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SUMMARY:Crafting Stories Together - Creative Multilingual workshops for families with children 3 to 6 years old
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission\, book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMargot A. Jones\, puppeteer\, performer and facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCan you whisper\, rustle\, or growl? How about colour\, create\, and stick things together? If so\, this workshop is for you! Discover the magic of storytelling\, bring the story to life with sound and movement and craft your own imaginative art to take home. Perfect for kids and grown-ups who love to get creative and have fun! In these series each session is different but connected to an overall theme. Come to as many workshops as you like! \n\n\n\nLanguage: English + Irish + Bring your own! While the workshops will be guided in English\, we encourage families to embrace their home languages. This fosters meaningful connections between parents and children\, creating a truly inclusive environment. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers workshops promote a human rights agenda by creating inclusive\, accessible artistic spaces that respect and celebrate every child’s right to participate in cultural life\, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 12). The programme empowers children and families to express their linguistic and cultural identities\, fostering pride in their mother tongues and ensuring that minority and migrant voices are heard and valued. \n\n\n\nBy actively engaging parents and children from diverse backgrounds\, including those living in Direct Provision and socio-economically disadvantaged areas\, the workshops address the right to equality\, cultural participation\, and freedom of expression. The methodology places the child’s voice at the centre\, ensuring they are not only participants but active co-creators\, aligning with a rights-based approach to arts education and community engagement. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers is Mother Tongues’ award-winning programme\, designed for children aged 3 to 6 and their families.Facilitated by our specially trained multilingual artists\, the workshops provide a welcoming space for families from all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. \n\n\n\nEach workshop is an invitation to connect with your family language(s)\, through storytelling\, play\, visual arts\, music and movement. \n\n\n\nOur artists create a space full of imagination and creativity\, in which speaking and listening to languages is fun and something to be proud of. Families come together in high-quality artistic activities while sharing and exploring the diversity of languages in the room – an experience equally inspiring for multilingual families as for those who are curious about other languages and cultures. Workshops are delivered in English\, but families are warmly encouraged to bring any and all languages they speak. Whether your child is fluent\, just learning\, non-speaking\, or uses a different way to communicate\, this space is for you. \n\n\n\nMother Tongues\, established in 2017\, is a leading organisation working at the intersection of the arts\, language and cultural diversity in Ireland. Its mission is to unlock the creative potential of multilingualism through high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences that promote social cohesion\, celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity and foster a sense of belonging for children\, families and communities. Since 2022\, our Language Explorers programme has engaged 18 plurilingual artists and reached over 2\,500 children and parents. By facilitating high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences\, we nurture children’s creativity and language skills\, strengthen family bonds and enhance community wellbeing. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMargot A. Jones is a puppeteer\, performer and facilitator living in Co\, Wicklow.Born and schooled in Tyrone\, she initially trained in in Ireland\, the USA and Vietnam\, where she earned a PhD in traditional puppetry. During this time she was influenced by Grotowski and Boal and by work at Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theatre. On her return to Ireland she worked with various companies including Puca Puppets\, and toured to various venues with Irish language work for young audiences. \n\n\n\nAn insatiable curiosity has led her to extend her work into such areas as early years development\, therapeutic theatre\, visual arts practice and community gardening. She is fascinated by differences in perception and experience. Working in communities\, hospitals\, care settings\, museums and schools she pursues this interest through specific facilitative work. \n\n\n\nMargot’s recent work includes: shadow-puppet performance of Gilgamesh (Cashel Arts Festival 2004)\, studio artist at Signal Arts Centre (2023)\, puppetry workshops (Lexicon 2024)\, language explorers workshops (Mother Tongues 2024)\, Shared Island-Civic Society Cross Border Arts Project (2024-25)\, participative research in elder care settings (Age and Opportunity 2024-25). She is currently devising a new performance piece which incorporates traditional Irish ballads and aspects of puppetry. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/crafting-stories-together-creative-multilingual-workshops-for-families-with-children-3-to-6-years-old/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Writing A Protest Song
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets Free. Book here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFighting Words is delighted to be part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, hosted by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality.  At these three workshops we will look at the history of these songs\, and draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant for today’s generation. The workshops will culminate in a performance at Fighting Words on Saturday 16th October 2020. Participants need to be available to attend all workshops. Workshop will take place in accordance with Government Covid-19 guidelines and best practice. Workshops may be moved online if necessary. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCheck out the song written by participants in the workshop below! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThey say that in just 30 years\, \n\n\n\nThe world we know will disappear\, \n\n\n\nThe plastic in our atmosphere – \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe north is full of melting ice\, \n\n\n\nAnd then our sea levels will rise\, \n\n\n\nPlastic right before our eyes \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBy Aoibhinn Danneels \n\n\n\nFacilitator Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\nOur aim is to help children and young people\, and adults who did not have this opportunity as children\, to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. At its core\, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers – from a wide range of backgrounds – to be resilient\, creative and successful shapers of their own lives. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song/2021-10-09/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Songwriting,Workshop,Youth Event
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SUMMARY:Writing A Protest Song
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets Free. Book here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFighting Words is delighted to be part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, hosted by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality.  At these three workshops we will look at the history of these songs\, and draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant for today’s generation. The workshops will culminate in a performance at Fighting Words on Saturday 16th October 2020. Participants need to be available to attend all workshops. Workshop will take place in accordance with Government Covid-19 guidelines and best practice. Workshops may be moved online if necessary. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCheck out the song written by participants in the workshop below! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThey say that in just 30 years\, \n\n\n\nThe world we know will disappear\, \n\n\n\nThe plastic in our atmosphere – \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe north is full of melting ice\, \n\n\n\nAnd then our sea levels will rise\, \n\n\n\nPlastic right before our eyes \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBy Aoibhinn Danneels \n\n\n\nFacilitator Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\nOur aim is to help children and young people\, and adults who did not have this opportunity as children\, to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. At its core\, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers – from a wide range of backgrounds – to be resilient\, creative and successful shapers of their own lives. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song/2021-10-16/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
