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Panti Bliss celebrates PRIDE 2020 with #Pantisocracy & RTÉ Culture

Season 5 of Pantisocracy starts July 9th 10pm RTÉ Radio 1 for seven weeks.

To tie in with the return of Pantisocracy to RTÉ Radio 1 – RTÉ Player is also re-showing The Panti Monologues videos showcasing stories inspired by the spoken word pieces delivered by Panti Bliss at the opening of Pantisocracy.

And to celebrate Pride 2020, in what has been a weird year and one in which we’ll not get to march through the streets in our towns and cities to celebrate Pride, RTÉ Culture is also clearing some space to allow Panti Bliss and Pantisocracy to celebrate Pride online.

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‘Mother’s Blood, Sister Songs’ takes prestigious GOLD in the Culture and Arts category in New York Festival Radio Awards

New York Radio Festival Gold Award winning arts and culture documentary series gets a new broadcast on RTE lyric fm Sunday May 31 and June 7at 6pm

We spent much of last year on mothersbloodsistersongs.com and it was invested with love, passion, energy and what creative wit and talent that we have. So for our work with Linda Buckley and all of the contributing voices to have been recognised with a Gold award from the New York Festivals Radio Awards is a much appreciated boost during these testing times. The series is broadcast Sundays 31st May and 7th June 2020 at 6pm on RTÉ Lyric fm.

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New Online Workshop Series Designed for the Remote Working Environment

Thinking of starting an audio podcast? Curious about how it all works and how you can make it work for you?

Try our taster session ‘First Steps in Audio Podcasting’ which is aimed at beginners and designed to give you an express workshop on podcasting today, including how to podcast remotely. Next Session: April 17th

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Wilde Stories — Sound-Illustrated Readings of Oscar Wilde’s ‘The Happy Prince and Other Tales’

 

For the times we live in, Athena Media is releasing an audiobook collection of Wilde Stories; beautiful stories by Oscar Wilde read by young Irish actors, with original composition by Michael Gallen, performed for Wilde Stories, by the RTÉ Concert Orchestra and RTÉ Cór na nÓg.

The original readings formed part of an RTÉ lyric fm radio series but they’re now presented here for children and adults alike to enjoy. You can find out more about the series on www.wildestories.ie

 

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Athena Media gains sponsorship from Dublin Housing Observatory and start up company Happy Scribe for its latest podcast This is Where We Live

 

Across 2019 Athena Media is anchoring a new podcast sharing conversations and stories about how we shape and create great places to live. The podcast series This is Where we Live has been inspired by the continued housing and homelessness crisis in Irish cities, particularly Dublin, and began when Athena Media producer Helen Shaw visited Vienna last December for a Housing for All conference.  (Read Helen’s blog essay on the visit and why Vienna is a public housing model for Europe).

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