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SUMMARY:Contatto
DESCRIPTION:Interview with Lana Estemirova on her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA live interview presented by Front Line Defenders on the life and work of Human Rights Defenders Natalia Estemirova\, featuring her daughter Lana Estemirova\, presenter of the Trouble with the Truth podcast\, and working for the Justice for Journalists Foundation.  Lana Estemirova talks about her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nElena Cristofanon\, Videomaker and Photographer \n\n\n\nFrancesca La Morgia\, Collaborator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nContatto is the search for that feeling of human connection. The sense of precarity\, uncertainty and loss of physical contact caused by the Covid-19 pandemic drove this creative challenge. Artists who have roots in Ireland and beyond are the protagonists of this story\, the story of Ireland’s creativity\, a story that is not complete without these voices. \n\n\n\n\nContatto\n\n\n\n\nWatch the interviews below. \n\n\n\nZeenie Summers\, Afro Soul-Pop Artist\n\n\n\nAarif Amod\, Photographer and Musician\n\n\n\nTatiana Santos\, Socially Engaged Artist\n\n\n\nDagogo Hart\, Poet\, Writer and Spoken Word Artist\n\n\n\nAleka Potinga\, Jazz Vocalist\, Cellist and Composer\n\n\n\nRaphael Olympio\, Rapper and Spoken Word Artist\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nElena Cristofanon is a creative based in Dublin since 2014. \n\n\n\nWith her studies in Art History\, her work in the artistic and cultural sector and her experience as an expat human\, she feels every bit of this project. \n\n\n\nResilience is her second name\, evolving her main occupation. Elena is the woman behind the cameras of Contatto. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFrancesca La Morgia is a cultural and creative producer based in Dublin. Francesca’s background in linguistics and multilingualism draws her to all forms of creativity that allow for the full expression of individuals’ languages and identities. Her creative projects focus on using language as a tool to promote dialogue among individuals and communities and to activate social change. Francesca is the founder of Mother Tongues and the Mother Tongues Festival\, the first multilingual festival in Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Mary Moynihan in Conversation with Sally Hayden
DESCRIPTION:Interview with Lana Estemirova on her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA live interview presented by Front Line Defenders on the life and work of Human Rights Defenders Natalia Estemirova\, featuring her daughter Lana Estemirova\, presenter of the Trouble with the Truth podcast\, and working for the Justice for Journalists Foundation.  Lana Estemirova talks about her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSally Hayden\, journalist and photographer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan interviews journalist Sally Hayden on her new book\, My Fourth Time\, We Drowned. The interview addresses Sally’s motivations for writing the book\, as well as issues around writing about human rights topics.  \n\n\n\nThe treatment of refugees has become one of the most devastating human rights disasters in our history. In the book My Fourth Time\, we Drowned\, award-winning journalist Sally Hayden tells the story of people making the most impossible choices and the most unimaginable journeys and of the system that wants them to be silent and disappear. The book highlights human rights abuses experienced by people risking their lives to cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSelected praise for My Fourth Time\, We Drowned \n\n\n\n“The most important work of contemporary reporting I have ever read. Every citizen of the European Union has not only a right\, but also a responsibility\, to learn about the realities described in this book. I hope that Sally Hayden’s work can help to begin a radically new and overdue discussion about Europe’s approach to migration and borders” — Sally Rooney \n\n\n\n“‘I had stumbled on a human rights disaster of epic proportions\,’ writes Sally Hayden in the prologue of her remarkable story of the ongoing migrant crisis in Europe. Contacted blind\, on the phone\, by a desperate young man locked in a brutal refugee camp in Libya\, Hayden embarked on a years-long effort to document the courage\, humor\, kindness\, and resilience of ordinary people trapped by circumstance\, and the tragic moral failure of the west to help them. The refugee who sent her the first Facebook message in 2018 had no way to know it\, but he had reached exactly the right person. Read her book.” — Mark Bowden\, author of ‘Black Hawk Down’ \n\n\n\n“This vivid chronicle of the lives and dreams of those who risk all the cross the Mediterranean to reach Europe may make you cry\, but it should make you angry. It is not just a blistering rebuke to those who torture\, rape and imprison\, but to the rest of us\, who turn a blind eye.” — Lindsey Hilsum\, International Editor\, Channel 4 News \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSally Hayden is an award-winning journalist and photographer currently focused on migration\, conflict and humanitarian crises. \n\n\n\nShe has worked with VICE\, VICE News\, CNN International\, the Financial Times Magazine\, TIME\, the Thomson Reuters Foundation\, BBC\, the Washington Post\, the Irish Times\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, Magnum Photos\, Channel 4 News\, Foreign Policy\, Al Jazeera\, NBC News\, Maclean’s\, the Sunday Times\, Newsweek\, RTE\, ELLE\, Marie