BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Smashing Times - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Smashing Times
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://smashingtimes.ie
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Smashing Times
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:Europe/Dublin
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20200329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20201025T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20210328T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20211031T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20220327T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20221030T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20230326T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20231029T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20240331T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20241027T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20250330T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20251026T010000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:+0000
TZOFFSETTO:+0100
TZNAME:IST
DTSTART:20260329T010000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:+0100
TZOFFSETTO:+0000
TZNAME:GMT
DTSTART:20261025T010000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20251018T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20251018T130000
DTSTAMP:20251002T153609Z
CREATED:20250917T100429Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251002T153609Z
UID:10000671-1760788800-1760792400@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nCouncillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin \n\n\n\nPresident of Ireland Michael D. Higgins \nSabina Coyne Higgins \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until her death in 2001.  The plaque will mark the site of the Focus Theatre. \n\n\n\nThe unveiling ceremony by Dublin City Council takes place on Saturday\, 18 October 2025 at 12 noon. The  location for the plaque is the building that once housed the original Focus Theatre\, at 6A Pembroke Place\, Dublin 2. \n\n\n\nIn memory of: \n\n\n\nDeirdre O’Connell (1939–2001)\, Actor\, Teacher\, Director.Founder of Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963–2001.Founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre\, 1967–2001. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBiography of Deirdre O’Connell by Mary Moynihan \n\n\n\nDeidre O’Connell (1939-2001) was an actor\, teacher\, director and founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963 to 2001\, and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre\, 1967-2001. \n\n\n\nDeirdre was born Eleanora Deirdre O’Connell to Irish immigrant parents on June 16\, 1939 in the South Bronx district of New York City.  She was one of five siblings and her father was from Sligo and her mother from Banteer in County Cork. After finishing school\, Deirdre won a scholarship to attend night classes and study at Erwin Piscator’s New York Dramatic Workshop. While performing there she was spotted by Lee Strasberg who invited her to join the famous Actor’s Studio where she discovered the Stanislavski system\, which was to become her lifelong passion. The Stanislavski system is  one of the main systems of actor training in the Western world and was developed by the Russian Theatre practitioner\, actor and director Constantin Stanislavski (1863-1938)\, who co-founded the Moscow Art Theatre. \n\n\n\nDeirdre became a lifelong member of the Actor’s Studio where she trained alongside actors such as Marilyn Monroe and Marlin Brando. Deirdre was destined for a brilliant acting career but\, as she said herself\, she had a vision to come to Ireland\, to train Irish actors and directors. \n\n\n\nShe arrived in Ireland in  1963 aged 23 and set up the Stanislavski Acting Studio to train actors and directors in the Stanislavski System. This led to the founding of the Focus Theatre four years later with artists including Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Tom Hickey\, Joan Bergin\, Mary-Elizabeth Burke Kennedy and Declan Burke Kennedy\, amongst others. \n\n\n\nOver the next 45 years\, from 1967 to its closure in 2012\, the Focus Theatre and Stanislavski Studio produced over 300 plays by internationally-renowned playwrights such as Henrik Ibsen\, Lillian Hellman\, Doris Lessing\, Tennessee Williams\, Arthur Miller\, Marguerite Duras\, Athol Fugard and Samuel Beckett\, as well as training many well-known Irish actors\, directors and writers.  Artists who trained there included Tom Hickey\, Tim McDonnell\, Olwen Fouéré\, Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Margaret Toomey\, Mary Moynihan\, Joan Bergin\, Mary Elizabeth Burke-Kennedy\, Gabriel Byrne\, Maeve Leonard\, Michelle Manahan and Ann Russell. President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins once said that Deirdre O’Connell was “the single greatest influence in Irish Theatre since the 60s”.[1] \n\n\n\nDeirdre O’Connell worked as Artistic Director\, manager and fundraiser of the Focus Theatre and Stanislavski Studio from 1967 until her death in 2001 as well as acting in most of the major productions presented. The Evening Press saw Focus as “one of the most exciting theatrical ventures we have had in Dublin’’ and The Irish Times said “Dublin Focus Theatre is performing a great service to the city and country by its integrity\, dedication and the excellence of its actors’’.[2] \n\n\n\nDeirdre O’Connell died suddenly at her home in Dartmouth Square in Dublin on June 10\, 2001 “four years after Focus Theatre celebrated ‘Thirty Years of Magic’ ’’.[3] Deirdre’s funeral service was held in Whitehall Church on the northside of Dublin where\, 36 years earlier\, Deirdre had married Luke Kelly of the Dubliners. Following a service attended by several hundred people Deirdre was buried in Glasnevin Cemetery.  Deirdre was an extraordinary human being and artist and she was mourned and missed by many friends and associates both personally and professionally. \n\n\n\nThe author Mary Moynihan and actor Margaret Toomey trained and worked at Focus Theatre with Deirdre O’Connell\, their friend and mentor.  With Deirdre’s blessing\, Mary\, Margaret\, and other artists\,  set up the international arts organisation Smashing Times in 1991 to bring theatre out of the traditional theatre space and into the wider community and beyond\, a rare and radical step at that time. Deidre supported many artists to develop their careers both inside and outside of Focus Theatre. \n\n\n\nIn 1986 Deirdre O’Connell received the Harvey’s Theatre Award for Outstanding Contribution to Irish Theatre.  A major success for  Focus Theatre was Diary of a Madman translated by Ronald Wilks and adapted by Tim McDonnell from the work of Nikolai Gogol\, with Tim performing the sole role of Poprischin\, and Deirdre O’Connell directing.  Tim was one of the original founding members of Focus Theatre acting in early productions including the first Focus show Play with a Tiger. \n\n\n\nIn 2004 Deirdre’s sister and life-long friend\, Geraldine O’Connell Cusack published her book Children of the Far-Flung\, a “true account of a remarkable Irish-American family\, four generations of emigration and return\, from Ireland to New York and back again. It is also the story of the author’s sister\, Deirdre O’Connell\, founder and artistic director of the critically-acclaimed Focus Theatre in Dublin\, her marriage to popular singer Luke Kelly\, her successes and failures\, and her remarkable and long-lasting impact on theatre in Ireland’’.[4] \n\n\n\nDeirdre had a unique and enduring connection to Dublin city and made a significant contribution to the arts and to Dublin city through her work with Focus Theatre and the Stanislavski Studio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Donovan\, Kathy\, The Irish Times Weekend Arts\, July 25\, 1992 ‘Memories in the Focus’. \n\n\n\n[2] Burke-Kennedy\, Declan\, Booklet Dublin Focus Theatre incorporating the Stanislavski studio\, article on The Focus Theatre by Declan Burke-Kennedy\, p. 8 \n\n\n\n[3] www.nli.ie/pdfs/mss%20lists/140_FocusTheatre.pdf\, p.6 \n\n\n\n[4] http://www.amazon.com/Children-Far-Flung-Geraldine-OConnell-Cusack/dp/1904148336 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-of-plaque-to-remember-deirdre-oconnell-1939-2001-an-actor-teacher-director-founding-member-and-artistic-director-of-dublin-focus-theatre-from-1967-to-2001/
