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Tuesday 26 September 2023 Dublin: 17°C

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"Art's job is to question the status quo, not to ever accept it" - Spoken word and social change
A spoken word festival will be held across multiple venues in Dublin this week.
"Humour resolves conflict, and it doesn't threaten" - Blindboy on mental health, society and Gasc**tism
We chatted to one half of the Rubberbandits ahead of the Lingo 2016 spoken word festival.
"There are a lot of dead poets on tea towels in tourist shops - this is about live poetry"
Ireland’s a hotbed of activity in the spoken word and poetry worlds, as this new event proves.
Meet the people making poetry cool again in Ireland
Lingo Festival takes place in Dublin this weekend.