Claire\, ZEIT Online\, Voice of America\, the Independent\, the Telegraph\, Deutsche Welle\, IRIN\, the New Statesman\, the New Internationalist\, the National\, the Huffington Post and ITV News\, and had stories and photojournalism republished on six continents by outlets including Pacific Standard\, National Geographic\, NPR\, the Times of India\, Euronews\, the Christian Science Monitor\, Sky News\, the Observer\, the Globe and Mail\, ABC News\, Forbes\, the Economist and TeleSUR English\, among many others. \n\n\n\nHEFAT certified\, Sally has reported from countries including Nigeria\, Iraq\, Syria\, Sudan\, France\, Germany\, Belgium\, Burkina Faso\, Ireland\, the UK\, Lebanon\, Jordan\, DR Congo\, Panama\, Cambodia\, the Gambia\, Liberia\, Hungary\, Luxembourg\, Ghana\, Rwanda\, Malawi\, Ethiopia\, Madagascar\, the US\, Italy\, Malta\, Kenya\, Uganda\, Somalia\, Niger and Sierra Leone. Her writing has been translated into nine languages and she has appeared as a TV and radio guest. \n\n\n\nSally has a law degree from University College Dublin and an MSc in international politics from Trinity College\, Dublin\, where her thesis was on post-conflict societies and theories of civil war resolution. She has worked as a trainer at the BBC Academy; a guest lecturer at London College of Communication\, New York University\, Princeton\, TU Dublin\, Loyola Marymount and UCD; and volunteered as a mentor for the Refugee Journalism Project. \n\n\n\nHer first book\, ‘My Fourth Time\, We Drowned’\, was published by HarperCollins\, 4th Estate (UK) and Melville House (US) in March 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Human Rights Under Threat: The Arts Respond
DESCRIPTION:Interview with Lana Estemirova on her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA live interview presented by Front Line Defenders on the life and work of Human Rights Defenders Natalia Estemirova\, featuring her daughter Lana Estemirova\, presenter of the Trouble with the Truth podcast\, and working for the Justice for Journalists Foundation.  Lana Estemirova talks about her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nGeorge Szirtes\, poet and translatorCsilla Toldy\, writer and translatorMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nGeorge Szirtes\, poet\, will be interviewed by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. He will discuss migration\, human rights and freedom of expression\, and the role of poetry in these challenging times. He will also give a short reading from his work. The discussion will be accompanied by a reading from Hungarian writer and translator\, Csilla Toldy. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann\, an organisation that exists to promote friendly cooperation among writers in every country in the interests of literature\, responsible freedom of expression and international goodwill. The event is presented in partnership with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival.  The aims of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are to promote literature in and about Ireland both nationally and internationally; to defend worldwide the rights of writers to responsible freedom of expression as defined in the PEN charter and to foster international understanding through the appreciation of literature. \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by  Dublin UNESCO City of Literature\,  in association with Dublin City Council. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Szirtes was born in Hungary and emigrated to England with his parents—survivors of concentration and labor camps—after the 1956 Budapest uprising. \n\n\n\nSzirtes studied painting at Harrow School of Art and Leeds College of Art and Design. At Leeds he studied with Martin Bell\, who encouraged Szirtes as he began to develop his poetic themes: an engaging mix of British individualism and European fluency in myth\, fairy tale\, and legend. Szirtes’s attention to shape and sound\, cultivated through his background in visual art and his bilingual upbringing\, quickly led to his successful embrace of formal verse. In an essay in Poetry magazine defending form\, Szirtes argues that “rhyme can be unexpected salvation\, the paper nurse that somehow\, against all the odds\, helps us stick the world together while all the time drawing attention to its own fabricated nature.” \n\n\n\nHis first book\, The Slant Door (1979)\, won the Faber Memorial Prize. Bridge Passages (1991) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Reel (2004) won the T.S. Eliot Prize\, and his New and Collected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2008. \n\n\n\nSzirtes did not return to Hungary until 1984\, when he visited on the first of several Arts Council travelling scholarships. He has since translated\, edited\, and anthologized numerous collections of Hungarian poetry. For his translation work Szirtes has won several awards\, including the Dery Prize for Imre Madach’s The Tragedy of Man (1989) and the European Poetry Translation Prize for Zsuzsa Rakovsky’s New Life (1994). His own work has been translated into numerous languages and widely anthologized\, including in Penguin’s British Poetry Since 1945. \n\n\n\nHe is the author of Exercise of Power (2001)\, a critical study of the artist Ana Maria Pacheco. He co-edited\, with Penelope Lively\, New Writing 10 (2001). Szirtes has written extensively for radio and is the author of more than a dozen plays\, musicals\, opera libretti\, and oratorios. \n\n\n\nSzirtes lives in England with his wife\, the painter Clarissa Upchurch\, with whom he ran the Starwheel Press. They collaborated on Budapest: Image\, Poem\, Film (2006). He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the British Center for Literary Translation\, and is on the Advisory Board of the Poetry Book Society. He has been a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 1982. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCsilla Toldy is a writer and translator from Hungary\, living in Northern Ireland. Her publications include various literary magazines in the UK and Ireland\, as well as three poetry pamphlets: Red Roots – Orange Sky (2013)\, The Emigrant Woman’s Tale (2015) and Vertical Montage (2018\, Lapwing)\, and the short story collection\, Angel Fur and other stories (Stupor Mundi\, 2019). Her novel Bed Table Door\, long listed for the Bath Novel award\, and winner of the Desmond Elliot Residency explores the idea of political and personal freedom against the backdrop of the Cold War and Thatcher’s England. (Wrecking Ball Press\, 2023). Csilla creates film poems as a visual artist. Her award-winning work has been screened at international festivals. In 2020 she was commissioned by the Executive Office of Northern Ireland to create a public artwork\, a film poem for Holocaust Memorial Day. www.csillatoldy.co.uk \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history. \n\n\n\n\n\nIrish PEN/PEN na hÉireann\n\n\n\nIrish PEN/PEN na hÉireann was launched in November 2020\, on The Day of the Imprisoned Writer\, with Michael D Higgins as Patron.  Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is an all-island organisation and all activities are voluntary. Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann subscribes to the PEN Charter (reproduced below)\, and has established close links with PEN Cymru (Wales)\, PEN Scotland and English PEN. The acronym for the four Centres on these islands is WISE\, and Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is present at each of the monthly meetings of all four WISE Centres. \n\n\n\nWe also have links with PEN International\, and take part in campaigns such as PEN Writes\, in which we write letters to imprisoned writers everywhere\, to let them know they are not forgotten. Poet İlhan Sami Çomak has said that being imprisoned is like being in a ‘dark well’ – and that words become his ‘ladder out of the darkness’. \n\n\n\nFREEDOM TO WRITE \n\n\n\nThe aim is to respond to the ways in which writers and journalists everywhere are coming under increasing amounts of threat. In some cases\, the threats come from criminals\, in other cases from the state.  And the danger keeps growing. Freedom of expression is under threat everywhere.  The following are  writers who were either imprisoned or silenced because of what they wrote:  \n\n\n\n\nWe support the Indian poet\, Varavara Rao\, one of India’s foremost poets and political activists\, who was arrested in August 2018 after an event at in Bhima-Koregaon in support of the Dalits’ struggle for human rights. Police claimed that speeches made by Rao and others inflamed the subsequent violence. Rao has been imprisoned many times over the years for his Maoist views.\n\n\n\nWe support the Peruvian journalist\, Paola Ugaz\, who faces intimidation and harassment\, along with several ongoing court-cases because of her investigative journalism. In the most famous case\, she is being sued by a Catholic organisation because of her exposure of its corruption\, its abuse of young people – sexual and emotional – and its cult-like activities.\n\n\n\nWe support Gulmira Imin\, a Uyghur poet\, currently detained among so many others in a Chinese ‘re-education’ camp – a concentration camp by any other name.\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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-under-threat-the-arts-respond/
LOCATION:Pearse Street Library Conference Centre\, 144 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 DE68\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Interview with Lana Estemirova on her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’
DESCRIPTION:Interview with Lana Estemirova on her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA live interview presented by Front Line Defenders on the life and work of Human Rights Defenders Natalia Estemirova\, featuring her daughter Lana Estemirova\, presenter of the Trouble with the Truth podcast\, and working for the Justice for Journalists Foundation.  Lana Estemirova talks about her book ‘Please Live: The Chechen Wars\, My Mother and Me’ and the story of her mother\, Natalya Estemirova\, who was a human rights defender murdered in Chechnya for her human rights work in 2009.  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nLana Estemirova – Daughter of a human rights activist Natalya Estemirova\, a former Memorial board member murdered in Chechnya for her human rights work in 2009. Lana Estemirova is a graduate in international relations from the London School of Economics and is the presenter of the Trouble with the Truth podcast and works for the Justice for Journalists Foundation. \n\n\n\nCaelainn Hogan – writer and journalist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n‘Please live’ were the words fifteen-year-old Lana meticulously texted to her mother on 15th of July\, 2009. At that moment\, woman human rights defender Natalia Estemirova was already kidnapped outside their apartment block in Grozny\, Chechnya; she was murdered on the same day for her continued stance for the truth.Lana Estemirova’s book “Please Live” tells a story of being ordinary in extraordinary setting. War permeates Lana’s childhood memories\, the history of the Chechen