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SUMMARY:Writing A Protest Song
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets Free. Book here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFighting Words is delighted to be part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, hosted by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality.  At these three workshops we will look at the history of these songs\, and draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant for today’s generation. The workshops will culminate in a performance at Fighting Words on Saturday 16th October 2020. Participants need to be available to attend all workshops. Workshop will take place in accordance with Government Covid-19 guidelines and best practice. Workshops may be moved online if necessary. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCheck out the song written by participants in the workshop below! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThey say that in just 30 years\, \n\n\n\nThe world we know will disappear\, \n\n\n\nThe plastic in our atmosphere – \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe north is full of melting ice\, \n\n\n\nAnd then our sea levels will rise\, \n\n\n\nPlastic right before our eyes \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBy Aoibhinn Danneels \n\n\n\nFacilitator Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\nOur aim is to help children and young people\, and adults who did not have this opportunity as children\, to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. At its core\, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers – from a wide range of backgrounds – to be resilient\, creative and successful shapers of their own lives. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song/2021-10-09/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
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SUMMARY:Opening Ceremony – Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Opening Ceremony of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival takes place on the Roof Garden of the Chester Beatty\, Dublin. The ceremony includes presentations from Ivana Bacik\, TD; Mary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality; and Tara Madden\, Head of Operations and Public Engagement\, Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nAs part of the ceremony\, Smashing Times are launching the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery\, an online space exhibiting artworks for the arts and human rights\, funded by The Arts Council. The Virtual Arts Gallery will hold visual art exhibitions\, films\, poetry and sound art\, with permanent exhibitions\, and a number of special exhibitions available only for the duration of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 15 – 24 October 2021. \n\n\n\nThe Opening Ceremony features a musical performance from actor and singer-songwriter Carla Ryan\, and violinist Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. Following the ceremony\, guests can attend the world premiere performance of River of Thorns (booking here)\, or view the Chester Beatty Museum. \n\n\n\nAll are welcome to join us for creativity\, conversation\, and a celebration of the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIvana Bacik\n\n\n\nIvana was elected to Dáil Éireann to serve as TD for Dublin Bay South in July 2021\, following a bye-election resulting from the resignation of Fine Gael TD Eoghan Murphy. Ivana grew up in Rathgar/Terenure and lives in Portobello with her young family. She is a lawyer and has taught law over many years in Trinity College Dublin. As a student activist Ivana was taken to court and threatened with prison for providing information on abortion – in a case that paved the way for repeal of the Eighth Amendment and legalisation of abortion in Ireland. \n\n\n\nShe was first elected to serve in Seanad Éireann in 2007. An experienced legislator\, Ivana has seen more of her opposition bills become law than any other senator. Ivana’s reforming legislation has tackled issues such as working conditions for freelancers\, secular marriage\, women’s health rights and LGBT equality. A long-term campaigner for constitutional change\, Ivana was a leading national and local voice in the Marriage Equality and Repeal the 8th campaigns. \n\n\n\nIvana was a founder of the Portobello Educate Together multi-denominational school start-up group and is on the Board of Canal Way ETNS\, Dublin 8. She is currently working with families across Dublin Bay South to ensure increased provision for children with autism in local schools. Ivana is a keen cyclist\, swimmer and climate campaigner. She is working closely with Labour councillors in Dublin Bay South to improve cycling infrastructure\, increase green spaces for communities and enhance the water quality and recreational value of Dublin Bay. Ivana’s surname is Czech. Her paternal grandfather was imprisoned by the Nazis. After WWII\, he moved to Ireland with his young family\, where they settled in Waterford. Her mother’s side of the family are very proud Murphys from Co. Clare. \n\n\n\nIvana is one of the Front Line Defenders Award Patrons for 2021 – find out more here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTara Madden\n\n\n\nAs Head of Operations & Public Engagement\, Tara oversees the Rest and Respite Programme\, public engagement and events\, human resources and the general administration of the organisation. She contributes to organisational planning\, monitoring\, evaluation and learning. She also coordinates educational projects & internships. Prior to joining Front Line Defenders in 2004 she worked in Japan on the JET Programme and on development projects in Nepal and the Philippines. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release early 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/opening-ceremony-dublin-arts-and-human-rights-festival-2021/
LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch,Onsite
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \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\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \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\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in 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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Map
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAlice Maher\, artist \n\n\n\nRachel Fallon\, artist \n\n\n\nMaolíosa Boyle\, curator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nThe Map – a collaboration by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon (Gallery 1) \n\n\n\nWe are the Map – text and sound installation by Sinéad Gleeson and Stephen Shannon (Gallery 2)  \n\n\n\nOpen to the public – 18 October 2021 – 29 January 2022 \n\n\n\nThe Map\, a collaborative workby artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallonis the second exhibition in the Magdalene Series at Rua Red\, curated by Maolíosa Boyle.  \n\n\n\nThe series features the work of five of Ireland’s leading artists Amanda Coogan\, Jesse Jones\, Grace Dyas\, Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon. They were commissioned by Rua Red in 2018 to create work in response to the history and legacy of Mary Magdalene and her association with the incarceration and institutionalisation of women\, and to propose a new world uncurbed by religious\, political or societal doctrine. It is a world viewed through the lens of contemporary feminism and feminist theology. \n\n\n\nThe Map is a monumental textile sculpture spanning the enormous space of Gallery One. With its own continents\, winds\, currents and constellations\, The Map draws the viewer in\, inviting a reorientation. Its richly worked surface is an epic mappa mundi where the structures and languages of cartography are used to imagine and re-imagine the life\, legacy and mythology of Mary Magdalene and her impact on women’s lives. An alternative topographic and psychic landscape is uncovered in this witty\, complex un-picking of the established narrative of Mary Magdalene.  \n\n\n\n“Maps are neither mirrors of nature nor neutral transmitters of universal truths.  They contain silences as well as articulations\, secrets as well as knowledge\, lies as well as truth.”  \n\n\n\nThe Sovereign Map: Theoretical approaches to cartography throughout history’ by Jacob\, Conley and Dahl. \n\n\n\nThe Map comprises highly detailed hand-embroidered\, sewn\, painted\, appliqued\, printed\, found and crocheted components. The intense two and a half years of labour over three lockdowns to create the map is a testament to the invisible labour of women everywhere.  \n\n\n\nMaher and Fallon utilise the iconography of Renaissance maps and medieval tapestries\, as well as the language of Victorian ‘cartes de tendre’ and moral schemas such as ‘the Pilgrim’s Progress’\, to subvert and challenge the very belief systems and power structures that these maps were established to uphold.   \n\n\n\nTo the side of The Map\, a whisper\, emanates from a deep blue space (Gallery 2). \n\n\n\nYou do not need to know my name but: \n\n\n\nI am Mary\, Amina\, Penelope\, Brigid\,  \n\n\n\nPersephone\, Frida\, Maebh\, Makeda\,  \n\n\n\nSojourner\, Granuaile\, Cassiopeia\, Nan \n\n\n\nI am Hecate\, Rosa\, Lakshmi\, Aphra  \n\n\n\nthe X-Case Girl; the women given letters not names\,  \n\n\n\nSappho\, Marsha\, Maura\, Edna\, \n\n\n\nGreen Tara\, Black Madonna \n\n\n\nI am the first girl child they put in the septic tank \n\n\n\nCome to the loud\, feral  \n\n\n\nHerland\, SheLand\, Theyland.  \n\n\n\nA Queenopolis\, Cisopolis\, Transopolis  \n\n\n\nA Republic of personhood.  \n\n\n\nI am the map. \n\n\n\nWe are the map. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’; is an ekphrasis / intimate\, immersive sound response located in Gallery Two\, by writer Sinéad Gleeson and composer Stephen Shannon. Gleeson was originally paired with Maher and Fallon to write a text in response to the work in Gallery 1 for the catalogue publication –– but from this\, a new collaboration developed. It become an integral audio piece\, moving from Gleeson’s original text into an immersive soundscape that accompanies ‘The Map’. \n\n\n\nTheir incantatory sound quest is narrated by an ‘everywoman’ who moves around a new terrain. The everywoman’s freedom of movement is in contrast to the many women who were unable to escape the laundries\, mother & baby homes or homes where they worked non-stop. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’ is divided into 24 sections echoing the 24 books of the Odyssey. It’s a journey\, a pilgrim’s progress\, a quest through new lands and terrains. \n\n\n\nGleeson and Shannon collaborated on the sound and texture of the piece\, adding music from Mary Barnecutt\, Sadhbh Sullivan and Matthew Nolan. It builds to a final chorus of 36 individual voices united in a mantra; their herstories filling areas of Mahers and Fallon’s mappa mundi. Voices such as Lynn Ruane\, Catherine Corless\, Vicky Phelan\, Ailbhe Smith\, Felicia Speaks\, Rosaleen Mc Donagh\, Olwyn Fouéré\, Marian Keyes\, local women from Tallaght and the Magdalene artists themselves. They all carry their own stories that now inhabit The Map.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRua Red\n\n\n\nRua Red is a contemporary art space housing two galleries\, a theatre/cinema\, a dance studio\, a conference room\, a digital media suite\, recording facilities\, music rooms\, workshop areas\, artist’s studios\, office space and a café. \n\n\n\nRua Red exhibit the work of established Irish and International artists who are committed to producing work within a socio political framework. The education programme reflects the organisations interests with place\, politics and people through a challenging programme of events\, workshops\, screenings and performances that allow audiences and visitors to engage with the exhibitions through the mediums of music\, dance\, theatre and visual art. \n\n\n\nIn addition to Rua Red’s programme the organisation also houses and works alongside a number of independent creative organisations and individuals through the provision of office spaces. Rua Red also provide subsidised artist studios which practising artists can hire at a subsidised rate for 1-3 years. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nRua Red is committed to providing a fully accessible experience for all visitors. We are constantly working to try and improve our facilities to make them as accessible as possible. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve please let us know. For assistance with planning your visit around contact reception on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie. \n\n\n\nInformation Desk\n\n\n\nRua Red’s Reception is located straight on from the main entrance. Staff are happy to help with any questions you have. \n\n\n\nLift Access\n\n\n\nOur entrance is at street level and all the galleries are wheelchair and buggy accessible. All levels are lift-accessible. A large lift beside the reception area provides access to all floors. \n\n\n\nToilets & baby care facilities\n\n\n\nThere are accessible toilets on each level and baby changing facilities are available on the ground floor. \n\n\n\nAssistance Animals\n\n\n\nGuide dogs\, hearing and registered assistance dogs are welcome. Staff can provide a bowl of water. \n\n\n\nSound enhancement system / Induction loops\n\n\n\nHearing induction loops are fitted at the reception desk and Infra~Hear infrared assistive listening devices are available for use in our Performance Space. \n\n\n\nSubtitles and transcripts\n\n\n\nTranscripts are available for selected exhibitions. Please contact the Reception Desk in advance on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n2 hours free parking is available in the close by Square Towncentre Car Park. €3 for 2 hours parking is available in the close by Euro Car Parks. Check Parkopedia for full information and best options. \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \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(2009)\, 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\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are 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\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-15/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Forgotten Voices International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for the Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage\, Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII project. The project uses a diverse collection of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\nFour European partners from Ireland\, Spain\, Poland and Germany come together and select 20 stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ in a time of war\, 5 from each partner country. The stories inform the creation of a digital book\, ‘live’ theatre monologues and a twenty-minute film which are  then shown to the public and used to bring people together to promote a remembrance of European history. The stories explore what happens when democracy is denied and how this impacts on ordinary people from the genocide of the Jewish and Roma communities to the imprisonment and deaths of  political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish Refugees\, Polish civilians\, German anti-Fascist resisters and many more. By shining a light on dark events of the past\, the  project uses stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ to highlight the role of the EU today  to promote democracy\, equality and peace for all. By telling the stories of ordinary people who stood up against fascism and supported democracy and freedom\, the project promotes a remembrance of a shared European history and raises awareness of the shared values that Europe stands for in relation to promoting peace\, democracy and the wellbeing of all its people equally. \n\n\n\nThe project culminates in an international creative arts event held for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival where participants take part in interactive theatre performances\, film screenings\, panel discussions and debates\, highlighting stories of a diverse range of groups who stood up against fascism and hatred of the other.  Participants then engage in debate on how to recognise the growth of fascism in society and debate on contemporary democratic achievements in Europe and how European solidarity plays a key role in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all people today. A key aim is to encourage participants to recognise the importance of European solidarity and the way in which the EU promotes right and values for all people equally and to engage citizens in actions to prevent the growth of intolerance and to promote diversity and inclusion. \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by Europe for Citizens and the partners are Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead partner); IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/forgotten-voices-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\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\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rights-on-the-rooftop-2/
LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Onsite,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T100000
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are 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\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-16/1/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Writing A Protest Song
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets Free. Book here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFighting Words is delighted to be part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, hosted by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality.  At these three workshops we will look at the history of these songs\, and draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant for today’s generation. The workshops will culminate in a performance at Fighting Words on Saturday 16th October 2020. Participants need to be available to attend all workshops. Workshop will take place in accordance with Government Covid-19 guidelines and best practice. Workshops may be moved online if necessary. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCheck out the song written by participants in the workshop below! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThey say that in just 30 years\, \n\n\n\nThe world we know will disappear\, \n\n\n\nThe plastic in our atmosphere – \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe north is full of melting ice\, \n\n\n\nAnd then our sea levels will rise\, \n\n\n\nPlastic right before our eyes \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBy Aoibhinn Danneels \n\n\n\nFacilitator Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\nOur aim is to help children and young people\, and adults who did not have this opportunity as children\, to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. At its core\, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers – from a wide range of backgrounds – to be resilient\, creative and successful shapers of their own lives. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song/2021-10-16/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Songwriting,Workshop,Youth Event
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \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\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \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\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in 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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n Image: Golden Bride by Linda Greene  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \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(2009)\, 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\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\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\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rights-on-the-rooftop-2021-10-16/
LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are 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\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-16/2/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \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(2009)\, 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\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns-3/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\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\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rights-on-the-rooftop-2021-10-17/
LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are 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\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-17/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are 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\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-18/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/gathering-on-the-pond/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Map
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAlice Maher\, artist \n\n\n\nRachel Fallon\, artist \n\n\n\nMaolíosa Boyle\, curator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nThe Map – a collaboration by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon (Gallery 1) \n\n\n\nWe are the Map – text and sound installation by Sinéad Gleeson and Stephen Shannon (Gallery 2)  \n\n\n\nOpen to the public – 18 October 2021 – 29 January 2022 \n\n\n\nThe Map\, a collaborative workby artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallonis the second exhibition in the Magdalene Series at Rua Red\, curated by Maolíosa Boyle.  \n\n\n\nThe series features the work of five of Ireland’s leading artists Amanda Coogan\, Jesse Jones\, Grace Dyas\, Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon. They were commissioned by Rua Red in 2018 to create work in response to the history and legacy of Mary Magdalene and her association with the incarceration and institutionalisation of women\, and to propose a new world uncurbed by religious\, political or societal doctrine. It is a world viewed through the lens of contemporary feminism and feminist theology. \n\n\n\nThe Map is a monumental textile sculpture spanning the enormous space of Gallery One. With its own continents\, winds\, currents and constellations\, The Map draws the viewer in\, inviting a reorientation. Its richly worked surface is an epic mappa mundi where the structures and languages of cartography are used to imagine and re-imagine the life\, legacy and mythology of Mary Magdalene and her impact on women’s lives. An alternative topographic and psychic landscape is uncovered in this witty\, complex un-picking of the established narrative of Mary Magdalene.  \n\n\n\n“Maps are neither mirrors of nature nor neutral transmitters of universal truths.  They contain silences as well as articulations\, secrets as well as knowledge\, lies as well as truth.”  \n\n\n\nThe Sovereign Map: Theoretical approaches to cartography throughout history’ by Jacob\, Conley and Dahl. \n\n\n\nThe Map comprises highly detailed hand-embroidered\, sewn\, painted\, appliqued\, printed\, found and crocheted components. The intense two and a half years of labour over three lockdowns to create the map is a testament to the invisible labour of women everywhere.  \n\n\n\nMaher and Fallon utilise the iconography of Renaissance maps and medieval tapestries\, as well as the language of Victorian ‘cartes de tendre’ and moral schemas such as ‘the Pilgrim’s Progress’\, to subvert and challenge the very belief systems and power structures that these maps were established to uphold.   \n\n\n\nTo the side of The Map\, a whisper\, emanates from a deep blue space (Gallery 2). \n\n\n\nYou do not need to know my name but: \n\n\n\nI am Mary\, Amina\, Penelope\, Brigid\,  \n\n\n\nPersephone\, Frida\, Maebh\, Makeda\,  \n\n\n\nSojourner\, Granuaile\, Cassiopeia\, Nan \n\n\n\nI am Hecate\, Rosa\, Lakshmi\, Aphra  \n\n\n\nthe X-Case Girl; the women given letters not names\,  \n\n\n\nSappho\, Marsha\, Maura\, Edna\, \n\n\n\nGreen Tara\, Black Madonna \n\n\n\nI am the first girl child they put in the septic tank \n\n\n\nCome to the loud\, feral  \n\n\n\nHerland\, SheLand\, Theyland.  \n\n\n\nA Queenopolis\, Cisopolis\, Transopolis  \n\n\n\nA Republic of personhood.  \n\n\n\nI am the map. \n\n\n\nWe are the map. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’; is an ekphrasis / intimate\, immersive sound response located in Gallery Two\, by writer Sinéad Gleeson and composer Stephen Shannon. Gleeson was originally paired with Maher and Fallon to write a text in response to the work in Gallery 1 for the catalogue publication –– but from this\, a new collaboration developed. It become an integral audio piece\, moving from Gleeson’s original text into an immersive soundscape that accompanies ‘The Map’. \n\n\n\nTheir incantatory sound quest is narrated by an ‘everywoman’ who moves around a new terrain. The everywoman’s freedom of movement is in contrast to the many women who were unable to escape the laundries\, mother & baby homes or homes where they worked non-stop. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’ is divided into 24 sections echoing the 24 books of the Odyssey. It’s a journey\, a pilgrim’s progress\, a quest through new lands and terrains. \n\n\n\nGleeson and Shannon collaborated on the sound and texture of the piece\, adding music from Mary Barnecutt\, Sadhbh Sullivan and Matthew Nolan. It builds to a final chorus of 36 individual voices united in a mantra; their herstories filling areas of Mahers and Fallon’s mappa mundi. Voices such as Lynn Ruane\, Catherine Corless\, Vicky Phelan\, Ailbhe Smith\, Felicia Speaks\, Rosaleen Mc Donagh\, Olwyn Fouéré\, Marian Keyes\, local women from Tallaght and the Magdalene artists themselves. They all carry their own stories that now inhabit The Map.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRua Red\n\n\n\nRua Red is a contemporary art space housing two galleries\, a theatre/cinema\, a dance studio\, a conference room\, a digital media suite\, recording facilities\, music rooms\, workshop areas\, artist’s studios\, office space and a café. \n\n\n\nRua Red exhibit the work of established Irish and International artists who are committed to producing work within a socio political framework. The education programme reflects the organisations interests with place\, politics and people through a challenging programme of events\, workshops\, screenings and performances that allow audiences and visitors to engage with the exhibitions through the mediums of music\, dance\, theatre and visual art. \n\n\n\nIn addition to Rua Red’s programme the organisation also houses and works alongside a number of independent creative organisations and individuals through the provision of office spaces. Rua Red also provide subsidised artist studios which practising artists can hire at a subsidised rate for 1-3 years. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nRua Red is committed to providing a fully accessible experience for all visitors. We are constantly working to try and improve our facilities to make them as accessible as possible. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve please let us know. For assistance with planning your visit around contact reception on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie. \n\n\n\nInformation Desk\n\n\n\nRua Red’s Reception is located straight on from the main entrance. Staff are happy to help with any questions you have. \n\n\n\nLift Access\n\n\n\nOur entrance is at street level and all the galleries are wheelchair and buggy accessible. All levels are lift-accessible. A large lift beside the reception area provides access to all floors. \n\n\n\nToilets & baby care facilities\n\n\n\nThere are accessible toilets on each level and baby changing facilities are available on the ground floor. \n\n\n\nAssistance Animals\n\n\n\nGuide dogs\, hearing and registered assistance dogs are welcome. Staff can provide a bowl of water. \n\n\n\nSound enhancement system / Induction loops\n\n\n\nHearing induction loops are fitted at the reception desk and Infra~Hear infrared assistive listening devices are available for use in our Performance Space. \n\n\n\nSubtitles and transcripts\n\n\n\nTranscripts are available for selected exhibitions. Please contact the Reception Desk in advance on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n2 hours free parking is available in the close by Square Towncentre Car Park. €3 for 2 hours parking is available in the close by Euro Car Parks. Check Parkopedia for full information and best options. \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-map/2021-10-18/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/gathering-on-the-pond-2/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are 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\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-19/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \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\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \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\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in 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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a 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\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/gathering-on-the-pond-3/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T213000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211011T120704Z
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SUMMARY:Limbo
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\nRiverbank Arts Centre\, Newbridge – 18 October\, 8pm \n\n\n\n\n\nDroichead Arts Centre\, Drogheda – 19 October\, 8pm \n\n\n\nGarter Lane Arts Centre\, Waterford – 19 October\, 7.30pm \n\n\n\nSolstice Arts Centre\, Navan – 20 October\, 7.30pm \n\n\n\nPavilion Theatre\, Dun Laoghaire – 25 October\, 3pm and 8pm \n\n\n\nLinenhall Arts Centre \, Castlebar – 28 October\, 8pm \n\n\n\nClub Scannán Sailearna\, Inverin \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis film tour of the acclaimed debut feature Limbo to four partner venues is supported by the Arts Council as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Ben Sharrock’s critically adored Limbo is a wry\, funny and poignant cross-cultural satire that subtly sews together the hardship and hope of the refugee experience. \n\n\n\nSet on a fictional remote Scottish island\, Limbo tells the story of a group of newly arrived immigrants awaiting the results of their asylum claims. It centres on Omar (Amir El-Masry)\, a young Syrian musician who\, thousands of miles from home\, finds himself trapped by guilt\, regret\, and the grief he carries for the loss of his former identity. Separated from his family and burdened by a plaster cast on his arm\, Omar wanders the starkly beautiful landscape searching for answers to a complex past and daunting future. But while he is stuck there\, he isn’t alone. In between brief long-distance conversations with his parents and passing interactions with local oddballs\, Omar and his new flatmates attend outrageously misjudged ‘cultural awareness’ classes\, binge Friends boxsets\, and debate attending the local open mic night\, all the while waiting for the delivery of letters that will ultimately determine their future. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAccess Cinema\n\n\n\naccess>CINEMA is the resource organisation for regional cultural cinema exhibition in Ireland. \n\n\n\nOur mission is to provide all audiences throughout Ireland with access to the best of Irish\, world and independent cinema\, via our national network of non-profit and voluntary organisations. \n\n\n\naccess>CINEMA’s purpose is to deliver a diverse range of quality cinema\, that is not available on commercial cinema screens\, to local Irish audiences; to provide advice\, expertise and support for cultural film programming and technical presentation; to support and present the work of Irish filmmakers; and to grow\, develop and promote opportunities to expand access to and participation with cultural cinema exhibition regionally. \n\n\n\nWe support member groups with     \n\n\n\nfilm programming adviceinformation on technical requirements on all cinema exhibition formatsdelivery of promotional/ support material so groups can actively promote their film programmes locallydeveloping and touring original film programmespromoting high quality programming\, presentation and technical standards for film exhibition\n\n\n\nDublin International Film Festival\n\n\n\nTaking place in February each year\, the Virgin Media Dublin International Film Festival is Ireland’s premier film festival event. \n\n\n\nThe Festival curates and presents the best in emerging international and Irish film and moving image culture for a wide audience through its flagship annual festival\, along with a range of year-round events. Virgin Media DIFF aims to offer memorable experiences through audience interaction and engagement with filmmakers\, actors and industry professionals\, along with informed debate about the future of film as an art form. \n\n\n\nVision \n\n\n\nThe Festival will further consolidate its position as Ireland’s most popular film festival and one of the top ten film festivals in Europe. \n\n\n\nValues \n\n\n\nPassion: Virgin Media DIFF is driven by a passionate belief in the power of film\, across all its many genres and source cultures. DIFF is a particular champion of\, and advocate for\, Irish cinema. It is committed to introducing Irish audiences to provocative\, inspirational and thought-provoking international cinema which might not otherwise be seen here. \n\n\n\nExcellence: Virgin Media DIFF is committed to the delivery of best-in-class programming as well as high-quality\, diverse audience and filmmaker experiences. \n\n\n\nSupport: Virgin Media DIFF believes in supporting the work of filmmakers and facilitating the development of film practitioners by providing a platform which showcases talent\, offers learning opportunities and creates a forum where valuable new working relationships can be formed. \n\n\n\nRespect: Trust and mutual respect are central to the Festival’s relationships with its audiences\, filmmakers\, supporters and stakeholders. The organisation strives to ensure true collaboration in all its activities. \n\n\n\nRepresentation: Virgin Media DIFF aims to be an inclusive and diverse organisation that promotes and delivers equality of opportunity regardless of race\, ethnicity\, religion\, gender or sexual orientation across all its activities\, from programming and audience development to employment policies. \n\n\n\nInnovation: Virgin Media DIFF will continue to explore the most innovative technologies and strategies available to curate and present the ever-changing art form of the moving image for its audiences. \n\n\n\nAccessibility: Virgin Media DIFF strives to ensure that all its audiences have access to its full programme. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/limbo/
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Onsite
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T110000
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CREATED:20210911T124500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211016T151536Z
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/gathering-on-the-pond-8/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T120000
DTSTAMP:20210920T105050Z
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SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are 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\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The 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 have engaged in  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. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \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 EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the 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 a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. 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\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-20/1/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T170000
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CREATED:20210911T141138Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T104504Z
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SUMMARY:The Story Project International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLearning from Community Stories – Young people’s crisis-response behaviours and actions – The Story Project \n\n\n\nOver the course of the past few months\, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic and social impacts have disrupted nearly all aspects of life for all groups in society. While older adults suffer disproportionately from Covid-19’s health and economic slowdown impacts\, young people\, who are already starting to be termed the “lockdown generation”\, are likely to bear the brunt of the global economic and social crises unleashed by the coronavirus. The Global Survey ‘Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs\, Education\, Rights and Mental Well-Being’ (2020) focused on four areas of impacts on young people: namely\, employment\, education and training\, mental well-being\, and rights and voices. \n\n\n\nWhile there is a clear emergence of the digital youth work and increasing use of digital tools in working with young people within both formal and non-formal education across Europe\, there is also an understanding that there are needs of young people that have not been responded to\, leaving many to face on their own issues related to social exclusion\, discrimination and a redefinition of social and safety nets\, changing relationships and behaviour\, changing perspectives on connection to friends and community\, impact on well-being and mental health\, participation. \n\n\n\nResearch on resilience and survival after disasters increasingly validates the importance of social cohesion in a community’s response and recovery process. For all young people\, and especially those facing discrimination and disadvantage\, human rights that include labour rights and the right to education provide the basis on which they can make their voices heard\, organize\, assert their interests\, create systemic change. Culture and creativity are powerful tools for communities to create a positive narrative about who they are and what they want their futures to look like. Sharing personal or community stories can form bonds\, supportive networks\, or opportunities\, which encourages the development of community and personal resilience. \n\n\n\nThe Learning from Community Stories – Story Project-  steps up to put young people’s voices at the heart of decision making and enable them to be part of the solution to reuniting communities in the aftermath of the crisis. The project develops a model for culture based on storytelling linked to community resilience in response to Covid-19 and uses creative approaches and participatory processes to provide an opportunity for young people to tell the stories of the intersections of the pandemic in economically deprived and