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SUMMARY:Viewpoints and Suzuki Technique Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nWe don’t want anyone to miss out\, if you would like to attend a Smashing Times event and cannot meet the costs of the ticket price\, please contact Niamh at Smashing Times – niamh@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\, co – artistic director\, SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company\, Toga. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to host the prestigious Ellen Lauren (co – artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga) as part of the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ellen Lauren will present a three-hour virtual online workshop (with breaks) consisting of one hour based on the Suzuki Training Technique\, one hour of Viewpoints training followed by a one-hour talk/interview with Ellen Lauren\, co – artistic Director of SITI company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga\, and ending with a virtual Q and A.   \n\n\n\nAs part of the talk presentation Ellen will provide a very brief overview of SITI Company\, who they are and the work they do and will speak about the ongoing work of SITI Company in relation to linking equality\, inclusivity\, and cultural diversity to artistic practice. It is hoped we will all share experiences\, lessons and ways forward. \n\n\n\nThis session is in two-parts. Part one is a practical based training workshop engagement that requires active physical engagement for training related to the Suzuki technique and Viewpoints. Part two is a talk and Q and A. The session runs for three hours with breaks incorporated.  The workshop moderator is Michael McCabe\, Smashing Times and the workshop facilitator and guest teacher and speaker is Ellen Lauren\, co-artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga. \n\n\n\nWhat do I need to Prepare for the Workshops? \n\n\n\nPlease have water and a towel.For Suzuki technique\, the recommended proposal is to wear shorts primarily to ensure our facilitator can see alignment between hips\, knees and feet. Knee pads are permitted for Suzuki technique\, if that’s comfortable for you. Socks and runners are not recommended. Dance shoes are not recommended.For Viewpoints\, all blacks ideally\, or if not possible as neutral a colour in clothing that you can move in comfortably.  We recommend you avoid wearing clothing that has clear LABEL on it\, so as neutral as possible please. Your personal comfort is the priority with work clothing.We kindly request that in attending\, you are agreeing not to enable any recording of any part of our 3 hour workshop.\n\n\n\nMobile phones to be switched off before we enter the virtual space please and to remain off for the duration of our training.Please don’t bring notebooks (or pens) in the training space.For the Q&A session\, pens and notebooks are recommended.\n\n\n\nWhat To Expect \n\n\n\nPhysical Play!  Please note that Suzuki technique is a very\, very demanding physical engagement\, and we strongly recommend that you are in good aerobic fitness for this workshop.\n\n\n\nPrepared Text \n\n\n\nPlease have the following text prepared and memorised for our workshop\, with the asterisk* showing where the breath is taken \n\n\n\n*Spirits inhabitThe darkness that lightens\, the darkness that darkens\,*The quivering tree\, the murmuring wood\,The water that runs and the water that sleeps:*Spirits much stronger than we\,*The breathing of the dead who are not really dead\,Of the dead who are not really gone\,Of the dead now no more in the earth. \n\n\n\nPreparing Your Space \n\n\n\nPlease ensure prior to the workshop you modem and computer/laptop are working.Please ensure that you have access to Zoom and can adjust your volume and screen to your satisfaction. For the facilitator\, it’s most important that when you stand\, this is within the frame of your computer screen.Ideally\, the facilitator to see you at all times on screen.As this is a virtual physical workshop\, we ask you to make sure you have sufficient space to move in comfortably.\n\n\n\nResource Page \n\n\n\nWe will send on a resource page for all those participating in advance as a means to help you engage with the introductory work of this workshop. \n\n\n\nBrave Space \n\n\n\nWe will also send a brief working agreement which we title BRAVE SPACE to all participants and we ask you to sign your consent to what we collectively title a BRAVE SPACE. \n\n\n\nContact List \n\n\n\nWe propose that all artists who participate agree to share their contact details as a means to further support of each other’s work\, and more vitally in this context develop a community of like-minded artists interested in theatre training and arts related human rights activities \n\n\n\nTrainer Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren  is one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the renown SITI Company\, which she helped found with directors Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki over thirty years ago. She is a member of the acting company\, and the head of SITI ’s educational programming that includes New York based studios\, SITI’s annual Summer Intensive\, national and international residencies\, and the design of SITI’s bi-annual Conservatory.  \n She is also an associate artist with The Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) under the direction of Tadashi Suzuki for over 34 years.   \nShe has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School of Drama at Lincoln Center for the last 20 years where she received the President’s Award for Excellence on the occasion of Juilliard’s 50th Anniversary.  \nPerformance credits with SITI include: Three Sisters (in collaboration with Nine Years Theatre and the Singapore Festival) Falling and Loving (with Elizabeth Streb SLAM Dance Company)\, Bacchae\, Chess Match #5\, the theater is a blank page( with Ann Hamilton)\, Persians\, Trojan Women (After Euripides)\, Variations on A Rite of Spring  (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)\, Café Variations\, Under Construction\, Radio Macbeth\, Who Do You Think You Are\, American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Company)\, Death and the Ploughman\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, Room\, bobrauschenbergamerica\, Hotel Cassiopeia\, systems/layers\, War of the Worlds\, Cabin Pressure\, The Medium\, Culture of Desire\, Going\, Going\, Gone and Orestes. \nFestival tours with SITI include Bonn Germany\, Iberoamericano Bogota\, six appearances in the  BAM Next Wave\, 8 appearances at the Humana Festival\, Bobigny94\, Melbourne\, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance\, Yerba Buena Arts Center\, UNC Chapel Hill Arts Center\, Edinburgh\, Singapore\, Wexner Center\, Krannert Center and Walker Art Center; In New York: New York Live Arts\, Montclair State Peforming Arts\,  New York Theatre Workshop\, Classic Stage Company\, The Women’s Project\, Miller Theatre\, The Public Theater\, Westbeth Arts Center\, Under the Radar Festival\, New York City Opera at Lincoln Center\, the Guggenheim Museum and the Joyce Theater\, Regional credits with SITI include San Jose Rep\, ART Cambridge\, Court Theatre Chicago\, Alabama Shakespeare and Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Getty Villa Museum in Museum.  \nAdditional credits include The Creative Gesture program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, INCITE with Force Majeure Dance Company in Sydney\, The Women (Hartford Stage)\, Seven Deadly Sins\, New York City Opera (Kosovar Award for Anna II) Marina\, A Captive Spirit\, and Agammenon with Lauren Flanigan\, Steve Schick and Roger Reynolds for the 2004 Theater Olympics.  \nPerformance Credits with the Suzuki Company of Toga include: Clytemnestra in Electra\, Agave in Dionysus\, Goneril in King Lear\, Jocasta in Oedipus\, and Juliet in Waiting for Romeo.   \nTour venues with SCOT include\, Gu Bei Great Wall Theater in Beijing China\, Kitchijoji Theater Tokyo\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Toga International Festival\, Alexandrinsky Theatre Russia\, The RSC London\, Theatre Olympics in Athens and Delphi\, and the Olympic Arts Festival in Shizuoka\, Japan\, Buenos Aires Festival\, The Carnuntum Festival in Vienna\, Bogota Festival\, Vienna Festival\, Harbour Front Festival Toronto\, Istanbul Festival\, Festival Mundial Chile\, Teatro Olympico Italy\, Montpelier France\, and Hong Kong Festival.  \nFor over 6 years she headed the Toga International Suzuki Training Summer Program in Toga\, Japan\, and is a founding member of the International Symposium Committee on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. In 2017 she produced the International Symposium on SCOT and the Suzuki Training for Actors at Skidmore College in upstate New York and presented SCOT’s last US tour of their acclaimed Trojan Women. \nMs. Lauren has taught for over 300 schools\, companies and universities including TEAC National Academy Helsinki\, Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris\, the Royal Shakespeare Company\, Carlos Universidad and Vertiço in Madrid\, Soif Compagnie Paris\, Maastricht School of the Arts in Holland\, Windsor University\, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, St Edwards University\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Sfumato Theatre Bulgaria\, Iceland National Academy\, Casa Teatro de Bogota\, Beijing Academy\, UCLA\, OSU\, UNC\, Toronto University\, Columbia University\, UNC Chapel Hill\, Fordham University\, Harvard University\, Yale University\, Harvard University  and the Beijing Academy. She has most recently taught for First Nations Peoples at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg\, and Outside In Theater Company\, celebrating the diverse communities\, stories and voices of the Los Angeles area. \nMs. Lauren was a Resident company member at StageWest Theatre in\, The Milwaukee Repertory and the Alley Theatre\, Houston\, Texas. \nHer directing credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UCLA TFT Graduate program) Iphigenia (The Juilliard School) and Trojan Women (The Juilliard School)  \nShe was the first recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement in the United States and is published in American Theatre Magazine (“In Search of Stillness”) and the Modern Masters series edition on Anne Bogart. She is currently working on her book\, The Invisible Body.  \n\n\n\n\n\nWho Are SITI Company?\n\n\n\nSITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart\, Tadashi Suzuki and a group of like-minded artists to redefine and revitalize contemporary theatre in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. \n\n\n\nSITI Company is committed to providing a space where the interaction of art\, artists\, audiences\, and ideas inspire the possibility for change\, optimism\, and hope.  Built on the bedrock of ensemble\, SITI Company believe that through the practice of collaboration\, a group of artists working together over time can have a significant impact on both contemporary theatre and the world at large. \n\n\n\nAs SITI Company nears its 30th anniversary and begin the process of transitioning from a producing organization to a more open artist collective\, it wants to better reflect the diversity of the countries and communities that we work in. SITI Company want to ensure that our impact is actually reaching a wider audience and reflects our inclusive values.  We want anti-racism\, equity\, diversity\, and inclusion to not only be a matter of our social responsibility within our community\, but to be the foundation on which we build our work.  \n\n\n\nA Smashing Times Reflection\n\n\n\nAnne Bogart\, working with the Japanese theatre director\, Tadashi Suzuki\, founded the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) in September 1992. SITI is dedicated to developing new pieces of work and each year presents training programmes for actors and theatre artists as well as international exchanges\, symposia and other creative endeavours.  Bogart has directed a range of productions from modern drama to opera to collaborative dance theatre and has directed both on and off-stage\, on and off Broadway and internationally. \n\n\n\nAs a director\, Bogart puts the actor at the center of the creative process and sees the actor as a creator working with the director who will eventually ‘set things’ a ‘violent . . but necessary act’.  She recognizes that structure can bring freedom\,  the form is fixed but the emotions are fluid\, the physicality is defined but the interpretation is free.  Bogart has developed a system known as ‘Viewpoint’ Training and composition workshops building a common language for the ensemble as they work together to collaborative and spontaneously create.   Bogart’s viewpoint training was initially inspired by the  work of choreographer Mary Overlie who had developed the Six Viewpoints. \n\n\n\nAs part of the creative process\,  Bogart works on a system or ‘choreographed form’ within which the actors can work with Bogart as the director setting decisions or putting decisions in place early on in rehearsals. The director and actors engage in and explore a series of compositional choices working together in collaboration and as part of an ensemble.  Having freedom in rehearsal is important to support spontaneity and a more creative\, ensemble process even as the director and actors are working towards setting decisions in stone. \n\n\n\nAccording to Bogart\, \n\n\n\n‘I think what keeps theatre from being very good often is that . . . one is afraid of the violence\, you’re afraid of committing the violence of setting something or of saying\, “This is what we’re after\,” because it cuts off all other possibilities. But in the definition of that gesture or that moment or that choice opens up eventually a whole another realm of life.’ \n\n\n\nThe mis-en-scene is a key part of the work and is made up of all the different elements that go into creating the final theatre experience from the text or non-text elements to the physical elements creating the visual and aural composition in space. Bogart is influenced by practitioners from Constantine Stanislavski to Eastern dance and movement. \n\n\n\nViewpoint training is based on a series of exercises and improvisations including movement and sound improvisation. The viewpoints as developed by Anne Bogart are referred to as Spatial Relationship\, Shape\, Architecture\, Kinesthetic Response\, Repetition\,  Gesture and Tempo.  Actors are trained in an awareness of spatial and temporal elements and develop a sense of ensemble and an awareness of the energy in the space\, the energy of the space and the energy of the  group focusing on improvisations in the space related to the viewpoints and the creation of formal compositions.   Actors explore qualities of movement such as lightness\, quickness\, visibility\, multiplicity\, exactitude and continuity (after Italo Calvino’s four elements of Lightness\, quickness\, visibility and multiplicity) as well as emotion\, tempo and kinesthetic senses. In relation to performance the focus is on the actor as creator within the ensemble with actors having a strong awareness of the group and the different elements of staging and composition. \n\n\n\nTraining with a group is a key part of the work which requires a physical\, intuitive response as artists work through the body aiming to bring a  sensorial and instinctive physicality to performance.  Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to partner with CITI to present a unique training  opportunity for artists with regard to conducting a theatre workshop on Viewpoints and Suzuki technique with SITI company. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
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SUMMARY:Connect Your Story to Your Voice!
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn this interactive online workshop\, you will learn ways to connect your story to your voice and become a better advocate. Whether you’re a human rights defender\, a public speaker or an educator\, useful tools are guaranteed during this fun and dynamic workshop. Facilitator Dónal Kearney combines his diverse and varied experience from the worlds of musical performance\, vocal pedagogy and international human rights law. A former Research Assistant to the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights defenders\, Dónal is also a critically-acclaimed vocalist and a sought-after facilitator who trained with humanitarian organisation Musicians Without Borders. As part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, this free advocacy workshop will cover the fundamentals of vocal technique and will introduce basic story structure and characterisation to explore the art of audience engagement. Each participant will get the opportunity to apply these tools and approaches to their own life. \n\n\n\nTopic: Connect your Story to your Voice \n\n\n\nTime: Oct 22\, 2021 05:00 PM DublinJoin Zoom Meetinghttps://us06web.zoom.us/j/83818875368?pwd=V2JrRS8xU0Uza0g4MkRpNWZublZ5dz09Meeting ID: 838 1887 5368 \n\n\n\nPasscode: 484462 \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFacilitator Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney is a facilitator and community-builder with diverse experience of content design and delivery in the corporate\, public and voluntary sectors. Recent clients include EY Ireland\, the Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival\, the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival\, Early Years (NI)\, Focus Ireland and Clanrye Group (NI). Dónal holds a Master’s in International Human Rights law\, a degree in Law from the University of Cambridge\, and has worked at the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. Dónal is also co-founder of the Irish Institute of Music and Song and has delivered workshops to elite arts organisations in Ireland\, the UK\, the Netherlands\, China\, and the USA. He has completed intensive leadership training with UCD Innovation Academy and global humanitarian organisation Musicians Without Borders\, and has reached people of all ages and ability\, including groups experiencing homelessness\, families living in direct provision\, people with disabilities\, teenagers and children as young as 4 years old. He is Community Facilitator for non-profit social enterprise Grow Remote and builds online and offline communities to nurture healthy and productive workers while promoting sustainable local living. Dónal’s dynamic and interactive facilitation style encourages the audience to engage with social justice issues with a creative and playful approach.
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SUMMARY:The Gathering: Transforming Memory Networking Day
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\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. \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\,  writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Artistic Curator Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF)\, Co-Curator with Amna Walayat for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation and Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival \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\nMichael McCabe\, Actor\, Choreographer\, Facilitator\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Gathering: Transforming Memory  is a MemoLab event involving a workshop\, panel discussions and networking held as part of the Smashing Times artist development programme called State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and as part of the Transformative Memory Network. All artists and academics involved in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition\, MemoLabs and in the Transformative Memory network and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network  come together to collectively reflect and share on the work and journey of the Transformative Memory project and network\, how the artists met\, how the work has  evolved and to explore new ideas and future happenings with a focus on how the arts can transform memory.  What are the collective\, common themes from artists across the world\, what are the shared possibilities for future work. This is a hands-on practical\, experimental workshop with panel discussions addressing transformative memory via the arts and will explore the idea of  creating new work.  Audiences are welcome to attend to share in the Gathering. \n\n\n\nThe Gathering is a key event for the  annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 linked to the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media exhibition and installation displaying 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.  The 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\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art\n\n\n\nState of the Art \n\n\n\nThe Gathering: Transforming Memory workshop\, panel discussion and networking day  is held as part of the Smashing Times artist development programme called State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights.  This is an annual programme that Smashing Times implement 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. The 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 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\, including this session\, The Gathering: Transforming Memory\, held at the Chocolate Factory on 16 October 2022 for the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nArtists: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\,  writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Artistic Curator Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF)\, Co-Curator with Amna Walayat for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation and Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival \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\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\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\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Networking Event,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Advocacy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWhether you’re a human rights defender\, a public speaker or an educator\, this interactive workshop will deliver useful tools for storytelling and audience engagement. Each participant will get the opportunity to apply these tools and approaches to their own life and is encouraged to bring a campaign or human rights issue into the workshop. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Dónal Kearney combines his diverse and varied experience from the worlds of musical performance\, vocal pedagogy and international human rights law to bring a unique approach to advocacy. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney is a facilitator and community-builder withdiverse experience of content design and delivery in thecorporate\, public and voluntary sectors. He holds a Master’sin International Human Rights law\, a degree in Law from theUniversity of Cambridge\, and has worked at the Office of theHigh Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He hascompleted intensive leadership training with UCDInnovation Academy and global humanitarian organisationMusicians Without Borders\, and has reached people of allages and ability\, including groups experiencinghomelessness\, families living in direct provision\, people withdisabilities\, teenagers and children as young as 4 years old.He is Community Facilitator for non-profit social enterpriseGrow Remote and builds local communities of remoteworkers online and offline.Dónal is also an artist and is co-founder of the Irish Instituteof Music and Song. He has delivered workshops to elite artsorganisations in Ireland\, the UK\, the Netherlands\, China\, andthe USA. Dónal’s dynamic and interactive facilitation styleencourages the audience to engage with social justice issueswith a creative and playful approach. Previous clientsinclude EY Ireland\, the Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival\,the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival\, Early Years (NI)\,Focus Ireland and Clanrye Group (NI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Global Citizens Journey Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Global Citizens Journey is an innovative and interactive workshop created by GOAL Youth Members. The activities aim to develop the critical thinking skills to explore the realities and complexities of our interconnected world and recognize the imperative for active solidarity at local and global levels.  Each activity was designed to be adapted to any context and is appropriate for ages 10+ and works very well with adults. It is our hope that these discussions bring you and your local community the confidence to act for fair and sustainable change. The workshop will be facilitated by GOAL NextGen Facilitators. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/global-citizens-journey-workshop/
LOCATION:GOAL Global\, Carnegie House\, Library Rd\, Dún Laoghaire\, Dublin\, A96 C7W7
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\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\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/arts-climate-justice-and-human-rights-workshop-programme/2022-10-19/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth Event
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\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\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/arts-climate-justice-and-human-rights-workshop-programme/2022-10-20/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth Event
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221021T113000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221021T123000
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\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\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/arts-climate-justice-and-human-rights-workshop-programme/2022-10-21/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth Event
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SUMMARY:Ecopoetry and Ecojustice: A Holistic Human Rights Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDeclan Owens\, CEO of Ecojustice Ireland and Ecojustice Legal Action Centre\, Facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPoets throughout history and in various cultures have advanced our understanding of what it means to be human through using Nature as a poetic device.  Under the Anthropocene and the so-called Enlightenment\, there has been a separation between humanity and Nature where the environment has been objectified and considered as an externality for capitalist extraction.  The concept of the Rights of Nature and the links within this framework to the human right to a safe\, clean\, healthy and sustainable environment becomes more evident through a poetic framework. Declan will explore the themes that can lead to an awakening of human consciousness of our place and role on the planet.   \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeclan Owens is CEO of Ecojustice Ireland and Ecojustice Legal Action Centre after previously working as a strategic campaigning lawyer in the Trade Union Law Group of Thompsons Solicitors\, the UK’s foremost social justice firm working in the field of workers’ rights and trade union law.  He formerly worked for the International Centre for Trade Union Rights\, the legal department of the International Trade Union Confederation (observing the early work of the Just Transition Centre) and the Bureau for Workers’ Activities of the International Labour Organisation (developing a trade union strategy for the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals).  He is Co-chair of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in the UK\, articulating the need for system change for climate justice to its membership. \n\n\n\n Declan represented some of the largest unions in the UK\, including Unite\, Unison\, the National Union of Journalists and the Public & Commercial Services Union (the largest civil service union in the UK).  He has developed a climate justice strategy premised on using the latent power of the union movement to lead a ‘Just Transition’.  To this end\, Declan is a leading campaigner in the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group\, and is the Irish coordinator of the Climate Justice Coalition. He is the Haldane Society’s Bureau member for the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and is the Irish expert adviser to the UN’s Harmony with Nature Agency. Declan is on the Steering Group of the Greener Jobs Alliance\, the Climate Justice group of the Law Society of Northern Ireland\, and the Environmental Task Force of Unite the Union.   \n\n\n\n Declan is embedded in his community of Dundrum\, County Down\, working with the Environmental Justice Network Ireland on a range of issues and has also recently qualified as a mediator with Mediation NI. He is active in the Dolmens Climate Action Network in County Down\, which is part of Climate Action Network International. He works with the European Lawyers for Workers Network and the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights. Declan has recently set up a Climate Justice branch for Unite the Union’s Community membership to link communities and workers to explore the need for a Just Transition.  Declan is also a director of the social enterprise\, Climate Craic CIC\, which uses fun and festivals to convey a positive and inclusive approach to ecojustice.   \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ecopoetry-and-ecojustice-a-holistic-human-rights-consciousness/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221022T110000
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SUMMARY:Writing a Protest Song!
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets are free\, register here \n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality. \n\n\n\nAt this workshop\, we will look at the history of these protest songs\, and draw on their key themes to create our own songs relevant to today’s (your) generation. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have!  This workshop is for young people ages 13 to 17 years. All welcome to attend. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\n \nThe workshop is hosted by Fighting Words\, a partner in the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Fighting Words offer a wide range of workshops\, all of which are designed to promote creativity and writing as a fun and powerful means of self-expression. \n  \nFighting Words is a creative writing organisation and registered charity that provides free workshops and other programmes for young people aged 6-17\, as well as for adults with additional needs.  \n  \nOur programmes are designed and run by our staff and team of writing mentors\, including experienced practitioners in all areas of creative writing – from prose to poetry\, from songwriting to playwriting and everything in between. Workshops are interactive and fun with an emphasis on providing individual support and encouragement as young writers explore their imaginations. \nAll  workshops at Fighting Words are run by teams of volunteer writing mentors\, supervised by Fighting Words staff using our fun and interactive formats. Specialist workshops are delivered by experienced practitioners in a variety of fields\, such as playwriting\, graphic fiction\, short stories and more.All programming is focused on supporting children and young people to tell their own stories in their own voice and at their own pace. There is never a focus on spelling or grammar. The content is decided by the participants\, with advice and guidance from the Fighting Words team. \nThe ’Writing a Protest Song workshop is facilitated by Colm Quearney\, Development and Outreach Officer at Fighting Words.  Colm is a professional musician\, music producer\, song writer and workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song-2/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Music,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221022T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221022T160000
