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SUMMARY:Ireland Step Up: Hold Irish companies to account for harming people and the planet abroad
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty – Environment Correspondent at the Irish Independent \n\n\n\nGarry Walsh\, Trócaire \n\n\n\nHannah Storey\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra\, Secretary of the Assembly and coordinator of the Work Axis Defense of the Territory and Fight against the Climate Crisis  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWhen we buy groceries\, new clothes\, use electricity or go about our day-to-day lives\, we want to be sure that we’re not having a negative impact on others. Yet the operations of many corporations have a profound negative impact on people and the environment around the world. In this event\, we’ll hear directly from human rights defenders about their experiences standing up to corporations and what we can do in Ireland to hold Irish companies to account for their impacts abroad. \n\n\n\nThis event aims to raise awareness and encourage action as part of the Irish Coalition on Business and Human Rights’ push for stronger regulation to stop corporate human rights abuses and environmental destruction.  \n\n\n\nDuring the event\, we’ll hear from representatives from the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Cajar) in Columbia and the Defence Movement of Earth\, Environmental Protection and Access to Water (MODATIMA) in Chile. \n\n\n\nCajar supports indigenous communities to peacefully resist the Cerrejon mine in Northern Columbia\, which is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mine has a long and well documented history of serious human rights abuses. In 2019\, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted that Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has purchased coal from the Cerrejon mine.[1] \n\n\n\nMembers of MODATIMA have suffered death threats in response to their water rights activism. They have worked for years to draw public attention to the impact of water policies on rural communities in Chile’s central Petorca Province\, an area that has been seriously impacted by water scarcity. Tesco and other supermarkets operating in the UK and Ireland\, have been sourcing avocados from the region.[2] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/chilean-villagers-claim-british-appetite-for-avocados-is-draining-region-dry \n\n\n\n2  https://www.christianaid.ie/resources/undermining-human-rights-ireland-esb-and-cerrejon-coal \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty has been Environment Correspondent with the Irish Independent since 2019. She reports on a wide range of topics including climate change\, conservation\, the natural and built environment and where the two interact\, and the energy and extractive industries. Prior to joining the Irish Independent\, she had a roaming brief at home and abroad over three decades in journalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra \n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra is Secretary of the Assembly and is the coordinator of the Work Axis Defense of the Territory and Fight against the Climate Crisis. Rosa supports the work of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Cajar) in Columbia. \n\n\n\nCajar supports indigenous communities to peacefully resist the Cerrejon mine in Northern Columbia\, which is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mine has a long and well documented history of serious human rights abuses. In 2019\, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted that Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has purchased coal from the Cerrejon mine.[1] Rosa has supports and accompanies communities to defend their territories. She has direct experience of the risks human rights activists are face in this work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] https://www.christianaid.ie/resources/undermining-human-rights-ireland-esb-and-cerrejon-coal \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarry Walsh \n\n\n\nGarry Walsh leads Trócaire’s policy and advocacy work on Business & Human Rights. He has a keen interest in corporate accountability and advancing stronger regulations to end corporate human rights harms. Having worked on a range of campaign issues over two decades\, he has extensive experience in advocacy\, research\, public campaigning\, and communications. He has also managed human rights and development programmes in Africa\, Asia and the Middle East. He has previously overseen Trócaire’s Human Rights programmes in Myanmar and Palestine and worked with UNAIDS in Malawi. Garry is Trócaire’s Policy and Advocacy Advisor for Human Rights and Democratic Space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Storey \n\n\n\nHannah Storey leads Front Line Defenders’ Business & Human Rights focused work. Hannah works with defenders working on business-related human rights abuses and is responsible for providing advocacy support to defenders at risk as well as conducting research and working on policy development relevant to defenders and business. She has a particular interest in development finance and the responsibilities of international finance institutions. Prior to joining the Front Line Defenders\, Hannah was part of Forest Peoples Programme’s responsible finance team where she was closely involved in launching a global coalition focused on addressing abuses of defenders linked to global supply chains – The Zero Tolerance Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ireland-step-up-hold-irish-companies-to-account-for-harming-people-and-the-planet-abroad/
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SUMMARY:The Ultimate Climate Activist Toolkit hosted by the Climate Queens
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin the Climate Queens as they bring you 1 full hour of wholesome tips and tricks to help the climate activist in you. \n\n\n\nWe will be asking some amazing youth activists from around the world to share their top 3 tips for a better planet. Find out what they do to protect themselves\, their local community and the planet as a whole. Join us for a guided body scan and meditation to finish the session. \n\n\n\nThis event is free to join and all we ask is that you bring a friend to this online event who may not normally be involved in the climate movement. \n\n\n\nJoin our amazing guests on Saturday\, October 16th at 11am IST/BST on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSamia Dumbuya\n\n\n\nSamia (she/they) is a climate justice activist that focuses on empowering young activists to create impactful change in their communities by facilitating workshops\, seminars\, talks and by sharing tools and resources for youth activists to use to strengthen their campaigning skills. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Doherty\n\n\n\nBeth (she/her) is an 18 year old climate activist. She has been an organiser with Fridays For Future since February 2019\, and works on education and empowerment alongside climate action. She is currently studying law at the University of Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jennifer Fennell\n\n\n\nJennifer Fennell (she/her) is a Counselling Psychologist who has five years’ experience providing psychological support to individuals who are going through various emotional challenges. She has worked in a variety of different contexts\, including physical illness and injury\, short-term and online support in a third level institution\, and in the community with individuals with depression\, anxiety\, and other psychological difficulties. Her particular therapeutic interests include the importance of self-compassion\, meaning-making in difficult circumstances\, and the use of mindfulness as a therapeutic tool. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHowey Ou\n\n\n\nHowey Ou is a 18 year old vegan and minimalist who had been on the street Climate Striking with limited resources and risky conditions in China for over 100 days. She initiated Plant For Survival movement in China to use her own path to mobilize the natives in response to backlash of Fridaysforfuture and Greta Thunberg. She has been nominated to 1st UN Youth Climate Summit in 2019\, has been reported by the New York Times and known by millions at home. This year\, she is currently a nomad in Europe exchanging experience with local activists\, and has been initiated several hunger strikes in Switzerland in order to ask for acquittal for hill defenders including herself\, who have been accused now for 60 days. She shows a huge commitment of radical international solidarity between nations in the essential times of ecological and climate emergency. She plans to go back to China after COP26. \n\n\n\n\n\nClimate Queens\n\n\n\nCLIMATE QUEENS is a podcast series aiming to raise awareness about the effect that we\, as humans\, are having on our shared planet and what we can do about it. Climate change is a vast subject and can be very overwhelming\, but through sincere chats and numerous cups of tea\, these two Irish gals are breaking down the facts and providing easy\, everyday solutions for their listeners. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-ultimate-climate-activist-toolkit-hosted-by-the-climate-queens/
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SUMMARY:Who Tells The Story?: Representational Agency & The Right of Self-Determination in Filmic & Documentary Arts
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nAlice Feldman – Co-chair \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro – Co-chair \n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly – panellist \n\n\n\nAla Buisir – panellist \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWe live storied lives. \n\n\n\nIn and through our stories\, we make sense of and share the worlds we inhabit. Through our stories\, we build and sustain relationships and ways of living; we speak out\, survive\, struggle and resist\, carrying the wisdom of our journeys\, our pasts\, our histories towards the futures we are striving to bring into being. \n\n\n\nOur stories are extensions of ourselves; our words\, extensions of our bodies. Our stories have consequences. And the circumstances surrounding the contexts in which they are told\, have consequences. \n\n\n\nWhat is at stake when we give our stories to someone? What responsibilities does this place on those who receive them? Is there an ethics of accountability that grounds this duty of care in the face of the longstanding canon of ‘artistic license’? That honours and maintains the integrity of the storyteller\, the story told\, and the story re-presented? \n\n\n\nThis interactive panel considers such ‘politics of representation’ as more than just abstract ideas\, but matters of human rights. Control over the retellings of our stories – that is\, our representational agency – is inextricably linked to our rights of self-determination – our capacities to act in and upon our life-worlds. It will critically explore the argument that aesthetics and ethics\, far from being mutually exclusive\, are as powerful as they are necessary in their dynamic co-mingling. \n\n\n\nPanelists will first reflect on their work and ‘aest-ethical’ practices (to use the term of activist-artist Tania Brughera). We will then engage the audience in a discussion grounded in their experiences and expertise towards what we hope will lead to a collectively generated aest-ethical manifesto so to speak – a set of principles of engagement relating to representational agency and self-determination in the filmic and documentary arts. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAla Buisir\n\n\n\nAla Buisir is a documentary photographer currently residing in Ireland with roots in Libya. Her work documents the social and political tension around us today. The aim is to raise awareness by presenting events through different perspectives in hopes that it may also bring about change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Alice Feldman\n\n\n\nDr Alice Feldman is a lecturer in the School of Sociology at UCD. Her work inheres in transdisciplinary experiments at the intersections of art\, research and teaching. It centres on convening ‘uncomfortable encounters’ and collective inquiries engaging ‘aesthesic’ pedagogies around concerns of colonial inheritances and entanglements\, racial justice\, decoloniality\, reflexive solidarities and creative/cultural agency. Over the last two decades she has also worked in research\, advisory and volunteer capacities for an array of groups involved in anti-racism\, intercultural and integration initiatives. Through collaborations with a range of activists\, artists and students for these many years\, she has cultivated a knowledge justice praxis which became the foundations for the MA Race\, Migration and Decolonial Studies (www.racemigrationdecolonialstudies.com) she convened in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\n\n\n\nSandrine Uwase Ndahiro is an English Ph.D. student in the University of Limerick. Sandrine’s research centres on third generation African writers\, such as Afrofuturists\, who have emerged during the era of late liberalism and who have introduced multiple and nuanced perspectives for reflecting on African lives and aspirations.  She co-produced a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland. She is currently an artist in residency in Visual Carlow where she is directing a new documentary film that looks at Irishness from a localised setting. Sandrine is also the co-founder and co-editor in chief of a new online magazine called Unapologetic.  Unapologetic is a multidisciplinary\, literary\, cultural\, and artistic response to the social issues and creative opportunities of contemporary Ireland\, offering a reboot and upheaval.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly\n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly is an educator\, therapist\, documentary film-maker and human rights activist. She worked for over 20 years with refugee & undocumented commmunities and human rights defenders in Haiti\, Mexico\, Guatemala\, Palestine\, Iraq\, Lebanon and Syria. She has spent the past seven years engaged in Search and Rescue\, shore support and psycho-social resourcing work\, with those making refuge-seeking journeys across the Central Med and Aegean seas to Europe. 
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SUMMARY:Human Rights On Film
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPaul Rice\, Director\, Writer\, Cinematographer\, Producer \n\n\n\nLiam Jackson Montgomery\, Executive Producer\, Interviewer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Worm in the Heart details the extraordinary lives and brave stories of the diverse LGBT+ communities across Russia. Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian railway and utilizing intimate interviews about current Russian life\, this documentary features deeply personal and moving accounts from activists and non-activists alike. The film follows queer Irish filmmaker Paul Rice and his boyfriend Liam\, as they go under-cover armed only with two cameras\, to meet with the many heroic members of the LGBTQ+ community who risk their lives living authentically under oppressive laws and prejudices – from Nobel Peace prize nominees and international activists to drag queen performers thriving in remote Siberia.  \n\n\n\nA WORM IN THE HEART is a never-before-seen collection of emotionally driven stories captured on their journey that poignantly document the current state of the Russian LGBTQ+ community. \n\n\n\nPaul and Liam will engage in an online post-show discussion after the screening of the film. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Rice\n\n\n\nPaul Rice is an art director and filmmaker originally from Ireland\, currently based in California. He has worked extensively in Dublin\, London and San Francisco for agencies and creative studios as an art director or lead creative on award-winning commercial projects for culture\, fashion\, and music brands. Paul is a 2012 graduate from the Limerick School of Art & Design in Ireland. A WORM IN THE HEART is his feature film directorial debut. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiam Jackson Montgomery\n\n\n\nLiam Montgomery is a writer and filmmaker originally from Wales (UK)\, currently based in California. As of 2018 Liam has begun creating queer short films that he writes and co-directs with his partner Paul Rice. His short film\, ‘Snout’ has been part of official selections for various film festivals such as Another Hole in the Head\, SF Indie Fest and received an honorable mention at the London International Comedy Festival. The film also won ‘Best Original Concept’ at the 2019 Videoscream Festival in Portland\, Oregon. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-on-film/
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SUMMARY:CHASE
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDr. Eric Weitz\, Chair: humour scholar and theatre practitioner \n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol: comic practitioner and researcher \n\n\n\nProf. Delia Chiaro: scholar in humour studies and translation studies \n\n\n\nMáirtin Mac an Bhaird: comedian\, writer\, actor \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis one-hour panel is intended as a springboard event for a Centre for Humour and Social Engagement (CHASE)\, to be established under the aegis of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts & Equality. Laughter\, a complex bodied response—with psychological\, social\, cultural and\, indeed\, spiritual implications—is central to human being\, and so it seems is humour\, the attempt to cause laughter in another or others. \n\n\n\nThere are innumerable perspectives\, levels\, and orientations from which to study the everyday human transaction we call humour\, but this initiative will seek in particular to create a space for practitioners\, thinkers\, and thinking practitioners to explore and reflect upon the capacity for humour to be wielded in support of a vision of society based on equality\, diversity and inclusivity. \n\n\n\nAn introduction to the panel by Dr Eric Weitz will clarify further some of the aspirations for CHASE\, as well as sketching some of the issues\, goals and pitfalls foreseen for such an undertaking. The three speakers were chosen for the distinctive perspectives they offer to a proposed creative\, socially conscious meeting place for practice and research in the key of humorous performance. Some issues likely to arise would involve the ethics of joking\, from day-to-day interaction to the wide open spaces of the internet; longstanding questions in humour studies about the capacity for humour to change hearts and minds; and techniques that have proven potent for the humour transaction to gain political traction in specific modes of performance. \n\n\n\nAfter the opening remarks\, each panelist will speak for ten minutes on an area of interest related to the spirit of the centre\, followed by fifteen minutes for discussion and questions. A short amount of time will then be given over to discussion of the next step for CHASE\, and to let attendees know how to register interest in playing some part in the centre’s evolution. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting\, Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin\, and is involved in a part-time capacity with Drama Studies at University College Dublin. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol\n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol combines her artistic and academic work in a multifaceted practice. She finished her MA in Film & Drama Programme at Kadir Has University\, Istanbul\, Turkey\, with a practice-based research project on clowning from a feminist perspective. For her PhD at the Berlin University of the Arts\, she expanded her scope to include stand-up comedy and meddahlık (Turkish storytelling tradition). She presented artistic outcomes of this work on various occasions\, including international festivals in Helsinki\, Izmir\, and Vienna\, and shared her academic findings in many conferences around the world. More information on her practice can be read in her article published in Staging Gender — Reflexionen aus Theorie und Praxis der performativen Künste (2019). In addition to her PhD\, she has continued an artistic research project on shadow play as an Associate Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences since 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Delia Chiaro\n\n\n\nBorn\, raised and educated in the UK\, Delia Chiaro has spent her entire academic life in Italy where she is currently Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Bologna’s Department of Interpreting and Translation. \n\n\n\nHer research has focused on everything and anything that is benignly multi-faceted and incongruous including bilingualism\, audio-visual translation\, humour and especially a mixture of all three. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters\, she has edited several books and has written two monographs the latest of which\, The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age (London: Routledge)\, came out in 2019.  \n\n\n\nDelia has been invited speaker at conferences around the world and has been interviewed about her work by the BBC\, The Economist\, Mind and several other newspapers and magazines. Her current research explores humour and food and the role of humour used by so-called Digital Tribes on social media and its contamination into the material world. Her forthcoming book\, entitled Comedy in Political Language: How Politicians Use Humour\, will be published by Cambridge University Press\, in 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMairtín Mac an Bhaird\n\n\n\nMairtín Mac an Bhaird is better known as Martin Beanz Warde\, and is a stand-up comedian\, writer\, theatre actor\, podcaster\, and social commentator from the Irish Traveller community. He started his stand-up career in 2005 and has since gone on to perform across Ireland in every major venue. Mairtín has also performed in Electric Picnic\, Altogether Now\, and is the creator of ShamAlive\, Tuam’s first comedy festival. Aside from performing\, Mairtin is an advocate for human rights\, fairness\, equity\, and inclusion. Mairtin can be found releasing podcast episodes on the HazBeanz show and is currently writing his first one man show for theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Direct Division
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nThe Direct Division art exhibition will be freely available to view on the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery from 15 October 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Carmel Corrigan\, Head of Participation and Rights Education\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\, Participation and Rights Education Coordinator\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nGraham Seely \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDirect Division is a short documentary film featuring children describing\, in their own words\, their experiences of living in Direct Provision.  This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The film highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nDirect Division amplifies the voices of children who are seldom heard. It allows children living in Direct Provision to talk about their experiences in their own words. The children’s identities are protected due to the sensitive nature of the content. \n\n\n\nThis film is one output of a consultation with children living in Direct Provision by the OCO.  \n\n\n\nArt Exhibition: \n\n\n\nDirect Division is an art exhibition featuring children describing\, in their own words and images their experiences of living in Direct Provision. This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The artwork and writing highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) is an independent\, statutory human rights institution that promotes the rights and welfare of children living in Ireland. The OCO has two main functions\, to investigate complaints about services provided to children by public bodies\, and to promote and protect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. \n\n\n\nChildren living in Direct Provision: 73 children\, aged 12 to 17 years\, seeking international protection in Ireland and living in Direct Provision accommodation came forward to share their experiences and views with the OCO.  Through focus groups\, video interviews and art work\, these children courageously shared stories of their past\, their experience of rights and life in Ireland and their hopes.  \n\n\n\nGansee: Founded in 2013 by Tim Gannon and Graham Seely\, Gansee Films have established themselves as one of Ireland’s leading producers of documentary\, commercial and campaign video content. Gansee work with clients ranging from Trade Unions and NGOs to multinational corporations and arts organisations. \n\n\n\nSplattervan: A mobile youth arts facility\, run by Claire Coughlan and Helen O’ Keeffe\, using visual art as a tool for self expression and empowerment. Running since 2013\, they have worked with many incredible young people and organisations throughout Ireland and beyond to create street art\, animations\, art works and actions that give them space to be seen and have their voices heard. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Carmel Corrigan\n\n\n\nA graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, NUI Maynooth and the Irish Law Society\, Carmel spent 16 years working as an independent researcher specialising in children’s rights\, participation\, policy and law.  Since taking up the post of Head of Participation and Rights Education in in the OCO in 2018\, she had led a number of rights-based consultations with children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\n\n\n\nAoife studied in NUI\, Galway and Queen’s University\, Belfast\, she holds an LLB and LLM. She has worked in the fields of human rights and development education for the last 8 years. As the Participation and Rights Education Coordinator in the OCO\, Aoife specialises in consulting with children facing human rights abuses\, teaching them about their rights under the UNCRC and listening to their stories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGraham Seely\n\n\n\nA lifelong film and photography fanatic\, after completing the Higher National Diploma in Film and TV Production at Colaiste Duhlaigh\, Graham spent several years working as a photographer and freelance cameraman. Gansee Films was established in 2013\, with goal of creating cinematic and photographic projects focusing primarily in the Arts\, Politics\, and NGO sectors. Graham’s photography has been displayed in several exhibitions\, and his feature-length documentary\, The Man in the Hat\, was screened at the Galway Film Fleadh 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman?\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman? \n\n\n\nWe are a human rights institution and work to protect the rights of children and young people in Ireland.We investigate complaints about services provided to children by public organisations.We want children and young people to be actively heard and respected so they experience safe\, fulfilling and happy everyday lives.\n\n\n\nOur History\n\n\n\nIn Ireland as far back as 1996 many committed people who were interested in children’s rights put pressure on the Government to have an Irish Ombudsman for Children. \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children Act\, which sets out the role and powers of this Office\, was agreed by the Dáil and the Seanad in 2002. The Ombudsman for Children is a presidential appointment and reports directly to the Oireachtas. \n\n\n\nOriginally Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices were set up to independently investigate complaints against public organisations. However\, after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was agreed in 1989\, Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices also began working hard to promote the rights of children. \n\n\n\nDr Niall Muldoon was appointed Ombudsman for Children in February 2015 by President Michael D. Higgins. He was then reappointed by the President in 2021 for a further 6 years. \n\n\n\nWhat is Direct Provision?\n\n\n\nDirect provision is the name used to describe the accommodation\, food\, money and medical services you get while your international protection application is being processed or while you are an asylum seeker\, which means the same thing. \n\n\n\nYou might get direct provision if you have applied for international protection and are waiting for: \n\n\n\nYour first decisionThe result of an appeal to the International Protection Appeals TribunalA judicial review (where the High Court looks at how a decision on your application was made)A decision on whether you will be given leave to remainA deportation\n\n\n\nYour direct provision normally ends if the Department of Justice gives you permission to remain in Ireland\, but sometimes you can stay in direct provision temporarily while you are looking for your own place to live. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Fáilte Amnesty - Community Sponsorship - The Open Community
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBookings close at 5pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman\, Executive Director\, Amnesty International Ireland \n\n\n\nKevin O’Leary\, Irish Red Cross \n\n\n\nAnna Kierans\, Community Sponsorship \n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\, Community Sponsorship \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCommunity Sponsorship (CS) is a new innovative way for people from Ireland to be able to give support and show solidarity to refugees. So often people want to be able to do something tangible for another person that needs it and Community Sponsorship is an amazing way that people can do this. \n\n\n\nCommunities across Ireland have come together to sponsor a refugee family who have agreed to participate in this resettlement programme. The family then travels to Ireland where they move into the community that has sponsored them. One of the most fantastic things about Community Sponsorship is the friendships that form between the people that participate from the communities and between the resettled family and their new community. This programme reaches a local\, national and International scale\, it is a global movement of ordinary people that are making a real and lasting change in peoples lives. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman is Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland. He is the founder and former Director of One in Four\, the national NGO that supports women and men who have experienced sexual violence. Colm has campaigned extensively at both the national and global level for justice and accountability for victims of sexual violence\, and personally initiated ground-breaking litigation on the issue. \nColm has also served as a member of Seanad Éireann\, and is an author and regular media commentator on social justice and human rights issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Kierans\n\n\n\nAnna is a member of one of the first Community Sponsorship Groups established in Ireland in 2019.  Anna felt compelled to do something to support refugees so with other Dublin 6 community members they organised\, fund raised and planned for the arrival of the Bourhan family. Since then\, Anna has been a huge advocate and driving force for other communities to get involved in Community Sponsorship.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\n\n\n\nKevin O’Leary is the Community Sponsorship Lead with the Irish Red Cross. Kevin’s previous role as a Senior Migration Caseworker with the Irish Red Cross saw him supporting the resettlement and integration of Iraqi and Syrian’s with Refugee Status. Kevin has over eight years’ experience in high needs case support and is committed to the promotion of an inclusive and intercultural society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\n\n\n\nShahera and her family were forced to flee Syria in 2014 and they spent the next five years in Lebanon. In 2019 they were one of the first families to come to Ireland through Community Sponsorship. Since arriving in Ireland\, Shahera has been a strong advocate for raising awareness about the huge impact Community Sponsorship can make in people’s lives. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmnesty International\n\n\n\nAmnesty International is a global movement of more than 8 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. \n\n\n\nIn Ireland\, our 20\,000 members and supporters campaign on issues like reproductive rights\, ending torture and protecting migrant & refugee rights\, among others. We are independent of any political ideology\, economic interest or religion. We are funded by our members and supporters. \n\n\n\nWhat does Amnesty International do?\n\n\n\nWe investigate and expose the facts\, whenever and wherever human rights abuses happen.We lobby governments and other powerful groups to make sure they respect international law.We mobilise millions of supporters around the world to campaign for change and to stand in defence of human rights activistsWe support people to claim their rights through education and training.\n\n\n\nOur History\n\n\n\nIn 1961\, British lawyer Peter Benenson was outraged when two Portuguese students were jailed just for raising a toast to freedom. He wrote an article in The Observer and launched a campaign that provoked an unprecedented response. Reprinted in newspapers across the world\, his call to action sparked the idea that people everywhere can unite in solidarity for justice and freedom. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:
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SUMMARY:The Social Life of Misinformation: A Challenge
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \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\nhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kk-I3YtkvRs\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGillian “Gus” Andrews\, public educator\, writer\, and researcher \n\n\n\nBarbara Fister\, writer \n\n\n\nSebit Martin (Una Hakika)\, co-founder and Executive Director of the Community Development Centre\, South Sudan \n\n\n\nChristopher Tuckwood (Una Hakika)\, co-founder and Executive Director of the Sentinel Project \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn the face of a global misinformation crisis\, many journalists and scientists have gravitated to fact checking as a solution. Provide the correct counter-information\, the theory goes\, and those who follow QAnon or far-right extremists\, who are spreading false information about elections\, refugee populations\, or COVID\, will start spreading the correct information instead. \n\n\n\nThe fact checking approach has a critical weakness: All information\, true or false\, has a social life. The ways each of us encounters\, believes in\, spreads\, and produces information has its roots in our emotions\, our personal histories\, and the people we care about and respond to in our communities. \n\n\n\nIf we agree that attempts to fight disinformation must address these social roots in order to succeed\, what would we choose to do instead of fact-checking? This panel discussion will convene successful disinformation fighters from Kenya and India as well as librarians\, civic dialogue conveners\, and experts on disinformation production to explain the social and psychological reasons why some people buy into disinformation narratives\, and explore how we might more effectively change their minds. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSebit Martin\n\n\n\nSebit Martin John\, is the co-founder and executive director of the Community Development Centre (CDC)\, which operates in both Uganda and South Sudan. He has worked in conflict-affected and fragile locations in various places and have held strategic\, programmatic\, technical\, and executive management roles\, including coordinating the Hagiga Wahid project in partnership with the Sentinel Project. Hagiga Wahid is an interactive mobile phone-based information service that helps people to stop the spread of harmful rumours in Uganda and South Sudan. He has also initiated several community-based initiatives to improve the quality of life in my communities.He has consistently worked to support positive behavioural change in communities ravaged by conflict and have promoted equitable access to opportunities. He also holds a degree in social work and community health and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in peace and conflict studies. \n\n\n\nVisit his Facebook\, Twitter\, Instagram and LinkedIn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Gillian ‘Gus’ Andrews\n\n\n\nDr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews is a public educator\, writer\, and researcher who is known on the cybersecurity speaking circuit for posing thought-provoking questions about the human side of online life. Dr. Andrews has worked in the international digital rights space for eight years\, contributing to usability efforts for secure tools like Psiphon and Thunderbird’s encryption suite and helping organize events at the Internet Freedom Festival. Her policy research has informed work at Internews\, the US State Department\, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dr. Andrews’s book\, Keep Calm and Log On (MIT Press 2020)\, is an everyday citizen’s guide to surviving the digital revolution\, focusing on privacy\, security\, and fighting disinformation.  Previously\, she was the producer of “The Media Show\,” an award-winning YouTube series about media and digital literacy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBarbara Fister\n\n\n\nBarbara Fister coordinated the instruction program at a college library for over three decades\, leading workshops across the curriculum and developing courses on research methods and on clickbait\, bias\, and propaganda in information networks. In 2019 she was appointed scholar-in residence for Project Information Literacy\, an independent nonprofit research institute that studies undergraduate students’ experiences with information\, co-authoring a study titled Information Literacy in the Age of Algorithms. She has written articles about information literacy for a number of publications including most recently The Atlantic and currently is a contributing editor for the PIL Provocations essay series. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristopher Tuckwood\n\n\n\nChristopher Tuckwood is the co-founder and executive director of the Sentinel Project\, an organization dedicated to assisting communities threatened by mass atrocities through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology. Chris has particularly focused on the organization’s misinformation management efforts\, which engage people in monitoring\, verifying\, and countering harmful misinformation that contributes to intercommunal conflict. He’s led the growth of this work in places such as Kenya\, Myanmar\, the Democratic Republic of the Congo\, South Sudan\, and refugee settlements in Uganda. These projects have also served conflict-affected people as responsive\, community-based\, and locally-targeted early warning systems during times of active crisis. Chris has also contributed to the establishment of the Hatebase hate speech monitoring initiative\, which is focused on building the world’s largest multilingual database of online hate speech by combining human networks and automated monitoring. He originally started working on mass atrocity issues as an advocate for action to stop the Darfur genocide\, an experience which inspired the concept of the Sentinel Project. Chris has a master’s degree in disaster and emergency management from York University and often writes\, advises\, and speaks around the world on issues related to mass atrocities\, technology\, humanitarian aid\, and how these different topics relate to each other. \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Tools for Fighting Disinformation Networks
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGus Andrews\, public educator\, writer\, and researcher \n\n\n\nGiancarlo Fiorella\, Senior Investigator at Bellingcat \n\n\n\nWafaa Heikal\, Social Media Analyst at Democracy Reporting International \n\n\n\nKhadeja Ramali\, social media researcher \n\n\n\nSarah-Jayne Terp\, Atlantic Council senior fellow \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDisinformation has been weaponized and automated on a mass scale by nation-state actors and political parties and used to target human rights defenders. Disinformation campaigns are increasingly seen around the world\, from Ukraine to the United States\, Brazil to Egypt\, Mexico to Taiwan. \n\n\n\nWhile “deepfake” videos have become a focus for many concerned with disinformation\, automated and mass disinformation campaigns are more common and more insidious\, putting disinformation out to the public in ways that look like ordinary citizens speaking their minds\, or even like trusted community leaders or journalists. These attacks make use of technologies like internet address registries\, botnets\, and the global advertising network\, that are unfamiliar to most of the public. Because they are so intertwined with the infrastructure of the internet\, these technologies have a much greater capacity to pollute the public sphere and quell civic participation and free speech. \n\n\n\nThis panel will share the most cutting-edge research on how these campaigns unfold\, and tools that human rights researchers can use to get a clearer picture of malicious online activity and even shut it down. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGiancarlo Fiorello\n\n\n\nGiancarlo is a Senior Investigator at Bellingcat\, an organization that conducts research using open source information. He is also a PhD candidate at the Centre for Criminology & Sociolegal Studies at the University of Toronto. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Dr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews \n\n\n\nDr. Gillian “Gus” Andrews is a public educator\, writer\, and researcher who is known on the cybersecurity speaking circuit for posing thought-provoking questions about the human side of online life. Dr. Andrews has worked in the international digital rights space for eight years\, contributing to usability efforts for secure tools like Psiphon and Thunderbird’s encryption suite and helping organize events at the Internet Freedom Festival. Her policy research has informed work at Internews\, the US State Department\, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Dr. Andrews’s book\, Keep Calm and Log On (MIT Press 2020)\, is an everyday citizen’s guide to surviving the digital revolution\, focusing on privacy\, security\, and fighting disinformation.  Previously\, she was the producer of “The Media Show\,” an award-winning YouTube series about media and digital literacy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKhadeja Ramali \n\n\n\nKhadeja Ramali is an independent social media researcher with an interest in the development of online spaces and regional cultures\, and its implications for political discourse. Ramali’s work focuses on Arabic language spaces and influence campaigns in the Middle East and North Africa. She is currently working with NGOs and private companies on understanding the role social media plays within different contexts in the region\, including violent political transformations but also conflict resolution. Ramali holds an MA in media and development from SOAS University of London. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSarah-Jane Terp \n\n\n\nSJ helps autonomous systems\, algorithms\, and human communities work together. She’s an Atlantic Council senior fellow\, working on technology policy\, and co-founded CogSecCollab and ThreeT Consulting\, where she works on processes and technologies for disinformation defense. Her background includes autonomous systems\, intelligence systems\, data strategy\, data ethics\, nationstate policy development\, crowdsourcing\, and crisis data response. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWafaa Heikal\n\n\n\nWafaa Heikal is a Social Media Analyst at Democracy Reporting International. She supports local NGOs efforts in the MENA region to monitor and counter online disinformation and hate speech. Wafaa works to strengthen information and media literacy and resilience in Africa. She has a large experience in monitoring online and on field elections campaigns. She creates information workflows to verify and counter disinformation narratives. Wafaa endeavors to raise awareness around digital rights and creating safer online spaces for women in North Africa and West Asia. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Eascair - The Black Irish Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nThis event will also be streamed live on the Smashing Times Facebook page \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPercy Chambaruka (Jafaris) \n\n\n\nTobi Balogun \n\n\n\nFavour Odusola \n\n\n\nVithória Escobar \n\n\n\nLucille Aires \n\n\n\nLapree Lala \n\n\n\nKareen SK \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCovid created a moment of pause. \n\n\n\nThis pause triggered a lot of social movements\, allowing us as a community to reflect internally and on our environment. The response from arts organisations and the Arts Council show that we don’t have the same historical contexts as in other parts of Europe and the UK in terms of the relationship to colonialism. This allowed a jumping off point for artists to have conversations that Ireland has never had before. \n\n\n\nConversations have been held within ourselves and our communities and while we welcome those organisations and their response and the renewed funding streams and opportunities\, as a community we have to make sure that this is not a short-lived situation and ensure we can capitalise on the opportunities made available and grow from this point. \n\n\n\nIt’s a really young community\, second generation and in terms of the arts it’s just happening now and happens to coincide with recent social events. How can we shift consciously as a community? \n\n\n\nBrought to you by Tobi Balogun as part of the Black Canvas initiative\, in collaboration with Create and Smashing Times\, Eascair is a showcase of emerging Black/Irish Artists\, showcasing new voices and directions within their own work and discussing growth within the Black-Irish Arts industry. \n\n\n\nThis work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community This work has emerged from the AIC Bursary Award 2020: Collaborative Arts and Human Rights which was offered by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts\, in partnership with the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, and funded by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community (AIC) Scheme\, managed by Create. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFavour Odusola\n\n\n\nFavour Odusola (Proud African King) is a thespian\, a dedicated and passionate individual and a face that portrays the average African dancer with the zeal to learn and explore. Originally from Lagos\, Nigeria\, Favour is currently based in Dublin\, Ireland. Favour is very adventurous\, looking for new ways to use dance as a tool to be of relevance. Learn to live and be free while doing so. Say no to back talk\, improve love and enjoy life one at a time. Favour believes that dance is a tool for social integration\, education\, proper implementation and love but only if used right. This is his plan. To use dance to make others understand even when they don’t want to. Teaching without really lecturing. Favour is everything in a dancer and more. Educated\, zealous\, a thinker\, playful\, genius\, dangerous and unpredictable. Looking for new ways to innovate at the same time create a platform and structure for both the young\, experienced and inexperienced so they understand how important dance as a tool and career is and should not be taken for granted. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVithória Escobar\n\n\n\nVithória is a Brazilian artist based in Dublin and a professional member of Dance Ireland. She works across several contexts of dance and visual arts. As a dancer\, she has collaborated with artists in Ireland across several contexts\, from commercial work to cultural initiatives. Recently\, she facilitated a Dancehall Workshop with Go Dance For Change as part of IMMA Outdoors. In 2020\, she performed at the Social Inclusion Week\, sponsored by Dublin City Council/NEIC in partnership with Five Lamps Arts Festival\, promoting connections between Irish/Brazilian communities. She also performed at SimSimma New Year’s Eve 2020 and the UCD Festival in 2019. As a visual artist\, Vithória combines painting and photography. “Afrobrasilidades”\, her recent collaboration with Alessandra Azevedo\, produced\, painted and shot by her\, was featured in the Spoken Black Girl Magazine Issue 3: Diaspora. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLucille Aires\n\n\n\nI’ve been teaching since the end of 2018. My professional dance journey started in Dublin\, Ireland\, where I taught Dancehall\, Afro and Choreography. I have worked with students from all over the world and since the start of the pandemic I have taught more than 100 live classes. I currently teach with European based companies such as Go Dance for Change\, Dance it Out Ireland and Struttin in Ireland and Twerkafterwork in the UK. I have taught in-person classes in Ireland\, Brazil and Turkey. Dancing is not only about steps or choreography\, and I bring this philosophy to my classes by always highlighting the cultural and historic aspects of the dances. I was the organizer of Ireland’s first Dancehall Intensive in 2020 and also participated in the organization of two international live showcases\, one of which raised more than €500 for the Children’s Cancer Centre of Lebanon. I have learned Dancehall and Afro straight from the source with Jamaican and African teachers. I am the founder of the World Fusion Crew based in Dublin with 13 members from 6 different nationalities. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLapree Lala\n\n\n\nLapree Lala is a Galway based Afrodance Dancer/Instructor/Choreographer in Ireland. As CEO of Dublin based company\, Southside Moves\, Luntu has regularly taught and collaborated for the past three years with many individuals from the scene\, hoping to spread awareness and understanding of Afro culture in Ireland. She has worked with companies such as Google\, Twitter and Facebook\, and has performed at Electric Picnic as well as for artists such as Naira Marley\, A-Star and Headie One. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKareen SK\n\n\n\nKareen SK was born in France where she mostly grew up\, with both parents from the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe and Dominica\, where she also spent half of her life all together. Dancing is a transmitted passion and she loves creating.She started her dance journey back in Paris where she was part of a ‘GwoKa’ and ‘Bélè’ band\, (traditional Caribbean rhythms from Guadeloupe and Martinique) as a dancer\, a drummer\, and a coach for 14 years before landing in Cork.SK VYBZ sessions are allowing space to tone up\, burn calories\, learn foundation steps and have fun dancing on MOVING Afro-Caribbean beats\, owning the dance-floor through short routines! Afro-Caribbean cultural enhancement and education \, Health\, passion\, positive ENERGY release\, and self confidence growth are Kareen’s daily motives\, her lifestyle values. So Buckle up and get ready! \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJafaris\n\n\n\nDublin based hip-hop artist Jafaris is one of Ireland’s most exciting rising stars. Musically\, his uncompromising fluency of expression means he is as exciting as he’s ever sounded. His flirtation with nostalgic nineties hip hop and pure\, contagious happiness lifted the lid on a singular talent\, earning him his place as one of Ireland’s foremost players of the new generation of the Irish hip-hop. In 2017\, Jafaris hooked up with Diffusion Lab\, a music production hub and artist management agency that’s seen a whole bunch of remarkable talent come through its doors. Since joining the team\, the triple threat – rapper\, actor and dancer – has gone on to become a knockout performer.  His debut album\, Stride\, was release in 2019 and was well-received by critics. Stride was shortlisted for the Choice Music Prize of Irish Album of the Year.  \n\n\n\nJafaris featured on Joy Crookes’ single Early which topped the UK’s Asian Music Top 40 chart  performed it on ‘Later…with Jools Holland’. Jafaris released his second EP I Love You But I’m In A Bad Mood on 6 November 2020. Since the release of his debut album Stride\, Jafaris has seen huge support from Radio 1 (Annie Mac)\, Kiss\, Spotify and press\, including NME who described Jafaris as one of the most exciting new prospects from Irish rap’s rising wave. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreate\n\n\n\nCreate is the national development agency for collaborative arts. Our work initiates cross-sectoral national and international partnerships which support artists and communities to co-create work of depth\, ambition and excellence. \n\n\n\nOur mission is to lead the development of collaborative arts practice by enabling artists and communities to create exceptional art together. \n\n\n\nAs a resource organisation we offer supports for artists working in social and community contexts. These include professional development\, mentoring\, project development support\, commissioning and project opportunities as well as research and training. We also manage the Artist in the Community Scheme for the Arts Council. \n\n\n\nCreate believes that by working together\, artists and communities can purposefully explore how collaborative arts engage in distinct\, relevant and powerful ways with the urgent social\, cultural and political issues of our times. \n\n\n\nWhat We Do \n\n\n\nCreate supports artists in making exceptional art with communities in the broadest senseCreate supports artists in an open-ended approach to the artistic process and art making – as co-creators with different partners and audiencesCreate encourages ways of making art that take place primarily outside of the traditional gallery or theatre space\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwww.create-ireland.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nwww.iccl.ie
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SUMMARY:Ag plé na naisc idir Athrú Aeráide\, Cultúr na hÉireann agus Muintir na hÉireann / Exploring the links between Climate Change\, Irish Culture and the Irish People
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nAn tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil: Ollamh sa Nua-Gaeilge / Personal Professor of Modern Irish \n\n\n\nLaoighseach Ní Choistealbha: Mac léinn PhD / PhD Student NUIG \n\n\n\nDr. Rónán Kennedy: Léachtóir NUIG / Lecturer NUIG \n\n\n\nLorna Ni Shuilleabhain: Front Line Defenders\, Modhnóir agus cainteoir / Front Line Defenders\, moderator and speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTá na fadhbanna a bhaineann leis an Athrú Aeráide ag éirí níos forleithne agus níos géire in Éirinn agus ar fud an domhain. Tá sé mar aidhm ag an ócáid seo\, feasacht a mhúscailt faoi impleachtaí an Athraithe Aeráide agus easpa oibre Rialtas na hÉireann a phlé. Ni bhreathnoidh an imeacht seo ar na gnéithe phraiticiúla den athrú aeráide amháin\, ach freisin ar an nasc idir litríocht na Gaeilge agus an t-athrú aeráide. Ta filíocht na  hÉireann lán le paisean agus díograis a bhaineann le tubaistí nádúrtha agus le tubaistí daonna\, an t-athrú aeráide ina measc. \n\n\n\nI mí an Mheithimh 2020\, ghlac Friend of the Irish Environment (FIE) caingean dlí i gcoinne rialtas na hÉireann mar gheall ar easpa gnímh an rialtas maidir le hathrú aeráide. Glaotar ‘Climate Case Ireland’ ar an gcás seo agus is é an chéad chás dá leithéid in Éirinn. Le linn na hócáide cloisfimid ón Dr. Rónán Kennedy\, a chomhscríobh alt ar ‘Climate Case Ireland’. Foilsíodh an t-alt seo san Iris Pleanála agus Dli na Timpeallachta\, na hÉireann. Is léachtóir ag NUIG é Rónán\, a bhfuil taithí shuntasach aige i dtaighde dlí comhshaoil. \n\n\n\nLabhróidh an tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil agus Laoighseach Ní Chocastlebha ó Roinn na Gaeilge ag Ollscoil na hÉireann\, Gaillimh.  faoin nasc tarraingteach idir filíocht na Gaeilge agus cearta an duine. An fhilíocht chomhaimseartha agus an t-aistriúchán liteartha na príomhréimsí taighde atá ag Rióna . Tá Laoighseach ag dul faoi PhD\,  ag déanamh taighde scagadh ar an athláithriú a dhéantar ar chearta an duine i bhfilíocht na hÉireann san fhichiú haois agus anuas go dtí ár linn féin\, le tionscadal darbh ainm Republic of Conscience: Cearta an Duine agus Nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge.  Is tionscadal idirdhisciplíneach é Republic of Conscience: Cearta an Duine agus Nuafhilíocht na Gaeilge a bhaineann go dlúth le léann na litríochta\, léann chearta an duine agus léann an aistriúcháin. \n\n\n\nReáchtálfar an ócáid seo trí Ghaeilge. Deis a bheidh ann gnéithe de chultúr na hÉireann agus chearta an duine a chur le chéile. Tabharfaidh an ócáid ​seo deis do dhaoine a bhfuil spéis acu sa Ghaeilge\, san athrú aeráide agus i gcearta an duine na réimsí seo go léir a phlé ag aon ócáid amháin. \n\n\n\nThe issues caused by Climate Change are becoming more prevalent and rampant in Ireland and around the world. This event aims to raise awareness around the implications of Climate Change and explore the failings of the Irish Government to take action on Climate Change. This event will also move beyond the practical aspect of climate change and look at its link with Irish-language poetry. Irish language literature is entrenched with passion and intensity which can be linked with natural and human disasters\, including climate change. \n\n\n\nIn June 2020 Friend of the Irish Environment (FIE) took legal action against the Irish government for failing to take adequate action on climate change. This case known as ‘Climate Case Ireland’ marked the first case of it’s kind in Ireland. During the event we will hear from Dr. Rónán Kennedy\, who co-wrote an article on the Climate Case Ireland\, published in the Irish Planning and Environmental Law Journal. Rónán is a lecturerer at NUIG\, with considerable experience in environmental law research. \n\n\n\nProfessor Rióna Ní Fhrighil and Laoighseach Ní Choistealbha from the Department of Irish at NUIG\, will speak about the captivating link between Irish-language poetry and human rights. Rióna has published extensively on twentieth-century Irish poetry and literary translation while Laoighseach is undergoing a PhD examing the literary techniquers adopted by Irish poets to respond to international human rights conflicts\, in a project named Republic of Conscience: Human Rights and Modern Irish Poetry. \n\n\n\nThe event will be held through Irish. It will be a chance to the combine the areas of Irish culture and human rights. This event will give all those with an interest in both the Irish language\, climate change and human rights the opportunity to explore these areas all at the one event. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Rióna Ní Fhrighil \n\n\n\nIs í an tOllamh Rióna Ní Fhrighil Príomhthaighdeoir an tionscadail ROC agus is léachtóir í in Ollscoil na hÉireann\, Gaillimh.  An fhilíocht chomhaimseartha agus an t-aistriúchán liteartha na príomhréimsí taighde atá aici. Sa tréimhse 2014-2016\, bhí sí ina príomhthaighdeoir Gaeilge ar an mhórthionscnamh taighde ‘The Representation of Jews in Irish Literature’ a mhaoinigh AHRC. Comhstiúrthóir í ar an tionscadal ‘Aistriú’ (www.aistriu.eu)\, togra aistriúcháin agus ealaíne a bunaíodh agus Gaillimh ina Príomhchathair Chultúir na hEorpa (2020).  \n\n\n\nProfessor Rióna Ní Fhrighil is Principal Investigator of ROC and lecturer in Modern Irish at NUI Galway.  She has published extensively on twentieth-century Irish poetry and literary translation. Rióna was the principal Irish-language researcher on the AHRC-funded project The Representation of Jews in Irish Literature (2014-2016). She is co-director of the interdisciplinary project Aistriú: crossing territories\, languages\,and artforms\, funded by Galway 2020 as part its European Capital of Culture programme. Www.aistriu.eu \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLaoighseach Ní Choistealbha \n\n\n\nTá Laoighseach ag obair cheana féin ar an togra ‘Republic of Conscience’ faoi chearta an duine agus cúrsaí filíochta; le páistí scoile ar fhilíocht faoin athrú aeráide; agus beidh tús á chur aici le PhD ar ábhar gaolmhar i Meán Fómhair 2021. \n\n\n\nLaoighseach is a PhD Student at NUIG\, doing a research project\, ‘Republic of Conscience’\, which is about human rights and poetry\, working with school students on the topic of climate change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rónán Kennedy  \n\n\n\nDr Rónán Kennedy \n\n\n\nCuireadh oideachas ar Rónán Kennedy in OÉ Gaillimh\, in King’s Inns\, Ollscoil Nua Eabhrac\, agus i gColáiste na hOllscoile\, Londain. D’fhoilsigh sé go fairsing ar dhlí an chomhshaoil\, dlí theicneolaíocht na faisnéise\, agus ábhair eile\, agus tá sé ina chomhúdar ar dhá théacsleabhar. Bhí sé ina Oifigeach Dlí Feidhmiúcháin do Phríomh-Bhreitheamh na hÉireann\, an Breitheamh Ronan Keane\, ó 2000 go 2004. Bhí sé ina bhall de Choiste Comhairleach na Gníomhaireachta um Chaomhnú Comhshaoil ​​ó 2016 go 2019. \n\n\n\nRónán Kennedy was educated at NUI Galway\, the King’s Inns\, New York University\, and University College London. He has published extensively on environmental law\, information technology law\, and other topics\, and is co-author of two textbooks. He was Executive Legal Officer to the Chief Justice of Ireland\, Mr Justice Ronan Keane\, from 2000 to 2004. He was a member of the Advisory Committee of the Environmental Protection Agency from 2016 to 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna Ni Shuilleabhain\n\n\n\nIs í Lorna an tOifigeach Bunachar Sonraí ag Front Line Defenders. Tá cúlra ag Lorna i sonraí agus cearta daonna. Rinne sí Baitsiléir Eolaíochta i Staitisticí ag UCD agus LLM sa Dlí Idirnáisiúnta um Chearta an Duine ag NUIG. Sula thosaidh sí le FLD\, rinne sí intéirneacht le GLAN\, ag obair i dtaighde\, ag bailiú sonraí agus ag forbairt gréasáin. D’oibrigh sí freisin mar éascaitheoir oideachais forbartha le Comhlámh agus ghlac sí páirt sa ‘Innocence Project’ ag NUIG. \n\n\n\nLorna is the Database Officer at Front Line Defenders\, working with the database and also producing HRD ID Cards. Lorna has a background in both data and human rights having completed a Bachelor of Science in Statistics at UCD and an LLM in International Human Rights Law at NUIG. Prior to joining Front Line Defenders\, she did an internship with the Global Legal Action Network (GLAN)\, working in research\, data collecting and web development. She has also worked as a development education facilitator with Comhlámh and took part in NUIG’s Innocence Project. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Irish Centre for Human Rights\n\n\n\nThe Irish Centre for Human Rights at the National University of Ireland Galway\, is one of the world’s premier university-based institutions for the study and promotion of international human rights and humanitarian law. Since its establishment in January 2000\, the Centre has developed a global reputation for excellence in teaching\, research and graduate training. Each year we attract high quality students from across the globe\, to our acclaimed Masters programs in International Human Rights Law\, Peace Operations\, Conflict and Humanitarian Law\, International Migration and Refugee Law and Policy and International Criminal Law. Our academic programmes now include unique education opportunities through our undergraduate BCL Law and Human Rights and BA Connect with Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nThe Centre also hosts a thriving international community of doctoral researchers. Our PhD alumni have secured senior academic and public policy roles in Universities\, international organisations and public bodies internationally. We are proud of our PhD researchers’ excellent track record of publication and research impact\, and of securing prestigious PhD scholarship awards to support their work.  \n\n\n\nToday\, the Irish Centre for Human Rights at NUI Galway is at the cross-roads of the most pressing international law issues in law\, public policy and practice. Our students benefit from the dedicated support and world-class reputations of our staff\, who combine their subject expertise and extensive field experience\, with engagement in international law\, public policy and legal practice. We place a strong emphasis on skills development for all of our students\, and prioritise engagement in the practice of international law and human rights through clinical legal education.   \n\n\n\nIn addition to our core Faculty\, we have a global network of Adjunct Professors who engage with students and staff to share their expertise. The Centre hosts a busy schedule of seminars\, conferences and summer schools\, bringing together leading international scholars and practitioners across diverse fields of research and practice. \n\n\n\nThe Irish Centre for Human Rights is located in the School of Law at NUI Galway\, and works closely with Research institutes and Centres across the University\, including the Ryan Institute on sustainable development and climate change\, the Centre for Disability Law and Policy and the Centre for Housing Law and Policy. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ag-ple-na-naisc-idir-athru-aeraide-cultur-na-heireann-agus-muintir-na-heireann-exploring-the-links-between-climate-change-irish-culture-and-the-irish-people/
LOCATION:THB-G010 Moore Institute Seminar Room\, 173 The Hardiman Building\, NUIG\, NUI Galway\, H91 REW4
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion,Poetry
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211020T210000
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Change\, and Sustainability
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nMaeve Stone\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker \n\n\n\nNick Anton\, Technical Manager\, Dunamaise Arts Centre \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStage Door Live is a fortnightly live news and discussion programme airing on Wednesday nights. In this special festival edition of the web series\, Mary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality; Nick Anton\, Technical Manager of Dunamaise Arts Centre; and Maeve Stone\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, join to discuss the arts\, climate change and sustainability. \n\n\n\nWhat can artists do to promote sustainable practices across the sector? What responsibility do arts venues have to ensure their buildings are as climate friendly as they can be? \n\n\n\nJoin our artists as they share\, explore and discuss. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNick Anton\n\n\n\nNick Anton has been involved in theatre and music for as long as he can remember and\, having made his home in the arts\, he now works to safeguard its future.  \n\n\n\nNick studied photography in Glasgow College of Building and Printing and worked professionally as a photographer before moving to Ireland in 1991.  \n\n\n\nSince arriving in Ireland\, he has worked as a lighting designer\, production manager and technician for numerous companies including Galloglass\, Bickerstaffe\, Red Kettle\, Barnstorm\, Rough Magic\, Storytellers\, Lane Productions and Benbo Productions. He has been Technical Manager at Dunamaise Arts Centre since 1999.  \n\n\n\nAlongside this work\, Nick has long been committed to improving safety and sustainability in the sector. He is a founding member of the Association of Irish Stage Technicians and held the position of Chair from 2005 to 2016. He has been invited to speak on safety standards in the industry by RTÉ and at the All-Ireland Performing Arts Conference.  \n\n\n\nFor the past 12 years he has been working on greening Dunamaise Arts Centre\, reducing the organisation’s carbon footprint and making positive\, proactive changes to promote environmental sustainability.  \n\n\n\nBeyond his professional work\, Nick cares deeply about protecting the environment and natural world. Vegan since 1986\, a prolific rescuer of animals in need\, keen field archer\, and passionate about wildlife and nature\, Nick has shared his care for the environment with his family\, with whom he lives in a renovated 19th century cottage with a wildlife-friendly\, flower\, fruit & vegetable-filled garden outside Portlaoise. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Stone\n\n\n\nMaeve is a director / writer for film and theatre whose work responds to issues of climate\, diversity and revisits the canon with a feminist lens. She is the lead artist for Axis Ballymun’s Green Arts Department having just completed a year as the embedded artist for a European Cultural Adaptation project which asks “What is the role of the artists in Climate Adaptation”. She co-founded Change of Address in 2015\, a collective working to connect artists and asylum seekers and works to seed new communities across Dublin and Clare. \n\n\n\nShe runs Cracking Light Productions with her partner\, filmmaker Alex Gill and is currently working on two projects: My Nature\, a celebration of the innate love of nature in young people which is a film project funded by the arts council\, and Soul Food\, fostering community integration through food and memory\, supported by the Community Integration Fund. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stage-door-live/
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stage-door-live/
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T163000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T170000
DTSTAMP:20211027T132222Z
CREATED:20210911T151342Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211027T132222Z
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SUMMARY:Lived Experiences: Conflict + the Island of Ireland
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWatch the online panel here: https://youtu.be/RhGlK5IyEbw \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin Spirasi\, Ireland’s National Centre for Victims of Torture\, at the live launch of their ‘Lived Experiences: Women\, Conflict and the Island of Ireland’ programme. This set of interviews highlights the experiences of Irish women at home and on the international stage examining women and conflict. Created as a project to celebrate International Women’s Day\, Spirasi have followed the journeys of women working in the are of conflict. Our online series includes interviews with: \n\n\n\n-Baronness Nuala O’Loan\, Police Ombudsman for the Omagh bombing enquiry and special envoy to Timor-Leste \n\n\n\n-Hazel Chu\, Former Mayor of Dublin \n\n\n\n-Dr Clare Dunne\, Spirasi physician and medic with Medicin Sans Frontiere \n\n\n\n-Aisling Hearns\, Therapy coordinator at Spirasi \n\n\n\n-Dr Katie McQuillan\, Psychotherapist \n\n\n\nSpirasi is Ireland’s National Centre for Victims of Torture. Through our models of care\, training programmes and alliances\, we support refugees and asylum seekers who arrive in this country from all over the world. The rehabilitation services offered by Spirasi are unique in Ireland and consist of the following: \n\n\n\nMultidisciplinary (medical\, therapeutic and psychosocial) Initial Assessments for both victims of torture and those who have suffered cruel and inhumane treatmentOngoing therapeutic interventions for victims of torture which includes individual\, group and family therapiesBoth in-house and outreach psychosocial supportsMedical Legal Reports (MLRs) for the protection processEnglish Language Classes for victims of torture and their families that complement the rehabilitative work\n\n\n\nOur Centre is based in Dublin with outreach psychosocial services are provided in Balseskin\, the main Reception Centre for the Irish State\, Mosney Direct Provision Centre and medical clinics in four areas of Ireland. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/lived-experiences-conflict-the-island-of-ireland/
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T200000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T210000
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SUMMARY:Unapologetic: Our founding\, launch\, and the importance of centralising minority voices
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn – co-founder and co-editor in chief \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro – co-founder and co-editor in chief \n\n\n\nMargaret Harper – co-founder and co-editor in chief \n\n\n\nMary Conlon – member of the editorial board \n\n\n\nAisha Bolaji- member of the editorial board \n\n\n\nAshley Chadamoyo Makombe – member of the editorial board \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA panel discussion with the team of Unapologetic. Unapologetic is a new magazine that seeks to bring together artists\, academics\, creatives\, and activists to build a comprehensive view of the social issues in Irish society. This panel is a conversation between the founders of the magazine and some members of the team that have decided to join the magazine. The panel will discuss the magazine’s founding\, launch\, and the importance of centralising minority voices when discussing social issues in Ireland. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn is an MA in Technical Communication and E-Learning Student at the University of Limerick. Gareth also has a BA in Joint Honours (English and Sociology). Gareth has been an active member of the University’s community having volunteered with the Communities Committee and been a student leader. Gareth also believes in writing as a form of activism having published work for Unsilencing Black Voices and Douglass Week. Gareth is also a panellist for Gorm Media which produces a bi-weekly YouTube series that dissects the social issues facing Ireland today. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\n\n\n\nSandrine Uwase Ndahiro is an English Ph.D. student in the University of Limerick. Sandrine’s research centres on third generation African writers\, such as Afrofuturists\, who have emerged during the era of late liberalism and who have introduced multiple and nuanced perspectives for reflecting on African lives and aspirations. She recently co-produced a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland. Sandrine’s work now highlights the lived experiences of the Black and Irish community with her recent publication of her essay ‘Irishness does not mean whiteness’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto Eoin Stephenson Sightline\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Margaret Harper\n\n\n\nMargaret Mills Harper is Glucksman Professor of Contemporary Writing in English at the University of Limerick. She specialises in twentieth- and twenty-first–century Irish and American (US) literature in English\, especially poetry\, with particular attention to gender/race/class. One abiding focus is on the occult life and work of W. B. Yeats. She is the author or editor of seven books and numerous essays.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Conlon\n\n\n\nMary Conlon is the founder and Artistic Director of Ormston House\, a cultural resource centre in Limerick city\, where she has curated or produced seventy exhibitions and projects\, working with over three hundred artists – aged 8 to 82 – from thirty countries. She was the inaugural International Curator-in-Residence at the Aarhus Billedkunstcenter in Denmark\, and the Artistic Director of Memory of Water\, the Creative Europe project in six international cities. In 2019\, she was nominated to the Arts Council’s peer panel\, and in 2020\, she was elected by the Public Participation Network to the local government’s Strategic Policy Committee for Community\, Leisure and Culture. Also in 2020\, she was selected for the Helsinki International Curators Programme by Frame Finland and HIAP\, and for the Cultural Leadership Programme by Trans Europe Halles.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Chadamoyo Makombe\n\n\n\nAshley is a writer\, producer and Co-Founder of The GALPAL Collective\, an arts and multimedia collective created to highlight and celebrate the work of marginalised and diverse young creatives in Ireland. Ashley has always been interested in arts\, having studied both musical theatre and acting in her youth\, and during that time she has also worked with Tallaght Community Arts\, Eurobug Lithuania and Ireland\, Tallaght Young Filmmakers\, Rua Red Youth Arts Council and NOISE Flicks film festival and HER International Film Festival. She is currently in her 2nd year of Journalism Studies at the Technological University Dublin\, Irelands largest media training centre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAisha Bolaji\n\n\n\nAisha is co-founder and head of the visual arts team of the GALPAL Collective\, an arts and media collective dedicated to the creation\, celebration and curation of works by queer folk\, people of colour and women. She is currently studying Film and TV Production at the National Film School. As a director and producer Aisha has experience in short films (narrative and experimental)\, documentary and music videos. Aisha’s films are inspired by unapologetic femininity\, heritage and pop culture. Her latest short film ‘Olori ti Ku’ screened at the Dublin International Film Festival. \n\n\n\nShe has varying experiences in film as head of jury of the BAFTA recognised Her International Film Festival\, committee member of CHROMA International Film Festival\, panelist at the Dublin International Film Festival\, and more. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211022T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211022T200000
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SUMMARY:Walking the Walk: Practical Activism
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nLia Mills\, Chair of Irish PEN \n\n\n\nMaria McManus\, Freedom to Write \n\n\n\nSophia Hillan\, No Small Talk \n\n\n\nCelia de Fréine\, No Small Talk \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPanel members will give an introduction to the national and international work being done by Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann in response to escalating threats to human rights around the world. The panel will discuss the work of Freedom to Write (a sub-committee of Irish PEN/PEN na h Éireann) in response to threats to freedom of expression both at home and abroad. They will explore the threats to journalists on this island\, as well as the imprisonment and harassment of Freedom to Write’s four chosen writers in countries such as Turkey\, China\, India and Peru. \n\n\n\nPanellists will also discuss the recent research undertaken by No Small Talk\, another sub-committee of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann\, which was established in response to the hostility and polarisation in public discourse around Brexit and the COVID-19 pandemic. In addition\, No Small Talk seeks to understand the challenges faced by indigenous languages on these islands and to fight for linguistic rights. \n\n\n\nThe panel will outline the relationships that Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann is currently developing with the other PEN Centres on these islands\, as well as its involvement in worldwide campaigns run by PEN International. \n\n\n\nThis event is part of the Creative Connections project\, funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs. The event is also funded by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLia Mills\n\n\n\nLia is a founder member of the Freedom to Write Campaign (Ireland) which amalgamated with Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann in 2020. She is the current chairperson of the Board of Irish PEN and a member of the No Small Talk and Freedom to Write sub-committees of that organisation. She writes novels\, short stories\, memoir and essays. Her first novel\, Another Alice\, was nominated for the Irish Times Irish Fiction Prize. Nothing Simple was shortlisted for Irish Novel of the Year at the inaugural Irish Book Awards. Her memoir of an experience of oral cancer\, In Your Face\, was named as a favourite book of 2007 by several commentators.Her most recent novel\, Fallen\,was the Dublin/Belfast Two Cities One Book festival selection for 2016. She was a contributor to Yes\, We Still Drink Coffee! published in 2019 by Frontline Defenders and Fighting Words\, and to the first and second series of the EFACIS Kaleidoscope project (2019 and 2021\, respectively). In 2016 she was awarded an honorary Doctorate in Laws by the University of Dublin\, Trinity College. She is currently a doctoral candidate (Creative Writing) at the University of Limerick where she holds a Government of Ireland Postgraduate Research Scholarship. Recent work has been published in The Dublin Review\, The Stinging Fly\, The Dublin Review of Books\, Kaleidoscope 2 and Look! It’s a Woman Writer! Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020. \n\n\n\nLia is an experienced creative writing teacher and workshop facilitator and has held several residencies\, most recently at Farmleigh House and at University College Dublin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCelia de Fréine\n\n\n\nCelia de Fréine writes in many genres in both Irish and English. Awards for her poetry include the Patrick Kavanagh Award and Gradam Litríochta Chló Iar-Chonnacht. To date she has published nine collections. Her plays have won numerous Oireachtas awards and are studied in schools and universities. Her film and television scripts have won awards in Ireland and America. Ceannródaí (LeabhairCOMHAR\, 2018) her biography of Louise Gavan Duffy won ACIS Duais Leabhar Taighde na Bliana (2019) and was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2018) and Gradam Uí Shuilleabháin (2019). Cur i gCéill\, her first thriller\, published by LeabhairCOMHAR in 2019\, was shortlisted for the Irish Book Awards (2020). www.celiadefreine.com \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSophia Hillan\n\n\n\nSophia Hillan began her writing career with prizes for her first short stories from the BBC (1979) and Listowel Writers’ Week (1980)\, publication in “New Irish Writing” (Irish Press) and a short-listed nomination for a Hennessy Award (1981).  She went on\, while pursuing a parallel academic life first as a Research Fellow then Assistant Director of Queen’s University Belfast’s Institute of Irish Studies (1993-2003)\, to be shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature’s first V.S. Pritchett Memorial Award (1999)\, to be published in David Marcus’s first Faber Book of Best New Irish Short Stories (2005) and to have her work commissioned and broadcast by BBC’s Radio 4.  Her 1987 Ph.D on novelist and short story writer Michael McLaverty\, Seamus Heaney’s early mentor\, was published as In Quiet Places (1989) and The Silken Twine (1992)\, and her uncovering  of the previously unknown story of Jane Austen’s Donegal connection\, was published as May\, Lou and Cass; Jane Austen’s Nieces in Ireland (2011). She has since brought out two novels\, The Friday Tree (2014) and The Way We Danced (2016)\, and a collection of short stories\, The Cocktail Hour (2018). Her work has most recently been published in Reading the Future: New Writing from Ireland (2018); The Danger and the Glory: Irish Authors and the Art of Writing (2019); Her Other Language: Northern Irish Women Writers Address Domestic Violence and Abuse (2020); and Look! It’s a Woman Writer: Irish Literary Feminisms 1970-2020 (2021). Sophia Hillan is presently Vice-Chair of the Board of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaria McManus\n\n\n\nMaria McManus’ poetry collections are Available Light\, (Arlen House)\,We are Bone\, The Cello Suites and Reading the Dog (all Lagan Press).Ellipses is published as a limited-edition hand-made pamphlet. (Coast to Coast to Coast\, 2021).  Collaborations include WRETCHES with Keith Acheson\, Tierra Sallada with Martin Devek\, EPILOGUE\, DUST\, TURF and At The Margins with Eileen McClory. She is Artistic Director of Quotidian – Word on the Street\, which includes the Poetry Jukebox. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDublin UNESCO City of Literature\n\n\n\nDublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature\, one of 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide. With four Nobel prize winners (Yeats\, Beckett\, Shaw and Heaney)\, a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD\, over half a dozen books festivals\, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning\, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has literature in its blood. \n\n\n\nNo Small Talk\n\n\n\nNo Small Talk is a group of writers that has come together out of concern for the level of division and increasing hostility that has crept into the rhetoric around Brexit. We want to generate links between writers and artists in both Ireland and Britain to challenge this debasing of language and the perversions of truth which are now regular features of public discourse. The aim is to restore positive links and connections between us all. (Celia de Fréine\, Martina Devlin\, Catherine Dunne\, Margo Gorman\, Sophia Hillan\, Liz McSkeane\, Lia Mills) \n\n\n\nMission Statement: The aim of this group is to initiate and facilitate a conversation among writers and artists of Ireland & Great Britain in order to strengthen the existing links between us. We will explore the role and intersections of the various languages spoken on these islands and we will challenge the current public discourse that creates division and conflict. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Duck\, Duck\, Goose
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nWatergate Theatre\, Kilkenny\, 16 October \n\n\n\nLyric Theatre\, Belfast\, 19-20 October – booking link to come \n\n\n\nBelltable Limerick\, 23 October \n\n\n\nOnline Discussion – video will be made available on Oct 23\, 7pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCaitríona Daly \n\n\n\nJim Culleton \n\n\n\nJoy-Tendai Kangere  \n\n\n\nCharlotte McIvor  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDuck\, Duck\, Goose follows the story of Chris Quinn\, a young man who\, in an attempt to help his friend\, becomes deeply embroiled in a rape allegation.  As the rules change\, and confusion reigns supreme\, Chris struggles between loyalty\, love and doubt. \n\n\n\nFull of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity\, this viscerally-charged new play by Caitríona Daly constantly shifts our perspective on ideas of consent\, trust\, and trial by social media. \n\n\n\nDuck Duck Goose by Catríona Daly was developed as part of Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland initiative between 2017 and 2019. This was a two-year process in association with Draíocht\, The Everyman\, Lime Tree Theatre/Belltable\, Lyric Theatre\, Pavilion Theatre\, and Town Hall Theatre. \n\n\n\nThis play is the second to have been produced by Fishamble through this programme. Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering\, developing and producing new plays of national importance with a global reach\, while championing the role of the playwright. \n\n\n\nWritten by Caitríona Daly \n\n\n\nDirected by Jim Culleton \n\n\n\nProduced by Eva Scanlan \n\n\n\nPerformed by John Doran\, Naoise Dunbar\, Caitríona Ennis\, Liam Heslin\, Aidan Moriarty\, and Roseanna Purcell \n\n\n\nSet and Lighting Design by Paul Keogan \n\n\n\nCostume Design by Saileóg O’Halloran \n\n\n\nMusic and Sound Design by Carl Kennedy \n\n\n\nMovement Director Bryan Borroughs \n\n\n\nJim Culleton and Catriona Daly will discuss the production during an online post-show discussion Saturday 23 October\, 7-8pm \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatríona Daly\n\n\n\nCaitríona Daly is a writer from Dublin. Her plays include Panned\, Test Dummy (Irish Times Theatre Award Best New Play Nominee 2016) and Normal (Dublin Fringe 2017: Fishamble New Writing Award Nominee and First Fortnight Nominee).She was a participant in Six in the Attic\, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative\, from 2018-2019 and a participant on the inaugural Abbey Works programme in 2019. She is currently under commission with The Abbey Theatre and Fishamble: The New Play Company. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Culleton\n\n\n\nJim Culleton is the artistic director of Fishamble: The New Play Company\, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland\, UK\, Europe\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won many Irish and international awards\, including Olivier\, The Stage\, Scotsman Fringe First\, and Irish Times Best Director awards. Jim has also directed for Audible\, the Abbey\, the Gaiety\, the Belgrade\, 7:84 Scotland\, Project\, Amharclann de hÍde\, Tinderbox\, The Passion Machine\, the Ark\, Second Age\, Dundee Rep\, Draíocht\, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF\, RTÉ Radio 1\, Frontline Defenders\, Amnesty International\, Little Museum of Dublin\, Fighting Words\, RTÉ lyric fm\, Soho Theatre\, Scripts Festival\, Vessel and APA (Australia)\, TNL (Canada)\, Solas Nua and Kennedy Center (Washington DC)\, Odyssey (LA)\, Origin\, Irish Arts Center and 59E59 (Off -Broadway)\, as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End\, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway. Jim has taught for NYU\, NUI\, GSA\, Uversity\, the Lir\, Villanova\, Notre Dame\, UM\, UMD\, and TCD \n\n\n\n\n\nZimbabwean born Joy-Tendai Kangere is an education equity\, adult learning and Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion advocate. She holds Bachelor of Civil Law degree from UCD Sutherland School of Law. Joy-Tendai is a Board Member of AONTAS and Co-Founded Roots in Africa-Ireland Network. She facilitates community and organisational discussion representation and social inclusion. Her deep commitment to social justice and racial equity is what motivates her advocacy work for equality for women\, girls and ethnic minoritized communities. She has lived experience of racial inequity; she understands the challenges faced by ethnic minorities and young people of African descent living in Ireland in accessing services. She also has worked on various projects to promote education and literacy for primary school children on the African continent. \n\n\n\nCharlotte McIvor is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland\, Galway and a co-lead in the Active* Consent Programme\, an Irish national programme that uses workshops\, research\, social media and creative-arts based interventions like drama and film to support young people from 15-25 to have  positive and confident sexual health and well-being. Active* Consent also works with groups that are important to young people\, from teachers to parents\, college staff\, and policy makers.  McIvor is the author of Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism and multiple edited collections\, articles and book chapters on interculturalism\, migration\, race/ethnicity\, gender/sexuality and performance.  \n\n\n\nFishamble: The New Play Company\n\n\n\nFishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering\, developing and producing new plays of national importance with a global reach\, while championing the role of the playwright. It harnesses the imaginative power of theatre to provide audiences with a diverse range of contemporary\, compelling and heartfelt dramatic works\, and typically supports over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. Fishamble thinks nationally and reaches globally\, touring its productions to audiences throughout Ireland\, and to 19 other countries\, and has received many awards in Ireland and internationally\, including an Olivier Award. \n\n\n\nwww.fishamble.com \n\n\n\nFishamble is funded by the Arts Council\, Dublin City Council\, and Culture Ireland. \n\n\n\n‘the much-loved Fishamble [is] a global brand with international theatrical presence… \n\n\n\nan unswerving force for new writing’ Irish Times \n\n\n\n‘Ireland’s leading new writing company’ The Stage \n\n\n\n‘forward-thinking Fishamble’ New York Times \n\n\n\n‘excellent Fishamble…Ireland’s terrific Fishamble’ Guardian \n\n\n\n‘Fishamble puts electricity into the National grid of dreams’ Sebastian Barry \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Performing Memories
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Facilitators\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland \n\n\n\nDr Paulo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator \n\n\n\nCate Turner\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPerforming Memories is a  practical theatre based workshop followed by an artist talk. The event begins with an hour long interactive and participatory creative arts workshop conducted by Michael McCabe and based on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition which is situated in the space where the workshop takes place.  The workshop runs from 10-11am and requires active participation in games and exercises and is followed by a panel discussion with artists Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; and Michael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator\, Fernanda Barbosa\, Fernanda Barbosa\, Journalist and Historian\, Colombia\, and Dr Paulo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. \n\n\n\nArtists Amna Walayat\, Pakistan and Ireland\, and Michael McCabe\, Ireland\, come together to share their artistic arts practice and the role of the arts in ‘performing memories’\, looking at performing and visual arts practice arising out of war\, conflict\, equality and human rights. The Facilitator is Cate Turner\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Pakistan and Ireland\, is a visual artist and curator\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Amna speaks about her work as a visual artist and curator exploring a range of themes including violence against women\, feminism\,  war\, conflict\, equality and human rights. She speaks on her work as co-curator of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition co-curated with Mary Moynihan\, artist and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Michael speaks about his work using the arts for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and how his international training with SITI Company and Tadashi Suzuki impacts on his work in equality and rights. \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia will speak about her contribution to the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition at the Chocolate Factory and the work of Rutas del Conflicto (Routes of the conflict)\, an independent and digital native media that gathers reliable information about the armed conflict in Colombia\, through the convergence between traditional and digital formats\, including data\, investigative and citizen journalism tools.  \n\n\n\nDr Paulo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, She has mounted her 1st solo as a part of Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 Oct) and a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland/ Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project “South Asia Community Museum in Ireland” and with Cultural Action Europe as MENA Cultural Agent for advising policies.   \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council (2001-07). She has also worked with Cultural Action Europe as MENA Cultural Agent for advising policies (2021). She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times and Visual Artists Ireland\, and a recent recipient of Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaulo Vignolo\n\n\n\n\n\nPaolo Vignolo is associate professor of history and humanities at the National University of Colombia\, Bogota. He holds a PhD in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.) of Paris. His fields of research and creation deal with public history\, cultural heritage and memory studies with a focus on geographic imaginaries\, live arts and performance. He is associate researcher at the Centre of Historical\, Anthropological and Cultural Research –CIHAC of Panama and has been visiting scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University in 2013. He is also a member of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics of the New York University\, the Transformative Memory Network of the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver and the “Collective memory and practices of resistance” work group of The Latin American Council of Social Sciences – CLACSO. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\n\n\n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos is a journalist and historian who works for Rutas del Conflicto media outlet\, with a main focus on investigative and data journalism about conflicts and peace processes in Colombia. She is currently a PhD candidate in human and social sciences at Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, with a project about peace journalism\, storytelling and memory. She worked as a consultant to the Colombian Truth Commission\, as a professor at Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)\, and as a reporter in local and international sections of Grupo Folha and the Lusa news agency\, in Brazil. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).            \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nMichael recently completed training with SITI Company\, New York\, while artist in residence at the Civic Theatre\, Dublin. Michael also travelled to Japan to train for five weeks at the Suzuki Company of Toga\, under the mentorship of Tadashi Suzuki\, in association with Smashing Times.           \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Creative Dialogues - Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. \n\n\n\nDocus Atyeno\, activist\, Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nArtists\, curators and academics from Northern Ireland\, Uganda and Indonesia come together to talk about the journey of the Transformative Memory Network and the creation  of artworks from Northern Ireland\, Uganda and Indonesia in the context of war and peace. The artists and curators talk about their work in terms of co-creation\, recording oral works\, poster art\, textiles and music\, exploring a dialogue between the organisation Conflict Textiles based in Northern Ireland and the work of artists from Uganda and Indonesia\, with themes ranging from the Holocaust to the disappeared. \n\n\n\nTalks are intercut with music by artist Jeff Korondo who is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies.  Jeff will also talk about his work promoting children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, the curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile\, talks about the creation of Conflict Textiles and her work as curator\,  looking at individual textile artworks reflecting themes of disappearance\, war and peace. She will reflect on the textiles on display in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition at the Chocolate Factory presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival\, sharing the language of textile artworks with the public. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nDorcus Atyeno\, an activist from Uganda\, presents on the Beads Project\, a Ugandan textile  on display as part of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and talk about the Women’s Advocacy Group from Uganda who created the paper beads mural. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia. Alit talks about his work as a visual artist specialising in poster art and his work as the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters. Alit’s work can be seen in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition at the Chocolate Factory. \n\n\n\nFacilitators Dr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá and Dr Erin Baines from the University of British Columbia talk about the development of the Transformative Memory Network and their work with  artists from Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Northern Ireland and Ireland. \n\n\n\nMemoLabs are a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events and taking place from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\n\n\n\n\n\nBased in Kampala\, Uganda\, Jeff Korondo is an artist who has been performing in Uganda since 1990. He has written\, produced\, and performed songs on the reintegration of ex-combatants\, empathy\, the International Criminal Court (ICC)\, defilement\, child sacrifice\, malaria prevention\, women’s rights\, and children’s rights\, among others. His music has inspired and encouraged peace and reconciliation in Uganda. \n\n\n\nHis 2008 album ‘Okwera Nono’ (You Reject Me for Nothing) discourages community members from stigmatizing former abductees and ex-combatants who are reintegrating into society. He has partnered with organizations such as Save the Children\, the Concerned Parents Association\, and the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS and Tuberculosis (NUMAT) program to conduct sensitization campaigns involving advocacy songs and community performances. \n\n\n\nHe is a graduate of Gulu University\, where he has pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. He is also the owner of Link Printers\, one of the only local printers serving post-conflict northern Uganda. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic is a Chilean Human Rights advocate and researcher living in Northern Ireland. Since 2007 she has curated more than 150 international exhibitions of arpilleras and associated events in museums\, universities\, art galleries\, embassies and community spaces worldwide. Over time\, these exhibitions have expanded from Chilean arpilleras focused on the Pinochet dictatorship\, to include quilts and other textile narratives of loss\, resistance\, testimony\, protest and healing from around the world. The use of textile language in contested spaces has been at the centre of her curatorial work. \n\n\n\nIn 2017 Ulster University hosted an international colloquium attended by academics from nine countries. At the centre of this event\, Bacic curated Textile Language of Conflicts\, an exhibition open to participants\, the academic community\, schools and the general public. \n\n\n\nYou can access her work on https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/  at CAIN\, Ulster University\, which holds and documents her CONFLICT TEXTILES collection. The material collection currently comprises 398 documented textiles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDocus Atyeno\n\n\n\n\n\nDocus Atyeno Hails from Africa\, Uganda and particularly from the Northern region. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration and a Diploma in Computer Science from Gulu University in Uganda. She Studied Fundamental Framework for Peace building\, Peace development\, conflict analysis and Understanding response to stress and trauma in the great lakes region from the Great Lakes Peace Institute(GLPI) in Gitega\, Burundi Africa.Atyeno Docus is a project officer at Justice and reconciliation Project (JRP) under Gender Justice Department; she has worked for JRP since 2014 up to date\, she is responsible for project formulation\, implementation and monitoring processes. Docus has worked to advocate for peace building and rights of fellow conflict affected women and children especially in enhancing justice and accountability for women affected by Lords Resistant Army(LRA) conflict\, participated in documentation of SGBV experiences to increase insights and understanding into Northern Uganda’s conflict sexual violence. She has taken a lead in the reintegration of children born from captivity helping to facilitate reconciliation between the families and enhance sense of identity and the wellbeing of the children. Participated in different research to understand the Transitional Justice needs and concerns of war affected communities in Northern Uganda. She has also taken a lead in the implementation of Livelihood Projects and the Programme for Connecting Survivors\, Strengthening Voices and Creating Sustainable Change among SGBV survivors in Northern Uganda region especially in war affected areas.Last but not least Docus took a lead to support the family of the missing persons of conflict in the processes of coping with grief and emotional healing through counseling sessions \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\n\n\n\n\n\nAlit Ambara (Indonesia) is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist who has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s. He received his BA from the Jakarta Institute for the Arts and MA in art history from Savannah College of Art and Design. Since 2009 he has intensively used posters to respond to social-political issues. Under the label Nobody Corp. Internationale Unlimited he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. He believes that with social media channels  – which are flexible and open to the public – the artistic possibilities for responding to countless issues of injustices are endless. Website link: https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Amanda Slevin\, Co-Director of QUB’s Centre for Sustainability\, Equality and Climate Action and former Chair of the NI Climate Coalition \n\n\n\nPaul Quinn\, Head of From Violence to Peace\, Christian Aid Ireland \n\n\n\nJoseph Ansumana\, Network Movement for Justice & Development in Sierra Leone \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe climate crisis is already causing severe global impacts\, such as heatwaves\, wildfires\, droughts\, floods and storms resulting in a terrible cost to human life and livelihoods. For those countries where the threat of violent conflict is also a constant reality the climate crisis is an additional trigger that may cause or exacerbate conflict. In this event we will consider the evidence for links between the climate crisis and violent conflict both now and into the future. We will ask the question how can we hope to build peace in a warming world?  \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear from the Network Movement for Justice & Development (NMJD) in Sierra Leone about their experience of the connection between the climate crisis and conflict and the steps they took to mitigate it. This will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with guest speakers including Paul Quinn\, Head of Christian Aid Ireland’s ‘From Violence to Peace’ programme\, a representative from NMJD and others. \n\n\n\nEvent image credit: “Adut Mariu Gout from South Sudan carries water from a borehole installed by Christian Aid. South Sudan is highly vulnerable to climate change and protracted conflict which has resulted in humanitarian crisis with mass displacements.” Christian Aid/ Silvano Yokwe \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T200000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153628Z
CREATED:20220907T110819Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153628Z
UID:10000226-1666119600-1666123200@smashingtimes.ie
SUMMARY:My Body My Choice: Abortion Rights Activism Across the Globe
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Repeal movement was one of the most important political and social movements in Irish history. It involved tens of thousands of activists from every corner of the island making the case for women to be allowed to make decisions for themselves\, about their own bodies\, their own health and well-being. \n\n\n\nAs we enter the final stages of the Government’s Abortion Review\, we want to explore the challenges that remain since Repeal and hear how the struggle to widen access across the island of Ireland is part of a global movement for women and pregnant people’s reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear from brave human rights defenders who are persecuted for their work on abortion access in Poland. Join us to learn how you can be part of the campaign for abortion rights at home. \n\n\n\nThis event features guest speakers Ailbhe Smyth\,  Emma Campbell and Justyna Wydrzyńska. Ailbhe Smyth is  long-time feminist\,  LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. Emma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\nAbortion in Chile is legal in the following cases: when the mother’s life is at risk\, when the fetus will not survive the pregnancy\, and during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (14 weeks\, if the woman is under 14 years old) in the case of rape. However\, these scenarios account for only about three percent of the thousands of clandestine abortions taking place in the country\, according to activists. Between 1989 and 2017\, Chile had one of the most restrictive abortion policies in the world\, criminalizing its practice without exception. Abortion on these grounds was approved by the National Congress in August 2017\, and came into force a month later\, following a constitutional challenge brought by the conservative opposition. Medical coverage in the public and private sector became available on these ground in January 2018. \n\n\n\nNational Women’s Council of Ireland \n\n\n\nThe National Women’s Council of Ireland’s (NWCI) mission is to lead and to be a catalyst in the achievement of equality for women. They are the leading national representative organisation for women and women’s groups in Ireland. A non-governmental\, not-for-profit organisation\, founded in 1973\, they seek to achieve equality for women. They represent and take their mandate from over 180 member groups from across a diversity of backgrounds\, sectors and geographical locations. They also have a growing number of individual members who support the campaign for women’s equality in Ireland. \n\n\n\nTheir mandate is to take action to ensure that the voices of women in all their diversity are heard. Their vision is of an Ireland and of a world where women can achieve their full potential in a just and equal society. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs)\, people who work\, non-violently\, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by HRDs themselves. Front Line Defenders maintains its headquarters in Dublin\, an EU Office in Brussels\, and regionally-based field staff in the Americas\, Asia\, Africa\, Europe & Central Asia\, and the Middle East. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders provides rapid and practical support to human rights defenders at risk through: international advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at risk\, including emergency support for those in immediate danger; grants to pay for the practical security needs of human rights defenders; trainings and resource materials on security and protection\, including digital security; rest\, respite and other opportunities for human rights defenders dealing with extreme stress; opportunities for networking and exchange between human rights defenders\, including at the biennial Dublin Platform; the annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk; an emergency 24-hour phone line for human rights defenders operating in Arabic\, English\, French\, Russian and Spanish. \n\n\n\nIn emergency situations Front Line Defenders can facilitate temporary relocation of human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders promotes strengthened international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders through support for the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.  Support for the office of the Special Rapporteur is also made through the Frank Jennings Internship Programme. Front Line Defenders promotes respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Front Line Defenders has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Front Line Defenders has partnership status with the Council of Europe. Front Line Defenders has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights\, and supports the work of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights by providing an intern on an annual basis. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\, former Co-Director\, Together for Yes \n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\, Co-Convenor\, Alliance for Choice \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\, Founder\, Women on the Net\, and member\, Abortion Dream Team (ADT) \n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\, lawyer and university professor\, Chile \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth is a long-time feminist and LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. She was also a member of the Strategic Executive of the referendum campaign for marriage equality in 2015. A pro-choice activist since the early 1970s\, she has campaigned in all of the Irish abortion referendums. In 2022\, Ailbhe was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin.   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  She also actively supports women and pregnant people through their abortions as a doula with Lucht Cabhrach (pronounced lu-kt\, cow-rack). Emma is completing her practice-based PhD addressing photography as an activist tool for abortion rights\, at Ulster University. Emma is also a member of the Turner Prize winning Array Collective and has exhibited in international solo and group shows. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho is a lawyer and university professor from Chile. She studied as a lawyer in the University of Chile\, has a Diploma in Gender and Violence from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Chile\, a Masters in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths University\, which is part of the University of London. She currently conducts research at the Human Rights Center of the Diego Portales University. She is also a research associate at the Center for the Study of Applied Ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile. Lieta is also the director of the Gender\, Law and Social Justice program at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on gender\, sociology and law.Lieta is specialised in human rights\, sexual and reproductive rights\, legal sociology\, biopolitics\, ethics and feminisms. Her doctoral thesis was Abortion in Chile: Biopolitics and Contemporary Feminist Resistance\, and she has published several articles and book chapters on biopolitics\, feminisms\, bioethics\, human rights\, among others.In 2018\, Lieta worked as a Researcher on a project titled “Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe”\, funded by the European Research Council and University of Barcelona\, and in 2016\, she was a Co-investigator in a project on experiences in Chile concerning malformed fetuses incompatible with life at the Universidad Diego Portales\, which was presented at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland-and-internationally/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221022T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221022T153000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153603Z
CREATED:20220907T132704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153603Z
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SUMMARY:David and Goliath: Front line communities challenging corporate abuse
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nHannah Storey\, facilitator \n\n\n\nGrecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro\, Speaker \n\n\n\nBidya Shrestha Maharjan\, Speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLand grabs\, violent evictions\, widespread deforestation and destruction of biodiversity\, poor working conditions and more\, are just some of the negative impacts of corporate abuse-  companies operating with impunity for their human rights violations – companies that grow and process products that we use everyday in Ireland.Communities around the world are on the front lines of challenging these companies\, but sadly\, human rights defenders that dare to speak out on these harmful practices risk dangerous retaliation\, harassment\, threats\, attacks and criminalisation\, and even murder.At this event\, two international guests – women human rights defenders Grecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro from Mexico\, and Bidya Shrestha Maharjan from Nepal -will share the realities of what it is like challenging corporate abuse on the ground. Both are working hard to expose\, and prevent\, corporate-related human rights abuse in their communities\, and have faced backlash for their defence of human rights. The event will also include an exclusive screening of the new Trócaire Documentary ‘Make It Your Business’ – a new short documentary which goes on a journey to explore corporate accountability\, meeting experts and human rights activists on the front lines of corporate exploitation and abuse\, and how we might improve on this in future. To tackle these injustices\, the documentary also explores how we might realise a better future by bringing in new rules to protect people and planet\, and how ordinary people can stand up and take action. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nGrecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro is a woman human rights defender who has been accompanying communities and ejidos in the defence of land and water in the state of Zacatecas since 2014. Grecia is a member of the Zacatecas Mining Conflict Observatory\, which was founded in 2016 to provide accompaniment in the defence of the human rights of ejidos\, communities and vulnerable groups affected or threatened by megaprojects and extractive activities in the state of Zacatecas. \n\n\n\nA teacher by profession\, Bidya Shrestha Maharjan is a human rights defender from the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. She is the women’s president of the World Newa Guthi\, an indigenous community organisation that works to protect the rights of the Newa indigenous people. An indigenous woman herself\, Bidya has long been leading the movement to stop the illegal road expansion in the valley inhabited by the Newa people\, which has already seen the displacement of thousands who have not been compensated and/ or have been left landless. During the course of her work for the community\, the human rights defender has been threatened several times\, physically attacked and arbitrarily detained. \n\n\n\nAs Front Line Defenders’ Business & Human Rights Advocate\, Hannah Storey leads the organisation’s business and human rights advocacy as part of the Global Advocacy team. Hannah is responsible for providing advocacy support to human rights defenders at risk for their corporate accountability work\, as well as overseeing research and policy advocacy related to business and human rights. She works closely with the digital protection team on advocacy targeting the technology sector\, as well as with the Defenders in Development campaign on advocacy targeting development financiers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/david-and-goliath-front-line-communities-challenging-corporate-abuse/
LOCATION:Toast\, Temple Bar Hotel\, 13-17 Fleet Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 WD51\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T160000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153556Z
CREATED:20220912T133334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153556Z
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SUMMARY:Housing as a Human Right: Stories from the Frontline
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nWHRD Camila Santos “Moradia”\, Brazil\, Mulheres em Ação no Alemão \n\n\n\nWHRD Yvonne Toba\, Cote D’Ivoire\, Novox \n\n\n\nHRD Buhle Booi\, South Africa\, Ndifuna Ukwazi \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n“Increasingly viewed as a commodity\, housing is most importantly a human right.” \n\n\n\nAs recognized by the United Nations\, “to be adequately housed means not having to worry about being evicted or having your home or lands taken away. It means living somewhere that is in keeping with your culture\, and having access to appropriate services\, schools\, and employment. However\, too often violations of the right to housing occur with impunity. “ \n\n\n\nHousing precariousness has reached an unprecedented scale and worldwide housing is rarely treated as a human right. On the contrary\, those people organising and acting to defend and promote this right are often targeted with criminal lawsuits\, difamation campaigns and physical attacks. \n\n\n\nAt this activity\, we will talk with activists in the forefront of housing movements around the world\, hear about the obstacles they are facing and the strategies they are using to advance housing rights in their countries. \n\n\n\nThis round table discussion involves talks with human rights defenders from Cote D’Ivoire\, Cape Town\, South Africa and Brazil. Yvonne Toba\, Cote D’Ivoire is a human rights defender who is well known for her work denouncing corruption\, bad governance\, impunity and social injustice and is the National Coordinator of Novox Cote d’Ivoire\, an organization raising the voice of the voiceless in Cote d’Ivoire by promoting an equal access to justice. Buhle Booi\, South Africa\,  is the head of political organising at Ndifuna Ukwazi\,  an activist organisation and law centre that advocates for access to well-located land and affordable housing for poor and working class families\, communities and social movements.  Camila Santos\, Brazil\, is a woman human rights defender born in a place known as Grota\, in the group of favelas that make up the Complexo do Alemão. She is one of the leaders of the fight for housing in the Alemão complex and started to give voice to 1\,300 families. In 2015\, based on the actions she was already carrying out and the demands of women who arrived\, Camila established the collective Women in Action in Alemão (MEAA). Camila was 2021 Front Line Defender’s Award Winner for the Americas. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nYvonne Toba\n\n\n\n\n\nYvonne Toba\, Cote D’Ivoire. Yvonne is a woman human rights defender who is well known for her work denouning corruption\, bad governance\, impunity and social injustice. Committed against land grabbing and for the rights of the peasantry\, she is also the National Coordinator of Novox Cote d’Ivoire\, an organization raising the voice of the voiceless in Cote d’Ivoire by promoting an equal access to justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuhle Booi\n\n\n\n\n\nBuhle Booi\, South Africa. Buhle is the head of political organising at Ndifuna Ukwazi. Ndifuna Ukwazi is an activist organisation and law centre that advocates for access to well-located land and affordable housing for poor and working class families\, communities and social movements. Buhle is interested in building solidarity across land and housing struggles to advance urban land justice in Cape Town. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCamila Santos\n\n\n\n\n\nCamila Santos\, Brazil. Camila is a woman human rights defender born in a place known as Grota\, in the group of favelas that make up the Complexo do Alemão. In 2010\, with the removal of the “Favelinha da Skol”\, Camila became one of the leaders of the fight for housing in the Alemão complex and started to give voice to 1\,300 families. In 2015\, based on the actions she was already carrying out and the demands of women who arrived\, Camila established the collective Women in Action in Alemão (MEAA). Camila was 2021 Front Line Defender’s Award Winner for the Americas. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/camila-moradia \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/housing-as-a-human-right-stories-from-the-frontline/
LOCATION:Toast\, Temple Bar Hotel\, 13-17 Fleet Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 WD51\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T173000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153554Z
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SUMMARY:In- Between
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn\, Technical Writer\, personal writer\, and activist \n\n\n\nCharlie Mullowney\, founding member of Disability Power Ireland \n\n\n\nAbe Blake\, writer and poet \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\, English PhD student \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn recent years Ireland has been a melting pot of different multicultural societies which has impacted the Irish cultural scene. Stories from silenced voices\, specifically those on the fringe of society are shaping contemporary discussions regarding belonging\, identity\, sexuality\, gender\, migration\, etc. This roundtable celebrates these voices as they are redefining the meaning of Irishness and belonging by paving way for more fruitful conversations on the importance of including marginalized voices which will shape contemporary Ireland’s cultural landscape for years to come. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake\n\n\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn is a Technical Writer\, personal writer\, and activist from Limerick City. Gareth’s main pursuit is being the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Unapologetic\, a multi-disciplinary magazine that champions minority voices and tackles Ireland’s social issues. Under is role as Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Gareth and the Unapologetic team have partnered with Irish Film Institute\, Gorm Media\, and Culture Night. Finally\, Gareth sees writing as a form of activism having written for Unsilencing Black Voices and Douglass Week. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie Mullowney\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie is an Irish disability activist. She is currently studying for a Masters in Technical Communication and eLearning. She is the communications officer and founding member of Disability Power Ireland\, a Disabled People’s Organisation. Disability Power Ireland focuses on promoting and advocating for the issues of disabled people by disabled people. She also took part in Gorm Media’s “This is Them” Series which involved combatting stereotypes surrounding the autistic community. Charlie focused on the media representation of autistic individuals for her Final Year Project. She was privileged to be chosen to participate in the 2021 All Ireland Conference of Undergraduate Research and the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake is an Irish-Nigerian writer living in Limerick since 2016. Before this\, they lived all over England and Ireland engaging with work from Shakespeare to Yeats. From humble beginnings in Co. Mayo\, they now seek to inspire\, celebrate\, uplift\, and maybe even have a bit of fun along the way. Looking at the intersection of race\, national identity\, gender and queerness\, they invite you to see how the “other” side lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Uwase Ndahiro is an English Ph.D. student in the University of Limerick. Sandrine’s research centres on third generation African writers\, such as Afrofuturists\, who have emerged during the era of late liberalism and who have introduced multiple and nuanced perspectives for reflecting on African lives and aspirations. She recently co-produced a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland. Sandrine’s work now highlights the lived experiences of the Black and Irish community with her recent publication of her essay ‘Irishness does not mean whiteness’. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/in-between/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20230806T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20230806T153000
DTSTAMP:20230801T111928Z
CREATED:20230725T153949Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230801T111928Z
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SUMMARY:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nEmma Byrne\, musician \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld  by Féilim James is a reflection on the life and work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)\, an Irish poet\,  dramatist\, and prose writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 and is considered one of the great English-language poets of the twentieth century.  With poetry by Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of the Irish revolutionary leader Constance Markiewicz and live music performed by violinist Emma Byrne.  The event culminates in a panel discussion on States of Independence – Artist Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries and New Visions for the Future with the artists and invited guest speakers. \n\n\n\nValentia Island lighthouse is a unique building in a spectacular setting. The Lighthouse is home to the most westerly harbour light on the island of Ireland\, guiding vessels through the Northern entrance to Valentia Island harbour. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClassical musician Emma Byrne is an active performer across Ireland and abroad. She is an enthusiastic young violinist with a passion for the arts. She has performed at venues such the National Concert Hall\, the RDS\, the Helix Theatre and the Whale Theatre. Having studied at the Young European Strings School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music\, she now divides her time between teaching\, orchestral playing\, chamber music and solo performances. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/change-maker-stories-tales-from-an-afterworld/
LOCATION:Lighthouse Courtyard\, Valentia Lighthouse\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Cromwell Point\, Glanleam\, Kerry\, V23 P680\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Kerry,Panel Discussion,Performance,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Voices from Ukraine: War\, Film\, and Human Rights
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDar’ya Averchenko\, Head of Communications\, Docudays UAAlex Malyshenko\, film journalist\, deputy editor of Moviegram\, program director of Mykolaichuk OPENOlesya Borsuk\, classical musician and pipe organistTetiana Bashkatova\, film director\, first AD\, and actressMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityHalyna Budilova\, writer\, member of Irish PEN \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin producers of the Docudays Film Festival\, Ukraine\, as they discuss the realities of producing and presenting a festival while under siege.  The 20th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film festival was held on 2 to 8 June 2023 in Kyiv\, Ukraine and the producers are currently planning the 21st festival  which will be  held in Kyiv on May 31 to June 9 in 2024.  Dar’ya Averchenko\, Head of Communications\, Docudays UA\, will speak in person on planning and presenting a docudays film festival in war time and will be joined via zoom by another member of the team. \n\n\n\nDuring this event\, we will pay tribute to Ukrainian writer Victoria Amelina\, who spoke passionately at the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival about bringing the war in Ukraine  to a close\, but who sadly passed away earlier this year as a result of a missile strike in Ukraine.  \n\n\n\nVictoria was the key speaker at the 2022 event ‘Nothing Bad has ever Happened – Stories from Ukraine’\, titled from an essay by Victoria and hosted by Pen Ireland with Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival held in Smock Alley Theatre. \n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina was a Ukrainian novelist\, essayist\, and human rights activist based in Kyiv. She was a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literature Prize for her prose works\, including the novels Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome\, and a finalist of the European Union Prize for Literature. She was a founder of the New York Literature Festival\, which takes place in a small town called New York in the Donetsk region. Victoria was working on a book of non-fiction documenting the experiences of Ukrainian women in war and titled ‘War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War’ which is expected to be published shortly and ‘recounts stories of \n\n\n\nWe will present a tribute to Victoria accompanied by a recorded reading in Ukranian of Victoria’s work by Halyna Budilova\, a member of Irish PEN\, followed by a minute’s silence. \n\n\n\nDocudays UA\n\n\n\nThe 21th Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival will be held in Kyiv on May 31st –June 9th 2024. Due to the full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia\, the traditional dates of the festival have been temporarily changed. The festival is non-political and non-commercial. After it ends\, Docudays UA will present the best films in the regions of Ukraine within the Docudays UA Travelling Festival. Screenings will take place from October up until and including December. \n\n\n\nObjective of the Festival \n\n\n\nTo facilitate the respect for and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms\, to establish an understanding of human dignity as the highest value\, to raise the level of civil activity in Ukraine\, to promote the development of documentary filmmaking. \n\n\n\nVision \n\n\n\nWe are creating a society of free people. \n\n\n\nMission of the Festival \n\n\n\nWe create opportunities for every person in Ukraine to watch talented and relevant human rights documentary films from all over the world. We promote an active civic position and respect for human dignity. We support the development of the Ukrainian film industry. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDar’ya Averchenko studied at the Faculty of Journalism at Kyiv International University. She received her postgraduate education at the Free University of Berlin. She worked as a journalist for the publication “Weekly Mirror”\, for TV Channel K1 and and TV Phoenix (Berlin). She led the Ukrainian version of the German TV Channel Da Vinci Learning. She is a member of the Union of Journalists of Ukraine. Since 2007\, Averchenko has been a scriptwriter and producer for feature films and documentaries. In 2014\, her film “Euromaidan. Rough Cut” was in the Best of Fests program at IDFA. “Ukrainian Sheriffs” (2015) was her first feature-length documentary. It has won a Special Jury Prize at IDFA 2015 and was selected as Ukrainian submission to 89-th Oscars Academy Awards as the best foreign-language film. The fiction film “Volcano” by Roman Bondarchuk\, which Dar’ya co-produced in 2018 has won 12 awards and was officially selected to more than 50 festivals worldwide. Since 2021\, Dar’ya has been involved as a co-writer and co-producer in Roman Bondarchuk’s new film “Redacted” (Ukraine/Germany/Czech Republic/Slovakia\, in postproduction). She’s a head of Communications Department and a member of the Selection Committee of the International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival Docudays UA. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlex is a film journalist\, deputy editor of the online media about visual culture Moviegram\, program director of the spectator film festival Mykolaichuk OPEN. As an independent programmer and moderator he worked with the main Ukrainian film festivals – Docudays UA\, Odesa IFF and others. He also co-organized two film events in the shelters of Mykolaiv and Kherson during the full-scale Russian invasion. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTetiana Bashkatova is a film director\, first AD\, and actress. She has a Master’s degree in ‘Theatre production’ (Kyiv University of Theater\, Cinema and Television named by I. Karpenko-Kary)\, and a Bachelor’s in ‘Film Direction’ (Kyiv University of Theater\, Cinema and Television named by I. Karpenko-Kary).  \n\n\n\nShe has worked as an actress for 11 years at the Dnipro National Theater named by T. Shevchenko; as first  AD she worked for 6 years\, on about 30 projects. Worked at studios: Ukrainian Production Studio\, Film UA\, 1+1\, Ivory Films\, Kyivtelefilm and others; As a Film director\, she made several short films\, including the documentary “Temporary” co-authored with film director A.Yablunovska about the forced migration of Ukrainians to other countries due to the war. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlesia Borsuk is a pipe organist who is currently studying\, working and living in Dublin. She has a Master’s degree from National Music Academy of Ukraine (Kyiv) where she studied Music Culture\, currently\, she is studying pipe organ at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and trying to finish her Ph.D. in Musicology at Vasyl Stefanyk Precarpathian National University (Ukraine). She is an organist in St. Audoen’s Church and St. Catherine & St. James’ Church in Dublin.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHalyna Budilova is a children’s writer\, poet\, songwriter\, journalist\, and translator from Kyiv\, Ukraine. She was born on January 17\, 1990. She holds a Master’s degree in Philology and Translation\, with expertise in Ukrainian\, Russian\, English\, and German languages. She is a member of Irish PEN and The Irish Society for the Study of Children’s Literature. \n\n\n\nHalyna is the owner of “Little Beetle Press” children’s content agency (www.littlebeetlepress.com/en) and has authored over 20 books\, including “A very VERY angry book\,” which won an award in 2020. Her therapeutic coloring book series\, “Robbie and Crosspatch in crown\,” about coronavirus\, has been published worldwide. Her poems have been published in various poetic compilations\, including A New Ulster art magazine. \n\n\n\nHalyna and her two children had to leave Ukraine due to the Russian aggression towards the country and are currently based in Ireland\, Co Longford\, where she continues her work as a writer and a publisher. Some of her books have been published in Ireland\, including “The Sunflower Lion”\, “Happy will be the Days”\, the “Young Ukrainian Readers” series and “Sleepytime\, My Little Squirrel!” which became part of Belgium CBFU project. \n\n\n\nHalyna has also collaborated with an Irish singer SuZen\, their song “Raspberry Jam” became part of PoetryJukebox project and is available at all music databases. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/voices-from-ukraine-war-film-and-human-rights/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Documentary,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:A Constitution that reflects our values – The upcoming referendum on family\, care and gender equality
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nRegister here \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Ursula Barry\, Feminist economist based in UCD with focus on the care economy\, gender equality policies in Ireland and the EU \nDon Samaratunga\, Healthcare Assistant working in elder care and member of SIPTU’s Care Sector and Migrant Worker Network \nRachel Coyle\, Head of Campaigns and Mobilisiation at the National Women’s Council \nMargaret Martin\, event chair \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWhat would it mean to enshrine the value of care into our Constitution? What does valuing care mean in practice?The upcoming referendum on family\, care and gender equality\, now scheduled to take place in early 2024\, is a unique opportunity to have a national conversation about the values we want to see reflected in our Constitution. Join us on 18 October at the Pump House\, Dublin Port as we explore these values and discuss the proposed changes to Article 41.2. \n\n\n\nSpeakers will include: \n\n\n\n•            Dr Ursula Barry\, Feminist economist based in UCD with focus on the care economy\, gender equality policies in Ireland and the EU \n\n\n\n•            Don Samaratunga\, Healthcare Assistant working in elder care and member of SIPTU’s Care Sector and Migrant Worker Network \n\n\n\n•            Rachel Coyle\, Head of Campaigns and Mobilisiation at the National Women’s Council \n\n\n\nThe event will be chaired by Margaret Martin\, Chairperson of NWC.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFollowing a citizens’ assembly\, the Irish government announced on 8 March 2023 that it would hold a referendum in November 2023 on gender equality and removing a constitutional reference to a woman’s place being in the home.  \n\n\n\nWhile the final details of the referendum are still to be decided there are possible  proposals to remove or replace Articles 40.1\, 41.1\, 41.3\, and 41.2. \n\n\n\nArticle 40.1 says: “All citizens shall\, as human people\, [will be] be held equal before the law”\, but does not refer explicitly to gender equality or non-discrimination. \n\n\n\nArticles 41.1 and 41.3 define “the family as the natural primary and fundamental unit group of society”\, and say “marriage” is the institution “on which the family is founded”. \n\n\n\nArticle 41.2 contains a recognition that “by her life within the home\, woman gives to the State a support without which the common good cannot be achieved” and that the State shall therefore “endeavour to ensure that mothers shall not be obliged by economic necessity to engage in labour to the neglect of their duties in the home”. \n\n\n\nThe language and references are considered to be discrimination and too restrictive in relation to inclusion and openness and the realities of modern life in Ireland. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMost of Margaret’s working life centred on women’s issues\, particularly violence against women\, and community education.  Recently retired from her role as Director of Women’s Aid other key posts included: Women’s Education Officer and Deputy Director at AONTAS; Coordinator with POWER Partnership (NWC\, WERRC\, UCD\, Women’s Support Network\, Belfast and University of Ulster); and Projects Manager in NWC. \n\n\n\n\n\nNational Women’s Council Of Ireland\n\n\n\nThe National Women’s Council of Ireland’s (NWCI) mission is to lead and to be a catalyst in the achievement of equality for women. We are the leading national representative organisation for women and women’s groups in Ireland. A non-governmental\, not-for-profit organisation\, founded in 1973\, we seek to achieve equality for women. We represent and take our mandate from our over 190 member groups from across a diversity of backgrounds\, sectors and geographical locations. We also have a growing number of individual members who support the campaign for women’s equality in Ireland. \n\n\n\nOur mandate is to take action to ensure that the voices of women in all their diversity are heard. Our vision is of an Ireland and of a world where women can achieve their full potential in a just and equal society. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/a-constitution-that-reflects-our-values-the-upcoming-referendum-on-family-care-and-gender-equality/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Human Rights at Risk: Artificial intelligence and facial recognition technology in the arts
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets free. Book here \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe use of artificial intelligence (AI) and applications such as facial recognition technology (FRT) are on the rise.   \n\n\n\nThroughout the world\, AI tools are being used to produce news articles; to generate images\, footage\, sounds and voices; to change and recreate the appearance of actors; and to create art in all its forms.   \n\n\n\nMeanwhile\, facial recognition technology (FRT) – an application of AI – is being rolled out by police and private companies in countries across the world with serious implications for our fundamental rights.  \n\n\n\nAnd this isn’t a dystopian future. It’s happening here\, and it’s happening now. Musicians have boycotted US event venues which are using FRT to scan attendees at events. In Ireland\, the Government wants to legalise Garda use of facial recognition technology\, something the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) has been campaigning hard against. The chilling effect of this technology could also severely impact people’s ability to protest. \n\n\n\nWhat are the human rights implications of these technologies for artists and activists\, who find themselves at the front lines of their introduction?  \n\n\n\nWhat can artists and activists in Ireland expect in the near future\, and what can we do to protect our rights?   \n\n\n\nJoin the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) for a compelling panel discussion with artists\, campaigners and experts as we tackle these questions and more.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIrish Council for Civil Liberties\n\n\n\nOur mandate is to speak truth to power\, even when it is unpopular or difficult. We work to ensure that everyone in Ireland can enjoy all of their rights\, all of the time. \n\n\n\nICCL is a membership organisation and we are fully independent of government. \n\n\n\nOn 30 June 1976\, Kader Asmal (later a member of Nelson Mandela’s Cabinet in a newly democratic South Africa) announced the establishment of ICCL:  \n\n\n\n\n“This Council is being formed to promote human rights\, protect civil liberties\, recover them where they have been removed\, and enlarge them where they have been diminished.” \n\n\n\n\nMary Robinson\, a founding member of the ICCL (later President of Ireland and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights) recalls the early days. \n\n\n\n\n“Looking back on the early days of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties I recall the passion with which we addressed twin challenges: The need to create political and personal space in Ireland through reform of the Constitution and laws\, and the need to affirm standards of civil liberties in the context of the increasing violence in Northern Ireland.” \n\n\n\n\nSince then\, ICCL has been at the forefront of every major rights advance in Irish society for over 40 years. We helped legalise homosexuality\, divorce\, and contraception. We drove police reform\, defending suspects’ rights during dark times. ICCL is Ireland’s leading human rights organisation.  \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-at-risk-artificial-intelligence-and-facial-recognition-technology-in-the-arts/
LOCATION:The Complex\, 21-25 Arran Street East\, Dublin 7\, D07 YY97
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:‘Foragers’ film screening and talk with Palestinian Activists
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €6. Book here \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nTalha AlAli\, speaker\, Amnesty International IrelandFatin Al Tamimi\, speaker\, Vice-Chair\, Ireland-Palestine Solidarity CampaignStephen Bowen\, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nForagers depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humour and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights\, the Galilee and Jerusalem\, it employs fiction\, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. The restrictions prohibit the collection of the artichoke-like ’akkoub and za’atar (thyme)\, and have resulted in fines and trials for hundreds caught collecting these native plants. For Palestinians\, these laws constitute an ecological veil for legislation that further alienates them from their land while Israeli state representatives insist on their scientific expertise and duty to protect. Following the plants from the wild to the kitchen\, from the chases between the foragers and the nature patrol\, to courtroom defences\, Foragers captures the joy and knowledge embodied in these traditions alongside their resilience to the prohibitive law. By reframing the terms and constraints of preservation\, the film raises questions around the politics of extinction\, namely who determines what is made extinct and what gets to live on. \n\n\n\nThis film screening will be followed by a talk with Palestinian activists to explore the joy and knowledge embodied in foraging traditions\, alongside resilience to prohibitive laws than ban these customs by the Israeli State. \n\n\n\nThis event is hosted by the Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign and Amnesty International Ireland. \n\n\n\nTalha Al Ali – speaker (Amnesty International Ireland) \n\n\n\nFatin Al Tamimi – speaker (Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign) \n\n\n\nStephen Bowen\, Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFatin Al Tamimi is Vice-Chairperson and a Director of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. A Palestinian woman\, she has been living and raising her family in Ireland for more than 30 years. Her family originally hails from Hebron and Gaza in Palestine\, and she still has close relatives living in both areas. She has been involved for many years in Palestine solidarity work in Ireland\, and in 2016 she was elected to the position of Chairperson of the IPSC in which she served for five years\, the first Palestinian to hold the position. She is also active in anti-racist\, anti-war and women’s groups in Ireland\, and has spoken at many events. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTalha is a Youth Activism Officer with Amnesty International Ireland. A Palestinian human rights activist\, performer\, lyricist\, and hip-hop artist. Talha started fighting for political change and social justice in Palestine at a young age through hip-hop music and theatre in the early 2000s. Talha’s passion for empowering people did not stop at music and theatre. He graduated from university as a psychologist and a counsellor and continued his post-grad in mental health and psychotherapy to work as a psychotherapist alongside his work in human rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBowen\, a barrister specialising in international human rights law and an academic with over 30 years’ experience\, has served as the Chief of Staff and Legal Adviser at the UN Special Coordinator for Sarajevo\, and as Chief Human Rights Officer to the UN Mission in Bosnia and Herzegovina (UNMIBH) during the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. He is also a former Director of the British Institute of Human Rights and most recently completed his role as Human Rights Course Director at Kingston University\, London. Bowen has also been a Visiting Professor of International Human Rights Law at Queen Mary\, University of London. \n\n\n\nHe not only brings his legal and academic expertise to the role\, but also a wealth of NGO experience having spent time with Amnesty International UK as Campaigns Director and as Director for External Affairs with Scope\, one of the UK’s leading disability equality charities. Bowen was Legal Adviser to the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights in the Gaza Strip and is a former trustee of Manchester Pride. Today he is a trustee of Sheffield DocFest and a trustee of the Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Health\, a faculty of the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmnesty International\n\n\n\nAmnesty International is a movement of 10 million people which mobilises the humanity in everyone and campaigns for change so we can all enjoy our human rights. Our vision is of a world where those in power keep their promises\, respect international law and are held to account. We are independent of any government\, political ideology\, economic interest or religion. We are funded by our members and supporters. We believe that acting in solidarity and compassion with people everywhere can change our societies for the better. In Ireland\, our 20\,000 members and supporters campaign on issues like reproductive rights\, ending torture and protecting migrant and refugee rights\, among others. \n\n\n\nWhat does Amnesty International do? \n\n\n\n\nWe investigate and expose the facts\, whenever and wherever human rights abuses happen.\n\n\n\nWe lobby governments and other powerful groups to make sure they respect international law.\n\n\n\nWe mobilise millions of supporters around the world to campaign for change and to stand in defence of human rights activists\n\n\n\nWe support people to claim their rights through education and training.\n\n\n\n\nOur History \n\n\n\nIn 1961\, British lawyer Peter Benenson was outraged when two Portuguese students were jailed just for raising a toast to freedom. He wrote an article in The Observer and launched a campaign that provoked an unprecedented response. Reprinted in newspapers across the world\, his call to action sparked the idea that people everywhere can unite in solidarity for justice and freedom. \n\n\n\nThe Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC)\n\n\n\nThe Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) is the largest and longest established organisation working for Palestinian rights on this island. We formed in 2001 as a democratic\, broad-based and multi-faceted campaign to support the human\, civil\, political and national rights of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Territories\, in Israel and in the Palestinian Diaspora.The IPSC is a volunteer-based coalition of individuals\, human rights and political activists\, academics\, journalists and trade unionists all committed to a just peace in the Middle East. We are independent of all Irish and Palestinian political parties and groups.The IPSC campaigns for freedom\, justice and equality for the Palestinian people and for an end to Israel’s racist and colonialist apartheid system. We do this through raising public awareness about the human rights abuses in the occupied territories\, the violations of international law and the historical causes of the injustices to the Palestinians that lie at the heart of the Palestine-Israel issue. \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-foragers-film-screening-and-talk-with-palestinian-activists/
LOCATION:Project Arts Centre\, 39 East Essex Street\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, D02 RD45\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJoin us for a panel discussion with Dan Lambert\, manager of Kneecap\, Claire Mc Evoy\, Head of Research and Policy at ICCL\, and Una Mullally\, writer and journalist. This ICCL event for the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival will explore limitations on freedom of expression in Ireland and abroad\, and the impact of these…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAmy Kidd\, actor \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, actor \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCoole\, post-show speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass by Mary Moynihan\, a poetical\, storytelling reflection inspired by the life stories and clandestine engagement of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803)\, leader of the 1803 Irish rebellion.  \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe\, a film by Mary Moynihan based on writings and witness statements from Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford\, with writing input from artists from DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama. Grace Gifford tells the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising and the youngest signatory to the Irish Proclamation and how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution.  \n\n\n\nWith poetry by Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of the Irish revolutionary leader Constance Markiewicz \n\n\n\nThe performances will be followed by a post-show discussion on Women Changemakers from history\, and why their stories are important\, featuring Dr Sinead McCoole. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmy Kidd is an actor\, writer and theatre-maker who trained at The Lir (BA\, Hons Acting). Credits since graduating include: Aisling in ‘Paler\, Still’ (Anseo Anois Theatre)\, Mary Shelly in ‘The Last’ (Different Theatre)\, Jess in ‘Love and Money’ (Brighton Fringe)\, Beatrice in ‘Inferno21: a modern reimagining of Dante’s Inferno’ (Verdant/The Lyric\, Belfast) and the solo performer of the installation piece ‘You Can Leave At Any Time’ (Dublin Theatre Festival ’19). She has recently been awarded an Arts Council Agility Award to be mentored by Conall Morrison in the art of theatre direction\, and her debut play ‘Breaking’ has been commissioned by Fishamble for production in 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016.  \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release early 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting: The National Theatre School of Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin\, having previously served in the TCD Drama Department as Convenor for the Bachelor in Acting Studies and Head of Drama.  \n\n\n\nEric is currently Book Review Editor for Humor\, the scholarly journal for the International Society for Humor Studies; he sits on the International Advisory Board for the European Journal of Humour Research and the Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies. He is series co-editor of the recently published Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy (Methuen\, 2020) and contributor of the Vol. 6 chapter\, ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; he is co-editor and contributor for the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance (2018). His single-author works include Theatre & Laughter (2016) and the Cambridge Introduction to Comedy (2009)\, plus widely cited articles in books and journals.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ie Smashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/tales-of-love-and-loss-10/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham Road\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Panel Discussion,Performance,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Where are Women Organising?
DESCRIPTION:Kneecapping Dissent: A panel discussion on the crippling of artistic and political expression\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhere are Women Organising? Is an online discussion capturing how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island of Ireland and globally. The event is organised by the National Women’s Council of Ireland as part of the sixth annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook Here \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nVivienne Glanville\, Women’s Collective Ireland \n\n\n\nAmy Moran\, East Wall Here For All  \n\n\n\nLouise O’Hara\, Forsá  \n\n\n\nMaria Elena Costa Sa\, Irish Network Against Racism \n\n\n\nAoife McCrory\, Mothers Against Genocide \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWomen have always been at the forefront of organising\, campaigning and agitating for change across many crucial issues. Their style\, determination and flexibility has often been overlooked. This online discussion will capture how and where women are leading in the current struggles for housing\, workers’ rights\, environmental justice and reproductive rights on the island and globally. \n\n\n\nNational Women’s Council of Ireland\n\n\n\nThe National Women’s Council (NWC) is the leading national representative organisation for women and women’s groups in Ireland. We are a feminist organisation\, representing over 190 member groups from 5 across a diversity of backgrounds\, sectors and geographical locations. Our mandate is to take action to ensure that the voices of women in all their diversity are heard. Our vision is of an Ireland and of a world where women and girls can achieve their full potential in a just and equal society. \n\n\n\nwww.nwci.ie \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\nVivienne Glanville\, Women’s Collective Ireland \nVivienne is the National Programme Coordinator at Women’s Collective Ireland supporting  women through collective and practical actions to achieve their full human rights and true equality. Women’s Collective Ireland supports grassroots women through community development locally and nationally with 17 local projects responding to the needs of the women in their area. \n  \nAmy Moran\, East Wall Here For All  \nAmy Moran is a trade union organiser\, a housing and community activist based in Dublin. Amy is involved in the East Wall Here for All\, a community group embodying solidarity and allyship with those seeking asylum and existing members of the East Wall community. \n  \nLouise O’Hara\, Forsá  \nLouise is an AGS in Forsá Trade Union organising workers in the Health & Welfare sectors. She has a breadth of organising experience in trade unions in Ireland and the UK. \n  \nMaria Elena Costa Sa\, Irish Network Against Racism \nMaria Elena Costa Sa has worked since the 80’s in Public Health\, Disability and Equality sectors in the U.K. and Ireland.  A committed human rights activist and community development worker\, she now works with Irish Network Against Racism as their Human Rights and Community Development Lead\, capacity building minority ethnic leaders\, into leadership roles.  \n  \nAoife McCrory\, Mothers Against Genocide \nAoife is one of the founders of Mothers Against Genocide a group of grassroots women activists who came together to protest the genocide in Gaza\, campaigning for peace and justice. \n  \nMarta Lampart \nMarta is a women’s rights defender and the founder of the Polish Women’s Strike – a civic women’s rights movement set up in the wake of Poland’s near-total abortion ban\, which has since expanded to fight for human rights for all\, democracy and the rule of law.  Marta’s work includes advocating for better health care and access to abortion\, equal rights for Poland’s LGBTQ+ community and people with disabilities\, the separation of church and state and judicial independence.  \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/where-are-women-organising/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion
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