isolated/colour/immigrant/refugee/LGBT/Roma communities. It seeks to collect data and develop communications materials in order to share these stories with broader audiences and to inform policy makers. \n\n\n\nThe project aims to stimulate and support: \n\n\n\nbuilding an inclusive\, safe path for community conversations and story sharing which provides a solid foundation for meaningful crisis-response behaviours and actions;illustrating positive community resilience in communities as well as work to illuminate where inequities still exist within structures to inform new policies and systems that work todismantle racism and oppression that leads to inequities;contributing to social inclusion of marginalised youth;enhancing intercultural competences and creative potential of youths;linking young people with organisations in the cultural and creative sector and open up paths for exploring opportunities for youth’s employment in the sector\, as well as for innovationof the sector itself.\n\n\n\nThe project creates easily adaptable and transferable outputs – ‘Storytellers league’ model – methodology and series of creative based workshops held with local youth communities \n\n\n\nacross Europe; “Youth Communities’ Voices” – impactful digital stories of young people form disadvantaged communities\, and digital portfolios to inform policy makers on issues \n\n\n\naround youth communities. \n\n\n\nA total of 60 targeted young people and youth workers will benefit of the training and pilot activities; 12 target group actors will share their impact stories; 6 young people/groups of young people will be involved in films. Project results will directly reach at least 500 persons (young people\, youth workers\, actors in the cultural and creative sector\, stakeholders\, policy makers) via project activities\, multiplier events\, creating a strong base for long term exploitation. \n\n\n\nThe project brings together 6 social\, educational/youth\, cultural and audio-visual organisations\, exploring digital storytelling and series of cultural events\, to reach out to local marginalised communities across Europe and will produce and disseminate at EU level intellectual outputs that will significantly contribute to the creativity in the youth education sector and will create opportunities for the cultural and creative sector in the partner countries and beyond. \n\n\n\nThe lead partner is St. Dona Daria\, Rotterdam\, the Netherlands and the partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland; In the City Development Project\, the Netherlands; Pressureline\, the Netherlands; Università per Stranieri di Siena – University for Foreigners of Siena\, Italy; FIFEDE (Fundación Canaria Insular para la Formación\, el Empleo y el Desarrollo Empresarial)\, Santa Cruz\, Tenerife\, Spain. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-story-project-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T100000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T170000
DTSTAMP:20210917T140910Z
CREATED:20210911T140438Z
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SUMMARY:EVIA International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:The Aisling Programme\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA celebration of the Irish Language and Celtic Culture through performance\, poetry and song.  \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 the EVIA project. This three-year project develops a new education programme called EVA – Education for Values and Attitudes – and an EVA educational platform vaeie.eu.  The EVA educational programme will contain a toolkit and media content\, that primary and secondary school teachers can access in order to work with students to raise awareness of the European Union goals and history and to cultivate European values of democracy\, human rights\, gender equality\, and the rule of law. \n\n\n\nThe project uses Education for Values and Attitudes (EVA) to encourage progressive attitudes toward society\, active citizenship\, and human solidarity. The project supports an inclusive education and society and promotes the peaceful co-existence and integration of diverse groups in Europe\, including religious and ethnic minority communities\, migrant workers\, and refugees fleeing from war\, overcoming issues that can promote far right extremism and anti-European attitudes. \n\n\n\nThe project outputs are (1) an EVIA online Platform – eva.eu hosted in Belgium (2) a Training kit made up of module one (European Values)\, module two (Media Tech Guide) and Module Three (Methodology Guide) (3) a Toolkit made up of six EVIA lesson plans with media integrated lessons and (4) a Teacher’s Community with guides. A range of communication and dissemination activities will be carried out across Europe to foster social inclusion and integration through enhanced values and attitudes education at a European level and to strengthen the teaching profession through the provision of open resources\, training and cooperation activities\, fostering European integration and raising awareness about European Values and Attitudes Education. \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by Erasmus+ and the seven partners are UCLL\, Limburg\, Belgium (lead partner); Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland; Music Department of Giessen University\, Giessen\, Germany; EURINNET NGO\, Rome\, Italy; History County Museum\, Botoșani\, Romania; AIGB (Associatia Institutul Geogebra Botosani)\, Botosani\, Romania and PEKSA\, Zonguldak\, Turkey. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/evia-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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