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SUMMARY:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city more inclusive for people of colour. The event aims to spark discussion and draw parallels between housing issues and movements in Cape Town and Dublin\, and more broadly\, Ireland.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nExploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city more inclusive for people of colour. \n\n\n\nThe event aims to spark discussion and draw parallels between housing issues and movements in Cape Town and Dublin\, and more broadly\, Ireland. \n  \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders\n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders (FLD) is an international human rights organisation founded in Dublin in 2001\, with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs). FLD works to improve the security and protection of human rights defenders and organisations around the world at risk for their peaceful and legitimate human rights work. As identified by human rights defenders themselves\, FLD responds to protection and security needs by providing support through grants\, capacity building\, visibility\, networking\, and advocacy\, at the international\, regional and local levels. Front Line Defenders has been awarded the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize. \n\n\n\nCommunity Action Tenants Union\n\n\n\nCommunity Action Tenants Union is a national tenants’ union in Ireland. Established in 2019\, it is a mass membership organisation of “renters\, council tenants\, mortgage holders and people in emergency & precarious living situations”. CATU is affiliated to ACORN International. \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/mother-city-film-screening-and-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Pearse Centre\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin\, D02 K037\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Sightsavers Ireland Film Festival – A Vision for Action at Lighthouse Cinema\, Dublin
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city more inclusive for people of colour. The event aims to spark discussion and draw parallels between housing issues and movements in Cape Town and Dublin\, and more broadly\, Ireland.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission\, RSVP to comms@sightsavers.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis October\, Sightsavers Ireland invites you to an evening of powerful storytelling\, advocacy\, and awareness as we host a special Film Festival to mark World Sight Day 2025. Through a compelling selection of short films and documentaries\, we will explore the global impact of avoidable blindness and the importance of inclusive eye health – but also go further\, examining how disability inclusion\, equal rights\, and full participation in civic and political life are essential to building a just and equitable world. This event aims to shine a light on what’s possible when we turn vision into action. Through the lens of filmmakers\, activists\, and those with lived experience\, the festival invites audiences to see the world differently\, and be inspired to take action for a future where no one is left behind. \n\n\n\nThis event promotes a human rights agenda by centering the voices\, experiences\, and rights of people with disabilities\, particularly those affected by visual impairment\, within broader conversations on inclusion\, equity\, and participation. Held in recognition of World Sight Day 2025\, the event highlights the right to health\, especially access to inclusive and affordable eye care\, as a fundamental human right that remains out of reach for millions globally. \n\n\n\nThrough a carefully curated programme of short films and documentaries\, the festival also addresses key rights often denied to people with disabilities\, including the right to be heard\, to participate in political and civic life\, and to live free from discrimination. By showcasing stories of resilience\, advocacy\, and systemic change\, the festival seeks to challenge stigma\, raise public awareness\, and inspire meaningful action towards disability inclusion and equality. \n\n\n\nCrucially\, the event is designed to be fully accessible\, affirming the right to participate in cultural life on an equal basis. In doing so\, the festival embodies and promotes the principles of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities\, helping to build a future where no one is left behind. \n\n\n\nSightsavers works with partners in more than 30 low- and middle-income countries across Africa and Asia to eliminate avoidable blindness and promote the rights of people with disabilities.Our vision is of world in which no one is blind from avoidable causes and where people with disabilities participate equally in society. We aim to ensure that eye health services are inclusive\, equitable and affordable to all\, especially women and people with disabilities. \n\n\n\nWe work to promote inclusive education\, giving all children the chance to learn\, lead and thrive. We also support the inclusion of adults with disabilities through projects focusing on economic empowerment and political participation. \n\n\n\nSightsavers Ireland is in operation for 20 years and Sightsavers global was founded in 1950 with over 75 years’ experience in development and eye health. Sightsavers Ireland works directly with the global Sightsavers organisation to implement programme work providing oversight and input from all levels of the organisation to ensure maximum impact. \n\n\n\nWorld Sight Day 2025 takes place on Thursday 9 October. \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/sightsavers-ireland-film-festival-a-vision-for-action-at-lighthouse-cinema-dublin-3/
LOCATION:Lighthouse Cinema\, Market Street South\, Smithfield\, Dublin 7\, D07 R6YE.\, Lighthouse Cinema\, Market Street South\, Smithfield\, Dublin\, Leinster\, D07 R6YE\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:In Flames
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city more inclusive for people of colour. The event aims to spark discussion and draw parallels between housing issues and movements in Cape Town and Dublin\, and more broadly\, Ireland.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €7 (early bird) / €9 (on door) / €5 (student) \n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDirected and written by Zarrar Kahn \n\n\n\nFilm Cast include Ramesha Nawal\, Omar Javaid\, Bakhtawar Mazhar\, Jibraan Khan and Adnan Shah Tipu \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn Flames is a  Pakistani-Canadian supernatural horror drama film written\, directed and co-edited by Zarrar Kahn in his feature directorial debut. Mariam’s precarious existence is ripped apart when her father passes. Living in a deep-rooted and toxic patriarchy\, Mariam and her mother must find the strength to survive the malevolent forces that threaten to swallow them. Bringing more underrepresented stories to audiences with the support of the BFI Audience Projects Fund\, awarding National Lottery funding. \n\n\n\nDirected by Zarrar Kahn | 98 mins | Cert 15A | Urdu with subtitles \n\n\n\nPresented in association with Access Cinema. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe following is a description of the film from Toronto International Film festival (TIFF)\, a non-profit cultural organisation with a mission to transform the way people see the world through film. \n\n\n\nhttps://tiff.net/events/in-flames \n\n\n\nIn present-day Karachi\, a medical student Mariam (Ramesha Nawal) struggles to keep her family together while being stalked by forces she can’t entirely understand while preparing for her upcoming exams. She is still dealing with the fresh loss of her grandfather and doing her best to support her grieving mother (Bakhtawar Mazhar) and brother (Jibraan Khan). An estranged uncle (Adnan Shah Tipu) re-enters their lives and declares himself their new patriarch\, making noises about handling their finances out of the kindness of his heart. Mariam’s mother is grateful for the help; Mariam can see disaster looming. \n\n\n\nAsad (Omar Javaid)\, a charming fellow student freshly back from Canada\, offers the possibility of romance and security\, but even that is fraught with its own specific dangers. And after a motorcycle accident\, Mariam finds herself even more alone and vulnerable. Something seems to be stalking her through the streets\, something that never quite comes into focus but whose presence she can feel at every turn. \n\n\n\nIn Flames is a gripping drama about trauma\, internalized abuse\, and the misogyny woven into the fabric of any fundamentalist culture\, with a streak of Guillermo del Toro’s empathetic ghost stories\, in which spirits return with agendas the living cannot fully comprehend. In his feature directorial debut\, Zarrar Kahn tells a story of women — not just Mariam\, but her mother as well — forced to navigate the random violence of their oppressive\, patriarchal society. \n  \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\nZarrar Kahn is an award-winning Canadian-Pakistani writer\, director and producer. He is an alumnus of the TIFF Talent Lab\, Locarno Filmmakers Academy\, Open Doors Locarno\, Asian Film Academy and Director’s Lab program at the Canadian Film Centre. His works have been screened and awarded in over 70+ film festivals worldwide\, including TIFF\, Locarno\, and BFI London. Kahn is in post-production on his debut feature film\, In Flames.The project won the Motion Picture Association\, Asia-Pacific First Prize award at Asian Film Academy 2019\, was selected for Berlinale Talent Project Market 2020 and participated at the Frontières Buyers Showcase program at Cannes 2022. The feature film is also a supported by the Locarno Open Doors Screenwriting Fellowship\, CFC/Netflix Calling Card Accelerator Grant\, Telefilm’s 2020 Talent to Watch program & Canada Arts Council. \n\n\n\nRiverbank Arts Centre\n\n\n\nRiverbank Arts Centre is the county arts centre based in Newbridge\, Co. Kildare\, funded by The Arts Council and Kildare County Council. Riverbank Arts Centre works in partnership with international\, national and local artists to deliver an accessible and consistently high quality arts programme in an intimate environment. Riverbank Arts Centre provide a multi-disciplinary programme which includes theatre\, cinema\, comedy\, music\, dance\, workshops and visual arts. \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/in-flames/
