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Art, Voice and Human Rights Visual Art Workshop Programme with Hina Khan, Visual Artist, supporting Darndale Human Rights Day
Art, Voice and Human Rights Visual Art Workshop Programme with Hina Khan, Visual Artist, supporting Darndale Human Rights Day
October 9 @ 2:30 pm – 3:30 pm IST
Visual artist Hina Khan works creatively in Darndale with young people from the neuro-divergent group Lighting Up the Spectrum.
Through participatory art, conversation and imagination, participants explore artistic expression, equality, and human rights and create responses reflecting their experiences and perspectives. Presented by Smashing Times + Creative Places, Darndale
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Hina Khan, Visual Artist
Freda Manweiler, Producer, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality, Producer and MC
Mary Moynihan, Curator, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality
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Art, Voice and Human Rights Creative Places Darndale Workshop Programme
Visual artist Hina Khan works creatively with two community-based groups in Darndale – older adults from the Golden Years Senior Centre Programme and young people from the neuro-divergent group Lighting Up the Spectrum. Each group takes part in participatory art sessions as participants explore what artistic expression, equality, inclusion and human rights mean to them.
Using conversation, imagination and visual art-making, each group works alongside visual artist Hina Khan, to develop ideas, images and creative responses that reflect their experiences, identities and perspectives. The process celebrates the right of everyone to participate in cultural and artistic life, while creating space for voices that are often underrepresented.
This event is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and
Creative Places Darndale.
Creative Places Darndale is an arts award supported by the Arts Council. First awarded to the area of Darndale, Belcamp, Moatview, Clonshaugh and Priorswood in June 2021, the Arts Council’s Creative Places programme invests in places such as towns, villages, suburbs, and island communities that have had fewer opportunities to take part in the arts. The arts in Ireland can be defined by its various art forms i.e. Visual Art, Music, Dance, Literature, Film, Theatre, Opera, Traditional Arts, Architecture, Circus and Street Arts and Spectacle.
The purpose of Creative Places Darndale is to promote arts participation in the areas outlined above, support local creatives living in the area, and embed socially engaged arts practice into the community. Over the course of the years, Creative Places Darndale has been active building on the variety of art forms that are already present in the Dardale area; introducing the arts or different art forms where they are not present; increasing participation in the arts by the people who live in this area and leaving a legacy of participation in the arts.
Creative Places Darndale is run by Northside Partnership and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is supported by the Arts Council and Dublin City Council Arts Office.
Golden Years Senior Centre
Darndale Belcamp Village Centre CLG offers a range of services to older people living in the areas of Dublin 17, 5 and 13 through the Golden Years Senior Centre, working closely with statutory agencies to ensure the services delivered are up to the highest possible standards for all members. Golden Years is a group supporting independent, secure social living for older people in the community. Golden Years provides members with: socialising opportunities, exercise programmes, meals, alternative therapies and home/hospital visits through its Outreach Team. The group are based at the Darndale Belcamp Village Centre, The Link Road, Darndale, Dublin 17. The telephone contact is 01-8771600 and email is info@villagecentre.ie. The website is www.darndalebelcampvc.ie. New members are always welcome.
Lighting Up the Spectrum
Lighting Up the Spectrum is a group based in Dublin 17 for children with autism between the ages of 6-12. https://www.instagram.com/lighting_up_the_spectrum/
Speaker Biographies:
Hina Khan is a Pakistani-Irish, visual artist based in Kinsale, County Cork. Hina’s grandparents migrated to Pakistan at the time of partition and then Hina migrated to Ireland, arriving as a refugee and is now an Irish citizen. Hina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. Hina’s work portrays socio-political issues such as migration, identity, borders, and humanitarian crises including prostitution, gender discrimination, gender restrictions, trauma, child abuse and killings.
Hina uses miniature in her work as the intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation, videos and 3D.
According to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism. I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art, personality, and in terms of experimentation, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’
Hina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin, Laois, Mayo, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center, Create Ireland, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center, Mayo, and Stradbally Art house, Laois.
Hina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland, Create Ireland, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Hina’s art pieces were commissioned for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights (2022) and for States of Independence (2023). Both projects were presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and funded by The Arts Council. Hina says that ‘as an artist, I am inspired by Sadequain, Michelangelo, Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’
Mary Moynihan, MA, she/her, is an author of novels, poetry, films and plays, from Dublin, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays, poetry and short film scripts, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing, poetry and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual international Arts and Human Rights festival.
Freda Manweiler has worked with Smashing Times since 1999. She is highly skilled in project management, coordination and implementation. She has extensive experience working at a European level developing and delivering a range of European Initiatives, collaborating with over 50 cultural, educational and civil society organisations from over 22 European Countries. Promoting European Values through working on activities and projects that promote human rights, gender equality, positive mental health, remembrance and civic engagement.
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