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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n Image: Golden Bride by Linda Greene  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns-2/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints and Suzuki Technique Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nWe don’t want anyone to miss out\, if you would like to attend a Smashing Times event and cannot meet the costs of the ticket price\, please contact Niamh at Smashing Times – niamh@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\, co – artistic director\, SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company\, Toga. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to host the prestigious Ellen Lauren (co – artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga) as part of the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ellen Lauren will present a three-hour virtual online workshop (with breaks) consisting of one hour based on the Suzuki Training Technique\, one hour of Viewpoints training followed by a one-hour talk/interview with Ellen Lauren\, co – artistic Director of SITI company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga\, and ending with a virtual Q and A.   \n\n\n\nAs part of the talk presentation Ellen will provide a very brief overview of SITI Company\, who they are and the work they do and will speak about the ongoing work of SITI Company in relation to linking equality\, inclusivity\, and cultural diversity to artistic practice. It is hoped we will all share experiences\, lessons and ways forward. \n\n\n\nThis session is in two-parts. Part one is a practical based training workshop engagement that requires active physical engagement for training related to the Suzuki technique and Viewpoints. Part two is a talk and Q and A. The session runs for three hours with breaks incorporated.  The workshop moderator is Michael McCabe\, Smashing Times and the workshop facilitator and guest teacher and speaker is Ellen Lauren\, co-artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga. \n\n\n\nWhat do I need to Prepare for the Workshops? \n\n\n\nPlease have water and a towel.For Suzuki technique\, the recommended proposal is to wear shorts primarily to ensure our facilitator can see alignment between hips\, knees and feet. Knee pads are permitted for Suzuki technique\, if that’s comfortable for you. Socks and runners are not recommended. Dance shoes are not recommended.For Viewpoints\, all blacks ideally\, or if not possible as neutral a colour in clothing that you can move in comfortably.  We recommend you avoid wearing clothing that has clear LABEL on it\, so as neutral as possible please. Your personal comfort is the priority with work clothing.We kindly request that in attending\, you are agreeing not to enable any recording of any part of our 3 hour workshop.\n\n\n\nMobile phones to be switched off before we enter the virtual space please and to remain off for the duration of our training.Please don’t bring notebooks (or pens) in the training space.For the Q&A session\, pens and notebooks are recommended.\n\n\n\nWhat To Expect \n\n\n\nPhysical Play!  Please note that Suzuki technique is a very\, very demanding physical engagement\, and we strongly recommend that you are in good aerobic fitness for this workshop.\n\n\n\nPrepared Text \n\n\n\nPlease have the following text prepared and memorised for our workshop\, with the asterisk* showing where the breath is taken \n\n\n\n*Spirits inhabitThe darkness that lightens\, the darkness that darkens\,*The quivering tree\, the murmuring wood\,The water that runs and the water that sleeps:*Spirits much stronger than we\,*The breathing of the dead who are not really dead\,Of the dead who are not really gone\,Of the dead now no more in the earth. \n\n\n\nPreparing Your Space \n\n\n\nPlease ensure prior to the workshop you modem and computer/laptop are working.Please ensure that you have access to Zoom and can adjust your volume and screen to your satisfaction. For the facilitator\, it’s most important that when you stand\, this is within the frame of your computer screen.Ideally\, the facilitator to see you at all times on screen.As this is a virtual physical workshop\, we ask you to make sure you have sufficient space to move in comfortably.\n\n\n\nResource Page \n\n\n\nWe will send on a resource page for all those participating in advance as a means to help you engage with the introductory work of this workshop. \n\n\n\nBrave Space \n\n\n\nWe will also send a brief working agreement which we title BRAVE SPACE to all participants and we ask you to sign your consent to what we collectively title a BRAVE SPACE. \n\n\n\nContact List \n\n\n\nWe propose that all artists who participate agree to share their contact details as a means to further support of each other’s work\, and more vitally in this context develop a community of like-minded artists interested in theatre training and arts related human rights activities \n\n\n\nTrainer Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren  is one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the renown SITI Company\, which she helped found with directors Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki over thirty years ago. She is a member of the acting company\, and the head of SITI ’s educational programming that includes New York based studios\, SITI’s annual Summer Intensive\, national and international residencies\, and the design of SITI’s bi-annual Conservatory.  \n She is also an associate artist with The Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) under the direction of Tadashi Suzuki for over 34 years.   \nShe has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School of Drama at Lincoln Center for the last 20 years where she received the President’s Award for Excellence on the occasion of Juilliard’s 50th Anniversary.  \nPerformance credits with SITI include: Three Sisters (in collaboration with Nine Years Theatre and the Singapore Festival) Falling and Loving (with Elizabeth Streb SLAM Dance Company)\, Bacchae\, Chess Match #5\, the theater is a blank page( with Ann Hamilton)\, Persians\, Trojan Women (After Euripides)\, Variations on A Rite of Spring  (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)\, Café Variations\, Under Construction\, Radio Macbeth\, Who Do You Think You Are\, American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Company)\, Death and the Ploughman\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, Room\, bobrauschenbergamerica\, Hotel Cassiopeia\, systems/layers\, War of the Worlds\, Cabin Pressure\, The Medium\, Culture of Desire\, Going\, Going\, Gone and Orestes. \nFestival tours with SITI include Bonn Germany\, Iberoamericano Bogota\, six appearances in the  BAM Next Wave\, 8 appearances at the Humana Festival\, Bobigny94\, Melbourne\, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance\, Yerba Buena Arts Center\, UNC Chapel Hill Arts Center\, Edinburgh\, Singapore\, Wexner Center\, Krannert Center and Walker Art Center; In New York: New York Live Arts\, Montclair State Peforming Arts\,  New York Theatre Workshop\, Classic Stage Company\, The Women’s Project\, Miller Theatre\, The Public Theater\, Westbeth Arts Center\, Under the Radar Festival\, New York City Opera at Lincoln Center\, the Guggenheim Museum and the Joyce Theater\, Regional credits with SITI include San Jose Rep\, ART Cambridge\, Court Theatre Chicago\, Alabama Shakespeare and Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Getty Villa Museum in Museum.  \nAdditional credits include The Creative Gesture program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, INCITE with Force Majeure Dance Company in Sydney\, The Women (Hartford Stage)\, Seven Deadly Sins\, New York City Opera (Kosovar Award for Anna II) Marina\, A Captive Spirit\, and Agammenon with Lauren Flanigan\, Steve Schick and Roger Reynolds for the 2004 Theater Olympics.  \nPerformance Credits with the Suzuki Company of Toga include: Clytemnestra in Electra\, Agave in Dionysus\, Goneril in King Lear\, Jocasta in Oedipus\, and Juliet in Waiting for Romeo.   \nTour venues with SCOT include\, Gu Bei Great Wall Theater in Beijing China\, Kitchijoji Theater Tokyo\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Toga International Festival\, Alexandrinsky Theatre Russia\, The RSC London\, Theatre Olympics in Athens and Delphi\, and the Olympic Arts Festival in Shizuoka\, Japan\, Buenos Aires Festival\, The Carnuntum Festival in Vienna\, Bogota Festival\, Vienna Festival\, Harbour Front Festival Toronto\, Istanbul Festival\, Festival Mundial Chile\, Teatro Olympico Italy\, Montpelier France\, and Hong Kong Festival.  \nFor over 6 years she headed the Toga International Suzuki Training Summer Program in Toga\, Japan\, and is a founding member of the International Symposium Committee on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. In 2017 she produced the International Symposium on SCOT and the Suzuki Training for Actors at Skidmore College in upstate New York and presented SCOT’s last US tour of their acclaimed Trojan Women. \nMs. Lauren has taught for over 300 schools\, companies and universities including TEAC National Academy Helsinki\, Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris\, the Royal Shakespeare Company\, Carlos Universidad and Vertiço in Madrid\, Soif Compagnie Paris\, Maastricht School of the Arts in Holland\, Windsor University\, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, St Edwards University\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Sfumato Theatre Bulgaria\, Iceland National Academy\, Casa Teatro de Bogota\, Beijing Academy\, UCLA\, OSU\, UNC\, Toronto University\, Columbia University\, UNC Chapel Hill\, Fordham University\, Harvard University\, Yale University\, Harvard University  and the Beijing Academy. She has most recently taught for First Nations Peoples at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg\, and Outside In Theater Company\, celebrating the diverse communities\, stories and voices of the Los Angeles area. \nMs. Lauren was a Resident company member at StageWest Theatre in\, The Milwaukee Repertory and the Alley Theatre\, Houston\, Texas. \nHer directing credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UCLA TFT Graduate program) Iphigenia (The Juilliard School) and Trojan Women (The Juilliard School)  \nShe was the first recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement in the United States and is published in American Theatre Magazine (“In Search of Stillness”) and the Modern Masters series edition on Anne Bogart. She is currently working on her book\, The Invisible Body.  \n\n\n\n\n\nWho Are SITI Company?\n\n\n\nSITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart\, Tadashi Suzuki and a group of like-minded artists to redefine and revitalize contemporary theatre in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. \n\n\n\nSITI Company is committed to providing a space where the interaction of art\, artists\, audiences\, and ideas inspire the possibility for change\, optimism\, and hope.  Built on the bedrock of ensemble\, SITI Company believe that through the practice of collaboration\, a group of artists working together over time can have a significant impact on both contemporary theatre and the world at large. \n\n\n\nAs SITI Company nears its 30th anniversary and begin the process of transitioning from a producing organization to a more open artist collective\, it wants to better reflect the diversity of the countries and communities that we work in. SITI Company want to ensure that our impact is actually reaching a wider audience and reflects our inclusive values.  We want anti-racism\, equity\, diversity\, and inclusion to not only be a matter of our social responsibility within our community\, but to be the foundation on which we build our work.  \n\n\n\nA Smashing Times Reflection\n\n\n\nAnne Bogart\, working with the Japanese theatre director\, Tadashi Suzuki\, founded the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) in September 1992. SITI is dedicated to developing new pieces of work and each year presents training programmes for actors and theatre artists as well as international exchanges\, symposia and other creative endeavours.  Bogart has directed a range of productions from modern drama to opera to collaborative dance theatre and has directed both on and off-stage\, on and off Broadway and internationally. \n\n\n\nAs a director\, Bogart puts the actor at the center of the creative process and sees the actor as a creator working with the director who will eventually ‘set things’ a ‘violent . . but necessary act’.  She recognizes that structure can bring freedom\,  the form is fixed but the emotions are fluid\, the physicality is defined but the interpretation is free.  Bogart has developed a system known as ‘Viewpoint’ Training and composition workshops building a common language for the ensemble as they work together to collaborative and spontaneously create.   Bogart’s viewpoint training was initially inspired by the  work of choreographer Mary Overlie who had developed the Six Viewpoints. \n\n\n\nAs part of the creative process\,  Bogart works on a system or ‘choreographed form’ within which the actors can work with Bogart as the director setting decisions or putting decisions in place early on in rehearsals. The director and actors engage in and explore a series of compositional choices working together in collaboration and as part of an ensemble.  Having freedom in rehearsal is important to support spontaneity and a more creative\, ensemble process even as the director and actors are working towards setting decisions in stone. \n\n\n\nAccording to Bogart\, \n\n\n\n‘I think what keeps theatre from being very good often is that . . . one is afraid of the violence\, you’re afraid of committing the violence of setting something or of saying\, “This is what we’re after\,” because it cuts off all other possibilities. But in the definition of that gesture or that moment or that choice opens up eventually a whole another realm of life.’ \n\n\n\nThe mis-en-scene is a key part of the work and is made up of all the different elements that go into creating the final theatre experience from the text or non-text elements to the physical elements creating the visual and aural composition in space. Bogart is influenced by practitioners from Constantine Stanislavski to Eastern dance and movement. \n\n\n\nViewpoint training is based on a series of exercises and improvisations including movement and sound improvisation. The viewpoints as developed by Anne Bogart are referred to as Spatial Relationship\, Shape\, Architecture\, Kinesthetic Response\, Repetition\,  Gesture and Tempo.  Actors are trained in an awareness of spatial and temporal elements and develop a sense of ensemble and an awareness of the energy in the space\, the energy of the space and the energy of the  group focusing on improvisations in the space related to the viewpoints and the creation of formal compositions.   