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TALK Rebecca Solnit This truly seminal writer com
es to town armed with her copy of her freshly published Recollections of My Non-Existence. Chronicling her awakening as a feminist and environmentalist, this nonlinear memoir is set against the backdrop of her life in San Francisco since the early ‘80s. Solnit fled a volatile home life and found herself renting an apartment in a black neighbourhood and acquiring a writing desk from a friend who was nearly murdered by an ex. Enveloping growing gay pride, counter culturalism, West Coast activism and the latter years of second wave feminism, this is the foundational story of an emerging artist struggling against patriarchal violence and scorn. The acclaimed author of A Field Guide to Getting Lost and Men Explain Things to Me which inspired the term mansplaining is in conversation with Sinéad Gleeson as part of the Mountains to Sea book festival. Pavilion Theatre, Sunday March 29, 4pm, €12/€15 mountainstosea.ie GIG Paddy Mulcahy Transport yourself to serenity in the company of Mulcahy. His delicate piano compositions call to mind luminaries such as Nils Frahm and Lubomyr Melnyk, both of whom he has performed with. His most recent release How to Disappear envelopes ambient soundscapes, upbeat electronica and stunning synthesizer swirls. It’s warm, emotive and makes you reach inside yourself to free up some space. Unitarian Church, Saturday March 28, €12.50 CLUB Tonie Walsh First Weatherall dies and now Walsh leaves, our world is truly a poorer place. After ‘Selling All His Records’ (Project Arts Centre, Saturday March 21, 12pm-3pm) as part of ThisIsPopBaby’s Where We Live festival, Walsh brings down the curtain on his time here with a farewell DJ set. He is upping sticks to be with the one he loves so this is a time for celebration, even it will be tinged with sadness. Tonie’s effervescence on the club scene and pivotal role in championing LGBT rights merits more support than he’s ever received by a country that is cruelly no longer affordable for so many creatives. Horny Organ Tribe, Shaft, Sides, Telefunkin (Cork), the fetish club GAG, H.A.M., Powderbubble, Elevator – we’ll always leave the disco lights on for Mr T. Joining him on his final 33/45 RPM will be Aoife Nic Canna, his coconspirator down through the years. Ukiyo, Friday March 27 Tonie Walsh and Aoife Nic Canna, photo: Aidan Kelly 88