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SUMMARY:Courageous Women - A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Edition VIII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe theme of this edition is Voices of Peace.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary\, available daily. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nLead Artist and Curator: Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Director\, Theatre and Film Maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityProducer: Freda ManweilerAssociate Curator/Researcher: Niamh ClowryCast: Megan O’Malley\, Róisín McAtamney and Ann SheehyCostumes: Risa AndoSet Design: The CompanyDigital Artist/Graphic Design: EM CreativeConsultant Historian (pro bono): Sinead Mc Coole \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCourageous Women is a film by Mary Moynihan inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of women in Irish history from 1916 to 1923. The film is inspired by the stories of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927); Helena Molony (1884-1967); Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971); Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) and Eva Gore Booth (1870-1926).   \n\n\n\nCourageous Women is on display in Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, from 4 October to 5 November 2023\, Wednesday to Sunday only. \n\n\n\nThe women whose stories inspire the film are: \n\n\n\nConstance Markievicz (1868-1927) an Irish politician\, revolutionary nationalist\, suffragette and socialist \n\n\n\nHelena Molony (1884-1967)\, a Republican\, feminist and labour activist. Helena was a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen Army and was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916. \n\n\n\nMargaret Skinnider (1893-1971)\, a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising. \n\n\n\nHanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, radical activist\, feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes. Hanna was one of the original founders of the militant Irish Women’s Franchise League set up in 1908 to fight for emancipation and a woman’s right to vote. \n\n\n\nEva Gore Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, feminist\, campaigner for social justice\, and a sister of Irish revolutionary Countess Markievicz. \n\n\n\nThe film is written by Mary Moynihan and is inspired by and incorporates original writings from Constance Markievicz; poetry excerpts by Eva Gore Booth; original testimony including an adaptation from Doing My Bit for Ireland by Margaret Skinnider; original testimony from Helena Molony and writings by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.   \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, available daily. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator 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. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight 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. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs 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;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín is an actor and facilitator based in Dublin. Originally from Cork\, Róisín undertook a BA in Drama Performance from DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama. Upon graduating from DIT Róisín worked in New York on off-Broadway show Ten Ways on A Gun. Other theatre credits include Antigone\, Romeo and Juliet and Smashing Times’ The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of 1916 and If you could Read my Mind from the highly acclaimed Testimonies. Róisín has performed in the Smashing Times tour of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII performing in Deirdre Kinahan’s new piece Ode to Ettie Steinberg\, which toured to Ireland\, Northern Ireland and Germany. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan O’Malley has recently completed a ‘Masters in Theatre Practice’ student in University College Dublin. Previous to this she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting’s two-year full time course in 2015. While training she took on many roles\, including: Runt in Disco Pigs\, Ophelia in Hamlet\, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew\, and Mags in The Spinning Heart. Megan also played Melissa in The Full Moon Hotel by Philip Doherty. Since graduating she has played Queen Elizabeth in ‘Gráinne’\, and has worked on several short films including ‘Rising’\, ‘The Nest’\, ‘Lilith’ etc . She also stared in Kerry Gold’s latest TV commercial and We Cut Corners music video ‘Of whatever’ by Stoneface Films. Megan was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary\, 2014. More recently\, Megan won the F.A.B. bursary award for Best Actress 16-21. Megan is also a passionate writer and was the first in the school’s history to premier her own work ‘MJ’ for the GSA graduation industry showcase. She also worked alongside Paul Meade for her Manifesto piece ‘The Mourning Seat’. From there Megan worked with Paul Meade over 2016 in developing her idea for ‘Home’\, and was thrilled to present it as part of Smock Alley’s Scene and Heard festival for new work in 2017. Megan has since expanded ‘Home’ to a full length production and which premiered in The New Theatre in 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 K3T6