LOCATION:Outdoors at 6a Pembroke Place\, Dublin\, D02 DY93
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Deirdre-OConnell-1.jpg
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250918T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20250918T200000
DTSTAMP:20250916T141313Z
CREATED:20250912T150851Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250916T141313Z
UID:10000662-1758218400-1758225600@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nThe exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art\, photography\, poetry and film inspired by physical landscapes and the interconnectedness of life from forests to the ocean. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCiarán Ahern\, TD\, Labour party \n\n\n\nTim Doyle\, Violinist \nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nEM Creative\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nJody Hogg\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to:  Catherine O’Connor\, Rathfarnham Castle and all the team at Rathfarnham Castle\, The Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFrom The Forest to The Ocean is a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan. The exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art\, photography\, poetry and film inspired by physical landscapes and the interconnectedness of life from forests to the ocean. The exhibition is on show at Rathfarnham Castle Gallery\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin D14K3T6 from Tuesday 16 September to Sunday 2 November 2025 and opens daily 9.30am – 5.30pm\, thereafter\, Wednesday – Sunday 10.30am – 5pm. A public launch takes place on Thursday 18 September 2025\, from 6-8pm\, with guest speakers and refreshments. \n\n\n\nFrom the Forest to the Ocean is inspired by reflections on nature and journeys of interconnectedness and the art of ‘letting go’\, linking physical landscapes of nature from the forests to the ocean to landscapes of the soul.  Our personal well-being is linked to the well-being of our planet on a physical\, spiritual\, emotional and intuitive level. Nature and creativity inspire us to look after ourselves\, each other\, the planet we live on and to search for more sustainable ways of living.  Join us as we reflect on ways to re-wild the landscape and re-wild the human soul\, exploring the flow of life and the art of letting go.  \n\n\n\nThe original concept for the exhibition From the Forest to the Ocean is by the curator Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet and creator of art and photography.  This exhibition is part of a triptych – Landscapes of the Soul (Part I)\, From the Forest to the Ocean (Part II) and a third exhibition (Part III) to be presented in 2026. Following their successful exhibition in 2024\, titled Landscapes of the Soul (Part I) artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan are delighted to return to Rathfarnham Castle Gallery to present their new multi-disciplinary exhibition titled From the Forest to the Ocean (Landscapes of the Soul Part II). This event is part of The Trees Project: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Performing Arts\, a project led by Dah Theatre\, Serbia and supported by Creative Europe. www.performtrees.eu \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan (she/her) is an award-winning writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker and  a creator of art and photography. Mary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival supported by The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nHina Khan was born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D.  \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle is a building with a rich and varied history dating back 400 years. It has been ‘a fortified house\, a luxurious seventeenth-century home\, a fashionable Georgian Mansion and an austere Jesuit residence’[1] It is now under State care and managed by the Office of Public Works. \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle was only referred to as a castle in the mid eighteenth century. It is situated on the outskirts of Dublin. It is the earliest recorded and one of the largest and most impressive of the fortified houses built in Ireland. It was commissioned C. 1583 for Adam Loftus who was at that time the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  The house passed down through seven generations of the Loftus family until 1723 when the whole estate was sold to William Connolly of Castletown\, County Kildare.  After an interval of some fifty years (1711-1767) which saw a number of tenants and owners who made alternations and additions to the house\, it was returned to the ownership of the Loftus family. There were several different owners until the Castle was declared a National Monument in 1986 and purchased for the Nation by the Office of Public Works in 1987. At the same time\, Dublin County Council acquired the grounds. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-event-for-from-the-forest-to-the-ocean-a-multidisciplinary-exhibition-with-artists-mary-moynihan-and-hina-khan-at-rathfarnham-castle-dublin-featuring-visual-art-photography-poetry-and-film-2/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-11-105556-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20241011T183000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20241011T203000
DTSTAMP:20241010T213510Z
CREATED:20240902T141015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241010T213510Z
UID:10000480-1728671400-1728678600@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Reception and Launch