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SUMMARY:Stories for Children from Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina\, writer \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina will entertain Ukrainian kids and their parents with funny stories from a writer’s life and teach the children to draw the characters from her latest book\, Ten Ways for an Excavator to Save the World (“Ееесторії екскаватора Еки”). Suitable for children aged 4-10 years. \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. \n\n\n\nIrish PEN \n\n\n\nIn November 2020 Irish PEN was relaunched as Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann. This followed the amalgamation of the original organisation and the Freedom to Write Campaign. \n\n\n\nThe aims of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are: \n\n\n\nto promote literature in and about Ireland both nationally and internationallyto defend worldwide the right of writers to responsible freedom of expression as defined in the PEN Charterto foster international understanding through the appreciation of literature\n\n\n\nVisit www.irishpen.com for more info and to become a member. \n\n\n\nDublin UNESCO City of Literature \n\n\n\nDublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature\, one of 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide. \n\n\n\nWith four Nobel prize winners (Yeats\, Beckett\, Shaw and Heaney)\, a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD\, over half a dozen books festivals\, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning\, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has literature in its blood. \n\n\n\nThe Literature designation is one of seven designations within the Creative Cities Network. \n\n\n\nThe Office is advised by a Management Group 2021 and a wider Steering Group and is part of Dublin City Libraries. The work of the office is guided by a Strategic Plan 2020-2022 \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina is a Ukrainian novelist\, essayist\, and human rights activist based in Kyiv. She is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literature Prize for her prose works\, including the novels Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome\, and a finalist of the European Union Prize for Literature. She is a founder of the New York Literature Festival\, which takes place in a small town called New York in the Donetsk region. Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022\, instead of the festival\, the team launched the “Fight Them with Poetry” initiative to help supply the Ukrainian Army units defending the region. \n\n\n\nSince 2022 Victoria Amelina has been collaborating with Ukrainian teams to document Russian war crimes and advocate for accountability for the international crimes committed by the Russian Federation and its troops on the territory of Ukraine and other countries. She is now working on a non-fiction project: War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War. \n\n\n\nHer prose\, poems\, and essays have been translated into many languages\, including English\, Polish\, Italian\, German\, Croatian\, Dutch\, Chezh\, and Hungarian. She teaches a special Creative Writing course\, Crafting the Future\, at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stories-for-children-from-ukraine/
LOCATION:Pearse Street Library Conference Centre\, 144 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 DE68\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Storytelling,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20230704T190000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20230704T210000
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SUMMARY:Change-Maker Theatre-Based Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSoloSIRENS Change-Maker Theatre-Based Workshop – Open to All \n\n\n\nCome along and enjoy a theatre-based ‘Change-Maker’ workshop with SoloSIRENS theatre collective\, open to the public and celebrating 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. Join us as we explore ‘Who are the change-makers\, visionaries\, champions or warriors that inspire us?’ and ‘Revolutionary Visions for the Future’ exploring new visions for an equal and peaceful society for all. \n\n\n\nThe workshops use a fun\, theatre-based process to explore and collect stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries and  stories of change-makers from today\,  as well as 100 quotes and statements for the future on two key themes ‘Who are the change-makers\, visionaries or warriors that inspire us ?’ and ‘Revolutionary Visions for the Future’. \n\n\n\nWhen it comes to who our change-makers are\, we need to move beyond the traditional narratives to learn about new change-makers for new states of independence on the island of Ireland. A key theme is to explore why do we need change-makers and what are our revolutionary visions for the future? States of Independence generates discussion and reflection on how the past impacts on our lives today in positive\, inspiring ways and highlights the future as a place where anything can happen\, and you can be anything you want to be. \n\n\n\nPresented as part of States of Independence\, a project celebrating stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for States of Independence and SoloSIRENS. \n\n\n\nCelebrating the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries and the stories of ten changemakers today working to make society a better place for all. \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\n\n\nSubmit Your Changemaker\n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are conducting ten creative workshops open to the public and are holding an open call inviting members of the public to nominate a change-maker story from the Decade of Centenaries and a change-maker story from today. \n\n\n\nWho was a change-maker\, visionary\, champion or warrior in your life\, a person who inspired you\, made change for you\, themselves or others? This can be a friend\, relative\, a loved one\, a stranger\, your best friend\, someone from history or yourself! \n\n\n\nTell us who is the change-maker that inspires you. \n\n\n\nNominate a change-maker. Submit your change-maker story here. \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\nWho We Are:\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning creative arts organisation\, leading the developing of the arts to promote and advance  equality\, human rights and diversity. Founded in 1991\, Smashing Times operates as a world class arts space and digital hub for artists\, activists\, citizens\, communities and the general public presenting work on the national and international arena and working with over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally.  The vision is to connect citizens to the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity\, health\, well-being and peace\, working with artists and local communities and communities of interest to create collaborative art practice in local\, national\, European\, and international settings.   The company provides a Resource  and Advice service; an Arts and Human Rights network; an annual and multi-annual interdisciplinary arts programme; training and an annual international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival.  All artistic mediums are supported with a focus on the performing and collaborative arts including theatre\, film\, visual arts\, dance\, music and digital arts.  The company is led by award-winning writer\, theatre\, film-maker and Artistic Director Mary Moynihan and Producer Freda Manweiler. Company patrons are Sabina Coyne 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\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/change-maker-theatre-based-workshop/
LOCATION:Civic Theatre\, Belgard Square East\, Tallaght
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20231013T173000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20231013T190000
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SUMMARY:Write Your Creative Language
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nEmail narrativeschanging@gmail.com to book your free place \n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nAnna Loi\, co-editor in chief\, Unapologetic  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be focused on discussing and challenging people that use English as their primary language in everyday life to write creatively incorporating their mother tongue. The aim is not only to tell their own personal story as well as to highlight their experience on how their native language can be perceived by others where communication is often viewed as english-centric in a globalised world. The main focus will be to learn between ourselves what is the beauty and uniqueness of being your true self and your identity through language and the written word.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be divided in two parts: in the first meeting (13 October) we will have a round table of sharing opinions and discussing the matter with the participants\, as well as a first introduction to writing creatively about this topic – prompts will be shared. During the time in between workshops\, participants will have the time to work on and develop their own story. In the second part (20 October) we will be working together on touch ups and how they felt about the task. In the end whoever feels like it will be able to share their final product with the rest of the room.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna is a storyteller with a passion for film and writing. Originally from Italy\, she has moved around a lot and is currently based in Amsterdam. Curious about the strange human experience and people’s clumsy attempts at understanding themselves\, after her MA in Creative Writing at UL she strives to be a voice for the misunderstood\, creating portraits that represent the young woman in today’s society. In her role as an Assistant Editor with Unapologetic she is also working on Creative Writing workshops for Native Speakers of Other Languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/write-your-creative-language/2023-10-13/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:An Afternoon with the Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nJean-Lorin Sterian\, Homemade Culture\, ArtistJohan Bandholtz\, Ongoing RealitiesAnna Näsström\, Ongoing RealitiesAnja Calas\, EsproncedaMarina Maleni\, Spectators in a Ghost City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival \n\n\n\nFeaturing live performances\, workshops and panel discussions from a range of creative arts organisations from across Europe \n\n\n\nThe Pumphouse\, Dublin Port – Alexandra Terminal\, Alexandra Rd\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1 \n\n\n\nAfternoon: Art-based Talk\, Workshop and Live Performances – 15 October 2023\, 2-5pm \n\n\n\nEvening: Live Performances and Post-Show Talk  – 15 October 2023\, 7-10pm \n\n\n\nSmashing Times is delighted to welcome a range of innovative creative arts organisations from across Europe to Ireland for A Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival featuring live performances\, workshops and panel discussions. These events showcase the work of emerging and established artists and build international connections for artists working in theatre and in interdisciplinary arts practice\, using the arts to support equality\, human rights and diversity. The Change-Maker Theatre in Palm Festival within a Festival is held as part of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival running from the 13 to 22 October 2023 in Ireland.  