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SUMMARY:Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Edition VIII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe theme of this edition is Voices of Peace.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Edition VIII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe theme of this edition is Voices of Peace.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAisha Hamdulay\, exhibition coordinator\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, exhibition curator and artist\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis multidisciplinary exhibition features photography\,  poetry and story and is a visual and poetical reflection on the stories of  change-maker Human Rights Defenders today.  The exhibition runs Tuesday 3 October – Saturday 11 November 2023\, Tuesday – Saturday only\, 11am-4pm (closed 1.30-2.30pm) daily at the dlr Mill Theatre\, Dundrum. The exhibition is a collaboration between Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is presented for States of Independence\, a major project celebrating the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries in Irish history linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. \n\n\n\nChange-Makers as Human Rights Defenders \n\n\n\nHuman rights defenders are persons\, who individually\, or in association with others\, work peacefully to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms\, in accordance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.  An important document that identifies key human rights that all people are entitled to is the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. \n\n\n\nIn relation to human rights our world needs a commitment to documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which arose out of a response to the horrific atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust and to the Geneva Convention of 1949 which sets limits on the ways in which states may conduct themselves in armed conflict. The following is a summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nArticle 1: All human beings are born free and equal. \n\n\n\nArticle 2: Everyone entitled to rights outlined\, without distinction such as race\, colour\, sex\, language\, religion\, political or other opinion\, national or social origin\, property\, birth or other status. \n\n\n\nArticle 3: Right to life\, liberty and security of person. \n\n\n\nArticle 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude. \n\n\n\nArticle 5:  No one shall be subjected to torture or degrading treatment. \n\n\n\nArticle 6: Right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. \n\n\n\nArticle 7: All are equal before the law. \n\n\n\nArticle 8: Right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunal. \n\n\n\nArticle 9: No one subjected to arbitrary arrest\, detention or exile. \n\n\n\nArticle 10: Entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing. \n\n\n\nArticle 11: Right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty. \n\n\n\nArticle 12: Freedom from interference with privacy\, family\, home or correspondence. \n\n\n\nArticle 13: Right to freedom of movement in and out of a country. \n\n\n\nArticle 28: Right to a social order where these rights can be fully realized. \n\n\n\nArticle 29: Duties to the community essential to free and full development. \n\n\n\nArticle 30: Right to freedom from state interference in relation to  the above outlined rights.All over the world human rights defenders work peacefully to protect the rights of others. These rights are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In their tireless struggle to create more just and equal societies\, human rights defenders put themselves at huge personal risk. Every year\, HRDS are beaten\, tortured\, jailed or killed. Human Rights defenders are beacons of hope and their work must never be forgotten. Despite these challenges\, human rights defenders have achieved significant successes over the past 25 years in bringing about more equitable and just societies. There has been significant developments in international law and standards on the role\, recognition and protection of human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nHuman Rights Defenders include the five winners of the Front Line Defenders Award 2023:  \n\n\n\nOlivier Bahemuke Ndoole (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a leader among environmental and land defenders in DRC and one of the most trusted advocates on behalf of communities impacted by land grabs\, trafficking\, and illegal resource extraction activities. He is also the only advocate who organises judicial training and capacity-building sessions for DRC citizens on topics related to environment and community rights in Goma\, eastern DRC. \n\n\n\nSegundo Ordóñez (Ecuador)\, an Afro-descendant human rights defender\, is one of the most visible faces and the community representative in the two legal proceedings brought against the Japanese-owned company Furukawa Plantaciones C. A. and the State of Ecuador. The cases have focused on how workers on abacá (Manila hemp) plantations suffer labour exploitation as they farm the raw materials in slavery-like conditions. \n\n\n\nJeany ‘Rose’ Hayahay (Philippines) is a woman human rights defender based in Mindanao\, the Philippines. Since 2019\, she has been the spokesperson of the Save Our Schools Network (SOS Network)\, a coalition of child-focused NGOs\, church-based groups and other stakeholders advocating for children’s right to education in Mindanao. \n\n\n\nDigital Security Lab Ukraine (Ukraine) is a team of specialists in the field of digital security and internet freedom. They help Ukrainian journalists\, human rights defenders and public activists solve problems with digital security\, as well as promote the realisation of human rights on the internet by influencing government policy in the field of digital rights. \n\n\n\nHala Ahed (Jordan) is a Jordanian human rights lawyer who has worked with a number of human rights and feminist organisations to defend women’s rights\, workers’ rights\, and the freedoms of opinion\, expression and peaceful assembly in Jordan. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/2023-front-line-defenders-award-human-rights-defenders-risk \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator 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. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight 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. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs 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;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality as part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-defenders-changemakers-exhibition/2023-10-31/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry
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