LOCATION:Riverbank Arts Centre\, Newbridge\, Main St\, Greatconnell\,\, Newbridge\, Kildare\, W12 D962\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Guardians of the Land: The Colombia Migrant Film Festival Launch
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin us for the launch of the Colombia Migrant Film Festival\, where we will be screening a two short documentaries (see below). This year\, we welcome the film festival in its Environmental and Migrant Justice edition\, an edition that recognizes the importance of speaking with urgency about the direct relationship between environmental impacts and migration. This is the year in which migrants\, exiles\, refugees and artists\, positioning themselves from a perspective of the Global South\, reaffirm their connection with the territory and recognize that to remember the armed conflict in Colombia is to remember nature itself: victim\, scenario and instrument for war. \n\n\n\nThis year’s short and long-form films and documentaries are a tribute to the more than 1\,910 leaders assassinated in Colombia in the last decade\, to the 7\,579 hectares of coastline we have lost\, to the more than 3 million hectares of forest deforested\, to the polluted rivers that have had to experience the ravages of violence\, to all the places that have had to be transformed and readapted\, to the thousands of people in the country who have been displaced by events related to climate change and that the State has kept in oblivion for years. But this selection is\, above all\, a tribute to all the people who\, despite these crude figures and realities\, still refuse to fall into despair. This selection is for all of us who believe in the possibility of telling our own narratives that will lead us to collective restoration and the sowing of a dignified and just country. \n\n\n\nJoin us for the screening of these two short documentaries in Spanish with English subtitles: \n\n\n\nVerde como el oro: \n\n\n\nGreen as Gold\, directed by Isabella Bernal\, is an urgent documentary that unveils the will of the people in the face of a mega-mining project in the Southwest of Antioquia\, Colombia and warns the national authorities about a possible environmental catastrophe. Nestor\, a former hunter\, has become the protector of the conservation corridor and of his former prey\, the Andean bear. Today his community and the animal face a greater threat. The mist holds the mystery that binds people\, land and animals together in a single heartbeat. \n\n\n\nEl camino de regreso a la maloca: \n\n\n\nIn the heart of the Amazon rainforest\, the Murui-Muina people of the municipality of Puerto Leguízamo\, Colombia\, struggle to strengthen their culture and traditions after surviving the genocide perpetrated by the Casa Arana rubber company. In a sound and visual journey through the rivers and jungles of the Amazon\, The Path Back to the Maloca\, directed by Juan Cortés\, documents the life of the Murui-Muina people in mambeaderos\, chagras\, malocas\, classrooms\, traditional dances and everyday conversations. Will the Murui-Muina people succeed in rescuing their ancestral knowledge and pass it on to new generations? \n\n\n\nFor more information about the Colombia Migrant Film Festival\, visit their Facebook page. \n\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/guardians-of-the-land-the-colombia-migrant-film-festival-launch/
LOCATION:The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin\, D02 K037\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening
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SUMMARY:Tonal: Liberation Movements
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nKaylin Paterson – Programme Director and Speaker \n\n\n\nOyena Sixaba and friends – Jazz Muscians / Performer \n\n\n\nLaura Twagirayezu – Film Curator \n\n\n\nAsanda Miya – DJ & Cultural Activist \n\n\n\nRonn Mapwata – Dancer & Speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFor the celebration of Black history month\, Tonal showcases a rendition of “The Sound of Liberation” to demonstrate the power of jazz and dance towards the mobalilisation of Liberation Movements. \n\n\n\nJazz is soulful\, a sound of rebellion and a sound of change. used as a key instrunent of liberation  from the Civil Rights movement to the liberation struggles of South Africa’s Apartheird regime. \n\n\n\nThis showcase will take you on a journey of how self examination and self expression through the arts were creative means of mobalisation and community building. A means for hope\, cultural preservation and dignity. For all humans to know that as a Humanity we feel all want to be free to Exist. Move. For all to acknowledge the most basic human right to life\, liberty and dignity. \n\n\n\n\n“Any real change implies the breakup of the world as one has always known it\, the loss of all that gave one an identity\, the end of safety. \n\n\n\nAnd at such a moment\, unable to see and not daring to imagine what the future will now bring forth\, one clings to what one knew\, or dreamed that one possessed. Yet\, it is only when a man is able\, without bitterness or self-pity\, to surrender a dream he has long possessed that he is set free – he has set himself free – for higher dreams\, for greater privileges.” \n\n\n\n\n― James Baldwin\, Nobody Knows my Name \n\n\n\nThe programme is set with Live music performances on “The Sound of Liberation” from alternative jazz sets\, to a demonstration of protest songs and movement to spoken word. Showcasing how the arts is a powerful instrument for liberation of self and of others. \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/tonal-liberation-movements/
LOCATION:The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin\, D02 K037\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Music
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SUMMARY:Moving Canvas
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, video will be available to watch here from 11 October 2024. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden\, curator and  founder of Moving Canvas\, Chair of NI Mental Health Arts Festival \n\n\n\nVictoria Geelan\, musician \n\n\n\nSheila Llewellyn\, writer \n\n\n\nSéamas Mac Annaidh\, writer \n\n\n\nJulie Murphy\, visual artist \n\n\n\nRory O Loughlin\, visual artist \n\n\n\nKate O Shea\, visual artist \n\n\n\nMargaret Stack\, artist and art therapist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch Moving Canvas Here\n\n\n\n  \nMoving Canvas is a unique initiative curated and designed by Noelle McAlinden on behalf of the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival 2024. \n\n\n\nMoving Canvas began as an invitation to seven artists living\, working\, from or based in the Fermanagh Omagh District Council area of Northern Ireland\, to participate in a series of conversations\, experiences and opportunities to pause\, stop and reflect upon their own creative practice and that of each other’s practices and their own mental health and wellbeing. \n\n\n\nFrom November 2023 to March 2024\, seven artists were invited to join a series of virtual conversations before meeting together for the first time at Enniskillen Castle Museum. Among the experiences was a request to explore and respond to the work of renowned Fermanagh based artist Mavis Thomson\, Senior Royal Ulster Academician. \n\n\n\nThis provided all artists with an opportunity to visit her solo show\, Coloured Thoughts\, a unique exhibition of paintings\, poems and assemblages created from found objects\, objects gifted to the artist\, and inspired by her lived experience and the world events. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition provided an opportunity for artists to meet and explore the exhibition as a starting point for discussion and reflection on their own practice\, without any pressure or demands on them other than to experience an exhibition and the artist’s sources of inspiration. \n\n\n\nThe artists were deliberately drawn from across a range of diverse artforms; poetry\, spoken word\, literature\, visual and performing arts\, and art therapy. Many aspects embodied in the sources of inspiration of Mavis Thomson’s Exhibition. \n\n\n\nThe participating artists were then provided with a series of opportunities to travel on Fermanagh waterways\, initially Erne water Taxi’s Island Discovery around the Island Town of Enniskillen\, and then disembark before taking another Ferry across to Castle Island\, with Blue Green Yonder\, experience nature and the waterways from a unique perspective. \n\n\n\nThis provided a series of unique opportunities to get to know themselves\, each other and the invaluable resources around them\, mindful of the investment in their mental health and wellbeing. \n\n\n\nThe request was to be present to the experiences and potentially see this as a form of stimulus for their future practice. The artists were also provided with a small bursary to invest in their own practice. \n\n\n\n“Moving canvas has evolved significantly as a unique concept and initiative curated on behalf of the NI Mental Health Arts Festival connecting artists and artforms who have now become a community and an extended family. This has exceeded all our expectations.” \n\n\n\nThe mutual encouragement and support and the cross-fertilisation of ideas has stimulated thinking and further explorations of individual and collective artforms\, the culmination of which is a  group show celebrating the NI Mental Health Arts Festival  at Strule Arts Centre Omagh which took place from May 9th to May 26th 2024. \n  \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural Broker \n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. Noelle also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, Noelle has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\nNoelle’s work varies in size\, scale\, subject matter and treatment\, from large-scale oil paintings to small mixed media pieces on canvas. The work is vibrant in colour and texture that appeal strongly to the eye with work consisting of an extraordinarily vivid panorama of colour\, light and imagery\, abstract and semi representational. The work to date has evolved from the figurative/narrative tradition. The choice of subject matter and treatment of it has evolved in a logical development from previous solo exhibitions\, Waterways of the mind\, Out of the Blue\, Eve–olution\, Precious Cargo and Emotional Landscape.  \n\n\n\nAbstract works are inspired by experiments with colour\, texture\, light and semi animated marks\, traces of life that somehow continue to be figurative. The paintings in oils and acrylics cover surfaces and canvasses that have been distorted\, distressed\, layered with texture and colour\, with fragments that have been constructed and deconstructed exposing colour beneath the surface. \n\n\n\nInspiration is drawn from who the artist is and where she has come from and where she is now\, both the physical world the artist lives in and the private world within her that carries the Precious Cargo of the past and all its diverse\, dynamic and evolving happenings\, the magic of gained knowledge & personal insight. An Artist who has mined deeper with age\, where with a love of emotive colour\, scorched canvasses emerge\, where blue tones and strong exotic tones collide\, where inspiration is sought in everything and every experience\, and where the artist paints large-scale as well as small\, and welcomes the happy accident. \n\n\n\nInspiration from the work of Hodgkin’s and Hoyland have influenced recent work. Noelle says “My work has evolved\, it comes from my life\, my soul\, experiences\, memory and imagination. Shaped\, nourished by events and accidental happenings\, family\, friendship and a sense of place.” \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nNorthern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival\n\n\n\nNIMHAF is a festival highlighting mental health by showcasing arts events across Northern Ireland. With arts on offer from visual arts and photography\, poetry and song to psychodrama\, music\, comedy and film\, the festival promises to put transformation on the agenda across Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nFounded in 2013\, the Northern Ireland Mental Health Arts Festival (NIMHAF) was the first of its kind in Northern Ireland. \n“These festivals are important as they give the public an opportunity to engage with art specifically referencing mental health. They also give venues and organisations the chance to work with new artists\, commission new work and connect with new audiences locally and regionally. Funding will help support the institution to programme talks\, workshops and exhibitions. With the aim of bringing a range of high quality and engaging\, free events to the public and creating opportunities of paid work for artists and creative practitioners based in or from Northern Ireland.”  \nLaura McCafferty – CCA Derry \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/moving-canvas/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Mental Health,Online
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SUMMARY:Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAmy Kidd\, actor \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, actor \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \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\nDr Sinead McCoole\, post-show speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass by Mary Moynihan\, a poetical\, storytelling reflection inspired by the life stories and clandestine engagement of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803)\, leader of the 1803 Irish rebellion.  \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe\, a film by Mary Moynihan based on writings and witness statements from Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford\, with writing input from artists from DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. Grace Gifford tells the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising and the youngest signatory to the Irish Proclamation and how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution.  \n\n\n\nWith poetry by Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of the Irish revolutionary leader Constance Markiewicz \n\n\n\nThe performances will be followed by a post-show discussion on Women Changemakers from history\, and why their stories are important\, featuring Dr Sinead McCoole. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Kidd is an actor\, writer and theatre-maker who trained at The Lir (BA\, Hons Acting). Credits since graduating include: Aisling in ‘Paler\, Still’ (Anseo Anois Theatre)\, Mary Shelly in ‘The Last’ (Different Theatre)\, Jess in ‘Love and Money’ (Brighton Fringe)\, Beatrice in ‘Inferno21: a modern reimagining of Dante’s Inferno’ (Verdant/The Lyric\, Belfast) and the solo performer of the installation piece ‘You Can Leave At Any Time’ (Dublin Theatre Festival ’19). She has recently been awarded an Arts Council Agility Award to be mentored by Conall Morrison in the art of theatre direction\, and her debut play ‘Breaking’ has been commissioned by Fishamble for production in 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016.  \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release early 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting: The National Theatre School of Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin\, having previously served in the TCD Drama Department as Convenor for the Bachelor in Acting Studies and Head of Drama.  \n\n\n\nEric is currently Book Review Editor for Humor\, the scholarly journal for the International Society for Humor Studies; he sits on the International Advisory Board for the European Journal of Humour Research and the Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies. He is series co-editor of the recently published Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy (Methuen\, 2020) and contributor of the Vol. 6 chapter\, ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; he is co-editor and contributor for the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance (2018). His single-author works include Theatre & Laughter (2016) and the Cambridge Introduction to Comedy (2009)\, plus widely cited articles in books and journals.  \n\n\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\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ie Smashing 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/tales-of-love-and-loss-10/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham Road\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Panel Discussion,Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:‘Foragers’ film screening and talk with Palestinian Activists
