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Course Common Knowledge Common Knowledge is on a
mission to “empower people with the skills for a sustainable life”. To this extent, they have held countless courses in the Burren, launched Tigín, their tiny homes project and a current fundraiser to secure a permanent base. This immersive five day hands-on course tackles DIY, upcycling and renovation projects within your home. Learn how to use hand and power tools before applying this knowledge to cast concrete pouring and hardwood joinery, as you design and create your own handmade stool and naturally dyed textiles. Course instructors include Cian Corcoran, Mollie Anna King and Harrison Gardner. Fumbally Stables, October 3-7, 8.30am-5.15pm, €820 (including tuition, materials, food & refreshments) Gig Byron Wallen’s Gayan Gamelan Ensemble performing Boards of Canada Almost 25 years later Music has the Right to Children remains one of the most sublime debuts of all time. Eerie, meditative and layered; it was and remains a benchmark in electronica taking the concept of childhood and splicing it through a textured prism of sound. Now take a jazz trumpeter, his eight-piece gamelan ensemble and open it up to interpretation. Bringing a range of percussive instruments such as xylophones, gongs, bells, trumpet, synthesisers, bass guitar, drums and conches (shell trumpets); this is a live experience and not simply playback of the opus. Special guests on the night are our own Glasshouse playing Aphex Twin. National Concert Hall, Sunday September 25, €29.50 Club Dom Whiting Whiting brightened up the city streets and made some noise this summer by encouraging thousands to follow the self-proclaimed ‘DJ on a bike’ as he wheeled his custom-made set-up about, prompting an impromptu drum and bass rave of sorts. Now Whiting is somewhat formalising the affair in a club setting, but promises the bike will turn up too. Centrepoint, Saturday October 15, €8 Festival Dublin Theatre Fresh off the heels of the Fringe comes the dame that is THE theatre festival now in its 65th year of existence. As always, some of the local big guns bring their new work to stage and director Willie White snuffles out the smarts from abroad. A new play from a 91-year-old? Yes, that would Edna O’Brien’s Joyce’s Women (Abbey), Sylvia Plath considered by Junk Ensemble (Complex), a love story for a loveless age - Good Sex by Dead Centre with Emilie Pine (Samuel Beckett), a techno-trance club scene with its “undulating, stuttering, liquid physicality” in the form of Gisèle Vienne’s Crowd (O’Reilly Theatre), a post-human future with lonely scarecrows - Philippe Quesne’s Farm Fatale (Project Arts Centre, pictured), fresh from acclaim in Edinburgh is Druid’s production of Sonya Kelly’s The Last Return while Dan Colley’s Lost Lear finds a kingdom in a care home (Project). These serve as a mere sampler but should give you a feel for the eclectic intrigue spanning the programme. September 29-October 15 dublintheatrefestival.com 61