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festival New Music Dublin Who doesn’t love new mu
sic, even of the ‘contemporary’ variety? New Music Dublin returns with a jam-packed schedule of over 17 Irish and 22 International premieres in over 20 concerts and events including works from Gerald Barry, Jane O’Leary, Una Monaghan and Fergus Johnston and performances from Lawrence Power, Bang On a Can, Andreas Borregaard, Crash Ensemble, the Ligeti Quartet and the Totally Made Up Orchestra (no relation). Dublin-based Australian flute player Lina Andonovska launches ‘A Way A Lone A Last’, new music for flute and percussion, while the work of Samuel Beckett will be explored in an afternoon concert book-ended by a nighttime triple bill of cutting-edge improvised music from Ireland, France and the UK in the presence of BABs, ReDiviDeR and the Guillaume Orti / Stéphane Payen duo. Get with it. #NMD19 National Concert Hall, Friday February 28 to Tuesday March 3 newmusicdublin.ie Gig Mango x Mathman It’s fair to say these boys will have been disappointed in not getting a Choice Music nod for their acclaimed debut Casual Work. Anyways, onwards. Karl ‘Mango’ Mangan and Adam ‘Mathman’ Fogarty delivered a searing indictment on existence in Dublin at the end of the decade, channeling the frustrations and alienation of a generation. They raw-nerve our times through relatable city tales and sharp lyrical focus. 39/40, Saturday February 29 (8pm), €15 festival Dublin Film Festival All annual celluloid celebration embeds itself across the city. While full programme details will be announced by the time you have this in your mitts, the early snippets we are aware of include a public Q&A with Charlie Kaufman (Being John Malkovich, Adaptation) ahead of the release of his eagerly anticipated Netflix drama I’m Thinking of Ending Things which stars Jesse Plemons and Jessie Buckley. Mark Cousins’ alternative history of cinema Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema forms the backbone of the opening weekend in which this 14-hour, five-part, odyssey will be screened. Female-led films are also being championed with screenings of Phyllida Lloyd and Clare Dunne’s Herself which lands after a coveted Sundance screening, Neasa Hardiman’s Sea Fever and Rose Plays Julie (pictured) which is directed by Christine Molloy and Joe Lawlor. Grab the popcorn. Various cinemas, Wednesday February 26 to Sunday March 8, diff.ie 86