Gender Equality

Arts

Announcing Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2020

Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International, Fighting Words, ICCL, NWCI, Concern Worldwide, NXF & Trócaire will implement the 2020 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world, past and present,…

Posted on September 4, 2020September 10, 2020 by centreforthearts

Arts

Courageous Women Castle to Castle

We are thrilled to announce a live streaming of our two short films Courageous Women Castle to Castle on Wednesday 19 August, 1pm. Join us here. Courageous Women Castle to Castle A Smashing Times Collection of Women’s Stories In partnership with Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin Castle and The Office of Public…

Posted on August 17, 2020August 21, 2020 by centreforthearts

Arts

Powerful Women in the Arts Blog on Audre Lorde

Smashing Times are delighted to present our new 'Powerful Women in the Arts' blog on Caribbean-American writer and civil rights activist Audre Lorde. Written by Artistic Director Mary Moynihan, this blog details the life and work of this monumental figure in the history of American and indeed world literature. Lorde…

Posted on July 10, 2020August 21, 2020 by centreforthearts

Arts

National Heritage Week 2020: Smashing Times Call for Submissions

As part of National Heritage Week we will be curating a specially themed Newsletter where we will revisit a cultural heritage project – Women War and Peace – focusing on Women's Stories of WWII and the impact of those stories today. As part of this and other projects we collected…

Posted on June 5, 2020August 5, 2020 by centreforthearts

Arts

Livestream of Artist Voices Then and Now this Friday

Livestream of performances and a discussion celebrating the arts and human rights. Presented as part of Art Connects: At Home with Smashing Times Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is committed to promoting creative arts practice and research in support of rights and values for all citizens…

Posted on May 25, 2020May 25, 2020 by centreforthearts

Arts

Artist Voices Then and Now

Live stream of performances and a discussion celebrating the arts and human rights. Presented as part of Art Connects: At Home with Smashing Times Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is committed to promoting creative arts practice and research in support of rights and values for all…

Posted on April 14, 2020April 29, 2020 by centreforthearts

Arts

At Home with Smashing Times: Share, Connect, Inspire

Three online Creative Arts Showcases Every Friday in April – 3, 10, 17 April 2020 Tell Them Our Names – 3 April 2020, 7.30pm Film Screening and Online Discussion Forum Register on Eventbrite here Click here and scroll down to join live event Theme: Women’s Stories of WWII with a…

Posted on April 2, 2020April 3, 2020 by centreforthearts

Climate Justice

Women in Elections – Seanad Elections 2020

Supporting powerful women for the Seanad Elections – on the NUI panel please vote for Senator Alice-Mary Higgins, and on the University of Dublin panel please vote for Ivana Bacik and Lynn Ruane. Their continued voices in the Seanad is essential. Seanad Éireann has a very complicated electoral process. There are…

Posted on March 26, 2020March 27, 2020 by centreforthearts

Events

Smashing Times – Constance and Her Friends ‘At Home’ in Dublin Castle, 8 March, International Women’s Day

Constance and Her Friends 'At Home' in Dublin Castle on 8 March 2020, 1pm and 4pm. An invitation to a literary salon of ideas and imagination. Smashing Times, in partnership with the Pop-Up Women in Politics and Public Life Exhibition Dublin Castle, and with the support of Dublin City Council,…

Posted on February 25, 2020February 28, 2020 by centreforthearts

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Open Call for Artists and Performers

The award-winning Smashing Times have a number of exciting arts-based projects, performances and films coming up over the next two years. We are conducting an open call for artists to join our Panel of Artists from which we will cast our work. We are currently casting for a number of projects, including…