Lady Windermere Loves Lucy!

Greetings Coffee Fans! Lady Windermere is titillated to announce the triumphant return of the Cafe Salon, this time in the form of a Comical Cultural Cabaret Concert Cafe guaranteed to stimulate your interest and appetite all summer long! 

The good folk at Lucy's Lounge have offered Lady Windy a home for the long summer evenings, on condition that she serve up the very best in scrumptious entertainment and tastebud-tickling treats, and with your help this is what she has vowed to do!

So come on down, culture vultures, music maniacs and all lovers of caffeinated chillaxation, feast your eyes and your mouth on delectable confectionary, scrumptious savouries and delicious performers. An oasis of chill in the Temple Barminess of a night out in town, drop-in or hang-out, and bring your own sense of fun.

Lady Windermere's Menu of 

Caffeinated Comical Cultural Cabaret Concert Cafes 

THURSDAY - Culture Clash Cafe

Touring the world through food, visuals, poetry, song and performance, the 'Culture Clash Cafe' hosts a different culture every week and invites you to drop by and savour their flavours!

FRIDAY - Classy Concert Cafe

A night of melodic mood and harmonic sonic serenade, let our musical maestros nourish your soul as we nourish your stomach!

SATURDAY - Comical Cabaret Cafe

Sinful sirens seductively shimmy and sing, kooks caper comically, and all manner of madness is unleashed while we serve up our most scrumptious treats. It'll be darkly delicious!

OPENING TIMES:  8pm til the midnight hour. BYO with a modest corkage (and cannage) fee for each item brought of a boozy nature. 

The Lovely Lucy Season of Lady Windermere's Ongoing Adventures in Beverage, Biscuitry and Bohemian Rhapsody commences on 4th July. While our American cousins celebrate independence from tea taxation and Royal logo stampage, we are seeking to celebrate independence of mind and artistic spirit. Any and all artists interested in becoming part of the Windermere experience, email taramcdance [at] gmail . com Volunteers and backstage helpers are also welcome to apply, remembering of course the vital importance of being earnest.

Mamuska Dublin

Lady Windermere returns to Mamuska Dublin on Friday 30th November, brewing up a storm during a packed line-up of experimental video work and live performance to challenge and inspire. Titillate your tastebuds as audience and artists mingle in an atmosphere of play and discovery. Starts 7.30pm. 

EVENT LINE-UP

1. Carol Walsh - 'A Medley of Shakespeare' - CLOWNING

2. Hillary Williams - 'Scars' - VERBAL PERFORMANCE ART

3. Paco Torres - 'The Rattle of Benghazi' - FILM

4. Roisin Power Hackett 'The Roche Limit' - SPOKEN WORD

5. Peter Moran - INTERACTIVE MUSIC / VOCAL PERFORMANCE
6. Sandra Estrada - 'The Hand of the Inert' - FILM

7. Peter Duffy - A Political Movement - PERFORMANCE PIECE
8. Rose Lawless - 'The Virgin Mary rap' - PERFORMANCE

Mamuska Dublin is a free event supported by the Arts Council Small Festivals Scheme and curated by La Cat Salons inhouse programme of La Catedral Studios.

Corroboree Cafes - all the juicy details!

The grand line-up for La Cat Explore's Exploriment! Dance Fringe Weekend has been made public.  Click here for all the delicious details of daytime delights. Meanwhile, Lady W can reveal a few more scintillating snippets about the dynamic dancers and divas that will be packing her evening Corroboree Cafés from 8 til late (open to all with absolutely free entry, for we are nothing if not generous) -

Saturday 19th - a night of futuristical acoustical spontaneity, trance and trickery, we are thrilled to announce the participation of the masterful audiovisual maestro Marco Gutierrez and his trippy visions, and a chance to make your very own sonic and visual landscapes with a cutting edge, state of the art, motion sensor installation! The cult comic improv crew 'The Princes of Lagos' are also expected to pop by, along with the sinuous Apollonia tribal bellydance. Plus a jaw-dropping aerial acro-pole display by Lisette Krol to liven up your leisure and make you long to be limber. Drift, dance, discuss and dream - blow off steam with the crop of the cream!

