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SUMMARY:Sound On!
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nAlanJames Burns \n\n\n\nSound On!\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSound On!  \n\n\n\n3 audio tracks with different lengths\, 2021 \n\n\n\nSound On! is a creative sound art project presenting experiences of human rights and happiness for and by people with an intellectual disability. The artwork was developed over a six-month period through weekly on-line creative workshops. Everyone learnt new digital skills including how to record their voices and sounds using accessible sound recording and editing software. \n\n\n\nSound On! was facilitated and led by artists Sinead McCann and AlanJames Burns in collaboration with Aidan Winters\, Conor Begley\, David Carter\, David Deane\, Frances Quinn\, Jonathan Smith\, Keith Whelan\, Laura Hickey\, Niamh Fortune and Sean Winder who were supported to create fun and self-expressive sound artworks. Co–designers Niamh and Conor worked closely with the artists to design the delivery of the Sound On! project. This project was fully supported by Saint John of God Liffey Services support staff led by Assistive Technology facilitator Sarah Boland and Suzanne Cunningham through the Online Engage Programme. The music composition was created in collaboration with composer Conor O’Malley. \n\n\n\nThe initial ideas and creative processes for Sound On! were created through a creative research and development phase of the project facilitated and led by McCann and Burns in collaboration with Alex Kennedy\, Chloe Larkin\, David Carter\, Eric Nolan\, Jonathan Smith\, Rachel Coss and supported by Saint John of God. \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme\, managed by Create and Kildare County Council Creative Ireland Community Grant. \n\n\n\nSaint John of God Liffey Services\n\n\n\nSaint John of God Liffey Services\, formerly known as Menni Services and Kildare Services\, was amalgamated in 2014\, to form Liffey Services\, a region within Saint John of God Community Services clg. \n\n\n\nLiffey Services supports over 850 children and adults with intellectual disabilities providing a range of Respite\, Residential\, Day Services and Early Services. There are two schools\, at Islandbridge and Saint Raphael’s Celbridge\, which cater for 165 children with intellectual disabilities. \n\n\n\nDay Services locations across the region expand from Dublin South West to North. We provide Early Services in Cork Street and Cookstown.  Residential services are predominantly community based across the region with a reducing number of residents living on campus in Islandbridge\, Inchicore and Saint Raphael’s Celbridge. \n\n\n\nWe provide a range of life-long learning\, community engagement\, supported employment\, independent living skills teaching\, sports\, recreation\, respite\, residential and early services. Our mission is to identify\, respond and support the needs of all individuals we support and to provide opportunities for each individual to reach their full potential. We have a highly skilled and diverse workforce delivering rights-based services. Building strong community partnerships is vital to ensure that we deliver a person-centered model of support. \n\n\n\nWhat is Sound Art?\n\n\n\nSound art is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilised as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art\, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature\, or be used in hybrid forms. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlanJames Burns\n\n\n\nAlanJames Burns is a Dublin-based artist producing immersive sensory environments and event with mixed-reality technologies in site-specific locations reflecting on the inner psychological space by giving voices and consciousness to structures and systems. Burns works highly collaborative with other artists\, writers\, composers and technicians. \n\n\n\nRecent projects include: \n\n\n\n‘Open Mind\, Closed System’ an interactive audio-visual artwork using a brain computer interface with generative imagery and audio\, commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival 2021. An ambitious expansion of this work; ‘Augmented Body\, Altered Mind’ has been commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival for their 2022 programme core funded by Arts Council Of Ireland Commissions Award and Arts and Disability Ireland Project Award. \n\n\n\n‘Silicon Synapse’\, a Virtual Reality experience conceived for the Carnegie Library in Swords\, Fingal; redeveloped for JRC Milan\, Italy and Bozar\, Brussels\, 2019; core funded by Arts Council of Ireland and jointly commissioned by Fingal Arts & European Commission. \n\n\n\n‘Entirely hollow aside from the dark’\, a sound installation produced inside caves commissioned by Fingal Arts 2016 and redeveloped for an Irish tour 2017 core funded by Arts Council of Ireland\, North/South Co-Operation Fund & Creative Ireland. The first international presentation of this work took place at Creswell Cave\, England\, Aug 2019 \n\n\n\nRecent residencies include; Rapid Residency with Science Gallery Dublin\, 2020; Research Residency with Hermes Artes Visuais\, São Paulo\, 2021; The Space Programme with the Performance Corporation at Tyrone Guthrie Centre 2019; Resonance Residency\, JRC Milan\, Italy and Seville\, Spain\, 2018-2020. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:The Art of Behaving Badly by Guerrilla Girls
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nGuerrilla Girls \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts\, humour and outrageous visuals to expose racism\, gender bias and corruption in politics\, art\, film\, and pop culture. Our anonymity keeps the focus on the issues\, and away from who we might be: we could be anyone and we are everywhere. \n\n\n\nWe believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory\, the subtext\, the overlooked\, and the downright unfair. We have done hundreds of projects (posters\, actions\, books\, videos\, stickers) all over the world. We also do interventions and exhibitions at museums\, blasting them on their own walls for their bad behaviour and discriminatory practices\, including our 2015 stealth projection on the façade of the Whitney Museum about income inequality and the super-rich hijacking art. \n\n\n\nOur retrospectives in Bilbao and Madrid\, and our US traveling exhibition\, Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice\, have attracted thousands. Recently we produced new street and museum projects at Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery\, London; São Paulo Museum of Art; Van Gogh Museum\, Amsterdam; Museum of Military History\, Dresden; Art Basel Hong Kong; and many other places. What’s next: More creative complaining!! More interventions!! More resistance!! \n\n\n\nThe Guerrilla Girls’ motto: Do one thing. If it works\, do another. If it doesn’t\, do another anyway. Keep chipping away. Creative complaining works! \n\n\n\nFor the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, Guerrilla Girls present 20 artworks in an exhibition called The Art of Behaving Badly. The pieces are available to view on the Smashing Times Virtual Gallery from 15 – 24 October 2021. \n\n\n\nCopyright © Guerrilla Girls and courtesy of guerrillagirls.com \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Sinners and Citizens
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to launch the Sinners and Citizens online exhibition\, hosted on the Smashing Times Virtual Gallery.  ‘Sinners and Citizens’ is taken from a quote from Seamus Heaney: \n\n\n\n“As writers and readers\, as sinners and citizens\, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. The very gunfire braces us and the atrocious confers a worth upon the effort which it calls forth to confront it.” \n\n\n\nThis virtual exhibition features artwork created as part of State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a  project implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and supported by the Arts Council. The project brings together fourteen diverse artists to engage in creative practice and research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe\,  linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political.  \n\n\n\nThe  artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of this visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nArtists have met online and in person  throughout the year to take part in Artist Exchanges  where they engaged in a variety of activities  as well as giving presentations on their own work\, as well as sharing their inspirations and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, ICCL\, INAR\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe online exhibition features  artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nState of the Art: Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nPamela McQueen\, dramaturg \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriter \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural Broker \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre maker \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, director \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitator \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artist \n\n\n\nSinead McCann\, visual artist \n\n\n\nJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre \n\n\n\nEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter \n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information\n\n\n\nLink to virtual gallery launches on 15 October.
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SUMMARY:Ireland Step Up: Hold Irish companies to account for harming people and the planet abroad
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty – Environment Correspondent at the Irish Independent \n\n\n\nGarry Walsh\, Trócaire \n\n\n\nHannah Storey\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra\, Secretary of the Assembly and coordinator of the Work Axis Defense of the Territory and Fight against the Climate Crisis  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWhen we buy groceries\, new clothes\, use electricity or go about our day-to-day lives\, we want to be sure that we’re not having a negative impact on others. Yet the operations of many corporations have a profound negative impact on people and the environment around the world. In this event\, we’ll hear directly from human rights defenders about their experiences standing up to corporations and what we can do in Ireland to hold Irish companies to account for their impacts abroad. \n\n\n\nThis event aims to raise awareness and encourage action as part of the Irish Coalition on Business and Human Rights’ push for stronger regulation to stop corporate human rights abuses and environmental destruction.  \n\n\n\nDuring the event\, we’ll hear from representatives from the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Cajar) in Columbia and the Defence Movement of Earth\, Environmental Protection and Access to Water (MODATIMA) in Chile. \n\n\n\nCajar supports indigenous communities to peacefully resist the Cerrejon mine in Northern Columbia\, which is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mine has a long and well documented history of serious human rights abuses. In 2019\, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted that Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has purchased coal from the Cerrejon mine.[1] \n\n\n\nMembers of MODATIMA have suffered death threats in response to their water rights activism. They have worked for years to draw public attention to the impact of water policies on rural communities in Chile’s central Petorca Province\, an area that has been seriously impacted by water scarcity. Tesco and other supermarkets operating in the UK and Ireland\, have been sourcing avocados from the region.[2] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/chilean-villagers-claim-british-appetite-for-avocados-is-draining-region-dry \n\n\n\n2  https://www.christianaid.ie/resources/undermining-human-rights-ireland-esb-and-cerrejon-coal \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty has been Environment Correspondent with the Irish Independent since 2019. She reports on a wide range of topics including climate change\, conservation\, the natural and built environment and where the two interact\, and the energy and extractive industries. Prior to joining the Irish Independent\, she had a roaming brief at home and abroad over three decades in journalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra \n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra is Secretary of the Assembly and is the coordinator of the Work Axis Defense of the Territory and Fight against the Climate Crisis. Rosa supports the work of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Cajar) in Columbia. \n\n\n\nCajar supports indigenous communities to peacefully resist the Cerrejon mine in Northern Columbia\, which is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mine has a long and well documented history of serious human rights abuses. In 2019\, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted that Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has purchased coal from the Cerrejon mine.[1] Rosa has supports and accompanies communities to defend their territories. She has direct experience of the risks human rights activists are face in this work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] https://www.christianaid.ie/resources/undermining-human-rights-ireland-esb-and-cerrejon-coal \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarry Walsh \n\n\n\nGarry Walsh leads Trócaire’s policy and advocacy work on Business & Human Rights. He has a keen interest in corporate accountability and advancing stronger regulations to end corporate human rights harms. Having worked on a range of campaign issues over two decades\, he has extensive experience in advocacy\, research\, public campaigning\, and communications. He has also managed human rights and development programmes in Africa\, Asia and the Middle East. He has previously overseen Trócaire’s Human Rights programmes in Myanmar and Palestine and worked with UNAIDS in Malawi. Garry is Trócaire’s Policy and Advocacy Advisor for Human Rights and Democratic Space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Storey \n\n\n\nHannah Storey leads Front Line Defenders’ Business & Human Rights focused work. Hannah works with defenders working on business-related human rights abuses and is responsible for providing advocacy support to defenders at risk as well as conducting research and working on policy development relevant to defenders and business. She has a particular interest in development finance and the responsibilities of international finance institutions. Prior to joining the Front Line Defenders\, Hannah was part of Forest Peoples Programme’s responsible finance team where she was closely involved in launching a global coalition focused on addressing abuses of defenders linked to global supply chains – The Zero Tolerance Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Sophistry Vs. Hope
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nKwasie Boyce\, Director \n\n\n\nKaryn McCooey\, Musical Director \n\n\n\nKevin Cumiskey\, Composer \n\n\n\nSinead McNally\, Songwriting and Compser \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPrincipal Cast \n\n\n\nJodie Daly \n\n\n\nSame Cosgrove \n\n\n\nCian Byrne \n\n\n\nNicky Markey \n\n\n\nMars McNamee \n\n\n\nSarah Cooney McCann \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEnsemble and Chorus \n\n\n\nM.A.D. Youth Theatre members \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nShannon tries to bring the group together after the last fall out amongst her friends. Was this a deliberate ploy to keep Trevor out of the loop? \n\n\n\nThe now hurt Trevo is on the attack. \n\n\n\nThe erosion of friendship caused by miscommunication and shocking social media content. Disagreements and differences of opinion cause a huge rift in the group. \n\n\n\nWe hope to fully stage our new work in 2022.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nM.A.D. Youth Theatre\n\n\n\nM.A.D Youth Theatre has been working with children and young people between the ages of 6 to 21 years old in Dundalk and wider community since 2011\, providing professionally led weekly drama workshops and quality arts experience in a variety of arts disciplines.  We focus on creating a fun an innovative approach to drama and challenge the thinking and attitude toward the arts in our community. Through our engagement we endeavour to create new and exciting work and have relevant themes that are youth centred. M.A.D YT plans to continue to honour Irish heritage and contribute to the new voices that will help shape tomorrows Ireland. \n\n\n\nM.A.D Youth Theatre empowers youth in the greater Dundalk area to reach their fullest potential through a wide range of services. We care about our members\, and provide them with a number of enrichment programs to help shape their identity. Our Community engagement program provides our youth the chance to get involved in the community and meet new and exciting faces from all walks of life. Come experience it for yourself today! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/sophistry-vs-hope/
CATEGORIES:Musical Theatre,Online,Youth Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Ultimate Climate Activist Toolkit hosted by the Climate Queens
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin the Climate Queens as they bring you 1 full hour of wholesome tips and tricks to help the climate activist in you. \n\n\n\nWe will be asking some amazing youth activists from around the world to share their top 3 tips for a better planet. Find out what they do to protect themselves\, their local community and the planet as a whole. Join us for a guided body scan and meditation to finish the session. \n\n\n\nThis event is free to join and all we ask is that you bring a friend to this online event who may not normally be involved in the climate movement. \n\n\n\nJoin our amazing guests on Saturday\, October 16th at 11am IST/BST on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSamia Dumbuya\n\n\n\nSamia (she/they) is a climate justice activist that focuses on empowering young activists to create impactful change in their communities by facilitating workshops\, seminars\, talks and by sharing tools and resources for youth activists to use to strengthen their campaigning skills. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Doherty\n\n\n\nBeth (she/her) is an 18 year old climate activist. She has been an organiser with Fridays For Future since February 2019\, and works on education and empowerment alongside climate action. She is currently studying law at the University of Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jennifer Fennell\n\n\n\nJennifer Fennell (she/her) is a Counselling Psychologist who has five years’ experience providing psychological support to individuals who are going through various emotional challenges. She has worked in a variety of different contexts\, including physical illness and injury\, short-term and online support in a third level institution\, and in the community with individuals with depression\, anxiety\, and other psychological difficulties. Her particular therapeutic interests include the importance of self-compassion\, meaning-making in difficult circumstances\, and the use of mindfulness as a therapeutic tool. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHowey Ou\n\n\n\nHowey Ou is a 18 year old vegan and minimalist who had been on the street Climate Striking with limited resources and risky conditions in China for over 100 days. She initiated Plant For Survival movement in China to use her own path to mobilize the natives in response to backlash of Fridaysforfuture and Greta Thunberg. She has been nominated to 1st UN Youth Climate Summit in 2019\, has been reported by the New York Times and known by millions at home. This year\, she is currently a nomad in Europe exchanging experience with local activists\, and has been initiated several hunger strikes in Switzerland in order to ask for acquittal for hill defenders including herself\, who have been accused now for 60 days. She shows a huge commitment of radical international solidarity between nations in the essential times of ecological and climate emergency. She plans to go back to China after COP26. \n\n\n\n\n\nClimate Queens\n\n\n\nCLIMATE QUEENS is a podcast series aiming to raise awareness about the effect that we\, as humans\, are having on our shared planet and what we can do about it. Climate change is a vast subject and can be very overwhelming\, but through sincere chats and numerous cups of tea\, these two Irish gals are breaking down the facts and providing easy\, everyday solutions for their listeners. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-ultimate-climate-activist-toolkit-hosted-by-the-climate-queens/
