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SUMMARY:Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary Installation
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe installation features original artworks by Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer and poet; and Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photograph\, created in response to stories of people who stood up for the rights of others. Alongside these artworks we have original artworks by Noah Sex\, visual artist\, and Jessica Rodrigues\, visual artist\, whose work highlights themes of peace\, equality or human rights through powerful artistic expression\, sparking dialogue and new visions for the future. The Irish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary installation runs Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily at the Smashing Times International Visual Art Gallery\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. \n\n\n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Creator of Art and Photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival.  Mary is a Curator and Artist on the Irish in Resistance during World War II Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, Writer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIrish in Resistance during World War II is a multidisciplinary installation featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling. The installation reflects on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and spoke out for the rights of others.  The  installation features work by Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer and poet; and Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography.  \n\n\n\nDuring the current climate of war in Ukraine\, Gaza and a range of countries and regions around the world\, Smashing Times look to the past history of World War II to share stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things to stand up against oppression and fascism. Irish in Resistance During World War II focuses on a diversity of citizen peaceful resistance stories\, exploring voices of resistance from ordinary Irish people who stood up against fascism and  totalitarianism. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage\, and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within Nazi concentration camps and in wider society during World War II. This installation highlights how Irish people risked their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equally\, where democracy\, equality\, and peace prevail. \n\n\n\nThe Irish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary installation runs Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily at the Smashing Times International Visual Art Gallery\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. The exhibition will be closed on Thurs 16\, Sat 18 and Sun 19 October while festival events take place in the space. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is launched as part of the public reception for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival taking place on Friday 10 October 2025 at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. \n\n\n\nThe four artists from the Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary installation will feature in \n\n\n\na public event titled Voices of Peace Artists taking place on Saturday 11 October 2025 at 7pm at the \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. \n\n\n\nMembers of the public\, schools\, and youth and community groups are invited to attend the installation\, engage with the artworks\, and meet the artists through talks and workshops\, bringing people together to raise awareness about the power of solidarity\, kindness\, and the values of equality\, human rights\, diversity\, democracy\, peace\, and gender equality today. \n\n\n\nThe installation features 12 storyboard artworks showcasing the stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II with each story accompanied by a headshot and photographic artwork inspired by Irish  and European landscapes. A series of artworks inspired by the stories are on display. These include visual artworks by Hina Khan\, visual artist and Amna Walayat\, visual artist\, a series of poems by Féilim James\, writer and poet\, and poetry and film installations by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet and creator of art and photography. Artist Mary Moynihan initially compiled the stories of 12 Irish people involved in the resistance during World War II\, with the stories acting as a catalyst for the collaborative creation of the new artworks. A special thanks to John Morgan for research on the stories. \n\n\n\nOrigins of the Exhibition \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality received funding from The Arts Council Commissions Award in 2024 under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, to create an Irish in Resistance exhibition curated by Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography.  \n\n\n\nA series of original\, ambitious new artworks were commissioned and created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Féiliim James\, Hina Khan and Amna Walayat as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The artworks were created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism to protect the rights of others during World War II. Four artists were originally commissioned and twelve stories of Irish in Resistance were researched and presented as storyboard artworks alongside a range of artworks created by the four artists in response to the stories gathered. The exhibition was presented on-site at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, from 11–31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am-7pm as a flagship event for the sixth annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival in 2024.  \n\n\n\nA selection of the  exhibition was also  available to view online in digital format as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery\, increasing access for those unable to attend the physical exhibition\, as well as highlighting the work of the artists on an international scale.  The exhibition promoted a collaboration between two visual artists\, one writer\, and one writer-poet-photographer-filmmaker\, creating work collaboratively to promote equality\, human rights\, and diversity. The four artists created their artworks in collaboration with each other so that there is a genuine integration of visual art\, photography\, poetry\, and film. \n\n\n\nArtistic Process: Hope\, Courage\, Resilience \n\n\n\nIn 2024\, research was conducted by Mary Moynihan on 12 stories of Irish peope in resistance during World War II. This was then presented to the artists as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the collective of artists made up of visual artist Amna Walayat\, visual artist Hina Khan\, writer Féilim James\, and writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is inspired by themes of resistance\, courage\, oppression\, and freedom\, as told through the stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II. The exhibition reflects on the insidious nature and impact of fascism\, totalitarianism\, and dictatorship\, and the power of the human struggle against a tendency to control and destroy. The stories are of people who resist through violent resistance\, non-violent resistance\, and by continuing to be human\, to hold on to their humanity\, and to be kind. What is important are values in life. A key question to explore is how someone who believes in non-violent resistance should act when faced with a military and political behemoth such as Nazism. \n\n\n\nThe curator and artist Mary Moynihan has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women and men who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history from 1916 to 1923. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAfter 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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 \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’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.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nPlays 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 \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary’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. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, from Dublin\, Ireland\, is an author of fiction\, poetry\, and plays. His fiction\, non-fiction\, and poetry\, through both English and Irish\, have earned a number of awards and publications. In 2024\, his poem ‘Dream of an Atrocity’ was shortlisted for the New Irish Writing: Best Poetry category at the Irish Book Awards. He has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland on three occasions\, including for his novel\, Flower of Ash. Dublin City Arts Office granted him an Arts Bursary in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s work has appeared in the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing\, Acumen\, Abridged\, The High Window\, The Fiction Pool\, Icarus\, TOWER\, The Galway Review\, A New Ulster\, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation\, Pendemic\, Rant and Rave\, Vox Galvia\, the Smashing Times Newsletter\, and Tales From the Forest. He has had four plays and two short films produced. Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have performed\, published\, or exhibited at least 20 of Féilim’s poems\, in locations such as Dublin Castle\, the Mill Theatre Dundrum\, on their website\, and in their newsletter. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul (2023)\, about the relationship between James and Lucia Joyce\, had its premiere run in the Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, in October 2023\, as part of Smashing Times’ Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Its director was Patrick Joseph Byrnes\, who again directed when it had its second run\, this time in The New Theatre\, Dublin in June 2024\, as part of Bloomsday Festival. His play At Summer’s End (2019)\, about Ettie Steinberg\, a real-life Jewish-Irish woman facing the horrors of the Holocaust\, has been toured by Smashing Times to places such as Paris\, Northern Ireland\, and Áras an Uachtaráin\, the residency of the President of Ireland. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s Irish language writing\, under the surname Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards\, including one for a collection of poetry. These awards are the most prestigious in Irish language literature. His work through Irish has appeared in Comhar\, Feasta\, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation\, Comhar Óg\, Tuathal\, and An Scríbhneoir Óg. Additionally\, he has twice been selected for Fóras na Gaeilge’s Tutor Scheme. \n\n\n\nFéilim graduated from the BA in English Literature and Psychology in Trinity College\, Dublin in 2017. In 2020\, he completed the MA in Writing in NUI Galway\, studying under the likes of Mike McCormack and Arnold Thomas Fanning\, and receiving a first-class honour. He is currently seeking literary representation and publishers for his books. Visit his website here. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\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\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:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nThe exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art\, photography\, poetry and film inspired by physical landscapes and the interconnectedness of life from forests to the ocean. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCiarán Ahern\, TD\, Labour party \n\n\n\nTim Doyle\, Violinist \nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nEM Creative\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nJody Hogg\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to:  Catherine O’Connor\, Rathfarnham Castle and all the team at Rathfarnham Castle\, The Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFrom The Forest to The Ocean is a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan. The exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art\, photography\, poetry and film inspired by physical landscapes and the interconnectedness of life from forests to the ocean. The exhibition is on show at Rathfarnham Castle Gallery\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin D14K3T6 from Tuesday 16 September to Sunday 2 November 2025 and opens daily 9.30am – 5.30pm\, thereafter\, Wednesday – Sunday 10.30am – 5pm. A public launch takes place on Thursday 18 September 2025\, from 6-8pm\, with guest speakers and refreshments. \n\n\n\nFrom the Forest to the Ocean is inspired by reflections on nature and journeys of interconnectedness and the art of ‘letting go’\, linking physical landscapes of nature from the forests to the ocean to landscapes of the soul.  Our personal well-being is linked to the well-being of our planet on a physical\, spiritual\, emotional and intuitive level. Nature and creativity inspire us to look after ourselves\, each other\, the planet we live on and to search for more sustainable ways of living.  Join us as we reflect on ways to re-wild the landscape and re-wild the human soul\, exploring the flow of life and the art of letting go.  \n\n\n\nThe original concept for the exhibition From the Forest to the Ocean is by the curator Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet and creator of art and photography.  This exhibition is part of a triptych – Landscapes of the Soul (Part I)\, From the Forest to the Ocean (Part II) and a third exhibition (Part III) to be presented in 2026. Following their successful exhibition in 2024\, titled Landscapes of the Soul (Part I) artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan are delighted to return to Rathfarnham Castle Gallery to present their new multi-disciplinary exhibition titled From the Forest to the Ocean (Landscapes of the Soul Part II). This event is part of The Trees Project: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Performing Arts\, a project led by Dah Theatre\, Serbia and supported by Creative Europe. www.performtrees.eu \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan (she/her) is an award-winning writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker and  a creator of art and photography. Mary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival supported by The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nHina Khan was born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D.  \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle is a building with a rich and varied history dating back 400 years. It has been ‘a fortified house\, a luxurious seventeenth-century home\, a fashionable Georgian Mansion and an austere Jesuit residence’[1] It is now under State care and managed by the Office of Public Works. \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle was only referred to as a castle in the mid eighteenth century. It is situated on the outskirts of Dublin. It is the earliest recorded and one of the largest and most impressive of the fortified houses built in Ireland. It was commissioned C. 1583 for Adam Loftus who was at that time the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  The house passed down through seven generations of the Loftus family until 1723 when the whole estate was sold to William Connolly of Castletown\, County Kildare.  After an interval of some fifty years (1711-1767) which saw a number of tenants and owners who made alternations and additions to the house\, it was returned to the ownership of the Loftus family. There were several different owners until the Castle was declared a National Monument in 1986 and purchased for the Nation by the Office of Public Works in 1987. At the same time\, Dublin County Council acquired the grounds. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAfter 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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 \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’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.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nPlays 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 \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary’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. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \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\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Aisha Hamdulay at dlr Mill Theatre\, Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography.  Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator\, Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. Curator and Artist for The Art of Changemakers \n\n\n\nAisha Hamdulay\, Artist \n\n\n\nLaura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, Front Line Defenders\, Human Rights Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nConor Fortune\, Head of Communications and Events\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to Kate Canning\, Artistic Director and CEO and Shona Ashmore\, Theatre and Gallery Manager\, and all the staff at the dlr Mill Theatre\, Dundrum. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Changemakers multidisciplinary exhibition by artists Mary Moynihan and Aisha Hamdulay features photography\, poetry\, and storytelling and is a visual and poetical reflection on the stories of Human Rights Defenders today. The Art of Changemakers highlights the stories of the five inspirational Human Rights Defenders honoured in 2025 with the Front Line Defenders Annual Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk.  \n\n\n\nArtists Mary Moynihan and Aisha Hamdulay have created a series of artworks to accompany the stories of the five human rights defenders. Artworks by Mary Moynihan consist of photography\, poetry and text and a series of artworks inspired by statements from the  ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’. Artworks by Aisha Hamdulay consist of photography and poetry. The artistic work and stories are a celebration of the work of human rights defenders and a reflection on peace\, equality and human rights. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition runs from Tuesday 16 September to Saturday 25 October 2025 at the dlr Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, (Tuesday to Saturday\, 11am – 4pm\, closed for lunch 1.30-2.30pm daily). The exhibition is a collaboration between Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with the dlr Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nEach year Front Line Defenders announces the five winners of its top distinction\, the Front Line Defenders Annual Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The award was established in 2005 to honour the work of human rights defenders (HRDs) who are courageously making outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others\, often at great personal risk to themselves. \n\n\n\nThe laureates for the 2025 Front Line Defenders Annual Award come from Benin\, the Dominican Republic and Haiti\, Thailand\, Uzbekistan and Western Sahara and they were honoured at a special ceremony held in Dublin in 2025.  The laureates are \nAfrica: Luc Agblakou\, human rights educator and defender for LGBTIQ+ rights in Benin \nAmericas: The Movement for Human Rights\, Peace and Global Justice (MONDHA)\,  and NGO improving the living conditions of vulnerable communities in the Dominican Republic and Haiti \nAsia and the Pacific: Arnon Nampa\, human rights lawyer who volunteers with Thai Lawyers for Human Rights \nEurope and Central Asia: Sharifa Madrakhimova\, Uzbekistani woman human rights defender\, journalist\, and respected community leader \nMiddle East and North Africa: Mhamed Hali\, dedicated human rights defender and a member of the Sahrawi Association of Victims of Grave Human Rights Violations committed by the Moroccan State (ASVDH) \n\n\n\nThe Award focuses international attention on the work and struggles of HRDs\, providing a greater national and international platform to speak about and advocate for the human rights issues they are defending.  \n\n\n\nLaureates are selected from among scores of candidates who are put forward in a secure\, public nomination process carried out towards the end of each year and Award winners are announced on the day of the Award Ceremony in Dublin the following year. Laureates receive a modest financial prize\, a protection grant  and support from Front Line Defenders teams on digital and physical security\, advocacy\, visibility\, well-being and more. \n\n\n\n“These laureates are rays of light in some very dark situations of repression\, discrimination and detention. Their steadfast commitment to human rights provides the solutions we need to bring humanity back from the brink\, and to create a better\, more just world. Governments must begin to see human rights defenders\, not as a threat to their grasp on power\, but as positive changemakers who can improve societies and defend the human rights of their citizens.” \n\n\n\nAlan Glasgow\, Executive Director\, 2024 \n\n\n\nFor further information go to \n\n\n\nhttps://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/2025-front-line-defenders-award-human-rights-defenders-risk \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDetails of the Laureates for the 2025 Front Line Defenders Annual Award\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLuc AgblakouHirondelle Club InternationalBenin\n\n\n\n\n\nLuc Agblakou is a human rights defender who founded Hirondelle Club International\, an organisation that has become a beacon of hope and solidarity for the LGBTIQ+ community in Benin and Africa. Luc has dedicated his life to building a society where every person\, regardless of their identity or sexual orientation\, can live with dignity\, safety\, and equality.In 2010\, Luc’s friend was murdered by his own father simply because of his sexual orientation\, in a society that rejected him. This became a defining moment for Luc as an activist\, and in his grief he decided that he could not sit by and watch anyone else die.  \n\n\n\nLuc’s approach to his work is holistic. Hirondelle Club International offers peer-led therapy\, psychosocial assistance\, nutritional support\, and empowerment workshops for young LGBTIQ+ people. His work has led to the inclusion of LGBTIQ+ people in the strategic plan to combat HIV/AIDS in Benin as well as court rulings promoting the protection of the LGBTIQ+ community. \n\n\n\nHowever\, Luc’s work has come with challenging consequences\, in a context where there are few legal safeguards for LGBTIQ+ people and defenders. He has faced regular defamation of his character\, and faced serious threats and intimidation from both community members and state actors. \nLuc’s greatest joy is hearing LGBTIQ+ youth say they finally feel seen\, safe\, and supported. From Benin’s still-conservative society to the broader context\, this is a huge achievement for him. He always remembers his friend that he lost – through his work he may have saved many other lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Movement for Human Rights\, Peace and Global Justice (MONDHA)The Dominican Republic and Haiti\n\n\n\n\n\nTo date\, The Movement for Human Rights\, Peace and Global Justice (MONDHA) has helped more than 10\,000 vulnerable Haitian people obtain their identity documents in the Dominican Republic: the first step towards accessing rights in the neighbouring Caribbean country. Founded by Haitian migrants in 2005\, MONDHA was created in response to the structural discrimination and racism towards the Haitian migrant population and Dominicans of Haitian descent in the Dominican Republic. In an attempt to restrict these communities’ access to rights\, the Dominican Republic’s constitutional court has stripped the nationality of Dominican-born people with Haitian ancestry which has had serious consequences for thousands of people of Haitian descent. \n\n\n\nMONDHA has actively supported those affected by legal rulings by providing legal and social support. By participating in civil society spaces and promoting dialogue for democracy and human rights\, MONDHA also raises awareness and educates society about the importance of these issues in both countries. \n\n\n\nHowever\, MONDHA’s defence of human rights comes at a price. In the Dominican Republic\, the organisation’s members face multiple layers of risk. Many face the threat of detention and deportation due to their immigration status as Haitians; if they are deported to Haiti\, they are at risk of losing their lives or being forcibly disappeared due to their human rights work. \n\n\n\nDespite the constant risk they face and the emotional impact their work entails\, MONDHA has been working for 20 years for their greatest inspiration to continue their human rights work: the people they support. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArnon NampaThai Lawyers for Human RightsThailand\n\n\n\n\n\nArnon Nampa is an imprisoned human rights lawyer and activist\, highly regarded for his deep commitment to social justice and pro-democracy work in Thailand. In spite of his political persecution\, the potential of a lifetime behind bars and proposed penalties of disbarment from the profession to which he has dedicated his life\, he has never wavered in offering himself in service of others and his country. \n\n\n\nArnon co-founded Thai Lawyers for Human Rights\, an organisation established to provide legal assistance to alleged violators of lèse-majesté (insulting the monarchy) and human rights defenders targeted by the authorities following the military coup of May 2014. \n\n\n\nOn 7 August 2020\, Arnon was arrested from his home in Bangkok\, after he took part in a peaceful pro-democracy gathering. He spent no fewer than 300 days in prison before the court found him guilty of lèse majesté and sentenced him to four years in prison in September 2023. Arnon has been subjected to relentless judicial harassment and persecution\, facing a barrage of politically motivated charges. At present\, he has been convicted in seven Section 112 cases\, resulting in a cumulative prison sentence of 22 years\, 1 month\, and 20 days. \n\n\n\nIn spite of his political persecution\, it is clear that no matter the changing tides of his country\, his resolve and purpose remain the same: to protect the human rights of those around him. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSharifa MadrakhimovaUzbekistan\n\n\n\n\n\nSharifa is a woman human rights defender\, journalist and respected community leader from Uzbekistan. She grew up in a rural village in the Uchkuprik district of Fergana Region\, in a conservative society. Inspired by her talent for writing from a young age\, she later made a name for herself through her work as an independent journalist writing about issues impacting her community. Through her work\, Sharifa advocates for social change in the region\, striving to promote justice and equitable decision-making by authorities. \n\n\n\nThe death of President Islam Karimov in 2016 paved the way for improved transparency and freedom of speech in Uzbekistan. Sharifa took advantage of this and extended her voice to various social media networks. As a highly trusted voice by vulnerable people\, she was increasingly approached by people asking her to write about their issues; such as forced labour\, disability rights\, and abuses by district and regional officials. \n\n\n\nShe has faced a range of obstacles to her journalistic and public activities. Those who want to silence her resort to spreading lies about her through social media\, and threaten her family and children\, which has also impacted her ability to find work. \n\n\n\nDespite the challenges\, Sharifa derives deep satisfaction from her work\, engaging directly with individuals\, sharing their stories and making a positive impact on people’s lives. She has been an inspiration and an example for other young women in her society to break through the glass ceiling and pursue their dreams. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMhamed HaliWestern Sahara\n\n\n\n\n\nMhamed Hali is a Sahrawi human rights defender living and working in the occupied territories of Western Sahara. To be a human rights defender in Western Sahara means that you have chosen a life of danger and hardship\, which extends to your family. \n\n\n\nIn 1975\, Morocco annexed the territory of Western Sahara through a military invasion. Since then\, Sahrawis have lived under oppressive rule in their own lands\, subjected to discrimination\, violence\, and severe limitations on their civil and political rights\, often likened to Apartheid. \n\n\n\nMhamed’s organisation\, The League for the Protection of Sahrawi Prisoners in Moroccan Prisons\, monitors\, reports on\, and follows up on the situation of Sahrawi political prisoners. It accompanies detained activists from the first stages of arrest until their release\, follows their trials and coordinates with international lawyers and observers\, as well as monitoring conditions inside prisons and reporting on them. \n\n\n\nThe cost of Mhamed’s human rights work has been high. He has suffered violent attacks\, as well as vicious defamation campaigns facilitated by the Moroccan government. In 2007\, in response to his student activism and human rights work\, he was forcibly disappeared by Moroccan intelligence services\, and detained for eight days without being brought to trial. He was subjected to various cruel types of torture\, the horrific memories of which he says are still with him now. \n\n\n\nMhamed reflects that the humanity of this work makes him and others capable of enduring these dangers. He says that the most meaningful part of his work is when he sees a smile on the faces of victims of human rights violations and their families. This is when he feels the deep impact of his human rights work – that he has done his duty towards his people\, because they deserve to live with dignity. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAfter 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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 \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’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.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nPlays 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 \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary’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. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAisha is a multidisciplinary artist who uses storytelling in photography\, film\, and and poetry to explore themes of love\, inter-generational trauma\, justice\, and power—illuminating both wounds and the possibilities of healing. Contact on aishahamdulay@gmail.com/IG @aishahamdulay \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:From The Forest to The Ocean
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission \n\n\n\nArtists and Team\n\n\n\nCiarán Ahern\, TD\, Labour party \n\n\n\nTim Doyle\, Violinist \nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nEM Creative\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nJody Hogg\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to:  Catherine O’Connor\, Rathfarnham Castle and all the team at Rathfarnham Castle\, The Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFrom The Forest to The Ocean is a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan. The exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art\, photography\, poetry and film inspired by physical landscapes and the interconnectedness of life from forests to the ocean. The exhibition is on show at Rathfarnham Castle Gallery\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin D14K3T6 from Tuesday 16 September to Sunday 2 November 2025 and opens daily in September 9.30am – 5.30pm\, thereafter\, Wednesday – Sunday 10.30am – 5pm. Last admission\, 4.45pm. A public launch takes place on Thursday 18 September 2025\, from 6-8pm\, with guest speakers and refreshments. \n\n\n\nFrom the Forest to the Ocean is inspired by reflections on nature and journeys of interconnectedness and the art of ‘letting go’\, linking physical landscapes of nature from the forests to the ocean to landscapes of the soul.  Our personal well-being is linked to the well-being of our planet on a physical\, spiritual\, emotional and intuitive level. Nature and creativity inspire us to look after ourselves\, each other\, the planet we live on and to search for more sustainable ways of living.  Join us as we reflect on ways to re-wild the landscape and re-wild the human soul\, exploring the flow of life and the art of letting go.  \n\n\n\nThe original concept for the exhibition From the Forest to the Ocean is by the curator Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet and creator of art and photography.  This exhibition is part of a triptych – Landscapes of the Soul (Part I)\, From the Forest to the Ocean (Part II) and a third exhibition (Part III) to be presented in 2026. Following their successful exhibition in 2024\, titled Landscapes of the Soul (Part I) artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan are delighted to return to Rathfarnham Castle Gallery to present their new multi-disciplinary exhibition titled From the Forest to the Ocean (Landscapes of the Soul Part II). This event is part of The Trees Project: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Performing Arts\, a project led by Dah Theatre\, Serbia and supported by Creative Europe. www.performtrees.eu \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan (she/her) is an award-winning writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker and  a creator of art and photography. Mary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival supported by The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nHina Khan was born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D.  \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle is a building with a rich and varied history dating back 400 years. It has been ‘a fortified house\, a luxurious seventeenth-century home\, a fashionable Georgian Mansion and an austere Jesuit residence’[1] It is now under State care and managed by the Office of Public Works. \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle was only referred to as a castle in the mid eighteenth century. It is situated on the outskirts of Dublin. It is the earliest recorded and one of the largest and most impressive of the fortified houses built in Ireland. It was commissioned C. 1583 for Adam Loftus who was at that time the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  The house passed down through seven generations of the Loftus family until 1723 when the whole estate was sold to William Connolly of Castletown\, County Kildare.  After an interval of some fifty years (1711-1767) which saw a number of tenants and owners who made alternations and additions to the house\, it was returned to the ownership of the Loftus family. There were several different owners until the Castle was declared a National Monument in 1986 and purchased for the Nation by the Office of Public Works in 1987. At the same time\, Dublin County Council acquired the grounds. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtwork by Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Landscapes of the Soul 2024 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Rathfarnham Castle Guidebook \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAfter 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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 \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’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.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nPlays 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 \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary’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. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n  \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\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\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:Rohingya: The Path Towards Genocide in Myanmar
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nHaikal Mansor\, speaker and creator of the exhibition (RAI)  \n\n\n\nAlma Kahlos\, support role (BAI) \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRohingya: The Path Towards Genocide in Myanmar explores how the Myanmar State has engaged in a decades-long genocide against the Rohingya people. The exhibition features a timeline of the history of the Rohingya people in Myanmar; photographs picturing the lives and plights of Rohingya people in refugee camps in Bangladesh; and stories of Rohingya people who have resettled in Ireland and succeded in their new home. The exhibition is opened by a speech by Haikal Mansor from Rohingya Action Ireland. \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rohingya-the-path-towards-genocide-in-myanmar/
LOCATION:The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin\, D02 K037\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:The Eyes of the Storm
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Eyes of the Storm is a photographic exhibition by Trócaire\, celebrating the courage and determination of people on the frontlines of the climate crisis across the world. As well as sharing their powerful stories\, this exhibition also urges people on the island of Ireland to join the climate movement and stand together in solidarity with those most affected. We need governments and corporations to act\, and we need them to act fast.​ This exhibition is part of Trócaire’s Climate Justice Campaign which is calling for a fast\, fair and funded phase out of fossil fuels. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition runs at Flux Gallery in the former DIT music school at 4 Chatham Row from 11am-5pm daily. \n\n\n\nTrócaire\n\n\n\nTrócaire turns the compassion of the Irish people into life-changing support for some of the world’s poorest people. \n\n\n\nWe work in partnership with communities in 23 countries to relieve poverty and tackle injustice. We do this thanks to the support of people all over Ireland\, as well as with the help of our institutional partners. \nTrócaire is the Irish language word for “compassion”. For 50 years Trócaire has put the compassion of Irish people into action. \nTrócaire is an agency of the Irish Catholic Church. We are the Irish member of the Caritas Internationalis federation. \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-eyes-of-the-storm/
LOCATION:FLUX Studios\, 4 Chatham Row\, Dublin 2
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography
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SUMMARY:Irish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary for exhibition. Book your place for the launch and artist talk below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer and poet \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIrish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary Exhibition \n\n\n\nGallery: The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 K037 \n\n\n\nExhibition runs Friday 11 to Thursday 31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am–7pm \n\n\n\nLaunch and Artist Talk: Irish in Resistance during World War II at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2 on Saturday 12 October 2024\, 7-10pm.  An evening of talks\, poetry and chat with artists Mary Moynihan\, Hina Khan\, Amna Walayat and Féilim James and guest speakers on stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II\, exploring how the stories have inspired artistic creation and resonate in today’s climate of war and genocide and a search for peace. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to present Irish in Resistance during World War II\, a new multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling\, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and spoke out for the rights of others.  During the current climate of war in Ukraine and Gaza\, Smashing Times look to the past history of World War II to share stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things to stand up against oppression and fascism. \n\n\n\nA series of ambitious new artworks have been commissioned and created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism to protect the rights of others during World War II. The commissioned artists are Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer; and Smashing Times Artistic Director Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography. The exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan\, funded by The Arts Council Commissions Award under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, and is presented as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The producers are Ciara Hayes and Freda Manweiler\, and the digital artist is Paul Marshall. Artist Mary Moynihan initially compiled the stories of 12 Irish people involved in the resistance during World War II\, with the stories acting as a catalyst for the collaborative creation of the new artworks. A special thanks to John Morgan for research on the stories. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is presented on-site at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, from 11–31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am-7pm as a flagship event for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. It is available to view online in digital format as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery\, increasing access for those unable to attend the physical exhibition\, as well as highlighting the work of the artists on an international scale. \n\n\n\nThe Irish in Resistance exhibition focuses on a diversity of citizen resistance stories\, exploring voices of resistance from ordinary Irish people who stood up against fascism\, totalitarianism\, and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage\, and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within Nazi concentration camps and in wider society during World War II. The exhibition highlights how Irish people risked – and in some cases sacrificed – their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equally\, where democracy\, equality\, and peace prevail. \n\n\n\nMembers of the public\, schools\, and youth and community groups are invited to attend the launch\, explore the exhibition\, engage with the artworks\, and meet the artists through talks and workshops\, bringing people together to raise awareness about the power of solidarity\, kindness\, and the values of equality\, human rights\, diversity\, democracy\, peace\, and gender equality today. \n\n\n\nArtistic Process: Hope\, Courage\, Resilience \n\n\n\nThis is Phase One of the exhibition\, with a larger scale exhibition to be created in 2025. In 2024\, as part of Phase One\, research was conducted by Mary Moynihan on 12 stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II. This was then presented to the artists as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the collective of artists made up of visual artist Amna Walayat\, visual artist Hina Khan\, writer Féilim James\, and writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography Mary Moynihan. The exhibition promotes a collaboration between two visual artists\, one writer\, and one writer-poet-photographer-filmmaker\, creating work collaboratively to promote equality\, human rights\, and diversity. The four artists create their artworks in collaboration with each other so that there is a genuine integration of visual art\, photography\, poetry\, and film. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is inspired by themes of resistance\, courage\, oppression\, and freedom\, as told through the stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II. The exhibition reflects on the insidious nature and impact of fascism\, totalitarianism\, and dictatorship\, and the power of the human struggle against a tendency to control and destroy. The stories are of people who resist through violent resistance\, non-violent resistance\, and by continuing to be human\, to hold on to their humanity\, and to be kind. What is important are values in life. A key question to explore is how someone who believes in non-violent resistance should act when faced with a military and political behemoth such as Nazism. \nSupported by The Arts Council and presented for the sixth annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival. \nInformation: Freda Manweiler 087 2214245\, info@smashingtimes.ie\, www.smashingtimes.ie \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAfter 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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 \n\n\n\nIn 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. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’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.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nPlays 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 \n\n\n\nMary 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. \n\n\n\nMary’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. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \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\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:The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin\, D02 K037\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multi-disciplinary exhibition by artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition brings together visual imagery and poetry to reflect on meaning-making and pathways of expression\, mapping physical landscapes of nature to human emotions from grief and longing to inner peace\, spirituality and love. In homage to the human spirit\, the exhibition is a journey of exploration inspired by an engagement with landscapes and seascapes and is a gentle provocation to all of us to reimagine the landscapes of our natural environment\, the vast lands and oceans we call our home\, linked to the landscapes of our internal well-being.  Our personal well-being is linked to the well-being of our planet on a physical\, spiritual\, emotional and intuitive level\, with nature and creativity inspiring us to look after ourselves\, each other\, the planet we live on and more sustainable ways of living. \n\n\n\nThe original exhibition concept is created by Mary Moynihan with curation and original artworks by artists Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet and creator of art and photography and Hina Khan\, a visual artist\, presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for the annual international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. See smashingtimes.ie for full festival information. \n\n\n\nThe artists want to share the work through a related programme of cultural activities taking place around the context of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival of which this exhibition is a key event.  The festival takes the  form of talks\, workshops\,  events\, films screenings\, live indoor and outdoor performances\, installations and happenings\, all initiating a series of creative conversations around a shared vision for equality\, diversity and a more sustainable future for all. \n\n\n\nVisit Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park for a live performance of The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul. Image by Mary Moynihan\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tree of Life by Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle is a building with a rich and varied history dating back 400 years. It has been ‘a fortified house\, a luxurious seventeenth-century home\, a fashionable Georgian Mansion and an austere Jesuit residence’[1]. It is now under State care and managed by the Office of Public Works. \nRathfarnham Castle was only referred to as a castle in the mid eighteenth century. It is situated on the outskirts of Dublin. It is the earliest recorded and one of the largest and most impressive of the fortified houses built in Ireland. It was commissioned C. 1583 for Adam Loftus who was at that time the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  The house passed down through seven generations of the Loftus family until 1723 when the whole estate was sold to William Connolly of Castletown\, County Kildare.  After an interval of some fifty years (1711-1767) which saw a number of tenants and owners who made alternations and additions to the house\, it was returned to the ownership of the Loftus family. There were several different owners until the Castle was declared a National Monument in 1986 and purchased for the Nation by the Office of Public Works in 1987. At the same time\, Dublin County Council acquired the grounds. \n[1] Rathfarnham Castle Guide Book \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \nMary 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. \nAfter 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. \nMary 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 \nIn 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. \nSmashing Times \nMary 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. \nMary 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. \nAwards \nMary’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.    \nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \nMary 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. \nMary 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.  \nPlays 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. \nMary 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. \nMary’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. \nKeep in touch with Mary on: \nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan Artist Statement\n\n\n\nMy work has multiple layers and is the constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and express my own ideologies through symbolism. My work is a constant search for peace that doesn’t exist anymore. I fabricate things that constantly evoke deep emptiness and sorrow about our surroundings. For me\, art is not just an activity\, it is a passion\, a medium that I use as an activist and to describe my feelings\, my pain. I have used art as a medium to articulate my own experiences and I have faith that art has the power to prevail over the differences between religion\, culture\, language and race. It has the power to bring harmony to culture and to craft peace on our only inhabitable planet. \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\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/landscapes-of-the-soul-visual-multidisciplinary-exhibition-with-artists-mary-moynihan-and-hina-khan/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBooking Links Below \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nBrian Maguire\, artist \n\n\n\nGallery Opening Hours\n\n\n\nExhibition is open during gallery opening hours. Opening Hours \n\nMon Closed\nTues to Wed 9:45 am – 6:00 pm\nThurs 9:45 am – 8:30 pm\nFri 9:45 am – 5:00 pm\nSat 10:00 am – 5:00 pm\nSun 11:00 am – 5:00 pm\n\nPlease see website for dates and times for events in our associated engagement programme. \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Maguire: La Grande Illusion\n\n\n\nHighlights of our public programmes\n\n\n\nFilm Screenings\, Talks\, Tours\, Art Appreciation series and more\n\n\n\n\n\nArt Appreciation Course \n\n\n\nMore Power to you! Art and Activism from Sarah Purser to Brian Maguire \n\n\n\nDates: Thursdays 3\, 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 October\, 7\, 14\, 21 November 2024\, 14:30-16:30pm. \n\n\n\nThis eight week course programmed by HLG is presented in collaboration with UCD Life long Learning programme. Enrol via:  UCD Lifelong Learning programme 01 7167123 or all@ucd.ie   https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/art-appreciation-course-ucd-lifelong-learning/ \n\n\n\nArt Appreciation Course \n\n\n\nAvenues into Modern and Contemporary Art \n\n\n\n5 October 2024- 26 April 2025 \n\n\n\nTaking place on Saturday mornings\, these illustrated lectures programmed by HLG and presented in collaboration with the Peoples College offer the opportunity for exploring engaging and wide-ranging themes from art history to contemporary visual art practice\, to wider societal concerns explored by artists nationally and internationally including Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. Enrol via info@peoplescollege.ie  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/avenues-into-modern-and-contemporary-art-2024-25 \n\n\n\nHugh Lane Culture Club \n\n\n\nTuesday 15 October\, 2.30pm \n\n\n\nOur Culture Clubs are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Dr Anne Cormican will lead a walkthrough of the exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion followed by tea /coffee and further discussion. Booking details https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/culture-club-15-oct/ \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 16 October 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Contemporary Art Practice: Artist Claire Halpin will discuss her work which explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting\, video and installation. Fee: €5\, incl tea/coffee https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/claire-halpin/ \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nThursday 17 October\, 11amTour for People who are Hard of Hearing with a focus discussion of artworks in our new exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. This tour will focus on the artworks in Galleries 1 The Invisible Becomes Visible and Gallery 2 Remains. Free\, book on Eventbrite. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/hard-of-hearing-17-oct/ \n\n\n\nFilms Screening‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition La Grande Illusion. \n\n\n\nFriday 18 October 2024\, 1pm La Grande Illusion (1hr 53 minutes)\, 1937; Directed by Jean Renoir.La Grande Illusion takes place in a German fortress where two French aviators – aristocratic Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and working-class Breton lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin) – are held captive by monocled Captain von Rauffenstein (played by the silent film director Erich von Stroheim). Introduced and followed by Q+A moderated by Film Curator Alice Butler. Free\, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-la-grande-illusion/ \n\n\n\nParent and Baby ToursThursday 31 October\, 28 November 2024 and 27 March\, 11amNew parents are invited to join us on this guided tour of Brian Maguire’s exhibition La Grande Illusion\, with their babies up to the age of 1 year.  Followed by tea/coffee and further conversation. Fee: €5\, booking essential via Eventbrite.ie.  \n\n\n\nFilm Screening \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 November\, 2\,30pmOff Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory directed by Mohanad Yaqubi. (62 min\, Color & B&W\, digital\, Arabic\, English\, French\, and Italian with English subtitles; Palestine\, France\, Qatar\, Lebanon\, 2016. This screening is programmed and presented by artist and filmmaker Helena Gouveia Monteiro\, who will moderate a post-screening conversation. Free\, booking on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-off-framenov24  \n\n\n\nFilm Screening  \n\n\n\n‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’. \n\n\n\nFriday 22 November 2024\, 1pmForagers (64 mins)\, 2022; by Jumana Manna‘Foragers’ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights\, the Galilee and Jerusalem\, it moves between fiction\, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. With an introduction and post-screening Q+A with Film Curator Alice Butler. Free\, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/?cat=talks-art-courses \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nTour for People who are Hard of Hearing   \n\n\n\nThursday 21 November 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in focus discussion of artworks in our new exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. This tour led by Yseult O’Driscoll will focus on the artworks in  Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion  in Gallery 3 War Changes Its Address and Gallery 4 The Clock Winds Down https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/hard-of-hearing-21-nov/  \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nISL Interpreted Tour: Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion  \n\n\n\nTuesday 22 October 2024\, 2.30pm \n\n\n\nJoin us for an introductory guided tour of our current exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion accompanied by an Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreter. Free \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 13 November\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nThe Clear Cut Amazon by Brian Maguire. €5. Incl. tea/coffee \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 27 November 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nArt and Ecology with artist Gareth Kennedy \n\n\n\nThis illustrated talk by artist Gareth Kennedy will discuss the intersections of contemporary art with ecology. Fee: €5\, incl tea/coffee https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/gareth-kennedy \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 4 December 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Join us for an illustrated talk about Salmagundi with filmmaker Jijo Sebastian. Awarded the Hugh Lane Gallery-Create commission 2022-24 for a socially engaged artist\, learn more about the collaborative\, transcultural filmmaking and community building project developed by the artist. €5 fee including tea/coffee\, no advance booking required but numbers may be limited. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/coffee-conversation-salmagundi-jijo-sebastian/ \n\n\n\nEvening Lecture \n\n\n\nThursday 5 December\, 6.30pmRaul Araujo is a researcher\, psychoanalyst and consultant on children and adolescents’ rights. Raul has worked on projects with artist Brian Maguire over a timespan of 20 years and in this talk he will explore this work\, as well as his own work on the ground in his native Brazil. Free\, places can be booked via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 8 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nOver Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up by Brian Maguire. Fee: €5\, incl. tea/coffee \n\n\n\nFilm Screening \n\n\n\n‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 January 2025\, 1pmShouting at the Ground (21 mins)\, 2017; by Graeme ArnfieldIn a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered\, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A matter which labours have extracted for centuries\, selling this fertile material as fuel worldwide; a material which upon burning releases timeless carbon deposits into our increasingly precarious and damaged ecosphere. After laying dormant under the rich dark peat for an unknown amount of time a body returned to the surface but its identity had become dislocated; it has become entwined with the history of its material host.  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/shouting-film-10jan25 \n\n\n\nPoetry Course: Invisible Becomes Visible \n\n\n\n11\, 18  and 25 January 2025\, 1.45-4.15pm \n\n\n\nLed by poet Grace Wilentz\, three part series of workshops engaging with “La Grande Illusion”\, a major exhibition of the work of Brian Maguire. In each workshop\, participants will spend time with the exhibition\, before being guided to write original poems in response to it.  Brian Maguire is an artist whose practice has been defined by sustained engagement with social justice and human rights. In this workshop\, we will focus on how Maguire’s work in “La Grande Illusion” encounters climate justice\, migration and making ‘the invisible become visible’. As Maguire says\, art has the power to make ‘the invisible become visible’. We’ll explore what this means\, with a focus on how your own creative practice might relate to serving the overlooked\, omitted and forgotten. While no prior experience is necessary\, all will be expected to participate actively in discussions and take part in writing exercises. In return\, you can expect to come away with new poems\, and discover fresh approaches to engaging with urgent social justice concerns in your own creative practice. Fee: €100\, advance booking via Eventbrite https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/la-grande-illusion/ \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nLive Online Audio Description for People with a Visual Impairment \n\n\n\nWednesday 15 January 2025\, Noon \n\n\n\nOur live online audio description programme for people with a visual impairment will explore the exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion with Fala Buggy. \n\n\n\nHow to Book: Free\, advance booking via Eventbrite or by telephone on 01 2225560. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/online-audio-description-15-jan/ \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 22 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nBentiu Camp South Sudan 1\, 2018. Fee: €5\, incl tea/coffee. \n\n\n\nFilm Screening \n\n\n\n‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’. \n\n\n\nFriday 14 February 2025\, 1pmHistory of the Present (46 mins)\, 2023; by Maria Fusco and Margaret SalmonAn experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict\, ‘History of the Present’ has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon\, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood\, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner. This intersectional\, intergenerational feminist work forefronts working-class women’s voices to ask: who has the right to speak\, and in what way? With an introduction and post-screening Q+A with Film Curator Alice Butler\, Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon; joining online. Free\, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability.  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/historypresent-film-14feb25 \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nTour for People who are Hard of Hearing \n\n\n\nThursday 23 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in focus discussion of artworks  in  Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion: A focus on the artworks in Galleries 4 + 5 Blood Rising  with Tony Suttle. Free. \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 29 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nArizona 3 by Brian Maguire. Fee: €5\, incl. tea/coffee \n\n\n\nSeminar \n\n\n\nBrian Maguire: La Grande Illusion SeminarFriday 21 March\, 10.30am – 4.30pmThis day long seminar will explore themes arising from Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion with guest contributors including Dr Maria Maclennan\, ‘forensic jeweller’\,  Suha Nabhan\, co-founder and strategic director of Migration Jam; and more. Free\, booking on Eventbrite and further details will be available here https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/ \n\n\n\nFree Sunday Public Tours \n\n\n\nOur free Public Tours led by our expert guides take place every Sunday at 2.15pm\, and explore our collection and temporary exhibitions. Free\, no booking required. \n\n\n\nGuided tours can also be booked here https://hughlane.ie/book-a-tour/ \n\n\n\nCommunity  \n\n\n\nAs well as our public programmes we are connecting with audiences through artist-led community engagement and schools programmes to explore themes arising from Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. \n\n\n\nOur Explore & Learn programmes are continually being added to and further details can be found here https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/ and here https://hughlane.ie/whats-on/ \n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Biography\n\n\n\nBrian Maguire lives and works in Dublin and Paris. Brian Maguire’s painting practice is driven by the struggle against inequality and violence\, and the pursuit of justice. His process is foremost an act of solidarity\, rehumanising his subjects and recentring the narratives of the disenfranchised. Social engagement plays a central role\, leading him to work closely and interactively with refugees\, survivors of warzones\, incarcerated peoples\, and local newsrooms in locations including Sudan\, Syria\, São Paulo and Ciudad Juárez. Recent solo exhibitions include Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship\, Converge 45\, Portland (2023); law of the land\, Kunsthall 3\,14\, Bergen\, Norway (2023); The Clock Winds Down\, Kerlin Gallery\, Dublin (2023); In The Light Of Conscience\, Missoula Art Museum\, Montana (2022); North and South of the Border\, Rhona Hoffman Gallery\, Chicago (2022); Remains\, Crawford Art Gallery\, Cork\, Ireland (2021); An Anatomy of Politics\, Galerie Christophe Gaillard\, Paris (2021). \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/brian-maguire-la-grande-illusion/
