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SUMMARY:States of Independence - Live Multidisciplinary Performance
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nDirector Patrick ByrnesProducer Freda ManweilerStage Manager Clare McLoughlinPerformers Michael McCabe\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Daniel MahonWriters Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James\, Michael McCabeSet Design Saoirse O’SheaCostumes Saoirse O’SheaChoreographer John ScottAssistant Choreographer Rebecca ReillyDancers John Scott\, Rebecca ReillyFilming and projections Scott Robinson \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStates of Independence is a live\, multi-disciplinary\, collaborative performance presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at the Pumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin for six performances only on Friday 13\, Saturday  14\, Wednesday 18\, Friday 20\, Saturday 21\, Sunday 22 October 2023\, nightly at 7.30pm. This multidisciplinary performance by Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James and Michael McCabe\,  is inspired by stories of change-maker activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries and combines theatre\, film screenings\, poetry\, film projections and live music. \n\n\n\nA key part of the performance is the world premiere of a unique play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul by up-and-coming writer Féilim James inspired by the life stories  of Lucia Joyce (1907-1982)\, a dancer and her father\, the writer James Joyce (1882-1941). \n\n\n\nLucia Joyce and her father James are roused from death by an eloquent clown. The duo’s joyful reunion soon gives way to old quarrels\, as their mysterious resuscitator informs them of events subsequent to their passing. The clown’s central motive is to present James with a question\, a dilemma\, the answer to which holds the power to alter the past and jeopardise everything he worked for. This funny and moving play pits personal ambition against love for family\, all the while challenging prevailing notions about its protagonists: Lucia as the mad daughter\, and James as the genius father who did all he could to save his daughter. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz  \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                                \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick has been working as an actor and director in Dublin since moving here from New York. He recently directed ‘Dolly and Mick’ in the Civic and Viking theatres. Other productions include  ‘Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon’\,  in The Focus. ‘The Prodger’\, ‘The Boys’ in The New Theatre and ‘Drinking in America’ for ‘Bottom Dog Theatre’ in ‘The Belltabe’ which toured Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiona Bawn-Thompson is an actor\, writer\, and the director of a highly successful performing arts academy.  After graduating with her Drama degree from Queens University Belfast in 2004 she went on to train as an actor with the Lyric Theatre Drama Studio.  She has extensive experience in all genres of theatre\, film and dance and shares this passion and knowledge with the young people she teaches.  Fiona also runs a wellbeing company and incorporates movement and drama strategies into her practice to enhance the experience for her clients.  She has performed and toured with many shows for Smashing Times Theatre Company\, including “The Woman is Present”\, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”\, and “Women\, War & Peace”.  In recent years she has been working extensively in the film industry as a supporting artist in films and series such as “The Northman”\, “Line of Duty”\, “The Woman in the Wall”\, and “Dungeons and Dragons”\, to name but a few.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from The Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. \n\n\n\nStage credits include ‘EXIT> PURSUED BY A PINT’ a new play by Kat Ennis for Scene and Heard Festival 2023\,  the role of ‘The Black O’Donnell’ in the Quintessence Theatre/An Taín production of INTO THE DARK and the role of ‘Patrick Hogan’ in ANU Productions’ STAGING THE TREATY at the National Concert Hall which was also screened at the IFI and streamed on RTÉ’s website and IFI@Home. \n\n\n\nWhile at The Lir he played\, Francois ‘Franz/Frank’ Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O’Brien’s DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. \n\n\n\nHis Scene Credits include Paul in the IFTA-nominated feature WHO WE LOVE directed by Graham Cantwell; the short film WAITING directed by Sinéad O’Louglin at The Lir\, and the role of Eddie in Pancake Studios’ short film NEVER ALONE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott is a new-media\, digital and film artist working across film\, audio-visual art\, live performance and dance.  \n\n\n\nFrom Limerick in Ireland\, he works freelance under the alias YÚLON in which he specialises in the creation of immersive storytelling and shared\, blended reality experiences. The output medium is usually a fusion of installation\, performance or film. His work concerns investigating the human-technology relationship in a post-digital context\, often considering how we can use digital technology to become “more” human. \n\n\n\nThe art that Scott creates is mostly for unconventional venues such as derelict/vacant buildings\, liminal spaces and also public spaces. The lack of borders and ability to humanise a space with art is an important anchor for him to create from.  \n\n\n\nScott graduated from the University of Limerick in 2016 with a BSc in Music\, Media\, and Performance Technology\, and has since been awarded several accolades\, including a Made in Limerick Grant and a Residential Art Apartment. They were also recently selected for the prestigious Cybernate Digital Art Residency\, an Arts Council International Residency spanning Lyon and Galway.  \n\n\n\nScott’s artistic journey began with filmmaking and videography in 2013\, where they discovered their passion for capturing the expressive nature of Dance. In 2015\, their dance film ‘Release’ unintentionally became a screendance piece\, earning the title of Best Student Film at The Light Moves Film Festival of Screendance and being showcased at festivals across the US\, Sweden\, and Georgia.  \n\n\n\nHis deep interest in storytelling on screen led him to explore more immersive platforms for storytelling\, and their final year research project at the University of Limerick investigated building a bi-directional channel of feedback between dancers and a real-time visual artist. This research culminated in the creation of ‘Ledge\,’ an immersive projection and live dance performance in 2016.  \n\n\n\nSince then Scott has produced several immersive artworks that include Plastic Tears\, 2019\, a_blue_crush\, 2019 and Tairseach (portal)\, 2021. He also continues to help develop the new-media arts community across Ireland with the collective he is part of called Concept Null. \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. 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SUMMARY:States of Independence - Live Multidisciplinary Performance
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nDirector Patrick ByrnesProducer Freda ManweilerStage Manager Clare McLoughlinPerformers Michael McCabe\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Daniel MahonWriters Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James\, Michael McCabeSet Design Saoirse O’SheaCostumes Saoirse O’SheaChoreographer John ScottAssistant Choreographer Rebecca ReillyDancers John Scott\, Rebecca ReillyFilming and projections Scott Robinson \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStates of Independence is a live\, multi-disciplinary\, collaborative performance presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at the Pumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin for six performances only on Friday 13\, Saturday  14\, Wednesday 18\, Friday 20\, Saturday 21\, Sunday 22 October 2023\, nightly at 7.30pm. This multidisciplinary performance by Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James and Michael McCabe\,  is inspired by stories of change-maker activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries and combines theatre\, film screenings\, poetry\, film projections and live music. \n\n\n\nA key part of the performance is the world premiere of a unique play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul by up-and-coming writer Féilim James inspired by the life stories  of Lucia Joyce (1907-1982)\, a dancer and her father\, the writer James Joyce (1882-1941). \n\n\n\nLucia Joyce and her father James are roused from death by an eloquent clown. The duo’s joyful reunion soon gives way to old quarrels\, as their mysterious resuscitator informs them of events subsequent to their passing. The clown’s central motive is to present James with a question\, a dilemma\, the answer to which holds the power to alter the past and jeopardise everything he worked for. This funny and moving play pits personal ambition against love for family\, all the while challenging prevailing notions about its protagonists: Lucia as the mad daughter\, and James as the genius father who did all he could to save his daughter. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz  \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                                \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick has been working as an actor and director in Dublin since moving here from New York. He recently directed ‘Dolly and Mick’ in the Civic and Viking theatres. Other productions include  ‘Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon’\,  in The Focus. ‘The Prodger’\, ‘The Boys’ in The New Theatre and ‘Drinking in America’ for ‘Bottom Dog Theatre’ in ‘The Belltabe’ which toured Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiona Bawn-Thompson is an actor\, writer\, and the director of a highly successful performing arts academy.  After graduating with her Drama degree from Queens University Belfast in 2004 she went on to train as an actor with the Lyric Theatre Drama Studio.  She has extensive experience in all genres of theatre\, film and dance and shares this passion and knowledge with the young people she teaches.  Fiona also runs a wellbeing company and incorporates movement and drama strategies into her practice to enhance the experience for her clients.  She has performed and toured with many shows for Smashing Times Theatre Company\, including “The Woman is Present”\, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”\, and “Women\, War & Peace”.  In recent years she has been working extensively in the film industry as a supporting artist in films and series such as “The Northman”\, “Line of Duty”\, “The Woman in the Wall”\, and “Dungeons and Dragons”\, to name but a few.