Sunday 20th - Rounding out Exploriment with style, we offer another night of spontaneous performance and vintage visuals, this time with a dynamic cabaret twist: a ribald and risqué musical soirée with our favourite temptress Ms. Rose Lawless, and the full-throated jazzy blues of Delta O'Hara and ivory-tickler Johnny Rayge. We have even been promised a super-special and exclusive sneak preview of Mr. Rayge's upcoming album (sssssh!), at everyone's favourite decadent evening of beverage, biscuitry, vintage visuals, dance, discussion and dreaming...

See you there? Dress code- anything that teases, tickles or tantalises.

Lady Windermere's Corroboree Cafés are part of the La Cat Explore Exploriment weekend, supported by the good folks at the Arts Council.

Festival Fever: Body & Soul

Above: a tiny taster of Lady Tara McGuinness Windermere's programme for the 2010 EP Body & Soul Peace Pagoda

Summer is coming and Lady W is packing her bags and hitting the festival circuit with the bohemian crowd of the Body & Soul fest! Nestling in the hidden grounds of Ballinlough castle from June 22nd to 24th, the Body & Soul Fest, Ireland's Best Small Festival of 2011 (it's official) will be filling its stages with melodious music and its groves and nooks with delicious whimsy! Drop down to us and find out what surprises Lady Windermere has in store for revellers, visitors and all you connoisseurs of the finer things in life! Get your tickets here.

Lady Windermere Rides Again!

Despair no more, all those of you in the depths of post-salon withdrawal! Lady Windermere, everyone's favourite avant-garde adventurist, is delighted to announce that she will be celebrating the joy of summer, dance, drama and movement with her May weekend of Corroboree Cafes on Saturday 19th and Sunday 20th May (may-hap you may join us for some may-hem?)

In celebration of the Dublin Dance Festival, we are converting the decadent Back Loft into a delicious den of dance-delirium, loosely inspired by the spirit of the northwest Australian aboriginal 'corroboree' of community, participatory dance drama (for we are nothing if not multicultural). We welcome dancers, enthusiasts, amateurs and aspiring artists alike, to chill out with our renowned herbal brews, caffeinated beverages and munchy nibbles, to discuss, dream, improvise, play and drift away for a night of inspiration. The usual unusual and trippy visuals, browsing matters and musical ambience will apply (bring your own acoustical musical instruments and dancing shoes).

Throwing open our doors absolutely free from 8 - 11pm, as part of La Cat Explore's packed weekend of shows and workshops. If you or a dancing friend would like to claim the spotlight for yourself, or assist in any way, please email lacatsalons@gmail.com , remembering as ever the vital importance of being earnest.

See you soon! La Cat Explore is supported by the Arts Council.

With Thanks to Everyone!

As we bid a tearful farewell to Lady Windermere's extravagant Christmas Caffeinated Salons, we offer this nostalgic picture show taster of all the joys that were, and our heartfelt thanks to all the special painters, poets, performers, pianists and personalities who made the salons possible. Merry Christmas one and all!

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Windermere Art Auction!!

Announcing Lady Windermere's Grand Winter Solstice Art Auction!!

Wednesday 21st December from 6pm

For the winter solstice finale of Lady Windermere's Salons, there will be an auction of artwork by over 30 artists from Ireland to Vietnam, in all shapes, sizes, colours and styles, to suit every taste and wallet! Come one, come all, art-lovers and panicked Christmas shoppers alike, for creative Christmas presents and treasured masterpieces! Support our starving artists and our salon hostesses! Bringing down the hammer from 6pm, along with special performances by musicians and performers, and concluding with a cockle-warming screening of 'It's a Wonderful Life'. Beverages, mince pies and other treats supplied.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Caitriona Ni Threasaigh, Gavin O'Donoghue, Jaanika Talts, Imelda Reynolds, Sean Rushe, Carol O'Connor, Phan Van Duc, Angela Anderson, Denise French, Eleanore Nicolas, Andrew Carroll, Sue Rainsford, Sean Hillen, James Carroll, Nick Boon, Muriel Foxton, Nigel Holohan, Laura Ni Fhlaibhin, Joann O'Meara, Magda Nowacka, Shelly McDonnell, Lynne Mulville, Roisin Power Hackett, Bridget Ryan, Paola Catizone, Anthony Cullen, Leo Boyd, Olive Barrett, Tanya Turner, Amanda Doran and John McCann.