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SUMMARY:Irish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine. The exhibition brings together visual imagery and poetry to reflect on meaning-making and pathways of expression\, mapping physical landscapes of nature to human emotions from grief and longing to inner peace\, spirituality and love. The exhibition runs Wednesday 2 October – Sunday 3 November\, Wednesday…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary for exhibition. Book your place for the launch and artist talk below. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer and poet \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIrish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary Exhibition \n\n\n\nGallery: The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 K037 \n\n\n\nExhibition runs Friday 11 to Thursday 31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am–7pm \n\n\n\nLaunch and Artist Talk: Irish in Resistance during World War II at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2 on Saturday 12 October 2024\, 7-10pm.  An evening of talks\, poetry and chat with artists Mary Moynihan\, Hina Khan\, Amna Walayat and Féilim James and guest speakers on stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II\, exploring how the stories have inspired artistic creation and resonate in today’s climate of war and genocide and a search for peace. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to present Irish in Resistance during World War II\, a new multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling\, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and spoke out for the rights of others.  During the current climate of war in Ukraine and Gaza\, Smashing Times look to the past history of World War II to share stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things to stand up against oppression and fascism. \n\n\n\nA series of ambitious new artworks have been commissioned and created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism to protect the rights of others during World War II. The commissioned artists are Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer; and Smashing Times Artistic Director Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography. The exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan\, funded by The Arts Council Commissions Award under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, and is presented as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The producers are Ciara Hayes and Freda Manweiler\, and the digital artist is Paul Marshall. Artist Mary Moynihan initially compiled the stories of 12 Irish people involved in the resistance during World War II\, with the stories acting as a catalyst for the collaborative creation of the new artworks. A special thanks to John Morgan for research on the stories. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is presented on-site at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, from 11–31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am-7pm as a flagship event for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival. It is available to view online in digital format as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery\, increasing access for those unable to attend the physical exhibition\, as well as highlighting the work of the artists on an international scale. \n\n\n\nThe Irish in Resistance exhibition focuses on a diversity of citizen resistance stories\, exploring voices of resistance from ordinary Irish people who stood up against fascism\, totalitarianism\, and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage\, and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within Nazi concentration camps and in wider society during World War II. The exhibition highlights how Irish people 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 equally\, where democracy\, equality\, and peace prevail. \n\n\n\nMembers of the public\, schools\, and youth and community groups are invited to attend the launch\, explore the exhibition\, engage with the artworks\, and meet the artists through talks and workshops\, bringing people together to raise awareness about the power of solidarity\, kindness\, and the values of equality\, human rights\, diversity\, democracy\, peace\, and gender equality today. \n\n\n\nArtistic Process: Hope\, Courage\, Resilience \n\n\n\nThis is Phase One of the exhibition\, with a larger scale exhibition to be created in 2025. In 2024\, as part of Phase One\, research was conducted by Mary Moynihan on 12 stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II. This was then presented to the artists as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the collective of artists made up of visual artist Amna Walayat\, visual artist Hina Khan\, writer Féilim James\, and writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography Mary Moynihan. The exhibition promotes a collaboration between two visual artists\, one writer\, and one writer-poet-photographer-filmmaker\, creating work collaboratively to promote equality\, human rights\, and diversity. The four artists create their artworks in collaboration with each other so that there is a genuine integration of visual art\, photography\, poetry\, and film. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is inspired by themes of resistance\, courage\, oppression\, and freedom\, as told through the stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II. The exhibition reflects on the insidious nature and impact of fascism\, totalitarianism\, and dictatorship\, and the power of the human struggle against a tendency to control and destroy. The stories are of people who resist through violent resistance\, non-violent resistance\, and by continuing to be human\, to hold on to their humanity\, and to be kind. What is important are values in life. A key question to explore is how someone who believes in non-violent resistance should act when faced with a military and political behemoth such as Nazism. \nSupported by The Arts Council and presented for the sixth annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival. \nInformation: Freda Manweiler 087 2214245\, info@smashingtimes.ie\, www.smashingtimes.ie \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multi-disciplinary exhibition by artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition brings together visual imagery and poetry to reflect on meaning-making and pathways of expression\, mapping physical landscapes of nature to human emotions from grief and longing to inner peace\, spirituality and love. In homage to the human spirit\, the exhibition is a journey of exploration inspired by an engagement with landscapes and seascapes and is a gentle provocation to all of us to reimagine the landscapes of our natural environment\, the vast lands and oceans we call our home\, linked to the landscapes of our internal well-being.  Our personal well-being is linked to the well-being of our planet on a physical\, spiritual\, emotional and intuitive level\, with nature and creativity inspiring us to look after ourselves\, each other\, the planet we live on and more sustainable ways of living. \n\n\n\nThe original exhibition concept is created by Mary Moynihan with curation and original artworks by artists Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet and creator of art and photography and Hina Khan\, a visual artist\, presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for the annual international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. See smashingtimes.ie for full festival information. \n\n\n\nThe artists want to share the work through a related programme of cultural activities taking place around the context of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival of which this exhibition is a key event.  The festival takes the  form of talks\, workshops\,  events\, films screenings\, live indoor and outdoor performances\, installations and happenings\, all initiating a series of creative conversations around a shared vision for equality\, diversity and a more sustainable future for all. \n\n\n\nVisit Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park for a live performance of The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul. Image by Mary Moynihan\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Tree of Life by Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle is a building with a rich and varied history dating back 400 years. It has been ‘a fortified house\, a luxurious seventeenth-century home\, a fashionable Georgian Mansion and an austere Jesuit residence’[1]. It is now under State care and managed by the Office of Public Works. \nRathfarnham Castle was only referred to as a castle in the mid eighteenth century. It is situated on the outskirts of Dublin. It is the earliest recorded and one of the largest and most impressive of the fortified houses built in Ireland. It was commissioned C. 1583 for Adam Loftus who was at that time the Anglican Archbishop of Dublin and Lord Chancellor of Ireland.  The house passed down through seven generations of the Loftus family until 1723 when the whole estate was sold to William Connolly of Castletown\, County Kildare.  After an interval of some fifty years (1711-1767) which saw a number of tenants and owners who made alternations and additions to the house\, it was returned to the ownership of the Loftus family. There were several different owners until the Castle was declared a National Monument in 1986 and purchased for the Nation by the Office of Public Works in 1987. At the same time\, Dublin County Council acquired the grounds. \n[1] Rathfarnham Castle Guide Book \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \nSmashing Times \nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \nAwards \nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You.  \nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings. \nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \nKeep in touch with Mary on: \nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan Artist Statement\n\n\n\nMy work has multiple layers and is the constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and express my own ideologies through symbolism. My work is a constant search for peace that doesn’t exist anymore. I fabricate things that constantly evoke deep emptiness and sorrow about our surroundings. For me\, art is not just an activity\, it is a passion\, a medium that I use as an activist and to describe my feelings\, my pain. I have used art as a medium to articulate my own experiences and I have faith that art has the power to prevail over the differences between religion\, culture\, language and race. It has the power to bring harmony to culture and to craft peace on our only inhabitable planet. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers Visual Art Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine. The exhibition brings together visual imagery and poetry to reflect on meaning-making and pathways of expression\, mapping physical landscapes of nature to human emotions from grief and longing to inner peace\, spirituality and love. The exhibition runs Wednesday 2 October – Sunday 3 November\, Wednesday…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to Aisha Hamdulay and Conor Fortune\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Changemakers multidisciplinary exhibition features photography\, poetry\, and storytelling and is a visual and poetical reflection on the stories of human rights defenders today. The Art of Changemakers highlights the stories of the five inspirational human rights defenders honoured in 2024 for the Front Line Defenders Annual Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk.  Artist Mary Moynihan has created a series of poetry and ‘Universal Declaration of Human Rights’ statements combining text and photographic imagery to accompany the stories of the five human rights defenders. The artistic work and stories are a celebration of the work of human rights defenders and a reflection on peace\, equality and human rights. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition runs from 17 September to 27 October 2024 at the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, Tuesday to Saturday\, 11am to 4pm\, closed for lunch 1.30-2.30\, and is a collaboration between Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nEach year Front Line Defenders announces the five winners of its top distinction\, the Front Line Defenders Annual Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk. The award was established in 2005 to honour the work of human rights defenders (HRDs) who are courageously making outstanding contributions to the promotion and protection of the human rights of others\, often at great personal risk to themselves. \n\n\n\nThe laureates for the 2024 award come from Cyprus\, Honduras\, Mozambique\, Pakistan and Palestine and were honoured at a special ceremony held in Dublin in 2024.  