We Want Your Poems!


Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to announce a new initiative: an online collection of anti-war poetry. We invite you to submit your anti-war, pro-peace poetry for a chance to be featured in our new online collection. All featured poems will be promoted on social…

Festival of Theatre for Social Change


The Festival of Theatre for Social Change will be held at the Derry Playhouse on Saturday 19 February 2022. Smashing Times are delighted to present an interdisciplinary event titled The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII, a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of two women during WWII…

The Art of Witness


Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality, in conjunction with the Annual Mother Tongues Arts Festival 2021 are delighted to host ‘The Art of Witness’, a  presentation of creative practice and an online panel discussion exploring themes of language, identity and culture on the island of Ireland. ‘The…

Creative Connections Workshops Online


Smashing Times are delighted to implement the Creative Connections programme in Northern Ireland, supported by the Northern Ireland Executive’s T:BUC Strategy through the Central Good Relations Fund.  Creative Connections is a cultural, arts-based project using creative processes of theatre and storytelling workshops, group and panel discussions, and online digital presentations…

Smashing Times Receive Funding from Dept. Foreign Affairs & Trade Reconciliation Fund


Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to receive funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade from the Reconciliation Fund. The Reconciliation Fund awards grants to organisations working to build better relations within and between traditions in Northern Ireland, between North and South, and…