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SUMMARY:Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan – Live performances
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography.  Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator\, Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. Writer and associate director for Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nLaura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, developer and coordinator of Memorial Monologues for Front Line Defenders\, Human Rights Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nConor Fortune\, Head of Communications and Events\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nJosephine Patane\, Actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2  by Mary Moynihan is a new world premiere scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. \n\n\n\nCreated as a promenade\, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre\, poetry and music\, the performance features five of the stories of human rights defenders including those who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders in the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin.  They are FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana Galizia\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, a woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front line Defenders as part of the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. \n\n\n\nSeven performances take place with six outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin\, on Friday 19 September\, 5pm; Friday 10 October\, 1pm; Saturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, and Sunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm.  If the weather does not permit outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, the show relocates  to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. You will receive an email a day in advance with confirmation of venue. \n\n\n\nOne indoor performance takes place at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1 on Friday 10 October\, 7pm\,  as part of the launch for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival 2025. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nDates\, Times\, Venues:   Friday 19 September\, 5pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 1pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 7pm\, Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1 – As part of the launch of the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nSaturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nSunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nThe five human rights defenders whose stories feature in the performance are: \n\n\n\n\nFannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone\n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta\n\n\n\nTeresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico\n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland\n\n\n\nMarielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil\n\n\n\n\nThis unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre\, arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens.  The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  The names and words of three of the human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance\, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.  They are Daphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial connects to the international online Human Rights Defenders Memorial Project\,  initiated by Ireland-based Front Line Defenders\, which honors the more than 300 individuals who are killed every year around the world for defending human rights. These  killings are bravely documented year after year by organisations across the world to preserve the truth and one day\, achieve justice. https://hrdmemorial.org/ \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial monument in Iveagh Gardens is designed by Grafton Architects and is an Ogham garden\, comprised of five standing stones\, etched with ancient Irish Ogham script\, each representing a native Irish tree. The space is enclosed by a crafted metal screen\, on which are plaques\, bearing the words of those who gave their life for their causes\, and a bench encourages passers-by to sit and think about these brave individuals\, who stood their ground. The memorial was launched by Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney\, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor and former Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson. \n\n\n\nIveagh Gardens are located on Clonmel Street\, off Harcourt Street in Dublin 2. Access is by Clonmel Street\, Hatch Street\, and to the rear of the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace. Please note that there is no wheelchair access through the Concert Hall gate entrance.  Iveagh Gardens was awarded a Green Flag 2022-2023 which is an international bench marking standard for parks and green spaces. Come and join us as we pay tribute to the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\n\nHuman Rights Defenders listed at the Memorial Monument in Iveagh Gardens are: \n\n\n\nCao Shunli \n\n\n\nNatalya Estemirova \n\n\n\nAnna Politkovskaya \n\n\n\nMarielle Franco \n\n\n\nBety Cariňo \n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson \n\n\n\nBerta Caceres \n\n\n\nRazan al-Najjar \n\n\n\nXulhaz Mannan \n\n\n\nRaed Fares \n\n\n\nLasantha Wickrematunga \n\n\n\nPascal Kabungulu \n\n\n\nAbdul Karim Al-Khaiwani \n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana \n\n\n\nHistory of the Show: Memorial Monologues Part One and Part Two \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory (Part One) by Mary Moynihan was originally commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders for the fifth annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival in 2023.  Due to popular demand\, part one returned for the 2024 festival for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October\, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre. There was one  indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, D2\, D02 K037 on Friday 11 October\, 7.30pm.Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part One featured the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.  The performers were Josephine Patane\, actor; Daniel Mahon\, actor and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician\, on violin. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part Two was commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre and the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders to be presented in September 2025 for Culture Night and in October 2025 for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:
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SUMMARY:Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan – Live performances
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography.  Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator\, Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. Writer and associate director for Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nLaura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, developer and coordinator of Memorial Monologues for Front Line Defenders\, Human Rights Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nConor Fortune\, Head of Communications and Events\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nJosephine Patane\, Actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2  by Mary Moynihan is a new world premiere scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. \n\n\n\nCreated as a promenade\, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre\, poetry and music\, the performance features five of the stories of human rights defenders including those who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders in the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin.  They are FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana Galizia\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, a woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front line Defenders as part of the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. \n\n\n\nSeven performances take place with six outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin\, on Friday 19 September\, 5pm; Friday 10 October\, 1pm; Saturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, and Sunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm.  If the weather does not permit outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, the show relocates  to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. You will receive an email a day in advance with confirmation of venue. \n\n\n\nOne indoor performance takes place at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1 on Friday 10 October\, 7pm\,  as part of the launch for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival 2025. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nDates\, Times\, Venues:   Friday 19 September\, 5pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 1pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 7pm\, Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1 – As part of the launch of the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nSaturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nSunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nThe five human rights defenders whose stories feature in the performance are: \n\n\n\n\nFannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone\n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta\n\n\n\nTeresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico\n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland\n\n\n\nMarielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil\n\n\n\n\nThis unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre\, arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens.  The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  The names and words of three of the human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance\, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.  They are Daphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial connects to the international online Human Rights Defenders Memorial Project\,  initiated by Ireland-based Front Line Defenders\, which honors the more than 300 individuals who are killed every year around the world for defending human rights. These  killings are bravely documented year after year by organisations across the world to preserve the truth and one day\, achieve justice. https://hrdmemorial.org/ \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial monument in Iveagh Gardens is designed by Grafton Architects and is an Ogham garden\, comprised of five standing stones\, etched with ancient Irish Ogham script\, each representing a native Irish tree. The space is enclosed by a crafted metal screen\, on which are plaques\, bearing the words of those who gave their life for their causes\, and a bench encourages passers-by to sit and think about these brave individuals\, who stood their ground. The memorial was launched by Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney\, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor and former Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson. \n\n\n\nIveagh Gardens are located on Clonmel Street\, off Harcourt Street in Dublin 2. Access is by Clonmel Street\, Hatch Street\, and to the rear of the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace. Please note that there is no wheelchair access through the Concert Hall gate entrance.  Iveagh Gardens was awarded a Green Flag 2022-2023 which is an international bench marking standard for parks and green spaces. Come and join us as we pay tribute to the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\n\nHuman Rights Defenders listed at the Memorial Monument in Iveagh Gardens are: \n\n\n\nCao Shunli \n\n\n\nNatalya Estemirova \n\n\n\nAnna Politkovskaya \n\n\n\nMarielle Franco \n\n\n\nBety Cariňo \n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson \n\n\n\nBerta Caceres \n\n\n\nRazan al-Najjar \n\n\n\nXulhaz Mannan \n\n\n\nRaed Fares \n\n\n\nLasantha Wickrematunga \n\n\n\nPascal Kabungulu \n\n\n\nAbdul Karim Al-Khaiwani \n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana \n\n\n\nHistory of the Show: Memorial Monologues Part One and Part Two \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory (Part One) by Mary Moynihan was originally commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders for the fifth annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival in 2023.  Due to popular demand\, part one returned for the 2024 festival for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October\, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre. There was one  indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, D2\, D02 K037 on Friday 11 October\, 7.30pm.Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part One featured the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.  The performers were Josephine Patane\, actor; Daniel Mahon\, actor and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician\, on violin. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part Two was commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre and the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders to be presented in September 2025 for Culture Night and in October 2025 for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosephine Patane is excited to be a part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Originally from the United States\, she has performed in many New York and regional theatre productions there. Since moving\, Josephine has continued performing on stages throughout Europe as an actor and singer. Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Vanessa) Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) The Shadow of a Gunman (Minnie Powell) Twinkle Tames a Dragon (Twinkle) and Richard II (Northumberland.) On screen\, Josephine can be seen in the film Happy Yummy Chicken\, or doing science experiments on BBC Bitesize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBronagh Donaghey is a Dublin based actor\, who completed her training in TU Dublins’s Ba in Drama (Performance.) She recently worked on “Animal Farm: The Moosical 2” for the Scene and Heard festival earlier this year. She was also in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard and “Collaborators” by John Hodge\, which were both in the Boys School in Smock Alley. Along with acting Bronagh has recently been an Assistant Director for AfterMidnight’s “Rumours” by Neil Simons\, and a Stage Manager for “Rogue Theatre’s “RabbitHole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. She recently also started a Theatre Company along with a few of her pals called “Messers Theatre”. Bronagh is a performer who strives to always bring truth to every role\, find the humanity in the story being told\, be fun and playful and most importantly help the audience to feel something. She is really grateful to be involved in a production where she is getting the chance to do all the above and an opportunity to tell stories that are as important as this one. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:
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LOCATION:Iveagh Gardens\, St Stephen's Green\, Dublin 2\, D02 HX65
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SUMMARY:Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan – Live performances
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography.  Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator\, Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. Writer and associate director for Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nLaura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, developer and coordinator of Memorial Monologues for Front Line Defenders\, Human Rights Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nConor Fortune\, Head of Communications and Events\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nJosephine Patane\, Actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2  by Mary Moynihan is a new world premiere scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. \n\n\n\nCreated as a promenade\, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre\, poetry and music\, the performance features five of the stories of human rights defenders including those who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders in the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin.  They are FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana Galizia\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, a woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front line Defenders as part of the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. \n\n\n\nSeven performances take place with six outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin\, on Friday 19 September\, 5pm; Friday 10 October\, 1pm; Saturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, and Sunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm.  If the weather does not permit outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, the show relocates  to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. You will receive an email a day in advance with confirmation of venue. \n\n\n\nOne indoor performance takes place at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1 on Friday 10 October\, 7pm\,  as part of the launch for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival 2025. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nDates\, Times\, Venues:   Friday 19 September\, 5pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 1pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 7pm\, Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1 – As part of the launch of the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nSaturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nSunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nThe five human rights defenders whose stories feature in the performance are: \n\n\n\n\nFannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone\n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta\n\n\n\nTeresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico\n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland\n\n\n\nMarielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil\n\n\n\n\nThis unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre\, arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens.  The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  The names and words of three of the human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance\, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.  They are Daphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial connects to the international online Human Rights Defenders Memorial Project\,  initiated by Ireland-based Front Line Defenders\, which honors the more than 300 individuals who are killed every year around the world for defending human rights. These  killings are bravely documented year after year by organisations across the world to preserve the truth and one day\, achieve justice. https://hrdmemorial.org/ \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial monument in Iveagh Gardens is designed by Grafton Architects and is an Ogham garden\, comprised of five standing stones\, etched with ancient Irish Ogham script\, each representing a native Irish tree. The space is enclosed by a crafted metal screen\, on which are plaques\, bearing the words of those who gave their life for their causes\, and a bench encourages passers-by to sit and think about these brave individuals\, who stood their ground. The memorial was launched by Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney\, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor and former Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson. \n\n\n\nIveagh Gardens are located on Clonmel Street\, off Harcourt Street in Dublin 2. Access is by Clonmel Street\, Hatch Street\, and to the rear of the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace. Please note that there is no wheelchair access through the Concert Hall gate entrance.  Iveagh Gardens was awarded a Green Flag 2022-2023 which is an international bench marking standard for parks and green spaces. Come and join us as we pay tribute to the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\n\nHuman Rights Defenders listed at the Memorial Monument in Iveagh Gardens are: \n\n\n\nCao Shunli \n\n\n\nNatalya Estemirova \n\n\n\nAnna Politkovskaya \n\n\n\nMarielle Franco \n\n\n\nBety Cariňo \n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson \n\n\n\nBerta Caceres \n\n\n\nRazan al-Najjar \n\n\n\nXulhaz Mannan \n\n\n\nRaed Fares \n\n\n\nLasantha Wickrematunga \n\n\n\nPascal Kabungulu \n\n\n\nAbdul Karim Al-Khaiwani \n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana \n\n\n\nHistory of the Show: Memorial Monologues Part One and Part Two \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory (Part One) by Mary Moynihan was originally commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders for the fifth annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival in 2023.  Due to popular demand\, part one returned for the 2024 festival for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October\, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre. There was one  indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, D2\, D02 K037 on Friday 11 October\, 7.30pm.Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part One featured the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.  The performers were Josephine Patane\, actor; Daniel Mahon\, actor and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician\, on violin. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part Two was commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre and the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders to be presented in September 2025 for Culture Night and in October 2025 for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosephine Patane is excited to be a part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Originally from the United States\, she has performed in many New York and regional theatre productions there. Since moving\, Josephine has continued performing on stages throughout Europe as an actor and singer. Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Vanessa) Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) The Shadow of a Gunman (Minnie Powell) Twinkle Tames a Dragon (Twinkle) and Richard II (Northumberland.) On screen\, Josephine can be seen in the film Happy Yummy Chicken\, or doing science experiments on BBC Bitesize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBronagh Donaghey is a Dublin based actor\, who completed her training in TU Dublins’s Ba in Drama (Performance.) She recently worked on “Animal Farm: The Moosical 2” for the Scene and Heard festival earlier this year. She was also in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard and “Collaborators” by John Hodge\, which were both in the Boys School in Smock Alley. Along with acting Bronagh has recently been an Assistant Director for AfterMidnight’s “Rumours” by Neil Simons\, and a Stage Manager for “Rogue Theatre’s “RabbitHole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. She recently also started a Theatre Company along with a few of her pals called “Messers Theatre”. Bronagh is a performer who strives to always bring truth to every role\, find the humanity in the story being told\, be fun and playful and most importantly help the audience to feel something. She is really grateful to be involved in a production where she is getting the chance to do all the above and an opportunity to tell stories that are as important as this one. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Iveagh Gardens\, St Stephen's Green\, Dublin 2\, D02 HX65
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SUMMARY:Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan – Live performances
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography.  Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator\, Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. Writer and associate director for Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nLaura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, developer and coordinator of Memorial Monologues for Front Line Defenders\, Human Rights Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nConor Fortune\, Head of Communications and Events\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nJosephine Patane\, Actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2  by Mary Moynihan is a new world premiere scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. \n\n\n\nCreated as a promenade\, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre\, poetry and music\, the performance features five of the stories of human rights defenders including those who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders in the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin.  They are FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana Galizia\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, a woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front line Defenders as part of the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. \n\n\n\nSeven performances take place with six outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin\, on Friday 19 September\, 5pm; Friday 10 October\, 1pm; Saturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, and Sunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm.  If the weather does not permit outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, the show relocates  to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. You will receive an email a day in advance with confirmation of venue. \n\n\n\nOne indoor performance takes place at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1 on Friday 10 October\, 7pm\,  as part of the launch for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival 2025. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nDates\, Times\, Venues:   Friday 19 September\, 5pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 1pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 7pm\, Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1 – As part of the launch of the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nSaturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nSunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nThe five human rights defenders whose stories feature in the performance are: \n\n\n\n\nFannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone\n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta\n\n\n\nTeresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico\n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland\n\n\n\nMarielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil\n\n\n\n\nThis unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre\, arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens.  The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  The names and words of three of the human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance\, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.  They are Daphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial connects to the international online Human Rights Defenders Memorial Project\,  initiated by Ireland-based Front Line Defenders\, which honors the more than 300 individuals who are killed every year around the world for defending human rights. These  killings are bravely documented year after year by organisations across the world to preserve the truth and one day\, achieve justice. https://hrdmemorial.org/ \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial monument in Iveagh Gardens is designed by Grafton Architects and is an Ogham garden\, comprised of five standing stones\, etched with ancient Irish Ogham script\, each representing a native Irish tree. The space is enclosed by a crafted metal screen\, on which are plaques\, bearing the words of those who gave their life for their causes\, and a bench encourages passers-by to sit and think about these brave individuals\, who stood their ground. The memorial was launched by Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney\, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor and former Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson. \n\n\n\nIveagh Gardens are located on Clonmel Street\, off Harcourt Street in Dublin 2. Access is by Clonmel Street\, Hatch Street\, and to the rear of the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace. Please note that there is no wheelchair access through the Concert Hall gate entrance.  Iveagh Gardens was awarded a Green Flag 2022-2023 which is an international bench marking standard for parks and green spaces. Come and join us as we pay tribute to the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\n\nHuman Rights Defenders listed at the Memorial Monument in Iveagh Gardens are: \n\n\n\nCao Shunli \n\n\n\nNatalya Estemirova \n\n\n\nAnna Politkovskaya \n\n\n\nMarielle Franco \n\n\n\n\nBety Cariňo \n\n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson \n\n\n\nBerta Caceres \n\n\n\nRazan al-Najjar \n\n\n\nXulhaz Mannan \n\n\n\nRaed Fares \n\n\n\nLasantha Wickrematunga \n\n\n\nPascal Kabungulu \n\n\n\nAbdul Karim Al-Khaiwani \n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana \n\n\n\nHistory of the Show: Memorial Monologues Part One and Part Two \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory (Part One) by Mary Moynihan was originally commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders for the fifth annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival in 2023.  Due to popular demand\, part one returned for the 2024 festival for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October\, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre. There was one  indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, D2\, D02 K037 on Friday 11 October\, 7.30pm.Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part One featured the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.  The performers were Josephine Patane\, actor; Daniel Mahon\, actor and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician\, on violin. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part Two was commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre and the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders to be presented in September 2025 for Culture Night and in October 2025 for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosephine Patane is excited to be a part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Originally from the United States\, she has performed in many New York and regional theatre productions there. Since moving\, Josephine has continued performing on stages throughout Europe as an actor and singer. Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Vanessa) Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) The Shadow of a Gunman (Minnie Powell) Twinkle Tames a Dragon (Twinkle) and Richard II (Northumberland.) On screen\, Josephine can be seen in the film Happy Yummy Chicken\, or doing science experiments on BBC Bitesize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBronagh Donaghey is a Dublin based actor\, who completed her training in TU Dublins’s Ba in Drama (Performance.) She recently worked on “Animal Farm: The Moosical 2” for the Scene and Heard festival earlier this year. She was also in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard and “Collaborators” by John Hodge\, which were both in the Boys School in Smock Alley. Along with acting Bronagh has recently been an Assistant Director for AfterMidnight’s “Rumours” by Neil Simons\, and a Stage Manager for “Rogue Theatre’s “RabbitHole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. She recently also started a Theatre Company along with a few of her pals called “Messers Theatre”. Bronagh is a performer who strives to always bring truth to every role\, find the humanity in the story being told\, be fun and playful and most importantly help the audience to feel something. She is really grateful to be involved in a production where she is getting the chance to do all the above and an opportunity to tell stories that are as important as this one. \n\n\n\n\n\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:
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LOCATION:Iveagh Gardens\, St Stephen's Green\, Dublin 2\, D02 HX65
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SUMMARY:Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan – Live performances
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography.  Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator\, Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. Writer and associate director for Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nLaura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, developer and coordinator of Memorial Monologues for Front Line Defenders\, Human Rights Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nConor Fortune\, Head of Communications and Events\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nJosephine Patane\, Actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2  by Mary Moynihan is a new world premiere scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. \n\n\n\nCreated as a promenade\, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre\, poetry and music\, the performance features five of the stories of human rights defenders including those who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders in the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin.  They are FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana Galizia\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, a woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front line Defenders as part of the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. \n\n\n\nSeven performances take place with six outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin\, on Friday 19 September\, 5pm; Friday 10 October\, 1pm; Saturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, and Sunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm.  If the weather does not permit outdoor performances at the Iveagh Gardens\, the show relocates  to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. You will receive an email a day in advance with confirmation of venue. \n\n\n\nOne indoor performance takes place at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1 on Friday 10 October\, 7pm\,  as part of the launch for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival 2025. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part 2 \n\n\n\nDates\, Times\, Venues:   Friday 19 September\, 5pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 1pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 October\, 7pm\, Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1 – As part of the launch of the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nSaturday 11 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nSunday 12 October\, 1pm and 3pm\, Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin \n\n\n\nThe five human rights defenders whose stories feature in the performance are: \n\n\n\n\nFannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone\n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta\n\n\n\nTeresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, woman searcher of disappeared people and human rights defender\, Mexico\n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland\n\n\n\nMarielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil\n\n\n\n\nThis unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre\, arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens.  The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  The names and words of three of the human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance\, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.  They are Daphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial connects to the international online Human Rights Defenders Memorial Project\,  initiated by Ireland-based Front Line Defenders\, which honors the more than 300 individuals who are killed every year around the world for defending human rights. These  killings are bravely documented year after year by organisations across the world to preserve the truth and one day\, achieve justice. https://hrdmemorial.org/ \n\n\n\nThe physical memorial monument in Iveagh Gardens is designed by Grafton Architects and is an Ogham garden\, comprised of five standing stones\, etched with ancient Irish Ogham script\, each representing a native Irish tree. The space is enclosed by a crafted metal screen\, on which are plaques\, bearing the words of those who gave their life for their causes\, and a bench encourages passers-by to sit and think about these brave individuals\, who stood their ground. The memorial was launched by Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Simon Coveney\, UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders Mary Lawlor and former Front Line Defenders Executive Director Andrew Anderson. \n\n\n\nIveagh Gardens are located on Clonmel Street\, off Harcourt Street in Dublin 2. Access is by Clonmel Street\, Hatch Street\, and to the rear of the National Concert Hall on Earlsfort Terrace. Please note that there is no wheelchair access through the Concert Hall gate entrance.  Iveagh Gardens was awarded a Green Flag 2022-2023 which is an international bench marking standard for parks and green spaces. Come and join us as we pay tribute to the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\n\nHuman Rights Defenders listed at the Memorial Monument in Iveagh Gardens are: \n\n\n\nCao Shunli \n\n\n\nNatalya Estemirova \n\n\n\nAnna Politkovskaya \n\n\n\nMarielle Franco \n\n\n\nBety Cariňo \n\n\n\nRosemary Nelson \n\n\n\nBerta Caceres \n\n\n\nRazan al-Najjar \n\n\n\nXulhaz Mannan \n\n\n\nRaed Fares \n\n\n\nLasantha Wickrematunga \n\n\n\nPascal Kabungulu \n\n\n\nAbdul Karim Al-Khaiwani \n\n\n\nDaphne Caruana \n\n\n\nHistory of the Show: Memorial Monologues Part One and Part Two \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory (Part One) by Mary Moynihan was originally commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders for the fifth annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival in 2023.  Due to popular demand\, part one returned for the 2024 festival for three outdoor performances from 18-20 October\, daily at 1pm in the award-winning Iveagh Gardens\, Dublin’s secret garden\, located close to St Stephen’s Green Park in Dublin city centre. There was one  indoor performance at the launch of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, D2\, D02 K037 on Friday 11 October\, 7.30pm.Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part One featured the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.  The performers were Josephine Patane\, actor; Daniel Mahon\, actor and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician\, on violin. \n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part Two was commissioned by Smashing Times International Centre and the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders to be presented in September 2025 for Culture Night and in October 2025 for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosephine Patane is excited to be a part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Originally from the United States\, she has performed in many New York and regional theatre productions there. Since moving\, Josephine has continued performing on stages throughout Europe as an actor and singer. Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Vanessa) Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) The Shadow of a Gunman (Minnie Powell) Twinkle Tames a Dragon (Twinkle) and Richard II (Northumberland.) On screen\, Josephine can be seen in the film Happy Yummy Chicken\, or doing science experiments on BBC Bitesize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBronagh Donaghey is a Dublin based actor\, who completed her training in TU Dublins’s Ba in Drama (Performance.) She recently worked on “Animal Farm: The Moosical 2” for the Scene and Heard festival earlier this year. She was also in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard and “Collaborators” by John Hodge\, which were both in the Boys School in Smock Alley. Along with acting Bronagh has recently been an Assistant Director for AfterMidnight’s “Rumours” by Neil Simons\, and a Stage Manager for “Rogue Theatre’s “RabbitHole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. She recently also started a Theatre Company along with a few of her pals called “Messers Theatre”. Bronagh is a performer who strives to always bring truth to every role\, find the humanity in the story being told\, be fun and playful and most importantly help the audience to feel something. She is really grateful to be involved in a production where she is getting the chance to do all the above and an opportunity to tell stories that are as important as this one. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception and launch of the Seventh Annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025 with Guest Speakers\, Artist Talks\, Exhibition\, Live performance and Refreshments
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet and Creator of Art and Photography; Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality; Arts Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nAlan Glasgow\, Executive Director\, Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, Write and Poet \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, MC and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Front Line Defenders and partners are delighted to host and invite you to the opening reception and launch of the seventh annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival taking place on Friday 10 October\, 6.30 to 9pm\, at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. The opening reception and launch features guest speakers\, artist talks\, and the opportunity to attend the launch of and view the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition\, funded by The Arts Council. The reception and launch culminates in a live performance of a new world premiere\, Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan\, presented by Smashing times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. The play is adapted from the words of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\n\nOur guest speakers include artists as well as presentations by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet and creator of art and photography\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times and Alan Glasgow\, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nThe annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival is presented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders\, and a range of partners\, from 10 to 19 October 2025\, with over fifty  events promoting equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts\, in counties including Dublin\, Limerick\, Mayo\, Wexford\, Cavan\, Galway and online. The festival showcases the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today.   \n\n\n\nMultidisciplinary Exhibition \n\n\n\nAs part of the launch\, audiences have the opportunity to view the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition. This is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling\, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and who spoke out for the rights of others.  A series of powerful  artworks are on display\, created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism. The commissioned artists are Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer; and Smashing Times Artistic Director Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan\, and was originally funded by The Arts Council Commissions Award under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, and is presented as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The exhibition runs at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, from Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. \n\n\n\nLive Performance \n\n\n\nThe launch culminates with a live performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan. The play is adapted from the words of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.   They are FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, Malta; Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, human rights defender\, Mexico; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland and Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, politician and human rights activist\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nThe play is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Frontline Defenders\, written by Mary Moynihan and directed by Carmen Ortiz Victorino. This is a new play and is a follow-up to Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part I which was presented at the 2023 and 2024 festivals and features the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.   \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosephine Patane is excited to be a part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Originally from the United States\, she has performed in many New York and regional theatre productions there. Since moving\, Josephine has continued performing on stages throughout Europe as an actor and singer. Theatre credits include: The Little Mermaid (Vanessa) Fiddler on the Roof (Chava) The Shadow of a Gunman (Minnie Powell) Twinkle Tames a Dragon (Twinkle) and Richard II (Northumberland.) On screen\, Josephine can be seen in the film Happy Yummy Chicken\, or doing science experiments on BBC Bitesize. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBronagh Donaghey is a Dublin based actor\, who completed her training in TU Dublins’s Ba in Drama (Performance.) She recently worked on “Animal Farm: The Moosical 2” for the Scene and Heard festival earlier this year. She was also in “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead” by Tom Stoppard and “Collaborators” by John Hodge\, which were both in the Boys School in Smock Alley. Along with acting Bronagh has recently been an Assistant Director for AfterMidnight’s “Rumours” by Neil Simons\, and a Stage Manager for “Rogue Theatre’s “RabbitHole” by David Lindsay-Abaire. She recently also started a Theatre Company along with a few of her pals called “Messers Theatre”. Bronagh is a performer who strives to always bring truth to every role\, find the humanity in the story being told\, be fun and playful and most importantly help the audience to feel something. She is really grateful to be involved in a production where she is getting the chance to do all the above and an opportunity to tell stories that are as important as this one. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/opening-reception-and-launch-of-the-seventh-annual-international-irish-arts-and-human-rights-festival-2025-with-guest-speakers-artist-talks-exhibition-live-performance-and-refreshments/
LOCATION:30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch,Performance
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is a promenade performance created for The Art of W/Rights\, a literary carnival of arts and rights taking place in Rathfarnham Dublin\,  as part of In the Open – Faoin Spéir funded by The Arts Council.  Two artists walk the park on a magical journey of reflection on the work and life of artists from the past and today.   Join  the stroll and be regaled by stories\, poetry and a few surprises along the way.  Listen to the stories of visual artist Angelica Kauffmann\, the ‘the 18th century Tracey Emin of her day\,’ who once visited Rathfarnham Castle where our walk is set\, and to  Irish singer Rachel Baptiste who enjoyed a successful career performing the length and breath of Ireland for over twenty years.  Enjoy a reflection on the life and work of writers William Butler Yeats\, J.M. Synge and Lady Gregory and  stories of women writers and freedom of expression today. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-with-an-artist/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: People Who Inspire
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland’s  and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire is an intimate portrayal bringing to life  stories of people who inspire us\, people who lived lives of courage and resilience and who stood up for human rights.  Enjoy a walk-about performance\, and chat\, promenade style\,  in the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle park.  Join artists and guest speakers to share stories and insights into a world of care and compassion.  \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire celebrates the lives of ‘forgotten heroes’\, sharing stories of men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others.  We are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives\, people who inspire.  Our  stories are about equality\, compassion and rights\, stories of people who carry us forward like a river lowing.  The public will be invited to interact and respond to these stories\, with questions\, comments\, and maybe even a tale of their own! \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-with-an-artist-2/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is a promenade performance created for The Art of W/Rights\, a literary carnival of arts and rights taking place in Rathfarnham Dublin\,  as part of In the Open – Faoin Spéir funded by The Arts Council.  Two artists walk the park on a magical journey of reflection on the work and life of artists from the past and today.   Join  the stroll and be regaled by stories\, poetry and a few surprises along the way.  Listen to the stories of visual artist Angelica Kauffmann\, the ‘the 18th century Tracey Emin of her day\,’ who once visited Rathfarnham Castle where our walk is set\, and to  Irish singer Rachel Baptiste who enjoyed a successful career performing the length and breath of Ireland for over twenty years.  Enjoy a reflection on the life and work of writers William Butler Yeats\, J.M. Synge and Lady Gregory and  stories of women writers and freedom of expression today. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-with-an-artist-2021-10-22/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: People Who Inspire
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland’s  and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire is an intimate portrayal bringing to life  stories of people who inspire us\, people who lived lives of courage and resilience and who stood up for human rights.  Enjoy a walk-about performance\, and chat\, promenade style\,  in the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle park.  Join artists and guest speakers to share stories and insights into a world of care and compassion.  \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire celebrates the lives of ‘forgotten heroes’\, sharing stories of men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others.  We are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives\, people who inspire.  Our  stories are about equality\, compassion and rights\, stories of people who carry us forward like a river lowing.  The public will be invited to interact and respond to these stories\, with questions\, comments\, and maybe even a tale of their own! \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-with-an-artist-8/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBooking Link Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is a promenade performance created for The Art of W/Rights\, a literary carnival of arts and rights taking place in Rathfarnham Dublin\,  as part of In the Open – Faoin Spéir funded by The Arts Council.  Two artists walk the park on a magical journey of reflection on the work and life of artists from the past and today.   Join  the stroll and be regaled by stories\, poetry and a few surprises along the way.  Listen to the stories of visual artist Angelica Kauffmann\, the ‘the 18th century Tracey Emin of her day\,’ who once visited Rathfarnham Castle where our walk is set\, and to  Irish singer Rachel Baptiste who enjoyed a successful career performing the length and breath of Ireland for over twenty years.  Enjoy a reflection on the life and work of writers William Butler Yeats\, J.M. Synge and Lady Gregory and  stories of women writers and freedom of expression today. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-with-an-artist-4/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is a promenade performance created for The Art of W/Rights\, a literary carnival of arts and rights taking place in Rathfarnham Dublin\,  as part of In the Open – Faoin Spéir funded by The Arts Council.  Two artists walk the park on a magical journey of reflection on the work and life of artists from the past and today.   Join  the stroll and be regaled by stories\, poetry and a few surprises along the way.  Listen to the stories of visual artist Angelica Kauffmann\, the ‘the 18th century Tracey Emin of her day\,’ who once visited Rathfarnham Castle where our walk is set\, and to  Irish singer Rachel Baptiste who enjoyed a successful career performing the length and breath of Ireland for over twenty years.  Enjoy a reflection on the life and work of writers William Butler Yeats\, J.M. Synge and Lady Gregory and  stories of women writers and freedom of expression today. \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-with-an-artist-3/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: People Who Inspire
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland’s  and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire is an intimate portrayal bringing to life  stories of people who inspire us\, people who lived lives of courage and resilience and who stood up for human rights.  Enjoy a walk-about performance\, and chat\, promenade style\,  in the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle park.  Join artists and guest speakers to share stories and insights into a world of care and compassion.  \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire celebrates the lives of ‘forgotten heroes’\, sharing stories of men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others.  We are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives\, people who inspire.  Our  stories are about equality\, compassion and rights\, stories of people who carry us forward like a river lowing.  The public will be invited to interact and respond to these stories\, with questions\, comments\, and maybe even a tale of their own! \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-people-who-inspire/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Walk in the Park: People Who Inspire
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Walk in the Park:  People Who Inspire \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders and citizens.  Smashing Times have created two public performances as part of its Walk in the Park series – Walk in the Park: The Artist Speaks and Walk in the Park: People Who Inspired. While visiting the iconic setting of the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle\, we invite you  to listen to stories about the thrilling lives and work of some of Ireland’s  and Europe’s unique artists and citizens. \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire is an intimate portrayal bringing to life  stories of people who inspire us\, people who lived lives of courage and resilience and who stood up for human rights.  Enjoy a walk-about performance\, and chat\, promenade style\,  in the grounds of Rathfarnham Castle park.  Join artists and guest speakers to share stories and insights into a world of care and compassion.  \n\n\n\nPeople Who Inspire celebrates the lives of ‘forgotten heroes’\, sharing stories of men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others.  We are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives\, people who inspire.  Our  stories are about equality\, compassion and rights\, stories of people who carry us forward like a river lowing.  The public will be invited to interact and respond to these stories\, with questions\, comments\, and maybe even a tale of their own! \n\n\n\nWalk in the Park: The Artist Speaks is supported by the Creative Ireland South Dublin Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights \n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations \n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin \n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nOpen call: Stories and Poems inspired by people who have helped shape our lives\n\n\n\nWe are all formed and shaped by the people who pass through our lives. As part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times conducted  an open call for stories and poems based on the theme ‘people who inspire or have shaped us in some way’.  A selection of 100 stories and poems will be displayed in a ‘digital book’ online via the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery  telling stories of people who have inspired us\, a person from the past or present who has inspired or shaped us in some way and who has promoted equality\, compassion and rights in our lives and the lives of others.  The digital book containing the stories and poems will be projected onto the walls of Rathfarnham Castle in 2022 with a page of the book turning very slowly every few minutes. \n\n\n\nIn  keeping with our themes of equality\, compassion and rights  and the metaphor of a river (both parks feature ponds and have strong connections with rivers) where we can create a flow of equality\, compassion and rights in the wider society\,  we are asking  citizens to tell us stories of the people who have helped carry you forward\,. \n\n\n\nThe stories and poems collected are a celebration of all that is good and kind in the world\, a reflection on life and a celebration of connections made\, the interconnectedness of people as no person is an island.  They are stories of people in the past and today who shaped society in a positive way. Our aim is to create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories of care and compassion and to act as a catalyst to generate creative conversations on visions for a better world. \n\n\n\nPlease submit using the online form.  Submission is free. \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side!\n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner. \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for  community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nAs Ireland opens up once again\, it is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/walk-in-the-park-with-an-artist-10/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change. Performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist and Speaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \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. Michael 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\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\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\n \n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \nFunded by The Arts Council \nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n  \nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n  \nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n  \n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of Dublin\nTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversity\nTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n  \nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \n  \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n  \nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change. Performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park  \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \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. Michael 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\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\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\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change. Performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park  \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist & Speaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \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. Michael 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\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\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\n\n\nEva Kelly\n\n\n\n\n\nEva Kelly is an illustrator and artist based in Dublin\, Ireland. She is a member of Illustrators Guild of Ireland and represented by Lemonade Illustration Agency. She works with watercolour and inks\, combining expressive mark making\, energy and playfulness to create unique hand drawn images.  \n\n\n\nEva studied Visual Communications at the National College of Art and Design and has a background in printmaking that informs her work. She has an MA in Visual Arts Education from the NCAD and MA in Illustration from the University of Hertfordshire. She teaches Illustration and Drawing in Dublin. She has worked on creative residencies in New York and Tokyo. Currently is Artist in Residence for South Dublin County Decade of Centenaries. \n\n\n\nFinding beauty in the everyday\, storytelling and the craft of drawing are at the heart of my practice. \n\n\n\n@evakellyillustrations \n\n\n\nwww.evakellyillustration.com \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \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\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change. Performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist & Speaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \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. Michael 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\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\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\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-w-rights-4/
LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Onsite,Performance,Storytelling,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist & Speaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \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. Michael 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\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\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\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \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. Michael 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\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \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\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\nRob Harrington\, performer \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, composer and violinist \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer-songwriter \n\n\n\nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, (PI)\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and partners are delighted to present Remembrance\, a cross-cultural artistic performance and post-show artist panel discussion presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Remembrance is a MemoLab a live musical performance featuring Ugandan musician Jeff Korondo and musical performances from Hilary Bow and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi; poetry from The Feeling Soul by Mary Moynihan performed by Rob Harrington and Ciara Hayes; and At Summer’s End by Féilim James\, performed by Carla Ryan. The evening features Artist Talks by  Mary Moynihan\, Ireland\, writer\, theatre and film-maker  and Erika Diettes\, Bogota\, Colombia\, a visual artist and social communicator. Both artists have work on display in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition at the Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1 as part of the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Northern Uganda. Carla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland and Rob Harrington is a performer  with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/  Erika presents a talk on her artistic practise and the work on display as part of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition\, exploring themes of grief\, disappearances and remembrance. \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival.  Mary presents a talk on her artistic practice and work on  display as part of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition\, with a focus on the arts for historical memory and for equality\, peace and non-violence.  Mary will also speak on her work at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery where she is showing a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetry created under the title of The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found. As part of this work the artist  reflects on the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe Facilitator and speaker and is Professor Brandon Hamber\, (PI)\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern 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\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n \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\nCarla Ryan\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 in 2022. \n\n\n\nELKIN draw influence from the R’n’B\, pop\, indie and folk worlds. With bassist Peter and guitarist Conor of Hatchlings\, plus drummer Rob\, “the band display an eclectic mix of R&B\, pop and hip-hop beats\, bolstered by alternating female vocals and smooth guitars.” Stephen Porzio\, Hot Press \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\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\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErika Diettes\n\n\n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Colombia\, 1978) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes. Both her double degree and her anthropological background are reflected in her exhibitions as well as in her publications\, due to the clear intention of establishing an intimate dialogue between her work and the observer. This can be evidenced in her work as she puts the knowledge\, she has at her disposal to intervene artistically\, taking into account a previous process of research and critical analysis of the context and its protagonists.  As a result\, there is a confluence between image\, message\, and process\, a trinity that is the conceptual and structural cornerstone of all her works. One of Erika Diettes’ focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict. An exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is also known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. Among them was a nomination for the Visionary Awards in 2015 where she was a finalist\, and as a winner of the Tim Hetherington Trust Scholarship and the World Press Photo Foundation Fellowship (2017-2018). \n\n\n\nIn April 2019 Erika Diettes was selected as part of the group of women artists\, leaders\, and intellectuals who within each of their respective fields are exemplary for their contribution to commemorating and celebrating the achievements and struggle of women around the world. Her exhibition SUDARIOS has been chosen to open the cultural calendar of the city of Liverpool\, England\, dedicated throughout 2019 to celebrate and commemorate International Women’s Day. \n\n\n\nWebsite link: https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bow\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bow is a singer-songwriter based in Cork\,  Ireland. Her debut album Sean Nova (in 2005) followed her cocktail bar experiences.  Sean Nova was a collection of reworkings of jazz standards translated into Irish\, played in a bossa nova style. She has worked with IMRAM on numerous\, similar projects\, including Irish translations of the songs of Edith Piaf\, Jacques Brel\, Leonard Cohen\, and Van Morrison. The Réaltnach (Starman)\, Bow’s latest album\, released in 2016\, sees her collaborate with Liam Ó Maonlaoí\, the Brad Pitt Light Orchestra\, poet\, Gabriel Rosenstock\, and visual artist\, Margaret Lonergan\, to bring Irish-language renditions of some of Bowie’s songs to the IMRAM Irish Language Literature festival.  \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:Smashing Times Birthday Party Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Guest Speakers include\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nWilliam Caughey\,  Guest\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFernando Benavente\, International Guest\, IFES Coop\, Valencia\, Spain \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer\, Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality  invite you to take part in an open mic night for the arts and to join  us in celebrating 30 years as the leading voice in arts for equality\, human rights and diversity in Europe and internationally! \n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality celebrates 30 years of working with incredible artists\, partners\, citizens and communities  and in a range of different artforms\, promoting human rights\, equality and diversity for all\, we invite you to join us in a wonderful and celebratory gathering of arts\, music\, song and chat. We are delighted that artists\, partners\, citizens and communities from across Ireland and Europe will join us on the evening for creative conversations and taking part in our Open Mic Art session! \n\n\n\nCome to the Chocolate Factory and explore the extraordinary State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, while meeting with some of Smashing Times artists and partners who have worked with us throughout the years. The evening will be an opportunity for fun ‘meeting and greeting’\, for informal networking\, and for creative expression and celebration in an artistic setting. All welcome! \n\n\n\nThe Open Mic session is a celebration of talent in all ages and  artforms and we love all styles and arts. We welcome you to pop on stage for a short performance and to show and share with us your creativity. A delightful evening with an electric\, fun atmosphere \n\n\n\nThe evening will feature short chats celebrating equality\, diversity and human rights and you are welcome to contribute to our vision board with ideas for future ways forward for working with the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights and to acknowledge and remember all those who have inspired us on our journey as we endeavour to create a world where all people are treat equal with dignity and respect. \n\n\n\nAs part of our the evening’s entertainment\, we welcome you to view the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition and installation at the Chocolate Factory\, open daily 10am-6pm from Monday to Sunday\,  3-23 October 2022 (16 October 2-6pm). \n\n\n\nState of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence is a live\, multi-media exhibition and  installation displaying artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence with artists exhibiting their work interrogating political violence in communities across the globe. The exhibiton features a multitude of artworks – film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\, painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\, Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\nArtists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. \n\n\n\nWe also invite you to attend the  Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, open Tuesday to Saturday\, 11am-4pm from 13 September to 29 October 2022 and featuring the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\n ‘Smashing Times has a deserved reputation for exploring social issues with sensitivity and in depth… The plays are true theatre… extraordinary. Smashing Times must continue with it.’IRISH TIMES‘Fascinating\, executed by the innovative and dynamic Smashing Times.’SUNDAY INDEPENDENT‘Smashing Times is a wonderful endeavour and I wish you well with all your future work.’THOMAS KILROY\, PLAYWRIGHT‘This production and the discussion afterwards should be compulsory for all young people.It is Theatre-in-Education at its best.’MAEVE INGOLDSBY\, WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT‘This work is so powerful\, I wish there was more of this.’MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘What Smashing Times are contributing is cutting-edge… this is serious\, thought-provoking and provocative work that is really impressive and valid.’BRIDGET KELLY\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘I’ve never been presented with an issue like this in my experience before\,this has been extraordinary\, powerful.’TOM O’HAGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘The Department of Education should fund this show to go into every school in the country. It is excellent and extremely important.’LIAM HALLIGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘This work is excellent . . . drama is so important\, particularly for young people in schools.’SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL\, CBS\, WESTLAND ROW \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 We Admire\n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times celebrates its 30th anniversary this year\, we have decided to bring you a series called 30 We Admire – a selection of 30 activists\, artists\, books\, films and more that celebrate our values of arts and human rights! \n30 Activists We Admire\n\nGreta Thunberg\n\nGreta is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Her ‘School Strike for Climate Change’ has led to global campaigns for climate action. \n\nMahatma Gandhi\n\nGandhi was an Indian lawyer\, anti-colonial nationalist\, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule\, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. \n\nPanti Bliss / Rory O’Neill\n\nRory O’Neill\, also known by his stage name Panti Bliss\, is a drag queen and gay rights activist from Mayo. Panti’s famous ‘Noble Call’ highlighted everyday homophobia in Ireland\, and now has over 1 million views on YouTube. \n\nRosa Parks\n\nRosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery\, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities. \n\nEvanna Lynch\n\nAn avid animal rights activist\, Evanna Lynch has launched a vegan-themed podcast titled The ChickPeeps and a cruelty-free make-up box named Kinder Beauty Box. \n\nPhilomena Lee\n\nPhilomena is an advocate and spokesperson for adoption rights. She has created The Philomena Project in order to raise awareness about adoption laws and find ways to improve them. \n\nVicky Phelan\n\nVicky is a women’s health campaigner\, and is a central figure in the CervicalCheck scandal. She has campaigned for the programme to be reviewed\, and has called on the Irish medical system to be overhauled due to its failings. \n\nSinead Burke\n\nSinead Burke is a teacher and designer from Ireland. She advocates for inclusivity in the fashion industry\, especially in the development of clothing inclusive of people with dwarfism. \n\nIfrah Ahmed\n\nIfrah is a Somali-Irish social activist. She is the founder of the United Youth of Ireland non-governmental organization and the Ifrah Foundation\, which is devoted to eliminating female genital mutilation. \n\nMairead Maguire\n\nMairead is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. Along with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown\, she co-founded the Women for Peace (now known as Community for Peace People). Maguire and Williams received the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. More recently\, she was involved in discussions around the Rohingya crisis. \n\nMother JonesMother Jones was a 19th century social activist and trade unionist from Cork\, who protested lax enforcement of child labour laws in the US\, and whose successful organising of the United Mine Workers union earned her the moniker ‘the most dangerous woman in America’.\nMary Lawlor\n\nMary Lawlor is UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders\, an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Social Innovation\, Trinity College Business School and founder of Front Line Defenders. \n\nNelson Mandela\n\nNelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary\, political leader and philanthropist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. \n\nMalala Yousafzai\n\nMalala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is also the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate\, and second Pakistani to ever receive a Nobel Prize. \n\nEmily Davison\n\nEmily Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause\, she was arrested on nine occasions\, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V’s horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. \n\nHarriet Tubman\n\nHarriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. \n\nHarvey Milk\n\nHarvey Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California\, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. \n\nDil Wickremasinghe\n\nDil Wickremasinghe lives in Ireland and is a social justice and mental health journalist\, podcaster\, speaker\, mental health service provider\, social entrepreneur\, activist and occasional stand-up comedian. Dil is an outstanding advocate for the LGBTQI+ community and provides training and consultancy in equality and diversity. \n\nSamantha Ncube\n\nSamantha is a youth ambassador and youth worker for the European Youth in Migration Forum with the Irish Refugee Council in which she meets with policy makers to discuss issues affecting young migrant people living in Ireland. \n\nSenator Eileen Ní Fhloinn\n\nSenator Ní Fhloinn has been an activist and community worker for many years\, working with groups such as the Irish Traveller Movement\, the National Traveller Women’s Forum and Ballyfermot Traveller Action Programme. She also campaigned on issues such as housing\, marriage equality\, abortion rights and anti-racism. \n\nStaša Zajović\n\nStaša Zajović is the co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black\, which is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice\, war\, militarism and other forms of violence. \n\nVesna Teršelič\n\nVesna Teršelič is a peace activist and was largely responsible for founding the Croatian Anti-War Campaign (ARK) in 1991 in Zagreb\, Croatia. ARK promotes education for non-violent conflict transformation\, human rights protection\, social reconstruction and reconciliation\, support for refugees and displaced persons\, and help for the unemployed and the bereaved and those severely traumatised by war. \n\nFrancisca Sauquillo Pérez\n\nFrancisca is a Spanish lawyer and politician known for her activism as a labour lawyer and in defence of democratic freedoms during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. She was deputy of the Assembly of Madrid\, Senator and MEP. \n\nHelena Maleno\n\nHelena is a human rights defender\, journalist and researcher and founder of Caminando Fronteras or Walking Borders. She denounces human rights violations taking place on the southern Spanish border and works with the migrant communities in the defence of their rights. \n\nSanja Sarnavka\n\nSanja Sarnavka is a peace and human rights activist. Since 2000\, Sanja Sarnavka has been President of B.a.B.e.\, a Croatian non-governmental organisation which promotes and protects women’s rights.  \n\nKatarina Kruhonja\n\nDr. Kruhonja is a peace activist and director of the Centre for Peace\, Non-violence and Human Rights\, Osijek\, Croatia.  \n\nSlađana Petrović Varagić\n\nSlađana is an independent cultural worker – a curator and producer – who works proactively in the field of cultural policy by opening new critical topics about art\, art rights\, women’s rights and the position of the independent artists and cultural worker. She fights against the influence of politics and parties on decision-making autonomy in the field of culture and art. \n\nSylvia Rivera\n\nSylvia Rivera was a Latina-American drag queen who was a gay and transgender activist in the 1960s and 70s. She’s known for participating in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and establishing the political organization STAR. \n\nNellie Bly\n\nNellie Bly was a pioneering journalist\, known for her ground-breaking 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell’s Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip around the world. \n\nMarsha P. Johnson\n\nMarsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender woman and revolutionary LGBTQ rights activist. She is credited for being an instigator in the Stonewall riots. \n  \n30 Books We Admire\n\nSister Anne’s Hands by Marybeth Lorbiecki. This book is set in the early 1960s\, and a little girl named Anna has never seen a person with dark skin before. At first\, she is afraid of her new second-grade teacher\, but she quickly discovers how wonderful Sister Anne is.\nThe Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S. K. Ali (Authors) Hatem Aly (Illustrator). A beautifully illustrated story about two sisters and the events that unfold on the first day of school when the older sister\, Asiya\, makes her debut in her hijab. A story of how words can be hurtful\, but also the beauty in sibling relationships and self-confidence.\nMaddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt. Bursting with colourful\, digital illustrations\, this book addresses the issues of poverty and childhood hunger through the relationship of two best friends\, one who only has milk in her fridge\, and the other whose fridge is stocked with options.\nSulwe by Lupita Nyong’o. This book discusses self-love and the battles it sometimes takes to get there. Through vivid colours\, this children’s book revolves around a young girl facing colourism and the pain that comes with it.\nChocolate Milk\, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy by Maria Dismondy and Nancy Raines Day. The story revolves around a little boy\, Johnny\, who loves school\, until Gabe\, a boy from Brazil becomes the new student. Johnny’s initial instinct is to reject him\, but that becomes challenged when his peers are kind.\nThe Boy and the Wall by Youth at Lajee Centre in Aida Refugee Camp. A bilingual picture book about a Palestinian boy who has become a refugee. In this book\, he recollects “the wall” being built and the unfortunate and sometimes scary circumstances that came with it. Written by young people living in a refugee camp.\nJust Jamie by Terri Libenson. This story centres around the theme of exclusion. Jaime a girl in middle school knows something is off with her friend group. They have started to exclude her and make fun of the way she dresses and the things she likes.\nI Am Enough by Grace Byers. This book provides constructive affirmations for children who lack self-esteem and self-acceptance. It celebrates children for who they are and promotes positive female role models. It sends a message that people are unique and that they will always be enough.\nChocolate Me! By Tate Diggs. This book encourages kids to love themselves\, even if they feel like they do not fit in. This timely book explores how it feels to be teased and how each of us is beautiful\, no matter how we look.\nSame Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. This book shows how two boys who live oceans apart can become the best of friends. By becoming pen pals and exchanging letters and pictures\, they learn that they both love to climb trees\, have pets\, and go to school and although their worlds might look different\, they are very similar.\nDon’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri. This book explores the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history\, with ruminations on body politics\, race\, pop culture\, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair.\nThe Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward. This book is a deeply moving collection of essays\, short memoir\, and poetry written by contemporary thinkers and writers on race. Shedding light on both past and the present issues of inequality in the United States\, The Fire This Time demonstrates where we’ve come from as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve true equality.\nWe Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler. The book takes an important look at some of the more recent (and less-productive) manifestations of feminism — in particular\, how the word “feminist” has transformed from activist movement to marketing device.\nThe Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez. Shedding light on the enslavement of America’s indigenous people and arguing that slavery — more than disease and violence — was really what decimated the people who were already living here when the Europeans arrived\, The Other Slavery is a harrowing account of the first slavery and genocide to take place in the United States.\nIn Order to Live by Yeonmi Park. In this book\, Park tells the story of her repressive and fear-filled upbringing in North Korea\, and her harrowing escapes.\nUnorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman. In the book\, Feldman documents her life in an ultra-religious Jewish community in Brooklyn\, New York.\nBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda. This memoir is for anyone who has ever struggled to make sense of their identity\, and to find a home where genetics and experience meet — because\, in the end\, we’re all patchwork quilts of our family history.\nStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi profiles five key people in American history: Angela Davis\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Cotton Mather\, Thomas Jefferson\, and William Lloyd Garrison\, using their examples to argue against the myth of a post-racial America and explore the beliefs and practices of various race-related schools of thought.\nAll Our Relations by Winona LaDuke. LaDuke’s merges her own experiences and research with testimonies from First Nations activists — including the Seminoles\, the Anishinaabeg\, the Innu\, the Northern Cheyenne\, the Mohawks\, and others — who have fought for their rights for generations.\nA Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde. Lorde writes passionately about everything from radical politics and the need for intersectionality in feminism to her experiences navigating her own identity as a black lesbian writer and mother and her battle with cancer. She’ll leave you feeling both empowered and inspired.\nMen Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit. Inspired by a particularly “mansplain-y” dinner party attended by the author\, this book explores the gender-based inequalities present in routine exchanges between men and women. On point\, hilarious\, and infuriating\, Men Explain Things to Mealso addresses the issue of women being silenced all over the world — many times at the expense of their health\, freedom\, and/or life.\nWhen We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova. This book is a whirlwind of feminist politics\, passionate protest\, ambitious activism\, and the writer’s own struggle with discrimination and her personal identity. \nPrelude and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. This selection of stories showcases the author’s remarkable ability to delve into the human mind; in stories such as ‘The Garden Party’ she reveals the tension between innocence and corruption\, the dark side of love and romance are explored in ‘Bliss’ and ‘Love à la Mode’\, and in the title story\, ‘Prelude’\, inspired by her own childhood\, her concern is for the isolated and the lonely.\nBreasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. Kawakami paints a radical picture of contemporary working-class womanhood in Japan as she recounts the heart breaking stories of three women who must survive in a society where the odds are stacked against them.\nThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. This masterful dystopia is set in a future America where women are reduced to their reproductive usefulness.\nThe Awakening by Kate Chopin. The Awakeningis considered one of the earliest and boldest examples of feminist fiction. When Edna meets the charming Robert Lebrun while holidaying with her husband and two young children\, a flirtation turns into an affair which opens her eyes to a life outside her passionless marriage and the stifling restrictions of nineteenth-century society.\nThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. In this novel\, Toni explores the problematic and racist beauty ideals of western society\, as well as addressing issues of race\, poverty and abuse.\nThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Written in 1962\, this experimental\, Nobel Prize-winning novel brings taboo issues of the time\, including women’s sexuality\, bodily functions and mental illness\, to the fore.\nCracking the Menopause by Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smellie. This book debunks myths and addresses fears about the menopause\, with straight-talking advice to help you deal with an issue that half of us will face\, yet is rarely spoken about. With case studies\, personal testimonies\, expert guidance and witty illustrations\, this is a wise but humorous guide to the topic.\nA Bigger Picture by Vanessa Nakate. Witnessing the suffering caused by global warming propelled Vanessa Nakate into action and despite risks to her personal safety she became the first climate striker in Uganda at just twenty-one years old. In A Bigger Pictureshe traces the links between the climate crisis and anti-racism\, feminism\, education\, economics and even extremist radicalization.\n\n  \n30 Women We Admire\n\nMary Moynihan – Writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Mary’s work promoting equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts is award-winning and internationally recognised.\nDijana Milosevic – Dijana is a theatre director\, co-founder and artistic director of DAH Theatre in Belgrade\, Serbia\, the first theatre laboratory in her country. In addition to directing socially engaged theatre works\, she has worked on issues of violence against women with the activist group ‘Women in Black’\, performing stories of women from Kosovo\, Bosnia-Herzegovina\, Serbia and Croatia.\nFrederique Lecomte – Frederique is the founder and main facilitator of the Theatre and Reconciliation method. She is a sociologist\, writer and stage director from Belgium. She is an expert in rebuilding traumatised and conflicted communities\, organising theatre workshops and performances both with and for the community in war areas all over the world.\nFelispeaks – Felispeaks is a Nigerian-Irish Poet\, Performer\, Playwright from Co. Longford. She enjoys creating poetry and performance pieces that always promises to introduce her audience to the journey of emotion in every story.\nEmma Dabiri – Emma is an Irish author\, podcaster and presenter. Her debut book ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ moves beyond the personal to examine African hair in wider contexts\, with the book travelling across geographical space and through time to take in pre-colonial Africa up to modern day Western society.\nNina Simone – Nina was an American singer\, songwriter\, musician\, arranger\, and civil rights activist.\nMaya Angelou – Maya was an American poet\, memoirist\, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies\, three books of essays\, several books of poetry\, and is credited with a list of plays\, movies\, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.\nAva DuVernay – Ava is an American filmmaker. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere\, becoming the first Black woman to win the award.\nAmaranta Osorio – Amaranta is a writer\, actress and producer\, Mexican\, Colombian and Spanish. Her work promote equality and human rights.\nMary Robinson – Mary was the first Irish female president. She was involved in the decriminalisation of homosexuality\, the legalisation of contraception\, the legalisation of divorce\, enabling women to sit on juries\, and securing the right to legal aid in civil legal cases in Ireland.[4] She was Ireland’s most popular president\, at one point having a 93% approval rating among the electorate.\nHina Khan – Hina is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. Her work explores human rights issues such as migration\, racism\, and violence against women.\nNoelle McAlinden – Noelle is a visual artist\, curator\, cultural broker\, and mental health advocate. Her work covers topics relating to contemporary women.\nAmna Walayat – Amna is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. She is currently the Cork County Council Creative Producer in Residence. Her work engages with human rights issues\, most recently\, the Mother and Baby Homes scandal.\nÁine O’Hara – Áine is an Irish theatre maker and visual artist\, whose work highlights the reality of living with a chronic illness.\nPillow Queens – Pillow Queens are an all-female alt-pop band from Dublin. Their songs cover topics like body positivity\, mental health\, and growing up gay in Ireland.\nGizele Martins – Gizele was at the frontline of actions to tackle COVID-19 in marginalized communities of Rio de Janeiro\, participating in the Maré Mobilization Front\, a collective of grassroots communicators created to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the favela.\nJuana Ruiz Sánchez – Juana Ruiz Sánchez is a Spanish woman human rights defender. She has been working as a project coordinator for 28 years at the Health Work Committee (HWC)\, an NGO providing health assistance in rural Palestinian villages across the West Bank.\nMary Elmes – Mary was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II.\nAlice Kuvheya – Alice is a human rights defender and director of Chitungwiza Residents Trust (CHITREST). The community trust works to provide civic education and human rights advocacy at a community level\, but also carries out advocacy on health and environmental issues.\nNan Joyce – Nan was an Irish Travellers’ rights activist. She worked to improve the lives of Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1981 until her death in 2018. She was the first Traveller candidate in an Irish general election\, in 1982.\nMariem Cheikh – Mariem is a human rights defender and a member of the NGO Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA)\, which aims to eradicate the practices of slavery.\nEnira Bronitskaya – Enira is a human rights defender and a member of the human rights organization Human Constanta\, which works to promote the protection of the rights of foreign citizens and stateless persons in Belarus\, as well as anti-discrimination and digital freedoms.\nSinzeri Nabeza Jolie – Sinzeri is a human rights defender and member of SOS HANDICAP\, an organisation created by disabled women to defend and protect the human rights of women and girls living with disabilities and to promote a fair world for all.\nGrecia Eugenia Rodriguez Navarro – Grecia is a human rights defender who has been accompanying communities and ejidos in the defence of land and water in the state of Zacatecas\, Mexico\, since 2014.\nLeanne Betasamosake Simpson – Leanne is an activist\, scholar\, writer\, and poet. She was heavily involved with the Idle No More movement that raised awareness of treaty betrayals and environmental injustices impacting First Nations people.\nWinona LaDuke – Winona is an environmental activist and author. She has founded two prominent organizations: Honor the Earth and the White Earth Land Recovery Project.\nGordana Comic – Gordana is Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the Republic of Serbia. As the founder of the Women’s Parliamentary Network of the National Assembly and a member of the women’s movement in Serbia\, she has played a significant role in the country’s fight for women’s equality and equal participation in decision-making processes.\nMaria Edgeworth – Maria one of the most successful novelists of her generation\, with a gift for social observation and dialogue that earned the admiration of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. She was one of the first writers to portray the Irish peasant class as real people\, with real stories\, and during the Irish Famine\, while in her 80s\, went door to door distributing food.\nLady Jane Wilde – Lady Jane was a gifted linguist and poet who published under the name Speranza\, a documenter of the Famine\, a women’s rights activist\, and a nationalist who used her writing to call for insurrection.\nDr Kathleen Lynn – Kathleen was a medical doctor specialising in ophthalmology; a volunteer in the soup kitchens during the 1913 Lockout; medical officer to the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) during the Rising\, for which she was imprisoned; a campaigner for equal rights for women; and the co-founder with her lifelong partner\, the equally fearless Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (and a budget of €70) of St Ultan’s Hospital for Infants.\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:
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LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Music,Performance,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Aisling na Saoirse - Dreams of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\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\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, performer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality work to promote equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts.  The company are delighted to present a programme of artistic performances\, workshops\, training and talks taking place in a range of venues using the arts to promote equality and rights with a focus on promoting the Irish language and Irish culture and heritage. \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Programme in South Kerry – 2022 Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThree public performances and post-show discussions take place in South Kerry – in The Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, on Thursday\, 20 October 2022\, 7.30pm; in St John the Baptist Church\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, on  Friday 21 October 2022\, 7.30pm and in  10 Bridge Street\, Killorglin\, on  Saturday 22 October 2022\, 7.30pm.  The show Aisling na Saoirse consists of: \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe by Mary Moynihan performed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nAt Summer’s End by Féilim James performed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nNá déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nThe performance venues\, dates and times are: \n\n\n\n\nThe Monsignor Flaherty Room\, Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, County Kerry. Thursday\, 20 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\nSt John the Baptist Church\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, County Kerry. Friday 21 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\n10 Bridge Street\, Killorglin\, County Kerry\, Saturday 22 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\n\nThe show is a bespoke combination of three monologue performances and a poem. Our first performance is Grace and Joe written and directed by Mary Moynihan inspired by Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) and the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising. Next is Tales From an Afterworld by Féilim James based on the life and work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). \n\n\n\nThe final performance is At Summer’s End by Feilim James\, a dramatic monologue told from the perspective of a Jewish-Irish citizen murdered in the Holocaust. Her name was Ettie Steinberg (1914-42). We learn how at a young age her family left Eastern Europe for Dublin\, before love led her away to the European mainland. This by turns tender and harrowing portrait of love\, loss\, and the brutality of war tells one ordinary woman’s extraordinary\, and often forgotten\, story. The show culminates with a poem Ná déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn. \n\n\n\nThe award-winning work of Smashing Times has been acclaimed for its extraordinary story-telling inspired by historical memory and stories of citizens and artists from across the ages. In this\, our 30th anniversary year\, enjoy a gathering of performance and song presenting re-imagined moments from the lives of citizens and artists caught up in extraordinary times\, showcasing stories of Irish people from the 20th century. \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe \n\n\n\nWritten and directed by Mary Moynihan \n\n\n\nBased on on writings and witness statements from Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford \n\n\n\nPerformed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe sees Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) tell 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. It relates how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution. Grace was a cartoonist and Republican and studied at the Metropolitan School Art. \n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld \n\n\n\nWritten by Féilim James \n\n\n\nDirected by Geraldine McAlinden \n\n\n\nPerformed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld is a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nAt Summer’s End \n\n\n\nWritten by Féilim James \n\n\n\nDirected by Eric Weitz \n\n\n\nPerformed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nThis dramatic monologue is told from the perspective of a Jewish-Irish citizen murdered in the Holocaust. Her name was Ettie Steinberg (1914-42). We learn how at a young age her family left Eastern Europe for Dublin\, before love led her away to the European mainland. This by turns tender and harrowing portrait of love\, loss\, and the brutality of war tells one ordinary woman’s extraordinary\, and often forgotten\, story. \n\n\n\nPoem: Ná déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\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\nELKIN draw influence from the R’n’B\, pop\, indie and folk worlds. With bassist Peter and guitarist Conor of Hatchlings\, plus drummer Rob\, “the band display an eclectic mix of R&B\, pop and hip-hop beats\, bolstered by alternating female vocals and smooth guitars.” Stephen Porzio\, Hot Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\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\nFreda Manweiler\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and a Producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Freda has worked with Smashing Times since 1999. She is highly skilled in project management\, coordination and implementation. She has extensive experience working at a European level developing and delivering a range of European Initiatives\, collaborating with over 50 cultural\, educational and civil society organisations from over 22 European Countries. Promoting European Values through working on activities and projects that promote human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health\, remembrance and civic engagement. \n\n\n\nShe has worked developing and coordinating accredited training programmes\,  professional productions\, and community exchanges using creative methods to  promote peace building and reconciliation on the island of Ireland.  Working particularly with hard to reach communities in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties building strong community relations. Freda has been instrumental in bringing the learning gained from the Northern Ireland Peace Process to communities experiencing conflict in other European states. She has produced and toured a number of professional performances in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is coordinator of the award winning\, Acting For The Future programme that uses drama and theatre to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention\, which was developed and run in association with the Samaritans and the Irish Association of Suicidology throughout the island of Ireland. As part of her work for Smashing Times she is responsible for all aspects of management and project development and is also involved in teaching practice. \n\n\n\nShe has extensive experience in team management through her work with Smashing Times as a manager and as a manager and Employment Assessment Coordinator for a Working Skills Centre in Toronto\, Canada. Her experience in Canada focused mainly on refugee resettlement\, managing initiatives funded through the federal government of Canada. Her education includes a Bachelor in Social Work (2007) from the Open University and in 2012 she completed an MEd from the National University of Ireland/UCD. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes a producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and the coordinator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ciara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nIn 2016 Ciara branched into arts administration while working with Cyclone Rep; a Cork-based Shakespearean Theatre-in-Education company. In 2017 she took on the role of stage school coordinator at Konfident Kidz\, where she was responsible for the day to day running of the stage school reporting directly to the company’s director. During this time\, she assisted in the organisation of Ireland’s first ever all-autistic conference; AUsome Conference. \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020). She works as Communications Officer at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and as producer for Gaitkrash Theatre Company. \n\n\n\nArts Administration experience includes: Konfident Kidz\, teacher and Stage School Manager (2014-2017); Cyclone Rep Theatre-in-Education Company\, administrator (2016)\, Smashing Times\, Communications Officer (2020-present). \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information\, online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now\, online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeilim James\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\nEric Weitz\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\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett is a graduate from TU Dublin in Creative Industries and Visual Culture and The Gaiety School of Acting’s full time professional actor training. She has worked in theatre in Ireland as an actor\, director\, and producer. Eadaoin joined Smashing Times in July as their administration and communication officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:County Kerry
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SUMMARY:Othello - maybe a dance
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMufutau Yusuf\, dancer \n\n\n\nFavour Odusola\, dancer \n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak\, dancer \n\n\n\nConor Thomas Doherty\, dancer \n\n\n\nValda Setterfield\, guest appearance \n\n\n\nJohn Scott\, choreographer \n\n\n\nEric Würtz\, Lighting \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJohn Scott explores relationships\, race\, identity\, and domestic violence in a physical approach to Shakespeare’s Othello\, leading the audience on a journey – weaving dance and music. \n\n\n\nThe cast includes Favour Odusola\, Mufutau Yusuf\, Magdalena Hylak\, Vitor Bassi\, and Conor Thomas Doherty. Film and video by Rolex Award winner Jason Akira Somma. With a special appearance by veteran NYC dancer Valda Setterfield on film. \n\n\n\nThis is John Scott’s second Shakespeare work: his award-winning Lear\, commissioned by Kilkenny Arts Festival\, was a major success in Queen Elizabeth Hall\, London\, New York Live Arts\, Edinburgh Fringe(Herald Angel Award)\, and Dance Cork Firkin Crane.  \n\n\n\nChoreography John Scott Lighting Eric Wurtz Film and Video Jason Akira Somma  \n\n\n\n\n\nOthello – maybe a danceTrailer\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJohn Scott \n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\nJohn is an associate artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and has worked with the organisation for many years. Irish Modern Dance Theatre have been Creative Partners of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival since its inception in 2019. \n\n\n\nIrish Modern Dance Theatre \n\n\n\nFounded in 1991 by dancer and choreographer John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble\, Scott and international guest choreographers create distinctive dance works with diverse casts\, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors. Our works include ‘Lear’\, ‘Inventions’\, Actions’ and ‘Fall and Recover’ – all recognised for their intelligence\, honesty and humanity. Our work crosses disciplines\, subverts expectations of dance and dancers and finds new ways to explore contemporary issues. Irish Modern Dance Theatre is Strategically funded by the Arts Council. \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/othello-maybe-a-dance/
LOCATION:Project Arts Centre\, 39 East Essex Street\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, D02 RD45\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance
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SUMMARY:The Aisling Programme
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €5\, payable on the night. \nTo reserve your ticket\, please email communications@smashingtimes.ie  \n  \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nColm MacGearailt\, spoken word artist\, actor\, and historian \nOlwen Pendred\, bean feasa of the Celtic Mystery tradition and an ordained priestess of Danú  \nFéilim James\, writer \nRob Harrington\, director and actor \nAlan O’Brien\, bricklayer\, playwright\, writer\, and sonneteer \nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer \nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, children’s writer\, Laureate na nÓg \nFinn O’Driscoll\, rapper \nMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, choreographer \nCiara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only) \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin Smashing Times on Winter Solstice\, 21 December 2022\, and on 28 January 2023 for evenings of poetry\, song\, and storytelling in the Irish language! In the darkest of winter days\, we will celebrate the light and the power of coming together to share tales and arts like the seanchaí of old. \n\n\n\nThe event will feature Áine Ni Ghlinn\, writer and Laureate na nÓg; Féilim James\, writer; Rob Harrington\, actor and director; Colm Mac Gearailt\, spoken word artist\, writer and historian; Olwen Pendred\, storyteller and performer; Finn O’Driscoll\, Irish language artist; Ciara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only); Alan O’Brien\, poet and spoken word artist; and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer. \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-aisling-programme/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance,Poetry,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:The Aisling Programme
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €5\, payable on the night. \nTo reserve your ticket\, please email communications@smashingtimes.ie  \n  \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nColm MacGearailt\, spoken word artist\, actor\, and historian \n\n\n\nOlwen Pendred\, bean feasa of the Celtic Mystery tradition and an ordained priestess of Danú  \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, director and actor \n\n\n\nAlan O’Brien\, spoken word artist and writer \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, writer\, Laureate na nÓg \n\n\n\nCiara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only) \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin Smashing Times on Winter Solstice\, 21 December 2022\, and on 28 January 2023 for evenings of poetry\, song\, and storytelling in the Irish language! In the darkest of winter days\, we will celebrate the light and the power of coming together to share tales and arts like the seanchaí of old. \n\n\n\nThe event will feature Áine Ni Ghlinn\, writer and Laureate na nÓg; Féilim James\, writer; Rob Harrington\, actor and director; Colm Mac Gearailt\, spoken word artist\, writer and historian; Olwen Pendred\, storyteller and performer; Finn O’Driscoll\, Irish language artist; Ciara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only); Alan O’Brien\, poet and spoken word artist; and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer. \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-aisling-programme-2/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Music,Onsite,Performance,Poetry,Storytelling
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nEmma Byrne\, musician \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTales of Love and Loss is a unique performance featuring A Beauty that will Pass and Grace and Joe by Mary Moynihan\, with poetry by Eva Gore-Booth and music by composer and violinist Emma Byrne.  \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass is 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 sees Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) tell 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. It relates how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution.   \n\n\n\nThe event culminates in a panel discussion on States of Independence – Women Change-Maker Stories from the Decade of Centenaries  and New Visions for the Future with artist Mary Moynihan and invited guest speakers\, all welcome.  Enjoy a reflection on change-maker stories and intersections between art\, equality\, human rights\, diversity and peace with reference to the stories of women including Eva Gore-Booth and Mary Elmes. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\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\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \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/tales-of-love-and-loss-9/
LOCATION:St John the Baptist Church\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Kerry,Performance,Poetry,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \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. 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LOCATION:Lighthouse Courtyard\, Valentia Lighthouse\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Cromwell Point\, Glanleam\, Kerry\, V23 P680\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\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\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\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\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\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020). She works as Communications Officer at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and as producer for Gaitkrash Theatre Company. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \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/tales-of-love-and-loss/
LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Human Rights Open Mic Night – An evening of live poetry and music on themes of human rights\, social justice and solidarity\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPresented by Front Line Defenders\, this open mic night celebrates poetry\, music\, solidarity\, human rights and social justice.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\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\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\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\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\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nedf\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n \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/tales-of-love-and-loss-2/
LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dublin,Music,Performance,Poetry,Theatre
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