Unleash and Express DJ Set with OLIVE HATAKE

This free event is part of our Youth Festival 2024.

Electronic artist OLIVE HATAKE is bringing his unique dance sound, charged with human emotion, to the National Gallery of Ireland! Hang out with our Youth Panel members and OLIVE for this evening of sound, art, and celebration. All are welcome!

The Gallery Youth Panel is a group of young people who work together to find, make, and share impactful experience for their peers and communities at the Gallery. 

OLIVE HATAKE is an Irish based electronic artist. His second album BOYS NEED LOVE is a snapshot of the musician’s personal and creative lives. As such, the record has taken different forms over its creation. HATAKE’s experiences over the two years since his debut album have included the fluidity of relationships, being invited to Berlin for the annual Superbooth producer’s conference, rediscovering his faith, the importance of family, observing the growing right wing movement in Ireland, loss, documenting the conflict of masculinity and representing his country at the Jiu-Jitsu European championships in Paris. The results are an album that combines euphoric dance music with the range of human emotion to mesmerising effect. That musical element is also inspired by a world of influences - artists such as EDEN and Nala Sinephro, the wider creative and artistic community that he has immersed himself in, the effect that playing live has on his studio work and his Angolan family roots. The current Irish scene too has had an impact, with the record featuring creative input from Jafaris (the focus track ‘MEMORY LANE’ born from a recent impromptu recording session), alt rnb singer Ollie Fay, visual artist Sean Atmos and photographer Frenchie Stardust (who collaborated on the cover art) and long term collaborator Tony Konstone from Harsquead, as well as an EDEN sample on the beautiful ‘NYA SAGE INTERLUDE’. Releasing singles across the run up to the project has seen his music added to influential playlists such as Fresh Finds UK & IE, The Loft and Irish Dance. Now the full story is ready to be heard.

To note:

• The Youth Festival 2024 programme is a collaboration between the Gallery and young people. It is devised and delivered by the Gallery Youth Panel, SpunOut Action Panel, West Wicklow Youthreach. 
• As part of the Youth Festival, young people ages 16 to 25 receive a 10% discount in the Gallery Shop across the week. Identification, including young adult leap card and/or student card, may be required. 
• We are committed to running accessible, inclusive events and activities and making our programme as welcoming as possible.
• This activity takes place in the Education Studio at the National Gallery of Ireland located in the Millennium Wing. 
• The Education Studio is wheelchair accessible and members of the Education Team and Youth Panel will be on-hand to assist and support exhibition visitors and programme participants.