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival.  Guest speaker at the reception and launch. \n\n\n\nSenator Lynn Ruane.  DAHRF Festival Ambassador and Guest Speaker at the reception and launch. \n\n\n\nDaniel Mahon\, actor \n\n\n\nJosephine Patane\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, violinist \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders and partners are delighted to host an opening reception and launch for the sixth annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival. The reception and launch feature guest talks\, refreshments and the opportunity to view the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition funded by The Arts Council and to watch a live performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan.  The reception and launch take place at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2 on Friday 11 October 2024\, from 6.30 to 9pm. \n\n\n\nSpeaking at the event is festival ambassador Senator Lynn Ruane. Presentations will also be made by artist Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet and creator of art and photography\, on behalf of Smashing Times; and Alan Glasgow\, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nAs part of the launch\, audiences have the opportunity to view the Irish in Resistance during World War II Exhibition. This is a new multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling\, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and who spoke out for the rights of others.  A series of ambitious new artworks have been commissioned and created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism. The commissioned artists are Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer; and Smashing Times Artistic Director Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography. The exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan\, funded by The Arts Council Commissions Award under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, and is presented as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. A special thanks to John Morgan for research on the stories. The exhibition runs at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2 from Friday 11 to Thursday 31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am–7pm. \n\n\n\nThe launch is followed by a performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan. The play is adapted from the words of four 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 Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.  The play is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Frontline Defenders\, directed by Carmen Ortiz Victorino and performed by Josephine Patane\, actor\, and Daniel Mahon\, actor with Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi on violin. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan Glasgow has worked for 25 years in development\, humanitarian\, and human rights contexts. He joined as Executive Director of Front Line Defenders in May 2024\, from the position of Regional Director for Asia and Europe with the Washington based Aid Agency\, Mercy Corps. Prior to this he served as Mercy Corps’ European Migration Director. \n\n\n\nAlan has also worked with the International Rescue Committee in New York and as Country Director in Sierra Leone\, and with GOAL as Country Director in Kenya\, South Sudan and Sudan\, and Director of Global Business Development. \n\n\n\nAlan’s leadership experience has focused on work at the frontlines of the world’s most challenging human rights environments\, including Afghanistan\, Gaza\, Liberia\, Myanmar\, Sierra Leone\, South Sudan\, Sudan\, Syria\, Ukraine and Yemen. His career has demonstrated a profound commitment to the rights of the marginalized and his work has been underpinned by a belief in the principles of human rights. \n\n\n\nAlan holds a Master’s Degree from UCD in addition to professional training with Columbia and Harvard Universities. He lives in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn Ruane is from Tallaght and lives in Killinarden with her two daughters. \n\n\n\nBefore entering politics\, she developed community drug services and community initiatives over 15 years in Tallaght and Dublin’s Canal Communities. \n\n\n\nAs a firm believer in lifelong learning\, Lynn has engaged in education for most of her adult life. \n\n\n\nAfter leaving school early\, she attended An Cosán in Tallaght at the age of fifteen\, before going on to study addiction in several courses. She then returned to full-time education as a mature student; graduating from Trinity College Dublin with an honours degree in Political Science\, Philosophy\, Economics and Sociology in 2016. \n\n\n\nLynn gained entry to university through the Trinity Access Programme. Lynn is proud of her TAP connection and was delighted to see her eldest daughter also graduate from the access programme and enter Trinity College as an English Literature and Film Studies student in 2018. \nLynn is currently pursuing a Masters in Creative Writing at Dublin City University. She decided to study creative writing as a way to amplify the stories and narratives of those who so often do not get to tell their own story. \nWhile working in addiction services\, Lynn also worked with De Paul Ireland across many of their homeless services\, mainly low threshold accommodation for street sleepers. She returned to this work while studying for her degree in Trinity. \nIn 2015\, she ran for the position of President of Trinity College’s Students’ Union and was elected. She announced her intention to contest the 2016 Seanad election as an independent candidate while in office and was elected to the Oireachtas at the age of 31. \nShe has now served as an Independent Senator for Trinity College for four years. \nShe has worked to take her role beyond just the Seanad chamber and the gates of Leinster House. With the use of Trinity College facilities\, she has introduced initiatives like Project Sums\, a programme which provides free Leaving Certificate mathematics grinds to students from disadvantaged areas; our tutors now see more than 150 young people every week. In collaboration with TCD’s Dr. Robert Grant\, she has founded Philosophy in the Community\, a programme based in Rialto which introduces local residents and youth workers to philosophy and encourages them to explore the broader philosophical contexts in which they live and work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosephine Patane is excited to be a part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Originally from the United States\, she has performed in many New York and regional theatre productions there. Since moving\, Josephine has continued performing on stages throughout Europe as an actor and singer. Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Vanessa) Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) The Shadow of a Gunman (Minnie Powell) Twinkle Tames a Dragon (Twinkle) and Richard II (Northumberland.) On screen\, Josephine can be seen in the film Happy Yummy Chicken\, or doing science experiments on BBC Bitesize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel Mahon is a graduate of The Lir Academy. Graduating from The Three Year Bachelor in Acting in 2022. \n\n\n\nStage credits include ‘EXIT> PURSUED BY A PINT’ a new play by Kat Ennis for Scene and Heard Festival 2023\,  the role of ‘The Black O’Donnell’ in the Quintessence Theatre/An Taín production of INTO THE DARK and the role of ‘Patrick Hogan’ in ANU Productions’ STAGING THE TREATY at the National Concert Hall which was also screened at the IFI and streamed on RTÉ’s website and IFI@Home. \n\n\n\nWhile at The Lir he played\, Francois ‘Franz/Frank’ Lafayette in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ APPROPRIATE directed by Joy Nesbitt; Barnardine & Froth in Shakespeare’s MEASURE FOR MEASURE directed by Joe Dowling; John Morris in Kate O’Brien’s DISTINGUISHED VILLA directed by Hilary Wood; Vladimir in Chekov’s THREE SISTERS directed by Marc Atkinson Borrull and Dr. Gibbs in Thornton Wilder’s OUR TOWN directed by Wayne Jordan. \n\n\n\nHis Scene Credits include Paul in the IFTA-nominated feature WHO WE LOVE directed by Graham Cantwell; the short film WAITING directed by Sinéad O’Louglin at The Lir\, and the role of Eddie in Pancake Studios’ short film NEVER ALONE. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/dublin-arts-and-human-rights-festival-reception-and-launch/
