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SUMMARY:Eternal Rebels
DESCRIPTION:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLive Outdoor Performance and Post-Show Panel Discussion  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA reflection on the stories of  women change-makers in Irish history including Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of Constance Markiewicz;  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes;  and Mary Elmes\,  (1908-2002) from Cork\, who was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II. Two of the women in the exhibition are Maude Jane Delap (1866-1953)\, a pioneering marine biologist\, and Helen Blackburn (1842–1903)\, suffragist and writer\, both from Valentia Island in County Kerry. The exhibition is open from 24 July to 13 August 2023\, 10am-4pm Monday to Saturday\, 1-5pm Sunday \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features Change-Maker Stories – A Book of Names capturing timeless change-maker stories and photographs of activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries period in Irish history\, with space in the book inviting you to share the name of a change-maker who inspired you.  Artists involved in the project are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival; Hina Khan\, Visual Artist and Miniaturist; Amna Walayat\, Visual Artist\, Féilim James\, writer\, Michael McCabe\, choreographer and performer and John Scott\, of Irish Modern Dance Theatre.  \n\n\n\nSet in the beautiful St John’s Church built to a design by the Irish architect Joseph Wellard 150 years ago. The building is surrounded by a Sensory Garden to cater for people with disabilities. The garden provides individual and combined sensory opportunities and focuses on the five main senses such as smell\, touch\, sight\, hearing and taste. \n\n\n\nPage image is Edge by Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St John the Baptist Church\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Courageous Women – A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLive Outdoor Performance and Post-Show Panel Discussion  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative and Production Team\n\n\n\nLead Artist and Curator: Mary Moynihan\, Theatre and Film Maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times \n\n\n\nProducer: Freda Manweiler \n\n\n\nAssociate Curator/Researcher: Niamh Clowry \n\n\n\nCast: Megan O’Malley\, Róisín McAtamney and Ann Sheehy \n\n\n\nCostumes: Risa Ando \n\n\n\nSet Design: The Company \n\n\n\nDigital Artist/Graphic Design: EM Creative \n\n\n\nConsultant Historian (pro bono): Sinead Mc Coole \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCourageous Women is a film inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927)\, an Irish politician\, revolutionary nationalist\, suffragette and socialist; Helena Moloney (1884-1967)\, a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen Army who was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916; Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971)\, a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a radical activist\, feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes. Hanna was one of the original founders of the militant Irish Women’s Franchise League set up in 1908 with Margaret Cousins to fight for emancipation and a woman’s right to vote. \n\n\n\nThe film is written by Mary Moynihan and is inspired by and incorporates original writings from ConstanceMarkievicz; poetry excerpts by Eva Gore Booth; original testimony including an adaptation from Doing My Bit for Ireland by Margaret Skinnider; original testimony from Helena Molony and writings by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.  \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to feature this film installation in the Valentia Island Heritage Centre which was founded and opened by Tessa O’Connor in 1986 as a volunteer-run non-profit organisation. Enjoy a visit to the centre to read and view stories of Valentia Island and to engage in lively conversation as people describe and compare histories and lifestyles. \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan O’Malley has recently completed a ‘Masters in Theatre Practice’ student in University College Dublin. Previous to this she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting’s two-year full time course in 2015. While training she took on many roles\, including: Runt in Disco Pigs\, Ophelia in Hamlet\, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew\, and Mags in The Spinning Heart. Megan also played Melissa in The Full Moon Hotel by Philip Doherty. Since graduating she has played Queen Elizabeth in ‘Gráinne’\, and has worked on several short films including ‘Rising’\, ‘The Nest’\, ‘Lilith’ etc . She also stared in Kerry Gold’s latest TV commercial and We Cut Corners music video ‘Of whatever’ by Stoneface Films. Megan was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary\, 2014. More recently\, Megan won the F.A.B. bursary award for Best Actress 16-21. Megan is also a passionate writer and was the first in the school’s history to premier her own work ‘MJ’ for the GSA graduation industry showcase. She also worked alongside Paul Meade for her Manifesto piece ‘The Mourning Seat’. From there Megan worked with Paul Meade over 2016 in developing her idea for ‘Home’\, and was thrilled to present it as part of Smock Alley’s Scene and Heard festival for new work in 2017. Megan has since expanded ‘Home’ to a full length production and which premiered in The New Theatre in 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín is an actor and facilitator based in Dublin. Originally from Cork\, Róisín undertook a BA in Drama Performance from DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama. Upon graduating from DIT Róisín worked in New York on off-Broadway show Ten Ways on A Gun. Other theatre credits include Antigone\, Romeo and Juliet and Smashing Times’ The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of 1916 and If you could Read my Mind from the highly acclaimed Testimonies. Róisín has performed in the Smashing Times tour of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII performing in Deirdre Kinahan’s new piece Ode to Ettie Steinberg\, which toured to Ireland\, Northern Ireland and Germany. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/courageous-women-a-celebration-of-change-makers/
