Storytelling evening with the Oh-Aissieux and the McGregor in the Seomra Spraoi

dublin | arts and media | event notice Thursday August 30, 2007 13:22 by The Oh-Aissieux - Narrative Arts Club narrativearts at gmail dot com 086 060 3818

Forget what storytelling was, and find out what it might be!

Storytelling evening with the Oh-Aissieux and the McGregor
in the new Seomra Spraoi,
4 Mary’s Abbey,
Saturday 8 September.
Show starts 9 pm. Doors 8.30 pm.

Non-alcoholic refreshments will be served in the break.

Suggested donation: EUR 2.
Proceeds to the Seomra Spraoi.

Given the very warm welcome with which our show was received at the Seomra Spraoi on Friday 17, the snazzy McGregor and the original Oh-Aissieux are delighted to accept an invitation to perform once again at the new autonomous social centre in the historic heart of north inner city Dublin.

(The Seomra Spraoi is at no. 4 Mary's Abbey, which is three doors west of the Boar's Head pub. If you walk up Capel Street from the river, turn left when you come to the Luas line and look diagonally across the street, you will see a grey door with a big pink figure 4 on it. This is the place where it's all happening these days. Be there at about 8.30 and ring the bell to be let in. We will be waiting to start at 9 pm sharp.)

The Oh-Aissieux and the McGregor are veterans of the Narrative Arts Club, which has brought innovative storytelling to young adults in Dublin since November 2005. We see innovation as an inherent and inalienable part of the tradition, and we are committed to providing a diversity of stories to move and amuse you like never before.

Here’s how one visitor to the Narrative Arts Club in the Central Hotel in May described the experience:
“This is something modern, perplexing and thoroughly engaging, which knows no boundaries and succumbs to few taboos.”

This collaboration with the Seomra Spraoi presents an opportunity for performers and audiences to reclaim some of the territory that has been captured by corporate media such as the cinema, and to establish the art of storytelling as a form of entertainment that is just as relevant to young adult audiences as movies like Trainspotting and Fight Club. We give you "movies" to move you through the power of the spoken word!

So come on over, and invite your friends. Give them a bell and invite them in person!

Background detail:
Beginning at the end: Dublin's Narrative Arts Club
(blog by Chad Buterbaugh)
http://tinyurl.com/2barxo

Storytelling evening with the Oh-Aissieux in the Seomra Spraoi
(details of our last show, including report on how it went)
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/83747