LOCATION:The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin\, D02 K037\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/grunge_audience_1710.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20231013T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20231013T210000
DTSTAMP:20231106T200606Z
CREATED:20230901T152733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231106T200606Z
UID:10000400-1697220000-1697230800@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Launch:  In Solidarity - An International Celebration of Arts and Rights
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Executive Director (Interim)\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nJessica Traynor\, poet\, essayist\, librettist\, and poetry editor at Banshee\, 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence in Galway University\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador \n\n\n\nMayKay\, singer\, songwriter\, TV presenter\, voiceover artist\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador \n\n\n\nSenator Lynn Ruane\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador \n\n\n\nMichael Mc Cabe\, Director\, Facilitator\, Actor\, Performer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, and a range of partners\, present the fifth annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival from the 13 to 22 October 2023. \n\n\n\nJoin us on Friday 13 October at 6pm for a special event with presentations and artist talks to launch the fifth annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and to launch the Eternal Rebels exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting\, at both personal and political levels\, on themes of  changemakers and human rights defenders working to make the world a better place for all. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  visual art\, photography\, poetry\, sculpture\, painting. Following the launch\, attendees are  invited to the premiere performance of States of Independence\, a multi-disciplinary show featuring work by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michael Mc Cabe performed by artists including  Michael McCabe and Fiona Bawn-Thompson.  \n\n\n\nThe launch features speeches from representatives of Front Line Defenders and Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, as well as from our Festival Ambassadors; Jessica Traynor\, poet\, essayist\, librettist\, and poetry editor at Banshee\, 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence in Galway University\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador; MayKay\, singer\, songwriter\, TV presenter\, voiceover artist\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador; Senator Lynn Ruane\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival Ambassador. \n\n\n\nDublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2023\n\n\n\nThe Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival  features exciting and innovative events that promote equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts\, taking place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Donegal and Cork\, with artists and speakers in attendance from Ireland\, Finland\, Sweden\, Italy\, Spain\, Portugal\, the Netherlands\, Greece\, Belgium\, Cyprus\, Romania\, Bulgaria and Ukraine. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nThe artistic curator for the festival is Mary Moynihan\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times and the human rights curator is Laura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, Front Line Defenders. The festival is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and is a hybrid programme delivered over 10 days and hosts an exciting blend of events happening in-person and online\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers\, reaching audiences locally\, nationally\, and internationally. There is something for everyone interested in the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity.  \n\n\n\nThe festival promotes human rights and justice for all\, and the vision of a world where all people are treated equally\, with dignity and respect – linking the arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics. The extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts in promoting human rights will be showcased and highlighted at the festival\, aiming to celebrate and unite community connections\, artists\, human rights organisations and human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nThe festival showcases world-class and diverse acts\, artists and speakers\, including up and coming performers. It brings arts and human rights together through interdisciplinary events which include workshops\, theatre performances\, musical performances\, visual arts\, exhibitions\, film screenings\, panel discussions\, poetry and literature events\, historical memory performances\, live art\, digital installations\, and more. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlive Moore took up the role of Interim Director of Front Line Defenders in January 2023\, after serving as Deputy Director since September 2020. \n\n\n\nOlive’s passion for human rights and social justice began when she became a member Amnesty International at the age of sixteen. Her activism and interest in global politics and international relations led her to undertaking a Degree in Politics and Social Policy in UCD\, and then a European Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice\, Italy. \n\n\n\nOlive’s experience at the beginning of her career with Trocaire\, of living in Kenya and working in South Sudan and Somalia\, and the Human Rights Defenders she met during this time\, formed her lasting appreciation of\, and deep respect for\, the work of HRDs. \n\n\n\nOlive has held a number of roles in Trocaire\, including Human Rights Officer\, Policy Officer\, Governance and Human Rights Coordinator\, and Head of Programmes for the last four and a half years. Previously\, she also interned in the Human Rights Unit of the European Commission\, worked for the Irish Government at the UN Commission on Human Rights\, and spent two years working at the World Bank as Head of Knowledge and Learning at the GPSA (Global Partnership for Social Accountability) in Washington DC. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Traynor is a poet\, essayist\, librettist\, and poetry editor at Banshee. Her debut collection\, Liffey Swim (Dedalus Press\, 2014)\, was shortlisted for the Strong/Shine Award. The Quick (Dedalus Press\, 2018) was an Irish Times book of the year. Pit Lullabies (Bloodaxe\, 2022) is a Poetry Book Society Recommendation and was an Irish Times book of the year\, and a Guardian Best Summer Read of 2022. It was shortlisted for the Yeats Society Sligo/ Irish Independent Poetry Prize. \n\n\n\nShe is 2023 recipient of the Lawrence O’Shaughnessy Award for Poetry. Other awards include the Ireland Chair of Poetry Prize\, the Listowel Poetry Prize\, and Hennessy New Writer of the Year.  She is a Creative Fellow of UCD\, and 2023 Arts Council Writer in Residence in Galway University. She is a judge for the 2023 Forward Prizes and a poetry critic for The Irish Times. \n\n\n\nAs a dramaturg\, Jessica has worked as Literary Manager of the Abbey Theatre. She now offers dramaturgical support on a project by project basis.