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from The Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. \n\n\n\nStage credits include ‘EXIT> PURSUED BY A PINT’ a new play by Kat Ennis for Scene and Heard Festival 2023\,  the role of ‘The Black O’Donnell’ in the Quintessence Theatre/An Taín production of INTO THE DARK and the role of ‘Patrick Hogan’ in ANU Productions’ STAGING THE TREATY at the National Concert Hall which was also screened at the IFI and streamed on RTÉ’s website and IFI@Home. \n\n\n\nWhile at The Lir he played\, Francois ‘Franz/Frank’ Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O’Brien’s DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. \n\n\n\nHis Scene Credits include Paul in the IFTA-nominated feature WHO WE LOVE directed by Graham Cantwell; the short film WAITING directed by Sinéad O’Louglin at The Lir\, and the role of Eddie in Pancake Studios’ short film NEVER ALONE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott is a new-media\, digital and film artist working across film\, audio-visual art\, live performance and dance.  \n\n\n\nFrom Limerick in Ireland\, he works freelance under the alias YÚLON in which he specialises in the creation of immersive storytelling and shared\, blended reality experiences. The output medium is usually a fusion of installation\, performance or film. His work concerns investigating the human-technology relationship in a post-digital context\, often considering how we can use digital technology to become “more” human. \n\n\n\nThe art that Scott creates is mostly for unconventional venues such as derelict/vacant buildings\, liminal spaces and also public spaces. The lack of borders and ability to humanise a space with art is an important anchor for him to create from.  \n\n\n\nScott graduated from the University of Limerick in 2016 with a BSc in Music\, Media\, and Performance Technology\, and has since been awarded several accolades\, including a Made in Limerick Grant and a Residential Art Apartment. They were also recently selected for the prestigious Cybernate Digital Art Residency\, an Arts Council International Residency spanning Lyon and Galway.  \n\n\n\nScott’s artistic journey began with filmmaking and videography in 2013\, where they discovered their passion for capturing the expressive nature of Dance. In 2015\, their dance film ‘Release’ unintentionally became a screendance piece\, earning the title of Best Student Film at The Light Moves Film Festival of Screendance and being showcased at festivals across the US\, Sweden\, and Georgia.  \n\n\n\nHis deep interest in storytelling on screen led him to explore more immersive platforms for storytelling\, and their final year research project at the University of Limerick investigated building a bi-directional channel of feedback between dancers and a real-time visual artist. This research culminated in the creation of ‘Ledge\,’ an immersive projection and live dance performance in 2016.  \n\n\n\nSince then Scott has produced several immersive artworks that include Plastic Tears\, 2019\, a_blue_crush\, 2019 and Tairseach (portal)\, 2021. He also continues to help develop the new-media arts community across Ireland with the collective he is part of called Concept Null. \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:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Dance,Interdisciplinary,Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:States of Independence - Live Multidisciplinary Performance
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nDirector Patrick ByrnesProducer Freda ManweilerStage Manager Clare McLoughlinPerformers Michael McCabe\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Daniel MahonWriters Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James\, Michael McCabeSet Design Saoirse O’SheaCostumes Saoirse O’SheaChoreographer John ScottAssistant Choreographer Rebecca ReillyDancers John Scott\, Rebecca ReillyFilming and projections Scott Robinson \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStates of Independence is a live\, multi-disciplinary\, collaborative performance presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at the Pumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin for six performances only on Friday 13\, Saturday  14\, Wednesday 18\, Friday 20\, Saturday 21\, Sunday 22 October 2023\, nightly at 7.30pm. This multidisciplinary performance by Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James and Michael McCabe\,  is inspired by stories of change-maker activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries and combines theatre\, film screenings\, poetry\, film projections and live music. \n\n\n\nA key part of the performance is the world premiere of a unique play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul by up-and-coming writer Féilim James inspired by the life stories  of Lucia Joyce (1907-1982)\, a dancer and her father\, the writer James Joyce (1882-1941). \n\n\n\nLucia Joyce and her father James are roused from death by an eloquent clown. The duo’s joyful reunion soon gives way to old quarrels\, as their mysterious resuscitator informs them of events subsequent to their passing. The clown’s central motive is to present James with a question\, a dilemma\, the answer to which holds the power to alter the past and jeopardise everything he worked for. This funny and moving play pits personal ambition against love for family\, all the while challenging prevailing notions about its protagonists: Lucia as the mad daughter\, and James as the genius father who did all he could to save his daughter. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz  \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                                \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiona Bawn-Thompson is a hard-working mum with a passion for the arts. She works with women’s groups\, young people and adults with moderate to profound learning difficulties\, ex paramilitary\, ethnic minorities and segregated youth across the island of Ireland.   She is an actor\, writer\, director and choreographer and loves to work on devising projects and creating collaborative artistic pieces with the groups she works with.  She is also the founder and director of FADD studios\, a performing arts academy which was established in 2008 and which runs classes across three counties. She has represented Ireland at the world Hip-Hop Championships in 2014 and 2019 with her crew of dancers and have attained many awards over the years. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick has been working as an actor and director in Dublin since moving here from New York. He recently directed ‘Dolly and Mick’ in the Civic and Viking theatres. Other productions include  ‘Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon’\,  in The Focus. ‘The Prodger’\, ‘The Boys’ in The New Theatre and ‘Drinking in America’ for ‘Bottom Dog Theatre’ in ‘The Belltabe’ which toured Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from The Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. \n\n\n\nStage credits include ‘EXIT> PURSUED BY A PINT’ a new play by Kat Ennis for Scene and Heard Festival 2023\,  the role of ‘The Black O’Donnell’ in the Quintessence Theatre/An Taín production of INTO THE DARK and the role of ‘Patrick Hogan’ in ANU Productions’ STAGING THE TREATY at the National Concert Hall which was also screened at the IFI and streamed on RTÉ’s website and IFI@Home. \n\n\n\nWhile at The Lir he played\, Francois ‘Franz/Frank’ Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O’Brien’s DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. \n\n\n\nHis Scene Credits include Paul in the IFTA-nominated feature WHO WE LOVE directed by Graham Cantwell; the short film WAITING directed by Sinéad O’Louglin at The Lir\, and the role of Eddie in Pancake Studios’ short film NEVER ALONE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott is a new-media\, digital and film artist working across film\, audio-visual art\, live performance and dance.  \n\n\n\nFrom Limerick in Ireland\, he works freelance under the alias YÚLON in which he specialises in the creation of immersive storytelling and shared\, blended reality experiences. The output medium is usually a fusion of installation\, performance or film. His work concerns investigating the human-technology relationship in a post-digital context\, often considering how we can use digital technology to become “more” human. \n\n\n\nThe art that Scott creates is mostly for unconventional venues such as derelict/vacant buildings\, liminal spaces and also public spaces. The lack of borders and ability to humanise a space with art is an important anchor for him to create from.  \n\n\n\nScott graduated from the University of Limerick in 2016 with a BSc in Music\, Media\, and Performance Technology\, and has since been awarded several accolades\, including a Made in Limerick Grant and a Residential Art Apartment. They were also recently selected for the prestigious Cybernate Digital Art Residency\, an Arts Council International Residency spanning Lyon and Galway.  \n\n\n\nScott’s artistic journey began with filmmaking and videography in 2013\, where they discovered their passion for capturing the expressive nature of Dance. In 2015\, their dance film ‘Release’ unintentionally became a screendance piece\, earning the title of Best Student Film at The Light Moves Film Festival of Screendance and being showcased at festivals across the US\, Sweden\, and Georgia.  \n\n\n\nHis deep interest in storytelling on screen led him to explore more immersive platforms for storytelling\, and their final year research project at the University of Limerick investigated building a bi-directional channel of feedback between dancers and a real-time visual artist. This research culminated in the creation of ‘Ledge\,’ an immersive projection and live dance performance in 2016.  \n\n\n\nSince then Scott has produced several immersive artworks that include Plastic Tears\, 2019\, a_blue_crush\, 2019 and Tairseach (portal)\, 2021. He also continues to help develop the new-media arts community across Ireland with the collective he is part of called Concept Null. \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:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
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SUMMARY:States of Independence - Live Multidisciplinary Performance