LOCATION:Valentia Island Heritage Centre\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Ancient Futures
DESCRIPTION:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLive Outdoor Performance and Post-Show Panel Discussion  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nDumnac Goulet\, sound and visual artist \n\n\n\nFaye Boland\, poet \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEnjoy three short films on display in the Lighthouse Engine Room at Valentia Island lighthouse including: \n\n\n\nGlanleam Gallaun created by Dumnac Goulet\, location sound designer\, in collaboration with poet Faye Boland\, which tells the story of history and markers on the island of Valentia. \n\n\n\nOn the Ledge of Courage by Mary Moynihan\, performed by Carla Ryan. \n\n\n\nIn Time by Mary Moynihan\, a poem based on her personal experience of Covid-19\, and a personal response to the changing landscape around us. In Time was later transformed into a poem-film\, co-directed by Mark Quinn\, and features performances by Carla Ryan and Kwasie Boyce. Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi performs the musical score\, which is an original composition of her own creation\, inspired by “Jewish incantations at a synagogue or at prayer\, invoking God’s help\, a cry of the human spirit…I was inspired too by the solo plainchant of Monks or Irish Sean Nos singing.” \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFaye Boland lives in Kenmare\, Co.Kerry. \n\n\n\nHer work has been published in numerous literary magazines and journals. She has won the Robert Leslie Boland poetry prize 2018 and the Hanna Greally International Literary Award 2017. She was shortlisted in 2013 for the Poetry on the Lake XIII International Poetry Competition and was highly commended for a Kerry Literary Award (for fiction) in 2015. \n\n\n\nShe is also a Volunteer Tutor on the Fighting Words Creative Writing Programme. \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\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release early 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKwasie Boyce lives in Dundalk\, County Louth. He was born and raised in Trinidad and later grew up in New York from his early teens. He found his calling as an actor and trained and performed with IMPACT Repertory Theatre Performance Company\, Negro Ensemble Company and Theatre For the New City. He was drawn to theatre companies where Activism is at the core to the work they create and stories they tell. \n\n\n\nHe took part in many film projects including features in Vikings\, Red Rock and Bloods.  He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Dundalk’s M.A.D. Youth Theatre and proud to say they are heading into their 10th Year. They have devised and produced award-winning plays and have a reputation for taking risk and not shying away from issues that young people want to talk about.  He works as a freelance drama facilitator in schools and various youth organisations and currently serves as Dundalk Youth Centre’s programme coordinator for PEACE IV Anticlockwise programme\, where they use art as a tool to explore conflict\, peace and reconciliation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ancient-futures/
LOCATION:Engine Room\, Valentia Lighthouse\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Cromwell Point\, Glanleam\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, V23 P680\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Paradise Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLive Outdoor Performance and Post-Show Panel Discussion  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, available daily. For group tours with a guide\, contact Freda on 087 2214245 or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nEntry fee to The Barracks and Exhibition: €6.50 adults\, €4.50 children\, €5.50 students and older people\, €20 family\, up to 2 adults\, 3 children\, €5 for groups of 10+ \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Found is a visual art\, film\, photography and poetry exhibition presented for States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers. The exhibition by three artists\, Mary Moynihan\, Hina Khan and Amna Walayat\, reflects on a search for peace and ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. The work explores intersections between peace\, visibility\, invisibility and fragmentation and the inner world of the mind and soul linked to the physicality of the body and connections to nature. \n\n\n\nThe work of Mary Moynihan is titled ‘The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found’ and features photography and poetic texts and a poem film on love and courage and ‘the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through’.  Amna Walayat’s work is a celebration and remembrance of womanhood and consists of ten pieces making up one artwork created under the title of ‘Fall’.   Artist Hina Khan has created a body of work titled ‘Visible and Invisible’ reflecting on themes of visibility\, invisibility\, migration and a search for peace.  Collectively all three artists are creating a profound body of work inspired by a celebration of the human spirit and a search for peace\, equality and human rights.  \n\n\n\nThe Old Barracks is a unique building perched on an elevated site close to the bridge over the River Fertha in Cahersiveen. It is home to a permanent exhibition which recounts the building’s remarkable history and that of the local region\, including an exhibition on Daniel O’Connell\, who was born in Cahersiveen\, and was known as ‘The Liberator’ for his role in ending discrimination against Catholics. \n\n\n\nPage photo is Haunting by Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in Born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in Miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing etc in her work. \n\n\n\nHina has chosen Miniature because of its intricacy and delicacy of brush work which has a unique identity. Most of Hina’s work is a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature. My work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expresses my own ideologies through symbolism. Shifting my practice to installation\, videos\, 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my art practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibition at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s next solo exhibition will be exhibited in the coming months.  Her art pieces are also in the permanent collection of Arts Council Ireland. She is the recipient of several Awards from Arts Council Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and different counties. Currently she is preparing a solo show which will be displayed in LHQgallery 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that\, ‘as an artist\, I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ieBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/paradise-lost-and-found/
LOCATION:Old Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, Co Kerry\, Cahersiveen\, Kerry\, V23VR62\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Installation,Kerry,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLive Outdoor Performance and Post-Show Panel Discussion  \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\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nEmma Byrne\, musician \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTales of Love and Loss is a unique performance featuring A Beauty that will Pass and Grace and Joe by Mary Moynihan\, with poetry by Eva Gore-Booth and music by composer and violinist Emma Byrne.  \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass is a poetical\, storytelling reflection inspired by the life stories and clandestine engagement of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803)\, leader of the 1803 Irish rebellion.  \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe sees Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) tell the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising and the youngest signatory to the Irish proclamation. It relates how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution.   \n\n\n\nThe event culminates in a panel discussion on States of Independence – Women Change-Maker Stories from the Decade of Centenaries  and New Visions for the Future with artist Mary Moynihan and invited guest speakers\, all welcome.  Enjoy a reflection on change-maker stories and intersections between art\, equality\, human rights\, diversity and peace with reference to the stories of women including Eva Gore-Booth and Mary Elmes. \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 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\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClassical musician Emma Byrne is an active performer across Ireland and abroad. She is an enthusiastic young violinist with a passion for the arts. She has performed at venues such the National Concert Hall\, the RDS\, the Helix Theatre and the Whale Theatre. Having studied at the Young European Strings School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music\, she now divides her time between teaching\, orchestral playing\, chamber music and solo performances. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/tales-of-love-and-loss-9/
LOCATION:St John the Baptist Church\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Kerry,Performance,Poetry,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld
DESCRIPTION:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLive Outdoor Performance and Post-Show Panel Discussion  \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\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nEmma Byrne\, musician \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld  by Féilim James is a reflection on the life and work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)\, an Irish poet\,  dramatist\, and prose writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 and is considered one of the great English-language poets of the twentieth century.  With poetry by Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of the Irish revolutionary leader Constance Markiewicz and live music performed by violinist Emma Byrne.  The event culminates in a panel discussion on States of Independence – Artist Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries and New Visions for the Future with the artists and invited guest speakers. \n\n\n\nValentia Island lighthouse is a unique building in a spectacular setting. The Lighthouse is home to the most westerly harbour light on the island of Ireland\, guiding vessels through the Northern entrance to Valentia Island harbour. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \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\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClassical musician Emma Byrne is an active performer across Ireland and abroad. She is an enthusiastic young violinist with a passion for the arts. She has performed at venues such the National Concert Hall\, the RDS\, the Helix Theatre and the Whale Theatre. Having studied at the Young European Strings School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music\, she now divides her time between teaching\, orchestral playing\, chamber music and solo performances. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/change-maker-stories-tales-from-an-afterworld/
LOCATION:Lighthouse Courtyard\, Valentia Lighthouse\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Cromwell Point\, Glanleam\, Kerry\, V23 P680\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Kerry,Panel Discussion,Performance,Poetry
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