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMayKay is a singer\, songwriter\, TV presenter and voiceover artist. \n\n\n\nAs lead singer of Fight Like Apes – named by The Irish Times as one of the best Irish musical acts of their generation – MayKay toured the world with The Prodigy and supported the Yeah Yeah Yeahs. “Almost going into Debbie Harry territory\,” she has wowed crowds at festivals across Europe and the US including South by Southwest and Glastonbury. Fight Like Apes returned this year and are playing numerous sold out shows. \n\n\n\nMayKay has collaborated with musicians Duke Special\, Jerry Fish and award-winning Irish electronic quintet\, Le Galaxie\, who she joined as front woman in 2017\, ahead of the worldwide release of their third album. She has co written on albums with Le Galaxie\, Elaine Mai\, DJ Kormac and many other acclaimed artists. \n\n\n\nSince 2015\, MayKay has presented Ireland’s leading live music series Other Voices – along with BBC presenters Annie Mac and Huw Stephens – and interviewed artists including Little Simz\, David Gray and Snow Patrol. She regularly MCs and moderates events including the SXSW send-off show hosted by the US Embassy in Dublin and the Matt Talbot Centre fundraiser in Vicar Street. \n\n\n\nMayKay played the lead character in an animation aired in 2021. She spent lockdown collaborating on several different musical projects\, including her first solo album\, due to be released in 2023. She will debut her tracks at Ireland Music Week this October. \n\n\n\nIn the past 2 years she has made 2 trips as part of truck convoys to deliver humanitarian aid to Ukraine\, and has just returned from her 2nd volunteer trip to Aida Camp in the occupied West Bank in Palestine\, where she will return on an annual basis to volunteer in the Lajee Centre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLynn Ruane is an independent Irish politician\, who has served as an Senator and deputy leader of the Civil Engagement Group in Seanad Éireann since 2016. Lynn is from Tallaght; an historically underserved and neglected community in Dublin. A long-time community and drugs worker\, Lynn now champions the causes most close to her heart and community in Ireland’s parliament.  \n\n\n\nAn ardent legislator\, Lynn tables progressive bills which respond to the lived experiences of those on the margins of society. To date\, that has included pursuing harm reduction in drug policy\, meaningful rehabilitation in criminal justice\, a fairer child maintenance system for lone-parents\, and the cessation of the misuse of non-disclosure agreements. Lynn also regularly seeks to amend Government legislation\, to ensure it reflects the principles of human rights\, social justice\, equality\, inclusion\, and the empowerment of the marginalised. In addition to legislative work\, Lynn is a member of three parliamentary Committees: Justice\, Assisted Dying\, and Children\, Equality\, Disability Integration and Youth. \n\n\n\nOutside of her work in the Oireachtas\, Lynn is a mother to two daughters\, a published author and writer\, a frequent contributor in print and online media\, the creator and host of the award winning podcast ‘Conversations on the Margins\, and\, most recently\, the co-presenter of the RTÉ documentary ‘Lady Gregory – Ireland’s First Social Influencer’ with the esteemed Miriam Margolyes OBE. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael Mc Cabe\, Director\, Facilitator\, Actor\, Performer \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office.  \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups.  \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).                                                                                                                                \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin  \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/dublin-arts-and-human-rights-festival-launch-in-solidarity-an-international-celebration-of-arts-and-rights/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Launch,Music,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/opening-ceremony-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T130000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153558Z
CREATED:20221010T120106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153558Z
UID:10000352-1666526400-1666530000@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Online Exhibition Launch
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisit www.smashingtimes.ie/virtual-arts-centre  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTwo new exhibitions\, the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, and the #Connected2: Climate and Food Systems exhibition are presented in a digital format in the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre. \n\n\n\nState of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\n#Connected2: Climate and Food Systems is created by GOAL’s NextGen Youth members from across Ireland\, Ethiopia\, Honduras\, Malawi\, Uganda\, and Zimbabwe. Through the pertinent themes of Global Food Systems and Climate Change\, participants learned how each relates to global citizenship and development. They created this photo exhibition to share their learnings with you and hope to raise awareness of how climate change is affecting our food systems. \n\n\n\nBoth exhibitions will be available online for a period of one year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/online-exhibition-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Arts Centre\, Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre
CATEGORIES:Launch,Online,Online Exhibition
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/2022-10-10-2.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T180000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153630Z
CREATED:20221007T162547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153630Z
UID:10000348-1666110600-1666116000@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Launch of Visual Art\, Poetry and Photography exhibition as part of Transformative Memories in Political Violence at the dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nThe event facilitator is Ciara Hayes\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. The official launch is conducted by Cllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners.  The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nThis chapter of the exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nIn a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetic expressions created under the title of Paradise Lost and Found\, artist Mary Moynihan explores the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work of visual artist Amna Walayat is informed by Michel Foucault’s[1] ideas on power and Edward Said’s[2] work on Orientalism.  Using the medium of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting and the language of symbolism\, Amna’s work expresses her hybrid cultural experiences with artworks on display created under the titles of Migration and In the Name of Shame. The artist says ‘being female\, Asian\, and Muslim\, and a migrant\, mother and artist\, these are all the strands that are personal but also provide me with the opportunity to connect with global issues in general. My paintings are silent protests or performances against violence experienced by women and children\, particularly in various cultural contexts’. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is launched by Cllr Emma Murphy and will feature speeches from the artists and curators\, Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian. \n\n\n\n[2] Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic\, political activist and literary critic. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, she mounted her first solo exhibition as a part of the Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work was exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 October 2021) and with a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland and Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project ‘South Asia Community Museum in Ireland’. \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts and as a Curator with Alhambra Arts Council (2001-07). She has  worked with Cultural Action Europe as a MENA Cultural Agent for advising on policies (2021).  She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Visual Artists Ireland\, and is a recent recipient of The Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of SDCC\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy was elected to South Dublin County Council in 2016 and re-elected in 2019. Emma is a member of the Fianna Fáil party and was extremely active during the referendums for Marriage Equality and Repealing the Eighth Amendment (Abortion Rights in Ireland) over the past number of years. \n\n\n\nEmma’s background is in the NGO sector and previous roles include working as a Communications and Fundraising professional with NGO’s in the areas of Intellectual Disability\, Education\, International Development and LGBTQ+ Sport. In July 2020 Emma took up the position of Communications Director for Barry Andrews MEP of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. \n\n\n\nEmma is a past Chairperson of the Joint Policing Committee for South County Dublin and uses her passion and knowledge of cycling as the Chairperson of the Dodder Greenway Steering Committee. She is a member of the Environment Special Policy Committee on South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nShe has a personal interest in gender equality and education. Emma took part in the ALDE European Womens’ Academy in 2018\, which promotes females in political life across Europe. She has a passion for driving female representation in politics and acts as an advocate for increased female representation across all facets of the political spectrum.  In March 2021 Emma tabled a motion to establish the South Dublin Women’s Caucus for current and past female members of South Dublin County Council to come together to strengthen female representation in the Local Authority. \n\n\n\nEmma’s other passion is sport and she has recently graduated from the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s Learn to Lead programme which empowers females in sport. Emma has used this platform to advocate for community\, sport and LGBTQ+ issues via this forum. \n\n\n\nEmma lives in Ballycullen in South Dublin with her wife Caroline and their miniature Jack Russell named Junior. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Title\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-of-visual-art-poetry-and-photography-exhibition-as-part-of-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch,Poetry,Visual Art
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Hina-and-Amna.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T113000
DTSTAMP:20211013T085655Z
CREATED:20210814T111722Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T085655Z
UID:10000264-1634292000-1634297400@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Opening Ceremony – Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Opening Ceremony of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival takes place on the Roof Garden of the Chester Beatty\, Dublin. The ceremony includes presentations from Ivana Bacik\, TD; Mary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality; and Tara Madden\, Head of Operations and Public Engagement\, Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nAs part of the ceremony\, Smashing Times are launching the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery\, an online space exhibiting artworks for the arts and human rights\, funded by The Arts Council. The Virtual Arts Gallery will hold visual art exhibitions\, films\, poetry and sound art\, with permanent exhibitions\, and a number of special exhibitions available only for the duration of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 15 – 24 October 2021. \n\n\n\nThe Opening Ceremony features a musical performance from actor and singer-songwriter Carla Ryan\, and violinist Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. Following the ceremony\, guests can attend the world premiere performance of River of Thorns (booking here)\, or view the Chester Beatty Museum. \n\n\n\nAll are welcome to join us for creativity\, conversation\, and a celebration of the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIvana Bacik\n\n\n\nIvana was elected to Dáil Éireann to serve as TD for Dublin Bay South in July 2021\, following a bye-election resulting from the resignation of Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy. Ivana grew up in Rathgar/Terenure and lives in Portobello with her young family. She is a lawyer and has taught law over many years in Trinity College Dublin. As a student activist Ivana was taken to court and threatened with prison for providing information on abortion – in a case that paved the way for repeal of the Eighth Amendment and legalisation of abortion in Ireland. \n\n\n\nShe was first elected to serve in Seanad Éireann in 2007. An experienced legislator\, Ivana has seen more of her opposition bills become law than any other senator. Ivana’s reforming legislation has tackled issues such as working conditions for freelancers\, secular marriage\, women’s health rights and LGBT equality. A long-term campaigner for constitutional change\, Ivana was a leading national and local voice in the Marriage Equality and Repeal the 8th campaigns. \n\n\n\nIvana was a founder of the Portobello Educate Together multi-denominational school start-up group and is on the Board of Canal Way ETNS\, Dublin 8. She is currently working with families across Dublin Bay South to ensure increased provision for children with autism in local schools. Ivana is a keen cyclist\, swimmer and climate campaigner. She is working closely with Labour councillors in Dublin Bay South to improve cycling infrastructure\, increase green spaces for communities and enhance the water quality and recreational value of Dublin Bay. Ivana’s surname is Czech. Her paternal grandfather was imprisoned by the Nazis. After WWII\, he moved to Ireland with his young family\, where they settled in Waterford. Her mother’s side of the family are very proud Murphys from Co. Clare. \n\n\n\nIvana is one of the Front Line Defenders Award Patrons for 2021 – find out more here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Madden\n\n\n\nAs Head of Operations & Public Engagement\, Tara oversees the Rest and Respite Programme\, public engagement and events\, human resources and the general administration of the organisation. She contributes to organisational planning\, monitoring\, evaluation and learning. She also coordinates educational projects & internships. Prior to joining Front Line Defenders in 2004 she worked in Japan on the JET Programme and on development projects in Nepal and the Philippines. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan \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 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. 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\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/opening-ceremony-dublin-arts-and-human-rights-festival-2021/
LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch,Onsite
