“How many years has it been since we were at the harvest dance? – at any dance? And I don’t care how young they are, how drunk and dirty and sweaty they are. I want to dance. It’s the festival of Lughnasa. I’m only thirty-five.
I want to dance.”
– Brian Friel, Dancing at Lughnasa
The Festival of Lughnasa – 1st August!
Celebrate the start of the harvest season with us
with a mixture of dancing,
sing songing,
bonfires on the beach,
general shenanigans
and silliness.
Join us from 8-10, Wednesday 1st August
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“Sometimes since I’ve been in the garden I’ve looked up through the trees at the sky and I have had a strange feeling of being happy as if something was pushing and drawing in my chest and making me breathe fast. Magic is always pushing and drawing and making things out of nothing. Everything is made out of magic, leaves and trees, flowers and birds, badgers and foxes and squirrels and people. So it must be all around us. In this garden – in all the places.”
— Frances Hodgson Burnett (The Secret Garden)
Time to relax and sit in the garden.
We guarantee that the only Wasp in this show is Mad…..
Tea in china cups, little sandwiches, maybe a secret gin cocktail in the teapot…?
You are all welcome to the Curious Garden Party……
Join us from 8-10, Wednesday 25th July
“A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You’ve got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention…..and then you’ve got to up it a notch, and you can’t have white music and black music together, unless the white music sounds like black music, and you can’t have two tracks by the same artist side by side, unless you’ve done the whole thing in pairs, and … oh there are loads of rules.”
― Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
You are Cordially Invited to
The Great Mixtape Experiment.
A Mixtape Medley of Melifluous Mysteriousness,
as provided by our esteemed listeners,
to celebrate the
1st Anniversary of Cabinet of Curiosities
Formal Attire is optional,
but the Management would appreciate it if you at least wore some undergarments.
Join us from 8-10, Wednesday 18th July
Words have meaning. And Names have power.
The universe began with a word, you know.
But which came first?
The word or the thought behind the word?
There are only so many words out there,
so it’s inevitable that songs will wind up with the same title…..they’re rarely similar though, which can always be fun if you happen to find the wrong song….
Tonight, we bring you a selection of curiosities that both sound the same….and also very, very different!
Join us from 8-10, Wednesday 4th July