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Milk & Cookie Stories presents
Milk and Cookie Stories – After Dark
a very special one-off event, unlike anything you’ve seen before…
Doors 8.30pm, Friday August 13th, The Basement @ Clarendon Street
Ooh...trippy.
DANCE! Milk & Cookie Stories are proud to announce our next event, well – our next event is something a bit special. This is Milk & Cookies – After Dark. It is Friday August 13th, in the Clarendon Basement on Clarendon Street. Doors are at 8.30pm. the show starts at 9.30pm, it’s €5 in, and we will go on until late. That’s LATE.
Flyer for our 'After Dark' Event
After 9 unbroken months of stories, milk & cookies – we felt everyone could do with letting their hair down a little. I mean, everyone’s so nice. So we decided to put together something a little different. Milk & Cookies – After Dark is a basement party, set over two stages with bands (soulful, funky, jazzy bands), comedians (good ones), poets, dancers, DJ’s and of course, lots of good old fashioned storytellers (because that’s just what we do). And weirder things too, but we’re a little loathe to spoil them at this point. Just trust us – you haven’t seen much like this before. So – write it down, get yourself dressed impressive and come get a little rowdy with everyone.
We’ll still have some slots for open mic storytelling available, so if you have a story, especially one that you maybe shouldn’t tell in polite company, we want to hear from you. Similarly though, if you have a strange little talent or performance piece you’re just dying to share with the world (think the wonderful Liana tearing a phonebook in half at M&C IX), be it contortionism, brainwashing, anything suitably impressive and more than a little unusual – we are absolutely dying to make friends and give you an audience to embarrass yourself in front of. If this sounds like your calling please drop us a line – leave us a comment below, or check out our Facebook page, our email address or Twitter. Hell, smoke signal if you like. We probably won’t be able to read it, but we’re not picky.
To the line-up!
The Jazzberries
Jon Dots
Miranda Al-Raad
Jewel Clarke
Roger Gregg
The Glen Coco Experience
Gareth Stack
Mr. Balloonatic
DJ Pipboy of Hooligan Disco
This will evolve and grow as we add more and more to the list – you can also find links to most of these amazing people’s webpages with a few exploratory clicks. Believe us when we say we have standards, and that these standards are high. If you haven’t heard of someone on this bill, it’s because you are about to, soon. Keep checking back for more updates.
And a couple of notes – the event is BYOB, so please be responsible. If beer is your poison, try and make it cans instead of bottles. We are not selling alcohol at this event, and although there is no age limit as such, please be advised that this event is for mature audiences only. Rest assured though, we’re still bringing the cookies.
Could use a party? We know you could.
Because Milk & Cookies ’s ♥’s you!
Hopefully this map will help you find our way to our mysterious new venue.
P.S. Our venue might be a little hard to find for this one. We made a little map to help. Look out for the big blue door next to Clarendon House on Clarendon Street!
Milk&Cookie Stories would like to thank you all for a wonderful night of tales, both true and tall, last Tuesday! We fell for a few false ones, and were gobsmacked at some that turned out to be true! And we loved each and every one of them.
Next month, we’re doing something a little different…
Put it in your diaries: Friday the 13th – Milk and Cookies After Dark. A very special show, in a very special location, with some very special guests. Be there, so you can say that You Were There.
Evelyn Walsh with an original story about a woman who falls under the allure of a mysterious stranger.
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Christopher Samuel Carroll with the magical tale of a young girl and the Wolf Prince.
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Conor Geoghan – a story of a young man and a wise old magician.
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Clare Murphy with an Irish tale of people foolish enough to meddle with the fairy folk.
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From the 4th Milk and Cookies in February: Daniel Adams tells a French tale from the time of the Hundred Years War
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Listen to this podcast from the second Milk and Cookies (December 1st, 2009) where Gerry Kerr regaled us with lovely tale of love lost and won.
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In this podcast from the second Milk and Cookies (December 1st, 2009), Joe Byrne tells a wonderful Indian folk tale about a king and his favourite advisor.
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In this podcast episode from the second Milk and Cookie Stories (December 1st, 2009), performance poet Steven James Smith tells the story of of Waltzing Matilda.
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James Smith has won the Cúirt Literary Grand Slam 2009,
performed at the Electric Picnic and the Dun Laoghaire festival of world cultures,
and hosts the Glór Sessions in the International Bar monday nights.
www.StephenJamesSmith.com