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Festival GAZE 30 years of GAZE, 30 years of story
-telling and changing narratives about the LGBTQ+ experience and now under the helm of new director, Greg Thorpe, it’s time to look through the rainbow lens again. Standouts from the programme include The People’s Joker – Vera Drew’s turn at turning Todd Phillip’s Joker into a queer coming-of-age story about being trans and working in comedy. Crowdsourcing input from international community of artists, Drew celebrates and satirizes comic book culture from a super queer perspective. The closing film is Sundance winner Girl Picture by Alli Haapasalo, pictured, a Finnish coming-of-age film and character study of young love and female friendship, delivered via the amplified, complex emotions of teenage life. Elsewhere, there’s some selections from the vaults and tales spanning the Holocaust (Nelly & Nadine) to New York in the ‘80s (Make Me Famous) along with emerging new queer Irish film-makers in the shorts strand. IFI, Lighthouse & Complex, September 28-October 15. gaze.ie Club Overmono Informed by their love of hard-edged ‘90s rave, trance, and breakbeat; Overmono are a tour de force on the electronic club scene. Actually, those genres are even limiting as there’s streaks of techno, minimal electronic, garage and even Italo-disco in their sound DNA too. Basically, the Russell brothers have been knocking out some scintillating sounds right now including their latest EP Cash Romantic on XL. Try So U Know and Gunk for a flavour. Immense. Centrepoint, Thursday October 6, €20 Jazz Tengu Jazz Jazz at Tengu is a mid-week showcase of some of Ireland’s best jazz musicians: Andrea Jones Quartet (pictured), Fixity, Five to Two and Lynch/Howard/ Donohue/Scully Quartet. Support on the nights will be all-vinyl sets from Jio, Queen Beatz, Emmy & Laetitia, all top selectors in the scene. There will be a tailored drink, sushi & gyoza menu to boot. Smooth. Tengu, September 21, 28, October 13, 21; 8pm11pm, €35 (2 people) 62