LOCATION:Hugh Lane Gallery\, Charlemont House\, Parnell Square N\, Rotunda\, Dublin 1\, D01 F2X9
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers Visual Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to Aisha Hamdulay and Conor Fortune\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Changemakers multidisciplinary exhibition features photography\, poetry\, and storytelling and is a visual and poetical reflection on the stories of human rights defenders today. The Art of Changemakers highlights the stories of the five inspirational human rights defenders honoured in 2024 for the Front Line Defenders Annual Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk.  Artist Mary Moynihan has created a series of poetry and ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ statements combining text and photographic imagery to accompany the stories of the five human rights defenders. The artistic work and stories are a celebration of the work of human rights defenders and a reflection on peace\, equality and human rights. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition runs from 17 September to 27 October 2024 at the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, Tuesday to Saturday\, 11am to 4pm\, closed for lunch 1.30-2.30\, and is a collaboration between Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nEach year Front Line Defenders announces the five winners of its top distinction\, the Front Line Defenders Annual Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The award was established in 2005 to honour the work of human rights defenders (HRDs) who are courageously making outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others\, often at great personal risk to themselves. \n\n\n\nThe laureates for the 2024 award come from Cyprus\, Honduras\, Mozambique\, Pakistan and Palestine and were honoured at a special ceremony held in Dublin in 2024.  The laureates are: \n\n\n\nAfrica: Gamito dos Santos Carlos of AJOPAZ\, the Youth Association for Peace (Mozambique) \nAmericas: The Trans women collective Muñecas de Arcoíris (Honduras)\, represented by Jennifer Bexara Córdova \nAsia and the Pacific: Sammi Deen Baloch of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (Balochistan\, Pakistan) \nEurope and Central Asia: Doros Polykarpou of KISA (Cyprus) \nMiddle East and North Africa: We Are Not Numbers (Gaza\, Palestine)\, represented by Ahmed Alnaouq \n\n\n\n“Given the immensity of the challenges we face and the adverse forces working against human rights in many parts of the world\, it might seem tempting to lose hope that a better world is even possible\,” said Alan Glasgow\, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders. “But these courageous human rights defenders have defied that temptation and inspire us to keep hope alive. They say ‘no’ to the perpetrators and ‘yes’ to optimism – they know a fairer\, more equal\, rights-respecting world is worth fighting for”. \n\n\n\nThe award focuses international attention on the work and struggles of HRDs\, providing a greater national and international platform to speak about and advocate for the human rights issues they are defending. \n\n\n\nFor further information go to https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/2024-front-line-defenders-award-human-rights-defenders-risk \n\n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGamito dos Santos Carlos\, Human Rights Defender \n\n\n\nExecutive Director\, JOPAZ\, the Youth Association for Peace\, \n\n\n\nNampula\, Northern Mozambique \nGamito dos Santos Carlos\, a human rights defender from Nampula\, northern Mozambique\, is the executive director of AJOPAZ\, the Youth Association for Peace. His human rights work centres around social\, civil and political rights and accountability. Gamito has been advocating for the protection of human rights activists and engaging with young people to advocate for significant social change in his community\, to foster justice and sustainable decision-making by authorities. \n  \nHe is a member of the Friends of Amurane Association for a Better Mozambique -KÓXUKHURO\, as well as an analyst and Provincial Coordinatorof the Mozambican Network of Human Rights Defenders (RMDDH). He has faced ongoing intimidation for his human rights work\, including repeated raids on his home and the loss of his job\, and in March 2023 he was kidnapped and tortured after he organised a demonstration. \n  \nDespite all the challenges he faces\, Gamito has consistently defended democracy\, human rights and anti-corruption initiatives in Mozambique\, having a significant impact in improving conditions for the Nampula community. \n  \nGamito dreams of a fairer\, equal country; where health\, education\, housing and employment are rights which are properly realised\, where equity and gender equality are accepted without prejudice\, where young people and women are involved in decision-making processes\, where politicians treat people with respect and dignity and adhere to the rule of law\, where freedom of speech is a respected right\, and where democracy is genuine and people exercise their rights without fear. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMuñecas de Arcoíris (Rainbow Dolls)\, \n\n\n\nThe Trans Women Collective\, \n\n\n\nRepresented by Jennifer Bexara Córdova\, \n\n\n\nHonduras \nMuñecas de Arcoíris (Rainbow Dolls) is a collective of trans women from the city of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela in Honduras\, founded in 2008. Muñecas works under the LGBTI+ Arcoíris Association of Honduras with the aim of creating a safe space for trans sex worker women. The members of Muñecas started as volunteers of the Arcoíris Association\, where they became more aware of the situation that trans people were facing in Honduras. With the support of the Arcoíris Association\, Muñecas members received training related to their rights as LGBTI+ people. They then started to document human rights violations specifically against trans women in 2006 and two years later\, the collective was formally created as a trans women organisation. Most of its members are sex workers\, informal workers\, stylists\, and house keepers\, among others. \nAs human rights defenders\, members of Muñecas have a double layer of vulnerability. They are adversely targeted\, firstly due to their identity\, and secondly due to their work defending trans rights. Over the years\, the work of Muñecas has led to high-risk situations for a number of its members\, who have faced threats\, physical\, psychological and verbal attacks\, and killings. \nThe members of Muñecas dedicate their lives to the defence of human rights\, fighting for a more equal world\, in which respect\, tolerance\, empathy is present. For the members of Muñecas\, it is invaluable to have a safe space where they meet and learn more about their human rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSammi Deen Baloch\, Human Rights Defender \n\n\n\nVoice for Baloch Missing Persons \n\n\n\nBalochistan province\, Pakistan \nSammi Deen Baloch is a Baloch woman human rights defender from Mashkai\, Awaran District of Balochistan province\, Pakistan. She is the General Secretary of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP)\, a non-governmental organisation that represents and supports victims and relatives of enforced disappearances in Balochistan. \nIn June 2009\, at the age of 10\, Sammi’s father\, Dr Deen Mohammed Baloch\, was forcibly disappeared in Khuzdar\, Balochistan. She began persistently campaigning for the release of her father\, which further led to her deeper\, collective involvement in advocating against enforced disappearances in Balochistan by state forces. \nSammi has led campaigns and actions including marches\, protests and sit-ins; documented violations and cases of enforced disappearance; and assisted families with registering cases with relevant authorities. She has been a vocal advocate on women’s and girls rights\, the right to education and ongoing violations including killings\, mass graves and the collective punishment of families. \nSammi has faced persecution and reprisals including violence towards herself and family members. Since 2009\, the military have raided her home several times\, burned and seized valuables and even tried to abduct her brother. The family were forced to relocate to Karachi where her work continued\, and threats against her escalated.  She has also been forcibly disappeared herself. \nDespite being targeted and risking so much\, Sammi remains undeterred\, driven by her unwavering commitment to justice and the protection of human rights in Balochistan. Her work has enabled thousands of women and girls to stand up for their rights and has brought attention to the struggles of the Baloch people. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoros Polykarpou is a leading human rights defender and founding member of KISA (the Movement for Equality\, Support and Anti-Racism). He is an expert on migration\, asylum\, discrimination\, racism\, and trafficking in Cyprus. For over 27 years\, he has dedicated himself to defending and advocating for the rights of people on the move and tackling discrimination and xenophobia in Cyprus\, navigating the unique socio-political environment of the small island nation with strong conservative elements. \n\n\n\nCyprus first developed its immigration policy in 1996\, and strong right-wing conservatism led to a model focused on temporary residence and filling of undesired jobs by migrants. The policy ultimately led to a rapid increase of migrants\, along with strong sentiments of racism and discrimination. In response to this\, Doros and other activists founded KISA\, with the objective of combating discrimination against migrants and asylum seekers\, and addressing human trafficking. \n\n\n\nDoros has been the target of a multitude of attacks\, including defamation campaigns\, criminal prosecutions and death threats – the latest being the bomb attack on KISA’s offices on 5 January 2024\, with the planting of an explosive device right opposite Doros’s workstation at KISA’s offices. \n\n\n\nDoros was born in Silikou\, a mixed village where Turkish and Greek Cypriots lived together peacefully\, even during intense inter-communal conflicts. In the 80s\, Doros moved to Germany to study where he stayed for 10 years working and studying. \n\n\n\nReturning to Cyprus in the early 1990s\, he engaged in the movement for reconciliation and reunification of the divided island and worked to protect children and women from domestic violence. \n\n\n\nDespite the threats and challenges\, Doros finds great satisfaction in his work\, engaging directly with individuals and migrant groups through a human rights-based approach and making positive changes in people’s lives. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe Are Not Numbers (WANN) \n\n\n\nYouth-Led Palestinian Non-Profit \n\n\n\nGaza Strip \nWe Are Not Numbers (WANN) is a youth-led Palestinian non-profit project established in the Gaza Strip in 2014\, with the aim of telling the everyday\, human stories of thousands of Palestinians. Their vision is to spread Palestinian voices and narratives\, based on respect for human rights through the work of peaceful\, non-violent\, youth led Palestinians. When co-founder Ahmed Alnaouq lost his 23-year-old brother\, Ayman\, during an Israeli military attack on Palestinians in the summer of 2014\, he was devastated\, and sunk into a depression from which he thought he would never escape. During this time\, he met American journalist Pam Bailey\, who encouraged him to celebrate his brother’s legacy by writing a story about him. \nThe idea came fully to fruition in early 2015 in collaboration with Dr. Ramy Abdu\, chair of the board of directors for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor). In a context where the media was dominated with news and stories of Palestinians as mere political numbers; living under occupation\, amid war\, WANN wanted to share the humanity of Palestine beyond politics and numbers. It became a platform both to document human rights violations\, but also to share the personal struggles and triumphs\, tears and laughter\, and the universal human experiences of Palestinians. The mission of WANN is to break stereotypes about Palestinians\, by creating and empowering a new generation of Palestinian writers and thinkers who can share unfiltered stories of the Palestinian cause. \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\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/the-art-of-changemakers-visual-art-exhibition/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Rites of Care\, Curse & Comfort
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nThaís Muniz\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis exhibition features a selection of new\, recreated and past works that engage transgenerational trauma\, manifestations of racism\, the objectification of womanhood by the male gaze\, and the erasure of ancestral knowledge systems. A key motif is an inverted triangle\, which Muniz puts forward as a visualisation of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people – representing Europe\, West Africa and the Americas – as well as her own autobiography\, in terms of her Brazilian origins\, African ancestry and Irish citizenship. The circle is another recurrent motif\, and represents ori – referring to spiritual intuition and destiny among the Yoruba\, a West African ethnic group with whom Muniz self-identifies. The exhibition demonstrates Muniz’s interest in the long-lasting impacts\, both material or psychological\, of colonialism on racialised communities. \n\n\n\nCentral to the exhibition is New Atlantic Triangulations Flag (2022)\, consisting of triangular and circular shapes printed on hanging fabric pieces. The work formally mimics a traditional national flag\, but the designed emblem is intended to represent motion\, whether metaphorically linking dispersed populations or referring specifically to the movements of persons undermining borders. Muniz blends references to Yoruban\, Brazilian or Irish histories and mythology\, for instance\, the Celtic legend of the island of Hy-Brasil or the ancient alphabet known as Ogham\, to meditate on her hybrid cultural identity. In the print Ori Axe Ogham (2024)\, ori evokes her African heritage; axe is the Brazillian word for ori; and Ogham is an ancient Irish alphabet. Muniz uses the slanted dashes of Ogham typography to spell out the words ‘axe’ and ‘ori’. The abstract geometric diagram can be understood as both an illustration of the movement of the artist’s body and a mapping of dispersed populations. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is produced by SIRIUS and curated by Miguel Amado\, Director\, with production support provided by Cork Printmakers. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThaís Muniz is a Brazilian Irish artist with African heritage\, based in Dublin. She examines representations of ‘otherness’ through ideas of blackness\, displacement and memory in a postcolonial context\, and explores embodied and experiential art-making processes and outcomes. Her prints\, collages\, textile pieces\, and performances combine archival materials and personal memorabilia\, storytelling and symbology. \n\n\n\n\n\nSirius Arts Centre\n\n\n\nSirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club\, the oldest in the world. Salvin was best known for his restoration work on Windsor Castle and the Tower of London. This is the only example of Salvin’s work in Ireland. \n  \nFor thirty-one years the building has housed the Sirius Arts Centre; an organisation that is dedicated to the facilitation and development of artistic expression on a local\, national and international stage. This is the only organisation of its kind in the east Cork area. \n  \nSirius is an arts centre that serves as an intermediary between art and the public that endeavours to raise public awareness of art. It offers developing opportunities for both emerging and more established artists from both Ireland and abroad. The programme is dedicated to the facilitation and development of artistic expression\, with additional community programming that encourages exploration through direct participation in the arts. \n  \nThis is achieved through a mix of activities including: visual arts programming and exhibitions\, an international artist in residence programme\, music performances\, community arts programmes and workshops\, all of which bring people to east Cork. The Sirius Arts Centre building provides the organisation with a unique environment and gives continuing life to a heritage building of architectural and historical importance in Cobh. \n\n\n\nSirius Arts Centre\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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rites-of-care-curse-comfort-2/
LOCATION:Sirius Arts Centre Cobh\, The Old Yacht Club\, Westbourne Place\, Cobh\, Cork\, P24 F209\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \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/2023-11-07/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \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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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \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/2023-10-24/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Remember the Defenders: A Photo Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nExhibition Launch\n\n\n\nWe are having a lunchtime launch for the Front Line Defenders photo exhibition: ‘Remembering the Defenders’ curated by Front Line Defenders Aisha Hamdulay.We hope you can join us during your lunch break for some light refreshments and to hear a little bit about the Human Rights Defenders featured at the exhibition. \n\n\n\nEvent Details below \n\n\n\nWhere: Liffey Corner in EPIC\, the Irish Emigration Museum \n\n\n\nWhen: Wed\, 18th Oct \n\n\n\nTime: 1.00pm – 2.00pm \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary to attend the exhibition. \n\n\n\nBook here to attend the launch: \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis exhibition will showcase 10 human rights defenders from all around the world who have done outstanding work protecting human rights in their various contexts. From the lands of the Democratic Republic of Congo to the streets of Jordan\, come and learn about the challenges of these outstanding human rights defenders from around the world.  \n\n\n\n5 of the featured stories are the 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\nFront Line Defenders\n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs)\, people who work\, non-violently\, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by HRDs themselves. Front Line Defenders maintains its headquarters in Dublin\, an EU Office in Brussels\, and regionally-based field staff in the Americas\, Asia\, Africa\, Europe & Central Asia\, and the Middle East. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders provides rapid and practical support to human rights defenders at risk through: \n\n\n\n\ninternational advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at risk\, including emergency support for those in immediate danger;\n\n\n\ngrants to pay for the practical security needs of human rights defenders;\n\n\n\ntrainings and resource materials on security and protection\, including digital security;\n\n\n\nrest\, respite and other opportunities for human rights defenders dealing with extreme stress;\n\n\n\nopportunities for networking and exchange between human rights defenders\, including at the biennial Dublin Platform;\n\n\n\nthe annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk;\n\n\n\nan emergency 24-hour phone line for human rights defenders operating in Arabic\, English\, French\, Russian and Spanish.\n\n\n\n\nIn emergency situations Front Line Defenders can facilitate temporary relocation of human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders promotes strengthened international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders through support for the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.  Support for the office of the Special Rapporteur is also made through the Frank Jennings Internship Programme. Front Line Defenders promotes respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Front Line Defenders has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Front Line Defenders has partnership status with the Council of Europe. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights\, and supports the work of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights by providing an intern on an annual basis. \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/remember-the-defenders-a-photo-exhibition/
LOCATION:EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum\, CHQ\, Custom House Quay\, Dublin 1\, D01 R9Y0\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \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. 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URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-defenders-changemakers-exhibition/2023-10-17/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Launch:  In Solidarity - An International Celebration of Arts and Rights