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €6. Book here \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nTalha AlAli\, speaker\, Amnesty International IrelandFatin Al Tamimi\, speaker\, Vice-Chair\, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity CampaignStephen Bowen\, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nForagers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humour and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights\, the Galilee and Jerusalem\, it employs fiction\, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme)\, and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants. For Palestinians\, these laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further alienates them from their land while Israeli state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen\, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol\, to courtroom defences\, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. By reframing the terms and constraints of preservation\, the film raises questions around the politics of extinction\, namely who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on. \n\n\n\nThis film screening will be followed by a talk with Palestinian activists to explore the joy and knowledge embodied in foraging traditions\, alongside resilience to prohibitive laws than ban these customs by the Israeli State. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Amnesty International Ireland. \n\n\n\nTalha Al Ali – speaker (Amnesty International Ireland) \n\n\n\nFatin Al Tamimi – speaker (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign) \n\n\n\nStephen Bowen\, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFatin Al Tamimi is Vice-Chairperson and a Director of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. A Palestinian woman\, she has been living and raising her family in Ireland for more than 30 years. Her family originally hails from Hebron and Gaza in Palestine\, and she still has close relatives living in both areas. She has been involved for many years in Palestine solidarity work in Ireland\, and in 2016 she was elected to the position of Chairperson of the IPSC in which she served for five years\, the first Palestinian to hold the position. She is also active in anti-racist\, anti-war and women’s groups in Ireland\, and has spoken at many events. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalha is a Youth Activism Officer with Amnesty International Ireland. A Palestinian human rights activist\, performer\, lyricist\, and hip-hop artist. Talha started fighting for political change and social justice in Palestine at a young age through hip-hop music and theatre in the early 2000s. Talha’s passion for empowering people did not stop at music and theatre. He graduated from university as a psychologist and a counsellor and continued his post-grad in mental health and psychotherapy to work as a psychotherapist alongside his work in human rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBowen\, a barrister specialising in international human rights law and an academic with over 30 years’ experience\, has served as the Chief of Staff and Legal Adviser at the UN Special Coordinator for Sarajevo\, and as Chief Human Rights Officer to the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He is also a former Director of the British Institute of Human Rights and most recently completed his role as Human Rights Course Director at Kingston University\, London. Bowen has also been a Visiting Professor of International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary\, University of London. \n\n\n\nHe not only brings his legal and academic expertise to the role\, but also a wealth of NGO experience having spent time with Amnesty International UK as Campaigns Director and as Director for External Affairs with Scope\, one of the UK’s leading disability equality charities. Bowen was Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in the Gaza Strip and is a former trustee of Manchester Pride. Today he is a trustee of Sheffield DocFest and a trustee of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health\, a faculty of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmnesty International\n\n\n\nAmnesty International is a movement of 10 million people which mobilises the humanity in everyone and campaigns for change so we can all enjoy our human rights. Our vision is of a world where those in power keep their promises\, respect international law and are held to account. We are independent of any government\, political ideology\, economic interest or religion. We are funded by our members and supporters. We believe that acting in solidarity and compassion with people everywhere can change our societies for the better. In Ireland\, our 20\,000 members and supporters campaign on issues like reproductive rights\, ending torture and protecting migrant and refugee rights\, among others. \n\n\n\nWhat does Amnesty International do? \n\n\n\n\nWe investigate and expose the facts\, whenever and wherever human rights abuses happen.\n\n\n\nWe lobby governments and other powerful groups to make sure they respect international law.\n\n\n\nWe mobilise millions of supporters around the world to campaign for change and to stand in defence of human rights activists\n\n\n\nWe support people to claim their rights through education and training.\n\n\n\n\nOur History \n\n\n\nIn 1961\, British lawyer Peter Benenson was outraged when two Portuguese students were jailed just for raising a toast to freedom. He wrote an article in The Observer and launched a campaign that provoked an unprecedented response. Reprinted in newspapers across the world\, his call to action sparked the idea that people everywhere can unite in solidarity for justice and freedom. \n\n\n\nThe Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC)\n\n\n\nThe Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is the largest and longest established organisation working for Palestinian rights on this island. We formed in 2001 as a democratic\, broad-based and multi-faceted campaign to support the human\, civil\, political and national rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories\, in Israel and in the Palestinian Diaspora.The IPSC is a volunteer-based coalition of individuals\, human rights and political activists\, academics\, journalists and trade unionists all committed to a just peace in the Middle East. We are independent of all Irish and Palestinian political parties and groups.The IPSC campaigns for freedom\, justice and equality for the Palestinian people and for an end to Israel’s racist and colonialist apartheid system. We do this through raising public awareness about the human rights abuses in the occupied territories\, the violations of international law and the historical causes of the injustices to the Palestinians that lie at the heart of the Palestine-Israel issue. \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-foragers-film-screening-and-talk-with-palestinian-activists/
LOCATION:Project Arts Centre\, 39 East Essex Street\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, D02 RD45\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:In the Shadows: Mental Health
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDirector\, producer\, editor: Dean Kavanagh  \n\n\n\nCo-producer & director: Aisling O’Leary \n\n\n\nCamera: Eoin Haide\, Ben Redmond\, Ving Nong\, Planem Dimitrov  \n\n\n\nSound: Sean Robinson  \n\n\n\nNarrator: Peter Warnock  \n\n\n\nProduction assistant: Sarah Notaro \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn the Shadows is a documentary that goes behind the statistics to talk to people affected by the mental health crisis in Ireland and looks at the charities and initiatives set up to help those struggling with their mental health. The documentary will be available to watch for the duration of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival on this webpage. \n\n\n\nWatch the Documentary Here\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Arts for Health and Well-Being\n\n\n\nA major report by the World Health Organisation (WHO) titled The role of the arts in improving health and well-being in the WHO European Region demonstrates how arts interventions can help improve health and well-being\, contribute to the prevention of a variety of mental and physical illnesses and support in the treatment or management of a range of acute and chronic conditions arising across the life-course.  The research  highlights the ‘evidence for the multiple ways in which it has been demonstrated that arts programmes can benefit the health agenda\, from reducing social inequalities to increasing health equity and from providing better training for health professionals to improving resilience and coping among informal caregivers’.  