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints and Suzuki Technique Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nWe don’t want anyone to miss out\, if you would like to attend a Smashing Times event and cannot meet the costs of the ticket price\, please contact Niamh at Smashing Times – niamh@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\, co – artistic director\, SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company\, Toga. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to host the prestigious Ellen Lauren (co – artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga) as part of the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ellen Lauren will present a three-hour virtual online workshop (with breaks) consisting of one hour based on the Suzuki Training Technique\, one hour of Viewpoints training followed by a one-hour talk/interview with Ellen Lauren\, co – artistic Director of SITI company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga\, and ending with a virtual Q and A.   \n\n\n\nAs part of the talk presentation Ellen will provide a very brief overview of SITI Company\, who they are and the work they do and will speak about the ongoing work of SITI Company in relation to linking equality\, inclusivity\, and cultural diversity to artistic practice. It is hoped we will all share experiences\, lessons and ways forward. \n\n\n\nThis session is in two-parts. Part one is a practical based training workshop engagement that requires active physical engagement for training related to the Suzuki technique and Viewpoints. Part two is a talk and Q and A. The session runs for three hours with breaks incorporated.  The workshop moderator is Michael McCabe\, Smashing Times and the workshop facilitator and guest teacher and speaker is Ellen Lauren\, co-artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga. \n\n\n\nWhat do I need to Prepare for the Workshops? \n\n\n\nPlease have water and a towel.For Suzuki technique\, the recommended proposal is to wear shorts primarily to ensure our facilitator can see alignment between hips\, knees and feet. Knee pads are permitted for Suzuki technique\, if that’s comfortable for you. Socks and runners are not recommended. Dance shoes are not recommended.For Viewpoints\, all blacks ideally\, or if not possible as neutral a colour in clothing that you can move in comfortably.  We recommend you avoid wearing clothing that has clear LABEL on it\, so as neutral as possible please. Your personal comfort is the priority with work clothing.We kindly request that in attending\, you are agreeing not to enable any recording of any part of our 3 hour workshop.\n\n\n\nMobile phones to be switched off before we enter the virtual space please and to remain off for the duration of our training.Please don’t bring notebooks (or pens) in the training space.For the Q&A session\, pens and notebooks are recommended.\n\n\n\nWhat To Expect \n\n\n\nPhysical Play!  Please note that Suzuki technique is a very\, very demanding physical engagement\, and we strongly recommend that you are in good aerobic fitness for this workshop.\n\n\n\nPrepared Text \n\n\n\nPlease have the following text prepared and memorised for our workshop\, with the asterisk* showing where the breath is taken \n\n\n\n*Spirits inhabitThe darkness that lightens\, the darkness that darkens\,*The quivering tree\, the murmuring wood\,The water that runs and the water that sleeps:*Spirits much stronger than we\,*The breathing of the dead who are not really dead\,Of the dead who are not really gone\,Of the dead now no more in the earth. \n\n\n\nPreparing Your Space \n\n\n\nPlease ensure prior to the workshop you modem and computer/laptop are working.Please ensure that you have access to Zoom and can adjust your volume and screen to your satisfaction. For the facilitator\, it’s most important that when you stand\, this is within the frame of your computer screen.Ideally\, the facilitator to see you at all times on screen.As this is a virtual physical workshop\, we ask you to make sure you have sufficient space to move in comfortably.\n\n\n\nResource Page \n\n\n\nWe will send on a resource page for all those participating in advance as a means to help you engage with the introductory work of this workshop. \n\n\n\nBrave Space \n\n\n\nWe will also send a brief working agreement which we title BRAVE SPACE to all participants and we ask you to sign your consent to what we collectively title a BRAVE SPACE. \n\n\n\nContact List \n\n\n\nWe propose that all artists who participate agree to share their contact details as a means to further support of each other’s work\, and more vitally in this context develop a community of like-minded artists interested in theatre training and arts related human rights activities \n\n\n\nTrainer Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren  is one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the renown SITI Company\, which she helped found with directors Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki over thirty years ago. She is a member of the acting company\, and the head of SITI ’s educational programming that includes New York based studios\, SITI’s annual Summer Intensive\, national and international residencies\, and the design of SITI’s bi-annual Conservatory.  \n She is also an associate artist with The Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) under the direction of Tadashi Suzuki for over 34 years.   \nShe has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School of Drama at Lincoln Center for the last 20 years where she received the President’s Award for Excellence on the occasion of Juilliard’s 50th Anniversary.  \nPerformance credits with SITI include: Three Sisters (in collaboration with Nine Years Theatre and the Singapore Festival) Falling and Loving (with Elizabeth Streb SLAM Dance Company)\, Bacchae\, Chess Match #5\, the theater is a blank page( with Ann Hamilton)\, Persians\, Trojan Women (After Euripides)\, Variations on A Rite of Spring  (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)\, Café Variations\, Under Construction\, Radio Macbeth\, Who Do You Think You Are\, American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Company)\, Death and the Ploughman\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, Room\, bobrauschenbergamerica\, Hotel Cassiopeia\, systems/layers\, War of the Worlds\, Cabin Pressure\, The Medium\, Culture of Desire\, Going\, Going\, Gone and Orestes. \nFestival tours with SITI include Bonn Germany\, Iberoamericano Bogota\, six appearances in the  BAM Next Wave\, 8 appearances at the Humana Festival\, Bobigny94\, Melbourne\, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance\, Yerba Buena Arts Center\, UNC Chapel Hill Arts Center\, Edinburgh\, Singapore\, Wexner Center\, Krannert Center and Walker Art Center; In New York: New York Live Arts\, Montclair State Peforming Arts\,  New York Theatre Workshop\, Classic Stage Company\, The Women’s Project\, Miller Theatre\, The Public Theater\, Westbeth Arts Center\, Under the Radar Festival\, New York City Opera at Lincoln Center\, the Guggenheim Museum and the Joyce Theater\, Regional credits with SITI include San Jose Rep\, ART Cambridge\, Court Theatre Chicago\, Alabama Shakespeare and Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Getty Villa Museum in Museum.  \nAdditional credits include The Creative Gesture program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, INCITE with Force Majeure Dance Company in Sydney\, The Women (Hartford Stage)\, Seven Deadly Sins\, New York City Opera (Kosovar Award for Anna II) Marina\, A Captive Spirit\, and Agammenon with Lauren Flanigan\, Steve Schick and Roger Reynolds for the 2004 Theater Olympics.  \nPerformance Credits with the Suzuki Company of Toga include: Clytemnestra in Electra\, Agave in Dionysus\, Goneril in King Lear\, Jocasta in Oedipus\, and Juliet in Waiting for Romeo.   \nTour venues with SCOT include\, Gu Bei Great Wall Theater in Beijing China\, Kitchijoji Theater Tokyo\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Toga International Festival\, Alexandrinsky Theatre Russia\, The RSC London\, Theatre Olympics in Athens and Delphi\, and the Olympic Arts Festival in Shizuoka\, Japan\, Buenos Aires Festival\, The Carnuntum Festival in Vienna\, Bogota Festival\, Vienna Festival\, Harbour Front Festival Toronto\, Istanbul Festival\, Festival Mundial Chile\, Teatro Olympico Italy\, Montpelier France\, and Hong Kong Festival.  \nFor over 6 years she headed the Toga International Suzuki Training Summer Program in Toga\, Japan\, and is a founding member of the International Symposium Committee on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. In 2017 she produced the International Symposium on SCOT and the Suzuki Training for Actors at Skidmore College in upstate New York and presented SCOT’s last US tour of their acclaimed Trojan Women. \nMs. Lauren has taught for over 300 schools\, companies and universities including TEAC National Academy Helsinki\, Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris\, the Royal Shakespeare Company\, Carlos Universidad and Vertiço in Madrid\, Soif Compagnie Paris\, Maastricht School of the Arts in Holland\, Windsor University\, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, St Edwards University\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Sfumato Theatre Bulgaria\, Iceland National Academy\, Casa Teatro de Bogota\, Beijing Academy\, UCLA\, OSU\, UNC\, Toronto University\, Columbia University\, UNC Chapel Hill\, Fordham University\, Harvard University\, Yale University\, Harvard University  and the Beijing Academy. She has most recently taught for First Nations Peoples at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg\, and Outside In Theater Company\, celebrating the diverse communities\, stories and voices of the Los Angeles area. \nMs. Lauren was a Resident company member at StageWest Theatre in\, The Milwaukee Repertory and the Alley Theatre\, Houston\, Texas. \nHer directing credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UCLA TFT Graduate program) Iphigenia (The Juilliard School) and Trojan Women (The Juilliard School)  \nShe was the first recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement in the United States and is published in American Theatre Magazine (“In Search of Stillness”) and the Modern Masters series edition on Anne Bogart. She is currently working on her book\, The Invisible Body.  \n\n\n\n\n\nWho Are SITI Company?\n\n\n\nSITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart\, Tadashi Suzuki and a group of like-minded artists to redefine and revitalize contemporary theatre in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. \n\n\n\nSITI Company is committed to providing a space where the interaction of art\, artists\, audiences\, and ideas inspire the possibility for change\, optimism\, and hope.  Built on the bedrock of ensemble\, SITI Company believe that through the practice of collaboration\, a group of artists working together over time can have a significant impact on both contemporary theatre and the world at large. \n\n\n\nAs SITI Company nears its 30th anniversary and begin the process of transitioning from a producing organization to a more open artist collective\, it wants to better reflect the diversity of the countries and communities that we work in. SITI Company want to ensure that our impact is actually reaching a wider audience and reflects our inclusive values.  We want anti-racism\, equity\, diversity\, and inclusion to not only be a matter of our social responsibility within our community\, but to be the foundation on which we build our work.  \n\n\n\nA Smashing Times Reflection\n\n\n\nAnne Bogart\, working with the Japanese theatre director\, Tadashi Suzuki\, founded the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) in September 1992. SITI is dedicated to developing new pieces of work and each year presents training programmes for actors and theatre artists as well as international exchanges\, symposia and other creative endeavours.  Bogart has directed a range of productions from modern drama to opera to collaborative dance theatre and has directed both on and off-stage\, on and off Broadway and internationally. \n\n\n\nAs a director\, Bogart puts the actor at the center of the creative process and sees the actor as a creator working with the director who will eventually ‘set things’ a ‘violent . . but necessary act’.  She recognizes that structure can bring freedom\,  the form is fixed but the emotions are fluid\, the physicality is defined but the interpretation is free.  Bogart has developed a system known as ‘Viewpoint’ Training and composition workshops building a common language for the ensemble as they work together to collaborative and spontaneously create.   Bogart’s viewpoint training was initially inspired by the  work of choreographer Mary Overlie who had developed the Six Viewpoints. \n\n\n\nAs part of the creative process\,  Bogart works on a system or ‘choreographed form’ within which the actors can work with Bogart as the director setting decisions or putting decisions in place early on in rehearsals. The director and actors engage in and explore a series of compositional choices working together in collaboration and as part of an ensemble.  Having freedom in rehearsal is important to support spontaneity and a more creative\, ensemble process even as the director and actors are working towards setting decisions in stone. \n\n\n\nAccording to Bogart\, \n\n\n\n‘I think what keeps theatre from being very good often is that . . . one is afraid of the violence\, you’re afraid of committing the violence of setting something or of saying\, “This is what we’re after\,” because it cuts off all other possibilities. But in the definition of that gesture or that moment or that choice opens up eventually a whole another realm of life.’ \n\n\n\nThe mis-en-scene is a key part of the work and is made up of all the different elements that go into creating the final theatre experience from the text or non-text elements to the physical elements creating the visual and aural composition in space. Bogart is influenced by practitioners from Constantine Stanislavski to Eastern dance and movement. \n\n\n\nViewpoint training is based on a series of exercises and improvisations including movement and sound improvisation. The viewpoints as developed by Anne Bogart are referred to as Spatial Relationship\, Shape\, Architecture\, Kinesthetic Response\, Repetition\,  Gesture and Tempo.  Actors are trained in an awareness of spatial and temporal elements and develop a sense of ensemble and an awareness of the energy in the space\, the energy of the space and the energy of the  group focusing on improvisations in the space related to the viewpoints and the creation of formal compositions.   Actors explore qualities of movement such as lightness\, quickness\, visibility\, multiplicity\, exactitude and continuity (after Italo Calvino’s four elements of Lightness\, quickness\, visibility and multiplicity) as well as emotion\, tempo and kinesthetic senses. In relation to performance the focus is on the actor as creator within the ensemble with actors having a strong awareness of the group and the different elements of staging and composition. \n\n\n\nTraining with a group is a key part of the work which requires a physical\, intuitive response as artists work through the body aiming to bring a  sensorial and instinctive physicality to performance.  Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to partner with CITI to present a unique training  opportunity for artists with regard to conducting a theatre workshop on Viewpoints and Suzuki technique with SITI company. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/siti-company-workshop/
CATEGORIES:Online,Theatre,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Who Tells The Story?: Representational Agency & The Right of Self-Determination in Filmic & Documentary Arts
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nAlice Feldman – Co-chair \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro – Co-chair \n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly – panellist \n\n\n\nAla Buisir – panellist \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWe live storied lives. \n\n\n\nIn and through our stories\, we make sense of and share the worlds we inhabit. Through our stories\, we build and sustain relationships and ways of living; we speak out\, survive\, struggle and resist\, carrying the wisdom of our journeys\, our pasts\, our histories towards the futures we are striving to bring into being. \n\n\n\nOur stories are extensions of ourselves; our words\, extensions of our bodies. Our stories have consequences. And the circumstances surrounding the contexts in which they are told\, have consequences. \n\n\n\nWhat is at stake when we give our stories to someone? What responsibilities does this place on those who receive them? Is there an ethics of accountability that grounds this duty of care in the face of the longstanding canon of ‘artistic license’? That honours and maintains the integrity of the storyteller\, the story told\, and the story re-presented? \n\n\n\nThis interactive panel considers such ‘politics of representation’ as more than just abstract ideas\, but matters of human rights. Control over the retellings of our stories – that is\, our representational agency – is inextricably linked to our rights of self-determination – our capacities to act in and upon our life-worlds. It will critically explore the argument that aesthetics and ethics\, far from being mutually exclusive\, are as powerful as they are necessary in their dynamic co-mingling. \n\n\n\nPanelists will first reflect on their work and ‘aest-ethical’ practices (to use the term of activist-artist Tania Brughera). We will then engage the audience in a discussion grounded in their experiences and expertise towards what we hope will lead to a collectively generated aest-ethical manifesto so to speak – a set of principles of engagement relating to representational agency and self-determination in the filmic and documentary arts. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAla Buisir\n\n\n\nAla Buisir is a documentary photographer currently residing in Ireland with roots in Libya. Her work documents the social and political tension around us today. The aim is to raise awareness by presenting events through different perspectives in hopes that it may also bring about change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Alice Feldman\n\n\n\nDr Alice Feldman is a lecturer in the School of Sociology at UCD. Her work inheres in transdisciplinary experiments at the intersections of art\, research and teaching. It centres on convening ‘uncomfortable encounters’ and collective inquiries engaging ‘aesthesic’ pedagogies around concerns of colonial inheritances and entanglements\, racial justice\, decoloniality\, reflexive solidarities and creative/cultural agency. Over the last two decades she has also worked in research\, advisory and volunteer capacities for an array of groups involved in anti-racism\, intercultural and integration initiatives. Through collaborations with a range of activists\, artists and students for these many years\, she has cultivated a knowledge justice praxis which became the foundations for the MA Race\, Migration and Decolonial Studies (www.racemigrationdecolonialstudies.com) she convened in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\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 co-produced a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland. She is currently an artist in residency in Visual Carlow where she is directing a new documentary film that looks at Irishness from a localised setting. Sandrine is also the co-founder and co-editor in chief of a new online magazine called Unapologetic.  Unapologetic is a multidisciplinary\, literary\, cultural\, and artistic response to the social issues and creative opportunities of contemporary Ireland\, offering a reboot and upheaval.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly\n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly is an educator\, therapist\, documentary film-maker and human rights activist. She worked for over 20 years with refugee & undocumented commmunities and human rights defenders in Haiti\, Mexico\, Guatemala\, Palestine\, Iraq\, Lebanon and Syria. She has spent the past seven years engaged in Search and Rescue\, shore support and psycho-social resourcing work\, with those making refuge-seeking journeys across the Central Med and Aegean seas to Europe. 
