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SUMMARY:Trigger for Change
DESCRIPTION:Voices from Ukraine: War\, Film\, and Human Rights\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA panel discussion with organisers of Docudays UA\, a Ukrainian International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival on presenting a festival while at war\, followed by a tribute to Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCreated by Sinead McCann\, performance\, video\, installation and sculpture artist \n\n\n\nProduced by Sinead McCann\, Alan Meaney\, in collaboration with The Bridge Project \n\n\n\nMusic by Eamon Bailey \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTrigger for Change is a radio documentary\, created by artist Sinead McCann in collaboration with The Bridge Project. \n\n\n\nIt is a story about change and the challenges people with a criminal record face in securing employment on release from prison. The documentary focuses on the life story of these people and finds hope in their recovery and how they have built new lives through education\, community engagement and employment. \n\n\n\nInformed by creative workshops and interviews with men at The Bridge Project\, as well as by interviews and conversations with key people working within the Irish Prison and Probation service and community\, and employment sectors in Ireland. \n\n\n\nI worked on this radio documentary because I hope others will listen to it\, other people like me who might be struggling. Maybe my story will inspire them to take a second chance. \n\n\n\nJason Campbell\, The Bridge Project \n\n\n\nTrigger for Change was broadcasted on Newstalk FM 106-108 (a national radio station in Ireland) as part of the First Forthnight Arts and Mental Health festival. The documentary has been aired on Newstalk radio station a number of times since\, and was nominated nationally for the Headline Mental Health broadcasting media award 2022. \n\n\n\nProduced by artist Sinead McCann and radio maker Alan Meaney. \n\n\n\nTrigger for Change is supported by funding from the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme\, managed by Create\, a national organisation for collaborative arts in Ireland. The research and development was supported by funding from the Dublin City Council Culture Company. \n\n\n\nTrigger for Change will be available on this webpage from 13 – 22 October 2023\, available 24 hours. \n\n\n\nRunning time 46 minutes. \n\n\n\nListen to the Documentary Here\n\n\n\nThe Bridge Project \n\n\n\nBridge is a community based organisation that has been working to reduce the recidivism rates of adult male offenders in the greater Dublin region since 1991. \n\n\n\nBridge envisions a future where all those with an offending history are afforded opportunities to develop their full potential\, reintegrate with families and society and to attain employment \n\n\n\nBridge hopes to achieve this vision by working collaboratively with individual offenders and partner agencies to unlock potential and effective positive change. We hope to create safer communities by developing and supporting the implementation of innovative\, evidence based responses and practices that reduce re-offending. \n\n\n\nMore information here: https://www.thecompass.ie/service/0015I00000CC8ZfQAL/bridge-project  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann is a Dublin based artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. According to Sinead ‘I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life’. \n\n\n\nRecent works include the following:  Sound On! (2021)\, is a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist Alan James Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights\, funded by the Artist in Community Realisation Award. Small Talk (2021) is a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project\, Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record\, funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in the Community Project Realisation Award. The Trial (2018) was a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne\, funded by a Participation Project Award from the Arts Council\, a Community Award from Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and the Wellcome Trust UK. The Trial went on National tour in 2019.  \n\n\n\nLiving Inside (2019) is a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo-journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co-curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall\, funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.  Health Inside (2018) was a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians\, Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox funded by an Open Call Award.  \n\n\n\nSinead studied for her degree in Fine Art at TU Dublin (00-04)\, and for her Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and practice-based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. She has worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. She served on the board of directors of Common Ground from 2013 to 2014. \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\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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SUMMARY:Voices from Ukraine: War\, Film\, and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Voices from Ukraine: War\, Film\, and Human Rights\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA panel discussion with organisers of Docudays UA\, a Ukrainian International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival on presenting a festival while at war\, followed by a tribute to Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDar’ya Averchenko\, Head of Communications\, Docudays UAAlex Malyshenko\, film journalist\, deputy editor of Moviegram\, program director of Mykolaichuk OPENOlesya Borsuk\, classical musician and pipe organistTetiana Bashkatova\, film director\, first AD\, and actressMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityHalyna Budilova\, writer\, member of Irish PEN \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin producers of the Docudays Film Festival\, Ukraine\, as they discuss the realities of producing and presenting a festival while under siege.  The 20th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film festival was held on 2 to 8 June 2023 in Kyiv\, Ukraine and the producers are currently planning the 21st festival  which will be  held in Kyiv on May 31 to June 9 in 2024.  Dar’ya Averchenko\, Head of Communications\, Docudays UA\, will speak in person on planning and presenting a docudays film festival in war time and will be joined via zoom by another member of the team. \n\n\n\nDuring this event\, we will pay tribute to Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina\, who spoke passionately at the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival about bringing the war in Ukraine  to a close\, but who sadly passed away earlier this year as a result of a missile strike in Ukraine.  \n\n\n\nVictoria was the key speaker at the 2022 event ‘Nothing Bad has ever Happened – Stories from Ukraine’\, titled from an essay by Victoria and hosted by Pen Ireland with Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival held in Smock Alley Theatre. \n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina was a Ukrainian novelist\, essayist\, and human rights activist based in Kyiv. She was a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literature Prize for her prose works\, including the novels Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome\, and a finalist of the European Union Prize for Literature. She was a founder of the New York Literature Festival\, which takes place in a small town called New York in the Donetsk region. Victoria was working on a book of non-fiction documenting the experiences of Ukrainian women in war and titled ‘War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War’ which is expected to be published shortly and ‘recounts stories of \n\n\n\nWe will present a tribute to Victoria accompanied by a recorded reading in Ukranian of Victoria’s work by Halyna Budilova\, a member of Irish PEN\, followed by a minute’s silence. \n\n\n\nDocudays UA\n\n\n\nThe 21th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will be held in Kyiv on May 31st –June 9th 2024. Due to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia\, the traditional dates of the festival have been temporarily changed. The festival is non-political and non-commercial. After it ends\, Docudays UA will present the best films in the regions of Ukraine within the Docudays UA Travelling Festival. Screenings will take place from October up until and including December. \n\n\n\nObjective of the Festival \n\n\n\nTo facilitate the respect for and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms\, to establish an understanding of human dignity as the highest value\, to raise the level of civil activity in Ukraine\, to promote the development of documentary filmmaking. \n\n\n\nVision \n\n\n\nWe are creating a society of free people. \n\n\n\nMission of the Festival \n\n\n\nWe create opportunities for every person in Ukraine to watch talented and relevant human rights documentary films from all over the world. We promote an active civic position and respect for human dignity. We support the development of the Ukrainian film industry. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDar’ya Averchenko studied at the Faculty of Journalism at Kyiv International University. She received her postgraduate education at the Free University of Berlin. She worked as a journalist for the publication “Weekly Mirror”\, for TV Channel K1 and and TV Phoenix (Berlin). She led the Ukrainian version of the German TV Channel Da Vinci Learning. She is a member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine. Since 2007\, Averchenko has been a scriptwriter and producer for feature films and documentaries. In 2014\, her film “Euromaidan. Rough Cut” was in the Best of Fests program at IDFA. “Ukrainian Sheriffs” (2015) was her first feature-length documentary. It has won a Special Jury Prize at IDFA 2015 and was selected as Ukrainian submission to 89-th Oscars Academy Awards as the best foreign-language film. The fiction film “Volcano” by Roman Bondarchuk\, which Dar’ya co-produced in 2018 has won 12 awards and was officially selected to more than 50 festivals worldwide. Since 2021\, Dar’ya has been involved as a co-writer and co-producer in Roman Bondarchuk’s new film “Redacted” (Ukraine/Germany/Czech Republic/Slovakia\, in postproduction). She’s a head of Communications Department and a member of the Selection Committee of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex is a film journalist\, deputy editor of the online media about visual culture Moviegram\, program director of the spectator film festival Mykolaichuk OPEN. As an independent programmer and moderator he worked with the main Ukrainian film festivals – Docudays UA\, Odesa IFF and others. He also co-organized two film events in the shelters of Mykolaiv and Kherson during the full-scale Russian invasion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTetiana Bashkatova is a film director\, first AD\, and actress. She has a Master’s degree in ‘Theatre production’ (Kyiv University of Theater\, Cinema and Television named by I. Karpenko-Kary)\, and a Bachelor’s in ‘Film Direction’ (Kyiv University of Theater\, Cinema and Television named by I. Karpenko-Kary).  \n\n\n\nShe has worked as an actress for 11 years at the Dnipro National Theater named by T. Shevchenko; as first  AD she worked for 6 years\, on about 30 projects. Worked at studios: Ukrainian Production Studio\, Film UA\, 1+1\, Ivory Films\, Kyivtelefilm and others; As a Film director\, she made several short films\, including the documentary “Temporary” co-authored with film director A.Yablunovska about the forced migration of Ukrainians to other countries due to the war. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlesia Borsuk is a pipe organist who is currently studying\, working and living in Dublin. She has a Master’s degree from National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv) where she studied Music Culture\, currently\, she is studying pipe organ at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and trying to finish her Ph.D. in Musicology at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ukraine). She is an organist in St. Audoen’s Church and St. Catherine & St. James’ Church in Dublin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHalyna Budilova is a children’s writer\, poet\, songwriter\, journalist\, and translator from Kyiv\, Ukraine. She was born on January 17\, 1990. She holds a Master’s degree in Philology and Translation\, with expertise in Ukrainian\, Russian\, English\, and German languages. She is a member of Irish PEN and The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature. \n\n\n\nHalyna is the owner of “Little Beetle Press” children’s content agency (www.littlebeetlepress.com/en) and has authored over 20 books\, including “A very VERY angry book\,” which won an award in 2020. Her therapeutic coloring book series\, “Robbie and Crosspatch in crown\,” about coronavirus\, has been published worldwide. Her poems have been published in various poetic compilations\, including A New Ulster art magazine. \n\n\n\nHalyna and her two children had to leave Ukraine due to the Russian aggression towards the country and are currently based in Ireland\, Co Longford\, where she continues her work as a writer and a publisher. Some of her books have been published in Ireland\, including “The Sunflower Lion”\, “Happy will be the Days”\, the “Young Ukrainian Readers” series and “Sleepytime\, My Little Squirrel!” which became part of Belgium CBFU project. \n\n\n\nHalyna has also collaborated with an Irish singer SuZen\, their song “Raspberry Jam” became part of PoetryJukebox project and is available at all music databases. \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\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/voices-from-ukraine-war-film-and-human-rights/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
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