The laureates are: \n\n\n\nAfrica: Gamito dos Santos Carlos of AJOPAZ\, the Youth Association for Peace (Mozambique) \nAmericas: The Trans women collective Muñecas de Arcoíris (Honduras)\, represented by Jennifer Bexara Córdova \nAsia and the Pacific: Sammi Deen Baloch of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (Balochistan\, Pakistan) \nEurope and Central Asia: Doros Polykarpou of KISA (Cyprus) \nMiddle East and North Africa: We Are Not Numbers (Gaza\, Palestine)\, represented by Ahmed Alnaouq \n\n\n\n“Given the immensity of the challenges we face and the adverse forces working against human rights in many parts of the world\, it might seem tempting to lose hope that a better world is even possible\,” said Alan Glasgow\, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders. “But these courageous human rights defenders have defied that temptation and inspire us to keep hope alive. They say ‘no’ to the perpetrators and ‘yes’ to optimism – they know a fairer\, more equal\, rights-respecting world is worth fighting for”. \n\n\n\nThe award focuses international attention on the work and struggles of HRDs\, providing a greater national and international platform to speak about and advocate for the human rights issues they are defending. \n\n\n\nFor further information go to https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/2024-front-line-defenders-award-human-rights-defenders-risk \n\n\n\n\n\nBiographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGamito dos Santos Carlos\, Human Rights Defender \n\n\n\nExecutive Director\, JOPAZ\, the Youth Association for Peace\, \n\n\n\nNampula\, Northern Mozambique \nGamito dos Santos Carlos\, a human rights defender from Nampula\, northern Mozambique\, is the executive director of AJOPAZ\, the Youth Association for Peace. His human rights work centres around social\, civil and political rights and accountability. Gamito has been advocating for the protection of human rights activists and engaging with young people to advocate for significant social change in his community\, to foster justice and sustainable decision-making by authorities. \n  \nHe is a member of the Friends of Amurane Association for a Better Mozambique -KÓXUKHURO\, as well as an analyst and Provincial Coordinatorof the Mozambican Network of Human Rights Defenders (RMDDH). He has faced ongoing intimidation for his human rights work\, including repeated raids on his home and the loss of his job\, and in March 2023 he was kidnapped and tortured after he organised a demonstration. \n  \nDespite all the challenges he faces\, Gamito has consistently defended democracy\, human rights and anti-corruption initiatives in Mozambique\, having a significant impact in improving conditions for the Nampula community. \n  \nGamito dreams of a fairer\, equal country; where health\, education\, housing and employment are rights which are properly realised\, where equity and gender equality are accepted without prejudice\, where young people and women are involved in decision-making processes\, where politicians treat people with respect and dignity and adhere to the rule of law\, where freedom of speech is a respected right\, and where democracy is genuine and people exercise their rights without fear. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMuñecas de Arcoíris (Rainbow Dolls)\, \n\n\n\nThe Trans Women Collective\, \n\n\n\nRepresented by Jennifer Bexara Córdova\, \n\n\n\nHonduras \nMuñecas de Arcoíris (Rainbow Dolls) is a collective of trans women from the city of Tegucigalpa and Comayagüela in Honduras\, founded in 2008. Muñecas works under the LGBTI+ Arcoíris Association of Honduras with the aim of creating a safe space for trans sex worker women. The members of Muñecas started as volunteers of the Arcoíris Association\, where they became more aware of the situation that trans people were facing in Honduras. With the support of the Arcoíris Association\, Muñecas members received training related to their rights as LGBTI+ people. They then started to document human rights violations specifically against trans women in 2006 and two years later\, the collective was formally created as a trans women organisation. Most of its members are sex workers\, informal workers\, stylists\, and house keepers\, among others. \nAs human rights defenders\, members of Muñecas have a double layer of vulnerability. They are adversely targeted\, firstly due to their identity\, and secondly due to their work defending trans rights. Over the years\, the work of Muñecas has led to high-risk situations for a number of its members\, who have faced threats\, physical\, psychological and verbal attacks\, and killings. \nThe members of Muñecas dedicate their lives to the defence of human rights\, fighting for a more equal world\, in which respect\, tolerance\, empathy is present. For the members of Muñecas\, it is invaluable to have a safe space where they meet and learn more about their human rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSammi Deen Baloch\, Human Rights Defender \n\n\n\nVoice for Baloch Missing Persons \n\n\n\nBalochistan province\, Pakistan \nSammi Deen Baloch is a Baloch woman human rights defender from Mashkai\, Awaran District of Balochistan province\, Pakistan. She is the General Secretary of the Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP)\, a non-governmental organisation that represents and supports victims and relatives of enforced disappearances in Balochistan. \nIn June 2009\, at the age of 10\, Sammi’s father\, Dr Deen Mohammed Baloch\, was forcibly disappeared in Khuzdar\, Balochistan. She began persistently campaigning for the release of her father\, which further led to her deeper\, collective involvement in advocating against enforced disappearances in Balochistan by state forces. \nSammi has led campaigns and actions including marches\, protests and sit-ins; documented violations and cases of enforced disappearance; and assisted families with registering cases with relevant authorities. She has been a vocal advocate on women’s and girls rights\, the right to education and ongoing violations including killings\, mass graves and the collective punishment of families. \nSammi has faced persecution and reprisals including violence towards herself and family members. Since 2009\, the military have raided her home several times\, burned and seized valuables and even tried to abduct her brother. The family were forced to relocate to Karachi where her work continued\, and threats against her escalated.  She has also been forcibly disappeared herself. \nDespite being targeted and risking so much\, Sammi remains undeterred\, driven by her unwavering commitment to justice and the protection of human rights in Balochistan. Her work has enabled thousands of women and girls to stand up for their rights and has brought attention to the struggles of the Baloch people. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDoros Polykarpou is a leading human rights defender and founding member of KISA (the Movement for Equality\, Support and Anti-Racism). He is an expert on migration\, asylum\, discrimination\, racism\, and trafficking in Cyprus. For over 27 years\, he has dedicated himself to defending and advocating for the rights of people on the move and tackling discrimination and xenophobia in Cyprus\, navigating the unique socio-political environment of the small island nation with strong conservative elements. \n\n\n\nCyprus first developed its immigration policy in 1996\, and strong right-wing conservatism led to a model focused on temporary residence and filling of undesired jobs by migrants. The policy ultimately led to a rapid increase of migrants\, along with strong sentiments of racism and discrimination. In response to this\, Doros and other activists founded KISA\, with the objective of combating discrimination against migrants and asylum seekers\, and addressing human trafficking. \n\n\n\nDoros has been the target of a multitude of attacks\, including defamation campaigns\, criminal prosecutions and death threats – the latest being the bomb attack on KISA’s offices on 5 January 2024\, with the planting of an explosive device right opposite Doros’s workstation at KISA’s offices. \n\n\n\nDoros was born in Silikou\, a mixed village where Turkish and Greek Cypriots lived together peacefully\, even during intense inter-communal conflicts. In the 80s\, Doros moved to Germany to study where he stayed for 10 years working and studying. \n\n\n\nReturning to Cyprus in the early 1990s\, he engaged in the movement for reconciliation and reunification of the divided island and worked to protect children and women from domestic violence. \n\n\n\nDespite the threats and challenges\, Doros finds great satisfaction in his work\, engaging directly with individuals and migrant groups through a human rights-based approach and making positive changes in people’s lives. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWe Are Not Numbers (WANN) \n\n\n\nYouth-Led Palestinian Non-Profit \n\n\n\nGaza Strip \nWe Are Not Numbers (WANN) is a youth-led Palestinian non-profit project established in the Gaza Strip in 2014\, with the aim of telling the everyday\, human stories of thousands of Palestinians. Their vision is to spread Palestinian voices and narratives\, based on respect for human rights through the work of peaceful\, non-violent\, youth led Palestinians. When co-founder Ahmed Alnaouq lost his 23-year-old brother\, Ayman\, during an Israeli military attack on Palestinians in the summer of 2014\, he was devastated\, and sunk into a depression from which he thought he would never escape. During this time\, he met American journalist Pam Bailey\, who encouraged him to celebrate his brother’s legacy by writing a story about him. \nThe idea came fully to fruition in early 2015 in collaboration with Dr. Ramy Abdu\, chair of the board of directors for the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor (Euro-Med Monitor). In a context where the media was dominated with news and stories of Palestinians as mere political numbers; living under occupation\, amid war\, WANN wanted to share the humanity of Palestine beyond politics and numbers. It became a platform both to document human rights violations\, but also to share the personal struggles and triumphs\, tears and laughter\, and the universal human experiences of Palestinians. The mission of WANN is to break stereotypes about Palestinians\, by creating and empowering a new generation of Palestinian writers and thinkers who can share unfiltered stories of the Palestinian cause. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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-changemakers-visual-art-exhibition/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Rites of Care\, Curse & Comfort
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine. The exhibition brings together visual imagery and poetry to reflect on meaning-making and pathways of expression\, mapping physical landscapes of nature to human emotions from grief and longing to inner peace\, spirituality and love. The exhibition runs Wednesday 2 October – Sunday 3 November\, Wednesday…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nThaís Muniz\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis exhibition features a selection of new\, recreated and past works that engage transgenerational trauma\, manifestations of racism\, the objectification of womanhood by the male gaze\, and the erasure of ancestral knowledge systems. A key motif is an inverted triangle\, which Muniz puts forward as a visualisation of the transatlantic trade of enslaved people – representing Europe\, West Africa and the Americas – as well as her own autobiography\, in terms of her Brazilian origins\, African ancestry and Irish citizenship. The circle is another recurrent motif\, and represents ori – referring to spiritual intuition and destiny among the Yoruba\, a West African ethnic group with whom Muniz self-identifies. The exhibition demonstrates Muniz’s interest in the long-lasting impacts\, both material or psychological\, of colonialism on racialised communities. \n\n\n\nCentral to the exhibition is New Atlantic Triangulations Flag (2022)\, consisting of triangular and circular shapes printed on hanging fabric pieces. The work formally mimics a traditional national flag\, but the designed emblem is intended to represent motion\, whether metaphorically linking dispersed populations or referring specifically to the movements of persons undermining borders. Muniz blends references to Yoruban\, Brazilian or Irish histories and mythology\, for instance\, the Celtic legend of the island of Hy-Brasil or the ancient alphabet known as Ogham\, to meditate on her hybrid cultural identity. In the print Ori Axe Ogham (2024)\, ori evokes her African heritage; axe is the Brazillian word for ori; and Ogham is an ancient Irish alphabet. Muniz uses the slanted dashes of Ogham typography to spell out the words ‘axe’ and ‘ori’. The abstract geometric diagram can be understood as both an illustration of the movement of the artist’s body and a mapping of dispersed populations. \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is produced by SIRIUS and curated by Miguel Amado\, Director\, with production support provided by Cork Printmakers. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThaís Muniz is a Brazilian Irish artist with African heritage\, based in Dublin. She examines representations of ‘otherness’ through ideas of blackness\, displacement and memory in a postcolonial context\, and explores embodied and experiential art-making processes and outcomes. Her prints\, collages\, textile pieces\, and performances combine archival materials and personal memorabilia\, storytelling and symbology. \n\n\n\n\n\nSirius Arts Centre\n\n\n\nSirius Arts Centre is a multi-disciplinary arts organisation in the Cobh-Glanmire municipal district of east Cork. It is housed in a beautiful Italiante building that was designed by Anthony Salvin in 1854 to house the Royal Cork Yacht Club\, the oldest in the world. Salvin was best known for his restoration work on Windsor Castle and the Tower of London. This is the only example of Salvin’s work in Ireland. \n  \nFor thirty-one years the building has housed the Sirius Arts Centre; an organisation that is dedicated to the facilitation and development of artistic expression on a local\, national and international stage. This is the only organisation of its kind in the east Cork area. \n  \nSirius is an arts centre that serves as an intermediary between art and the public that endeavours to raise public awareness of art. It offers developing opportunities for both emerging and more established artists from both Ireland and abroad. The programme is dedicated to the facilitation and development of artistic expression\, with additional community programming that encourages exploration through direct participation in the arts. \n  \nThis is achieved through a mix of activities including: visual arts programming and exhibitions\, an international artist in residence programme\, music performances\, community arts programmes and workshops\, all of which bring people to east Cork. The Sirius Arts Centre building provides the organisation with a unique environment and gives continuing life to a heritage building of architectural and historical importance in Cobh. \n\n\n\nSirius Arts Centre\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rites-of-care-curse-comfort-2/
