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Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks
Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks
November 1 @ 1:00 pm – 1:30 pm GMT
Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion, study and practice of the arts, human rights, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm, a three-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded by Creative Europe. The project supports emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create and co-promote their work across borders, supporting the mobility of artists through networking and the provision of international opportunities for artists. In addition to hosting life performances and a ten day Artist…
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Artists
Ciara Hayes, Festival Producer for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival
Mary Moynihan, Writer, Poet, Creator of Art and Photography, Artistic Director, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality, Arts Curator for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival
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Theatre in Palm Project
Join the 1 November Digital Coffee Talk here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89542163830?pwd=Cyoa5XgZFDSGWAkvOMqLWJsWcbVmX0.1
Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion, study and practice of the arts, human rights, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm, a 3-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded by Creative Europe. The project supports emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create and co-promote their work across borders, supporting the mobility of artists through networking and the provision of international opportunities for artists.
The platform members are Turku University of Applied Sciences, Finland (coordinator); Intercut Productions, Sweden; Fondazione E35 per la progettazine Internazionale, Italy; Smashing Times, Ireland, Lemongrass Communications, Spain; JAIT – International Theatre, Portugal; Stichting ZID, Netherlands; Cube, Greece; European Theatre and Film Institute, Belgium; THOC, Cyprus, Homemade Culture, Romania and Oecon Group, Bulgaria.
The Theatre in Palm platform supports emerging artists to build skills in cooperation and resilience and acts as an incubator for new voices from the page to the stage with a focus on professional development and a growth in European cooperation and the visibility and circulation of European emerging artists, working across borders and beyond. . The project will reach out to over 3,500 artists and supports (384) artists to develop skills in co-creation and production and is supported by Creative Europe, Sub-programme European Platforms for the promotion of emerging artists (CREA-CULT-2021- PLAT).
As part of the Theatre In Palm Creative Europe project, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have been hosting a series of events supporting the work of new, emerging and established artists working in the arts for equality, human right and diversity.
At the 2023 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival Smashing Times held a successful Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival at The Pumphouse, Dublin Port, bringing a number of international artists and arts organisations to Ireland to take part in live performances, workshops and panel discussions.
Following on from the success of this work, Smashing Times are delighted to present a new series of events for this year’s 2024 Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival as part of Theatre in Palm. These include
1. Academy Exchange: Two artists from Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality attended a Theatre in Palm Academy exchange from the 27 to 29 August, 2024 in Stockholm, Sweden for the Stockholm Fringe Festival.
2. Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan is adapted from the words of four brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. Created as a promenade, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre, poetry and music, the performance features four of the stories of human rights defenders who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders located in the Iveagh Gardens. They are Lasantha Wickramatunga, journalist, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova, journalist and human rights defender, Chechnya; Raed Fares, journalist and activist, Syria and Bety Cariño, activist and women’s rights defender, Mexico. This unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens. The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. The names and words of the four human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.
Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan is presented for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens, Dublin’s secret garden, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre with one indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute, Pearse Street, Dublin 2, on Friday 11 October, 7.30pm.
The director is Carmen Ortiz Victorino, director and the performers are Josephine Patane, actor, and Daniel Mahon, actor with Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi on violin.
More information here:
3.Theatre in Palm Five-Day Artist in Residence programme linked to Memorial Monologues 7-20 October 2024
As part of the Creative Europe project Theatre in Palm, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to host a two-week onsite physical residency and artist professional development programme with five emerging artists running from Monday 7 to Sunday 20 October 2024 as part of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. The residency was set up through an open call through the Theatre in Palm platform on 31 March 2024 with five artists selected for the residency in Ireland.
The residency is part of the Smashing Times Artist State of the Art Artist Professional Development programme and Arts and Human Rights network linked to the annual Dublin International Arts and Human rights festival with a focus on themes of equality and environmental sustainability. The residency engages five emerging artists with equality, human and diversity and supports the artists through professional development, building networks, providing inspiration, creating shared insights and resulting in the creation of a happening presented by the artists and recorded alongside text based work sharable online. The residency is linked to the performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory.www.theatreinpalm.eu
4.Two Smashing Times Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks on 27 September and 1 November, 2024
Smashing Times are delighted to host two digital coffee talks to support artists working in equality, human rights and diversity with a minimum attendance of fifteen at each talk. The Theatre in Palm and Smashing Times Digital Coffee Talk takes place on 27 September 2024 on the theme of Theatre and Inter-disciplinary Arts practice for Equality and Human Rights.
Join the Coffee Talk here at 12 noon on 27 September:
https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85776426762?pwd=AJmOfbci1WFQT2mtI37bT5lNbpyP03.1
The second Theatre in Palm and Smashing Times Digital Coffee Talk takes place on 1 November 2024 on the theme of The Art of Theatre: Telling stories of people in resistance from WWII.
Speaker Biographies:
Mary Moynihan MA
Writer of Novels, Poetry, Films, Plays
Creator of Art and Photography
Creative Reflections on Arts, Creativity, Equality, Leadership and Self-Esteem
Mary Moynihan, MA, she/her, is an award-winning author of novels, poetry, films and plays, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is 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 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 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin.
After raising four children, now adults, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage, laughter, tragedy, happiness, love, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction, Mary’s characters are clever, fearless, vulnerable, crazy, strong, and dangerous, looking for love, fun, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots, dramatic lives, lots of laughs, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love, happiness, creativity and meaning in life.
Mary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts, Creativity, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie
In her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends. She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams.
Smashing Times
Mary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland, Northern Ireland, Europe and internationally, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan, actor and Tim Pat Coogan, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel.
Mary is Artistic Curator for the annual, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International, Fighting Words, ICCL, NWCI, Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Trócaire, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world, past and present, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today.
Awards
Mary’s work has won a number of awards, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.
Writer of Novels, Poetry, Films and Plays
Mary is the author of the epic spoken word poem ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’, written from a female perspective and exploring identity, gender, violence, passion, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment. This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past.
Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You.
Plays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly; Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess, The Hummingbird, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir, The Three Bears, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings
Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history.
Mary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017), a French lawyer, politician and feminist, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor, a Human Rights Defender, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn); You Matter, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland.
Keep in touch with Mary on:
Tel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722
Email: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com
Website: MaryMoynihan.ie
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Ciara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.
Since completing her Masters in 2020, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality.
Freelance producing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021).
Acting credits include: Liverpool, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem, Dramat (2016), awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday, Áras an Uachtaráin, Smashing Times (2023).
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