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Audio recordings and other tales of whoa.
#1 Old City, New Dreams // Launch event // October 14th 2009
Our launch event was in conjunction with The Dubliner Magazine, who bravely waded into the uncharted, diaper-filled sea of Chaos as part of their Old City, New Dreams series. The theme of the night was ‘Reinvention’, and our statement was a quote from The Wire, where Donette says to D’Angelo, “Don’t nobody give a damn about your story, boy. You got money, you get to be whatever you say you are.” Of course, we do care about your story, and we care a lot about the ones we heard from Dubliners Carol Keogh, Anna Carey and Dara Higgins, who all deserve medals for courage.
Dara Higgins — From Coppers With Love
#2 Paranorma Panorana // November 17th 2009
Chaos November’s event celebrated all things otherworldly, hidey-seeky, and wetty-pantsy. Una Mullally was our fantastic, bar-raising curator, who told the sort of story that made all the work that goes into Chaos Thaoghaire every month, that made all the things we hoped our event would be come true.
The theme statement for the night was actually a choice between two: “Dead men tell no tales” and “When there’s no more room in Hell, the dead will walk the earth.” Unfortunately, we got the math wrong, so let’s just assume that there are dead men walking the earth, recounting some anecdotes, but avoiding a number of potentially controversial subjects. So click below for stories of ghost-hunting, anal-probing, alien-loving, eyeball-swapping, and house-blessing. Stop sending us your dry cleaning bills.
We warned you it would be scary. And anyway, what are you doing wearing fancy, dry-clean-only trousers, anyway? You told us you were poor.
#3 Family is a Form of Psychological Torture // December 15th 2009
Curated by the amazing Kim V Porcelli, held in Odessa.
#4 Epiphanies (or revelation can be more perilous than revolution) // January 20th 2010
Curated by the fantastic duo of Sorcha Kenny and Fiona Sheil, whom you may remember from the Dublin Fringe Festival’s http://dublinfringefest.ticketsolve.com/shows/8527802/events.
#5 Sex Chaos // February 17th 2009
With February being Valentine’s month, we held two ‘Sex Chaos evenings in Odessa, curated by Thomas Dunning. Here are the recordings from the first of those shows:
#6 Paddy Gras // March 17th 2010
A St. Patrick’s Day special daytime event in Odessa, curated by Patrick Freyne.
#7 Don’t Take Any Wooden Nickels // April 14th 2010
Tales of crafty dealings and ingenius ruses, curated by Margaret E Ward. Audio recordings coming soon.
#8 It Was Like That When I Got Here: Disasters // May 27th 2010
A special event in The Sugar Club with Patrick Freyne, Fiona McCann, Nick McGivney, Mark Congiusta, Conor Pope and Catherine Flynn.
#9 We Apologise for the Inconvenience: Journeys // August 18th 2010
Stories about going places, curated by Jaime Nanci Barron.
#10 Hedonism/Doubt: an Electric Picnic special // September 5th & 6th 2010
Stories about Hedonism and Doubt, as part of the MindField arena of the Electric Picnic festival in Stradbally, Co Laois, with a killer (not literally, as far as we know) lineup of storytellers: John Waters, Sorca McGrath, Simon Napier Bell, Una Mullally, Jon Ronson and Greg Baxter on Saturday and Pat O’Mahony, Jerry Fish, Abie Philbin Bowman, Nick Kelly, Moira Averill and more.
We nearly had Irvine Welsh, but that didn’t happen. We had a pretty hard time figuring out what ‘hammond’ was code for, but whatever it means, it’s what prevented him from joining us on the Sunday. Oops.
#11 “And I would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for you meddling kids!” // October 20th 2010
Stories about Monsters; by Quentin Fottrell, Moira Averill, Michael Hayes and Chaosette Amiee Curran.