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/who-tells-the-story-representational-agency-the-right-of-self-determination-in-filmic-documentary-arts/
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Human Rights On Film
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nPaul Rice\, Director\, Writer\, Cinematographer\, Producer \n\n\n\nLiam Jackson Montgomery\, Executive Producer\, Interviewer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Worm in the Heart details the extraordinary lives and brave stories of the diverse LGBT+ communities across Russia. Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian railway and utilizing intimate interviews about current Russian life\, this documentary features deeply personal and moving accounts from activists and non-activists alike. The film follows queer Irish filmmaker Paul Rice and his boyfriend Liam\, as they go under-cover armed only with two cameras\, to meet with the many heroic members of the LGBTQ+ community who risk their lives living authentically under oppressive laws and prejudices – from Nobel Peace prize nominees and international activists to drag queen performers thriving in remote Siberia.  \n\n\n\nA WORM IN THE HEART is a never-before-seen collection of emotionally driven stories captured on their journey that poignantly document the current state of the Russian LGBTQ+ community. \n\n\n\nPaul and Liam will engage in an online post-show discussion after the screening of the film. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Rice\n\n\n\nPaul Rice is an art director and filmmaker originally from Ireland\, currently based in California. He has worked extensively in Dublin\, London and San Francisco for agencies and creative studios as an art director or lead creative on award-winning commercial projects for culture\, fashion\, and music brands. Paul is a 2012 graduate from the Limerick School of Art & Design in Ireland. A WORM IN THE HEART is his feature film directorial debut. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiam Jackson Montgomery\n\n\n\nLiam Montgomery is a writer and filmmaker originally from Wales (UK)\, currently based in California. As of 2018 Liam has begun creating queer short films that he writes and co-directs with his partner Paul Rice. His short film\, ‘Snout’ has been part of official selections for various film festivals such as Another Hole in the Head\, SF Indie Fest and received an honorable mention at the London International Comedy Festival. The film also won ‘Best Original Concept’ at the 2019 Videoscream Festival in Portland\, Oregon. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Online,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:CHASE
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nDr. Eric Weitz\, Chair: humour scholar and theatre practitioner \n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol: comic practitioner and researcher \n\n\n\nProf. Delia Chiaro: scholar in humour studies and translation studies \n\n\n\nMáirtin Mac an Bhaird: comedian\, writer\, actor \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis one-hour panel is intended as a springboard event for a Centre for Humour and Social Engagement (CHASE)\, to be established under the aegis of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts & Equality. Laughter\, a complex bodied response—with psychological\, social\, cultural and\, indeed\, spiritual implications—is central to human being\, and so it seems is humour\, the attempt to cause laughter in another or others. \n\n\n\nThere are innumerable perspectives\, levels\, and orientations from which to study the everyday human transaction we call humour\, but this initiative will seek in particular to create a space for practitioners\, thinkers\, and thinking practitioners to explore and reflect upon the capacity for humour to be wielded in support of a vision of society based on equality\, diversity and inclusivity. \n\n\n\nAn introduction to the panel by Dr Eric Weitz will clarify further some of the aspirations for CHASE\, as well as sketching some of the issues\, goals and pitfalls foreseen for such an undertaking. The three speakers were chosen for the distinctive perspectives they offer to a proposed creative\, socially conscious meeting place for practice and research in the key of humorous performance. Some issues likely to arise would involve the ethics of joking\, from day-to-day interaction to the wide open spaces of the internet; longstanding questions in humour studies about the capacity for humour to change hearts and minds; and techniques that have proven potent for the humour transaction to gain political traction in specific modes of performance. \n\n\n\nAfter the opening remarks\, each panelist will speak for ten minutes on an area of interest related to the spirit of the centre\, followed by fifteen minutes for discussion and questions. A short amount of time will then be given over to discussion of the next step for CHASE\, and to let attendees know how to register interest in playing some part in the centre’s evolution. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting\, Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin\, and is involved in a part-time capacity with Drama Studies at University College Dublin. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol\n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol combines her artistic and academic work in a multifaceted practice. She finished her MA in Film & Drama Programme at Kadir Has University\, Istanbul\, Turkey\, with a practice-based research project on clowning from a feminist perspective. For her PhD at the Berlin University of the Arts\, she expanded her scope to include stand-up comedy and meddahlık (Turkish storytelling tradition). She presented artistic outcomes of this work on various occasions\, including international festivals in Helsinki\, Izmir\, and Vienna\, and shared her academic findings in many conferences around the world. More information on her practice can be read in her article published in Staging Gender — Reflexionen aus Theorie und Praxis der performativen Künste (2019). In addition to her PhD\, she has continued an artistic research project on shadow play as an Associate Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences since 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Delia Chiaro\n\n\n\nBorn\, raised and educated in the UK\, Delia Chiaro has spent her entire academic life in Italy where she is currently Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Bologna’s Department of Interpreting and Translation. \n\n\n\nHer research has focused on everything and anything that is benignly multi-faceted and incongruous including bilingualism\, audio-visual translation\, humour and especially a mixture of all three. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters\, she has edited several books and has written two monographs the latest of which\, The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age (London: Routledge)\, came out in 2019.  \n\n\n\nDelia has been invited speaker at conferences around the world and has been interviewed about her work by the BBC\, The Economist\, Mind and several other newspapers and magazines. Her current research explores humour and food and the role of humour used by so-called Digital Tribes on social media and its contamination into the material world. Her forthcoming book\, entitled Comedy in Political Language: How Politicians Use Humour\, will be published by Cambridge University Press\, in 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMairtín Mac an Bhaird\n\n\n\nMairtín Mac an Bhaird is better known as Martin Beanz Warde\, and is a stand-up comedian\, writer\, theatre actor\, podcaster\, and social commentator from the Irish Traveller community. He started his stand-up career in 2005 and has since gone on to perform across Ireland in every major venue. Mairtín has also performed in Electric Picnic\, Altogether Now\, and is the creator of ShamAlive\, Tuam’s first comedy festival. Aside from performing\, Mairtin is an advocate for human rights\, fairness\, equity\, and inclusion. Mairtin can be found releasing podcast episodes on the HazBeanz show and is currently writing his first one man show for theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Direct Division
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nThe Direct Division art exhibition will be freely available to view on the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery from 15 October 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Carmel Corrigan\, Head of Participation and Rights Education\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\, Participation and Rights Education Coordinator\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nGraham Seely \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDirect Division is a short documentary film featuring children describing\, in their own words\, their experiences of living in Direct Provision.  This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The film highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nDirect Division amplifies the voices of children who are seldom heard. It allows children living in Direct Provision to talk about their experiences in their own words. The children’s identities are protected due to the sensitive nature of the content. \n\n\n\nThis film is one output of a consultation with children living in Direct Provision by the OCO.  \n\n\n\nArt Exhibition: \n\n\n\nDirect Division is an art exhibition featuring children describing\, in their own words and images their experiences of living in Direct Provision. This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The artwork and writing highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) is an independent\, statutory human rights institution that promotes the rights and welfare of children living in Ireland. The OCO has two main functions\, to investigate complaints about services provided to children by public bodies\, and to promote and protect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. \n\n\n\nChildren living in Direct Provision: 73 children\, aged 12 to 17 years\, seeking international protection in Ireland and living in Direct Provision accommodation came forward to share their experiences and views with the OCO.  Through focus groups\, video interviews and art work\, these children courageously shared stories of their past\, their experience of rights and life in Ireland and their hopes.  \n\n\n\nGansee: Founded in 2013 by Tim Gannon and Graham Seely\, Gansee Films have established themselves as one of Ireland’s leading producers of documentary\, commercial and campaign video content. Gansee work with clients ranging from Trade Unions and NGOs to multinational corporations and arts organisations. \n\n\n\nSplattervan: A mobile youth arts facility\, run by Claire Coughlan and Helen O’ Keeffe\, using visual art as a tool for self expression and empowerment. Running since 2013\, they have worked with many incredible young people and organisations throughout Ireland and beyond to create street art\, animations\, art works and actions that give them space to be seen and have their voices heard. \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\nDr Carmel Corrigan\n\n\n\nA graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, NUI Maynooth and the Irish Law Society\, Carmel spent 16 years working as an independent researcher specialising in children’s rights\, participation\, policy and law.  Since taking up the post of Head of Participation and Rights Education in in the OCO in 2018\, she had led a number of rights-based consultations with children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\n\n\n\nAoife studied in NUI\, Galway and Queen’s University\, Belfast\, she holds an LLB and LLM. She has worked in the fields of human rights and development education for the last 8 years. As the Participation and Rights Education Coordinator in the OCO\, Aoife specialises in consulting with children facing human rights abuses\, teaching them about their rights under the UNCRC and listening to their stories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGraham Seely\n\n\n\nA lifelong film and photography fanatic\, after completing the Higher National Diploma in Film and TV Production at Colaiste Duhlaigh\, Graham spent several years working as a photographer and freelance cameraman. Gansee Films was established in 2013\, with goal of creating cinematic and photographic projects focusing primarily in the Arts\, Politics\, and NGO sectors. Graham’s photography has been displayed in several exhibitions\, and his feature-length documentary\, The Man in the Hat\, was screened at the Galway Film Fleadh 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman?\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman? \n\n\n\nWe are a human rights institution and work to protect the rights of children and young people in Ireland.We investigate complaints about services provided to children by public organisations.We want children and young people to be actively heard and respected so they experience safe\, fulfilling and happy everyday lives.\n\n\n\nOur History\n\n\n\nIn Ireland as far back as 1996 many committed people who were interested in children’s rights put pressure on the Government to have an Irish Ombudsman for Children. \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children Act\, which sets out the role and powers of this Office\, was agreed by the Dáil and the Seanad in 2002. The Ombudsman for Children is a presidential appointment and reports directly to the Oireachtas. \n\n\n\nOriginally Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices were set up to independently investigate complaints against public organisations. However\, after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was agreed in 1989\, Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices also began working hard to promote the rights of children. \n\n\n\nDr Niall Muldoon was appointed Ombudsman for Children in February 2015 by President Michael D. Higgins. He was then reappointed by the President in 2021 for a further 6 years. \n\n\n\nWhat is Direct Provision?\n\n\n\nDirect provision is the name used to describe the accommodation\, food\, money and medical services you get while your international protection application is being processed or while you are an asylum seeker\, which means the same thing. \n\n\n\nYou might get direct provision if you have applied for international protection and are waiting for: \n\n\n\nYour first decisionThe result of an appeal to the International Protection Appeals TribunalA judicial review (where the High Court looks at how a decision on your application was made)A decision on whether you will be given leave to remainA deportation\n\n\n\nYour direct provision normally ends if the Department of Justice gives you permission to remain in Ireland\, but sometimes you can stay in direct provision temporarily while you are looking for your own place to live. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Fáilte Amnesty - Community Sponsorship - The Open Community