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nDirector Patrick ByrnesProducer Freda ManweilerStage Manager Clare McLoughlinPerformers Michael McCabe\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Daniel MahonWriters Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James\, Michael McCabeSet Design Saoirse O’SheaCostumes Saoirse O’SheaChoreographer John ScottAssistant Choreographer Rebecca ReillyDancers John Scott\, Rebecca ReillyFilming and projections Scott Robinson \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStates of Independence is a live\, multi-disciplinary\, collaborative performance presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at the Pumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin for six performances only on Friday 13\, Saturday  14\, Wednesday 18\, Friday 20\, Saturday 21\, Sunday 22 October 2023\, nightly at 7.30pm. This multidisciplinary performance by Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James and Michael McCabe\,  is inspired by stories of change-maker activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries and combines theatre\, film screenings\, poetry\, film projections and live music. \n\n\n\nA key part of the performance is the world premiere of a unique play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul by up-and-coming writer Féilim James inspired by the life stories  of Lucia Joyce (1907-1982)\, a dancer and her father\, the writer James Joyce (1882-1941). \n\n\n\nLucia Joyce and her father James are roused from death by an eloquent clown. The duo’s joyful reunion soon gives way to old quarrels\, as their mysterious resuscitator informs them of events subsequent to their passing. The clown’s central motive is to present James with a question\, a dilemma\, the answer to which holds the power to alter the past and jeopardise everything he worked for. This funny and moving play pits personal ambition against love for family\, all the while challenging prevailing notions about its protagonists: Lucia as the mad daughter\, and James as the genius father who did all he could to save his daughter. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz  \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                           \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick has been working as an actor and director in Dublin since moving here from New York. He recently directed ‘Dolly and Mick’ in the Civic and Viking theatres. Other productions include  ‘Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon’\,  in The Focus. ‘The Prodger’\, ‘The Boys’ in The New Theatre and ‘Drinking in America’ for ‘Bottom Dog Theatre’ in ‘The Belltabe’ which toured Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiona Bawn-Thompson is an actor\, writer\, and the director of a highly successful performing arts academy.  After graduating with her Drama degree from Queens University Belfast in 2004 she went on to train as an actor with the Lyric Theatre Drama Studio.  She has extensive experience in all genres of theatre\, film and dance and shares this passion and knowledge with the young people she teaches.  Fiona also runs a wellbeing company and incorporates movement and drama strategies into her practice to enhance the experience for her clients.  She has performed and toured with many shows for Smashing Times Theatre Company\, including “The Woman is Present”\, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”\, and “Women\, War & Peace”.  In recent years she has been working extensively in the film industry as a supporting artist in films and series such as “The Northman”\, “Line of Duty”\, “The Woman in the Wall”\, and “Dungeons and Dragons”\, to name but a few.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from The Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. \n\n\n\nStage credits include ‘EXIT> PURSUED BY A PINT’ a new play by Kat Ennis for Scene and Heard Festival 2023\,  the role of ‘The Black O’Donnell’ in the Quintessence Theatre/An Taín production of INTO THE DARK and the role of ‘Patrick Hogan’ in ANU Productions’ STAGING THE TREATY at the National Concert Hall which was also screened at the IFI and streamed on RTÉ’s website and IFI@Home. \n\n\n\nWhile at The Lir he played\, Francois ‘Franz/Frank’ Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O’Brien’s DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. \n\n\n\nHis Scene Credits include Paul in the IFTA-nominated feature WHO WE LOVE directed by Graham Cantwell; the short film WAITING directed by Sinéad O’Louglin at The Lir\, and the role of Eddie in Pancake Studios’ short film NEVER ALONE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott is a new-media\, digital and film artist working across film\, audio-visual art\, live performance and dance.  \n\n\n\nFrom Limerick in Ireland\, he works freelance under the alias YÚLON in which he specialises in the creation of immersive storytelling and shared\, blended reality experiences. The output medium is usually a fusion of installation\, performance or film. His work concerns investigating the human-technology relationship in a post-digital context\, often considering how we can use digital technology to become “more” human. \n\n\n\nThe art that Scott creates is mostly for unconventional venues such as derelict/vacant buildings\, liminal spaces and also public spaces. The lack of borders and ability to humanise a space with art is an important anchor for him to create from.  \n\n\n\nScott graduated from the University of Limerick in 2016 with a BSc in Music\, Media\, and Performance Technology\, and has since been awarded several accolades\, including a Made in Limerick Grant and a Residential Art Apartment. They were also recently selected for the prestigious Cybernate Digital Art Residency\, an Arts Council International Residency spanning Lyon and Galway.  \n\n\n\nScott’s artistic journey began with filmmaking and videography in 2013\, where they discovered their passion for capturing the expressive nature of Dance. In 2015\, their dance film ‘Release’ unintentionally became a screendance piece\, earning the title of Best Student Film at The Light Moves Film Festival of Screendance and being showcased at festivals across the US\, Sweden\, and Georgia.  \n\n\n\nHis deep interest in storytelling on screen led him to explore more immersive platforms for storytelling\, and their final year research project at the University of Limerick investigated building a bi-directional channel of feedback between dancers and a real-time visual artist. This research culminated in the creation of ‘Ledge\,’ an immersive projection and live dance performance in 2016.  \n\n\n\nSince then Scott has produced several immersive artworks that include Plastic Tears\, 2019\, a_blue_crush\, 2019 and Tairseach (portal)\, 2021. He also continues to help develop the new-media arts community across Ireland with the collective he is part of called Concept Null. \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. 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LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
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SUMMARY:An Evening with the Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nMarco Maccieri\, director\, MaMiMò Theatre Centre \n\n\n\nProducers: MaMiMò Theatre Centre and Genoa National Theatre \n\n\n\nAlice Giroldini\, performer\, MaMiMò Theatre Centre \n\n\n\nKaisa Kauppinen\, performer\, Turku \n\n\n\nWill Eno\, writer \n\n\n\nElena Battista\, translator \n\n\n\nPost-show speakers: Marco Maccieri\, Alice Giroldini\, Kaisa Kauppinen\, Jean-Lorin Sterian\, Johan Bandholtz\, Anna Näsström\, and Anja Calas \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival \n\n\n\nFeaturing live performances and panel discussions from a range of creative arts organisations from across Europe \n\n\n\nThe Pumphouse\, Dublin Port – Alexandra Terminal\, Alexandra Rd\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1 \n\n\n\nAfternoon: Art-based Workshops and Talks – 15 October 2023\, 2-5pm \n\n\n\nEvening: Performances and Post-Show Talks – 15 October 2023\, 7-10pm \n\n\n\nSmashing Times is delighted to welcome a range of innovative creative arts organisations from across Europe to Ireland for A Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival featuring live performances\, workshops and panel discussions. These events showcase the work of emerging and established artists and build international connections for artists working in theatre and in interdisciplinary arts practice\, using the arts to support equality\, human rights and diversity. The Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival is held as part of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival running from the 13 to 22 October 2023 in Ireland.  Events take place in two parts\, the first is an afternoon event of art-based workshops\, live performances and talks on Sunday 15 October 2023 from 2-5pm and the second is an evening event of live performances and talks taking place on Sunday 15 October from 7 to 10pm. This series of events is hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and presented by a range of arts  organisations from across Europe who are taking part  in the Theatre in Palm Europe-wide transnational project.  \n\n\n\nEvening: Change-Maker Art-based Performances and Post-Show Talk \n\n\n\nPumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1 \n\n\n\nSunday 15 October\, 7-10pm \n\n\n\nThis evening event presents two performances by Theatre in Palm organisations\, Turku\, Finland and MaMiMo\, Italy\, followed by a post-show panel discussion with the artists. \n\n\n\nAbout Womankind\n\n\n\nLive performance presented by Kaisa Kauppinen\, Turku\, Finland \n\n\n\nAbout Womankind is a one-woman comedic non-verbal lecture about universal womanhood. What kind of presentation of women do we have these days? Is there actual equality between genders in all countries and do we have to categorize people based on femininity and masculinity? The performer uses object theatre on stage and creates absurd black comedy acts based on her own experiences categorized as a woman. It is a performance that plays with awkwardness and darkness. What kind is a womankind? Is there a certain form of how to be a woman? Hear the lecture to find out! \n\n\n\nLady Grey\n\n\n\nLive performance presented by MaMiMò Theatre Centre and Genoa National Theatre\, Reggio Emilia\, Italy \n\n\n\nA lonely woman on stage is waiting for the audience\, to start what appears to be a conference. What happens is an attempt to tell the world about herself\, starting from the memory of a task she had to carry out as a girl at school. ‘Show and Tell’ is about bringing something important and representative of yourself to the class – an object\, a pet\, a photo – and talk about it. The little girl takes the teacher’s task literally\, bringing something surprising: herself. \n\n\n\nLADY GREY is translated by Elena Battista\, commissioned by BAM Teatro\, with Alice Giroldini\, directed by Marco Maccieri. Produced by MaMiMò Theatre Centre and Genoa National Theatre\, presented in special agreement with United Talent Agency\, courtesy of Arcadia & Ricono Srl. \n\n\n\nTheatre in Palm\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are one of twelve partner organisations involved in Theatre in Palm\, a large scale European platform project funded by the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027. The Theatre in Palm platform brings together twelve partners from across Europe to collaborate and co-create as part of an international\,  intercultural platform supporting  artists including emerging artists\, to engage in international networking and to build theatre-based skills in transnational cooperation and co-creation. \n\n\n\nThe project supports artists including emerging artists to engage in international networking and to build theatre-based skills in transnational cooperation and co-creation. The project supports artistic career development and develops and values international practice and transnational co-creation and production opportunities for artists from across Europe.  \n\n\n\nThe platform acts as an incubator for new voices from the page to the stage with a focus on professional development and a growth in  European cooperation and the visibility and circulation of European emerging artists\, working across borders and beyond. The project reaches out to over  3\,500 artists and supports artists to develop skills in co-creation and production and is supported by Creative Europe\, Sub-programme European Platforms for the promotion of emerging artists (CREA-CULT-2021- PLAT). \n\n\n\nThe project supports Irish artists to promote and develop good practice at a European and international level and will showcase the work of Irish artists directly with audiences of over 50\,000 in Ireland\, thus deepening public engagement in Ireland with the work of artists working on a European and international level.  