Crumb one, crumb all

A call has gone out to any performers curious to know what it might feel like to be the sugary crumbs at the bottom of a bag of sweets!

Taking place in Cork city on 15 July, the Brus Performance Marathon invites performers of all kinds to come together and express themselves in back to back micro-performances.

The show requires 30 performers who will each be given 3 minutes to do their thing in front of an audience of enthusiastic and attentive peers.

The Brus Performance Marathon is part of the Quarter 2023 festival, formerly known as Quarter Block Party, taking place at different venues across the city.

This year marks the festival’s second outing, with its first coming in 2020 one month before lockdown.

Festival co-organiser Caoilian Sherlock said: “We were a mixed bag of musicians, dancers, theatre makers, writers, and actors who couldn’t find work, couldn’t make work, couldn’t show work. We were like the sugary dust at the end of a bag of sweets. In Cork, there’s a name for that sugary dust. The brus. You know, from Gaeilge. No, not for a brush – but for the broken, crumbly bits.”

The Brus Performance Marathon takes place at Circus Factory on Centre Park Road from 1-4pm on 15 July.

The venue will have a large space, a PA, amps and drums for a band, microphones for singers and poets, and a dancefloor.

Caoilian continued: “One of the best things about Quarter Block Party since we started has been the conversations. The late nights, the rambles, the early mornings, the music trailing and the poetry dispensing mixed in with afternoon markets, engaging workshops, the odd naked body or two entwined in a community hall – and a truly surprising amount of performances which utilise industrial levels of lube.”

Quarter 2023 includes concerts at multiple spaces and venues across Cork city with performances from the likes of Elaine Howley, Junk Drawer, and Maija Sofia. The weekend also features workshops and discussions throughout. Tickets for all shows are on sale from eventbrite.ie.