LOCATION:Sirius Arts Centre Cobh\, The Old Yacht Club\, Westbourne Place\, Cobh\, Cork\, P24 F209\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Eternal Rebels Changemakers Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artist Mary Moynihan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEternal Rebels Changemakers exhibition by artist Mary Moynihan is a visual and poetical reflection on stories of revolutionaries\, artists and women changemakers from Irish history 1916-23 combined with landscape photography and poetry of love and courage. The exhibition was launched by Kate Kennelly\, Arts Officer\, Kerry County Council on Friday 2 August 2024 as part of the Cahersiveen Music and Arts Festival and the Kerry International Arts and Human Rights festival. Supported by Creative Europe. Changemaker stories highlighted in the exhibition include Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, feminist and campaigner for equality and social justice\, and James Connolly (1868-1916)\, trade unionist\, socialist\, supporter of Irish freedom\, worker’s rights and women’s rights. The exhibition runs Monday 8 July – Thursday 31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday 10am – 5pm at The Old Barracks and Events Centre\, Cahersiveen\, Co Kerry. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nTickets at door: Adult – €6.50. Child (Under 12) – €4.00. Student/OAP – €5.50Family Ticket 2 Adults + 3 Children under 12 – €20.00 \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n‘If you’re always trying to be normal\, you’ll never know how amazing you can be’. \n\n\n\nMaya Angelou\, Poet and Writer \n\n\n\nEternal Rebels Changemakers Exhibition is a multidisciplinary visual art exhibition by artist Mary Moynihan featuring photography\, poetry and film. The exhibition is a visual and poetical reflection on the stories of twenty-six change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries period in Irish history (1913-1923). Changemaker stories highlighted in the exhibition include Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, feminist and campaigner for equality and social justice\, and James Connolly (1868-1916)\, trade unionist\, socialist\, supporter of Irish freedom\, worker’s rights and women’s rights. The exhibition runs from 8 July to 31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday 10am to 5pm at The Old Barracks Heritage and Events Centre\, Cahersiveen\, County Kerry.  \n\n\n\nAlongside the stories of change-makers from Irish history\, the artist presents a series of poetical texts with photography and a poem-film under the title of ‘The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found’.  These are personal reflections on themes of love and courage and the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and the possibility of finding a way through\, holding onto the courage to let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work is a celebration of the human spirit. The storytelling\, original poetry and associated photographic images of the Irish landscape in all its forms – calm and serene\, wild and wilful\, alluring and physical –  explore intersections between historical memory\, storytelling\, visibility\, love\, loss and courage\, and the inner world of the mind and soul linked to the physicality of the body and nature. The photographs highlight the variety of life and nature\, while artist Mary Moynihan’s thought-provoking storytelling and poetic text offer avenues for the mind to explore. \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Nature and the sea\, stars and sky alongside stories of bravery\, passion\, desire and adventure are a driving force behind Mary’s career creating some of the finest writings\, photography and paintings on what it is to be human and a search for love and meaning-making in life. \n\n\n\nThe Eternal Rebels Changemaker Exhibition features: \n\n\n\n23 Eternal Rebels storyboard prints on wooden easels showcasing 26 Changemaker Stories from the Decade of Centenaries revolutionary period in Irish history (1916-1923) with each story accompanied by a photographic artwork depicting Irish landscapes.  Eleven displayed on floors 1 & 2 and twelve on floor 3. \n\n\n\nTwo photography and poetry artworks mounted on foamboard displayed on floor three \n\n\n\n1 Artwork with poem and photographic image – The Ship of Belonging by Mary Moynihan \n\n\n\n1 Artwork with poem and photographic image – Prayer by Féilim James \n\n\n\nThe Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found – Eight photography and poetry artworks framed \n\n\n\n\nFreedom – photographic artwork and poetic text by Mary Moynihan. 60 x 42cm\n\n\n\nFinding My Way – photographic artwork and poetic text by Mary Moynihan. 60 x 42cm\n\n\n\nImperfections – photographic artwork and poetic text by Mary Moynihan. 60 x 42cm\n\n\n\nA Broken Heart – photographic artwork and poetic text by Mary Moynihan. 60 x 42cm\n\n\n\nTotality of My Soul – poetry artwork by Mary Moynihan. 60cm x 42cm\n\n\n\nThe Feeling Soul – photographic artwork and poetic text by Mary Moynihan. 60cm x 42cm\n\n\n\nDreamscape – photographic artwork and poetic text by Mary Moynihan. 60 x 42cm\n\n\n\nOn the Ledge of Courage – photographic artwork and poetic text by Mary Moynihan. 60cm x 42cm\n\n\n\nOn the Ledge of Courage – poem film by Mary Moynihan.\n\n\n\n\nOne of the artworks on display is ‘On the Ledge of Courage’\, a  poem film by Mary Moynihan\, performed by Carla Ryan\, and is a reflection on love\, courage\, fear and finding a way through darkness. The poem dedicated to all those who stand up for the rights and dignity of others and can be viewed here https://youtu.be/ELNGirWrCSE. Speaking about ‘On the Ledge of Courage’ the artist Mary Moynihan says: \n\n\n\n\n‘fear and courage can exist within us at the same time\, in the same way that we can have strength in our vulnerability.   The physical cliff edge in the poem is inspired by Skellig Michael (Sceilg Mhichíl)\, a majestic island in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of the Iveragh peninsula in county Kerry\, the site of an ancient medieval monastery.  The cliff edge is overlooking the ocean but this ‘ledge’ is in all of us and we often have to dive into the unknown for both ourselves and others. I’ve been coming to Valentia for many years and I often refer to the island and surrounding areas as my spiritual home\, a place of peace\, solitude and inspiration. The Great Skellig is a steep island shooting straight up two hundred metres out of the Atlantic Ocean\, standing aloof like a majestic stone palace that can be seen for miles around. I often find myself thinking about the Great Skellig in the middle of the ocean\, tall\, silent and rooted\, whether the seas around it are calm or stormy. Life is the same\, some days will be calm and others stormy\, but to remember that the storms shall pass.’ \n\n\n\n\nThe Eternal Rebels  Changemakers exhibition highlights the stories of two women who lived on Valentia Island – Helen Blackburn (1842 1903) a writer\, suffragist and Feminist Campaigner for Women’s and Worker’s Rights and Maude Jane Delap (1866-1953)\, a pioneering Marine Biologist who had a sea anemone named after her\, the ‘Edwardsia delapiae’\, which she discovered in shallow sea waters on Valentia Island’s shores. \n\n\n\nThe Old Barracks is an ideal location for the Eternal Rebels Changemakers exhibition. The building is situated on an elevated site close to the bridge over the River Fertha in Cahersiveen. It is home to a permanent exhibition over three storeys which recounts the building’s remarkable history and that of the local region and includes the story of Daniel O’Connell (1775-1847)\, an Irish political leader\, activist and nationalist known as the liberator. The building has views over the bay at Cahersiveen and out to Valentia island and was originally constructed between 1870 and 1875 as a police station for the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC).  \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to announce that eleven of the artworks highlighting the stories of women in history will remain on in the Barracks on permanent display. The women include Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a radical activist\, feminist\, pacifist\, human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes; Dr Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955)\, a Medical Doctor\, politician\, feminist\, suffragist\, Republican and socialist; and Helena Molony (1884-1967)\, a Republican\, feminist and labour activist \n\n\n\nThis exhibition is presented as part of Theatre in Palm supported by Creative Europe for the annual 2024 Arts and Human Rights festival. The exhibition was originally created as part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality.  \n\n\n\n\n\nThe Old Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\n\n\n\nThe change-makers whose stories feature in the exhibition are:  \n\n\n\n1.Constance Markievicz (1868-1927) \n\n\n\nIrish politician\, revolutionary nationalist\, suffragette and socialist \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Shadowland. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n2. Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926) \n\n\n\nPoet\, writer\, trade unionist\, feminist\, a campaigner for equality and social justice\, and a sister of Irish revolutionary Countess Markievicz \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Sky at Night. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n3. Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington (1877-1946) \n\n\n\nRadical activist\, feminist\, pacifist\, human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Light. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n4. Dr Kathleen Lynn (1874-1955) \n\n\n\nMedical Doctor\, politician\, feminist\, suffragist\, Republican and socialist \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Full Moon. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n5. Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971) \n\n\n\nRevolutionary feminist and trade unionist \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Blues. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n6. Helena Molony (1884-1967) \n\n\n\nRepublican\, feminist and labour activist \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Stay. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n7. Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) \n\n\n\nIllustrator\, caricaturist and supporter of Irish independence \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Darkness. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n8. Sarah Curran (1782-1808) \n\n\n\nA true disciple of Mary Wollstonecraft and Robert Emmet’s clandestine lover \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Light. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n9. Helen Blackburn (1842-1903) \n\n\n\nWriter\, Suffragist and Feminist Campaigner for Women’s Rights and Worker’s Rights \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Across the Divide. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n10. Maude Jane Delap (1866-1953) \n\n\n\nA pioneering Marine Biologist who had a sea anemone named after her\, the ‘Edwardsia delapiae’\, which she discovered in shallow sea waters on Valentia Island’s shores. \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Shoreline of Valentia Island. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n11. Mary Elmes (1908-2002) \n\n\n\nHonored as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Haunting. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n12. The Pearse Women \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Escape. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\nMrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932). Political activist\, politician and Dáil Deputy \n\n\n\nMargaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968). Teacher\, TD and Senator \n\n\n\nMary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947). Musician\, teacher and author \n\n\n\n13. James Connolly (1868-1916) \n\n\n\nTrade Union leader\, socialist\, revolutionary\, supporter of Irish freedom\, worker’s rights and women’s rights \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Escape. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n14. Francis Sheehy-Skeffington (1878-1916) \n\n\n\nJournalist\, writer\, radical activist\, suffragette and pacifist \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Double Spirit. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n15. Joseph Mary Plunkett (1887-1916) \n\n\n\nIrish nationalist\, poet\, journalist and a leader of the 1916 Rising in Ireland \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Glory. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n16. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939) \n\n\n\nPoet\, dramatist and writer \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Rock. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n17. Jack B. Yeats (1871–1957) \n\n\n\nPainter and illustrator \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Life and Death.  Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n18. Elizabeth ‘Lollie’ Yeats (1868-1940) \n\n\n\nArtist\, cultural entrepreneur\, Froebel trained art teacher and publisher \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Hope by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSusan ‘Lily’ Yeats (1866-1949) \n\n\n\nArtist\, cultural entrepreneur\, embroider \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Hope by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n19. James Joyce (1882-1941) \n\n\n\nWriter.  \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Yesteryear. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n20. Lucia Joyce (1907-1982) \n\n\n\nDancer.  \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: To the end. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n21. Seán O’Casey (1880 – 1964) \n\n\n\nDramatist and politically active writer \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Darkly Calm. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n22. Augusta\, Lady Gregory (1852-1932) \n\n\n\nAn Irish writer\, dramatist\, folklorist\, and patron of the arts and a founding member of the Irish Literary Theatre (1899) and the Abbey Theatre founded in 1904 as Ireland’s national theatre \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: Serenity. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\n23. John Millington Synge (1871-1909) \n\n\n\nDramatist and writer and a leading figure in the Irish literary renaissance \n\n\n\nPhotographic Artwork: The Walk. Image by Mary Moynihan\, 2023 \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \nAfter raising four children\, now  adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\,  crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \nSmashing Times \nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \nAwards \nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working-class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You.  \nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings. \nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \nKeep in touch with Mary on: \nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Old Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, Co Kerry\, Cahersiveen\, Kerry\, V23VR62\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:In Frame: Some aspects of Angelica Kauffman's "Ely Family" portrait - Artist Talk
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker\n\n\n\nDr Eoin O’Flynn\, Head Guide at Rathfarnham Castle\, a National Historic Property managed by the Office of Public Works \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis talk will focus on several aspects of ‘The Ely Family portrait’\, a large picture painted in Rathfarnham Castle in 1771 by the famous Swiss-Austrian artist\, Angelica Kauffman. We will begin with some background information about the painter herself\, who from relatively humble origins became one of the most celebrated painters in Europe. Widely travelled\, incredibly talented and famous in her day\, she was a founding member of the Royal Academy and spent several months in Ireland in 1771. \n\n\n\nWe will then move to consider the enigmatic figure of the ‘Indian’ page standing in the right hand corner of Kauffman’s painting. Very little is known about this young boy but we will attempt to consider his background and identity and the treatment and experience of such ‘exotic’ people in eighteenth century Ireland.   \n\n\n\nAttendees should come to the Rathfarnham Castle reception\, they will be directed to the Ballroom from there. The talk will be held in the Ballroom on the second floor. \n\n\n\nRathfarnham Castle\n\n\n\nThe original castle at Rathfarnham dates back to the Elizabethan period and was built for Archbishop Adam Loftus\, an ambitious Yorkshire clergyman who later became Lord Chancellor of Ireland. In the late eighteenth century\, the house was remodelled on a splendid scale employing some of the finest architects of the day including Sir William Chambers and James ‘Athenian’ Stuart. The collection includes family portraits by Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807)\, Sir Peter Lely (1618-1680)\, and Hugh Douglas Hamilton (1740-1808). Rathfarnham Castle is managed and operated by the Office of Public Works. \n\n\n\nDuring the works taking place\, many exciting archaeological artefacts were discovered! Watch the video here. Rathfarnham Castle reopened to the public on the 16th of October 2015\, and you can see photographs from the launch here. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/in-frame-some-aspects-of-angelica-kauffmans-ely-family-portrait-artist-talk/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 14\, D14 K3T6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Talk,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Eternal Rebels Change-Makers Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, all welcome. For group tours with a guide\, contact Freda on 087 2214245 or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Director\, Theatre and Film-Maker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist  \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEternal Rebels is a multi-disciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, film\, photography and poetry and is a visual and poetic reflection on the stories of  change-makers in Irish history from the Decade of Centenaries to today.  The exhibition runs Friday 13 – Sunday 22 October 2023\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am-6pm daily at the Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1. The artists are Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival; Hina Khan\, visual artist and miniaturist; and Amna Walayat\, visual artist.   \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is presented for States of Independence\, a major project celebrating the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries in Irish history linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features original artworks\, photography\, poetry and stories celebrating the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. Change-maker stories include Eva Gore-Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of Constance Markiewicz;  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes and James Connolly (1868-1916) a trade union leader and revolutionary who played a leading role in the Irish Rising in 1916. \n\n\n\nOn display in the exhibition is Change-Maker Stories – A Book of Names capturing timeless change-maker stories and photographs of activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries period in Irish history. As part of the exhibition we are inviting those in attendance to share the name of a change-maker who inspired you.   \n\n\n\nJoin us for a launch of the exhibition and Change-Maker Encounters panel discussion with the artists and guest speakers on Friday 13 October at 6pm\, all welcome.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in Miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing etc in her work. \n\n\n\nHina has chosen Miniature because of its intricacy and delicacy of brush work which has a unique identity. Most of Hina’s work is a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature. Her work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expressed by her own ideologies through symbolism.  \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my art practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of group shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are also in the permanent collection of Arts Council Ireland. She is the recipient of several Awards from Arts Council Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and different counties.  \n\n\n\nHina says that\, ‘as an artist\, I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/eternal-rebels-change-makers-exhibition/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Installation,Interdisciplinary,Photography,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Launch of Visual Art\, Poetry and Photography exhibition as part of Transformative Memories in Political Violence at the dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nThe event facilitator is Ciara Hayes\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. The official launch is conducted by Cllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners.  The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nThis chapter of the exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nIn a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetic expressions created under the title of Paradise Lost and Found\, artist Mary Moynihan explores the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work of visual artist Amna Walayat is informed by Michel Foucault’s[1] ideas on power and Edward Said’s[2] work on Orientalism.  Using the medium of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting and the language of symbolism\, Amna’s work expresses her hybrid cultural experiences with artworks on display created under the titles of Migration and In the Name of Shame. The artist says ‘being female\, Asian\, and Muslim\, and a migrant\, mother and artist\, these are all the strands that are personal but also provide me with the opportunity to connect with global issues in general. My paintings are silent protests or performances against violence experienced by women and children\, particularly in various cultural contexts’. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is launched by Cllr Emma Murphy and will feature speeches from the artists and curators\, Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian. \n\n\n\n[2] Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic\, political activist and literary critic. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, she mounted her first solo exhibition as a part of the Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work was exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 October 2021) and with a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland and Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project ‘South Asia Community Museum in Ireland’. \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts and as a Curator with Alhambra Arts Council (2001-07). She has  worked with Cultural Action Europe as a MENA Cultural Agent for advising on policies (2021).  She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Visual Artists Ireland\, and is a recent recipient of The Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of SDCC\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy was elected to South Dublin County Council in 2016 and re-elected in 2019. Emma is a member of the Fianna Fáil party and was extremely active during the referendums for Marriage Equality and Repealing the Eighth Amendment (Abortion Rights in Ireland) over the past number of years. \n\n\n\nEmma’s background is in the NGO sector and previous roles include working as a Communications and Fundraising professional with NGO’s in the areas of Intellectual Disability\, Education\, International Development and LGBTQ+ Sport. In July 2020 Emma took up the position of Communications Director for Barry Andrews MEP of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. \n\n\n\nEmma is a past Chairperson of the Joint Policing Committee for South County Dublin and uses her passion and knowledge of cycling as the Chairperson of the Dodder Greenway Steering Committee. She is a member of the Environment Special Policy Committee on South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nShe has a personal interest in gender equality and education. Emma took part in the ALDE European Womens’ Academy in 2018\, which promotes females in political life across Europe. She has a passion for driving female representation in politics and acts as an advocate for increased female representation across all facets of the political spectrum.  In March 2021 Emma tabled a motion to establish the South Dublin Women’s Caucus for current and past female members of South Dublin County Council to come together to strengthen female representation in the Local Authority. \n\n\n\nEmma’s other passion is sport and she has recently graduated from the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s Learn to Lead programme which empowers females in sport. Emma has used this platform to advocate for community\, sport and LGBTQ+ issues via this forum. \n\n\n\nEmma lives in Ballycullen in South Dublin with her wife Caroline and their miniature Jack Russell named Junior. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Title\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-of-visual-art-poetry-and-photography-exhibition-as-part-of-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition - dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking required. All welcome weekly Tuesday – Saturday 11am-4pm\, until Friday 28 October 2022.  For information: info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners. \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nIn a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetry created under the title of The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found\, artist Mary Moynihan explores the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work of visual artist Amna Walayat  is informed by Michel Foucault’s[1] ideas on power and Edward Said’s[2] work on Orientalism.  Using the medium of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting and the language of symbolism\, Amna’s work expresses her hybrid cultural experiences with artworks on display created under the titles of Migration and In the Name of Shame. The artist says ‘being female\, Asian\, and Muslim\, and a migrant\, mother and artist\, these are all the strands that are personal but also provide me  with the opportunity to connect with global issues in general. My paintings are silent protests or performances against violence experienced by women and children\, particularly in various cultural contexts’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian. \n\n\n\n[2] Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic\, political activist and literary critic. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, she mounted her first solo exhibition as a part of the Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work was exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 October 2021) and with a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland and Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project ‘South Asia Community Museum in Ireland’. \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts and as a Curator with Alhambra Arts Council (2001-07). She has  worked with Cultural Action Europe as a MENA Cultural Agent for advising on policies (2021).  She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Visual Artists Ireland\, and is a recent recipient of The Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation – With MemoLabs: Performances\, Workshops\, Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisitors welcome from Monday-Sunday\, 3-23 October\, 10am-6pm (16 October 2-6pm). Contact info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\,  visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\, \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann\, visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda \n\n\n\nJuliane Okot Bitek\,  Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer\, academic and poet\, who lives in Canada \n\n\n\nPeter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor\, British Columbia\, Canada \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers in MemoLabs (in addition to above artists): \n\n\n\nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nNiamh Sweeney\, performer \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer and songwriter \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, violinist \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Deputy Director of Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nSenator Mary Fitzpatrick \n\n\n\nCllr Donna Cooney\, Deputy Lord Mayor\, Dublin City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe flagship event for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 is the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.  \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition at The Chocolate Factory features the work of artists responding creatively to themes of freedom\, remembrance\, political violence\, transformation\, power and control.   The exhibition highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan and Amna Wayalat and accompanying  by a series of MemoLab activities – talks\, workshops and live performances. The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nState of the Art MemoLabs\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition and installation is accompanied by an eight-day programme of State of the Art MemoLab activities made up of talks\, workshops and performances presented by international artists working with local artists from Ireland and Northern Ireland. The MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are open to the public and take place over three days at the Chocolate Factory\, 26 King’s Inns Stree\, Dublin 1\, on the  14\, 15\, 16 October and for five days in Northern Ireland on the 17-21 October.  The talks and workshops feature artists and researchers from Ireland\, Northern Ireland and around the world talking about their art based methodologies and creative artworks and how the arts can be used to transform society in the wake of political violence. \nThe MemoLab programme of work in Dublin is presented as part of the State of the Art Artist Development programme and the annual networking day for the Arts and Human Rights European Network attended by artists\, citizens\, communities and human rights organisations\, supporting artists to engage in artistic practice promoting equality\, human rights and diversity. The MemoLab programme of work in Northern Ireland is facilitated by Ulster University and Healing Through Remembering (HTR)\, and includes sessions with Conflict Textiles\, the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and National Museums NI on their new “Troubles and Beyond” exhibit at the Ulster Museum. \n  \nKey Questions: \nWhat is the role of the arts in promoting transformative remembrance arising out of political violence and in remembering responsibility for mass and state sponsored violence and how can art arising out of political violence be transformative? \nHow does remembering responsibility in a creative way\, shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country and global politics? \nWhat are the processes of art from the ground up in making impactful activism using culture\, creativity and memory? \n  \nPolitical violence impacts on communities and lives across the globe. It is a multi-faceted issue\, and can take many different forms. Certain specific conflicts are addressed in this exhibition\, while other pieces interrogate the emotions that such violence produces. The exhibition comprises of artworks across all forms reflecting on the role of the arts in highlighting the issue of political violence\, and the ways in which the arts can help people to reflect and move forward in its wake. These artists offer insights into conflicts and post-war communities across the world through their evocative and poignant work. \n  \nThe Artists for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Exhibition and MemoLabs are: \nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and is Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF). \nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores a range of themes including violence against women and feminism. Amna is co-curator with Mary Moynihan on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/amna-walayat \nHina Khan is a visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\,  specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores themes of migration\, racism and human rights. https://visualartists.ie/arts-directory/directory-of-members-_/#!biz/id/5d39abdbf033bfab33f21b4c \nDr Sinead McCann is a Dublin based visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation\, often exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. https://imma.ie/artists/sandra-johnston/ \nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nCarla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nRob Harrington\, Performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n  \nProducing Team \nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nCiara Hayes is Festival Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n  \nPartners \nUlster University \nConflict Textiles \nHealing Through Remembering \nJustice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda \nUniversity of British Columbia \nNational Museums NI\, Northern Ireland \nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nThe Transformative Memory International Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \n  \nPhD Organizing Group for the Transformative Memory International Network \nKetty Anyeko\, Uganda. Ph.D. candidate\, ISGP\, University of British Columbia \nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos\, Colombia. Ph.D. candidate\, University of British Columbia \nAlejandra Gaviria-Serna\, Colombia. Ph.D. student\, GRSJ\, University of British Columbia \nNila Utami\, Indonesia. Ph.D. candidate\, History\, University of British Columbia \nAaron Weah\, Liberia\, Ph.D researcher\, Law\, Ulster University \nPaula Surgenor\, Northern Ireland\, Ph.D candidate\, Anthropology\, Ulster University \nThe Artists\nThe artists in the exhibition are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design\, born in British Columbia\, Canada and identifying as a member of the Crow Clan;   Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights – Artist Development Programme for the Arts and Human Rights\, Supported by the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network and Resource and Advice Service\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality runs an annual  Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme called State of the Art; The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of human rights and is part of a programme of work supporting artists who are dedicating to use their art to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, talks\, mentoring and peer learning.  The programme is supported by the Smashing Times Resource and Advice Service (currently in development by Smashing Times) and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network which is open to all artists\, activists\, citizens\,  communities\, human rights organisations and the general public to join. \n\n\n\nThe programme is  made up of three components. The first component is an Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme bringing together artists through six exchanges and ongoing collaboration and research\, who are dedicated to using their artforms to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe second component is the creation of  new productions and exhibitions  to be presented for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. For the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival the company created State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition on display at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\,  and at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, with MemoLabs consisting of Performances\, Workshops and Artist Talks. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. The exhibition displays artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe and  features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\,  Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. Artists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.    \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by MemoLabs\, a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nA chapter of the Transformative Memories was created and ran at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery in Dundrum.  The State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  The exhibition runs from the 20 September to the 29 October 2022. \n\n\n\nThe third component of State of the Art is the holding of an annual Arts and Human Rights networking day held as part of the European Arts and Human Rights network which aims to bring together artists\, citizens\, communities\, human rights organisations and the general public and is open to all those interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  The annual networking day for 2022 consists of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival launch and the four MemoLab events held at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin for the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNetworks\n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network is open to all\, artists and activists\, organisations and individuals\, who believe in using the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights for all. The Network offers opportunities to meet\, discuss and explore human rights\, human rights defenders\, and the artists who use their work to stand up and speak out for the rights of others. The Network is free to join\, and includes information and resources emailed throughout the year. Join now: https://smashingtimes.ie/signupform/ \n  \nTransformative Memory Network \nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\nThe exhibition and accompanying MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are presented in partnership with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ulster University\, University of British Columbia\, the Transformative Memory International Network\, the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network\, Healing Through Remembering\, Conflict Textiles\, Justice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda and National Museums NI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