Theatre in Palm will support Irish artists in terms of skills development and the provision of resources and these aims are in line with and support the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016–25)\, Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland. \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to: States of Independence\, the Aisling Programme\, Creative Europe\, The Arts Council Open Call\, The Arts Council Co-Funding Award for Creative Europe Co-operation projects 2022\, Foras na Gaeilge\, ACDC. \n\n\n\nPlatform Members \n\n\n\nThe platform members are Turku University of Applied Sciences\, Finland (coordinator); Intercut Productions\, Sweden; Fondazione E35 per la progettazine Internazionale\, Italy; Smashing Times\, Ireland\, Lemongrass Communications\, Spain; JAIT – International Theatre\, Portugal; Stichting ZID\, Netherlands; Cube\, Greece; European Theatre and Film Institute\, Belgium; THOC\,  Cyprus\, Homemade Culture\, Romania and Oecon Group\, Bulgaria.  \n\n\n\nThe objectives of the Theatre in Palm project are to: \n\n\n\n\nIncrease the visibility and the circulation of European emerging artists and works outside their own border\n\n\n\nIncrease access to and participation in cultural events and activities\, as well as audience engagement and development\n\n\n\nSupport emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create\, cooperate\, and promote their work\n\n\n\n\nThe project aims to: \n\n\n\n\nSupport artists to ‘cross borders’\, increasing the visibility and circulation of European artworks across borders and support them to build careers in the arts.  \n\n\n\nSupport artists and cultural performers to co-create by creating a platform for international cooperation and promote their work across borders \n\n\n\nIncrease access to and participation in cultural events and activities for artists and audiences \n\n\n\n\nActions \n\n\n\n\nEnable and manage activities and showcases for project outputs and dissemination\, including an interactive map of opportunities\n\n\n\nManage an on-line repository of work for the project – conducted by Turku UAS\n\n\n\nCreate a European Quality Label for organisations supporting emerging artists\n\n\n\nAgree on and implement branding\, communications and dissemination and data management and website and social media\n\n\n\nAdministration\, reporting and financial support provided by Turku UAS\, as lead organisation\n\n\n\n\nFor more information on Theatre in Palm\, visit the project webpage. \n\n\n\nAs part of the Theatre in Palm project\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to host a range of artist talks\, workshops and performances presented live for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. In addition  artists and guests from all 11 partner countries taking part in the project will attend Dublin\, Ireland to view the following events:  \n\n\n\nØ  Attend the Launch and opening of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival on Friday 13 October at 6pm \n\n\n\nØ  Attend a Tour of the States of Independence Exhibition on Saturday 14 October at 6.30pm \n\n\n\nØ  Attend a Live performance of States of Independence on Friday 13 October at 7pm \n\n\n\nØ  Present live performances\, artist talks and workshops  on 15 October 2023 from 2-4.30pm \n\n\n\nØ  Present live performances and post-show talks on 15 October 2023 from 7-10pm \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKaisa Kauppinen (b. 1992) is a Finnish theatre artist\, who has two undergraduate degrees. Her background as a community educator can be seen in her work in the theatre field. Kauppinen is interested in society’s structures and how they affect people’s everyday life. She is also interested in physical theatre\, varieties of plain aspects and using comedy on stage.  \n\n\n\nKauppinen’s last projects as an actor are related to solo performing in About Womankind and 3KYMPPINEN-monologue. Her work also includes drama classes for children\, teenagers\, and people with disabilities.. Kauppinen is a board member of Teatteri Valtakunta (Theatre Empire) which is a theatre that focuses on applied arts and tries to reach different marginal groups and communities via theatre and art. She has been acting in an applied theatre project about domestic violence where part of the working group were survivors of domestic violence. Now she is working with a new applied arts project in the director’s role. The new project focuses on the Finnish social welfare system\, and it’s organized in collaboration with social workers and experts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlice Giroldini was born in Parma\, where she graduated with honors in Artistic\, Theater and Cinematographic Heritage. In 2014 she graduated as an actress at the School of the National Theater of Genoa and in the following years she continued her training with Cesar Brie\, Cristina Pezzoli\, Valerio Binasco\, Michela Lucenti\, Marco Lorenzi\, Tomi Janezic\, Paolo Antonio Simioni\, Jurij Ferrini\, Theodoros Terzopoulos\, Marco Maccieri\, Fausto Paravidino and Lucia Calamaro. In 2017 she played Cordelia in King Lear alongside Ennio Fantastichini directed by Giorgio Barberio Corsetti produced by the Teatro di Roma and the previous year she was in the Italian cast of the performance ‘Todo lo que està a mi lado’ directed by Fernando Rubio and produced by the Triennale from Milan. In 2018 she played Grushenka in The Brothers Karamazov alongside Glauco Mauri and Roberto Sturno\, produced by the Mauri-Sturno Company and Teatro della Pergola. In 2021 it was directed by Davide Livermore taking part in the Coefore_Eumenides of Aeschylus produced by the National Theater of Genoa and the INDA Foundation of Syracuse. Over the years he has collaborated with other directors including Andrea Collavino\, Davide Livermore\, Elena Gigliotti\, Marco Maccieri\, Andrea Di Casa\, Gianfranco Pannone\, Pino Petruzzelli\, taking part in various shows produced by TeatroDue in Parma\, the MaMiMò Theater Center\, the INDA Foundation and the National Theater of Genoa. In 2020 he founded the LeAmare company together with Fiammetta Bellone\, Elena Dragonetti and Sara Cianfriglia. \n\n\n\nAmong the most important shows: \n\n\n\nThe Brothers Karamazov by F. Dostoevskij directed by M. Tarasco (Mauri-Sturno Company – Teatro della Pergola 2018/2019); Lady Grey by W. Eno directed by M. Maccieri (MaMiMò Theater Center/National Theater of Genoa); King Lear by William Shakespeare directed by G. Barberio Corsetti (Teatro Argentina in Rome 2017-2018); Todo lo que està a mi lado by F. Rubio directed by F. Rubio (Triennale Teatro dell’Arte – 2017); The fattest woman in the world by E. Aldrovandi directed by A. Ruozzi (MaMiMò Theater Center); Summer in December by C. Africa directed by A. Collavino (National Theater of Genoa – 2019); Charlie Sonata by D. Maxwell directed by Mauro Parrinello (Enchiridio Companies – 2020 – Finalist show at the Court’s Forever Young Award Ospitale); Autumn in April by C. Africa directed by Elena Gigliotti (National Theater of Genoa 2020)\, Coefore_Eumenidi (National Theater of Genoa – Inda Foundation of Syracuse). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarco Maccieri graduated from the Paolo Grassi School in 2004 and founded the MaMiMò Theatre Centre which he has directed ever since. With the master Anatolij Vasiliev he graduated in the three-year school Pedagogy of the scene (UBU Prize 2012). Since 2010 he has been an acting teacher at the “Paolo Grassi” school in Milan. His research and experimentation work on the art of the actor practiced at Paolo Grassi earned him the esteem and trust of the school\, which in 2015\, appointed him pedagogical coordinator of the AFAM acting course. Since 2016 he has also taught acting at the Nico Pepe Academy in Udine. In 2019 he published “The invisible work of the actor” for Dino Audino Editore\, the result of ten years of work done at the Paolo Grassi school. As an actor or director he has taken part in more than 50 productions in 18 years. Among the most important shows: “Troilus and Cressida” and “Lo Specchio del Diavolo directed by Luca Ronconi\, (TST and Piccolo Teatro di Milano); “Cyrano di Bergerac” with Popolizio\, directed by Abbado; “Othello\, one more tango and it’s the last” directed by M.Navone\, prod.Tieffe Menotti/MaMiMò; “Himmelweg” by Juan Mayorga directed by Marco Plini (VIE Festival E.R.T.); “Homicide House” by Emanuele Aldrovandi prod.BAM Teatro/MaMiMò; “Like the dog\, I am a sociable animal\, too” project by M.Navone; “Coriolano” by Shakespeare directed by Marco Plini\, prod. MaMiMò; “No mercy for the referee” by Emanuele Aldrovandi directed by Marco Maccieri and Angela Ruozzi. In 2018 he directed “The little chimney sweep” by Benjamin Britten\, an opera produced by the Fondazione I Teatri di Reggio Emilia. In his professional career as an actor he has worked with artists such as Anatolij Vasiliev\, Luca Ronconi\, Gabriele Vacis\, Dominique Pitoiset\, Massimo Popolizio\, Massimo Navone\, Daniele Abbado\, Maurizio Schmidt\, Antonio Fava\, Maria Consagra. In 2022 he made his cinema debut with the film “Evelyne in the clouds” by A. Di Francisca. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nMaMiMò Theatre Centre \n\n\n\nThe MaMiMò Theatre Centre is an organisation which\, through continuous artistic improvement and exchange activities\, constitutes a productive theatrical reference point of national importance\, and a model of cultural aggregation in the area. \n\n\n\nIt has been established as a social promotion association (APS) since 2004 and since 2012 it has been supported by the Emilia Romagna Region as a show production organisation through Law 13/1999. \n\n\n\nIt manages a municipal public theatre\, the Teatro Piccolo Orologio of Reggio Emilia\, and over time has built a Theatre School deeply rooted in the territory which today has over 400 members of all ages and collaborations with more than 30 schools. \n\n\n\nThe association is headed by a theatre production company\, recognized by the Ministry of Culture  as an innovative theatre production company in the field of experimentation (Art.13 c.3 DM 2017)\, which produces prose shows\, children’s theatre and cultural events . \n\n\n\nThe MaMiMò Theatre Centre pays great attention to social commitment\, to young people\, to relationships between individuals\, to the dignity of the person\, and to major current issues. Great attention is paid to education\, since MaMiMò believes that pedagogy combined with culture is the key to accessing a better future\, and for this reason it must be a path reserved for everyone\, where everyone can discover themselves and acquire more tools to nourish the imagination and understand the reality around him. Precisely for this reason\, the artistic form chosen is often that of a cultured and popular theatre together\, the collective act of an ensemble united by a common vision. \n\n\n\nThe Artistic Directors are Marco Maccieri and Angela Ruozzi. \n\n\n\nTurku UAS \n\n\n\nTurku UAS is a higher education institution of 12\,000 experts\, researchers\, students\, faculty members and teaching professionals. We create solutions for a better tomorrow – both regionally and globally. Our graduates are practice-oriented professionals with top competencies.  \n\n\n\nAs a significant regional actor\, we harbour close ties to businesses and municipalities in Southwest Finland. Turku UAS is the fourth largest technical university in Finland. Students are sought after experts\, with 99 % employment within five years of graduating. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with the Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nJean-Lorin Sterian\, Homemade Culture\, ArtistJohan Bandholtz\, Ongoing RealitiesAnna Näsström\, Ongoing RealitiesAnja Calas\, EsproncedaMarina Maleni\, Spectators in a Ghost City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival \n\n\n\nFeaturing live performances\, workshops and panel discussions from a range of creative arts organisations from across Europe \n\n\n\nThe Pumphouse\, Dublin Port – Alexandra Terminal\, Alexandra Rd\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1 \n\n\n\nAfternoon: Art-based Talk\, Workshop and Live Performances – 15 October 2023\, 2-5pm \n\n\n\nEvening: Live Performances and Post-Show Talk  – 15 October 2023\, 7-10pm \n\n\n\nSmashing Times is delighted to welcome a range of innovative creative arts organisations from across Europe to Ireland for A Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival featuring live performances\, workshops and panel discussions. These events showcase the work of emerging and established artists and build international connections for artists working in theatre and in interdisciplinary arts practice\, using the arts to support equality\, human rights and diversity. The Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival is held as part of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival running from the 13 to 22 October 2023 in Ireland.  Events take place in two parts\, the first is an afternoon event of art-based workshops\, live performances and talks on Sunday 15 October 2023 from 2-5pm and the second is an evening event of live performances and talks taking place on Sunday 15 October from 7 to 10pm. This series of events is hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and presented by a range of arts  organisations from across Europe who are taking part  in the Theatre in Palm Europe-wide transnational project.  \n\n\n\nAfternoon: Change-Maker Art-based Talk\, Workshop and Live Performances \n\n\n\nPumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1 \n\n\n\nSunday 15 October\, 2-5pm \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHomemade Culture: Art Events in the Domestic Space – Public Arts Talk \n\n\n\nA talk on the domestic space as arts space \n\n\n\nPresented by Homemade Culture\, Bucharest\, Romania \n\n\n\n [ e s c ] Live Performance \n\n\n\nA multi-modal piece that investigates escapism as a notion and state of mind \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\nInsert Visually Powerful Image: Here \n\n\n\nA multi-disciplinary performance on the importance of human rights for all \n\n\n\nPresented by Espronceda\, Barcelona\, Spain \n\n\n\nTechnology and Creative Creation Workshop \n\n\n\nAn inspiring talk exploring the use of VR\, motion capture and animation in creative projects \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\nSpectators in a Ghost City \n\n\n\nA talk on winning design of the Golden Triga award at Prague Quadrennial 2023 \n\n\n\nPresented by THOC\, Nicosia\, Cyprus \n\n\n\nHomemade Culture: Art Events in the Domestic Space\n\n\n\nA public talk on the domestic space as arts space \n\n\n\nPresented by Homemade Culture\, Bucharest\, Romania \n\n\n\n‘Homemade Culture’ is what is born from the interaction between art events and the domestic space; the multilayered connections between artists\, hosts\, and audience. Personal dwellings are used as exhibition or performative spaces by young curators who do not own galleries or artists who are not willing to align aesthetically and politically to the mainstream culture. Although neither financial\, nor (intense) self-promotional purposes are pursued\, they use their personal space in order to get noticed or just to share their art with a close circle of people who share the same values. \n\n\n\nThe domestic space has a decisive influence on the structure\, frequency\, type of audience and\, of course\, the content of the event. Homemade Culture activities are directly dependent on the drive\, the aims\, and the energy fluctuations of the hosts. Jean-Lorin Sterian became interested in this topic in December 2008\, when he opened an apartment theatre in his own home. “In 2010\, I started studying similar initiatives around the world. I set out to highlight and describe these manifestations in order to reveal the existence of a socio-cultural phenomenon not yet studied. Following on from ten years of research\, I consider that art and theatre performances in domestic spaces operate as testing papers for the status of the society where they unfold\, while they” do not solve” issues\, as subcultures do\, but they only point at issues.” \n\n\n\n[ e s c ] \n\n\n\nA multi-modal piece that investigates escapism as a notion and state of mind \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\n[ e s c ] is a multi-modal piece that investigates escapism as a notion and state of mind. It encompasses a live performance\, animated choreographic works\, a film and an exhibition with pictures that become moving images with the use of Augmented Reality. Algorithms and social media have stimulated the choreographic investigation and the piece takes the visitor on an escapist journey through different emotional states and expressions in an eclectic mix that makes you question who is looking at whom and at what. In the live performance digital animations\, old tech and four dancers transform the space into an enigmatic place where past\, present and future meet. As a point of departure [ e s c ] delves into the need for pause and imagination but also how technology and algorithms transform or change our escapist tendencies. Instead of focusing on what is good or bad\, [e s c] explores both dystopian and utopian ideas linked to our need for escape from reality and what this does to the bodies on stage. The relationship of escapism to capitalism is explored as well as questions of whether escapism can be understood as a presence\, an instigator of change or an escapist behaviour that counteracts social change.  \n\n\n\nProduction: Ongoing RealitiesConcept and choreography: Anna Näsström and Johan BandholtzDancers: Anna Näsström and Johan Bandholtz (can be 2 or 4) (Anna Borrás\, Matilda Bjärum)Sound design: Rosanna Gunnarsson and Yared Tilahun Cederlund~Lighting design: Angela X ArizaAnimations: dr_formalystVideo artist: Tanne WillowPhotographer: Tanne Willow and Maya EnehAR Creator: Yuvia MainiPoster and AI design: A EYE\, Vytis Gruzdys & Rapolas VosyliusCostume: Ongoing RealitiesScenography: Ongoing Realities \n\n\n\nWith the support of the City of Stockholm and The Swedish Arts Council as well as through residency with PlayLab Skövde\, the University of Skövde\, the Art Museum in Skövde\, Site Incubator in Farsta and Danscenter Sthlm. Participation in Dublin is a part of Theater in Palm theatre movement by Intercult\, Sweden.   \n\n\n\nInsert Visually Powerful Image: Here\n\n\n\nLive performance excerpt \n\n\n\nPresented by Espronceda\, Barcelona\, Spain \n\n\n\nIn a world in constant flux\, where marginalized voices struggle for equality and justice\, it is the duty of committed artists to utilize their creative skills to amplify silenced voices and challenge the status quo. Insert Visually powerful image: Here is an excerpt of a live performance from a multi-disciplinary project that aims to foster reflection\, social transformation\, and solidarity through the powerful mediums of poetry\, theatre and dance. \n\n\n\nHuman Rights and Dignity: At the core of the excerpt from the live performance of Insert Visually powerful image: Here is the unwavering commitment to upholding human rights and dignity. The project sheds light on human rights violations and advocates for a society where fundamental rights are protected and cherished. \n\n\n\nTechnology and Creative Creation\n\n\n\nAn inspiring talk exploring the use of VR\, motion capture and animation in creative projects \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\nOngoing Realities will explore how technologies such as VR\, Motion Capture and animation can be used in creative\, artistic or interdisciplinary projects. With historical and “new” examples we reflect on possibilities and limitations of different technologies. We do practical testing of VR as a medium for experience and interpretation-tool. The participants get to formulate their own ideas with the technology as a co-player\, with guidance and feedback from us on how to take things to the next step.  \n\n\n\n“Sparked many exciting thoughts and discussions. Feeling full of ideas on how I can integrate and explore XR technology in my artistry” – workshop participant. \n\n\n\nSpectators in a Ghost City – Golden Triga award – Prague Quadrennial 2023\n\n\n\nA talk on winning design of the Golden Triga award at Prague Quadrennial 2023 \n\n\n\nPresented by Theatre Organisation of Cyprus\, Nicosia\, Cypru \n\n\n\nSpeaker Marina Maleni\, is the Curator of Cyprus’ national participation in the world-renowned Prague Quadrennial editions since 2007. In 2023 Cyprus Theatre Organisation was bestowed with The Golden Triga\, which is the highest honor in performance design. \n\n\n\nAccording to the Jury of PQ23: “This elegant and many-layered exhibit demonstrates how scenography can interrogate and negotiate local themes of memory\, absence and presence that resonate universally. It self-critically invites visitors to question their own position as viewers of real or reproduced sites of conflict and trauma. By looking at the past\, present and possible futures of the site as seen through the narrow square openings of buildings\, the exhibit provokes feelings of anguish while suggesting the RARE potential for hope.” \n\n\n\nThe talk turns to the team’s methodology and poses questions. The proposal/provocation unsettles the role of the artist and the viewer as it addresses issues of appropriation\, spectacle\, voyeurism and the role of art itself in the face of human trauma that expands beyond the ghost city of Famagusta and echoes other ghost spaces in the world. \n\n\n\nCurator- initial concept: Marina Maleni \n\n\n\nArtistic researcher and Installation designer: Melita Couta \n\n\n\nCollaborating technical advisor: Harris Kafkarides \n\n\n\nArt and Technology collaborator for Audio Visual: Giorgos Lazoglou \n\n\n\nVideo performance artists: Pascal Caron and Melita Couta \n\n\n\nGraphic and web design: Philippos Vassiliades \n\n\n\nTechnical support in Prague: Doros Tsolakis \n\n\n\nTechnical support in Nicosia: THOC technical services \n\n\n\nTheatre in Palm\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are one of twelve partner organisations involved in Theatre in Palm\, a large scale European platform project funded by the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027. The Theatre in Palm platform brings together twelve partners from across Europe to collaborate and co-create as part of an international\,  intercultural platform supporting  artists including emerging artists\, to engage in international networking and to build theatre-based skills in transnational cooperation and co-creation. \n\n\n\nThe project supports artists including emerging artists to engage in international networking and to build theatre-based skills in transnational cooperation and co-creation. The project supports artistic career development and develops and values international practice and transnational co-creation and production opportunities for artists from across Europe.  \n\n\n\nThe platform acts as an incubator for new voices from the page to the stage with a focus on professional development and a growth in  European cooperation and the visibility and circulation of European emerging artists\, working across borders and beyond. The project reaches out to over  3\,500 artists and supports artists to develop skills in co-creation and production and is supported by Creative Europe\, Sub-programme European Platforms for the promotion of emerging artists (CREA-CULT-2021- PLAT). \n\n\n\nThe project supports Irish artists to promote and develop good practice at a European and international level and will showcase the work of Irish artists directly with audiences of over 50\,000 in Ireland\, thus deepening public engagement in Ireland with the work of artists working on a European and international level.  Theatre in Palm will support Irish artists in terms of skills development and the provision of resources and these aims are in line with and support the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016–25)\, Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland. \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to: States of Independence\, the Aisling Programme\, Creative Europe\, The Arts Council Open Call\, The Arts Council Co-Funding Award for Creative Europe Co-operation projects 2022\, Foras na Gaeilge\, ACDC. \n\n\n\nPlatform Members \n\n\n\nThe platform members are Turku University of Applied Sciences\, Finland (coordinator); Intercut Productions\, Sweden; Fondazione E35 per la progettazine Internazionale\, Italy; Smashing Times\, Ireland\, Lemongrass Communications\, Spain; JAIT – International Theatre\, Portugal; Stichting ZID\, Netherlands; Cube\, Greece; European Theatre and Film Institute\, Belgium; THOC\,  Cyprus\, Homemade Culture\, Romania and Oecon Group\, Bulgaria.  \n\n\n\nThe objectives of the Theatre in Palm project are to: \n\n\n\n\nIncrease the visibility and the circulation of European emerging artists and works outside their own border\n\n\n\nIncrease access to and participation in cultural events and activities\, as well as audience engagement and development\n\n\n\nSupport emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create\, cooperate\, and promote their work\n\n\n\n\nThe project aims to: \n\n\n\n\nSupport artists to ‘cross borders’\, increasing the visibility and circulation of European artworks across borders and support them to build careers in the arts.  \n\n\n\nSupport artists and cultural performers to co-create by creating a platform for international cooperation and promote their work across borders \n\n\n\nIncrease access to and participation in cultural events and activities for artists and audiences \n\n\n\n\nActions \n\n\n\n\nEnable and manage activities and showcases for project outputs and dissemination\, including an interactive map of opportunities\n\n\n\nManage an on-line repository of work for the project – conducted by Turku UAS\n\n\n\nCreate a European Quality Label for organisations supporting emerging artists\n\n\n\nAgree on and implement branding\, communications and dissemination and data management and website and social media\n\n\n\nAdministration\, reporting and financial support provided by Turku UAS\, as lead organisation\n\n\n\n\nFor more information on Theatre in Palm\, visit the project webpage. \n\n\n\nAs part of the Theatre in Palm project\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to host a range of artist talks\, workshops and performances presented live for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. In addition  artists and guests from all 11 partner countries taking part in the project will attend Dublin\, Ireland to view the following events:  \n\n\n\nØ  Attend the Launch and opening of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival on Friday 13 October at 6pm \n\n\n\nØ  Attend a Tour of the States of Independence Exhibition on Saturday 14 October at 6.30pm \n\n\n\nØ  Attend a Live performance of States of Independence on Friday 13 October at 7pm \n\n\n\nØ  Present live performances\, artist talks and workshops  on 15 October 2023 from 2-4.30pm \n\n\n\nØ  Present live performances and post-show talks on 15 October 2023 from 7-10pm \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn 1975 in Constanta/Romania\, Jean-Lorin Sterian is a researcher\, writer\, artist and performer currently based in Bucharest and Romania. He holds a PhD in performance studies/sociology researching what he coined\, “homemade” culture – art events held in apartments. In 2008 Jean-Lorin Sterian opened lorgean theatre\, the first living-room theatre in Romania and since 2014 he has managed HomeFest\, an arts festival held only in houses and flats. He published several fiction books and one anthropological research about the experience of turning his own home into a public space for art and theatre performances. Since 2009 he has been interested in performance and visual art. Since 2018 he has performed with his art musical project\, pj.lo & the accidentals\, releasing one EP\, Sunam Ocupați and preparing the second one\, There Is Nothing You Can Do from the Light Point of View. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Näsström is a Swedish freelancing dancer and choregrapher raised in Skåne\, based in Stockholm. She was educated in contemporary dance and performance at The University of the Arts in Stockholm (SKH/DOCH) and has also studied in New York and worked around Europe as a freelancing artist for twelve years. She has a background in social\, non-institutionalised dance forms\, ballroom culture and a strong connection to club culture and “street dance” in different ways. Anna received “The Swedish Arts Grants Committee” working grant for 2022-2023. \n\n\n\nHer recent engagements include producing and performing with Ongoing realities (OR)\, researching digital technologies\, visual and sound-based\, as choreographic tools. In her artistic process she explores bodily memory\, shapes\, practices and patterns existing un- or consciously in the body. This and politics of normativity is something that permeates her work and interest and she has also studied Social Anthropology and Political Science at The Stockholm University. \n\n\n\nAnnas first solo-piece “Boxwood” was developed in 2012 and part of 2013 “Dansbiennal” and toured Sweden with Dansens Hus. She has received the ”Dance of the Year” award from Kingsize Magazine and has also worked in part pro bono projects in conveying space for training and community within ballroom\, teaching and mentoring upcoming dancers and creating clubs and events. Anna has been active in various parts of the dance field and has a wide range of experience in the field such as choreography for artists\, musicals or film\, multimedia art exhibitions and tv productions.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohan is a dancer and choreographer from Stockholm and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A) in Dance and Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts (former DOCH). He also holds a Bachelor of Medical Science (B.Med.Sci) in Psychology from Karolinska Institute\, and a Master of Arts (M.A) in Gender Studies with a Specialization in Gender Politics in Practice from Södertörn University.  \n\n\n\nSince 2019 he has been working with Ongoing Realities\,  an explorative choreographic project centered around technology such as Virtual Reality and Motion Capture. He has been the recipient of several art residencies including The Swedish National Touring Company (Riksteatern Väst) as well as with Rum för dans and Teater Halland to name a few. In 2013 he received the Carina Ari Scholarship for young dancers and spent two months in New York exploring and deepening his artistic interests in movement.  \n\n\n\nJohan has also worked with freelance projects and events at a publishing house and as a teacher and lecturer. As an example he held a lecture around gender mainstreaming at the Nobel Prize Museum in the fall of 2020.  \n\n\n\nJohan is interested in the intersection(s) of contemporary choreography\, technology and neuropsychology. He is also interested in the psychology of creativity and finding strategies for creative collaborations in contemporary choreography.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Calas\, living between Barcelona and Guimarães\, is a Portuguese performer\, actress\, dancer\, and visual artist whose work focuses on exploring social\, philosophical\, and artistic aspects. Her artistic journey includes studying theatre\, dance\, and art from a young age\, and she has developed a unique approach to performance and visual art that delves into the interconnectivity and transversality of people\, genders\, and ages. \n\n\n\nAnja’s diverse and extensive professional experience in artistic direction\, performance\, and teaching demonstrates her expertise and passion for exploring various artistic mediums. Her commitment to continuous learning and creative exploration makes her a highly accomplished and versatile artist and educator. Anja’s contributions to the arts and dedication to teaching further enrich the artistic community and inspire future generations of performers and creators. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Nicosia\, Cyprus\, Marina Maleni Kyriazi holds degrees in Theatre Studies\, Acting and Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and in Communication and Journalism from the Open University Cyprus.  She as worked successfully as an actress\, TV host and radio music producer for several years.  As an actress she performed roles in THOC productions such as Masha in Chekhov’s Three Sisters\, Olivia in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night by Shakespeare\, Shelby in Harling’s Steel Magnolias.  \n\n\n\nWorking since 2001 as Theatre Development Officer for the Cyprus Theatre Organisation\, she is in charge of State theatre subsidies and policy forming\, European collaborations\, playwriting development\, non-professional theatre\, theatre education programs\, has been PQ National Curator for exhibitions since 2007.  She has worked extensively in the Committee for Theatre in Schools (THOC – Ministry of Education and Culture)\, the Study Committee for the creation of A Cultural Authority in Cyprus\, the National Committee for Delphic Games\, the development of state subsidy policy for theatres in Cyprus\, and in developing bridges with artists and organizations abroad etc.   \n\n\n\nHost of CYBC TV talk show on culture which just completed its sixth season. She has been coordinating several very successful European culture programme collaborations for Cyprus. \n\n\n\nWith Artist Melita Couta\, they received the highest honor\, The Golden Triga with the Cyprus Theatre Organisation team in Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and SpaceQ23. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nHomemade Culture\n\n\n\nHomemade Culture has been present in the Romanian cultural space since 2008\, under the name lorgean theater\, and since 2012 it has organised cultural events in domestic spaces in Romania and other countries in collaboration with the Graphis 122 Association. Between 2012-2014 we organized the Campaign Playing with the open house\, and since 2014 we have managed HomeFest\, the only cultural festival that takes place in houses and apartments in Romania. The purpose of the association is to create a platform that encourages the establishment of a close link between the artistic act and the audience\, by initiating and developing cultural\, artistic and educational projects\, which take place mainly in the domestic space or in another informal setting.   \nIn 7 years of activity\, the association has produced around 20 theatre performances (under the name lorgean theater)\, with which it has participated in national and international festivals\, hosting more than 100 other titles. Homemade Culture has presented workshops\, residencies\, festivals\, all of which were related to the domestic space.  \n\n\n\nOngoing Realities\n\n\n\nOngoing realities (OR) consists of the artistic duo Anna Näsström and Johan Bandholtz and they investigate the relation and creative possibilities when merging dance and choreography with digital technologies such as Motion Capture\, animation\, Virtual Reality\, Augmented Reality and artificial intelligence. They offer multiple and multi-sensory performance experiences for theatres as well as venues such as museums\, industrial premises or public spaces. OR works with dancers and collaborators in animation\, programming\, sound design\, creative technologists and video artists. Ongoing Realities continues to develop and change in the form of performances\, projects and as a platform and are always curious about new meetings or collaborations.  \nAnna Näsström and Johan Bandholtz are both dancers and choreographers educated at Stockholm University of Arts and in their individual careers they have experience from a broad range of productions and artistic projects from several different genres in the sector for dance and choreography. In 2022 they won the award “Excellence In Performance” during Stockholm Fringe Festival for their piece “one”. The have been granted support from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee\, The Swedish Arts Council and the City of Stockholm and have been invited to several national residencies and created a site specific performance for the art museum in Skövde which premiered in 2021. Their work have also been shown at the Digital Innovation Festival at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm\, during Tempo Documentary Film Festival (2022)\, at the Swedish Pavillion during Tanzmesse in Düsseldorf (2022)\, at the Gallery Den Fantastiska Platsen in Stockholm (2023) and have created a commissioned work for iM Konsthall and Northern Sustainable Futures (2023).    \n\n\n\nEspronceda\n\n\n\nESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture\, powered by Lemongrass Communications S.L.\, was founded in 2013 to create an innovative platform for artistic and cultural research that could produce social impact and social change in society. \nThe project is a research and creation platform for contemporary and new media arts\, science\, education\, and cultural dissemination. Its mission is to promote innovative and creative thinking through artistic research and innovation\, with the aim of shaping our understanding of the world and enriching the quality of life with new insights toward a more sustainable and responsible transformation. \nThe organization promotes residency and artistic research programmes in the fields of new media art\, science\, and visual art\, offering a multidisciplinary environment that stimulates dialogue between the art world\, public institutions\, and business. \nEspronceda is open to the local and international community by offering various types of events and initiatives such as art exhibitions\, workshops\, conferences\, and open calls aimed at analyzing important issues of our contemporary society. \nThe methodology is based on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the new advanced technologies\, visual and performing arts and is aimed to create a new ecosocial imagination for society without distinction of race\, gender\, and background. \nFor us\, artistic research and creativity can be engines of awareness and change\, helping people to imagine new balanced\, and sustainable futures. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/an-afternoon-with-the-change-maker-theatre-in-palm-festival-within-a-festival/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary,Performance,Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:States of Independence - Live Multidisciplinary Performance
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nDirector Patrick ByrnesProducer Freda ManweilerStage Manager Clare McLoughlinPerformers Michael McCabe\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Daniel MahonWriters Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James\, Michael McCabeSet Design Saoirse O’SheaCostumes Saoirse O’SheaChoreographer John ScottAssistant Choreographer Rebecca ReillyDancers John Scott\, Rebecca ReillyFilming and projections Scott Robinson \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStates of Independence is a live\, multi-disciplinary\, collaborative performance presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at the Pumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin for six performances only on Friday 13\, Saturday  14\, Wednesday 18\, Friday 20\, Saturday 21\, Sunday 22 October 2023\, nightly at 7.30pm. This multidisciplinary performance by Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James and Michael McCabe\,  is inspired by stories of change-maker activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries and combines theatre\, film screenings\, poetry\, film projections and live music. \n\n\n\nA key part of the performance is the world premiere of a unique play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul by up-and-coming writer Féilim James inspired by the life stories  of Lucia Joyce (1907-1982)\, a dancer and her father\, the writer James Joyce (1882-1941). \n\n\n\nLucia Joyce and her father James are roused from death by an eloquent clown. The duo’s joyful reunion soon gives way to old quarrels\, as their mysterious resuscitator informs them of events subsequent to their passing. The clown’s central motive is to present James with a question\, a dilemma\, the answer to which holds the power to alter the past and jeopardise everything he worked for. This funny and moving play pits personal ambition against love for family\, all the while challenging prevailing notions about its protagonists: Lucia as the mad daughter\, and James as the genius father who did all he could to save his daughter. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz  \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                                \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick has been working as an actor and director in Dublin since moving here from New York. He recently directed ‘Dolly and Mick’ in the Civic and Viking theatres. Other productions include  ‘Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon’\,  in The Focus. ‘The Prodger’\, ‘The Boys’ in The New Theatre and ‘Drinking in America’ for ‘Bottom Dog Theatre’ in ‘The Belltabe’ which toured Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiona Bawn-Thompson is an actor\, writer\, and the director of a highly successful performing arts academy.  After graduating with her Drama degree from Queens University Belfast in 2004 she went on to train as an actor with the Lyric Theatre Drama Studio.  She has extensive experience in all genres of theatre\, film and dance and shares this passion and knowledge with the young people she teaches.  Fiona also runs a wellbeing company and incorporates movement and drama strategies into her practice to enhance the experience for her clients.  She has performed and toured with many shows for Smashing Times Theatre Company\, including “The Woman is Present”\, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”\, and “Women\, War & Peace”.  In recent years she has been working extensively in the film industry as a supporting artist in films and series such as “The Northman”\, “Line of Duty”\, “The Woman in the Wall”\, and “Dungeons and Dragons”\, to name but a few.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from The Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. \n\n\n\nStage credits include ‘EXIT> PURSUED BY A PINT’ a new play by Kat Ennis for Scene and Heard Festival 2023\,  the role of ‘The Black O’Donnell’ in the Quintessence Theatre/An Taín production of INTO THE DARK and the role of ‘Patrick Hogan’ in ANU Productions’ STAGING THE TREATY at the National Concert Hall which was also screened at the IFI and streamed on RTÉ’s website and IFI@Home. \n\n\n\nWhile at The Lir he played\, Francois ‘Franz/Frank’ Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O’Brien’s DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. \n\n\n\nHis Scene Credits include Paul in the IFTA-nominated feature WHO WE LOVE directed by Graham Cantwell; the short film WAITING directed by Sinéad O’Louglin at The Lir\, and the role of Eddie in Pancake Studios’ short film NEVER ALONE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott is a new-media\, digital and film artist working across film\, audio-visual art\, live performance and dance.  \n\n\n\nFrom Limerick in Ireland\, he works freelance under the alias YÚLON in which he specialises in the creation of immersive storytelling and shared\, blended reality experiences. The output medium is usually a fusion of installation\, performance or film. His work concerns investigating the human-technology relationship in a post-digital context\, often considering how we can use digital technology to become “more” human. \n\n\n\nThe art that Scott creates is mostly for unconventional venues such as derelict/vacant buildings\, liminal spaces and also public spaces. The lack of borders and ability to humanise a space with art is an important anchor for him to create from.  \n\n\n\nScott graduated from the University of Limerick in 2016 with a BSc in Music\, Media\, and Performance Technology\, and has since been awarded several accolades\, including a Made in Limerick Grant and a Residential Art Apartment. They were also recently selected for the prestigious Cybernate Digital Art Residency\, an Arts Council International Residency spanning Lyon and Galway.  \n\n\n\nScott’s artistic journey began with filmmaking and videography in 2013\, where they discovered their passion for capturing the expressive nature of Dance. In 2015\, their dance film ‘Release’ unintentionally became a screendance piece\, earning the title of Best Student Film at The Light Moves Film Festival of Screendance and being showcased at festivals across the US\, Sweden\, and Georgia.  \n\n\n\nHis deep interest in storytelling on screen led him to explore more immersive platforms for storytelling\, and their final year research project at the University of Limerick investigated building a bi-directional channel of feedback between dancers and a real-time visual artist. This research culminated in the creation of ‘Ledge\,’ an immersive projection and live dance performance in 2016.  \n\n\n\nSince then Scott has produced several immersive artworks that include Plastic Tears\, 2019\, a_blue_crush\, 2019 and Tairseach (portal)\, 2021. He also continues to help develop the new-media arts community across Ireland with the collective he is part of called Concept Null. \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:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Dance,Interdisciplinary,Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:States of Independence - Live Multidisciplinary Performance
