The Darklight Closing Party, Saturday 22 October, 10pm till late. Following on from a slam poetry performance by Leeds Young Authors (stars of closing film We Are Poets), the Darklight closing party is sizing up to be a kicking night of live MCs The Animators, Diamond Dagger, a special late show with Serengeti, Mark Murphy [...]

Arcs, Folds is a series of fractured, repeating and overlapping scenes with shades of murder mystery, soap opera and drama. Played out over 3 screens, a dozen performers engage in a series of disclosures and denials of a layered and frantic plot. Based on the idea of ante-narrative, that is, narrative as multi-vocal and chaotic, [...]

Film Screening: Hollywood Babylon Presents…. EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE!, Friday 21 October, 10pm Studio 5 Hollywood Babylon is Dublin’s Midnight Movie Film Club. Running Saturdays fortnightly April to October 2011 and devoted to ‘disreputable’ movies. Roughly speaking- movies best seen after midnight, in company and with beer. Everything Is Terrible is a collective of seven furry, [...]

Film Screening: We Are Poets, Saturday 22 October 20:00, Screening Room 1 With short film Solstice (Hussain Currimbhoy) We Are Poets presents a timely and surprising story that confronts our understanding of youth, as six remarkable teenage poets from Leeds Young Authors take up the challenge of representing the UK at Brave New Voices – [...]

Film Screening: Bellflower, Friday 21 October 20:00, Screening Room 1, The Factory Bellflower An agonizingly intense, almost unbearably beautiful first feature from the writer-director Evan Glodell. He also stars as Woodrow, a self-described dude from Wisconsin transplanted to a grungy corner of Los Angeles, who, with his high-strung roommate and lifelong friend, Aiden (Tyler Dawson), [...]