The report highlights the fact that the positive and beneficial impact that arts intervention can have on health and well-being is not being fully realised as more opportunities need to be provided to support collaboration between the arts and health sectors ‘ensuring that everyone has equitable access to the arts in community and health-care settings across the region. \n\n\n\nPositive Mental Health \n\n\n\nPositive mental health is about looking after yourself and minding your mental well-being\, having a positive sense of wellbeing. Life is full of ups and downs and there are many things you can do that will make a difference to how you feel and can help you to cope with tough times or difficulties that may arise. Positive mental health is not just ‘’being free of mental illness\, it is also about having a positive sense of wellbeing. It is important to look after your positive mental health as it allows us to enjoy life’s pleasures\, believe in our own abilities\, cope with the normal stresses of life\, work and study productively and enjoy socialising. Positive mental health is about reaching our potential and feeling like we always have the chance to give everything our best shot. Not just feeling positive\, but also getting out there in the big bad world. Positive mental health not only prevents mental ill health\, it also leads to greater enjoyment and satisfaction with one’s life.’’ (www.spunout.ie). \n\n\n\nImportance of Physical Health for Positive Mental Health and Well-Being \n\n\n\nBeing active promotes physical health and mental health. Being active helps release chemicals in your brain (endorphins)\, which have a positive effect on your mood\, as well as benefiting your heart\, lungs\, muscles and bones. Getting out and being active is also a great way to manage stress.   It is recommended to have 30 minutes of exercise 3 times a week in order to maintain fitness. This can be fast walking\, running\, dancing. This contributes to positive mental health. \n\n\n\nThe Right to Artistic Expression and Creativity \n\n\n\nAccording to the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commission\, ‘by engaging people and encouraging their interaction through artistic and cultural expression\, actions in the field of culture can open a space in which individuals and groups can reflect upon their society\, confront and modify their perception of one another\, express their fears and grievances in a non-violent manner\, develop resilience after violent or traumatic experiences\, including human rights violations\, and imagine the future they want for themselves and how to better realize human rights in the society they live in. The increased social interactions\, mutual understanding and trust that can be built or rebuilt through these initiatives are essential to achieve a range of human rights goals and to respect cultural diversity.’ \n\n\n\nBeginning in 2009\, the Human Rights Council of the United Nations has put forward a number of resolutions supporting the promotion of protecting everyone’s cultural rights and a respect for cultural diversity. A Special Rapporteur has been appointed (an independent expert in the field of cultural rights) who reports to the Human Rights Council of the United Nations on an annual basis. The Special Rapporteur works to promote and protect cultural rights at local\, national\, regional and international levels\, and ‘addresses how actions in the field of arts and culture can make significant contributions towards creating\, developing and maintaining societies in which all human rights are increasingly realized’. The Special Rapporteur reports on areas such as the right to artistic freedom\, the impact of fundamentalism and extremism on the enjoyment of cultural rights and the cultural rights of women. \n\n\n\n‘The arts have a unique power to bring people together’ (Amnesty International)\, to promote change and to advance human rights. Artists are storytellers who can shine a light on injustice using the power of artistic processes to raise awareness about important human rights issues\, to inspire people to support human rights and to engage new audiences in human rights advocacy. The end result is increased awareness and activism for arts and human rights\, and the long-term promotion and protection of human rights.  \n\n\n\nMental Health and the Arts  \n\n\n\nAccording to the Europe Mental Health Action Plan\, 2013-2020\, mental health disorders are one of the greatest public health challenges in the European Region as measured by prevalence\, burden of disease and disability. Mental health problems\, including depression\, anxiety and schizophrenia\, are the main cause of disability and early retirement in many countries and are a major burden to economies\, demanding immediate and sustained policy action. According to the Europe Mental Health Action Plan\, all sectors of society have a responsibility in terms of promoting positive mental health and the best way forward is to develop a multi-sector approach made up of cross-sectoral working partnership involving a range of organisations from governmental level to independent community based. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Acting for the Future Programme and useful links on Positive Mental Health and Well-Being\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are dedicated to using the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being. The award-winning Acting for the Future uses specifically designed participative arts-based workshops\, professional theatre performances\, film screenings and post-show panel discussions with counsellors and clinical psychologists to promote active healthy lifestyles\, positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership with the Samaritans and with assistance from a panel of advisors and is delivered on an annual basis in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland with second level schools\, universities and with a range of diverse youth and adult groups and the general public. This project was initially set up in 2005 and runs on a yearly basis due to demand for service. \n\n\n\nUseful Links \n\n\n\nIt is important to recognise that we may all experience a range of emotions in these changed times and that you are not alone as there is always someone there to help. If you need to talk you can ring the Samaritans anytime day or night on 116 123. You can also talk to a family member\, a friend or your GP. Talking about how you are feeling can help. Have a look at the Smashing Times Acting for the Future handout for suggestions and ideas for promoting positive mental health and well-being. \n\n\n\nIf you or someone you know is at risk of suicide or self-harm\, during this crisis you should make contact immediately with one of the following: \n\n\n\nYour local doctor \n\n\n\nYour local Accident & Emergency department of the nearest hospital \n\n\n\nCall 999/112 \n\n\n\nThe following is a list of support services in Ireland. It is not a comprehensive list. \n\n\n\nSamaritans Helpline: Call 116 123 \n\n\n\nIf you need someone to talk to\, the Samaritans are there to listen\, they wont judge or tell you what to do. Whatever you are going through\, you can call the Samaritans any time day or night from any phone for free. People can contact the Samaritans for a range of reasons and you don’t have to be suicidal to get in touch\, if you are having a tough time call the Samaritans on 116 123. Contacting the Samaritans is free\, you can ring from landlines or mobiles including pay-as-you-go mobiles. You don’t need to have credit or any call allowance to ring. \n\n\n\nAware Defeat Depression. Click here. Provides support to those whose lives are affected by depression and anxiety. Some great information from Aware in relation to handling your mental health and well-being and handling anxiety during Covid-19. \n\n\n\nHSE Health and Well-Being Division. Click here. \n\n\n\nBarnardos. Click here. Committed to the best interest of children and young people in Ireland\, promoting and respecting their rights \n\n\n\nSpunOut.ie Click here. SpunOut.ie is Ireland’s youth information website created by young people\, for young people. They provide information online on a range of different topics broken down into sections; education\, employment\, health\, life and opinion. \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/in-the-shadows-mental-health/
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SUMMARY:Courageous Women - A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary\, available daily. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nLead Artist and Curator: Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Director\, Theatre and Film Maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityProducer: Freda ManweilerAssociate Curator/Researcher: Niamh ClowryCast: Megan O’Malley\, Róisín McAtamney and Ann SheehyCostumes: Risa AndoSet Design: The CompanyDigital Artist/Graphic Design: EM CreativeConsultant Historian (pro bono): Sinead Mc Coole \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCourageous Women is a film by Mary Moynihan inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of women in Irish history from 1916 to 1923. The film is inspired by the stories of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927); Helena Molony (1884-1967); Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971); Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) and Eva Gore Booth (1870-1926).   \n\n\n\nCourageous Women is on display in Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, from 4 October to 5 November 2023\, Wednesday to Sunday only. \n\n\n\nThe women whose stories inspire the film are: \n\n\n\nConstance Markievicz (1868-1927) an Irish politician\, revolutionary nationalist\, suffragette and socialist \n\n\n\nHelena Molony (1884-1967)\, a Republican\, feminist and labour activist. Helena was a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen Army and was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916. \n\n\n\nMargaret Skinnider (1893-1971)\, a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising. \n\n\n\nHanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, radical activist\, feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes. Hanna was one of the original founders of the militant Irish Women’s Franchise League set up in 1908 to fight for emancipation and a woman’s right to vote. \n\n\n\nEva Gore Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, feminist\, campaigner for social justice\, and a sister of Irish revolutionary Countess Markievicz. \n\n\n\nThe film is written by Mary Moynihan and is inspired by and incorporates original writings from Constance Markievicz; poetry excerpts by Eva Gore Booth; original testimony including an adaptation from Doing My Bit for Ireland by Margaret Skinnider; original testimony from Helena Molony and writings by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.   \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, available daily. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín is an actor and facilitator based in Dublin. Originally from Cork\, Róisín undertook a BA in Drama Performance from DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama. Upon graduating from DIT Róisín worked in New York on off-Broadway show Ten Ways on A Gun. Other theatre credits include Antigone\, Romeo and Juliet and Smashing Times’ The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of 1916 and If you could Read my Mind from the highly acclaimed Testimonies. Róisín has performed in the Smashing Times tour of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII performing in Deirdre Kinahan’s new piece Ode to Ettie Steinberg\, which toured to Ireland\, Northern Ireland and Germany. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan O’Malley has recently completed a ‘Masters in Theatre Practice’ student in University College Dublin. Previous to this she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting’s two-year full time course in 2015. While training she took on many roles\, including: Runt in Disco Pigs\, Ophelia in Hamlet\, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew\, and Mags in The Spinning Heart. Megan also played Melissa in The Full Moon Hotel by Philip Doherty. Since graduating she has played Queen Elizabeth in ‘Gráinne’\, and has worked on several short films including ‘Rising’\, ‘The Nest’\, ‘Lilith’ etc . She also stared in Kerry Gold’s latest TV commercial and We Cut Corners music video ‘Of whatever’ by Stoneface Films. Megan was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary\, 2014. More recently\, Megan won the F.A.B. bursary award for Best Actress 16-21. Megan is also a passionate writer and was the first in the school’s history to premier her own work ‘MJ’ for the GSA graduation industry showcase. She also worked alongside Paul Meade for her Manifesto piece ‘The Mourning Seat’. From there Megan worked with Paul Meade over 2016 in developing her idea for ‘Home’\, and was thrilled to present it as part of Smock Alley’s Scene and Heard festival for new work in 2017. Megan has since expanded ‘Home’ to a full length production and which premiered in The New Theatre in 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 K3T6
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Installation
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SUMMARY:David and Goliath: Front line communities challenging corporate abuse
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nHannah Storey\, facilitator \n\n\n\nGrecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro\, Speaker \n\n\n\nBidya Shrestha Maharjan\, Speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLand grabs\, violent evictions\, widespread deforestation and destruction of biodiversity\, poor working conditions and more\, are just some of the negative impacts of corporate abuse-  companies operating with impunity for their human rights violations – companies that grow and process products that we use everyday in Ireland.Communities around the world are on the front lines of challenging these companies\, but sadly\, human rights defenders that dare to speak out on these harmful practices risk dangerous retaliation\, harassment\, threats\, attacks and criminalisation\, and even murder.At this event\, two international guests – women human rights defenders Grecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro from Mexico\, and Bidya Shrestha Maharjan from Nepal -will share the realities of what it is like challenging corporate abuse on the ground. Both are working hard to expose\, and prevent\, corporate-related human rights abuse in their communities\, and have faced backlash for their defence of human rights. The event will also include an exclusive screening of the new Trócaire Documentary ‘Make It Your Business’ – a new short documentary which goes on a journey to explore corporate accountability\, meeting experts and human rights activists on the front lines of corporate exploitation and abuse\, and how we might improve on this in future. To tackle these injustices\, the documentary also explores how we might realise a better future by bringing in new rules to protect people and planet\, and how ordinary people can stand up and take action. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nGrecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro is a woman human rights defender who has been accompanying communities and ejidos in the defence of land and water in the state of Zacatecas since 2014. Grecia is a member of the Zacatecas Mining Conflict Observatory\, which was founded in 2016 to provide accompaniment in the defence of the human rights of ejidos\, communities and vulnerable groups affected or threatened by megaprojects and extractive activities in the state of Zacatecas. \n\n\n\nA teacher by profession\, Bidya Shrestha Maharjan is a human rights defender from the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. She is the women’s president of the World Newa Guthi\, an indigenous community organisation that works to protect the rights of the Newa indigenous people. An indigenous woman herself\, Bidya has long been leading the movement to stop the illegal road expansion in the valley inhabited by the Newa people\, which has already seen the displacement of thousands who have not been compensated and/ or have been left landless. During the course of her work for the community\, the human rights defender has been threatened several times\, physically attacked and arbitrarily detained. \n\n\n\nAs Front Line Defenders’ Business & Human Rights Advocate\, Hannah Storey leads the organisation’s business and human rights advocacy as part of the Global Advocacy team. Hannah is responsible for providing advocacy support to human rights defenders at risk for their corporate accountability work\, as well as overseeing research and policy advocacy related to business and human rights. She works closely with the digital protection team on advocacy targeting the technology sector\, as well as with the Defenders in Development campaign on advocacy targeting development financiers. \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/david-and-goliath-front-line-communities-challenging-corporate-abuse/
LOCATION:Toast\, Temple Bar Hotel\, 13-17 Fleet Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 WD51\, 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:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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
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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:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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 W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist & Speaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, 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 based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\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 World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. Michael 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.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change. Performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist & Speaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, 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 based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\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 World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. Michael 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.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Onsite,Performance,Storytelling,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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:
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LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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/2021-10-23/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\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 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\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna 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’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\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. \n\n\n\nHis 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\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA 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. 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 says that  ‘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\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television 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 the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \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. \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. 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\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \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/stat-na-mban/2021-10-22/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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/2021-10-22/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\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 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\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna 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’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\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. \n\n\n\nHis 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\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA 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. 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 says that  ‘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\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television 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 the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \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. \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. 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\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \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/stat-na-mban/2021-10-21/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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/2021-10-21/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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/2021-10-20/2/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\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 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\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna 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’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\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. \n\n\n\nHis 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\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA 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. 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 says that  ‘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\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television 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 the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \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. \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. 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\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \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/stat-na-mban/2021-10-20/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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/2021-10-20/1/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T213000
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SUMMARY:Limbo
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\nRiverbank Arts Centre\, Newbridge – 18 October\, 8pm \n\n\n\n\n\nDroichead Arts Centre\, Drogheda – 19 October\, 8pm \n\n\n\nGarter Lane Arts Centre\, Waterford – 19 October\, 7.30pm \n\n\n\nSolstice Arts Centre\, Navan – 20 October\, 7.30pm \n\n\n\nPavilion Theatre\, Dun Laoghaire – 25 October\, 3pm and 8pm \n\n\n\nLinenhall Arts Centre \, Castlebar – 28 October\, 8pm \n\n\n\nClub Scannán Sailearna\, Inverin \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis film tour of the acclaimed debut feature Limbo to four partner venues is supported by the Arts Council as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Ben Sharrock’s critically adored Limbo is a wry\, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. \n\n\n\nSet on a fictional remote Scottish island\, Limbo tells the story of a group of newly arrived immigrants awaiting the results of their asylum claims. It centres on Omar (Amir El-Masry)\, a young Syrian musician who\, thousands of miles from home\, finds himself trapped by guilt\, regret\, and the grief he carries for the loss of his former identity. Separated from his family and burdened by a plaster cast on his arm\, Omar wanders the starkly beautiful landscape searching for answers to a complex past and daunting future. But while he is stuck there\, he isn’t alone. In between brief long-distance conversations with his parents and passing interactions with local oddballs\, Omar and his new flatmates attend outrageously misjudged ‘cultural awareness’ classes\, binge Friends boxsets\, and debate attending the local open mic night\, all the while waiting for the delivery of letters that will ultimately determine their future. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccess Cinema\n\n\n\naccess>CINEMA is the resource organisation for regional cultural cinema exhibition in Ireland. \n\n\n\nOur mission is to provide all audiences throughout Ireland with access to the best of Irish\, world and independent cinema\, via our national network of non-profit and voluntary organisations. \n\n\n\naccess>CINEMA’s purpose is to deliver a diverse range of quality cinema\, that is not available on commercial cinema screens\, to local Irish audiences; to provide advice\, expertise and support for cultural film programming and technical presentation; to support and present the work of Irish filmmakers; and to grow\, develop and promote opportunities to expand access to and participation with cultural cinema exhibition regionally. \n\n\n\nWe support member groups with     \n\n\n\nfilm programming adviceinformation on technical requirements on all cinema exhibition formatsdelivery of promotional/ support material so groups can actively promote their film programmes locallydeveloping and touring original film programmespromoting high quality programming\, presentation and technical standards for film exhibition\n\n\n\nDublin International Film Festival\n\n\n\nTaking place in February each year\, the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival is Ireland’s premier film festival event. \n\n\n\nThe Festival curates and presents the best in emerging international and Irish film and moving image culture for a wide audience through its flagship annual festival\, along with a range of year-round events. Virgin Media DIFF aims to offer memorable experiences through audience interaction and engagement with filmmakers\, actors and industry professionals\, along with informed debate about the future of film as an art form. \n\n\n\nVision \n\n\n\nThe Festival will further consolidate its position as Ireland’s most popular film festival and one of the top ten film festivals in Europe. \n\n\n\nValues \n\n\n\nPassion: Virgin Media DIFF is driven by a passionate belief in the power of film\, across all its many genres and source cultures. DIFF is a particular champion of\, and advocate for\, Irish cinema. It is committed to introducing Irish audiences to provocative\, inspirational and thought-provoking international cinema which might not otherwise be seen here. \n\n\n\nExcellence: Virgin Media DIFF is committed to the delivery of best-in-class programming as well as high-quality\, diverse audience and filmmaker experiences. \n\n\n\nSupport: Virgin Media DIFF believes in supporting the work of filmmakers and facilitating the development of film practitioners by providing a platform which showcases talent\, offers learning opportunities and creates a forum where valuable new working relationships can be formed. \n\n\n\nRespect: Trust and mutual respect are central to the Festival’s relationships with its audiences\, filmmakers\, supporters and stakeholders. The organisation strives to ensure true collaboration in all its activities. \n\n\n\nRepresentation: Virgin Media DIFF aims to be an inclusive and diverse organisation that promotes and delivers equality of opportunity regardless of race\, ethnicity\, religion\, gender or sexual orientation across all its activities\, from programming and audience development to employment policies. \n\n\n\nInnovation: Virgin Media DIFF will continue to explore the most innovative technologies and strategies available to curate and present the ever-changing art form of the moving image for its audiences. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: Virgin Media DIFF strives to ensure that all its audiences have access to its full programme. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:
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CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Onsite
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T110000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T150000
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\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 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\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna 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’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\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. \n\n\n\nHis 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\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA 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. 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 says that  ‘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\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television 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 the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \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. \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. 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\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \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
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LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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/2021-10-19/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Direct Division
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nThe Direct Division art exhibition will be freely available to view on the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery from 15 October 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Carmel Corrigan\, Head of Participation and Rights Education\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\, Participation and Rights Education Coordinator\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nGraham Seely \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDirect Division is a short documentary film featuring children describing\, in their own words\, their experiences of living in Direct Provision.  This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The film highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nDirect Division amplifies the voices of children who are seldom heard. It allows children living in Direct Provision to talk about their experiences in their own words. The children’s identities are protected due to the sensitive nature of the content. \n\n\n\nThis film is one output of a consultation with children living in Direct Provision by the OCO.  \n\n\n\nArt Exhibition: \n\n\n\nDirect Division is an art exhibition featuring children describing\, in their own words and images their experiences of living in Direct Provision. This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The artwork and writing highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) is an independent\, statutory human rights institution that promotes the rights and welfare of children living in Ireland. The OCO has two main functions\, to investigate complaints about services provided to children by public bodies\, and to promote and protect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. \n\n\n\nChildren living in Direct Provision: 73 children\, aged 12 to 17 years\, seeking international protection in Ireland and living in Direct Provision accommodation came forward to share their experiences and views with the OCO.  Through focus groups\, video interviews and art work\, these children courageously shared stories of their past\, their experience of rights and life in Ireland and their hopes.  \n\n\n\nGansee: Founded in 2013 by Tim Gannon and Graham Seely\, Gansee Films have established themselves as one of Ireland’s leading producers of documentary\, commercial and campaign video content. Gansee work with clients ranging from Trade Unions and NGOs to multinational corporations and arts organisations. \n\n\n\nSplattervan: A mobile youth arts facility\, run by Claire Coughlan and Helen O’ Keeffe\, using visual art as a tool for self expression and empowerment. Running since 2013\, they have worked with many incredible young people and organisations throughout Ireland and beyond to create street art\, animations\, art works and actions that give them space to be seen and have their voices heard. \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\nDr Carmel Corrigan\n\n\n\nA graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, NUI Maynooth and the Irish Law Society\, Carmel spent 16 years working as an independent researcher specialising in children’s rights\, participation\, policy and law.  Since taking up the post of Head of Participation and Rights Education in in the OCO in 2018\, she had led a number of rights-based consultations with children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\n\n\n\nAoife studied in NUI\, Galway and Queen’s University\, Belfast\, she holds an LLB and LLM. She has worked in the fields of human rights and development education for the last 8 years. As the Participation and Rights Education Coordinator in the OCO\, Aoife specialises in consulting with children facing human rights abuses\, teaching them about their rights under the UNCRC and listening to their stories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGraham Seely\n\n\n\nA lifelong film and photography fanatic\, after completing the Higher National Diploma in Film and TV Production at Colaiste Duhlaigh\, Graham spent several years working as a photographer and freelance cameraman. Gansee Films was established in 2013\, with goal of creating cinematic and photographic projects focusing primarily in the Arts\, Politics\, and NGO sectors. Graham’s photography has been displayed in several exhibitions\, and his feature-length documentary\, The Man in the Hat\, was screened at the Galway Film Fleadh 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman?\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman? \n\n\n\nWe are a human rights institution and work to protect the rights of children and young people in Ireland.We investigate complaints about services provided to children by public organisations.We want children and young people to be actively heard and respected so they experience safe\, fulfilling and happy everyday lives.\n\n\n\nOur History\n\n\n\nIn Ireland as far back as 1996 many committed people who were interested in children’s rights put pressure on the Government to have an Irish Ombudsman for Children. \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children Act\, which sets out the role and powers of this Office\, was agreed by the Dáil and the Seanad in 2002. The Ombudsman for Children is a presidential appointment and reports directly to the Oireachtas. \n\n\n\nOriginally Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices were set up to independently investigate complaints against public organisations. However\, after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was agreed in 1989\, Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices also began working hard to promote the rights of children. \n\n\n\nDr Niall Muldoon was appointed Ombudsman for Children in February 2015 by President Michael D. Higgins. He was then reappointed by the President in 2021 for a further 6 years. \n\n\n\nWhat is Direct Provision?\n\n\n\nDirect provision is the name used to describe the accommodation\, food\, money and medical services you get while your international protection application is being processed or while you are an asylum seeker\, which means the same thing. \n\n\n\nYou might get direct provision if you have applied for international protection and are waiting for: \n\n\n\nYour first decisionThe result of an appeal to the International Protection Appeals TribunalA judicial review (where the High Court looks at how a decision on your application was made)A decision on whether you will be given leave to remainA deportation\n\n\n\nYour direct provision normally ends if the Department of Justice gives you permission to remain in Ireland\, but sometimes you can stay in direct provision temporarily while you are looking for your own place to live. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Mother City Film Screening and Discussion\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA screening of the film Mother City and panel discussion on land and housing in Dublin and Cape Town\, presented by Front Line Defenders in partnership with Community Action Tenants Union. Exploring Cape Town’s history with Apartheid\, the story follows a social movement over a few years fighting for affordable housing to make the city…  \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/2021-10-18/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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