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBookings close at 5pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman\, Executive Director\, Amnesty International Ireland \n\n\n\nKevin O’Leary\, Irish Red Cross \n\n\n\nAnna Kierans\, Community Sponsorship \n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\, Community Sponsorship \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCommunity Sponsorship (CS) is a new innovative way for people from Ireland to be able to give support and show solidarity to refugees. So often people want to be able to do something tangible for another person that needs it and Community Sponsorship is an amazing way that people can do this. \n\n\n\nCommunities across Ireland have come together to sponsor a refugee family who have agreed to participate in this resettlement programme. The family then travels to Ireland where they move into the community that has sponsored them. One of the most fantastic things about Community Sponsorship is the friendships that form between the people that participate from the communities and between the resettled family and their new community. This programme reaches a local\, national and International scale\, it is a global movement of ordinary people that are making a real and lasting change in peoples lives. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman is Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland. He is the founder and former Director of One in Four\, the national NGO that supports women and men who have experienced sexual violence. Colm has campaigned extensively at both the national and global level for justice and accountability for victims of sexual violence\, and personally initiated ground-breaking litigation on the issue. \nColm has also served as a member of Seanad Éireann\, and is an author and regular media commentator on social justice and human rights issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Kierans\n\n\n\nAnna is a member of one of the first Community Sponsorship Groups established in Ireland in 2019.  Anna felt compelled to do something to support refugees so with other Dublin 6 community members they organised\, fund raised and planned for the arrival of the Bourhan family. Since then\, Anna has been a huge advocate and driving force for other communities to get involved in Community Sponsorship.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\n\n\n\nKevin O’Leary is the Community Sponsorship Lead with the Irish Red Cross. Kevin’s previous role as a Senior Migration Caseworker with the Irish Red Cross saw him supporting the resettlement and integration of Iraqi and Syrian’s with Refugee Status. Kevin has over eight years’ experience in high needs case support and is committed to the promotion of an inclusive and intercultural society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\n\n\n\nShahera and her family were forced to flee Syria in 2014 and they spent the next five years in Lebanon. In 2019 they were one of the first families to come to Ireland through Community Sponsorship. Since arriving in Ireland\, Shahera has been a strong advocate for raising awareness about the huge impact Community Sponsorship can make in people’s lives. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmnesty International\n\n\n\nAmnesty International is a global movement of more than 8 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. \n\n\n\nIn Ireland\, our 20\,000 members and supporters campaign on issues like reproductive rights\, ending torture and protecting migrant & refugee rights\, among others. We are independent of any political ideology\, economic interest or religion. We are funded by our members and supporters. \n\n\n\nWhat does Amnesty International do?\n\n\n\nWe investigate and expose the facts\, whenever and wherever human rights abuses happen.We lobby governments and other powerful groups to make sure they respect international law.We mobilise millions of supporters around the world to campaign for change and to stand in defence of human rights activistsWe support people to claim their rights through education and training.\n\n\n\nOur History\n\n\n\nIn 1961\, British lawyer Peter Benenson was outraged when two Portuguese students were jailed just for raising a toast to freedom. He wrote an article in The Observer and launched a campaign that provoked an unprecedented response. Reprinted in newspapers across the world\, his call to action sparked the idea that people everywhere can unite in solidarity for justice and freedom. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:
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SUMMARY:The Social Life of Misinformation: A Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGillian “Gus” Andrews\, public educator\, writer\, and researcher \n\n\n\nBarbara Fister\, writer \n\n\n\nSebit Martin (Una Hakika)\, co-founder and Executive Director of the Community Development Centre\, South Sudan \n\n\n\nChristopher Tuckwood (Una Hakika)\, co-founder and Executive Director of the Sentinel Project \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn the face of a global misinformation crisis\, many journalists and scientists have gravitated to fact checking as a solution. Provide the correct counter-information\, the theory goes\, and those who follow QAnon or far-right extremists\, who are spreading false information about elections\, refugee populations\, or COVID\, will start spreading the correct information instead. \n\n\n\nThe fact checking approach has a critical weakness: All information\, true or false\, has a social life. The ways each of us encounters\, believes in\, spreads\, and produces information has its roots in our emotions\, our personal histories\, and the people we care about and respond to in our communities. \n\n\n\nIf we agree that attempts to fight disinformation must address these social roots in order to succeed\, what would we choose to do instead of fact-checking? This panel discussion will convene successful disinformation fighters from Kenya and India as well as librarians\, civic dialogue conveners\, and experts on disinformation production to explain the social and psychological reasons why some people buy into disinformation narratives\, and explore how we might more effectively change their minds. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebit Martin\n\n\n\nSebit Martin John\, is the co-founder and executive director of the Community Development Centre (CDC)\, which operates in both Uganda and South Sudan. He has worked in conflict-affected and fragile locations in various places and have held strategic\, programmatic\, technical\, and executive management roles\, including coordinating the Hagiga Wahid project in partnership with the Sentinel Project. Hagiga Wahid is an interactive mobile phone-based information service that helps people to stop the spread of harmful rumours in Uganda and South Sudan. He has also initiated several community-based initiatives to improve the quality of life in my communities.He has consistently worked to support positive behavioural change in communities ravaged by conflict and have promoted equitable access to opportunities. He also holds a degree in social work and community health and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in peace and conflict studies. \n\n\n\nVisit his Facebook\, Twitter\, Instagram and LinkedIn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Gillian ‘Gus’ Andrews\n\n\n\nDr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews is a public educator\, writer\, and researcher who is known on the cybersecurity speaking circuit for posing thought-provoking questions about the human side of online life. Dr. Andrews has worked in the international digital rights space for eight years\, contributing to usability efforts for secure tools like Psiphon and Thunderbird’s encryption suite and helping organize events at the Internet Freedom Festival. Her policy research has informed work at Internews\, the US State Department\, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dr. Andrews’s book\, Keep Calm and Log On (MIT Press 2020)\, is an everyday citizen’s guide to surviving the digital revolution\, focusing on privacy\, security\, and fighting disinformation.  Previously\, she was the producer of “The Media Show\,” an award-winning YouTube series about media and digital literacy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Fister\n\n\n\nBarbara Fister coordinated the instruction program at a college library for over three decades\, leading workshops across the curriculum and developing courses on research methods and on clickbait\, bias\, and propaganda in information networks. In 2019 she was appointed scholar-in residence for Project Information Literacy\, an independent nonprofit research institute that studies undergraduate students’ experiences with information\, co-authoring a study titled Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms. She has written articles about information literacy for a number of publications including most recently The Atlantic and currently is a contributing editor for the PIL Provocations essay series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Tuckwood\n\n\n\nChristopher Tuckwood is the co-founder and executive director of the Sentinel Project\, an organization dedicated to assisting communities threatened by mass atrocities through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology. Chris has particularly focused on the organization’s misinformation management efforts\, which engage people in monitoring\, verifying\, and countering harmful misinformation that contributes to intercommunal conflict. He’s led the growth of this work in places such as Kenya\, Myanmar\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, South Sudan\, and refugee settlements in Uganda. These projects have also served conflict-affected people as responsive\, community-based\, and locally-targeted early warning systems during times of active crisis. Chris has also contributed to the establishment of the Hatebase hate speech monitoring initiative\, which is focused on building the world’s largest multilingual database of online hate speech by combining human networks and automated monitoring. He originally started working on mass atrocity issues as an advocate for action to stop the Darfur genocide\, an experience which inspired the concept of the Sentinel Project. Chris has a master’s degree in disaster and emergency management from York University and often writes\, advises\, and speaks around the world on issues related to mass atrocities\, technology\, humanitarian aid\, and how these different topics relate to each other. \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Tools for Fighting Disinformation Networks
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGus Andrews\, public educator\, writer\, and researcher \n\n\n\nGiancarlo Fiorella\, Senior Investigator at Bellingcat \n\n\n\nWafaa Heikal\, Social Media Analyst at Democracy Reporting International \n\n\n\nKhadeja Ramali\, social media researcher \n\n\n\nSarah-Jayne Terp\, Atlantic Council senior fellow \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDisinformation has been weaponized and automated on a mass scale by nation-state actors and political parties and used to target human rights defenders. Disinformation campaigns are increasingly seen around the world\, from Ukraine to the United States\, Brazil to Egypt\, Mexico to Taiwan. \n\n\n\nWhile “deepfake” videos have become a focus for many concerned with disinformation\, automated and mass disinformation campaigns are more common and more insidious\, putting disinformation out to the public in ways that look like ordinary citizens speaking their minds\, or even like trusted community leaders or journalists. These attacks make use of technologies like internet address registries\, botnets\, and the global advertising network\, that are unfamiliar to most of the public. Because they are so intertwined with the infrastructure of the internet\, these technologies have a much greater capacity to pollute the public sphere and quell civic participation and free speech. \n\n\n\nThis panel will share the most cutting-edge research on how these campaigns unfold\, and tools that human rights researchers can use to get a clearer picture of malicious online activity and even shut it down. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiancarlo Fiorello\n\n\n\nGiancarlo is a Senior Investigator at Bellingcat\, an organization that conducts research using open source information. He is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Dr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews \n\n\n\nDr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews is a public educator\, writer\, and researcher who is known on the cybersecurity speaking circuit for posing thought-provoking questions about the human side of online life. Dr. Andrews has worked in the international digital rights space for eight years\, contributing to usability efforts for secure tools like Psiphon and Thunderbird’s encryption suite and helping organize events at the Internet Freedom Festival. Her policy research has informed work at Internews\, the US State Department\, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dr. Andrews’s book\, Keep Calm and Log On (MIT Press 2020)\, is an everyday citizen’s guide to surviving the digital revolution\, focusing on privacy\, security\, and fighting disinformation.  Previously\, she was the producer of “The Media Show\,” an award-winning YouTube series about media and digital literacy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKhadeja Ramali \n\n\n\nKhadeja Ramali is an independent social media researcher with an interest in the development of online spaces and regional cultures\, and its implications for political discourse. Ramali’s work focuses on Arabic language spaces and influence campaigns in the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently working with NGOs and private companies on understanding the role social media plays within different contexts in the region\, including violent political transformations but also conflict resolution. Ramali holds an MA in media and development from SOAS University of London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah-Jane Terp \n\n\n\nSJ helps autonomous systems\, algorithms\, and human communities work together. She’s an Atlantic Council senior fellow\, working on technology policy\, and co-founded CogSecCollab and ThreeT Consulting\, where she works on processes and technologies for disinformation defense. Her background includes autonomous systems\, intelligence systems\, data strategy\, data ethics\, nationstate policy development\, crowdsourcing\, and crisis data response. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWafaa Heikal\n\n\n\nWafaa Heikal is a Social Media Analyst at Democracy Reporting International. She supports local NGOs efforts in the MENA region to monitor and counter online disinformation and hate speech. Wafaa works to strengthen information and media literacy and resilience in Africa. She has a large experience in monitoring online and on field elections campaigns. She creates information workflows to verify and counter disinformation narratives. Wafaa endeavors to raise awareness around digital rights and creating safer online spaces for women in North Africa and West Asia. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Eascair - The Black Irish Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nThis event will also be streamed live on the Smashing Times Facebook page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPercy Chambaruka (Jafaris) \n\n\n\nTobi Balogun \n\n\n\nFavour Odusola \n\n\n\nVithória Escobar \n\n\n\nLucille Aires \n\n\n\nLapree Lala \n\n\n\nKareen SK \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCovid created a moment of pause. \n\n\n\nThis pause triggered a lot of social movements\, allowing us as a community to reflect internally and on our environment. The response from arts organisations and the Arts Council show that we don’t have the same historical contexts as in other parts of Europe and the UK in terms of the relationship to colonialism. This allowed a jumping off point for artists to have conversations that Ireland has never had before. \n\n\n\nConversations have been held within ourselves and our communities and while we welcome those organisations and their response and the renewed funding streams and opportunities\, as a community we have to make sure that this is not a short-lived situation and ensure we can capitalise on the opportunities made available and grow from this point. \n\n\n\nIt’s a really young community\, second generation and in terms of the arts it’s just happening now and happens to coincide with recent social events. How can we shift consciously as a community? \n\n\n\nBrought to you by Tobi Balogun as part of the Black Canvas initiative\, in collaboration with Create and Smashing Times\, Eascair is a showcase of emerging Black/Irish Artists\, showcasing new voices and directions within their own work and discussing growth within the Black-Irish Arts industry. \n\n\n\nThis work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community This work has emerged from the AIC Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights which was offered by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts\, in partnership with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, and funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme\, managed by Create. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFavour Odusola\n\n\n\nFavour Odusola (Proud African King) is a thespian\, a dedicated and passionate individual and a face that portrays the average African dancer with the zeal to learn and explore. Originally from Lagos\, Nigeria\, Favour is currently based in Dublin\, Ireland. Favour is very adventurous\, looking for new ways to use dance as a tool to be of relevance. Learn to live and be free while doing so. Say no to back talk\, improve love and enjoy life one at a time. Favour believes that dance is a tool for social integration\, education\, proper implementation and love but only if used right. This is his plan. To use dance to make others understand even when they don’t want to. Teaching without really lecturing. Favour is everything in a dancer and more. Educated\, zealous\, a thinker\, playful\, genius\, dangerous and unpredictable. Looking for new ways to innovate at the same time create a platform and structure for both the young\, experienced and inexperienced so they understand how important dance as a tool and career is and should not be taken for granted. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVithória Escobar\n\n\n\nVithória is a Brazilian artist based in Dublin and a professional member of Dance Ireland. She works across several contexts of dance and visual arts. As a dancer\, she has collaborated with artists in Ireland across several contexts\, from commercial work to cultural initiatives. Recently\, she facilitated a Dancehall Workshop with Go Dance For Change as part of IMMA Outdoors. In 2020\, she performed at the Social Inclusion Week\, sponsored by Dublin City Council/NEIC in partnership with Five Lamps Arts Festival\, promoting connections between Irish/Brazilian communities. She also performed at SimSimma New Year’s Eve 2020 and the UCD Festival in 2019. As a visual artist\, Vithória combines painting and photography. “Afrobrasilidades”\, her recent collaboration with Alessandra Azevedo\, produced\, painted and shot by her\, was featured in the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 3: Diaspora. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucille Aires\n\n\n\nI’ve been teaching since the end of 2018. My professional dance journey started in Dublin\, Ireland\, where I taught Dancehall\, Afro and Choreography. I have worked with students from all over the world and since the start of the pandemic I have taught more than 100 live classes. I currently teach with European based companies such as Go Dance for Change\, Dance it Out Ireland and Struttin in Ireland and Twerkafterwork in the UK. I have taught in-person classes in Ireland\, Brazil and Turkey. Dancing is not only about steps or choreography\, and I bring this philosophy to my classes by always highlighting the cultural and historic aspects of the dances. I was the organizer of Ireland’s first Dancehall Intensive in 2020 and also participated in the organization of two international live showcases\, one of which raised more than €500 for the Children’s Cancer Centre of Lebanon. I have learned Dancehall and Afro straight from the source with Jamaican and African teachers. I am the founder of the World Fusion Crew based in Dublin with 13 members from 6 different nationalities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLapree Lala\n\n\n\nLapree Lala is a Galway based Afrodance Dancer/Instructor/Choreographer in Ireland. As CEO of Dublin based company\, Southside Moves\, Luntu has regularly taught and collaborated for the past three years with many individuals from the scene\, hoping to spread awareness and understanding of Afro culture in Ireland. She has worked with companies such as Google\, Twitter and Facebook\, and has performed at Electric Picnic as well as for artists such as Naira Marley\, A-Star and Headie One. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKareen SK\n\n\n\nKareen SK was born in France where she mostly grew up\, with both parents from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica\, where she also spent half of her life all together. Dancing is a transmitted passion and she loves creating.She started her dance journey back in Paris where she was part of a ‘GwoKa’ and ‘Bélè’ band\, (traditional Caribbean rhythms from Guadeloupe and Martinique) as a dancer\, a drummer\, and a coach for 14 years before landing in Cork.SK VYBZ sessions are allowing space to tone up\, burn calories\, learn foundation steps and have fun dancing on MOVING Afro-Caribbean beats\, owning the dance-floor through short routines! Afro-Caribbean cultural enhancement and education \, Health\, passion\, positive ENERGY release\, and self confidence growth are Kareen’s daily motives\, her lifestyle values. So Buckle up and get ready! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJafaris\n\n\n\nDublin based hip-hop artist Jafaris is one of Ireland’s most exciting rising stars. Musically\, his uncompromising fluency of expression means he is as exciting as he’s ever sounded. His flirtation with nostalgic nineties hip hop and pure\, contagious happiness lifted the lid on a singular talent\, earning him his place as one of Ireland’s foremost players of the new generation of the Irish hip-hop. In 2017\, Jafaris hooked up with Diffusion Lab\, a music production hub and artist management agency that’s seen a whole bunch of remarkable talent come through its doors. Since joining the team\, the triple threat – rapper\, actor and dancer – has gone on to become a knockout performer.  His debut album\, Stride\, was release in 2019 and was well-received by critics. Stride was shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize of Irish Album of the Year.  \n\n\n\nJafaris featured on Joy Crookes’ single Early which topped the UK’s Asian Music Top 40 chart  performed it on ‘Later…with Jools Holland’. Jafaris released his second EP I Love You But I’m In A Bad Mood on 6 November 2020. Since the release of his debut album Stride\, Jafaris has seen huge support from Radio 1 (Annie Mac)\, Kiss\, Spotify and press\, including NME who described Jafaris as one of the most exciting new prospects from Irish rap’s rising wave. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreate\n\n\n\nCreate is the national development agency for collaborative arts. Our work initiates cross-sectoral national and international partnerships which support artists and communities to co-create work of depth\, ambition and excellence. \n\n\n\nOur mission is to lead the development of collaborative arts practice by enabling artists and communities to create exceptional art together. \n\n\n\nAs a resource organisation we offer supports for artists working in social and community contexts. These include professional development\, mentoring\, project development support\, commissioning and project opportunities as well as research and training. We also manage the Artist in the Community Scheme for the Arts Council. \n\n\n\nCreate believes that by working together\, artists and communities can purposefully explore how collaborative arts engage in distinct\, relevant and powerful ways with the urgent social\, cultural and political issues of our times. \n\n\n\nWhat We Do \n\n\n\nCreate supports artists in making exceptional art with communities in the broadest senseCreate supports artists in an open-ended approach to the artistic process and art making – as co-creators with different partners and audiencesCreate encourages ways of making art that take place primarily outside of the traditional gallery or theatre space\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\nwww.create-ireland.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwww.iccl.ie
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SUMMARY:Visual Arts Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets Free. Book Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPenny Pepper \n\n\n\nLydia Gratis \n\n\n\nEvie Nevin \n\n\n\nDr. Rosaleen McDonagh \n\n\n\nAoife Price \n\n\n\nGrainne Blair \n\n\n\nRóisín Ní Haicéid \n\n\n\nOrla O’Connor \n\n\n\nIsolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody \n\n\n\nBlessing Dada \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA small planning group has come together to organize this event as partners in the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021 \n\n\n\nOrla O Connor (Director\, NWC) and Evie Nevin (NWC Disabled women’s group & political campaigner) will welcome and open the event. \n\n\n\nGrainne Blair and Aoife Price will present a creative advocacy piece from the disabled women’s group. \n\n\n\nHosted by Blessing Dada an award-winning mental health writer\, speaker & content creator/blogger\, this event will feature performances from \n\n\n\nMary Collins Painter\, writer and campaigner for independent livingEmilie Conway Vocal Jazz Artist and founder of DADA: Disabled Artists and Disabled Academics Campaign for Human & Cultural RightsPenny Pepper Author\, poet\, performer & disabled activist\n\n\n\nWe have an excellent panel who will share their own experience of campaigning for equality and human rights for disabled women including Emilie Conway and Lynda Gratis. \n\n\n\nISL interpreters will be available at the event. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPenny Pepper\n\n\n\nPenny Pepper is an acclaimed wheelchair-using author\, poet\, performer & disabled activist. A genre-defying and versatile writer\, her work focuses on the examination of difference\, inequality and identity. She tells stories we haven’t heard\, making others see life differently\, always with humour and wisdom. Her champions include Jake Arnott\, Margaret Drabble and Danuta Keene. Most recently she has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious international Hemingway Shorts 2021 Competition and her winning story will be published in their competition anthology. \n\n\n\nPenny published her groundbreaking memoir\, First in The World Somewhere with Unbound and a poetry collection\, Come Home Alive\, with Burning Eye Books. She is now signed to The Good Literary Agency where she is represented by Abi Fellows. She has also been widely published including Mslexia\, The Guardian\, Byline Times amongst others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLydia Gratis\n\n\n\nAnti-racism Educator & Activist\, Black Holistic Wellness Content Creator\, Deaf Youth Advocate. \n\n\n\nI was born in South Africa\, raised in Ireland. I was the 1st ever Black deaf person in the Irish deaf community. My experience navigating a deaf white world and a black hearing world shaped alot of my upbringing and the work I now do. \n\n\n\nI am in my final year of my bachelors\, minoring in Anthropology and majoring in International development.I’m the founder and chairperson of Ubuntu European Deaf Youth\, a youth group for BIPOC Deaf youth all over Europe\, supported by the European Union for Deaf Youth\, a European non-profit organisation consisting of 30 national associations all over Europe.With the mission to create a Europe where all young deaf people are able to come together and share their experiences across cultures and boundaries\, so they can enjoy their rights on an equal basis with others. Full social and political participation empowered by non-formal training and cross-cultural youth exchange\, including access to education and employment. Having worked in the deaf youth sector for the last 8 years Lydia is the course director of a study session on race\, migration and Xenophobia with the Council Of Europe happening in October 2021.In her 9-5 Lydia works as a Social Inclusion and Communications Officer for Ireland’s leading national sign language interpreting service provider.Guest speaker\, recently having spoken at the European parliament on implicit biases and how race and racism affects Black and Brown communities. \n\n\n\nBoard member of the Irish Deaf Society\, focusing on diversity and inclusion.Social media and outreach manager at Deaf Women Space. \n\n\n\nI am one of 28 women on the All Island Women’s Forum\, a government funded initiative comprising 14 from the north and 14 from the south of Ireland chosen by the National Women’s Council of Ireland. The Women’s Forum aims to address underrepresentation of women and further develop women’s role in peacebuilding and civic society. Funded through the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund\, the Women’s Forum will also support building sustainable North South links\, provide a space for marginalised communities\, and build better understanding and inter-community links. \n\n\n\nI am also a nominee for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission ’s (IHREC) disability advisory board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvie Nevin\n\n\n\nMother of two\, Evie Nevin\, is on the National Executive and chairs the Diversity Committee of the Social Democrats. She lives in West Cork and is diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and more recently\, Autism. In addition to her political work\, Evie also sits on other boards and committees helping to improve the lives of people with disabilities in Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rosaleen McDonagh\n\n\n\nDr. Rosaleen McDonagh is a Traveller woman with a disability. Originally from Sligo\, she is the fourth eldest in a family of twenty children. She worked in Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre for ten years\, managing the Violence Against Women programme\, and remains a board member. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Times and has written extensively within the framework of a Traveller feminist perspective. McDonagh’s work includes Mainstream\, The Baby Doll Project\, Stuck\, She’s Not Mine\, and Rings. \n\n\n\nRosaleen was appointed to The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in May 2020. She is also a member of Aosdana. Presently Rosaleen’s piece Walls and Windows is being commissioned for a production in The Abbey Theatre. Contentious Spaces has also been commissioned by The Project Arts Centre for production in 2021. With Skein Press Rosaleen’s collection of essays will be published September 2021. \n\n\n\n@paveebeoir \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife Price\n\n\n\nAoife Price is a member of Disabled Women Ireland (DWI) working for the rights of disabled women and non-binary people. She is an Early-Stage Researcher on the Disability Advocacy Research in Europe\, part of the Marie Sokolowski-Curie Actions\, Innovative Training Network. She is researching women with disabilities and their involvement in activism in both the disability and feminist movements and how the movements interact. She is working with the European Disability Forum (EDF) for the duration of the project. Prior to working with EDF Aoife worked with the Union of Students in Ireland managing a Student Mental Health Project. Over the past decade\, Aoife has been an active advocate in youth mental health at national and international level. \n\n\n\nTwitter handles: \n\n\n\n@AoifePrice \n\n\n\n@DW_Ireland \n\n\n\n@MyEDF \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrainne Blair\n\n\n\nGrainne Blair is a longtime feminist activist and historian with a specialist in women’s lives\, current and past. She advocates for herself and others; mentors artists and writers and younger historians etc through encouragement and confidence building. She has a MA(Hons) in Women’s Studies from University College Dublin.  \n\n\n\n11 years ago she had a life changing accident and now has permanent acquired brain injury (ABI) she also has Post traumatic stress disorder where her brain is locked in the oldest part of the brain known as the reptilian brain which is in a constant state of hyperalertism – ‘Fight\, Flight\, Freeze and Flop’ it is instantaneous and capable of shutting down the rest of the brain functions. She has benefitted from one to one support from ABI Ireland\, she continues to give back by fundraising and mentoring others within the groups. She also attends day centre Parkhouse\, Rehab Ireland\, Stillorgan twice a week before Covid but is unable to return as awaiting surgery. Most of her activism in the last ten years has been on social media as public events are often too difficult to access or attend. Her preferred term would be para-abled. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín Ní Haicéid\n\n\n\nRóisín is a final year sociology and social policy student\, struggling musician and a devoted believer in disability justice and liberation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrla O’Connor\n\n\n\nOrla O’Connor is Director of National Women’s Council (NWC)\, the leading national women’s membership organisation in Ireland\, with over 190-member groups. She was Co-Director of Together For Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment in the referendum. For her role in Together for Yes\, Orla was recognised as one of the 100 Most Influential People by TIME magazine in 2019.  \n\n\n\nOrla holds an MA in European Social Policy\, and after starting out in local community-based projects\, has worked in senior management in non-governmental organisations for over 25 years. Orla represents NWC in a wide range of national and international fora. Orla is a feminist\, and an expert in the policies needed to progress women’s equality in Ireland. She is an accomplished public speaker\, with a strong analysis of public policy. Orla has led numerous high level\, successful campaigns on a wide range of issues on women’s rights\, including social welfare reform\, pension reform and for the introduction of quality and affordable childcare. Orla is passionate about ensuring access to women’s reproductive rights; about ensuring more women are in leadership positions; about ending violence against women; and increasing women’s economic equality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Isolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody \n\n\n\nIsolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody: a writer\, performer and activist who moved to Co. Leitrim from Dublin in 1999 who has worked extensively around the North-West and beyond in community theatre and collaborative arts. Her practice is informed by Theatre of the Oppressed and aesthetic accessibility\, drawing on the legacy of the Focus Theatre in Ireland \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlessing Dada\n\n\n\nBlessing Dada\, from Dublin\, Ireland\, is an award-winning mental health writer\, speaker & content creator/blogger\, who’s an outspoken passionate activist on various social justice issues\, especially on the intersectionality of mental health awareness. \n\n\n\nAccompanied with her own lived experiences with all things mental health\, chronic illnesses and disability\, she raises awareness of perspectives for Black & other ethnic minority communities in Ireland.  She is also a passionate student and work as a Youth Support Worker for the Youth & Community Development sector. She regularly speaks up on social media and in the media about mental health related issues and has been featured on The Selfie Show with Lust for Life\, New York Times and Image Magazine. Being involved with numerous organizations\, such as SpunOut.ie and Seechange.ie\, she can be found participating in various projects\, podcasts & writing to spread awareness: through empathy and education.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/visual-arts-showcase/
