Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival

EU 1979 – A People’s Parliament Partner Exchange

Date and Time: Monday 19 October 2020, 2-3pm

Platform: Zoom Meeting organised by Smashing Times

Category: International online Partner Exchange attended by partners from the European project EU 1979: A People’s Parliament

Tickets: Open to partner organisations

Booking: SOLD OUT

Moderator: Freda Manweiler, Smashing Times

Artists and Guest Speakers: Artists and activists from Smashing Times, Dublin, Ireland, St Dona Daria, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University of Hannover, Germany and Francais Pour L’Insertion Sociale et Professionnelle en Europe, Paris, France.

Details

Smashing Times are delighted to bring together online an international community of partners, artists, and activists from across Europe for the transnational European project EU 1979: A People’s Parliament – Democracy, Human Rights and Women’s Political Participation. This is a European art-based project using creative processes of film, a feminist framework and online digital resources to remember the first 1979 European parliamentary elections through a celebration of the stories and names of the 67 powerful women MEP’s elected at that time.

The partners come together to reflect on the work to date which has resulted in an EU: 1979 online exhibition and film, highlighting how the EU was founded with its roots in WWII and the Holocaust. Partners explore the history and importance of the 1979 first European parliamentary elections by universal suffrage and the role of the EU today to promote co-operation, democracy, equality, peace and human rights for all.

The project is co-funded by the Europe for Citizens programme of the European Union and the four European partners are Smashing Times (lead partner), Dublin, Ireland, www.smashingtimes.ie; St Dona Daria, Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, University of Hannover, Germany and Francais Pour L’Insertion Sociale et Professionnelle en Europe, Paris, France.