Tickets All proceeds from ticket sales and donations will go directly to relief efforts in Beirut. Can't come but would like to support? You can purchase a solidarity ticket via our website! taken in A4 Sounds by @a4soundsstudios
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