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/grunge_audience_1710.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211001T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211001T170000
DTSTAMP:20250911T160147Z
CREATED:20250911T101820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T160147Z
UID:10000589-1633075200-1633107600@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Launch Event for From The Forest to The Ocean\, a multidisciplinary exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, featuring Visual Art\, Photography\, Poetry and Film
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nEM Creative\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nJody Hogg\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to:  Catherine O’Connor\, Rathfarnham Castle and all the team at Rathfarnham Castle\, The Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFrom The Forest to The Ocean is a powerful\, new multidisciplinary exhibition at Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan. The exhibition is a stunning collection of visual art\, photography\, poetry and film inspired by physical landscapes and the interconnectedness of life from forests to the ocean. The exhibition is on show at Rathfarnham Castle Gallery\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin D14K3T6 from Tuesday 16 September to Sunday 2 November 2025 and opens daily 9.30am – 5.30pm\, thereafter\, Wednesday – Sunday 10.30am – 5pm. A public launch takes place on Thursday 18 September 2025\, from 6-8pm\, with guest speakers and refreshments. \n\n\n\nFrom the Forest to the Ocean is inspired by reflections on nature and journeys of interconnectedness and the art of ‘letting go’\, linking physical landscapes of nature from the forests to the ocean to landscapes of the soul.  Our personal well-being is linked to the well-being of our planet on a physical\, spiritual\, emotional and intuitive level. Nature and creativity inspire us to look after ourselves\, each other\, the planet we live on and to search for more sustainable ways of living.  Join us as we reflect on ways to re-wild the landscape and re-wild the human soul\, exploring the flow of life and the art of letting go.  \n\n\n\nThe original concept for the exhibition From the Forest to the Ocean is by the curator Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet and creator of art and photography.  This exhibition is part of a triptych – Landscapes of the Soul (Part I)\, From the Forest to the Ocean (Part II) and a third exhibition (Part III) to be presented in 2026. Following their successful exhibition in 2024\, titled Landscapes of the Soul (Part I) artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan are delighted to return to Rathfarnham Castle Gallery to present their new multi-disciplinary exhibition titled From the Forest to the Ocean (Landscapes of the Soul Part II). This event is part of The Trees Project: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Performing Arts\, a project led by Dah Theatre\, Serbia and supported by Creative Europe. www.performtrees.eu \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan (she/her) is an award-winning writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker and  a creator of art and photography. Mary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival supported by The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nHina Khan was born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D.  \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle is a building with a rich and varied history dating back 400 years. It has been ‘a fortified house\, a luxurious seventeenth-century home\, a fashionable Georgian Mansion and an austere Jesuit residence’[1] It is now under State care and managed by the Office of Public Works. \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle was only referred to as a castle in the mid eighteenth century. It is situated on the outskirts of Dublin. It is the earliest recorded and one of the largest and most impressive of the fortified houses built in Ireland. It was commissioned C. 1583 for Adam Loftus who was at that time the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  The house passed down through seven generations of the Loftus family until 1723 when the whole estate was sold to William Connolly of Castletown\, County Kildare.  After an interval of some fifty years (1711-1767) which saw a number of tenants and owners who made alternations and additions to the house\, it was returned to the ownership of the Loftus family. There were several different owners until the Castle was declared a National Monument in 1986 and purchased for the Nation by the Office of Public Works in 1987. At the same time\, Dublin County Council acquired the grounds. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtwork by Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan at Rathfarnham Castle\, Landscapes of the Soul 2024 \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-event-for-from-the-forest-to-the-ocean-a-multidisciplinary-exhibition-with-artists-mary-moynihan-and-hina-khan-at-rathfarnham-castle-dublin-featuring-visual-art-photography-poetry-and-film/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/09/Screenshot-2025-09-11-105556-1.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211001T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211001T170000
DTSTAMP:20250911T100908Z
CREATED:20250911T093750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250911T100908Z
UID:10000568-1633075200-1633107600@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Opening Reception and launch of the Seventh Annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025 with Guest Speakers\, Artist Talks\, Exhibition\, Live performance and Refreshments
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet and Creator of Art and Photography; Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality; Arts Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nAlan Glasgow\, Executive Director\, Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, Write and Poet \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, MC and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Front Line Defenders and partners are delighted to host and invite you to the opening reception and launch of the seventh annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival taking place on Friday 10 October\, 6.30 to 9pm\, at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. The opening reception and launch features guest speakers\, artist talks\, and the opportunity to attend the launch of and view the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition\, funded by The Arts Council. The reception and launch culminates in a live performance of a new world premiere\, Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan\, presented by Smashing times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. The play is adapted from the words 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.  \n\n\n\nOur guest speakers include artists as well as presentations by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet and creator of art and photography\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times and Alan Glasgow\, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nThe annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival is presented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders\, and a range of partners\, from 10 to 19 October 2025\, with over fifty  events promoting equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts\, in counties including Dublin\, Limerick\, Mayo\, Wexford\, Cavan\, Galway and online. The festival showcases 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\nMultidisciplinary Exhibition \n\n\n\nAs part of the launch\, audiences have the opportunity to view the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition. This is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling\, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and who spoke out for the rights of others.  A series of powerful  artworks are on display\, created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism. The commissioned artists are Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer; and Smashing Times Artistic Director Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan\, and was originally funded by The Arts Council Commissions Award under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, and is presented as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The exhibition runs at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, from Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. \n\n\n\nLive Performance \n\n\n\nThe launch culminates with a live performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan. The play is adapted from the words 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 (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nThe play is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Frontline Defenders\, written by Mary Moynihan and directed by Carmen Ortiz Victorino. This is a new play and is a follow-up to Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part I which was presented at the 2023 and 2024 festivals and features the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.   \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosephine Patane is excited to be a part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Originally from the United States\, she has performed in many New York and regional theatre productions there. Since moving\, Josephine has continued performing on stages throughout Europe as an actor and singer. Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Vanessa) Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) The Shadow of a Gunman (Minnie Powell) Twinkle Tames a Dragon (Twinkle) and Richard II (Northumberland.) On screen\, Josephine can be seen in the film Happy Yummy Chicken\, or doing science experiments on BBC Bitesize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBronagh Donaghey is a Dublin based actor\, who completed her training in TU Dublins’s Ba in Drama (Performance.) She recently worked on “Animal Farm: The Moosical 2” for the Scene and Heard festival earlier this year. She was also in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard and “Collaborators” by John Hodge\, which were both in the Boys School in Smock Alley. Along with acting Bronagh has recently been an Assistant Director for AfterMidnight’s “Rumours” by Neil Simons\, and a Stage Manager for “Rogue Theatre’s “RabbitHole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. She recently also started a Theatre Company along with a few of her pals called “Messers Theatre”. Bronagh is a performer who strives to always bring truth to every role\, find the humanity in the story being told\, be fun and playful and most importantly help the audience to feel something. She is really grateful to be involved in a production where she is getting the chance to do all the above and an opportunity to tell stories that are as important as this one. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/opening-reception-and-launch-of-the-seventh-annual-international-irish-arts-and-human-rights-festival-2025-with-guest-speakers-artist-talks-exhibition-live-performance-and-refreshments/
LOCATION:30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch,Performance
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/grunge_audience_1710.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211001T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211001T170000
DTSTAMP:20241012T110200Z
CREATED:20241010T181523Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241012T110200Z
UID:10000555-1633075200-1633107600@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:Launch Event: The Eyes of the Storm Photo Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Launch of Plaque to remember Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher\, director\, founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 to 2001\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin City Council are unveiling a plaque in memory of Deirdre O’Connell (1939-2001)\, an actor\, teacher and director\, founder of the Dublin Stanislavski Acting Studio\, 1963-2001 and founding member and Artistic Director of Dublin Focus Theatre from 1967 until 2001. Launch by Councillor Ray McAdam\, Lord Mayor of Dublin.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSpeakers including Ineza Umuhoza Grace\, a leading climate advocate from Rwanda. \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLaunch of ‘The Eyes of the Storm’ Climate Photo Exhibition \n\n\n\nWe are excited to invite you to the official Dublin launch of The Eyes of the Storm\, an interactive climate photo exhibition showcasing the powerful stories of individuals on the frontlines of the climate crisis. \n\n\n\nLaunch Event Details: \n\n\n\nDate: Saturday\, 12th OctoberTime: 2 PMVenue: FLUX Studios\, DublinThe event will feature inspiring speakers\, live music\, and engaging activities. \n\n\n\nOne of the featured voices is Ineza Umuhoza Grace\, a leading climate advocate from Rwanda\, who will share her moving story. She is one of the many courageous individuals captured in this exhibition\, representing those around the world who are demanding climate justice. \n\n\n\nThis is more than just a photo exhibition—it’s a call to action. Through compelling photography and personal stories\, The Eyes of the Storm challenges us all to act. It brings to light the critical voices from across the globe advocating for a more just and sustainable future. \n\n\n\nExhibition Details: \n\n\n\nDate: 11th – 20th October \n\n\n\nTime: Open daily from 11 AM – 6 PM \n\n\n\nIf you’re unable to attend the launch event\, the exhibition will be open to the public from 11th to 20th October\, daily from 11 AM to 6 PM at FLUX Studios. Be sure to visit and connect with the inspiring stories of those driving the push for climate action. \n\n\n\nAbout the Exhibition: \n\n\n\nThe Eyes of the Storm is a photographic exhibition by Trócaire\, celebrating the resilience and determination of people most impacted by the climate crisis across the globe. Alongside sharing their stories\, this exhibition calls on everyone in Ireland to stand in solidarity with those affected and join the climate movement. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is part of Trócaire’s Climate Justice Campaign\, urging governments and corporations to commit to a fast\, fair\, and well-funded phase-out of fossil fuels. \n\n\n\nJoin the campaign: https://www.trocaire.org/petitions/join-us-in-the-fight-against-global-injustice-qr/?utm_source=exhibition \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-event-the-eyes-of-the-storm-photo-exhibition/
LOCATION:FLUX Studios\, 4 Chatham Row\, Dublin 2
CATEGORIES:Launch
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/Trocaire-Event-Image-2024.jpg
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR