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SUMMARY:Staging and Cooperation: From words to visuals with emerging artists
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\, a three-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking required\, access the event via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84656046016?pwd=S1dGdGhwTlZkcitwSkVUNGxFUEM1dz09 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Digital Coffee Talk will be hosted by the amazing Já Theatre from Portugal. Tania Kumeda directed Já’s first shows in Lisbon: a double bill of Chekhov’s The Bear and Oscar Wilde’s A Florentine Tragedy as well as site-specific show Memory Lanes\, a Nabokov triple bill. In this Digital Coffee Talk\, Tania reflects on the experience of working with a variety of emerging artists and the lessons learnt during the process of how to convert words to visuals and action onstage. She also talks about site-specific events\, for example turning a photo studio into a dimly-lit photo theatre. \n\n\n\nJá is an artistic association founded in Lisbon in July 2017\, by Dan Cotterall\, Tania Kumeda\, Margarida Rocha and Suresh Nampuri\, to perform innovative English language theatre. The company aims to tell stories for the here and now – in English – in Lisbon\, in the cultural cradle of Europe. Apart from  mainstage productions\, staged readings and workshops\, the company are also involved in experiments with other dedicated professionals from around the globe who enjoy pushing the boundaries of the theatrical medium. This is the Já Universe. Hopefully\, these creative explorations will plant the seed for ground-breaking new productions in the future. \n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nTania Kumeda\n\n\n\n\n\nTania is an artist\, stage director\, event manager and avid movie-goer who draws her inspiration from words\, images and memories. \nA native of Kyiv\, Tania completed a Master’s degree in Foreign Languages & Literature in Ukraine\, as well as an FIFA/CIES program in Sports Management. After 12 years’ experience of teaching and sports & event management in Kyiv and Lisbon\, she decided to refocus on her art. For three years\, she was a leading actress at the Kyiv Theatre of Comedy. In 2017\, she directed JÁ’s inaugural show “RED” in Lisbon. \nApart from projects ranging from stage directing to podcasting and video poetry\, Tania will be involved in the EU-funded “Theatre in PALM” initiative spanning the period 2022-2024. \nTania is also a certified translator of scripts\, sports literature\, subtitles and voiceover material. \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/digital-coffee-talk/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221017T193000
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SUMMARY:Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\, a three-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Amanda Slevin\, Co-Director of QUB’s Centre for Sustainability\, Equality and Climate Action and former Chair of the NI Climate Coalition \n\n\n\nPaul Quinn\, Head of From Violence to Peace\, Christian Aid Ireland \n\n\n\nJoseph Ansumana\, Network Movement for Justice & Development in Sierra Leone \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe climate crisis is already causing severe global impacts\, such as heatwaves\, wildfires\, droughts\, floods and storms resulting in a terrible cost to human life and livelihoods. For those countries where the threat of violent conflict is also a constant reality the climate crisis is an additional trigger that may cause or exacerbate conflict. In this event we will consider the evidence for links between the climate crisis and violent conflict both now and into the future. We will ask the question how can we hope to build peace in a warming world?  \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear from the Network Movement for Justice & Development (NMJD) in Sierra Leone about their experience of the connection between the climate crisis and conflict and the steps they took to mitigate it. This will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with guest speakers including Paul Quinn\, Head of Christian Aid Ireland’s ‘From Violence to Peace’ programme\, a representative from NMJD and others. \n\n\n\nEvent image credit: “Adut Mariu Gout from South Sudan carries water from a borehole installed by Christian Aid. South Sudan is highly vulnerable to climate change and protracted conflict which has resulted in humanitarian crisis with mass displacements.” Christian Aid/ Silvano Yokwe \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T190000
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SUMMARY:My Body My Choice: Abortion Rights Activism Across the Globe
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\, a three-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Repeal movement was one of the most important political and social movements in Irish history. It involved tens of thousands of activists from every corner of the island making the case for women to be allowed to make decisions for themselves\, about their own bodies\, their own health and well-being. \n\n\n\nAs we enter the final stages of the Government’s Abortion Review\, we want to explore the challenges that remain since Repeal and hear how the struggle to widen access across the island of Ireland is part of a global movement for women and pregnant people’s reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear from brave human rights defenders who are persecuted for their work on abortion access in Poland. Join us to learn how you can be part of the campaign for abortion rights at home. \n\n\n\nThis event features guest speakers Ailbhe Smyth\,  Emma Campbell and Justyna Wydrzyńska. Ailbhe Smyth is  long-time feminist\,  LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. Emma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\nAbortion in Chile is legal in the following cases: when the mother’s life is at risk\, when the fetus will not survive the pregnancy\, and during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (14 weeks\, if the woman is under 14 years old) in the case of rape. However\, these scenarios account for only about three percent of the thousands of clandestine abortions taking place in the country\, according to activists. Between 1989 and 2017\, Chile had one of the most restrictive abortion policies in the world\, criminalizing its practice without exception. Abortion on these grounds was approved by the National Congress in August 2017\, and came into force a month later\, following a constitutional challenge brought by the conservative opposition. Medical coverage in the public and private sector became available on these ground in January 2018. \n\n\n\nNational Women’s Council of Ireland \n\n\n\nThe National Women’s Council of Ireland’s (NWCI) mission is to lead and to be a catalyst in the achievement of equality for women. They are the leading national representative organisation for women and women’s groups in Ireland. A non-governmental\, not-for-profit organisation\, founded in 1973\, they seek to achieve equality for women. They represent and take their mandate from over 180 member groups from across a diversity of backgrounds\, sectors and geographical locations. They also have a growing number of individual members who support the campaign for women’s equality in Ireland. \n\n\n\nTheir mandate is to take action to ensure that the voices of women in all their diversity are heard. Their vision is of an Ireland and of a world where women can achieve their full potential in a just and equal society. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs)\, people who work\, non-violently\, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by HRDs themselves. Front Line Defenders maintains its headquarters in Dublin\, an EU Office in Brussels\, and regionally-based field staff in the Americas\, Asia\, Africa\, Europe & Central Asia\, and the Middle East. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders provides rapid and practical support to human rights defenders at risk through: international advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at risk\, including emergency support for those in immediate danger; grants to pay for the practical security needs of human rights defenders; trainings and resource materials on security and protection\, including digital security; rest\, respite and other opportunities for human rights defenders dealing with extreme stress; opportunities for networking and exchange between human rights defenders\, including at the biennial Dublin Platform; the annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk; an emergency 24-hour phone line for human rights defenders operating in Arabic\, English\, French\, Russian and Spanish. \n\n\n\nIn emergency situations Front Line Defenders can facilitate temporary relocation of human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders promotes strengthened international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders through support for the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.  Support for the office of the Special Rapporteur is also made through the Frank Jennings Internship Programme. Front Line Defenders promotes respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Front Line Defenders has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Front Line Defenders has partnership status with the Council of Europe. Front Line Defenders has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights\, and supports the work of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights by providing an intern on an annual basis. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\, former Co-Director\, Together for Yes \n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\, Co-Convenor\, Alliance for Choice \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\, Founder\, Women on the Net\, and member\, Abortion Dream Team (ADT) \n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\, lawyer and university professor\, Chile \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth is a long-time feminist and LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. She was also a member of the Strategic Executive of the referendum campaign for marriage equality in 2015. A pro-choice activist since the early 1970s\, she has campaigned in all of the Irish abortion referendums. In 2022\, Ailbhe was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin.   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  She also actively supports women and pregnant people through their abortions as a doula with Lucht Cabhrach (pronounced lu-kt\, cow-rack). Emma is completing her practice-based PhD addressing photography as an activist tool for abortion rights\, at Ulster University. Emma is also a member of the Turner Prize winning Array Collective and has exhibited in international solo and group shows. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho is a lawyer and university professor from Chile. She studied as a lawyer in the University of Chile\, has a Diploma in Gender and Violence from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Chile\, a Masters in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths University\, which is part of the University of London. She currently conducts research at the Human Rights Center of the Diego Portales University. She is also a research associate at the Center for the Study of Applied Ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile. Lieta is also the director of the Gender\, Law and Social Justice program at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on gender\, sociology and law.Lieta is specialised in human rights\, sexual and reproductive rights\, legal sociology\, biopolitics\, ethics and feminisms. Her doctoral thesis was Abortion in Chile: Biopolitics and Contemporary Feminist Resistance\, and she has published several articles and book chapters on biopolitics\, feminisms\, bioethics\, human rights\, among others.In 2018\, Lieta worked as a Researcher on a project titled “Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe”\, funded by the European Research Council and University of Barcelona\, and in 2016\, she was a Co-investigator in a project on experiences in Chile concerning malformed fetuses incompatible with life at the Universidad Diego Portales\, which was presented at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. \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/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland-and-internationally/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T173000