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Executive Director (Interim)\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nJessica Traynor\, poet\, essayist\, librettist\, and poetry editor at Banshee\, 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence in Galway University\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador \n\n\n\nMayKay\, singer\, songwriter\, TV presenter\, voiceover artist\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador \n\n\n\nSenator Lynn Ruane\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador \n\n\n\nMichael Mc Cabe\, Director\, Facilitator\, Actor\, Performer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, and a range of partners\, present the fifth annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival from the 13 to 22 October 2023. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Friday 13 October at 6pm for a special event with presentations and artist talks to launch the fifth annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and to launch the Eternal Rebels exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting\, at both personal and political levels\, on themes of  changemakers and human rights defenders working to make the world a better place for all. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  visual art\, photography\, poetry\, sculpture\, painting. Following the launch\, attendees are  invited to the premiere performance of States of Independence\, a multi-disciplinary show featuring work by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michael Mc Cabe performed by artists including  Michael McCabe and Fiona Bawn-Thompson.  \n\n\n\nThe launch features speeches from representatives of Front Line Defenders and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, as well as from our Festival Ambassadors; Jessica Traynor\, poet\, essayist\, librettist\, and poetry editor at Banshee\, 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence in Galway University\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador; MayKay\, singer\, songwriter\, TV presenter\, voiceover artist\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador; Senator Lynn Ruane\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador. \n\n\n\nDublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2023\n\n\n\nThe Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival  features exciting and innovative events that promote equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts\, taking place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Donegal and Cork\, with artists and speakers in attendance from Ireland\, Finland\, Sweden\, Italy\, Spain\, Portugal\, the Netherlands\, Greece\, Belgium\, Cyprus\, Romania\, Bulgaria and Ukraine. 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\nThe artistic curator for the festival is Mary Moynihan\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times and the human rights curator is Laura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, Front Line Defenders. The festival is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and is a hybrid programme delivered over 10 days and hosts an exciting blend of events happening in-person and online\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers\, reaching audiences locally\, nationally\, and internationally. There is something for everyone interested in the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity.  \n\n\n\nThe festival promotes human rights and justice for all\, and the vision of a world where all people are treated equally\, with dignity and respect – linking the arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics. The extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts in promoting human rights will be showcased and highlighted at the festival\, aiming to celebrate and unite community connections\, artists\, human rights organisations and human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nThe festival showcases world-class and diverse acts\, artists and speakers\, including up and coming performers. It brings arts and human rights together through interdisciplinary events which include workshops\, theatre performances\, musical performances\, visual arts\, exhibitions\, film screenings\, panel discussions\, poetry and literature events\, historical memory performances\, live art\, digital installations\, and more. \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlive Moore took up the role of Interim Director of Front Line Defenders in January 2023\, after serving as Deputy Director since September 2020. \n\n\n\nOlive’s passion for human rights and social justice began when she became a member Amnesty International at the age of sixteen. Her activism and interest in global politics and international relations led her to undertaking a Degree in Politics and Social Policy in UCD\, and then a European Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice\, Italy. \n\n\n\nOlive’s experience at the beginning of her career with Trocaire\, of living in Kenya and working in South Sudan and Somalia\, and the Human Rights Defenders she met during this time\, formed her lasting appreciation of\, and deep respect for\, the work of HRDs. \n\n\n\nOlive has held a number of roles in Trocaire\, including Human Rights Officer\, Policy Officer\, Governance and Human Rights Coordinator\, and Head of Programmes for the last four and a half years. Previously\, she also interned in the Human Rights Unit of the European Commission\, worked for the Irish Government at the UN Commission on Human Rights\, and spent two years working at the World Bank as Head of Knowledge and Learning at the GPSA (Global Partnership for Social Accountability) in Washington DC. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Traynor is a poet\, essayist\, librettist\, and poetry editor at Banshee. Her debut collection\, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press\, 2014)\, was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award. The Quick (Dedalus Press\, 2018) was an Irish Times book of the year. Pit Lullabies (Bloodaxe\, 2022) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was an Irish Times book of the year\, and a Guardian Best Summer Read of 2022. It was shortlisted for the Yeats Society Sligo/ Irish Independent Poetry Prize. \n\n\n\nShe is 2023 recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. Other awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize\, the Listowel Poetry Prize\, and Hennessy New Writer of the Year.  She is a Creative Fellow of UCD\, and 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence in Galway University. She is a judge for the 2023 Forward Prizes and a poetry critic for The Irish Times. \n\n\n\nAs a dramaturg\, Jessica has worked as Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre. She now offers dramaturgical support on a project by project basis.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMayKay is a singer\, songwriter\, TV presenter and voiceover artist. \n\n\n\nAs lead singer of Fight Like Apes – named by The Irish Times as one of the best Irish musical acts of their generation – MayKay toured the world with The Prodigy and supported the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “Almost going into Debbie Harry territory\,” she has wowed crowds at festivals across Europe and the US including South by Southwest and Glastonbury. Fight Like Apes returned this year and are playing numerous sold out shows. \n\n\n\nMayKay has collaborated with musicians Duke Special\, Jerry Fish and award-winning Irish electronic quintet\, Le Galaxie\, who she joined as front woman in 2017\, ahead of the worldwide release of their third album. She has co written on albums with Le Galaxie\, Elaine Mai\, DJ Kormac and many other acclaimed artists. \n\n\n\nSince 2015\, MayKay has presented Ireland’s leading live music series Other Voices – along with BBC presenters Annie Mac and Huw Stephens – and interviewed artists including Little Simz\, David Gray and Snow Patrol. She regularly MCs and moderates events including the SXSW send-off show hosted by the US Embassy in Dublin and the Matt Talbot Centre fundraiser in Vicar Street. \n\n\n\nMayKay played the lead character in an animation aired in 2021. She spent lockdown collaborating on several different musical projects\, including her first solo album\, due to be released in 2023. She will debut her tracks at Ireland Music Week this October. \n\n\n\nIn the past 2 years she has made 2 trips as part of truck convoys to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukraine\, and has just returned from her 2nd volunteer trip to Aida Camp in the occupied West Bank in Palestine\, where she will return on an annual basis to volunteer in the Lajee Centre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn Ruane is an independent Irish politician\, who has served as an Senator and deputy leader of the Civil Engagement Group in Seanad Éireann since 2016. Lynn is from Tallaght; an historically underserved and neglected community in Dublin. A long-time community and drugs worker\, Lynn now champions the causes most close to her heart and community in Ireland’s parliament.  \n\n\n\nAn ardent legislator\, Lynn tables progressive bills which respond to the lived experiences of those on the margins of society. To date\, that has included pursuing harm reduction in drug policy\, meaningful rehabilitation in criminal justice\, a fairer child maintenance system for lone-parents\, and the cessation of the misuse of non-disclosure agreements. Lynn also regularly seeks to amend Government legislation\, to ensure it reflects the principles of human rights\, social justice\, equality\, inclusion\, and the empowerment of the marginalised. In addition to legislative work\, Lynn is a member of three parliamentary Committees: Justice\, Assisted Dying\, and Children\, Equality\, Disability Integration and Youth. \n\n\n\nOutside of her work in the Oireachtas\, Lynn is a mother to two daughters\, a published author and writer\, a frequent contributor in print and online media\, the creator and host of the award winning podcast ‘Conversations on the Margins\, and\, most recently\, the co-presenter of the RTÉ documentary ‘Lady Gregory – Ireland’s First Social Influencer’ with the esteemed Miriam Margolyes OBE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Mc Cabe\, Director\, Facilitator\, Actor\, Performer \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                                \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/dublin-arts-and-human-rights-festival-launch-in-solidarity-an-international-celebration-of-arts-and-rights/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Launch,Music,Performance
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SUMMARY:Eternal Rebels Change-Makers Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, all welcome. For group tours with a guide\, contact Freda on 087 2214245 or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Director\, Theatre and Film-Maker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist  \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEternal Rebels is a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, film\, photography and poetry and is a visual and poetic reflection on the stories of  change-makers in Irish history from the Decade of Centenaries to today.  The exhibition runs Friday 13 – Sunday 22 October 2023\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am-6pm daily at the Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1. The artists are Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival; Hina Khan\, visual artist and miniaturist; and Amna Walayat\, visual artist.   \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\nThe exhibition features original artworks\, photography\, poetry and stories celebrating 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. Change-maker stories include Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of Constance Markiewicz;  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes and James Connolly (1868-1916) a trade union leader and revolutionary who played a leading role in the Irish Rising in 1916. \n\n\n\nOn display in the exhibition is Change-Maker Stories – A Book of Names capturing timeless change-maker stories and photographs of activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries period in Irish history. As part of the exhibition we are inviting those in attendance to share the name of a change-maker who inspired you.   \n\n\n\nJoin us for a launch of the exhibition and Change-Maker Encounters panel discussion with the artists and guest speakers on Friday 13 October at 6pm\, all welcome.  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in Miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing etc in her work. \n\n\n\nHina has chosen Miniature because of its intricacy and delicacy of brush work which has a unique identity. Most of Hina’s work is a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature. Her work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expressed by her own ideologies through symbolism.  \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my art practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of group shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are also in the permanent collection of Arts Council Ireland. She is the recipient of several Awards from Arts Council Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and different counties.  \n\n\n\nHina says that\, ‘as an artist\, I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \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\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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/eternal-rebels-change-makers-exhibition/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Installation,Interdisciplinary,Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Smashing Times Online Gallery - Eternal Rebels
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, journalist\, entrepreneurial specialist and success coach \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre and Gallery was established in 2021. Our vision is to celebrate the work of artists using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity and to act as an online gathering space bringing together artists\, activists\, citizens and communities on the island of Ireland and across Europe and internationally. \n\n\n\nThe Virtual Arts Centre contains seven galleries: \n\n\n\nGallery One:             Festival Gallery – Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nGallery Two:             Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Gallery – Permanent Collection \n\n\n\nGallery Three:          Sinners and Citizens State of the Art Gallery – A combination of permanent and rotating artworks \n\n\n\nGallery Four:             Art Nomads Gallery \n\n\n\nGallery Five:             Smashing Times Arts and Peace Gallery \n\n\n\nGallery Six:               Smashing Times Resource and Advice Service \n\n\n\nGallery Seven:          Creative Eco Centre \n\n\n\nTo view the galleries\, visit the centre here. \n\n\n\nEternal Rebels Change-Makers Exhibition \n\n\n\nTo coincide with the 2023 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\,  gallery one (the Festival Gallery) will be updated to display a digital rendering of a selection of artworks and stories from the Eternal Rebels exhibition which runs onsite at the Pumphouse\, Dublin Port from Friday 13 to Sunday 22 October 2023. \n\n\n\nEternal Rebels is a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, film\, photography and poetry and is a visual and poetic reflection on the stories of  change-makers in Irish history from the Decade of Centenaries to today.  The artists are Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival; Hina Khan\, visual artist and miniaturist; and Amna Walayat\, visual artist.  The 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\nThe exhibition features original artworks\, photography\, poetry and stories celebrating 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. Change-maker stories include Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of Constance Markiewicz;  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes and James Connolly (1868-1916) a trade union leader and revolutionary who played a leading role in the Irish Rising in 1916. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco Centre \n\n\n\nVisit our  Creative Eco Centre on the Smashing Times online gallery which contains over 50 artworks including poetry\, photography and visual art promoting climate justice and climate awareness. GOAL’s NextGen Youth members from across Ireland\, Ethiopia\, Honduras\, Malawi\, Uganda\, and Zimbabwe created a collection of photographers displayed in the gallery called ‘#Connected2: Climate and Food Systems’. Through the pertinent themes of Global Food Systems and Climate Change\, participants learned how each relates to global citizenship and development. They created this photo exhibition to share their learnings with you and hope to raise awareness of how climate change is affecting our food systems. Facilitator Vanessa Ogida conducted workshops with secondary schools students throughout 2022\, creating vision boards for their ideas of a world with climate justice\, and what a Creative Eco-Centre could be. These vision boards are displayed in the online gallery. \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\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in Born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in Miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing etc in her work. \n\n\n\nHina has chosen Miniature because of its intricacy and delicacy of brush work which has a unique identity. Most of Hina’s work is a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature. My work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expresses my own ideologies through symbolism. Shifting my practice to installation\, videos\, 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my art practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibition at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s next solo exhibition will be exhibited in the coming months.  Her art pieces are also in the permanent collection of Arts Council Ireland. She is the recipient of several Awards from Arts Council Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and different counties. Currently she is preparing a solo show which will be displayed in LHQgallery 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that\, ‘as an artist\, I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMy name is Vanessa Oghomwen Ogida. I am the CEO of VOO Consulting. I am a Journalist\, Entrepreneurial Specialist and Success Coach with expertise in Business Models and Vision Boards in achieving success.  \n\n\n\nMy educational qualifications are up to level 9 (Masters Degrees in Journalism & Media Communications and Entrepreneurship\, Innovation and Enterprise). I am also a trained trainer. My main goal and purpose in life is to see people achieve success in their different goals\, visions\, hopes\, aspirations\, dreams and/or desires. I am logical and emotional in my dealings with clients; bearing in mind the SMART goals and empathy in my relationships. My inter-personal skills are great. I am an advocate of the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals). My hope and dream for the world is to see a world of No Poverty\, Zero hunger and all other goals. A world where we respect and protect our planet.  \n\n\n\nI have facilitated many Vision Boards workshops on personal goals\, community goals\, societal goals on topics like climate change\, community development and self-development. My clients are people of all ages – TY students\, Women’s groups\, Ex-offenders\, Summer camps groups etc. I have also facilitated Business Model workshops for groups such as Start-Ups\, New Businesses\, Aspiring Entrepreneurs\, TY Students and more.  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/smashing-times-online-gallery-eternal-rebels/
LOCATION:Virtual Arts Centre\, Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Online
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \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/2023-10-10/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \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/2023-10-03/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry
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SUMMARY:In Your Corner