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Music,Online,Poetry,Visual Art
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T180000
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SUMMARY:Ag plé na naisc idir Athrú Aeráide\, Cultúr na hÉireann agus Muintir na hÉireann / Exploring the links between Climate Change\, Irish Culture and the Irish People
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nAn tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil: Ollamh sa Nua-Gaeilge / Personal Professor of Modern Irish \n\n\n\nLaoighseach Ní Choistealbha: Mac léinn PhD / PhD Student NUIG \n\n\n\nDr. Rónán Kennedy: Léachtóir NUIG / Lecturer NUIG \n\n\n\nLorna Ni Shuilleabhain: Front Line Defenders\, Modhnóir agus cainteoir / Front Line Defenders\, moderator and speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTá na fadhbanna a bhaineann leis an Athrú Aeráide ag éirí níos forleithne agus níos géire in Éirinn agus ar fud an domhain. Tá sé mar aidhm ag an ócáid seo\, feasacht a mhúscailt faoi impleachtaí an Athraithe Aeráide agus easpa oibre Rialtas na hÉireann a phlé. Ni bhreathnoidh an imeacht seo ar na gnéithe phraiticiúla den athrú aeráide amháin\, ach freisin ar an nasc idir litríocht na Gaeilge agus an t-athrú aeráide. Ta filíocht na  hÉireann lán le paisean agus díograis a bhaineann le tubaistí nádúrtha agus le tubaistí daonna\, an t-athrú aeráide ina measc. \n\n\n\nI mí an Mheithimh 2020\, ghlac Friend of the Irish Environment (FIE) caingean dlí i gcoinne rialtas na hÉireann mar gheall ar easpa gnímh an rialtas maidir le hathrú aeráide. Glaotar ‘Climate Case Ireland’ ar an gcás seo agus is é an chéad chás dá leithéid in Éirinn. Le linn na hócáide cloisfimid ón Dr. Rónán Kennedy\, a chomhscríobh alt ar ‘Climate Case Ireland’. Foilsíodh an t-alt seo san Iris Pleanála agus Dli na Timpeallachta\, na hÉireann. Is léachtóir ag NUIG é Rónán\, a bhfuil taithí shuntasach aige i dtaighde dlí comhshaoil. \n\n\n\nLabhróidh an tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil agus Laoighseach Ní Chocastlebha ó Roinn na Gaeilge ag Ollscoil na hÉireann\, Gaillimh.  faoin nasc tarraingteach idir filíocht na Gaeilge agus cearta an duine. An fhilíocht chomhaimseartha agus an t-aistriúchán liteartha na príomhréimsí taighde atá ag Rióna . Tá Laoighseach ag dul faoi PhD\,  ag déanamh taighde scagadh ar an athláithriú a dhéantar ar chearta an duine i bhfilíocht na hÉireann san fhichiú haois agus anuas go dtí ár linn féin\, le tionscadal darbh ainm Republic of Conscience: Cearta an Duine agus Nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge.  Is tionscadal idirdhisciplíneach é Republic of Conscience: Cearta an Duine agus Nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge a bhaineann go dlúth le léann na litríochta\, léann chearta an duine agus léann an aistriúcháin. \n\n\n\nReáchtálfar an ócáid seo trí Ghaeilge. Deis a bheidh ann gnéithe de chultúr na hÉireann agus chearta an duine a chur le chéile. Tabharfaidh an ócáid ​seo deis do dhaoine a bhfuil spéis acu sa Ghaeilge\, san athrú aeráide agus i gcearta an duine na réimsí seo go léir a phlé ag aon ócáid amháin. \n\n\n\nThe issues caused by Climate Change are becoming more prevalent and rampant in Ireland and around the world. This event aims to raise awareness around the implications of Climate Change and explore the failings of the Irish Government to take action on Climate Change. This event will also move beyond the practical aspect of climate change and look at its link with Irish-language poetry. Irish language literature is entrenched with passion and intensity which can be linked with natural and human disasters\, including climate change. \n\n\n\nIn June 2020 Friend of the Irish Environment (FIE) took legal action against the Irish government for failing to take adequate action on climate change. This case known as ‘Climate Case Ireland’ marked the first case of it’s kind in Ireland. During the event we will hear from Dr. Rónán Kennedy\, who co-wrote an article on the Climate Case Ireland\, published in the Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal. Rónán is a lecturerer at NUIG\, with considerable experience in environmental law research. \n\n\n\nProfessor Rióna Ní Fhrighil and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha from the Department of Irish at NUIG\, will speak about the captivating link between Irish-language poetry and human rights. Rióna has published extensively on twentieth-century Irish poetry and literary translation while Laoighseach is undergoing a PhD examing the literary techniquers adopted by Irish poets to respond to international human rights conflicts\, in a project named Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry. \n\n\n\nThe event will be held through Irish. It will be a chance to the combine the areas of Irish culture and human rights. This event will give all those with an interest in both the Irish language\, climate change and human rights the opportunity to explore these areas all at the one event. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Rióna Ní Fhrighil \n\n\n\nIs í an tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil Príomhthaighdeoir an tionscadail ROC agus is léachtóir í in Ollscoil na hÉireann\, Gaillimh.  An fhilíocht chomhaimseartha agus an t-aistriúchán liteartha na príomhréimsí taighde atá aici. Sa tréimhse 2014-2016\, bhí sí ina príomhthaighdeoir Gaeilge ar an mhórthionscnamh taighde ‘The Representation of Jews in Irish Literature’ a mhaoinigh AHRC. Comhstiúrthóir í ar an tionscadal ‘Aistriú’ (www.aistriu.eu)\, togra aistriúcháin agus ealaíne a bunaíodh agus Gaillimh ina Príomhchathair Chultúir na hEorpa (2020).  \n\n\n\nProfessor Rióna Ní Fhrighil is Principal Investigator of ROC and lecturer in Modern Irish at NUI Galway.  She has published extensively on twentieth-century Irish poetry and literary translation. Rióna was the principal Irish-language researcher on the AHRC-funded project The Representation of Jews in Irish Literature (2014-2016). She is co-director of the interdisciplinary project Aistriú: crossing territories\, languages\,and artforms\, funded by Galway 2020 as part its European Capital of Culture programme. Www.aistriu.eu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaoighseach Ní Choistealbha \n\n\n\nTá Laoighseach ag obair cheana féin ar an togra ‘Republic of Conscience’ faoi chearta an duine agus cúrsaí filíochta; le páistí scoile ar fhilíocht faoin athrú aeráide; agus beidh tús á chur aici le PhD ar ábhar gaolmhar i Meán Fómhair 2021. \n\n\n\nLaoighseach is a PhD Student at NUIG\, doing a research project\, ‘Republic of Conscience’\, which is about human rights and poetry\, working with school students on the topic of climate change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rónán Kennedy  \n\n\n\nDr Rónán Kennedy \n\n\n\nCuireadh oideachas ar Rónán Kennedy in OÉ Gaillimh\, in King’s Inns\, Ollscoil Nua Eabhrac\, agus i gColáiste na hOllscoile\, Londain. D’fhoilsigh sé go fairsing ar dhlí an chomhshaoil\, dlí theicneolaíocht na faisnéise\, agus ábhair eile\, agus tá sé ina chomhúdar ar dhá théacsleabhar. Bhí sé ina Oifigeach Dlí Feidhmiúcháin do Phríomh-Bhreitheamh na hÉireann\, an Breitheamh Ronan Keane\, ó 2000 go 2004. Bhí sé ina bhall de Choiste Comhairleach na Gníomhaireachta um Chaomhnú Comhshaoil ​​ó 2016 go 2019. \n\n\n\nRónán Kennedy was educated at NUI Galway\, the King’s Inns\, New York University\, and University College London. He has published extensively on environmental law\, information technology law\, and other topics\, and is co-author of two textbooks. He was Executive Legal Officer to the Chief Justice of Ireland\, Mr Justice Ronan Keane\, from 2000 to 2004. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2016 to 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna Ni Shuilleabhain\n\n\n\nIs í Lorna an tOifigeach Bunachar Sonraí ag Front Line Defenders. Tá cúlra ag Lorna i sonraí agus cearta daonna. Rinne sí Baitsiléir Eolaíochta i Staitisticí ag UCD agus LLM sa Dlí Idirnáisiúnta um Chearta an Duine ag NUIG. Sula thosaidh sí le FLD\, rinne sí intéirneacht le GLAN\, ag obair i dtaighde\, ag bailiú sonraí agus ag forbairt gréasáin. D’oibrigh sí freisin mar éascaitheoir oideachais forbartha le Comhlámh agus ghlac sí páirt sa ‘Innocence Project’ ag NUIG. \n\n\n\nLorna is the Database Officer at Front Line Defenders\, working with the database and also producing HRD ID Cards. Lorna has a background in both data and human rights having completed a Bachelor of Science in Statistics at UCD and an LLM in International Human Rights Law at NUIG. Prior to joining Front Line Defenders\, she did an internship with the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)\, working in research\, data collecting and web development. She has also worked as a development education facilitator with Comhlámh and took part in NUIG’s Innocence Project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Irish Centre for Human Rights\n\n\n\nThe Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway\, is one of the world’s premier university-based institutions for the study and promotion of international human rights and humanitarian law. Since its establishment in January 2000\, the Centre has developed a global reputation for excellence in teaching\, research and graduate training. Each year we attract high quality students from across the globe\, to our acclaimed Masters programs in International Human Rights Law\, Peace Operations\, Conflict and Humanitarian Law\, International Migration and Refugee Law and Policy and International Criminal Law. Our academic programmes now include unique education opportunities through our undergraduate BCL Law and Human Rights and BA Connect with Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nThe Centre also hosts a thriving international community of doctoral researchers. Our PhD alumni have secured senior academic and public policy roles in Universities\, international organisations and public bodies internationally. We are proud of our PhD researchers’ excellent track record of publication and research impact\, and of securing prestigious PhD scholarship awards to support their work.  \n\n\n\nToday\, the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway is at the cross-roads of the most pressing international law issues in law\, public policy and practice. Our students benefit from the dedicated support and world-class reputations of our staff\, who combine their subject expertise and extensive field experience\, with engagement in international law\, public policy and legal practice. We place a strong emphasis on skills development for all of our students\, and prioritise engagement in the practice of international law and human rights through clinical legal education.   \n\n\n\nIn addition to our core Faculty\, we have a global network of Adjunct Professors who engage with students and staff to share their expertise. The Centre hosts a busy schedule of seminars\, conferences and summer schools\, bringing together leading international scholars and practitioners across diverse fields of research and practice. \n\n\n\nThe Irish Centre for Human Rights is located in the School of Law at NUI Galway\, and works closely with Research institutes and Centres across the University\, including the Ryan Institute on sustainable development and climate change\, the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and the Centre for Housing Law and Policy. \n\n\n\n \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\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ag-ple-na-naisc-idir-athru-aeraide-cultur-na-heireann-agus-muintir-na-heireann-exploring-the-links-between-climate-change-irish-culture-and-the-irish-people/
LOCATION:THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room\, 173 The Hardiman Building\, NUIG\, NUI Galway\, H91 REW4
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T200000
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Change\, and Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nMaeve Stone\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker \n\n\n\nNick Anton\, Technical Manager\, Dunamaise Arts Centre \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStage Door Live is a fortnightly live news and discussion programme airing on Wednesday nights. In this special festival edition of the web series\, Mary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality; Nick Anton\, Technical Manager of Dunamaise Arts Centre; and Maeve Stone\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, join to discuss the arts\, climate change and sustainability. \n\n\n\nWhat can artists do to promote sustainable practices across the sector? What responsibility do arts venues have to ensure their buildings are as climate friendly as they can be? \n\n\n\nJoin our artists as they share\, explore and discuss. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\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\n\n\nNick Anton\n\n\n\nNick Anton has been involved in theatre and music for as long as he can remember and\, having made his home in the arts\, he now works to safeguard its future.  \n\n\n\nNick studied photography in Glasgow College of Building and Printing and worked professionally as a photographer before moving to Ireland in 1991.  \n\n\n\nSince arriving in Ireland\, he has worked as a lighting designer\, production manager and technician for numerous companies including Galloglass\, Bickerstaffe\, Red Kettle\, Barnstorm\, Rough Magic\, Storytellers\, Lane Productions and Benbo Productions. He has been Technical Manager at Dunamaise Arts Centre since 1999.  \n\n\n\nAlongside this work\, Nick has long been committed to improving safety and sustainability in the sector. He is a founding member of the Association of Irish Stage Technicians and held the position of Chair from 2005 to 2016. He has been invited to speak on safety standards in the industry by RTÉ and at the All-Ireland Performing Arts Conference.  \n\n\n\nFor the past 12 years he has been working on greening Dunamaise Arts Centre\, reducing the organisation’s carbon footprint and making positive\, proactive changes to promote environmental sustainability.  \n\n\n\nBeyond his professional work\, Nick cares deeply about protecting the environment and natural world. Vegan since 1986\, a prolific rescuer of animals in need\, keen field archer\, and passionate about wildlife and nature\, Nick has shared his care for the environment with his family\, with whom he lives in a renovated 19th century cottage with a wildlife-friendly\, flower\, fruit & vegetable-filled garden outside Portlaoise. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Stone\n\n\n\nMaeve is a director / writer for film and theatre whose work responds to issues of climate\, diversity and revisits the canon with a feminist lens. She is the lead artist for Axis Ballymun’s Green Arts Department having just completed a year as the embedded artist for a European Cultural Adaptation project which asks “What is the role of the artists in Climate Adaptation”. She co-founded Change of Address in 2015\, a collective working to connect artists and asylum seekers and works to seed new communities across Dublin and Clare. \n\n\n\nShe runs Cracking Light Productions with her partner\, filmmaker Alex Gill and is currently working on two projects: My Nature\, a celebration of the innate love of nature in young people which is a film project funded by the arts council\, and Soul Food\, fostering community integration through food and memory\, supported by the Community Integration Fund. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stage-door-live/
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T100000
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SUMMARY:ACTitude International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for partners in the ACTitude project. The ACTitude project develops an innovative methodology based on improvisation techniques (Improv) to facilitate individuals suffering from mental health disorders to confront demonstrations of social rejection in the form of verbal abuse and mockery to which they are being exposed so often in their day-to-day lives. \n\n\n\nIn contrast to traditional theatre\, Improv is a method based on natural actions that surge during the performance. In Improv\, there are no scripts- the latter are being created on the go\, through the interaction between the persons involved in the performance. \n\n\n\nThe ACTitude Improv based training program provides professionals working with the target group with a tailor-made intervention process to empower the persons with mental illness to recognize when they are being subject to verbal abuse\, to stand up for themselves\, and respond to the offenders in real time in order to cut short the abuse. \n\n\n\nThe training program\, using elements of the 3rd generation psychological therapies and techniques applied in improvisational theatre is created jointly by the team of psychologists and researchers from the Dept. of Psychology of the University of Maribor (UM) and a transnational team of expert performers and trainers specialized in improvisation. \n\n\n\nFunded by Erasmus+. The partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland; Intras\, Spain; EDRA\, (Mental health service provider) Greece; KNUA (theater studies department of the Kapodisian University) Greece; University of Maribor\, Slovenia; IMPROVA (improv theatre company)\, Spain. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/actitude-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Online,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T170000
DTSTAMP:20211027T132222Z
CREATED:20210911T151342Z
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SUMMARY:Lived Experiences: Conflict + the Island of Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nWatch the online panel here: https://youtu.be/RhGlK5IyEbw \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin Spirasi\, Ireland’s National Centre for Victims of Torture\, at the live launch of their ‘Lived Experiences: Women\, Conflict and the Island of Ireland’ programme. This set of interviews highlights the experiences of Irish women at home and on the international stage examining women and conflict. Created as a project to celebrate International Women’s Day\, Spirasi have followed the journeys of women working in the are of conflict. Our online series includes interviews with: \n\n\n\n-Baronness Nuala O’Loan\, Police Ombudsman for the Omagh bombing enquiry and special envoy to Timor-Leste \n\n\n\n-Hazel Chu\, Former Mayor of Dublin \n\n\n\n-Dr Clare Dunne\, Spirasi physician and medic with Medicin Sans Frontiere \n\n\n\n-Aisling Hearns\, Therapy coordinator at Spirasi \n\n\n\n-Dr Katie McQuillan\, Psychotherapist \n\n\n\nSpirasi is Ireland’s National Centre for Victims of Torture. Through our models of care\, training programmes and alliances\, we support refugees and asylum seekers who arrive in this country from all over the world. The rehabilitation services offered by Spirasi are unique in Ireland and consist of the following: \n\n\n\nMultidisciplinary (medical\, therapeutic and psychosocial) Initial Assessments for both victims of torture and those who have suffered cruel and inhumane treatmentOngoing therapeutic interventions for victims of torture which includes individual\, group and family therapiesBoth in-house and outreach psychosocial supportsMedical Legal Reports (MLRs) for the protection processEnglish Language Classes for victims of torture and their families that complement the rehabilitative work\n\n\n\nOur Centre is based in Dublin with outreach psychosocial services are provided in Balseskin\, the main Reception Centre for the Irish State\, Mosney Direct Provision Centre and medical clinics in four areas of Ireland. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/lived-experiences-conflict-the-island-of-ireland/
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Voices of Witness
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nFiona Bolger\, poet\, writer and facilitator  \n\n\n\nCatherine Ann Cullen\, Poetry Ireland Poet in Residence \n\n\n\nOein DeBhairduin\, writer\, Mincéir and community activist  \n\n\n\nSupriya Kaur Dhaliwal\, poet    \n\n\n\nRichie Keane\, community worker and poet  Niamh Parsons\, singer and campaigner  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPoetry Ireland presents voices that bear witness to traumatic events\, campaign for change and express solidarity with those who resist and those who suffer. We explore the way in which words – poetry\, stories and song – can preserve memory\, provide solace and reflect on our times. The evening features work by extraordinary poets\, writers and musicians with personal experience of human rights campaigns\, challenging laws and borders\, and dealing with displacement\, inequality and injustice.   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFíona Bolger\n\n\n\nFióna Bolger is a poet\, writer and facilitator who has lived mainly in Ireland and India. Her first collection\, a compound of words\, was published by Yoda Press\, Delhi. Her forthcoming collection\, love in the original language\, is due out this year with Salmon Poetry. She is interested in plurilingualism as a strategy to cross borders and create new spaces for playing\, thinking and healing through words. So much of what controls our lives and our movements is written—she hopes a shift in language can bring change. www.fionabolgerpoetry.com  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatherine Ann Cullen\n\n\n\nCatherine Ann Cullen is Poetry Ireland’s inaugural Poet in Residence\, and an award-winning poet\, songwriter and children’s writer. Her three collections include The Other Now: New and Selected Poems (Dedalus 2016). The latest of her three children’s books is All Better! Poems on Illness & Recovery (Little Island 2019). She has twice won the Francis Ledwidge Prize\, won the Business 2 Arts Award for Best Use of Creativity in the Community\, and has been awarded many bursaries including the Kavanagh Fellowship. She has a PhD in Creative Writing and is a member of PalFest Ireland.  catherineanncullen.wordpress.com  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOein DeBhairduin\n\n\n\nOein DeBhairduin is the author of the award-winning ‘Why the Moon Travels’ (Skein Press 2020) and a creative soul with a passion for poetry\, folk herbalism and preserving the beauty of Traveller tales\, sayings\, retellings and historic exchanges. He is the manager of an education centre and a long-time board member of several Mincéirí community groups\, including having had the honour of being vice-chair of the Irish Traveller Movement and a council member of Mincéir Whidden. He seeks to pair community activism with cultural celebration\, recalling old tales with fresh modern connections and\, most of all\, he wishes to rekindle the hearth fires of a shared kinship.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSupriya Kaur Dhaliwal\n\n\n\nSupriya Kaur Dhaliwal was born in the Himalayan town of Palampur\, India. She studied at St Bede’s College\, Shimlam\, Trinity College\, Dublin\, and Queen’s University\, Belfast. Her poems have been translated into Arabic\, German and Italian\, and published widely including in Poetry Ireland Review\, Poetry Jukebox\, Poetry London\, The Bombay Literary Magazine\, The Irish Times and The Lonely Crowd. In 2018\, she was selected for Poetry Ireland’s Introductions Series. She is the 2021 Charles Wallace India Trust Fellow at the University of Kent. Supriya’s debut\, The Yak Dilemma\, is published by Makina Press\, London.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRichie Keane\n\n\n\nRichie Keane is a Community Worker with Fatima Groups United Family Resource Centre. He grew up in Ballymun and is a former postal worker. He is co-founder of Labour LGBT and SIPTU LGBTQ. He was project manager at the Irish Family Planning Association for A\, B and C v Ireland and a coordinator for Doctors for Choice\, he represented both organisations at the UN in Geneva. He studied at Ballymun Comprehensive\, the College of Commerce\, Rathmines\, and Maynooth University\, and was a Mary Kelly scholar at the School of Social Justice at UCD. He attempts to write poetry with Fatima Poetry Vigilantes and occasionally succeeds.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNiamh Parsons\n\n\n\nNiamh Parsons is one of the most distinctive voices in Irish music. She has recorded nine solo albums\, accompanied on six of them by her partner Graham  Dunne\, and guested on many others. She has sung in the bands Killera\, Loose Connections\, and Arcady\, winning a prestigious US Association for  Independent Music (AFIM) award in 1995 with Arcady. Her solo album ‘In My Prime’ was nominated for three BBC 2 Folk Awards\, and ‘Heart’s Desire’ won her another AFIM award. Niamh teaches on Ballyfermot CFE’s Ceoltóir traditional music performance course. She is President of the Executive of the Musician’s Union of Ireland\, and a founding member of FairPlé Gender Balance in Irish Traditional Music.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/voices-of-witness/
CATEGORIES:Music,Online,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Unapologetic: Our founding\, launch\, and the importance of centralising minority voices
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn – co-founder and co-editor in chief \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro – co-founder and co-editor in chief \n\n\n\nMargaret Harper – co-founder and co-editor in chief \n\n\n\nMary Conlon – member of the editorial board \n\n\n\nAisha Bolaji- member of the editorial board \n\n\n\nAshley Chadamoyo Makombe – member of the editorial board \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA panel discussion with the team of Unapologetic. Unapologetic is a new magazine that seeks to bring together artists\, academics\, creatives\, and activists to build a comprehensive view of the social issues in Irish society. This panel is a conversation between the founders of the magazine and some members of the team that have decided to join the magazine. The panel will discuss the magazine’s founding\, launch\, and the importance of centralising minority voices when discussing social issues in Ireland. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn is an MA in Technical Communication and E-Learning Student at the University of Limerick. Gareth also has a BA in Joint Honours (English and Sociology). Gareth has been an active member of the University’s community having volunteered with the Communities Committee and been a student leader. Gareth also believes in writing as a form of activism having published work for Unsilencing Black Voices and Douglass Week. Gareth is also a panellist for Gorm Media which produces a bi-weekly YouTube series that dissects the social issues facing Ireland today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\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\nPhoto Eoin Stephenson Sightline\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Margaret Harper\n\n\n\nMargaret Mills Harper is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English at the University of Limerick. She specialises in twentieth- and twenty-first–century Irish and American (US) literature in English\, especially poetry\, with particular attention to gender/race/class. One abiding focus is on the occult life and work of W. B. Yeats. She is the author or editor of seven books and numerous essays.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Conlon\n\n\n\nMary Conlon is the founder and Artistic Director of Ormston House\, a cultural resource centre in Limerick city\, where she has curated or produced seventy exhibitions and projects\, working with over three hundred artists – aged 8 to 82 – from thirty countries. She was the inaugural International Curator-in-Residence at the Aarhus Billedkunstcenter in Denmark\, and the Artistic Director of Memory of Water\, the Creative Europe project in six international cities. In 2019\, she was nominated to the Arts Council’s peer panel\, and in 2020\, she was elected by the Public Participation Network to the local government’s Strategic Policy Committee for Community\, Leisure and Culture. Also in 2020\, she was selected for the Helsinki International Curators Programme by Frame Finland and HIAP\, and for the Cultural Leadership Programme by Trans Europe Halles.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Chadamoyo Makombe\n\n\n\nAshley is a writer\, producer and Co-Founder of The GALPAL Collective\, an arts and multimedia collective created to highlight and celebrate the work of marginalised and diverse young creatives in Ireland. Ashley has always been interested in arts\, having studied both musical theatre and acting in her youth\, and during that time she has also worked with Tallaght Community Arts\, Eurobug Lithuania and Ireland\, Tallaght Young Filmmakers\, Rua Red Youth Arts Council and NOISE Flicks film festival and HER International Film Festival. She is currently in her 2nd year of Journalism Studies at the Technological University Dublin\, Irelands largest media training centre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAisha Bolaji\n\n\n\nAisha is co-founder and head of the visual arts team of the GALPAL Collective\, an arts and media collective dedicated to the creation\, celebration and curation of works by queer folk\, people of colour and women. She is currently studying Film and TV Production at the National Film School. As a director and producer Aisha has experience in short films (narrative and experimental)\, documentary and music videos. Aisha’s films are inspired by unapologetic femininity\, heritage and pop culture. Her latest short film ‘Olori ti Ku’ screened at the Dublin International Film Festival. \n\n\n\nShe has varying experiences in film as head of jury of the BAFTA recognised Her International Film Festival\, committee member of CHROMA International Film Festival\, panelist at the Dublin International Film Festival\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Connect Your Story to Your Voice!
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn this interactive online workshop\, you will learn ways to connect your story to your voice and become a better advocate. Whether you’re a human rights defender\, a public speaker or an educator\, useful tools are guaranteed during this fun and dynamic workshop. Facilitator Dónal Kearney combines his diverse and varied experience from the worlds of musical performance\, vocal pedagogy and international human rights law. A former Research Assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders\, Dónal is also a critically-acclaimed vocalist and a sought-after facilitator who trained with humanitarian organisation Musicians Without Borders. As part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, this free advocacy workshop will cover the fundamentals of vocal technique and will introduce basic story structure and characterisation to explore the art of audience engagement. Each participant will get the opportunity to apply these tools and approaches to their own life. \n\n\n\nTopic: Connect your Story to your Voice \n\n\n\nTime: Oct 22\, 2021 05:00 PM DublinJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83818875368?pwd=V2JrRS8xU0Uza0g4MkRpNWZublZ5dz09Meeting ID: 838 1887 5368 \n\n\n\nPasscode: 484462 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFacilitator Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney is a facilitator and community-builder with diverse experience of content design and delivery in the corporate\, public and voluntary sectors. Recent clients include EY Ireland\, the Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival\, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival\, Early Years (NI)\, Focus Ireland and Clanrye Group (NI). Dónal holds a Master’s in International Human Rights law\, a degree in Law from the University of Cambridge\, and has worked at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Dónal is also co-founder of the Irish Institute of Music and Song and has delivered workshops to elite arts organisations in Ireland\, the UK\, the Netherlands\, China\, and the USA. He has completed intensive leadership training with UCD Innovation Academy and global humanitarian organisation Musicians Without Borders\, and has reached people of all ages and ability\, including groups experiencing homelessness\, families living in direct provision\, people with disabilities\, teenagers and children as young as 4 years old. He is Community Facilitator for non-profit social enterprise Grow Remote and builds online and offline communities to nurture healthy and productive workers while promoting sustainable local living. Dónal’s dynamic and interactive facilitation style encourages the audience to engage with social justice issues with a creative and playful approach.
