The Guide: Mainie Jellett and Evie Hone, David Gray, Kamasi Washington and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
April 5th-11th: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
Emma Dabiri
‘One of the lowest points of my life’: Elizabeth Day on marriage breakdown, IVF and How To Fail
Elizabeth Day made her name with her relatable accounts of failure. The How To Fail host is now reaping the rewards of her own success
Disobedient Bodies by Emma Dabiri: A polemic that offers liberating solutions
This call to joyful disobedience is proof that Dabiri is one of our most important thinkers and writers
Emma Dabiri: ‘Growing up in Ireland I aspired to be very thin, as did everyone I knew’
Academic writes new book exploring beauty, society’s unrealistic, often contradictory, expectations of women
Venus in curlers: The art of hairdressing and the hairdressing of art
Amanda Jane Graham’s exhibition untangles the roots of a maligned profession
Jimmy Carr Destroys Art: High budget, low concept TV
Television: What C4 has served up is surface-level exploration of what ‘cancellation’ means leaving little room for nuance
Africa Day: A time for celebration and reflection
The 1960s was a significant decade for Africa as nearly two-thirds of African countries gained their freedom.
Dua Lipa, Stephen Rea and Emma Dabiri: This week’s unmissable online events
Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra
Emma Dabiri and Hazel Chu: ‘This is a real, important moment in Ireland’
Race, inequality and how we have a unique opportunity to create a better country
Anti-slavery hero’s 1845 trip to Ireland to be feted in ‘Douglass Week’
Online events will focus on Frederick Douglass’s ‘transformative’ four-month visit
The Irish Times Winter Nights festival: Everything you need to know
Gabriel Byrne, Nicola Sturgeon, Emma Dabiri and more to appear at the online festival
Irish Times Winter Nights Festival: Nicola Sturgeon, Gabriel Byrne, Dara Ó Briain and Edith Eger
Join us online for five nights of unforgettable debate, discussion, distraction and everything in between
‘You’re not begging for money – you’re offering a service’: can Patreon help creatives survive?
Covid-19 has changed everything and makes an audience subscription model attractive
Gina Akpe-Moses: ‘It’s scary to think about bringing a child into this world as a black female’
Irish sprinter has added her voice to the Black Lives Matter movement
Emma Dabiri: On My Culture Radar
The author and activist on Jordan Peele’s comedy, the art of Genieve Figgis and why Philosophy Tube is her YouTube channel of choice
Shirley Temple Bar: On My Culture Radar
Declan Buckley, the man behind Shirley Temple Bar, on the paintings of Gabhann Dunne, Emma Dabiri’s Don’t Touch My Hair and why Madonna’s new album is worth repeated listens.
Body and Soul 2019: festival stage times revealed
The programme of 200+ acts extends across 13 stages and venues
Sean O'Rourke recreates past battles for referendum phoney war
Presenter’s attempt at sparking divorce debate allows for rigorous, if alarming, critique of contemporary society
Emma Dabiri: ‘I wouldn't want my children to experience what I did in Ireland’
The African-Irish broadcaster on her hair, racism and how Ireland has changed
What are the beauty products that mean the most to Irish women?
Eight Irish women – from Marian Keyes to Ailbhe Smyth – share what is special to them
Campaigning for better conditions for artists in Sellotaped shoes
The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle
Twisty history: RTÉ is covering Election 1918 ‘as it happens’
It's the first time Edward Carson and Michael Collins will go head to head with Corrie
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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