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary. Exhibition open 10am-5pm (closed 1-2pm) Monday to Saturday only. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMatt Spalding\, photographic artist \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPhotographic artist Matt Spalding has been embedded with the Dublin Docklands Boxing Club Seville Place for a year. Spalding has been taking action shots and also works in the National Stadium. His images are striking and very strong. He was awarded funding from the NEIC ARTS DEPARTMENT \n\n\n\n“This exhibition gives the boxers a voice and the rightful opportunity to view themselves as positive role models for their community\, to soften the image of boxing to the wider public and critically\, highlight the enormous amount of voluntary work\, love and pride delivered gratis to our local club Dublin Docklands Boxing Club by coaches and parents alike. \n\n\n\nDDBC\, an all inclusive club\, has steered\, and continues to steer local boys and girls – kids who could just as easily slip through the cracks and onto a very different path – into an arena that teaches them manners\, humility\, grace\, honour\, courage\, respect and discipline. \n\n\n\nI am truly humbled by them.” \n\n\n\n– Matt Spalding \n\n\n\nFive Lamps Arts Festival\n\n\n\nThe Five Lamps Arts Festival primary commitment is connecting the north inner city of Dublin with the arts and we achieve this through inclusivity\, participation\, environmental enhancement\, and the creation and presentation of locally relevant\, artistically ambitious work. Through this we aim to contribute to the development of the perception of the Five Lamps area as a positive and creative place in which to live and work. \n\n\n\nWe are best known for our flagship event The Five Lamps Arts Festival\, an award-winning annual community-based arts festival which has taken place each spring in the North East Inner City. \n\n\n\nToday\, in addition to the annual festival\, we run community arts programmes\, guided walking tours across the area\, workshops\, and events throughout the year. We also provide project management consulting to several volunteer and community groups. \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/in-your-corner/
LOCATION:Charleville Mall Library\, North Strand Road\, Dubin 1\, D01 AX99
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography
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SUMMARY:Paradise Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, available daily. For group tours with a guide\, contact Freda on 087 2214245 or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nEntry fee to The Barracks and Exhibition: €6.50 adults\, €4.50 children\, €5.50 students and older people\, €20 family\, up to 2 adults\, 3 children\, €5 for groups of 10+ \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Found is a visual art\, film\, photography and poetry exhibition presented for States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers. The exhibition by three artists\, Mary Moynihan\, Hina Khan and Amna Walayat\, reflects on a search for peace and ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. The work explores intersections between peace\, visibility\, invisibility and fragmentation and the inner world of the mind and soul linked to the physicality of the body and connections to nature. \n\n\n\nThe work of Mary Moynihan is titled ‘The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found’ and features photography and poetic texts and a poem film on love and courage and ‘the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through’.  Amna Walayat’s work is a celebration and remembrance of womanhood and consists of ten pieces making up one artwork created under the title of ‘Fall’.   Artist Hina Khan has created a body of work titled ‘Visible and Invisible’ reflecting on themes of visibility\, invisibility\, migration and a search for peace.  Collectively all three artists are creating a profound body of work inspired by a celebration of the human spirit and a search for peace\, equality and human rights.  \n\n\n\nThe Old Barracks is a unique building perched on an elevated site close to the bridge over the River Fertha in Cahersiveen. It is home to a permanent exhibition which recounts the building’s remarkable history and that of the local region\, including an exhibition on Daniel O’Connell\, who was born in Cahersiveen\, and was known as ‘The Liberator’ for his role in ending discrimination against Catholics. \n\n\n\nPage photo is Haunting by Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\n \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\nHina was born in Born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in Miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing etc in her work. \n\n\n\nHina has chosen Miniature because of its intricacy and delicacy of brush work which has a unique identity. Most of Hina’s work is a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature. My work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expresses my own ideologies through symbolism. Shifting my practice to installation\, videos\, 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my art practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibition at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s next solo exhibition will be exhibited in the coming months.  Her art pieces are also in the permanent collection of Arts Council Ireland. She is the recipient of several Awards from Arts Council Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and different counties. Currently she is preparing a solo show which will be displayed in LHQgallery 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that\, ‘as an artist\, I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \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.ieBookings:  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\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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/paradise-lost-and-found/
LOCATION:Old Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, Co Kerry\, Cahersiveen\, Kerry\, V23VR62\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Installation,Kerry,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Eternal Rebels
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, 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\nA reflection on the stories of  women change-makers in Irish history including Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of Constance Markiewicz;  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes;  and Mary Elmes\,  (1908-2002) from Cork\, who was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II. Two of the women in the exhibition are Maude Jane Delap (1866-1953)\, a pioneering marine biologist\, and Helen Blackburn (1842–1903)\, suffragist and writer\, both from Valentia Island in County Kerry. The exhibition is open from 24 July to 13 August 2023\, 10am-4pm Monday to Saturday\, 1-5pm Sunday \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features Change-Maker Stories – A Book of Names capturing timeless change-maker stories and photographs of activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries period in Irish history\, with space in the book inviting you to share the name of a change-maker who inspired you.  Artists involved in the project are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival; Hina Khan\, Visual Artist and Miniaturist; Amna Walayat\, Visual Artist\, Féilim James\, writer\, Michael McCabe\, choreographer and performer and John Scott\, of Irish Modern Dance Theatre.  \n\n\n\nSet in the beautiful St John’s Church built to a design by the Irish architect Joseph Wellard 150 years ago. The building is surrounded by a Sensory Garden to cater for people with disabilities. The garden provides individual and combined sensory opportunities and focuses on the five main senses such as smell\, touch\, sight\, hearing and taste. \n\n\n\nPage image is Edge by Mary Moynihan. \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 film Courageous Women 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 show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty 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. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight 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\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents 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. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \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. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \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/eternal-rebels/
LOCATION:St John the Baptist Church\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Smashing Times Birthday Party Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Guest Speakers include\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nWilliam Caughey\,  Guest\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFernando Benavente\, International Guest\, IFES Coop\, Valencia\, Spain \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer\, Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality  invite you to take part in an open mic night for the arts and to join  us in celebrating 30 years as the leading voice in arts for equality\, human rights and diversity in Europe and internationally! \n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality celebrates 30 years of working with incredible artists\, partners\, citizens and communities  and in a range of different artforms\, promoting human rights\, equality and diversity for all\, we invite you to join us in a wonderful and celebratory gathering of arts\, music\, song and chat. We are delighted that artists\, partners\, citizens and communities from across Ireland and Europe will join us on the evening for creative conversations and taking part in our Open Mic Art session! \n\n\n\nCome to the Chocolate Factory and explore the extraordinary State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, while meeting with some of Smashing Times artists and partners who have worked with us throughout the years. The evening will be an opportunity for fun ‘meeting and greeting’\, for informal networking\, and for creative expression and celebration in an artistic setting. All welcome! \n\n\n\nThe Open Mic session is a celebration of talent in all ages and  artforms and we love all styles and arts. We welcome you to pop on stage for a short performance and to show and share with us your creativity. A delightful evening with an electric\, fun atmosphere \n\n\n\nThe evening will feature short chats celebrating equality\, diversity and human rights and you are welcome to contribute to our vision board with ideas for future ways forward for working with the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights and to acknowledge and remember all those who have inspired us on our journey as we endeavour to create a world where all people are treat equal with dignity and respect. \n\n\n\nAs part of our the evening’s entertainment\, we welcome you to view the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition and installation at the Chocolate Factory\, open daily 10am-6pm from Monday to Sunday\,  3-23 October 2022 (16 October 2-6pm). \n\n\n\nState of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence is a live\, multi-media exhibition and  installation displaying artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence with artists exhibiting their work interrogating political violence in communities across the globe. The exhibiton features a multitude of artworks – film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\, painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\, Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\nArtists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. \n\n\n\nWe also invite you to attend the  Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, open Tuesday to Saturday\, 11am-4pm from 13 September to 29 October 2022 and featuring the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\n ‘Smashing Times has a deserved reputation for exploring social issues with sensitivity and in depth… The plays are true theatre… extraordinary. Smashing Times must continue with it.’IRISH TIMES‘Fascinating\, executed by the innovative and dynamic Smashing Times.’SUNDAY INDEPENDENT‘Smashing Times is a wonderful endeavour and I wish you well with all your future work.’THOMAS KILROY\, PLAYWRIGHT‘This production and the discussion afterwards should be compulsory for all young people.It is Theatre-in-Education at its best.’MAEVE INGOLDSBY\, WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT‘This work is so powerful\, I wish there was more of this.’MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘What Smashing Times are contributing is cutting-edge… this is serious\, thought-provoking and provocative work that is really impressive and valid.’BRIDGET KELLY\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘I’ve never been presented with an issue like this in my experience before\,this has been extraordinary\, powerful.’TOM O’HAGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘The Department of Education should fund this show to go into every school in the country. It is excellent and extremely important.’LIAM HALLIGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘This work is excellent . . . drama is so important\, particularly for young people in schools.’SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL\, CBS\, WESTLAND ROW \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 We Admire\n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times celebrates its 30th anniversary this year\, we have decided to bring you a series called 30 We Admire – a selection of 30 activists\, artists\, books\, films and more that celebrate our values of arts and human rights! \n30 Activists We Admire\n\nGreta Thunberg\n\nGreta is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Her ‘School Strike for Climate Change’ has led to global campaigns for climate action. \n\nMahatma Gandhi\n\nGandhi was an Indian lawyer\, anti-colonial nationalist\, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule\, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. \n\nPanti Bliss / Rory O’Neill\n\nRory O’Neill\, also known by his stage name Panti Bliss\, is a drag queen and gay rights activist from Mayo. Panti’s famous ‘Noble Call’ highlighted everyday homophobia in Ireland\, and now has over 1 million views on YouTube. \n\nRosa Parks\n\nRosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery\, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities. \n\nEvanna Lynch\n\nAn avid animal rights activist\, Evanna Lynch has launched a vegan-themed podcast titled The ChickPeeps and a cruelty-free make-up box named Kinder Beauty Box. \n\nPhilomena Lee\n\nPhilomena is an advocate and spokesperson for adoption rights. She has created The Philomena Project in order to raise awareness about adoption laws and find ways to improve them. \n\nVicky Phelan\n\nVicky is a women’s health campaigner\, and is a central figure in the CervicalCheck scandal. She has campaigned for the programme to be reviewed\, and has called on the Irish medical system to be overhauled due to its failings. \n\nSinead Burke\n\nSinead Burke is a teacher and designer from Ireland. She advocates for inclusivity in the fashion industry\, especially in the development of clothing inclusive of people with dwarfism. \n\nIfrah Ahmed\n\nIfrah is a Somali-Irish social activist. She is the founder of the United Youth of Ireland non-governmental organization and the Ifrah Foundation\, which is devoted to eliminating female genital mutilation. \n\nMairead Maguire\n\nMairead is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. Along with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown\, she co-founded the Women for Peace (now known as Community for Peace People). Maguire and Williams received the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. More recently\, she was involved in discussions around the Rohingya crisis. \n\nMother JonesMother Jones was a 19th century social activist and trade unionist from Cork\, who protested lax enforcement of child labour laws in the US\, and whose successful organising of the United Mine Workers union earned her the moniker ‘the most dangerous woman in America’.\nMary Lawlor\n\nMary Lawlor is UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders\, an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Social Innovation\, Trinity College Business School and founder of Front Line Defenders. \n\nNelson Mandela\n\nNelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary\, political leader and philanthropist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. \n\nMalala Yousafzai\n\nMalala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is also the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate\, and second Pakistani to ever receive a Nobel Prize. \n\nEmily Davison\n\nEmily Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause\, she was arrested on nine occasions\, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V’s horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. \n\nHarriet Tubman\n\nHarriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. \n\nHarvey Milk\n\nHarvey Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California\, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. \n\nDil Wickremasinghe\n\nDil Wickremasinghe lives in Ireland and is a social justice and mental health journalist\, podcaster\, speaker\, mental health service provider\, social entrepreneur\, activist and occasional stand-up comedian. Dil is an outstanding advocate for the LGBTQI+ community and provides training and consultancy in equality and diversity. \n\nSamantha Ncube\n\nSamantha is a youth ambassador and youth worker for the European Youth in Migration Forum with the Irish Refugee Council in which she meets with policy makers to discuss issues affecting young migrant people living in Ireland. \n\nSenator Eileen Ní Fhloinn\n\nSenator Ní Fhloinn has been an activist and community worker for many years\, working with groups such as the Irish Traveller Movement\, the National Traveller Women’s Forum and Ballyfermot Traveller Action Programme. She also campaigned on issues such as housing\, marriage equality\, abortion rights and anti-racism. \n\nStaša Zajović\n\nStaša Zajović is the co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black\, which is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice\, war\, militarism and other forms of violence. \n\nVesna Teršelič\n\nVesna Teršelič is a peace activist and was largely responsible for founding the Croatian Anti-War Campaign (ARK) in 1991 in Zagreb\, Croatia. ARK promotes education for non-violent conflict transformation\, human rights protection\, social reconstruction and reconciliation\, support for refugees and displaced persons\, and help for the unemployed and the bereaved and those severely traumatised by war. \n\nFrancisca Sauquillo Pérez\n\nFrancisca is a Spanish lawyer and politician known for her activism as a labour lawyer and in defence of democratic freedoms during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. She was deputy of the Assembly of Madrid\, Senator and MEP. \n\nHelena Maleno\n\nHelena is a human rights defender\, journalist and researcher and founder of Caminando Fronteras or Walking Borders. She denounces human rights violations taking place on the southern Spanish border and works with the migrant communities in the defence of their rights. \n\nSanja Sarnavka\n\nSanja Sarnavka is a peace and human rights activist. Since 2000\, Sanja Sarnavka has been President of B.a.B.e.\, a Croatian non-governmental organisation which promotes and protects women’s rights.  \n\nKatarina Kruhonja\n\nDr. Kruhonja is a peace activist and director of the Centre for Peace\, Non-violence and Human Rights\, Osijek\, Croatia.  \n\nSlađana Petrović Varagić\n\nSlađana is an independent cultural worker – a curator and producer – who works proactively in the field of cultural policy by opening new critical topics about art\, art rights\, women’s rights and the position of the independent artists and cultural worker. She fights against the influence of politics and parties on decision-making autonomy in the field of culture and art. \n\nSylvia Rivera\n\nSylvia Rivera was a Latina-American drag queen who was a gay and transgender activist in the 1960s and 70s. She’s known for participating in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and establishing the political organization STAR. \n\nNellie Bly\n\nNellie Bly was a pioneering journalist\, known for her ground-breaking 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell’s Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip around the world. \n\nMarsha P. Johnson\n\nMarsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender woman and revolutionary LGBTQ rights activist. She is credited for being an instigator in the Stonewall riots. \n  \n30 Books We Admire\n\nSister Anne’s Hands by Marybeth Lorbiecki. This book is set in the early 1960s\, and a little girl named Anna has never seen a person with dark skin before. At first\, she is afraid of her new second-grade teacher\, but she quickly discovers how wonderful Sister Anne is.\nThe Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S. K. Ali (Authors) Hatem Aly (Illustrator). A beautifully illustrated story about two sisters and the events that unfold on the first day of school when the older sister\, Asiya\, makes her debut in her hijab. A story of how words can be hurtful\, but also the beauty in sibling relationships and self-confidence.\nMaddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt. Bursting with colourful\, digital illustrations\, this book addresses the issues of poverty and childhood hunger through the relationship of two best friends\, one who only has milk in her fridge\, and the other whose fridge is stocked with options.\nSulwe by Lupita Nyong’o. This book discusses self-love and the battles it sometimes takes to get there. Through vivid colours\, this children’s book revolves around a young girl facing colourism and the pain that comes with it.