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SUMMARY:In- Between
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\, a three-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn\, Technical Writer\, personal writer\, and activist \n\n\n\nCharlie Mullowney\, founding member of Disability Power Ireland \n\n\n\nAbe Blake\, writer and poet \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\, English PhD student \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn recent years Ireland has been a melting pot of different multicultural societies which has impacted the Irish cultural scene. Stories from silenced voices\, specifically those on the fringe of society are shaping contemporary discussions regarding belonging\, identity\, sexuality\, gender\, migration\, etc. This roundtable celebrates these voices as they are redefining the meaning of Irishness and belonging by paving way for more fruitful conversations on the importance of including marginalized voices which will shape contemporary Ireland’s cultural landscape for years to come. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake\n\n\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn is a Technical Writer\, personal writer\, and activist from Limerick City. Gareth’s main pursuit is being the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Unapologetic\, a multi-disciplinary magazine that champions minority voices and tackles Ireland’s social issues. Under is role as Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Gareth and the Unapologetic team have partnered with Irish Film Institute\, Gorm Media\, and Culture Night. Finally\, Gareth sees writing as a form of activism having written for Unsilencing Black Voices and Douglass Week. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie Mullowney\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie is an Irish disability activist. She is currently studying for a Masters in Technical Communication and eLearning. She is the communications officer and founding member of Disability Power Ireland\, a Disabled People’s Organisation. Disability Power Ireland focuses on promoting and advocating for the issues of disabled people by disabled people. She also took part in Gorm Media’s “This is Them” Series which involved combatting stereotypes surrounding the autistic community. Charlie focused on the media representation of autistic individuals for her Final Year Project. She was privileged to be chosen to participate in the 2021 All Ireland Conference of Undergraduate Research and the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake is an Irish-Nigerian writer living in Limerick since 2016. Before this\, they lived all over England and Ireland engaging with work from Shakespeare to Yeats. From humble beginnings in Co. Mayo\, they now seek to inspire\, celebrate\, uplift\, and maybe even have a bit of fun along the way. Looking at the intersection of race\, national identity\, gender and queerness\, they invite you to see how the “other” side lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Uwase Ndahiro is an English Ph.D. student in the University of Limerick. Sandrine’s research centres on third generation African writers\, such as Afrofuturists\, who have emerged during the era of late liberalism and who have introduced multiple and nuanced perspectives for reflecting on African lives and aspirations. She recently co-produced a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland. Sandrine’s work now highlights the lived experiences of the Black and Irish community with her recent publication of her essay ‘Irishness does not mean whiteness’. \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/in-between/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20240927T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20240927T133000
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SUMMARY:Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\, a three-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded by Creative Europe. The project supports emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create and co-promote their work across borders\, supporting the mobility of artists through networking and the provision of international opportunities for artists. In addition to hosting life performances and a ten day Artist…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary\, links to join the digital discussions will be made available on the day. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Festival Producer for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \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 Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTheatre in Palm Project \n\n\n\nJoin the 1 November Digital Coffee Talk here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89542163830?pwd=Cyoa5XgZFDSGWAkvOMqLWJsWcbVmX0.1 \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\,  a 3-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded by Creative Europe. The project supports emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create and co-promote their work across borders\, supporting the mobility of artists through networking and the provision of international opportunities for artists.  \n\n\n\nThe platform members are Turku University of Applied Sciences\, Finland (coordinator); Intercut Productions\, Sweden; Fondazione E35 per la progettazine Internazionale\, Italy; Smashing Times\, Ireland\, Lemongrass Communications\, Spain; JAIT – International Theatre\, Portugal; Stichting ZID\, Netherlands; Cube\, Greece; European Theatre and Film Institute\, Belgium; THOC\,  Cyprus\, Homemade Culture\, Romania and Oecon Group\, Bulgaria. \n\n\n\nThe Theatre in Palm platform supports emerging artists to build skills in cooperation and resilience and acts as an incubator for new voices from the page to the stage with a focus on professional development and a growth in  European cooperation and the visibility and circulation of European emerging artists\, working across borders and beyond. . The project will reach out to over  3\,500 artists and supports (384) artists to develop skills in co-creation and production and is supported by Creative Europe\, Sub-programme European Platforms for the promotion of emerging artists (CREA-CULT-2021- PLAT). \n\n\n\nAs part of the Theatre In Palm Creative Europe project\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have been hosting a series of events supporting the work of new\, emerging and established artists working in the arts for equality\, human right and diversity. \n\n\n\nAt the 2023 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival Smashing Times held a  successful Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival at The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, bringing a number of international artists and arts organisations to Ireland to take part in live performances\, workshops and panel discussions.  \n\n\n\nFollowing on from the success of this work\, Smashing Times are delighted to present a new series of events for this year’s 2024 Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival as part of Theatre in Palm. These include \n1. Academy Exchange: Two artists from Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality attended a Theatre in Palm Academy exchange from the 27 to 29 August\, 2024 in Stockholm\, Sweden for the Stockholm Fringe Festival. \n2. Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan 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. Created as a promenade\, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre\, poetry and music\, the performance features four of the stories of human rights defenders who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders located in the Iveagh Gardens. 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. This unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens. The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. The names and words of the four human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance\, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan is presented for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October\, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre with one indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute\, Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, on Friday 11 October\, 7.30pm. \n\n\n\nThe director is Carmen Ortiz Victorino\, director and the performers are Josephine Patane\, actor\, and Daniel Mahon\, actor with Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi on violin. \n\n\n\nMore information here: \n\n\n\n3.Theatre in Palm Five-Day Artist in Residence programme linked to Memorial Monologues 7-20 October 2024 \n\n\n\nAs part of the Creative Europe project Theatre in Palm\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to host a two-week onsite physical residency and artist professional development programme with five emerging artists running from Monday 7 to Sunday 20 October 2024 as part of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. The residency was set up through an open call through the Theatre in Palm platform on 31 March 2024 with five artists selected for the residency in Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe residency is part of the Smashing Times Artist State of the Art Artist Professional Development programme and Arts and Human Rights network linked to the annual Dublin International Arts and Human rights festival with a focus on themes of  equality and environmental sustainability.  The residency engages five emerging artists with equality\, human and diversity and supports the artists through professional development\, building networks\, providing  inspiration\, creating shared insights and resulting in the creation of a happening presented by the artists and recorded alongside text based work sharable online. The residency is linked to the performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory.www.theatreinpalm.eu  \n\n\n\n4.Two Smashing Times Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks on 27 September and 1 November\, 2024 \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to host two digital coffee talks to support artists working in equality\, human rights and diversity with a minimum attendance of fifteen at each talk. The Theatre in Palm and Smashing Times Digital Coffee Talk takes place on 27 September 2024 on the theme of Theatre and Inter-disciplinary Arts practice for Equality and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nJoin the Coffee Talk here at 12 noon on 27 September: \n\n\n\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85776426762?pwd=AJmOfbci1WFQT2mtI37bT5lNbpyP03.1 \n\n\n\nThe second Theatre in Palm and Smashing Times Digital Coffee Talk takes place on 1 November 2024 on the theme of The Art of Theatre: Telling stories of people in resistance from WWII. \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\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum. \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nFreelance producing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times and Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\, a three-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded by Creative Europe. The project supports emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create and co-promote their work across borders\, supporting the mobility of artists through networking and the provision of international opportunities for artists. In addition to hosting life performances and a ten day Artist…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary\, links to join the digital discussions will be made available on the day. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Festival Producer for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \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 Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTheatre in Palm Project \n\n\n\nJoin the 1 November Digital Coffee Talk here: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/89542163830?pwd=Cyoa5XgZFDSGWAkvOMqLWJsWcbVmX0.1 \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning organisation dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts\, human rights\, climate justice and gender equality. The company are delighted to be involved in Theatre in Palm\,  a 3-year project running from June 2022 to May 2025 with twelve partners funded by Creative Europe. The project supports emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create and co-promote their work across borders\, supporting the mobility of artists through networking and the provision of international opportunities for artists.  \n\n\n\nThe platform members are Turku University of Applied Sciences\, Finland (coordinator); Intercut Productions\, Sweden; Fondazione E35 per la progettazine Internazionale\, Italy; Smashing Times\, Ireland\, Lemongrass Communications\, Spain; JAIT – International Theatre\, Portugal; Stichting ZID\, Netherlands; Cube\, Greece; European Theatre and Film Institute\, Belgium; THOC\,  Cyprus\, Homemade Culture\, Romania and Oecon Group\, Bulgaria. \n\n\n\nThe Theatre in Palm platform supports emerging artists to build skills in cooperation and resilience and acts as an incubator for new voices from the page to the stage with a focus on professional development and a growth in  European cooperation and the visibility and circulation of European emerging artists\, working across borders and beyond. . The project will reach out to over  3\,500 artists and supports (384) artists to develop skills in co-creation and production and is supported by Creative Europe\, Sub-programme European Platforms for the promotion of emerging artists (CREA-CULT-2021- PLAT). \n\n\n\nAs part of the Theatre In Palm Creative Europe project\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have been hosting a series of events supporting the work of new\, emerging and established artists working in the arts for equality\, human right and diversity. \n\n\n\nAt the 2023 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival Smashing Times held a  successful Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival at The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, bringing a number of international artists and arts organisations to Ireland to take part in live performances\, workshops and panel discussions.  \n\n\n\nFollowing on from the success of this work\, Smashing Times are delighted to present a new series of events for this year’s 2024 Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival as part of Theatre in Palm. These include \n1. Academy Exchange: Two artists from Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality attended a Theatre in Palm Academy exchange from the 27 to 29 August\, 2024 in Stockholm\, Sweden for the Stockholm Fringe Festival. \n2. Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan 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. Created as a promenade\, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre\, poetry and music\, the performance features four of the stories of human rights defenders who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders located in the Iveagh Gardens. 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. This unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens. The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. The names and words of the four human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance\, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory by Mary Moynihan is presented for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October\, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre with one indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute\, Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, on Friday 11 October\, 7.30pm. \n\n\n\nThe director is Carmen Ortiz Victorino\, director and the performers are Josephine Patane\, actor\, and Daniel Mahon\, actor with Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi on violin. \n\n\n\nMore information here: \n\n\n\n3.Theatre in Palm Five-Day Artist in Residence programme linked to Memorial Monologues 7-20 October 2024 \n\n\n\nAs part of the Creative Europe project Theatre in Palm\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to host a two-week onsite physical residency and artist professional development programme with five emerging artists running from Monday 7 to Sunday 20 October 2024 as part of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. The residency was set up through an open call through the Theatre in Palm platform on 31 March 2024 with five artists selected for the residency in Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe residency is part of the Smashing Times Artist State of the Art Artist Professional Development programme and Arts and Human Rights network linked to the annual Dublin International Arts and Human rights festival with a focus on themes of  equality and environmental sustainability.  The residency engages five emerging artists with equality\, human and diversity and supports the artists through professional development\, building networks\, providing  inspiration\, creating shared insights and resulting in the creation of a happening presented by the artists and recorded alongside text based work sharable online. The residency is linked to the performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory.www.theatreinpalm.eu  \n\n\n\n4.Two Smashing Times Theatre in Palm Digital Coffee Talks on 27 September and 1 November\, 2024 \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to host two digital coffee talks to support artists working in equality\, human rights and diversity with a minimum attendance of fifteen at each talk. The Theatre in Palm and Smashing Times Digital Coffee Talk takes place on 27 September 2024 on the theme of Theatre and Inter-disciplinary Arts practice for Equality and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nJoin the Coffee Talk here at 12 noon on 27 September: \n\n\n\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/85776426762?pwd=AJmOfbci1WFQT2mtI37bT5lNbpyP03.1 \n\n\n\nThe second Theatre in Palm and Smashing Times Digital Coffee Talk takes place on 1 November 2024 on the theme of The Art of Theatre: Telling stories of people in resistance from WWII. \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\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum. \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nFreelance producing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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