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DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisitors welcome from Monday-Sunday\, 3-23 October\, 10am-6pm (16 October 2-6pm). Contact info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\,  visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\, \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann\, visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda \n\n\n\nJuliane Okot Bitek\,  Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer\, academic and poet\, who lives in Canada \n\n\n\nPeter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor\, British Columbia\, Canada \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers in MemoLabs (in addition to above artists): \n\n\n\nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nNiamh Sweeney\, performer \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer and songwriter \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, violinist \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Deputy Director of Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nSenator Mary Fitzpatrick \n\n\n\nCllr Donna Cooney\, Deputy Lord Mayor\, Dublin City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe flagship event for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 is the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.  \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition at The Chocolate Factory features the work of artists responding creatively to themes of freedom\, remembrance\, political violence\, transformation\, power and control.   The exhibition highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan and Amna Wayalat and accompanying  by a series of MemoLab activities – talks\, workshops and live performances. The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nState of the Art MemoLabs\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition and installation is accompanied by an eight-day programme of State of the Art MemoLab activities made up of talks\, workshops and performances presented by international artists working with local artists from Ireland and Northern Ireland. The MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are open to the public and take place over three days at the Chocolate Factory\, 26 King’s Inns Stree\, Dublin 1\, on the  14\, 15\, 16 October and for five days in Northern Ireland on the 17-21 October.  The talks and workshops feature artists and researchers from Ireland\, Northern Ireland and around the world talking about their art based methodologies and creative artworks and how the arts can be used to transform society in the wake of political violence. \nThe MemoLab programme of work in Dublin is presented as part of the State of the Art Artist Development programme and the annual networking day for the Arts and Human Rights European Network attended by artists\, citizens\, communities and human rights organisations\, supporting artists to engage in artistic practice promoting equality\, human rights and diversity. The MemoLab programme of work in Northern Ireland is facilitated by Ulster University and Healing Through Remembering (HTR)\, and includes sessions with Conflict Textiles\, the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and National Museums NI on their new “Troubles and Beyond” exhibit at the Ulster Museum. \n  \nKey Questions: \nWhat is the role of the arts in promoting transformative remembrance arising out of political violence and in remembering responsibility for mass and state sponsored violence and how can art arising out of political violence be transformative? \nHow does remembering responsibility in a creative way\, shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country and global politics? \nWhat are the processes of art from the ground up in making impactful activism using culture\, creativity and memory? \n  \nPolitical violence impacts on communities and lives across the globe. It is a multi-faceted issue\, and can take many different forms. Certain specific conflicts are addressed in this exhibition\, while other pieces interrogate the emotions that such violence produces. The exhibition comprises of artworks across all forms reflecting on the role of the arts in highlighting the issue of political violence\, and the ways in which the arts can help people to reflect and move forward in its wake. These artists offer insights into conflicts and post-war communities across the world through their evocative and poignant work. \n  \nThe Artists for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Exhibition and MemoLabs are: \nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and is Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF). \nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores a range of themes including violence against women and feminism. Amna is co-curator with Mary Moynihan on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/amna-walayat \nHina Khan is a visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\,  specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores themes of migration\, racism and human rights. https://visualartists.ie/arts-directory/directory-of-members-_/#!biz/id/5d39abdbf033bfab33f21b4c \nDr Sinead McCann is a Dublin based visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation\, often exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. https://imma.ie/artists/sandra-johnston/ \nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nCarla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nRob Harrington\, Performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n  \nProducing Team \nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nCiara Hayes is Festival Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n  \nPartners \nUlster University \nConflict Textiles \nHealing Through Remembering \nJustice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda \nUniversity of British Columbia \nNational Museums NI\, Northern Ireland \nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nThe Transformative Memory International Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \n  \nPhD Organizing Group for the Transformative Memory International Network \nKetty Anyeko\, Uganda. Ph.D. candidate\, ISGP\, University of British Columbia \nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos\, Colombia. Ph.D. candidate\, University of British Columbia \nAlejandra Gaviria-Serna\, Colombia. Ph.D. student\, GRSJ\, University of British Columbia \nNila Utami\, Indonesia. Ph.D. candidate\, History\, University of British Columbia \nAaron Weah\, Liberia\, Ph.D researcher\, Law\, Ulster University \nPaula Surgenor\, Northern Ireland\, Ph.D candidate\, Anthropology\, Ulster University \nThe Artists\nThe artists in the exhibition are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design\, born in British Columbia\, Canada and identifying as a member of the Crow Clan;   Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights – Artist Development Programme for the Arts and Human Rights\, Supported by the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network and Resource and Advice Service\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality runs an annual  Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme called State of the Art; The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of human rights and is part of a programme of work supporting artists who are dedicating to use their art to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, talks\, mentoring and peer learning.  The programme is supported by the Smashing Times Resource and Advice Service (currently in development by Smashing Times) and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network which is open to all artists\, activists\, citizens\,  communities\, human rights organisations and the general public to join. \n\n\n\nThe programme is  made up of three components. The first component is an Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme bringing together artists through six exchanges and ongoing collaboration and research\, who are dedicated to using their artforms to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe second component is the creation of  new productions and exhibitions  to be presented for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. For the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival the company created State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition on display at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\,  and at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, with MemoLabs consisting of Performances\, Workshops and Artist Talks. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. The exhibition displays artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe and  features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\,  Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. Artists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.    \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by MemoLabs\, a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nA chapter of the Transformative Memories was created and ran at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery in Dundrum.  The State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  The exhibition runs from the 20 September to the 29 October 2022. \n\n\n\nThe third component of State of the Art is the holding of an annual Arts and Human Rights networking day held as part of the European Arts and Human Rights network which aims to bring together artists\, citizens\, communities\, human rights organisations and the general public and is open to all those interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  The annual networking day for 2022 consists of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival launch and the four MemoLab events held at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin for the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNetworks\n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network is open to all\, artists and activists\, organisations and individuals\, who believe in using the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights for all. The Network offers opportunities to meet\, discuss and explore human rights\, human rights defenders\, and the artists who use their work to stand up and speak out for the rights of others. The Network is free to join\, and includes information and resources emailed throughout the year. Join now: https://smashingtimes.ie/signupform/ \n  \nTransformative Memory Network \nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\nThe exhibition and accompanying MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are presented in partnership with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ulster University\, University of British Columbia\, the Transformative Memory International Network\, the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network\, Healing Through Remembering\, Conflict Textiles\, Justice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda and National Museums NI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/state-of-the-art-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/2022-09-26/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\, to explore\, share and engage in creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stat-na-mban/2021-10-22/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\, to explore\, share and engage in creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stat-na-mban/2021-10-21/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Visual Arts Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets Free. Book Here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPenny Pepper \n\n\n\nLydia Gratis \n\n\n\nEvie Nevin \n\n\n\nDr. Rosaleen McDonagh \n\n\n\nAoife Price \n\n\n\nGrainne Blair \n\n\n\nRóisín Ní Haicéid \n\n\n\nOrla O’Connor \n\n\n\nIsolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody \n\n\n\nBlessing Dada \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA small planning group has come together to organize this event as partners in the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021 \n\n\n\nOrla O Connor (Director\, NWC) and Evie Nevin (NWC Disabled women’s group & political campaigner) will welcome and open the event. \n\n\n\nGrainne Blair and Aoife Price will present a creative advocacy piece from the disabled women’s group. \n\n\n\nHosted by Blessing Dada an award-winning mental health writer\, speaker & content creator/blogger\, this event will feature performances from \n\n\n\nMary Collins Painter\, writer and campaigner for independent livingEmilie Conway Vocal Jazz Artist and founder of DADA: Disabled Artists and Disabled Academics Campaign for Human & Cultural RightsPenny Pepper Author\, poet\, performer & disabled activist\n\n\n\nWe have an excellent panel who will share their own experience of campaigning for equality and human rights for disabled women including Emilie Conway and Lynda Gratis. \n\n\n\nISL interpreters will be available at the event. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPenny Pepper\n\n\n\nPenny Pepper is an acclaimed wheelchair-using author\, poet\, performer & disabled activist. A genre-defying and versatile writer\, her work focuses on the examination of difference\, inequality and identity. She tells stories we haven’t heard\, making others see life differently\, always with humour and wisdom. Her champions include Jake Arnott\, Margaret Drabble and Danuta Keene. Most recently she has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious international Hemingway Shorts 2021 Competition and her winning story will be published in their competition anthology. \n\n\n\nPenny published her groundbreaking memoir\, First in The World Somewhere with Unbound and a poetry collection\, Come Home Alive\, with Burning Eye Books. She is now signed to The Good Literary Agency where she is represented by Abi Fellows. She has also been widely published including Mslexia\, The Guardian\, Byline Times amongst others. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLydia Gratis\n\n\n\nAnti-racism Educator & Activist\, Black Holistic Wellness Content Creator\, Deaf Youth Advocate. \n\n\n\nI was born in South Africa\, raised in Ireland. I was the 1st ever Black deaf person in the Irish deaf community. My experience navigating a deaf white world and a black hearing world shaped alot of my upbringing and the work I now do. \n\n\n\nI am in my final year of my bachelors\, minoring in Anthropology and majoring in International development.I’m the founder and chairperson of Ubuntu European Deaf Youth\, a youth group for BIPOC Deaf youth all over Europe\, supported by the European Union for Deaf Youth\, a European non-profit organisation consisting of 30 national associations all over Europe.With the mission to create a Europe where all young deaf people are able to come together and share their experiences across cultures and boundaries\, so they can enjoy their rights on an equal basis with others. Full social and political participation empowered by non-formal training and cross-cultural youth exchange\, including access to education and employment. Having worked in the deaf youth sector for the last 8 years Lydia is the course director of a study session on race\, migration and Xenophobia with the Council Of Europe happening in October 2021.In her 9-5 Lydia works as a Social Inclusion and Communications Officer for Ireland’s leading national sign language interpreting service provider.Guest speaker\, recently having spoken at the European parliament on implicit biases and how race and racism affects Black and Brown communities. \n\n\n\nBoard member of the Irish Deaf Society\, focusing on diversity and inclusion.Social media and outreach manager at Deaf Women Space. \n\n\n\nI am one of 28 women on the All Island Women’s Forum\, a government funded initiative comprising 14 from the north and 14 from the south of Ireland chosen by the National Women’s Council of Ireland. The Women’s Forum aims to address underrepresentation of women and further develop women’s role in peacebuilding and civic society. Funded through the Department of Foreign Affairs Reconciliation Fund\, the Women’s Forum will also support building sustainable North South links\, provide a space for marginalised communities\, and build better understanding and inter-community links. \n\n\n\nI am also a nominee for the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission ’s (IHREC) disability advisory board. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvie Nevin\n\n\n\nMother of two\, Evie Nevin\, is on the National Executive and chairs the Diversity Committee of the Social Democrats. She lives in West Cork and is diagnosed with Ehlers Danlos Syndrome and more recently\, Autism. In addition to her political work\, Evie also sits on other boards and committees helping to improve the lives of people with disabilities in Ireland. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Rosaleen McDonagh\n\n\n\nDr. Rosaleen McDonagh is a Traveller woman with a disability. Originally from Sligo\, she is the fourth eldest in a family of twenty children. She worked in Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre for ten years\, managing the Violence Against Women programme\, and remains a board member. She is a regular contributor to the Irish Times and has written extensively within the framework of a Traveller feminist perspective. McDonagh’s work includes Mainstream\, The Baby Doll Project\, Stuck\, She’s Not Mine\, and Rings. \n\n\n\nRosaleen was appointed to The Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission in May 2020. She is also a member of Aosdana. Presently Rosaleen’s piece Walls and Windows is being commissioned for a production in The Abbey Theatre. Contentious Spaces has also been commissioned by The Project Arts Centre for production in 2021. With Skein Press Rosaleen’s collection of essays will be published September 2021. \n\n\n\n@paveebeoir \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife Price\n\n\n\nAoife Price is a member of Disabled Women Ireland (DWI) working for the rights of disabled women and non-binary people. She is an Early-Stage Researcher on the Disability Advocacy Research in Europe\, part of the Marie Sokolowski-Curie Actions\, Innovative Training Network. She is researching women with disabilities and their involvement in activism in both the disability and feminist movements and how the movements interact. She is working with the European Disability Forum (EDF) for the duration of the project. Prior to working with EDF Aoife worked with the Union of Students in Ireland managing a Student Mental Health Project. Over the past decade\, Aoife has been an active advocate in youth mental health at national and international level. \n\n\n\nTwitter handles: \n\n\n\n@AoifePrice \n\n\n\n@DW_Ireland \n\n\n\n@MyEDF \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGrainne Blair\n\n\n\nGrainne Blair is a longtime feminist activist and historian with a specialist in women’s lives\, current and past. She advocates for herself and others; mentors artists and writers and younger historians etc through encouragement and confidence building. She has a MA(Hons) in Women’s Studies from University College Dublin.  \n\n\n\n11 years ago she had a life changing accident and now has permanent acquired brain injury (ABI) she also has Post traumatic stress disorder where her brain is locked in the oldest part of the brain known as the reptilian brain which is in a constant state of hyperalertism – ‘Fight\, Flight\, Freeze and Flop’ it is instantaneous and capable of shutting down the rest of the brain functions. She has benefitted from one to one support from ABI Ireland\, she continues to give back by fundraising and mentoring others within the groups. She also attends day centre Parkhouse\, Rehab Ireland\, Stillorgan twice a week before Covid but is unable to return as awaiting surgery. Most of her activism in the last ten years has been on social media as public events are often too difficult to access or attend. Her preferred term would be para-abled. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín Ní Haicéid\n\n\n\nRóisín is a final year sociology and social policy student\, struggling musician and a devoted believer in disability justice and liberation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrla O’Connor\n\n\n\nOrla O’Connor is Director of National Women’s Council (NWC)\, the leading national women’s membership organisation in Ireland\, with over 190-member groups. She was Co-Director of Together For Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment in the referendum. For her role in Together for Yes\, Orla was recognised as one of the 100 Most Influential People by TIME magazine in 2019.  \n\n\n\nOrla holds an MA in European Social Policy\, and after starting out in local community-based projects\, has worked in senior management in non-governmental organisations for over 25 years. Orla represents NWC in a wide range of national and international fora. Orla is a feminist\, and an expert in the policies needed to progress women’s equality in Ireland. She is an accomplished public speaker\, with a strong analysis of public policy. Orla has led numerous high level\, successful campaigns on a wide range of issues on women’s rights\, including social welfare reform\, pension reform and for the introduction of quality and affordable childcare. Orla is passionate about ensuring access to women’s reproductive rights; about ensuring more women are in leadership positions; about ending violence against women; and increasing women’s economic equality. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Isolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody \n\n\n\nIsolde Ó Brolcháin Carmody: a writer\, performer and activist who moved to Co. Leitrim from Dublin in 1999 who has worked extensively around the North-West and beyond in community theatre and collaborative arts. Her practice is informed by Theatre of the Oppressed and aesthetic accessibility\, drawing on the legacy of the Focus Theatre in Ireland \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBlessing Dada\n\n\n\nBlessing Dada\, from Dublin\, Ireland\, is an award-winning mental health writer\, speaker & content creator/blogger\, who’s an outspoken passionate activist on various social justice issues\, especially on the intersectionality of mental health awareness. \n\n\n\nAccompanied with her own lived experiences with all things mental health\, chronic illnesses and disability\, she raises awareness of perspectives for Black & other ethnic minority communities in Ireland.  She is also a passionate student and work as a Youth Support Worker for the Youth & Community Development sector. She regularly speaks up on social media and in the media about mental health related issues and has been featured on The Selfie Show with Lust for Life\, New York Times and Image Magazine. Being involved with numerous organizations\, such as SpunOut.ie and Seechange.ie\, she can be found participating in various projects\, podcasts & writing to spread awareness: through empathy and education.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Music,Online,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\, to explore\, share and engage in creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stat-na-mban/2021-10-20/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\, to explore\, share and engage in creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stat-na-mban/2021-10-19/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Map
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAlice Maher\, artist \n\n\n\nRachel Fallon\, artist \n\n\n\nMaolíosa Boyle\, curator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nThe Map – a collaboration by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon (Gallery 1) \n\n\n\nWe are the Map – text and sound installation by Sinéad Gleeson and Stephen Shannon (Gallery 2)  \n\n\n\nOpen to the public – 18 October 2021 – 29 January 2022 \n\n\n\nThe Map\, a collaborative workby artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallonis the second exhibition in the Magdalene Series at Rua Red\, curated by Maolíosa Boyle.  \n\n\n\nThe series features the work of five of Ireland’s leading artists Amanda Coogan\, Jesse Jones\, Grace Dyas\, Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon. They were commissioned by Rua Red in 2018 to create work in response to the history and legacy of Mary Magdalene and her association with the incarceration and institutionalisation of women\, and to propose a new world uncurbed by religious\, political or societal doctrine. It is a world viewed through the lens of contemporary feminism and feminist theology. \n\n\n\nThe Map is a monumental textile sculpture spanning the enormous space of Gallery One. With its own continents\, winds\, currents and constellations\, The Map draws the viewer in\, inviting a reorientation. Its richly worked surface is an epic mappa mundi where the structures and languages of cartography are used to imagine and re-imagine the life\, legacy and mythology of Mary Magdalene and her impact on women’s lives. An alternative topographic and psychic landscape is uncovered in this witty\, complex un-picking of the established narrative of Mary Magdalene.  \n\n\n\n“Maps are neither mirrors of nature nor neutral transmitters of universal truths.  They contain silences as well as articulations\, secrets as well as knowledge\, lies as well as truth.”  \n\n\n\nThe Sovereign Map: Theoretical approaches to cartography throughout history’ by Jacob\, Conley and Dahl. \n\n\n\nThe Map comprises highly detailed hand-embroidered\, sewn\, painted\, appliqued\, printed\, found and crocheted components. The intense two and a half years of labour over three lockdowns to create the map is a testament to the invisible labour of women everywhere.  \n\n\n\nMaher and Fallon utilise the iconography of Renaissance maps and medieval tapestries\, as well as the language of Victorian ‘cartes de tendre’ and moral schemas such as ‘the Pilgrim’s Progress’\, to subvert and challenge the very belief systems and power structures that these maps were established to uphold.   \n\n\n\nTo the side of The Map\, a whisper\, emanates from a deep blue space (Gallery 2). \n\n\n\nYou do not need to know my name but: \n\n\n\nI am Mary\, Amina\, Penelope\, Brigid\,  \n\n\n\nPersephone\, Frida\, Maebh\, Makeda\,  \n\n\n\nSojourner\, Granuaile\, Cassiopeia\, Nan \n\n\n\nI am Hecate\, Rosa\, Lakshmi\, Aphra  \n\n\n\nthe X-Case Girl; the women given letters not names\,  \n\n\n\nSappho\, Marsha\, Maura\, Edna\, \n\n\n\nGreen Tara\, Black Madonna \n\n\n\nI am the first girl child they put in the septic tank \n\n\n\nCome to the loud\, feral  \n\n\n\nHerland\, SheLand\, Theyland.  \n\n\n\nA Queenopolis\, Cisopolis\, Transopolis  \n\n\n\nA Republic of personhood.  \n\n\n\nI am the map. \n\n\n\nWe are the map. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’; is an ekphrasis / intimate\, immersive sound response located in Gallery Two\, by writer Sinéad Gleeson and composer Stephen Shannon. Gleeson was originally paired with Maher and Fallon to write a text in response to the work in Gallery 1 for the catalogue publication –– but from this\, a new collaboration developed. It become an integral audio piece\, moving from Gleeson’s original text into an immersive soundscape that accompanies ‘The Map’. \n\n\n\nTheir incantatory sound quest is narrated by an ‘everywoman’ who moves around a new terrain. The everywoman’s freedom of movement is in contrast to the many women who were unable to escape the laundries\, mother & baby homes or homes where they worked non-stop. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’ is divided into 24 sections echoing the 24 books of the Odyssey. It’s a journey\, a pilgrim’s progress\, a quest through new lands and terrains. \n\n\n\nGleeson and Shannon collaborated on the sound and texture of the piece\, adding music from Mary Barnecutt\, Sadhbh Sullivan and Matthew Nolan. It builds to a final chorus of 36 individual voices united in a mantra; their herstories filling areas of Mahers and Fallon’s mappa mundi. Voices such as Lynn Ruane\, Catherine Corless\, Vicky Phelan\, Ailbhe Smith\, Felicia Speaks\, Rosaleen Mc Donagh\, Olwyn Fouéré\, Marian Keyes\, local women from Tallaght and the Magdalene artists themselves. They all carry their own stories that now inhabit The Map.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRua Red\n\n\n\nRua Red is a contemporary art space housing two galleries\, a theatre/cinema\, a dance studio\, a conference room\, a digital media suite\, recording facilities\, music rooms\, workshop areas\, artist’s studios\, office space and a café. \n\n\n\nRua Red exhibit the work of established Irish and International artists who are committed to producing work within a socio political framework. The education programme reflects the organisations interests with place\, politics and people through a challenging programme of events\, workshops\, screenings and performances that allow audiences and visitors to engage with the exhibitions through the mediums of music\, dance\, theatre and visual art. \n\n\n\nIn addition to Rua Red’s programme the organisation also houses and works alongside a number of independent creative organisations and individuals through the provision of office spaces. Rua Red also provide subsidised artist studios which practising artists can hire at a subsidised rate for 1-3 years. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nRua Red is committed to providing a fully accessible experience for all visitors. We are constantly working to try and improve our facilities to make them as accessible as possible. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve please let us know. For assistance with planning your visit around contact reception on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie. \n\n\n\nInformation Desk\n\n\n\nRua Red’s Reception is located straight on from the main entrance. Staff are happy to help with any questions you have. \n\n\n\nLift Access\n\n\n\nOur entrance is at street level and all the galleries are wheelchair and buggy accessible. All levels are lift-accessible. A large lift beside the reception area provides access to all floors. \n\n\n\nToilets & baby care facilities\n\n\n\nThere are accessible toilets on each level and baby changing facilities are available on the ground floor. \n\n\n\nAssistance Animals\n\n\n\nGuide dogs\, hearing and registered assistance dogs are welcome. Staff can provide a bowl of water. \n\n\n\nSound enhancement system / Induction loops\n\n\n\nHearing induction loops are fitted at the reception desk and Infra~Hear infrared assistive listening devices are available for use in our Performance Space. \n\n\n\nSubtitles and transcripts\n\n\n\nTranscripts are available for selected exhibitions. Please contact the Reception Desk in advance on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n2 hours free parking is available in the close by Square Towncentre Car Park. €3 for 2 hours parking is available in the close by Euro Car Parks. Check Parkopedia for full information and best options. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-map/2021-10-18/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\, to explore\, share and engage in creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stat-na-mban/2021-10-16/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:The Map
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAlice Maher\, artist \n\n\n\nRachel Fallon\, artist \n\n\n\nMaolíosa Boyle\, curator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nThe Map – a collaboration by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon (Gallery 1) \n\n\n\nWe are the Map – text and sound installation by Sinéad Gleeson and Stephen Shannon (Gallery 2)  \n\n\n\nOpen to the public – 18 October 2021 – 29 January 2022 \n\n\n\nThe Map\, a collaborative workby artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallonis the second exhibition in the Magdalene Series at Rua Red\, curated by Maolíosa Boyle.  \n\n\n\nThe series features the work of five of Ireland’s leading artists Amanda Coogan\, Jesse Jones\, Grace Dyas\, Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon. They were commissioned by Rua Red in 2018 to create work in response to the history and legacy of Mary Magdalene and her association with the incarceration and institutionalisation of women\, and to propose a new world uncurbed by religious\, political or societal doctrine. It is a world viewed through the lens of contemporary feminism and feminist theology. \n\n\n\nThe Map is a monumental textile sculpture spanning the enormous space of Gallery One. With its own continents\, winds\, currents and constellations\, The Map draws the viewer in\, inviting a reorientation. Its richly worked surface is an epic mappa mundi where the structures and languages of cartography are used to imagine and re-imagine the life\, legacy and mythology of Mary Magdalene and her impact on women’s lives. An alternative topographic and psychic landscape is uncovered in this witty\, complex un-picking of the established narrative of Mary Magdalene.  \n\n\n\n“Maps are neither mirrors of nature nor neutral transmitters of universal truths.  They contain silences as well as articulations\, secrets as well as knowledge\, lies as well as truth.”  \n\n\n\nThe Sovereign Map: Theoretical approaches to cartography throughout history’ by Jacob\, Conley and Dahl. \n\n\n\nThe Map comprises highly detailed hand-embroidered\, sewn\, painted\, appliqued\, printed\, found and crocheted components. The intense two and a half years of labour over three lockdowns to create the map is a testament to the invisible labour of women everywhere.  \n\n\n\nMaher and Fallon utilise the iconography of Renaissance maps and medieval tapestries\, as well as the language of Victorian ‘cartes de tendre’ and moral schemas such as ‘the Pilgrim’s Progress’\, to subvert and challenge the very belief systems and power structures that these maps were established to uphold.   \n\n\n\nTo the side of The Map\, a whisper\, emanates from a deep blue space (Gallery 2). \n\n\n\nYou do not need to know my name but: \n\n\n\nI am Mary\, Amina\, Penelope\, Brigid\,  \n\n\n\nPersephone\, Frida\, Maebh\, Makeda\,  \n\n\n\nSojourner\, Granuaile\, Cassiopeia\, Nan \n\n\n\nI am Hecate\, Rosa\, Lakshmi\, Aphra  \n\n\n\nthe X-Case Girl; the women given letters not names\,  \n\n\n\nSappho\, Marsha\, Maura\, Edna\, \n\n\n\nGreen Tara\, Black Madonna \n\n\n\nI am the first girl child they put in the septic tank \n\n\n\nCome to the loud\, feral  \n\n\n\nHerland\, SheLand\, Theyland.  \n\n\n\nA Queenopolis\, Cisopolis\, Transopolis  \n\n\n\nA Republic of personhood.  \n\n\n\nI am the map. \n\n\n\nWe are the map. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’; is an ekphrasis / intimate\, immersive sound response located in Gallery Two\, by writer Sinéad Gleeson and composer Stephen Shannon. Gleeson was originally paired with Maher and Fallon to write a text in response to the work in Gallery 1 for the catalogue publication –– but from this\, a new collaboration developed. It become an integral audio piece\, moving from Gleeson’s original text into an immersive soundscape that accompanies ‘The Map’. \n\n\n\nTheir incantatory sound quest is narrated by an ‘everywoman’ who moves around a new terrain. The everywoman’s freedom of movement is in contrast to the many women who were unable to escape the laundries\, mother & baby homes or homes where they worked non-stop. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’ is divided into 24 sections echoing the 24 books of the Odyssey. It’s a journey\, a pilgrim’s progress\, a quest through new lands and terrains. \n\n\n\nGleeson and Shannon collaborated on the sound and texture of the piece\, adding music from Mary Barnecutt\, Sadhbh Sullivan and Matthew Nolan. It builds to a final chorus of 36 individual voices united in a mantra; their herstories filling areas of Mahers and Fallon’s mappa mundi. Voices such as Lynn Ruane\, Catherine Corless\, Vicky Phelan\, Ailbhe Smith\, Felicia Speaks\, Rosaleen Mc Donagh\, Olwyn Fouéré\, Marian Keyes\, local women from Tallaght and the Magdalene artists themselves. They all carry their own stories that now inhabit The Map.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRua Red\n\n\n\nRua Red is a contemporary art space housing two galleries\, a theatre/cinema\, a dance studio\, a conference room\, a digital media suite\, recording facilities\, music rooms\, workshop areas\, artist’s studios\, office space and a café. \n\n\n\nRua Red exhibit the work of established Irish and International artists who are committed to producing work within a socio political framework. The education programme reflects the organisations interests with place\, politics and people through a challenging programme of events\, workshops\, screenings and performances that allow audiences and visitors to engage with the exhibitions through the mediums of music\, dance\, theatre and visual art. \n\n\n\nIn addition to Rua Red’s programme the organisation also houses and works alongside a number of independent creative organisations and individuals through the provision of office spaces. Rua Red also provide subsidised artist studios which practising artists can hire at a subsidised rate for 1-3 years. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nRua Red is committed to providing a fully accessible experience for all visitors. We are constantly working to try and improve our facilities to make them as accessible as possible. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve please let us know. For assistance with planning your visit around contact reception on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie. \n\n\n\nInformation Desk\n\n\n\nRua Red’s Reception is located straight on from the main entrance. Staff are happy to help with any questions you have. \n\n\n\nLift Access\n\n\n\nOur entrance is at street level and all the galleries are wheelchair and buggy accessible. All levels are lift-accessible. A large lift beside the reception area provides access to all floors. \n\n\n\nToilets & baby care facilities\n\n\n\nThere are accessible toilets on each level and baby changing facilities are available on the ground floor. \n\n\n\nAssistance Animals\n\n\n\nGuide dogs\, hearing and registered assistance dogs are welcome. Staff can provide a bowl of water. \n\n\n\nSound enhancement system / Induction loops\n\n\n\nHearing induction loops are fitted at the reception desk and Infra~Hear infrared assistive listening devices are available for use in our Performance Space. \n\n\n\nSubtitles and transcripts\n\n\n\nTranscripts are available for selected exhibitions. Please contact the Reception Desk in advance on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n2 hours free parking is available in the close by Square Towncentre Car Park. €3 for 2 hours parking is available in the close by Euro Car Parks. Check Parkopedia for full information and best options. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-map/2021-10-15/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Onsite,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Stát na mBan
DESCRIPTION:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artists Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is an exciting new multidisciplinary exhibition by two artists\, Mary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, featuring visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.…  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\, to explore\, share and engage in creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stat-na-mban/2021-10-15/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art
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