\nChocolate Milk\, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy by Maria Dismondy and Nancy Raines Day. The story revolves around a little boy\, Johnny\, who loves school\, until Gabe\, a boy from Brazil becomes the new student. Johnny’s initial instinct is to reject him\, but that becomes challenged when his peers are kind.\nThe Boy and the Wall by Youth at Lajee Centre in Aida Refugee Camp. A bilingual picture book about a Palestinian boy who has become a refugee. In this book\, he recollects “the wall” being built and the unfortunate and sometimes scary circumstances that came with it. Written by young people living in a refugee camp.\nJust Jamie by Terri Libenson. This story centres around the theme of exclusion. Jaime a girl in middle school knows something is off with her friend group. They have started to exclude her and make fun of the way she dresses and the things she likes.\nI Am Enough by Grace Byers. This book provides constructive affirmations for children who lack self-esteem and self-acceptance. It celebrates children for who they are and promotes positive female role models. It sends a message that people are unique and that they will always be enough.\nChocolate Me! By Tate Diggs. This book encourages kids to love themselves\, even if they feel like they do not fit in. This timely book explores how it feels to be teased and how each of us is beautiful\, no matter how we look.\nSame Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. This book shows how two boys who live oceans apart can become the best of friends. By becoming pen pals and exchanging letters and pictures\, they learn that they both love to climb trees\, have pets\, and go to school and although their worlds might look different\, they are very similar.\nDon’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri. This book explores the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history\, with ruminations on body politics\, race\, pop culture\, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair.\nThe Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward. This book is a deeply moving collection of essays\, short memoir\, and poetry written by contemporary thinkers and writers on race. Shedding light on both past and the present issues of inequality in the United States\, The Fire This Time demonstrates where we’ve come from as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve true equality.\nWe Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler. The book takes an important look at some of the more recent (and less-productive) manifestations of feminism — in particular\, how the word “feminist” has transformed from activist movement to marketing device.\nThe Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez. Shedding light on the enslavement of America’s indigenous people and arguing that slavery — more than disease and violence — was really what decimated the people who were already living here when the Europeans arrived\, The Other Slavery is a harrowing account of the first slavery and genocide to take place in the United States.\nIn Order to Live by Yeonmi Park. In this book\, Park tells the story of her repressive and fear-filled upbringing in North Korea\, and her harrowing escapes.\nUnorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman. In the book\, Feldman documents her life in an ultra-religious Jewish community in Brooklyn\, New York.\nBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda. This memoir is for anyone who has ever struggled to make sense of their identity\, and to find a home where genetics and experience meet — because\, in the end\, we’re all patchwork quilts of our family history.\nStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi profiles five key people in American history: Angela Davis\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Cotton Mather\, Thomas Jefferson\, and William Lloyd Garrison\, using their examples to argue against the myth of a post-racial America and explore the beliefs and practices of various race-related schools of thought.\nAll Our Relations by Winona LaDuke. LaDuke’s merges her own experiences and research with testimonies from First Nations activists — including the Seminoles\, the Anishinaabeg\, the Innu\, the Northern Cheyenne\, the Mohawks\, and others — who have fought for their rights for generations.\nA Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde. Lorde writes passionately about everything from radical politics and the need for intersectionality in feminism to her experiences navigating her own identity as a black lesbian writer and mother and her battle with cancer. She’ll leave you feeling both empowered and inspired.\nMen Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit. Inspired by a particularly “mansplain-y” dinner party attended by the author\, this book explores the gender-based inequalities present in routine exchanges between men and women. On point\, hilarious\, and infuriating\, Men Explain Things to Mealso addresses the issue of women being silenced all over the world — many times at the expense of their health\, freedom\, and/or life.\nWhen We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova. This book is a whirlwind of feminist politics\, passionate protest\, ambitious activism\, and the writer’s own struggle with discrimination and her personal identity. \nPrelude and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. This selection of stories showcases the author’s remarkable ability to delve into the human mind; in stories such as ‘The Garden Party’ she reveals the tension between innocence and corruption\, the dark side of love and romance are explored in ‘Bliss’ and ‘Love à la Mode’\, and in the title story\, ‘Prelude’\, inspired by her own childhood\, her concern is for the isolated and the lonely.\nBreasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. Kawakami paints a radical picture of contemporary working-class womanhood in Japan as she recounts the heart breaking stories of three women who must survive in a society where the odds are stacked against them.\nThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. This masterful dystopia is set in a future America where women are reduced to their reproductive usefulness.\nThe Awakening by Kate Chopin. The Awakeningis considered one of the earliest and boldest examples of feminist fiction. When Edna meets the charming Robert Lebrun while holidaying with her husband and two young children\, a flirtation turns into an affair which opens her eyes to a life outside her passionless marriage and the stifling restrictions of nineteenth-century society.\nThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. In this novel\, Toni explores the problematic and racist beauty ideals of western society\, as well as addressing issues of race\, poverty and abuse.\nThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Written in 1962\, this experimental\, Nobel Prize-winning novel brings taboo issues of the time\, including women’s sexuality\, bodily functions and mental illness\, to the fore.\nCracking the Menopause by Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smellie. This book debunks myths and addresses fears about the menopause\, with straight-talking advice to help you deal with an issue that half of us will face\, yet is rarely spoken about. With case studies\, personal testimonies\, expert guidance and witty illustrations\, this is a wise but humorous guide to the topic.\nA Bigger Picture by Vanessa Nakate. Witnessing the suffering caused by global warming propelled Vanessa Nakate into action and despite risks to her personal safety she became the first climate striker in Uganda at just twenty-one years old. In A Bigger Pictureshe traces the links between the climate crisis and anti-racism\, feminism\, education\, economics and even extremist radicalization.\n\n  \n30 Women We Admire\n\nMary Moynihan – Writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Mary’s work promoting equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts is award-winning and internationally recognised.\nDijana Milosevic – Dijana is a theatre director\, co-founder and artistic director of DAH Theatre in Belgrade\, Serbia\, the first theatre laboratory in her country. In addition to directing socially engaged theatre works\, she has worked on issues of violence against women with the activist group ‘Women in Black’\, performing stories of women from Kosovo\, Bosnia-Herzegovina\, Serbia and Croatia.\nFrederique Lecomte – Frederique is the founder and main facilitator of the Theatre and Reconciliation method. She is a sociologist\, writer and stage director from Belgium. She is an expert in rebuilding traumatised and conflicted communities\, organising theatre workshops and performances both with and for the community in war areas all over the world.\nFelispeaks – Felispeaks is a Nigerian-Irish Poet\, Performer\, Playwright from Co. Longford. She enjoys creating poetry and performance pieces that always promises to introduce her audience to the journey of emotion in every story.\nEmma Dabiri – Emma is an Irish author\, podcaster and presenter. Her debut book ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ moves beyond the personal to examine African hair in wider contexts\, with the book travelling across geographical space and through time to take in pre-colonial Africa up to modern day Western society.\nNina Simone – Nina was an American singer\, songwriter\, musician\, arranger\, and civil rights activist.\nMaya Angelou – Maya was an American poet\, memoirist\, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies\, three books of essays\, several books of poetry\, and is credited with a list of plays\, movies\, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.\nAva DuVernay – Ava is an American filmmaker. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere\, becoming the first Black woman to win the award.\nAmaranta Osorio – Amaranta is a writer\, actress and producer\, Mexican\, Colombian and Spanish. Her work promote equality and human rights.\nMary Robinson – Mary was the first Irish female president. She was involved in the decriminalisation of homosexuality\, the legalisation of contraception\, the legalisation of divorce\, enabling women to sit on juries\, and securing the right to legal aid in civil legal cases in Ireland.[4] She was Ireland’s most popular president\, at one point having a 93% approval rating among the electorate.\nHina Khan – Hina is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. Her work explores human rights issues such as migration\, racism\, and violence against women.\nNoelle McAlinden – Noelle is a visual artist\, curator\, cultural broker\, and mental health advocate. Her work covers topics relating to contemporary women.\nAmna Walayat – Amna is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. She is currently the Cork County Council Creative Producer in Residence. Her work engages with human rights issues\, most recently\, the Mother and Baby Homes scandal.\nÁine O’Hara – Áine is an Irish theatre maker and visual artist\, whose work highlights the reality of living with a chronic illness.\nPillow Queens – Pillow Queens are an all-female alt-pop band from Dublin. Their songs cover topics like body positivity\, mental health\, and growing up gay in Ireland.\nGizele Martins – Gizele was at the frontline of actions to tackle COVID-19 in marginalized communities of Rio de Janeiro\, participating in the Maré Mobilization Front\, a collective of grassroots communicators created to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the favela.\nJuana Ruiz Sánchez – Juana Ruiz Sánchez is a Spanish woman human rights defender. She has been working as a project coordinator for 28 years at the Health Work Committee (HWC)\, an NGO providing health assistance in rural Palestinian villages across the West Bank.\nMary Elmes – Mary was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II.\nAlice Kuvheya – Alice is a human rights defender and director of Chitungwiza Residents Trust (CHITREST). The community trust works to provide civic education and human rights advocacy at a community level\, but also carries out advocacy on health and environmental issues.\nNan Joyce – Nan was an Irish Travellers’ rights activist. She worked to improve the lives of Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1981 until her death in 2018. She was the first Traveller candidate in an Irish general election\, in 1982.\nMariem Cheikh – Mariem is a human rights defender and a member of the NGO Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA)\, which aims to eradicate the practices of slavery.\nEnira Bronitskaya – Enira is a human rights defender and a member of the human rights organization Human Constanta\, which works to promote the protection of the rights of foreign citizens and stateless persons in Belarus\, as well as anti-discrimination and digital freedoms.\nSinzeri Nabeza Jolie – Sinzeri is a human rights defender and member of SOS HANDICAP\, an organisation created by disabled women to defend and protect the human rights of women and girls living with disabilities and to promote a fair world for all.\nGrecia Eugenia Rodriguez Navarro – Grecia is a human rights defender who has been accompanying communities and ejidos in the defence of land and water in the state of Zacatecas\, Mexico\, since 2014.\nLeanne Betasamosake Simpson – Leanne is an activist\, scholar\, writer\, and poet. She was heavily involved with the Idle No More movement that raised awareness of treaty betrayals and environmental injustices impacting First Nations people.\nWinona LaDuke – Winona is an environmental activist and author. She has founded two prominent organizations: Honor the Earth and the White Earth Land Recovery Project.\nGordana Comic – Gordana is Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the Republic of Serbia. As the founder of the Women’s Parliamentary Network of the National Assembly and a member of the women’s movement in Serbia\, she has played a significant role in the country’s fight for women’s equality and equal participation in decision-making processes.\nMaria Edgeworth – Maria one of the most successful novelists of her generation\, with a gift for social observation and dialogue that earned the admiration of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. She was one of the first writers to portray the Irish peasant class as real people\, with real stories\, and during the Irish Famine\, while in her 80s\, went door to door distributing food.\nLady Jane Wilde – Lady Jane was a gifted linguist and poet who published under the name Speranza\, a documenter of the Famine\, a women’s rights activist\, and a nationalist who used her writing to call for insurrection.\nDr Kathleen Lynn – Kathleen was a medical doctor specialising in ophthalmology; a volunteer in the soup kitchens during the 1913 Lockout; medical officer to the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) during the Rising\, for which she was imprisoned; a campaigner for equal rights for women; and the co-founder with her lifelong partner\, the equally fearless Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (and a budget of €70) of St Ultan’s Hospital for Infants.\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:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition - dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking required. All welcome weekly Tuesday – Saturday 11am-4pm\, until Friday 28 October 2022.  For information: info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners. \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nIn a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetry created under the title of The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found\, artist Mary Moynihan explores the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work of visual artist Amna Walayat  is informed by Michel Foucault’s[1] ideas on power and Edward Said’s[2] work on Orientalism.  Using the medium of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting and the language of symbolism\, Amna’s work expresses her hybrid cultural experiences with artworks on display created under the titles of Migration and In the Name of Shame. The artist says ‘being female\, Asian\, and Muslim\, and a migrant\, mother and artist\, these are all the strands that are personal but also provide me  with the opportunity to connect with global issues in general. My paintings are silent protests or performances against violence experienced by women and children\, particularly in various cultural contexts’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian. \n\n\n\n[2] Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic\, political activist and literary critic. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\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 film Courageous Women 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\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, she mounted her first solo exhibition as a part of the Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work was exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 October 2021) and with a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland and Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project ‘South Asia Community Museum in Ireland’. \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts and as a Curator with Alhambra Arts Council (2001-07). She has  worked with Cultural Action Europe as a MENA Cultural Agent for advising on policies (2021).  She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Visual Artists Ireland\, and is a recent recipient of The Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Routes
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers\n\n\n\nThe research for this exhibition was carried out by: \nDr Maurice J Casey\, the Department of Foreign Affairs Historian in Residence at EPIC \nAfrican American Irish Diaspora Network (AAIDN) \nDennis Brownlee\, AAIDN Board Member \nChristine Kinealy\, AAIDN Board Member \nLenwood Sloan\, AAIDN Board Member \nDon Mullan\, AAIDN Board Member \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIreland’s diaspora history is more diverse than you may think. \n\n\n\nFrom 2022\, EPIC is proud to present this exhibition exploring journeys that demonstrate significant themes and moments in the intertwining histories of the African and Irish diasporas. The exhibition is running until 30th October at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. \n\n\n\nWe feature stories of departure\, arrival and return\, tracing histories from the Age of Revolutions (1790s) to the present day\, encapsulating Irish diaspora histories of abolition\, racism\, anti-racism and solidarity. \n\n\n\nDiscover stories of the ‘Wild Geese’ Families in the Haitian Revolution\, of Edward and Catherine Despard\, an interracial couple active in 18th century Irish revolutionary movements and of Ira Aldridge\, the most famous Black actor of the early 19th century who spent six years in Ireland in the 1830s\, touring across the country. Learn about Frederick Douglass’s encounters with the Irish in America upon his return from Ireland\, of the Fisk Jubilee Singers\, a choir of formerly enslaved people who toured Ireland in the 1870s and of Lady Kathleen Simon\, the Dublin born anti-slavery activist of the early 20th century. \n\n\n\nYou will also learn about Michael Harmel\, the son of Irish Jewish migrants in South Africa who was a comrade of Nelson Mandela and of Mayo born Mary Mooney\, who toured the US\, Russia and Europe alongside African American women to demand the release of their sons from death row. \n\n\n\nThese stories\, featuring 22 countries and 11 Irish locations allow us to trace inward migration and multiculturalism within Ireland in addition to highlighting the diversity of the diaspora. \n\n\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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum\, CHQ\, Custom House Quay\, Dublin 1\, D01 R9Y0\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation – With MemoLabs: Performances\, Workshops\, Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisitors welcome from Monday-Sunday\, 3-23 October\, 10am-6pm (16 October 2-6pm). Contact info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\,  visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\, \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann\, visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda \n\n\n\nJuliane Okot Bitek\,  Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer\, academic and poet\, who lives in Canada \n\n\n\nPeter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor\, British Columbia\, Canada \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers in MemoLabs (in addition to above artists): \n\n\n\nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nNiamh Sweeney\, performer \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer and songwriter \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, violinist \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Deputy Director of Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nSenator Mary Fitzpatrick \n\n\n\nCllr Donna Cooney\, Deputy Lord Mayor\, Dublin City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe flagship event for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 is the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.  \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition at The Chocolate Factory features the work of artists responding creatively to themes of freedom\, remembrance\, political violence\, transformation\, power and control.   The exhibition highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan and Amna Wayalat and accompanying  by a series of MemoLab activities – talks\, workshops and live performances. The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nState of the Art MemoLabs\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition and installation is accompanied by an eight-day programme of State of the Art MemoLab activities made up of talks\, workshops and performances presented by international artists working with local artists from Ireland and Northern Ireland. The MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are open to the public and take place over three days at the Chocolate Factory\, 26 King’s Inns Stree\, Dublin 1\, on the  14\, 15\, 16 October and for five days in Northern Ireland on the 17-21 October.  The talks and workshops feature artists and researchers from Ireland\, Northern Ireland and around the world talking about their art based methodologies and creative artworks and how the arts can be used to transform society in the wake of political violence. \nThe MemoLab programme of work in Dublin is presented as part of the State of the Art Artist Development programme and the annual networking day for the Arts and Human Rights European Network attended by artists\, citizens\, communities and human rights organisations\, supporting artists to engage in artistic practice promoting equality\, human rights and diversity. The MemoLab programme of work in Northern Ireland is facilitated by Ulster University and Healing Through Remembering (HTR)\, and includes sessions with Conflict Textiles\, the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and National Museums NI on their new “Troubles and Beyond” exhibit at the Ulster Museum. \n  \nKey Questions: \nWhat is the role of the arts in promoting transformative remembrance arising out of political violence and in remembering responsibility for mass and state sponsored violence and how can art arising out of political violence be transformative? \nHow does remembering responsibility in a creative way\, shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country and global politics? \nWhat are the processes of art from the ground up in making impactful activism using culture\, creativity and memory? \n  \nPolitical violence impacts on communities and lives across the globe. It is a multi-faceted issue\, and can take many different forms. Certain specific conflicts are addressed in this exhibition\, while other pieces interrogate the emotions that such violence produces. The exhibition comprises of artworks across all forms reflecting on the role of the arts in highlighting the issue of political violence\, and the ways in which the arts can help people to reflect and move forward in its wake. These artists offer insights into conflicts and post-war communities across the world through their evocative and poignant work. \n  \nThe Artists for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Exhibition and MemoLabs are: \nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and is Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF). \nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores a range of themes including violence against women and feminism. Amna is co-curator with Mary Moynihan on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/amna-walayat \nHina Khan is a visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\,  specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores themes of migration\, racism and human rights. https://visualartists.ie/arts-directory/directory-of-members-_/#!biz/id/5d39abdbf033bfab33f21b4c \nDr Sinead McCann is a Dublin based visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation\, often exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. https://imma.ie/artists/sandra-johnston/ \nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nCarla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nRob Harrington\, Performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n  \nProducing Team \nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nCiara Hayes is Festival Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n  \nPartners \nUlster University \nConflict Textiles \nHealing Through Remembering \nJustice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda \nUniversity of British Columbia \nNational Museums NI\, Northern Ireland \nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nThe Transformative Memory International Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \n  \nPhD Organizing Group for the Transformative Memory International Network \nKetty Anyeko\, Uganda. Ph.D. candidate\, ISGP\, University of British Columbia \nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos\, Colombia. Ph.D. candidate\, University of British Columbia \nAlejandra Gaviria-Serna\, Colombia. Ph.D. student\, GRSJ\, University of British Columbia \nNila Utami\, Indonesia. Ph.D. candidate\, History\, University of British Columbia \nAaron Weah\, Liberia\, Ph.D researcher\, Law\, Ulster University \nPaula Surgenor\, Northern Ireland\, Ph.D candidate\, Anthropology\, Ulster University \nThe Artists\nThe artists in the exhibition are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design\, born in British Columbia\, Canada and identifying as a member of the Crow Clan;   Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights – Artist Development Programme for the Arts and Human Rights\, Supported by the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network and Resource and Advice Service\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality runs an annual  Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme called State of the Art; The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of human rights and is part of a programme of work supporting artists who are dedicating to use their art to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, talks\, mentoring and peer learning.  The programme is supported by the Smashing Times Resource and Advice Service (currently in development by Smashing Times) and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network which is open to all artists\, activists\, citizens\,  communities\, human rights organisations and the general public to join. \n\n\n\nThe programme is  made up of three components. The first component is an Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme bringing together artists through six exchanges and ongoing collaboration and research\, who are dedicated to using their artforms to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe second component is the creation of  new productions and exhibitions  to be presented for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. For the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival the company created State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition on display at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\,  and at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, with MemoLabs consisting of Performances\, Workshops and Artist Talks. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. The exhibition displays artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe and  features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\,  Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. Artists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.    \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by MemoLabs\, a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nA chapter of the Transformative Memories was created and ran at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery in Dundrum.  The State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  The exhibition runs from the 20 September to the 29 October 2022. \n\n\n\nThe third component of State of the Art is the holding of an annual Arts and Human Rights networking day held as part of the European Arts and Human Rights network which aims to bring together artists\, citizens\, communities\, human rights organisations and the general public and is open to all those interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  The annual networking day for 2022 consists of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival launch and the four MemoLab events held at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin for the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNetworks\n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network is open to all\, artists and activists\, organisations and individuals\, who believe in using the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights for all. The Network offers opportunities to meet\, discuss and explore human rights\, human rights defenders\, and the artists who use their work to stand up and speak out for the rights of others. The Network is free to join\, and includes information and resources emailed throughout the year. Join now: https://smashingtimes.ie/signupform/ \n  \nTransformative Memory Network \nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\nThe exhibition and accompanying MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are presented in partnership with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ulster University\, University of British Columbia\, the Transformative Memory International Network\, the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network\, Healing Through Remembering\, Conflict Textiles\, Justice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda and National Museums NI. \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/state-of-the-art-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/2022-10-03/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Installation,Interdisciplinary,Music,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation – With MemoLabs: Performances\, Workshops\, Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisitors welcome from Monday-Sunday\, 3-23 October\, 10am-6pm (16 October 2-6pm). Contact info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\,  visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\, \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann\, visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda \n\n\n\nJuliane Okot Bitek\,  Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer\, academic and poet\, who lives in Canada \n\n\n\nPeter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor\, British Columbia\, Canada \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers in MemoLabs (in addition to above artists): \n\n\n\nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nNiamh Sweeney\, performer \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer and songwriter \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, violinist \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Deputy Director of Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nSenator Mary Fitzpatrick \n\n\n\nCllr Donna Cooney\, Deputy Lord Mayor\, Dublin City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe flagship event for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 is the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.  \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition at The Chocolate Factory features the work of artists responding creatively to themes of freedom\, remembrance\, political violence\, transformation\, power and control.   The exhibition highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan and Amna Wayalat and accompanying  by a series of MemoLab activities – talks\, workshops and live performances. The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nState of the Art MemoLabs\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition and installation is accompanied by an eight-day programme of State of the Art MemoLab activities made up of talks\, workshops and performances presented by international artists working with local artists from Ireland and Northern Ireland. The MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are open to the public and take place over three days at the Chocolate Factory\, 26 King’s Inns Stree\, Dublin 1\, on the  14\, 15\, 16 October and for five days in Northern Ireland on the 17-21 October.  The talks and workshops feature artists and researchers from Ireland\, Northern Ireland and around the world talking about their art based methodologies and creative artworks and how the arts can be used to transform society in the wake of political violence. \nThe MemoLab programme of work in Dublin is presented as part of the State of the Art Artist Development programme and the annual networking day for the Arts and Human Rights European Network attended by artists\, citizens\, communities and human rights organisations\, supporting artists to engage in artistic practice promoting equality\, human rights and diversity. The MemoLab programme of work in Northern Ireland is facilitated by Ulster University and Healing Through Remembering (HTR)\, and includes sessions with Conflict Textiles\, the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and National Museums NI on their new “Troubles and Beyond” exhibit at the Ulster Museum. \n  \nKey Questions: \nWhat is the role of the arts in promoting transformative remembrance arising out of political violence and in remembering responsibility for mass and state sponsored violence and how can art arising out of political violence be transformative? \nHow does remembering responsibility in a creative way\, shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country and global politics? \nWhat are the processes of art from the ground up in making impactful activism using culture\, creativity and memory? \n  \nPolitical violence impacts on communities and lives across the globe. It is a multi-faceted issue\, and can take many different forms. Certain specific conflicts are addressed in this exhibition\, while other pieces interrogate the emotions that such violence produces. The exhibition comprises of artworks across all forms reflecting on the role of the arts in highlighting the issue of political violence\, and the ways in which the arts can help people to reflect and move forward in its wake. These artists offer insights into conflicts and post-war communities across the world through their evocative and poignant work. \n  \nThe Artists for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Exhibition and MemoLabs are: \nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and is Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF). \nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores a range of themes including violence against women and feminism. Amna is co-curator with Mary Moynihan on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/amna-walayat \nHina Khan is a visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\,  specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores themes of migration\, racism and human rights. https://visualartists.ie/arts-directory/directory-of-members-_/#!biz/id/5d39abdbf033bfab33f21b4c \nDr Sinead McCann is a Dublin based visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation\, often exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. https://imma.ie/artists/sandra-johnston/ \nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nCarla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nRob Harrington\, Performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n  \nProducing Team \nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nCiara Hayes is Festival Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n  \nPartners \nUlster University \nConflict Textiles \nHealing Through Remembering \nJustice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda \nUniversity of British Columbia \nNational Museums NI\, Northern Ireland \nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nThe Transformative Memory International Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \n  \nPhD Organizing Group for the Transformative Memory International Network \nKetty Anyeko\, Uganda. Ph.D. candidate\, ISGP\, University of British Columbia \nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos\, Colombia. Ph.D. candidate\, University of British Columbia \nAlejandra Gaviria-Serna\, Colombia. Ph.D. student\, GRSJ\, University of British Columbia \nNila Utami\, Indonesia. Ph.D. candidate\, History\, University of British Columbia \nAaron Weah\, Liberia\, Ph.D researcher\, Law\, Ulster University \nPaula Surgenor\, Northern Ireland\, Ph.D candidate\, Anthropology\, Ulster University \nThe Artists\nThe artists in the exhibition are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design\, born in British Columbia\, Canada and identifying as a member of the Crow Clan;   Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights – Artist Development Programme for the Arts and Human Rights\, Supported by the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network and Resource and Advice Service\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality runs an annual  Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme called State of the Art; The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of human rights and is part of a programme of work supporting artists who are dedicating to use their art to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, talks\, mentoring and peer learning.  The programme is supported by the Smashing Times Resource and Advice Service (currently in development by Smashing Times) and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network which is open to all artists\, activists\, citizens\,  communities\, human rights organisations and the general public to join. \n\n\n\nThe programme is  made up of three components. The first component is an Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme bringing together artists through six exchanges and ongoing collaboration and research\, who are dedicated to using their artforms to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe second component is the creation of  new productions and exhibitions  to be presented for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. For the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival the company created State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition on display at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\,  and at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, with MemoLabs consisting of Performances\, Workshops and Artist Talks. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. The exhibition displays artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe and  features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\,  Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. Artists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.    \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by MemoLabs\, a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nA chapter of the Transformative Memories was created and ran at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery in Dundrum.  The State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  The exhibition runs from the 20 September to the 29 October 2022. \n\n\n\nThe third component of State of the Art is the holding of an annual Arts and Human Rights networking day held as part of the European Arts and Human Rights network which aims to bring together artists\, citizens\, communities\, human rights organisations and the general public and is open to all those interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  The annual networking day for 2022 consists of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival launch and the four MemoLab events held at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin for the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNetworks\n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network is open to all\, artists and activists\, organisations and individuals\, who believe in using the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights for all. The Network offers opportunities to meet\, discuss and explore human rights\, human rights defenders\, and the artists who use their work to stand up and speak out for the rights of others. The Network is free to join\, and includes information and resources emailed throughout the year. Join now: https://smashingtimes.ie/signupform/ \n  \nTransformative Memory Network \nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\nThe exhibition and accompanying MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are presented in partnership with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ulster University\, University of British Columbia\, the Transformative Memory International Network\, the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network\, Healing Through Remembering\, Conflict Textiles\, Justice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda and National Museums NI. \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/state-of-the-art-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/2022-09-26/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Installation,Interdisciplinary,Music,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to invite you to the launch of From the Forest to the Ocean\,  a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, D14K3T6\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\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/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-24/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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