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dline show awaits Abbacaxi who has been dropping a series of dancefloor shoe shufflers in the anticipated lead up. His latest single The Pageant funnels jazz, funk and disco and calls to mind the likes of Cassius with its rhythmic loops, synths and vocals. The multi-instrumentalist Thomas Garnett can trace fellow Garnetts (Loah and Fedah) on the family tree so expect bountiful apples at the base. The Workman’s Club, Friday December 10, €16 Exhibition 20 Years of Comics who/ what/ when/ where 32 First presented at the Galway Cartoon Festival and now arriving here, The Instituto Cervantes presents this exhibition of 40 works by 20 artists which celebrates the long-running Injuve Comics Awards and offers a whirlwind journey from the late ‘90s through the history of this artistic form of expression in Spain. “This is not just a lineal itinerary, it transcends that; the exhibition establishes a dialogue between past and future using the relationship between the pieces, showing the cartoonists’ evolution from the moment they received Injuve’s support until the present, by focusing on the contrast between the young artist’s work and the more recent pieces for each exhibitor.” dlr LexIcon until Friday January 7. Various venues, Tuesday November 2 to Saturday November 27 dublindancefestival.ie