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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\nDirector Patrick ByrnesProducer Freda ManweilerStage Manager Clare McLoughlinPerformers Michael McCabe\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Daniel MahonWriters Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James\, Michael McCabeSet Design Saoirse O’SheaCostumes Saoirse O’SheaChoreographer John ScottAssistant Choreographer Rebecca ReillyDancers John Scott\, Rebecca ReillyFilming and projections Scott Robinson \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStates of Independence is a live\, multi-disciplinary\, collaborative performance presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at the Pumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin for six performances only on Friday 13\, Saturday  14\, Wednesday 18\, Friday 20\, Saturday 21\, Sunday 22 October 2023\, nightly at 7.30pm. This multidisciplinary performance by Mary Moynihan\, Féilim James and Michael McCabe\,  is inspired by stories of change-maker activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries and combines theatre\, film screenings\, poetry\, film projections and live music. \n\n\n\nA key part of the performance is the world premiere of a unique play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul by up-and-coming writer Féilim James inspired by the life stories  of Lucia Joyce (1907-1982)\, a dancer and her father\, the writer James Joyce (1882-1941). \n\n\n\nLucia Joyce and her father James are roused from death by an eloquent clown. The duo’s joyful reunion soon gives way to old quarrels\, as their mysterious resuscitator informs them of events subsequent to their passing. The clown’s central motive is to present James with a question\, a dilemma\, the answer to which holds the power to alter the past and jeopardise everything he worked for. This funny and moving play pits personal ambition against love for family\, all the while challenging prevailing notions about its protagonists: Lucia as the mad daughter\, and James as the genius father who did all he could to save his daughter. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz  \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                                \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatrick has been working as an actor and director in Dublin since moving here from New York. He recently directed ‘Dolly and Mick’ in the Civic and Viking theatres. Other productions include  ‘Lone Star and Laundry and Bourbon’\,  in The Focus. ‘The Prodger’\, ‘The Boys’ in The New Theatre and ‘Drinking in America’ for ‘Bottom Dog Theatre’ in ‘The Belltabe’ which toured Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFiona Bawn-Thompson is an actor\, writer\, and the director of a highly successful performing arts academy.  After graduating with her Drama degree from Queens University Belfast in 2004 she went on to train as an actor with the Lyric Theatre Drama Studio.  She has extensive experience in all genres of theatre\, film and dance and shares this passion and knowledge with the young people she teaches.  Fiona also runs a wellbeing company and incorporates movement and drama strategies into her practice to enhance the experience for her clients.  She has performed and toured with many shows for Smashing Times Theatre Company\, including “The Woman is Present”\, “Thou Shalt Not Kill”\, and “Women\, War & Peace”.  In recent years she has been working extensively in the film industry as a supporting artist in films and series such as “The Northman”\, “Line of Duty”\, “The Woman in the Wall”\, and “Dungeons and Dragons”\, to name but a few.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from The Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. \n\n\n\nStage credits include ‘EXIT> PURSUED BY A PINT’ a new play by Kat Ennis for Scene and Heard Festival 2023\,  the role of ‘The Black O’Donnell’ in the Quintessence Theatre/An Taín production of INTO THE DARK and the role of ‘Patrick Hogan’ in ANU Productions’ STAGING THE TREATY at the National Concert Hall which was also screened at the IFI and streamed on RTÉ’s website and IFI@Home. \n\n\n\nWhile at The Lir he played\, Francois ‘Franz/Frank’ Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O’Brien’s DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. \n\n\n\nHis Scene Credits include Paul in the IFTA-nominated feature WHO WE LOVE directed by Graham Cantwell; the short film WAITING directed by Sinéad O’Louglin at The Lir\, and the role of Eddie in Pancake Studios’ short film NEVER ALONE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nScott is a new-media\, digital and film artist working across film\, audio-visual art\, live performance and dance.  \n\n\n\nFrom Limerick in Ireland\, he works freelance under the alias YÚLON in which he specialises in the creation of immersive storytelling and shared\, blended reality experiences. The output medium is usually a fusion of installation\, performance or film. His work concerns investigating the human-technology relationship in a post-digital context\, often considering how we can use digital technology to become “more” human. \n\n\n\nThe art that Scott creates is mostly for unconventional venues such as derelict/vacant buildings\, liminal spaces and also public spaces. The lack of borders and ability to humanise a space with art is an important anchor for him to create from.  \n\n\n\nScott graduated from the University of Limerick in 2016 with a BSc in Music\, Media\, and Performance Technology\, and has since been awarded several accolades\, including a Made in Limerick Grant and a Residential Art Apartment. They were also recently selected for the prestigious Cybernate Digital Art Residency\, an Arts Council International Residency spanning Lyon and Galway.  \n\n\n\nScott’s artistic journey began with filmmaking and videography in 2013\, where they discovered their passion for capturing the expressive nature of Dance. In 2015\, their dance film ‘Release’ unintentionally became a screendance piece\, earning the title of Best Student Film at The Light Moves Film Festival of Screendance and being showcased at festivals across the US\, Sweden\, and Georgia.  \n\n\n\nHis deep interest in storytelling on screen led him to explore more immersive platforms for storytelling\, and their final year research project at the University of Limerick investigated building a bi-directional channel of feedback between dancers and a real-time visual artist. This research culminated in the creation of ‘Ledge\,’ an immersive projection and live dance performance in 2016.  \n\n\n\nSince then Scott has produced several immersive artworks that include Plastic Tears\, 2019\, a_blue_crush\, 2019 and Tairseach (portal)\, 2021. He also continues to help develop the new-media arts community across Ireland with the collective he is part of called Concept Null. \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. 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URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/states-of-independence-live-multidisciplinary-performance/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Dance,Interdisciplinary,Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Eternal Rebels Change-Makers Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, all welcome. For group tours with a guide\, contact Freda on 087 2214245 or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Director\, Theatre and Film-Maker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist  \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEternal Rebels is a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, film\, photography and poetry and is a visual and poetic reflection on the stories of  change-makers in Irish history from the Decade of Centenaries to today.  The exhibition runs Friday 13 – Sunday 22 October 2023\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am-6pm daily at the Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1. The artists are Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival; Hina Khan\, visual artist and miniaturist; and Amna Walayat\, visual artist.   \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is presented for States of Independence\, a major project celebrating the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries in Irish history linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features original artworks\, photography\, poetry and stories celebrating the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. Change-maker stories include Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of Constance Markiewicz;  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes and James Connolly (1868-1916) a trade union leader and revolutionary who played a leading role in the Irish Rising in 1916. \n\n\n\nOn display in the exhibition is Change-Maker Stories – A Book of Names capturing timeless change-maker stories and photographs of activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries period in Irish history. As part of the exhibition we are inviting those in attendance to share the name of a change-maker who inspired you.   \n\n\n\nJoin us for a launch of the exhibition and Change-Maker Encounters panel discussion with the artists and guest speakers on Friday 13 October at 6pm\, all welcome.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in Miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing etc in her work. \n\n\n\nHina has chosen Miniature because of its intricacy and delicacy of brush work which has a unique identity. Most of Hina’s work is a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature. Her work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expressed by her own ideologies through symbolism.  \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my art practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of group shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are also in the permanent collection of Arts Council Ireland. She is the recipient of several Awards from Arts Council Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and different counties.  \n\n\n\nHina says that\, ‘as an artist\, I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/eternal-rebels-change-makers-exhibition/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Installation,Interdisciplinary,Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation – With MemoLabs: Performances\, Workshops\, Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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:States of Independence – Live Multidisciplinary Performance\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCollaborative indoor and outdoor performance inspired by Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries to today  \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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