Pavee Lackeen

Perry Ogden documented the experience of the young poor in Dublin with his photo book ‘Pony Kids’.

His first feature moves on from those representations, offering an intimate portrait of the traveller community. It focuses on 10-year-old Winnie, who lives with her mother and siblings in a trailer on the side of the road in a desolate part of Dublin . She is at odds with her environment as she wanders the streets of the prosperous, modern city, while her family endure visits from the council, social workers and sympathetic activist groups, struggling with bureaucracy, prejudice and poverty.

With a cast of mostly non-professional actors drawn from the traveling community, Ogden conveys a sense of people being, rather than performing, and Winnie Maughan's illuminating presence provides the film with its beating heart.

Filmed through a photographer's eye and with a documentary feel, Pavee Lackeen avoids patronizing stereotypes, sentimentality and dourness to emerge as one of the most distinctive debuts to come out of Ireland in years.

Dir. Perry Ogden / Scr. Perry Ogden, Mark Venner with Winnie Maughan, Paddy Maughan, Rosie Maughan / Ireland 2005 / 87mins / 35mm/Certificate 15 / Courtesy of Verve Pictures.

My Journey With A Remarkable Tree

A journey to find the folkloric spirit trees of Cambodia turns into a quest to help save our planet.

Ken Finn set out exploring Cambodia to indulge his passion and fascination with trees. In particular, he wanted to visit the country's fabled ‘spirit trees’.

What he found was certainly moving but in a much bleaker and despairing way than he had ever imagined; systematic, cheap, and thoughtless destruction of ancient forests for pathetic and immediate economic gratification.

It's the story of a once magnificent tree, trashed to make tastless garden furniture.

This is a unique book, the first of it's kind, printed on forest friendly FSC certified paper. A highly collectable item.

If after reviewing the book home site you consider buying a copy, then maybe you would be interested in a signed first edition, postage free with a donation to charity of £2.50! I have arranged with Eye Books for the profits from the sale of books from the following sites to go to important conservation and charitable work.

Buy for The Environmental Investigation Agency - Eco Warriors first class!

Buy for Greenpeace - Saying the stuff that needs to be said.

Buy for Cambodia Trust - Helping mine victims back to their feet, literally.

Buy for The Wildlife Trust - Saving our own back yard.

Though this book is printed on forest friendly FSC-certified paper, I encourage sharing rather than purchase… you could be the first to read it and pass it on. (If you think you could help spread the word I would sincerely appreciate it if you pass this info on too.)

Ken Finn.

If you're interested in any of the events that we're planning over the coming months to launch the book let me know by .

Tricycle Theatre

“The Tricycle Theatre is the most valuable homeof political theatre in Britain today”  Financial Times, 2004

“There is no theatre in Britain that has told us more about the way we live now, than the Tricycle”  Daily Telegraph, 2004

“The Tricycle, now the foremost political theatre in Britain”  The Guardian, 2005

267 Kilburn High Rd - London NW6
www.tricycle.co.uk
0208 7328 1000 (?)

‘A Crumlin Lad’
A Collection of Poems

“Christie Cox has led a pretty rough life until quite recently. I've always found him a generous, articulate man. When I first met him, I was teaching in Mountjoy Prison, and Christie was one of the liveliest members of the class. While his life was often in trouble, he remained determined to write poetry as best he could, to chart his difficult journey through the years. And this he has done. Over the decades I've read his poems and I've always admired the sheer guts and energy that went into their making. What they lack in skill they often make up for in passion. They are the poems of an honest man who understands both the oppressed and the criminal mentality through and through. Whatever his flaws as a writer, Christie Cox is never a fake. He speaks of life as he experiences it.”

“I cried and cried and told myself the truth. It wasn't easy, shaking the devil from my shoulder.”

“This is a tense, often rough, always genuine gathering of poems. If poetry is the story of the soul, these poems reveal the soul of that troubled, talented Dubliner, Christie Cox. I must say I'm grateful for that. Up on yer bike, Christie!”

Brendan Kennelly, Professor of Modern English, Trinity College, Dublin.  Messenger Publications

‘All About The Money’ EP by Saint Silas Intercession (Org Records)

Saint Silas Intercession are the hottest new band in London right now (and you know how many times we've been right here at ORGANzine and ORG Records). Think low slung, scathingly raw garage blues drenched in Catholic guilt, delivered with punk rock attitude. A mean four-piece with their roots in Ireland and their dirt from the back streets of London. Looking more like a gang of suited-up East End gangsters (the bosses, not the street fighters). We're talking low slung filthy old school garage punk rock blues. We're talking Stooges, Hendrix, Jon Spencer, Them, White Stripes, RL Burnside - we're talking dirty wired-up riffs to cut your fingers on, we're talking pure pure soul.

For further info on the band, and ORG/ORGAN go to the artbeatz links page.

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