people\, and the life of her mother\, Natalia Estemirova\, a teacher turned human rights defender. “Please Live” is a testament to courage\, loss\, and motherhood\, a story of two women sharing a life together at war\, making daily sacrifices and resisting growing pressure in their own way.Natalia Estemirova was also featured in previous festival event Memorial Monologues which tells the story of 4 human rights defenders who feature on the Memorial Monument in the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin and this will also feature again at this years festival with new defender stories. https://smashingtimes.ie/event/memorial-monologues-the-path-of-memory/2024-10-18/ \n\n\n\nThis event will be promoting the human rights defender by sharing  a story of a life of a woman human rights defender\, told by her daughter. This event will tell her story & how she became a dedicated human rights defender\, intent on exposing the war crimes\, kidnappings\, bombings\, torture and murders committed by Russian military forces and then Ramzan Kadyrov\, the Kremlin-backed leader of the Chechen Republic. Natalia Estemirova’s life\, assassination\, and the impunity that followed it\, helps to understand the non-existing accountability of Putin’s Russia told by her daughter and author Lana Estemirova. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.omahonys.ie/please-live-the-chechen-wars-my-mother-and-me-p-10614709.html \n\n\n\nLana’s book “Please Live” will be on sale in hardback at the event for €20 (cash sales only) & can also be bought online here: https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/lana-estemirova/please-live/9781399811651/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLana Estemirova (Speaker) – Daughter of a human rights activist Natalya Estemirova\, a former Memorial board member murdered in Chechnya for her human rights work in 2009. Lana Estemirova is a graduate in international relations from the London School of Economics and is the presenter of the Trouble with the Truth podcast and works for the Justice for Journalists Foundation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Ruth Barry\n\n\n\n\n\nCaelainn Hogan is a writer and journalist from Dublin. Her first book Republic of Shame investigates the ongoing legacy of Ireland’s religious-run\, state-funded institutions that incarcerated women and children. She has written for The New York Times Magazine\, The New Yorker\, National Geographic\, The Guardian\, VICE\, Harper’s\, The Washington Post\, The Dublin Review and more. \n\n\n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders\n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders (FLD) is an international human rights organisation founded in Dublin in 2001\, with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs). FLD works to improve the security and protection of human rights defenders and organisations around the world at risk for their peaceful and legitimate human rights work. As identified by human rights defenders themselves\, FLD responds to protection and security needs by providing support through grants\, capacity building\, visibility\, networking\, and advocacy\, at the international\, regional and local levels. Front Line Defenders has been awarded the 2018 United Nations Human Rights Prize. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory \n\n\n\nThe story of Natalia Estemirova features in Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part One by Mary Moynihan which was presented as a live performance in previous Irish Arts and Human Rights festivals in 2023 and 2024 in the Iveagh Gardens Dublin and at The Pearse Centre\, Pearse Street\, Dublin. The play was originally commissioned by Front Line Defenders and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and tells the story of four human rights defenders who feature on the Memorial Monument  to Human Rights Defenders in the Iveagh Gardens in Dublin\, including Natalia Estemirova.  \n\n\n\nPart Two of Memorial Monologues has been commissioned for the 2025 Irish Arts and Human Rights festival and features five new human rights defender stories. Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2  by Mary Moynihan is a new world premiere scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. They are FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana Galizia\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, a woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part Two – To be presented in 2025 \nhttps://smashingtimes.ie/event/memorial-monologues-the-path-of-memory-part-2-by-mary-moynihan-live-performances-10/ \nhttps://smashingtimes.ie/event/memorial-monologues-the-path-of-memory-part-2-by-mary-moynihan-live-performances-9/ \nhttps://smashingtimes.ie/event/memorial-monologues-the-path-of-memory-part-2-by-mary-moynihan-live-performances-8/ \nhttps://smashingtimes.ie/event/memorial-monologues-the-path-of-memory-part-2-by-mary-moynihan-live-performances-7/ \nhttps://smashingtimes.ie/event/opening-reception-and-launch-of-the-seventh-annual-international-irish-arts-and-human-rights-festival/ \nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part One – Presented in 2023 and 2024 \nhttps://smashingtimes.ie/event/memorial-monologues-the-path-of-memory/2024-10-18/ \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/interview-with-lana-estemirova-on-her-book-please-live-the-chechen-wars-my-mother-and-me-2/
LOCATION:Pearse Centre\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin\, D02 K037\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Interview
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