Actors explore qualities of movement such as lightness\, quickness\, visibility\, multiplicity\, exactitude and continuity (after Italo Calvino’s four elements of Lightness\, quickness\, visibility and multiplicity) as well as emotion\, tempo and kinesthetic senses. In relation to performance the focus is on the actor as creator within the ensemble with actors having a strong awareness of the group and the different elements of staging and composition. \n\n\n\nTraining with a group is a key part of the work which requires a physical\, intuitive response as artists work through the body aiming to bring a  sensorial and instinctive physicality to performance.  Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to partner with CITI to present a unique training  opportunity for artists with regard to conducting a theatre workshop on Viewpoints and Suzuki technique with SITI company. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns-3/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rights-on-the-rooftop-2021-10-17/
LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-4/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:River of Thorns
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns-5/
LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T100000
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-5/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211021T120000
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-7/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-9/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-10/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-12/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-11/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Duck\, Duck\, Goose
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nWatergate Theatre\, Kilkenny\, 16 October \n\n\n\nLyric Theatre\, Belfast\, 19-20 October – booking link to come \n\n\n\nBelltable Limerick\, 23 October \n\n\n\nOnline Discussion – video will be made available on Oct 23\, 7pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCaitríona Daly \n\n\n\nJim Culleton \n\n\n\nJoy-Tendai Kangere  \n\n\n\nCharlotte McIvor  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDuck\, Duck\, Goose follows the story of Chris Quinn\, a young man who\, in an attempt to help his friend\, becomes deeply embroiled in a rape allegation.  As the rules change\, and confusion reigns supreme\, Chris struggles between loyalty\, love and doubt. \n\n\n\nFull of moral ambiguity and psychological complexity\, this viscerally-charged new play by Caitríona Daly constantly shifts our perspective on ideas of consent\, trust\, and trial by social media. \n\n\n\nDuck Duck Goose by Catríona Daly was developed as part of Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland initiative between 2017 and 2019. This was a two-year process in association with Draíocht\, The Everyman\, Lime Tree Theatre/Belltable\, Lyric Theatre\, Pavilion Theatre\, and Town Hall Theatre. \n\n\n\nThis play is the second to have been produced by Fishamble through this programme. Fishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering\, developing and producing new plays of national importance with a global reach\, while championing the role of the playwright. \n\n\n\nWritten by Caitríona Daly \n\n\n\nDirected by Jim Culleton \n\n\n\nProduced by Eva Scanlan \n\n\n\nPerformed by John Doran\, Naoise Dunbar\, Caitríona Ennis\, Liam Heslin\, Aidan Moriarty\, and Roseanna Purcell \n\n\n\nSet and Lighting Design by Paul Keogan \n\n\n\nCostume Design by Saileóg O’Halloran \n\n\n\nMusic and Sound Design by Carl Kennedy \n\n\n\nMovement Director Bryan Borroughs \n\n\n\nJim Culleton and Catriona Daly will discuss the production during an online post-show discussion Saturday 23 October\, 7-8pm \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCatríona Daly\n\n\n\nCaitríona Daly is a writer from Dublin. Her plays include Panned\, Test Dummy (Irish Times Theatre Award Best New Play Nominee 2016) and Normal (Dublin Fringe 2017: Fishamble New Writing Award Nominee and First Fortnight Nominee).She was a participant in Six in the Attic\, an Irish Theatre Institute initiative\, from 2018-2019 and a participant on the inaugural Abbey Works programme in 2019. She is currently under commission with The Abbey Theatre and Fishamble: The New Play Company. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJim Culleton\n\n\n\nJim Culleton is the artistic director of Fishamble: The New Play Company\, for which he has directed productions on tour throughout Ireland\, UK\, Europe\, Australia\, New Zealand\, Canada and the US. His productions for Fishamble have won many Irish and international awards\, including Olivier\, The Stage\, Scotsman Fringe First\, and Irish Times Best Director awards. Jim has also directed for Audible\, the Abbey\, the Gaiety\, the Belgrade\, 7:84 Scotland\, Project\, Amharclann de hÍde\, Tinderbox\, The Passion Machine\, the Ark\, Second Age\, Dundee Rep\, Draíocht\, CoisCéim/Crash Ensemble/GIAF\, RTÉ Radio 1\, Frontline Defenders\, Amnesty International\, Little Museum of Dublin\, Fighting Words\, RTÉ lyric fm\, Soho Theatre\, Scripts Festival\, Vessel and APA (Australia)\, TNL (Canada)\, Solas Nua and Kennedy Center (Washington DC)\, Odyssey (LA)\, Origin\, Irish Arts Center and 59E59 (Off -Broadway)\, as well as for Trafalgar Theatre Productions on the West End\, and IAC/Symphony Space on Broadway. Jim has taught for NYU\, NUI\, GSA\, Uversity\, the Lir\, Villanova\, Notre Dame\, UM\, UMD\, and TCD \n\n\n\n\n\nZimbabwean born Joy-Tendai Kangere is an education equity\, adult learning and Equity\, Diversity and Inclusion advocate. She holds Bachelor of Civil Law degree from UCD Sutherland School of Law. Joy-Tendai is a Board Member of AONTAS and Co-Founded Roots in Africa-Ireland Network. She facilitates community and organisational discussion representation and social inclusion. Her deep commitment to social justice and racial equity is what motivates her advocacy work for equality for women\, girls and ethnic minoritized communities. She has lived experience of racial inequity; she understands the challenges faced by ethnic minorities and young people of African descent living in Ireland in accessing services. She also has worked on various projects to promote education and literacy for primary school children on the African continent. \n\n\n\nCharlotte McIvor is a Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre Studies at the National University of Ireland\, Galway and a co-lead in the Active* Consent Programme\, an Irish national programme that uses workshops\, research\, social media and creative-arts based interventions like drama and film to support young people from 15-25 to have  positive and confident sexual health and well-being. Active* Consent also works with groups that are important to young people\, from teachers to parents\, college staff\, and policy makers.  McIvor is the author of Migration and Performance in Contemporary Ireland: Towards A New Interculturalism and multiple edited collections\, articles and book chapters on interculturalism\, migration\, race/ethnicity\, gender/sexuality and performance.  \n\n\n\nFishamble: The New Play Company\n\n\n\nFishamble is an Irish theatre company that is passionate about discovering\, developing and producing new plays of national importance with a global reach\, while championing the role of the playwright. It harnesses the imaginative power of theatre to provide audiences with a diverse range of contemporary\, compelling and heartfelt dramatic works\, and typically supports over 50% of the writers of all new plays produced on the island of Ireland each year. Fishamble thinks nationally and reaches globally\, touring its productions to audiences throughout Ireland\, and to 19 other countries\, and has received many awards in Ireland and internationally\, including an Olivier Award. \n\n\n\nwww.fishamble.com \n\n\n\nFishamble is funded by the Arts Council\, Dublin City Council\, and Culture Ireland. \n\n\n\n‘the much-loved Fishamble [is] a global brand with international theatrical presence… \n\n\n\nan unswerving force for new writing’ Irish Times \n\n\n\n‘Ireland’s leading new writing company’ The Stage \n\n\n\n‘forward-thinking Fishamble’ New York Times \n\n\n\n‘excellent Fishamble…Ireland’s terrific Fishamble’ Guardian \n\n\n\n‘Fishamble puts electricity into the National grid of dreams’ Sebastian Barry \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-13/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
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LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \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
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \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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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \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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LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \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:
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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:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \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
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Onsite,Performance,Storytelling,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWorkshop: Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30am-12.30pm; Wednesday 27 May\, 11am-2pm; Thursday 28 May\, 11am-2pm. Open to all female-identifying\, registration required.  \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-w-rights-6/
LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Performance,Storytelling,Theatre
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