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SUMMARY:Walking the Walk: Practical Activism
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nLia Mills\, Chair of Irish PEN \n\n\n\nMaria McManus\, Freedom to Write \n\n\n\nSophia Hillan\, No Small Talk \n\n\n\nCelia de Fréine\, No Small Talk \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPanel members will give an introduction to the national and international work being done by Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann in response to escalating threats to human rights around the world. The panel will discuss the work of Freedom to Write (a sub-committee of Irish PEN/PEN na h Éireann) in response to threats to freedom of expression both at home and abroad. They will explore the threats to journalists on this island\, as well as the imprisonment and harassment of Freedom to Write’s four chosen writers in countries such as Turkey\, China\, India and Peru. \n\n\n\nPanellists will also discuss the recent research undertaken by No Small Talk\, another sub-committee of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann\, which was established in response to the hostility and polarisation in public discourse around Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition\, No Small Talk seeks to understand the challenges faced by indigenous languages on these islands and to fight for linguistic rights. \n\n\n\nThe panel will outline the relationships that Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is currently developing with the other PEN Centres on these islands\, as well as its involvement in worldwide campaigns run by PEN International. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Creative Connections project\, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs. The event is also funded by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLia Mills\n\n\n\nLia is a founder member of the Freedom to Write Campaign (Ireland) which amalgamated with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann in 2020. She is the current chairperson of the Board of Irish PEN and a member of the No Small Talk and Freedom to Write sub-committees of that organisation. She writes novels\, short stories\, memoir and essays. Her first novel\, Another Alice\, was nominated for the Irish Times Irish Fiction Prize. Nothing Simple was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year at the inaugural Irish Book Awards. Her memoir of an experience of oral cancer\, In Your Face\, was named as a favourite book of 2007 by several commentators.Her most recent novel\, Fallen\,was the Dublin/Belfast Two Cities One Book festival selection for 2016. She was a contributor to Yes\, We Still Drink Coffee! published in 2019 by Frontline Defenders and Fighting Words\, and to the first and second series of the EFACIS Kaleidoscope project (2019 and 2021\, respectively). In 2016 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Laws by the University of Dublin\, Trinity College. She is currently a doctoral candidate (Creative Writing) at the University of Limerick where she holds a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Recent work has been published in The Dublin Review\, The Stinging Fly\, The Dublin Review of Books\, Kaleidoscope 2 and Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020. \n\n\n\nLia is an experienced creative writing teacher and workshop facilitator and has held several residencies\, most recently at Farmleigh House and at University College Dublin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelia de Fréine\n\n\n\nCelia de Fréine writes in many genres in both Irish and English. Awards for her poetry include the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnacht. To date she has published nine collections. Her plays have won numerous Oireachtas awards and are studied in schools and universities. Her film and television scripts have won awards in Ireland and America. Ceannródaí (LeabhairCOMHAR\, 2018) her biography of Louise Gavan Duffy won ACIS Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana (2019) and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2018) and Gradam Uí Shuilleabháin (2019). Cur i gCéill\, her first thriller\, published by LeabhairCOMHAR in 2019\, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2020). www.celiadefreine.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSophia Hillan\n\n\n\nSophia Hillan began her writing career with prizes for her first short stories from the BBC (1979) and Listowel Writers’ Week (1980)\, publication in “New Irish Writing” (Irish Press) and a short-listed nomination for a Hennessy Award (1981).  She went on\, while pursuing a parallel academic life first as a Research Fellow then Assistant Director of Queen’s University Belfast’s Institute of Irish Studies (1993-2003)\, to be shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s first V.S. Pritchett Memorial Award (1999)\, to be published in David Marcus’s first Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (2005) and to have her work commissioned and broadcast by BBC’s Radio 4.  Her 1987 Ph.D on novelist and short story writer Michael McLaverty\, Seamus Heaney’s early mentor\, was published as In Quiet Places (1989) and The Silken Twine (1992)\, and her uncovering  of the previously unknown story of Jane Austen’s Donegal connection\, was published as May\, Lou and Cass; Jane Austen’s Nieces in Ireland (2011). She has since brought out two novels\, The Friday Tree (2014) and The Way We Danced (2016)\, and a collection of short stories\, The Cocktail Hour (2018). Her work has most recently been published in Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland (2018); The Danger and the Glory: Irish Authors and the Art of Writing (2019); Her Other Language: Northern Irish Women Writers Address Domestic Violence and Abuse (2020); and Look! It’s a Woman Writer: Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020 (2021). Sophia Hillan is presently Vice-Chair of the Board of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaria McManus\n\n\n\nMaria McManus’ poetry collections are Available Light\, (Arlen House)\,We are Bone\, The Cello Suites and Reading the Dog (all Lagan Press).Ellipses is published as a limited-edition hand-made pamphlet. (Coast to Coast to Coast\, 2021).  Collaborations include WRETCHES with Keith Acheson\, Tierra Sallada with Martin Devek\, EPILOGUE\, DUST\, TURF and At The Margins with Eileen McClory. She is Artistic Director of Quotidian – Word on the Street\, which includes the Poetry Jukebox. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin UNESCO City of Literature\n\n\n\nDublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature\, one of 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide. With four Nobel prize winners (Yeats\, Beckett\, Shaw and Heaney)\, a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD\, over half a dozen books festivals\, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning\, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has literature in its blood. \n\n\n\nNo Small Talk\n\n\n\nNo Small Talk is a group of writers that has come together out of concern for the level of division and increasing hostility that has crept into the rhetoric around Brexit. We want to generate links between writers and artists in both Ireland and Britain to challenge this debasing of language and the perversions of truth which are now regular features of public discourse. The aim is to restore positive links and connections between us all. (Celia de Fréine\, Martina Devlin\, Catherine Dunne\, Margo Gorman\, Sophia Hillan\, Liz McSkeane\, Lia Mills) \n\n\n\nMission Statement: The aim of this group is to initiate and facilitate a conversation among writers and artists of Ireland & Great Britain in order to strengthen the existing links between us. We will explore the role and intersections of the various languages spoken on these islands and we will challenge the current public discourse that creates division and conflict. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walking-the-walk-practical-activism/
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SUMMARY:Duck\, Duck\, Goose
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nWatergate Theatre\, Kilkenny\, 16 October \n\n\n\nLyric Theatre\, Belfast\, 19-20 October – booking link to come \n\n\n\nBelltable Limerick\, 23 October \n\n\n\nOnline Discussion – video will be made available on Oct 23\, 7pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCaitríona Daly \n\n\n\nJim Culleton \n\n\n\nJoy-Tendai Kangere  \n\n\n\nCharlotte McIvor  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDuck\, Duck\, Goose follows the story of Chris Quinn\, a young man who\, in an attempt to help his friend\, becomes deeply embroiled in a rape allegation.  As the rules change\, and confusion reigns supreme\, Chris struggles between loyalty\, love and doubt. \n\n\n\nFull of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity\, this viscerally-charged new play by Caitríona Daly constantly shifts our perspective on ideas of consent\, trust\, and trial by social media. \n\n\n\nDuck Duck Goose by Catríona Daly was developed as part of Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland initiative between 2017 and 2019. This was a two-year process in association with Draíocht\, The Everyman\, Lime Tree Theatre/Belltable\, Lyric Theatre\, Pavilion Theatre\, and Town Hall Theatre. \n\n\n\nThis play is the second to have been produced by Fishamble through this programme. Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering\, developing and producing new plays of national importance with a global reach\, while championing the role of the playwright. \n\n\n\nWritten by Caitríona Daly \n\n\n\nDirected by Jim Culleton \n\n\n\nProduced by Eva Scanlan \n\n\n\nPerformed by John Doran\, Naoise Dunbar\, Caitríona Ennis\, Liam Heslin\, Aidan Moriarty\, and Roseanna Purcell \n\n\n\nSet and Lighting Design by Paul Keogan \n\n\n\nCostume Design by Saileóg O’Halloran \n\n\n\nMusic and Sound Design by Carl Kennedy \n\n\n\nMovement Director Bryan Borroughs \n\n\n\nJim Culleton and Catriona Daly will discuss the production during an online post-show discussion Saturday 23 October\, 7-8pm \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\nCatríona Daly\n\n\n\nCaitríona Daly is a writer from Dublin. Her plays include Panned\, Test Dummy (Irish Times Theatre Award Best New Play Nominee 2016) and Normal (Dublin Fringe 2017: Fishamble New Writing Award Nominee and First Fortnight Nominee).She was a participant in Six in the Attic\, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative\, from 2018-2019 and a participant on the inaugural Abbey Works programme in 2019. She is currently under commission with The Abbey Theatre and Fishamble: The New Play Company. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Culleton\n\n\n\nJim Culleton is the artistic director of Fishamble: The New Play Company\, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland\, UK\, Europe\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won many Irish and international awards\, including Olivier\, The Stage\, Scotsman Fringe First\, and Irish Times Best Director awards. Jim has also directed for Audible\, the Abbey\, the Gaiety\, the Belgrade\, 7:84 Scotland\, Project\, Amharclann de hÍde\, Tinderbox\, The Passion Machine\, the Ark\, Second Age\, Dundee Rep\, Draíocht\, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF\, RTÉ Radio 1\, Frontline Defenders\, Amnesty International\, Little Museum of Dublin\, Fighting Words\, RTÉ lyric fm\, Soho Theatre\, Scripts Festival\, Vessel and APA (Australia)\, TNL (Canada)\, Solas Nua and Kennedy Center (Washington DC)\, Odyssey (LA)\, Origin\, Irish Arts Center and 59E59 (Off -Broadway)\, as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End\, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway. Jim has taught for NYU\, NUI\, GSA\, Uversity\, the Lir\, Villanova\, Notre Dame\, UM\, UMD\, and TCD \n\n\n\n\n\nZimbabwean born Joy-Tendai Kangere is an education equity\, adult learning and Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion advocate. She holds Bachelor of Civil Law degree from UCD Sutherland School of Law. Joy-Tendai is a Board Member of AONTAS and Co-Founded Roots in Africa-Ireland Network. She facilitates community and organisational discussion representation and social inclusion. Her deep commitment to social justice and racial equity is what motivates her advocacy work for equality for women\, girls and ethnic minoritized communities. She has lived experience of racial inequity; she understands the challenges faced by ethnic minorities and young people of African descent living in Ireland in accessing services. She also has worked on various projects to promote education and literacy for primary school children on the African continent. \n\n\n\nCharlotte McIvor is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland\, Galway and a co-lead in the Active* Consent Programme\, an Irish national programme that uses workshops\, research\, social media and creative-arts based interventions like drama and film to support young people from 15-25 to have  positive and confident sexual health and well-being. Active* Consent also works with groups that are important to young people\, from teachers to parents\, college staff\, and policy makers.  McIvor is the author of Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism and multiple edited collections\, articles and book chapters on interculturalism\, migration\, race/ethnicity\, gender/sexuality and performance.  \n\n\n\nFishamble: The New Play Company\n\n\n\nFishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering\, developing and producing new plays of national importance with a global reach\, while championing the role of the playwright. It harnesses the imaginative power of theatre to provide audiences with a diverse range of contemporary\, compelling and heartfelt dramatic works\, and typically supports over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. Fishamble thinks nationally and reaches globally\, touring its productions to audiences throughout Ireland\, and to 19 other countries\, and has received many awards in Ireland and internationally\, including an Olivier Award. \n\n\n\nwww.fishamble.com \n\n\n\nFishamble is funded by the Arts Council\, Dublin City Council\, and Culture Ireland. \n\n\n\n‘the much-loved Fishamble [is] a global brand with international theatrical presence… \n\n\n\nan unswerving force for new writing’ Irish Times \n\n\n\n‘Ireland’s leading new writing company’ The Stage \n\n\n\n‘forward-thinking Fishamble’ New York Times \n\n\n\n‘excellent Fishamble…Ireland’s terrific Fishamble’ Guardian \n\n\n\n‘Fishamble puts electricity into the National grid of dreams’ Sebastian Barry \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/duck-duck-goose/
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221017T183000
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SUMMARY:Advocacy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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\nWhether you’re a human rights defender\, a public speaker or an educator\, this interactive workshop will deliver useful tools for storytelling and audience engagement. Each participant will get the opportunity to apply these tools and approaches to their own life and is encouraged to bring a campaign or human rights issue into the workshop. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Dónal Kearney combines his diverse and varied experience from the worlds of musical performance\, vocal pedagogy and international human rights law to bring a unique approach to advocacy. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney is a facilitator and community-builder withdiverse experience of content design and delivery in thecorporate\, public and voluntary sectors. He holds a Master’sin International Human Rights law\, a degree in Law from theUniversity of Cambridge\, and has worked at the Office of theHigh Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He hascompleted intensive leadership training with UCDInnovation Academy and global humanitarian organisationMusicians Without Borders\, and has reached people of allages and ability\, including groups experiencinghomelessness\, families living in direct provision\, people withdisabilities\, teenagers and children as young as 4 years old.He is Community Facilitator for non-profit social enterpriseGrow Remote and builds local communities of remoteworkers online and offline.Dónal is also an artist and is co-founder of the Irish Instituteof Music and Song. He has delivered workshops to elite artsorganisations in Ireland\, the UK\, the Netherlands\, China\, andthe USA. Dónal’s dynamic and interactive facilitation styleencourages the audience to engage with social justice issueswith a creative and playful approach. Previous clientsinclude EY Ireland\, the Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival\,the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival\, Early Years (NI)\,Focus Ireland and Clanrye Group (NI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/advocacy-workshop/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221017T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221017T210000
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SUMMARY:Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T200000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153628Z
CREATED:20220907T110819Z
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SUMMARY:My Body My Choice: Abortion Rights Activism Across the Globe
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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:20221023T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T130000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153558Z
CREATED:20221010T120106Z
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SUMMARY:Online Exhibition Launch
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T173000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153554Z
CREATED:20220907T134758Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153554Z
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SUMMARY:In- Between
DESCRIPTION:Where are Women Organising?\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts…  \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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