Events take place in two parts\, the first is an afternoon event of art-based workshops\, live performances and talks on Sunday 15 October 2023 from 2-5pm and the second is an evening event of live performances and talks taking place on Sunday 15 October from 7 to 10pm. This series of events is hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and presented by a range of arts  organisations from across Europe who are taking part  in the Theatre in Palm Europe-wide transnational project.  \n\n\n\nAfternoon: Change-Maker Art-based Talk\, Workshop and Live Performances \n\n\n\nPumphouse\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin Port\, Dublin 1 \n\n\n\nSunday 15 October\, 2-5pm \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHomemade Culture: Art Events in the Domestic Space – Public Arts Talk \n\n\n\nA talk on the domestic space as arts space \n\n\n\nPresented by Homemade Culture\, Bucharest\, Romania \n\n\n\n [ e s c ] Live Performance \n\n\n\nA multi-modal piece that investigates escapism as a notion and state of mind \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\nInsert Visually Powerful Image: Here \n\n\n\nA multi-disciplinary performance on the importance of human rights for all \n\n\n\nPresented by Espronceda\, Barcelona\, Spain \n\n\n\nTechnology and Creative Creation Workshop \n\n\n\nAn inspiring talk exploring the use of VR\, motion capture and animation in creative projects \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\nSpectators in a Ghost City \n\n\n\nA talk on winning design of the Golden Triga award at Prague Quadrennial 2023 \n\n\n\nPresented by THOC\, Nicosia\, Cyprus \n\n\n\nHomemade Culture: Art Events in the Domestic Space\n\n\n\nA public talk on the domestic space as arts space \n\n\n\nPresented by Homemade Culture\, Bucharest\, Romania \n\n\n\n‘Homemade Culture’ is what is born from the interaction between art events and the domestic space; the multilayered connections between artists\, hosts\, and audience. Personal dwellings are used as exhibition or performative spaces by young curators who do not own galleries or artists who are not willing to align aesthetically and politically to the mainstream culture. Although neither financial\, nor (intense) self-promotional purposes are pursued\, they use their personal space in order to get noticed or just to share their art with a close circle of people who share the same values. \n\n\n\nThe domestic space has a decisive influence on the structure\, frequency\, type of audience and\, of course\, the content of the event. Homemade Culture activities are directly dependent on the drive\, the aims\, and the energy fluctuations of the hosts. Jean-Lorin Sterian became interested in this topic in December 2008\, when he opened an apartment theatre in his own home. “In 2010\, I started studying similar initiatives around the world. I set out to highlight and describe these manifestations in order to reveal the existence of a socio-cultural phenomenon not yet studied. Following on from ten years of research\, I consider that art and theatre performances in domestic spaces operate as testing papers for the status of the society where they unfold\, while they” do not solve” issues\, as subcultures do\, but they only point at issues.” \n\n\n\n[ e s c ] \n\n\n\nA multi-modal piece that investigates escapism as a notion and state of mind \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\n[ e s c ] is a multi-modal piece that investigates escapism as a notion and state of mind. It encompasses a live performance\, animated choreographic works\, a film and an exhibition with pictures that become moving images with the use of Augmented Reality. Algorithms and social media have stimulated the choreographic investigation and the piece takes the visitor on an escapist journey through different emotional states and expressions in an eclectic mix that makes you question who is looking at whom and at what. In the live performance digital animations\, old tech and four dancers transform the space into an enigmatic place where past\, present and future meet. As a point of departure [ e s c ] delves into the need for pause and imagination but also how technology and algorithms transform or change our escapist tendencies. Instead of focusing on what is good or bad\, [e s c] explores both dystopian and utopian ideas linked to our need for escape from reality and what this does to the bodies on stage. The relationship of escapism to capitalism is explored as well as questions of whether escapism can be understood as a presence\, an instigator of change or an escapist behaviour that counteracts social change.  \n\n\n\nProduction: Ongoing RealitiesConcept and choreography: Anna Näsström and Johan BandholtzDancers: Anna Näsström and Johan Bandholtz (can be 2 or 4) (Anna Borrás\, Matilda Bjärum)Sound design: Rosanna Gunnarsson and Yared Tilahun Cederlund~Lighting design: Angela X ArizaAnimations: dr_formalystVideo artist: Tanne WillowPhotographer: Tanne Willow and Maya EnehAR Creator: Yuvia MainiPoster and AI design: A EYE\, Vytis Gruzdys & Rapolas VosyliusCostume: Ongoing RealitiesScenography: Ongoing Realities \n\n\n\nWith the support of the City of Stockholm and The Swedish Arts Council as well as through residency with PlayLab Skövde\, the University of Skövde\, the Art Museum in Skövde\, Site Incubator in Farsta and Danscenter Sthlm. Participation in Dublin is a part of Theater in Palm theatre movement by Intercult\, Sweden.   \n\n\n\nInsert Visually Powerful Image: Here\n\n\n\nLive performance excerpt \n\n\n\nPresented by Espronceda\, Barcelona\, Spain \n\n\n\nIn a world in constant flux\, where marginalized voices struggle for equality and justice\, it is the duty of committed artists to utilize their creative skills to amplify silenced voices and challenge the status quo. Insert Visually powerful image: Here is an excerpt of a live performance from a multi-disciplinary project that aims to foster reflection\, social transformation\, and solidarity through the powerful mediums of poetry\, theatre and dance. \n\n\n\nHuman Rights and Dignity: At the core of the excerpt from the live performance of Insert Visually powerful image: Here is the unwavering commitment to upholding human rights and dignity. The project sheds light on human rights violations and advocates for a society where fundamental rights are protected and cherished. \n\n\n\nTechnology and Creative Creation\n\n\n\nAn inspiring talk exploring the use of VR\, motion capture and animation in creative projects \n\n\n\nPresented by Ongoing Realities\, Stockholm\, Sweden \n\n\n\nOngoing Realities will explore how technologies such as VR\, Motion Capture and animation can be used in creative\, artistic or interdisciplinary projects. With historical and “new” examples we reflect on possibilities and limitations of different technologies. We do practical testing of VR as a medium for experience and interpretation-tool. The participants get to formulate their own ideas with the technology as a co-player\, with guidance and feedback from us on how to take things to the next step.  \n\n\n\n“Sparked many exciting thoughts and discussions. Feeling full of ideas on how I can integrate and explore XR technology in my artistry” – workshop participant. \n\n\n\nSpectators in a Ghost City – Golden Triga award – Prague Quadrennial 2023\n\n\n\nA talk on winning design of the Golden Triga award at Prague Quadrennial 2023 \n\n\n\nPresented by Theatre Organisation of Cyprus\, Nicosia\, Cypru \n\n\n\nSpeaker Marina Maleni\, is the Curator of Cyprus’ national participation in the world-renowned Prague Quadrennial editions since 2007. In 2023 Cyprus Theatre Organisation was bestowed with The Golden Triga\, which is the highest honor in performance design. \n\n\n\nAccording to the Jury of PQ23: “This elegant and many-layered exhibit demonstrates how scenography can interrogate and negotiate local themes of memory\, absence and presence that resonate universally. It self-critically invites visitors to question their own position as viewers of real or reproduced sites of conflict and trauma. By looking at the past\, present and possible futures of the site as seen through the narrow square openings of buildings\, the exhibit provokes feelings of anguish while suggesting the RARE potential for hope.” \n\n\n\nThe talk turns to the team’s methodology and poses questions. The proposal/provocation unsettles the role of the artist and the viewer as it addresses issues of appropriation\, spectacle\, voyeurism and the role of art itself in the face of human trauma that expands beyond the ghost city of Famagusta and echoes other ghost spaces in the world. \n\n\n\nCurator- initial concept: Marina Maleni \n\n\n\nArtistic researcher and Installation designer: Melita Couta \n\n\n\nCollaborating technical advisor: Harris Kafkarides \n\n\n\nArt and Technology collaborator for Audio Visual: Giorgos Lazoglou \n\n\n\nVideo performance artists: Pascal Caron and Melita Couta \n\n\n\nGraphic and web design: Philippos Vassiliades \n\n\n\nTechnical support in Prague: Doros Tsolakis \n\n\n\nTechnical support in Nicosia: THOC technical services \n\n\n\nTheatre in Palm\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are one of twelve partner organisations involved in Theatre in Palm\, a large scale European platform project funded by the Creative Europe programme 2021-2027. The Theatre in Palm platform brings together twelve partners from across Europe to collaborate and co-create as part of an international\,  intercultural platform supporting  artists including emerging artists\, to engage in international networking and to build theatre-based skills in transnational cooperation and co-creation. \n\n\n\nThe project supports artists including emerging artists to engage in international networking and to build theatre-based skills in transnational cooperation and co-creation. The project supports artistic career development and develops and values international practice and transnational co-creation and production opportunities for artists from across Europe.  \n\n\n\nThe platform acts as an incubator for new voices from the page to the stage with a focus on professional development and a growth in  European cooperation and the visibility and circulation of European emerging artists\, working across borders and beyond. The project reaches out to over  3\,500 artists and supports artists to develop skills in co-creation and production and is supported by Creative Europe\, Sub-programme European Platforms for the promotion of emerging artists (CREA-CULT-2021- PLAT). \n\n\n\nThe project supports Irish artists to promote and develop good practice at a European and international level and will showcase the work of Irish artists directly with audiences of over 50\,000 in Ireland\, thus deepening public engagement in Ireland with the work of artists working on a European and international level.  Theatre in Palm will support Irish artists in terms of skills development and the provision of resources and these aims are in line with and support the Arts Council’s ten-year strategy (2016–25)\, Making Great Art Work: Leading the Development of the Arts in Ireland. \n\n\n\nSpecial Thanks to: States of Independence\, the Aisling Programme\, Creative Europe\, The Arts Council Open Call\, The Arts Council Co-Funding Award for Creative Europe Co-operation projects 2022\, Foras na Gaeilge\, ACDC. \n\n\n\nPlatform Members \n\n\n\nThe platform members are Turku University of Applied Sciences\, Finland (coordinator); Intercut Productions\, Sweden; Fondazione E35 per la progettazine Internazionale\, Italy; Smashing Times\, Ireland\, Lemongrass Communications\, Spain; JAIT – International Theatre\, Portugal; Stichting ZID\, Netherlands; Cube\, Greece; European Theatre and Film Institute\, Belgium; THOC\,  Cyprus\, Homemade Culture\, Romania and Oecon Group\, Bulgaria.  \n\n\n\nThe objectives of the Theatre in Palm project are to: \n\n\n\n\nIncrease the visibility and the circulation of European emerging artists and works outside their own border\n\n\n\nIncrease access to and participation in cultural events and activities\, as well as audience engagement and development\n\n\n\nSupport emerging artists and cultural performers to co-create\, cooperate\, and promote their work\n\n\n\n\nThe project aims to: \n\n\n\n\nSupport artists to ‘cross borders’\, increasing the visibility and circulation of European artworks across borders and support them to build careers in the arts.  \n\n\n\nSupport artists and cultural performers to co-create by creating a platform for international cooperation and promote their work across borders \n\n\n\nIncrease access to and participation in cultural events and activities for artists and audiences \n\n\n\n\nActions \n\n\n\n\nEnable and manage activities and showcases for project outputs and dissemination\, including an interactive map of opportunities\n\n\n\nManage an on-line repository of work for the project – conducted by Turku UAS\n\n\n\nCreate a European Quality Label for organisations supporting emerging artists\n\n\n\nAgree on and implement branding\, communications and dissemination and data management and website and social media\n\n\n\nAdministration\, reporting and financial support provided by Turku UAS\, as lead organisation\n\n\n\n\nFor more information on Theatre in Palm\, visit the project webpage. \n\n\n\nAs part of the Theatre in Palm project\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to host a range of artist talks\, workshops and performances presented live for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. In addition  artists and guests from all 11 partner countries taking part in the project will attend Dublin\, Ireland to view the following events:  \n\n\n\nØ  Attend the Launch and opening of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival on Friday 13 October at 6pm \n\n\n\nØ  Attend a Tour of the States of Independence Exhibition on Saturday 14 October at 6.30pm \n\n\n\nØ  Attend a Live performance of States of Independence on Friday 13 October at 7pm \n\n\n\nØ  Present live performances\, artist talks and workshops  on 15 October 2023 from 2-4.30pm \n\n\n\nØ  Present live performances and post-show talks on 15 October 2023 from 7-10pm \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn 1975 in Constanta/Romania\, Jean-Lorin Sterian is a researcher\, writer\, artist and performer currently based in Bucharest and Romania. He holds a PhD in performance studies/sociology researching what he coined\, “homemade” culture – art events held in apartments. In 2008 Jean-Lorin Sterian opened lorgean theatre\, the first living-room theatre in Romania and since 2014 he has managed HomeFest\, an arts festival held only in houses and flats. He published several fiction books and one anthropological research about the experience of turning his own home into a public space for art and theatre performances. Since 2009 he has been interested in performance and visual art. Since 2018 he has performed with his art musical project\, pj.lo & the accidentals\, releasing one EP\, Sunam Ocupați and preparing the second one\, There Is Nothing You Can Do from the Light Point of View. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Näsström is a Swedish freelancing dancer and choregrapher raised in Skåne\, based in Stockholm. She was educated in contemporary dance and performance at The University of the Arts in Stockholm (SKH/DOCH) and has also studied in New York and worked around Europe as a freelancing artist for twelve years. She has a background in social\, non-institutionalised dance forms\, ballroom culture and a strong connection to club culture and “street dance” in different ways. Anna received “The Swedish Arts Grants Committee” working grant for 2022-2023. \n\n\n\nHer recent engagements include producing and performing with Ongoing realities (OR)\, researching digital technologies\, visual and sound-based\, as choreographic tools. In her artistic process she explores bodily memory\, shapes\, practices and patterns existing un- or consciously in the body. This and politics of normativity is something that permeates her work and interest and she has also studied Social Anthropology and Political Science at The Stockholm University. \n\n\n\nAnnas first solo-piece “Boxwood” was developed in 2012 and part of 2013 “Dansbiennal” and toured Sweden with Dansens Hus. She has received the ”Dance of the Year” award from Kingsize Magazine and has also worked in part pro bono projects in conveying space for training and community within ballroom\, teaching and mentoring upcoming dancers and creating clubs and events. Anna has been active in various parts of the dance field and has a wide range of experience in the field such as choreography for artists\, musicals or film\, multimedia art exhibitions and tv productions.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJohan is a dancer and choreographer from Stockholm and has a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A) in Dance and Performance from Stockholm University of the Arts (former DOCH). He also holds a Bachelor of Medical Science (B.Med.Sci) in Psychology from Karolinska Institute\, and a Master of Arts (M.A) in Gender Studies with a Specialization in Gender Politics in Practice from Södertörn University.  \n\n\n\nSince 2019 he has been working with Ongoing Realities\,  an explorative choreographic project centered around technology such as Virtual Reality and Motion Capture. He has been the recipient of several art residencies including The Swedish National Touring Company (Riksteatern Väst) as well as with Rum för dans and Teater Halland to name a few. In 2013 he received the Carina Ari Scholarship for young dancers and spent two months in New York exploring and deepening his artistic interests in movement.  \n\n\n\nJohan has also worked with freelance projects and events at a publishing house and as a teacher and lecturer. As an example he held a lecture around gender mainstreaming at the Nobel Prize Museum in the fall of 2020.  \n\n\n\nJohan is interested in the intersection(s) of contemporary choreography\, technology and neuropsychology. He is also interested in the psychology of creativity and finding strategies for creative collaborations in contemporary choreography.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnja Calas\, living between Barcelona and Guimarães\, is a Portuguese performer\, actress\, dancer\, and visual artist whose work focuses on exploring social\, philosophical\, and artistic aspects. Her artistic journey includes studying theatre\, dance\, and art from a young age\, and she has developed a unique approach to performance and visual art that delves into the interconnectivity and transversality of people\, genders\, and ages. \n\n\n\nAnja’s diverse and extensive professional experience in artistic direction\, performance\, and teaching demonstrates her expertise and passion for exploring various artistic mediums. Her commitment to continuous learning and creative exploration makes her a highly accomplished and versatile artist and educator. Anja’s contributions to the arts and dedication to teaching further enrich the artistic community and inspire future generations of performers and creators. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Nicosia\, Cyprus\, Marina Maleni Kyriazi holds degrees in Theatre Studies\, Acting and Sociology from the University of Texas at Austin and in Communication and Journalism from the Open University Cyprus.  She as worked successfully as an actress\, TV host and radio music producer for several years.  As an actress she performed roles in THOC productions such as Masha in Chekhov’s Three Sisters\, Olivia in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night by Shakespeare\, Shelby in Harling’s Steel Magnolias.  \n\n\n\nWorking since 2001 as Theatre Development Officer for the Cyprus Theatre Organisation\, she is in charge of State theatre subsidies and policy forming\, European collaborations\, playwriting development\, non-professional theatre\, theatre education programs\, has been PQ National Curator for exhibitions since 2007.  She has worked extensively in the Committee for Theatre in Schools (THOC – Ministry of Education and Culture)\, the Study Committee for the creation of A Cultural Authority in Cyprus\, the National Committee for Delphic Games\, the development of state subsidy policy for theatres in Cyprus\, and in developing bridges with artists and organizations abroad etc.   \n\n\n\nHost of CYBC TV talk show on culture which just completed its sixth season. She has been coordinating several very successful European culture programme collaborations for Cyprus. \n\n\n\nWith Artist Melita Couta\, they received the highest honor\, The Golden Triga with the Cyprus Theatre Organisation team in Prague Quadrennial of Performance Design and SpaceQ23. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nHomemade Culture\n\n\n\nHomemade Culture has been present in the Romanian cultural space since 2008\, under the name lorgean theater\, and since 2012 it has organised cultural events in domestic spaces in Romania and other countries in collaboration with the Graphis 122 Association. Between 2012-2014 we organized the Campaign Playing with the open house\, and since 2014 we have managed HomeFest\, the only cultural festival that takes place in houses and apartments in Romania. The purpose of the association is to create a platform that encourages the establishment of a close link between the artistic act and the audience\, by initiating and developing cultural\, artistic and educational projects\, which take place mainly in the domestic space or in another informal setting.   \nIn 7 years of activity\, the association has produced around 20 theatre performances (under the name lorgean theater)\, with which it has participated in national and international festivals\, hosting more than 100 other titles. Homemade Culture has presented workshops\, residencies\, festivals\, all of which were related to the domestic space.  \n\n\n\nOngoing Realities\n\n\n\nOngoing realities (OR) consists of the artistic duo Anna Näsström and Johan Bandholtz and they investigate the relation and creative possibilities when merging dance and choreography with digital technologies such as Motion Capture\, animation\, Virtual Reality\, Augmented Reality and artificial intelligence. They offer multiple and multi-sensory performance experiences for theatres as well as venues such as museums\, industrial premises or public spaces. OR works with dancers and collaborators in animation\, programming\, sound design\, creative technologists and video artists. Ongoing Realities continues to develop and change in the form of performances\, projects and as a platform and are always curious about new meetings or collaborations.  \nAnna Näsström and Johan Bandholtz are both dancers and choreographers educated at Stockholm University of Arts and in their individual careers they have experience from a broad range of productions and artistic projects from several different genres in the sector for dance and choreography. In 2022 they won the award “Excellence In Performance” during Stockholm Fringe Festival for their piece “one”. The have been granted support from The Swedish Arts Grants Committee\, The Swedish Arts Council and the City of Stockholm and have been invited to several national residencies and created a site specific performance for the art museum in Skövde which premiered in 2021. Their work have also been shown at the Digital Innovation Festival at Kulturhuset Stadsteatern in Stockholm\, during Tempo Documentary Film Festival (2022)\, at the Swedish Pavillion during Tanzmesse in Düsseldorf (2022)\, at the Gallery Den Fantastiska Platsen in Stockholm (2023) and have created a commissioned work for iM Konsthall and Northern Sustainable Futures (2023).    \n\n\n\nEspronceda\n\n\n\nESPRONCEDA – Institute of Art & Culture\, powered by Lemongrass Communications S.L.\, was founded in 2013 to create an innovative platform for artistic and cultural research that could produce social impact and social change in society. \nThe project is a research and creation platform for contemporary and new media arts\, science\, education\, and cultural dissemination. Its mission is to promote innovative and creative thinking through artistic research and innovation\, with the aim of shaping our understanding of the world and enriching the quality of life with new insights toward a more sustainable and responsible transformation. \nThe organization promotes residency and artistic research programmes in the fields of new media art\, science\, and visual art\, offering a multidisciplinary environment that stimulates dialogue between the art world\, public institutions\, and business. \nEspronceda is open to the local and international community by offering various types of events and initiatives such as art exhibitions\, workshops\, conferences\, and open calls aimed at analyzing important issues of our contemporary society. \nThe methodology is based on a multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the new advanced technologies\, visual and performing arts and is aimed to create a new ecosocial imagination for society without distinction of race\, gender\, and background. \nFor us\, artistic research and creativity can be engines of awareness and change\, helping people to imagine new balanced\, and sustainable futures. \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/an-afternoon-with-the-change-maker-theatre-in-palm-festival-within-a-festival/
LOCATION:The Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, Alexandra Road\, Dublin 1
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary,Performance,Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Write Your Creative Language
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nEmail narrativeschanging@gmail.com to book your free place \n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nAnna Loi\, co-editor in chief\, Unapologetic  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe workshop will be focused on discussing and challenging people that use English as their primary language in everyday life to write creatively incorporating their mother tongue. The aim is not only to tell their own personal story as well as to highlight their experience on how their native language can be perceived by others where communication is often viewed as english-centric in a globalised world. The main focus will be to learn between ourselves what is the beauty and uniqueness of being your true self and your identity through language and the written word.  \n\n\n\nThe workshop will be divided in two parts: in the first meeting (13 October) we will have a round table of sharing opinions and discussing the matter with the participants\, as well as a first introduction to writing creatively about this topic – prompts will be shared. During the time in between workshops\, participants will have the time to work on and develop their own story. In the second part (20 October) we will be working together on touch ups and how they felt about the task. In the end whoever feels like it will be able to share their final product with the rest of the room.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna is a storyteller with a passion for film and writing. Originally from Italy\, she has moved around a lot and is currently based in Amsterdam. Curious about the strange human experience and people’s clumsy attempts at understanding themselves\, after her MA in Creative Writing at UL she strives to be a voice for the misunderstood\, creating portraits that represent the young woman in today’s society. In her role as an Assistant Editor with Unapologetic she is also working on Creative Writing workshops for Native Speakers of Other Languages. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/write-your-creative-language/2023-10-20/
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SUMMARY:Write a Protest Song!
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook Here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\, Workshop Facilitator with experienced Fighting Words volunteers \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality.  \n\n\n\nAt this workshop\, we will look at the history of these songs\, and draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant to today’s (your) generation.  \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/write-a-protest-song/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Music,Songwriting,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Brian Maguire: La Grande Illusion
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBooking Links Below \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nBrian Maguire\, artist \n\n\n\nGallery Opening Hours\n\n\n\nExhibition is open during gallery opening hours. Opening Hours \n\nMon Closed\nTues to Wed 9:45 am – 6:00 pm\nThurs 9:45 am – 8:30 pm\nFri 9:45 am – 5:00 pm\nSat 10:00 am – 5:00 pm\nSun 11:00 am – 5:00 pm\n\nPlease see website for dates and times for events in our associated engagement programme. \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n\n\nBrian Maguire: La Grande Illusion\n\n\n\nHighlights of our public programmes\n\n\n\nFilm Screenings\, Talks\, Tours\, Art Appreciation series and more\n\n\n\n\n\nArt Appreciation Course \n\n\n\nMore Power to you! Art and Activism from Sarah Purser to Brian Maguire \n\n\n\nDates: Thursdays 3\, 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 October\, 7\, 14\, 21 November 2024\, 14:30-16:30pm. \n\n\n\nThis eight week course programmed by HLG is presented in collaboration with UCD Life long Learning programme. Enrol via:  UCD Lifelong Learning programme 01 7167123 or all@ucd.ie   https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/art-appreciation-course-ucd-lifelong-learning/ \n\n\n\nArt Appreciation Course \n\n\n\nAvenues into Modern and Contemporary Art \n\n\n\n5 October 2024- 26 April 2025 \n\n\n\nTaking place on Saturday mornings\, these illustrated lectures programmed by HLG and presented in collaboration with the Peoples College offer the opportunity for exploring engaging and wide-ranging themes from art history to contemporary visual art practice\, to wider societal concerns explored by artists nationally and internationally including Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. Enrol via info@peoplescollege.ie  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/avenues-into-modern-and-contemporary-art-2024-25 \n\n\n\nHugh Lane Culture Club \n\n\n\nTuesday 15 October\, 2.30pm \n\n\n\nOur Culture Clubs are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Dr Anne Cormican will lead a walkthrough of the exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion followed by tea /coffee and further discussion. Booking details https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/culture-club-15-oct/ \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 16 October 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Contemporary Art Practice: Artist Claire Halpin will discuss her work which explores themes and concepts around contested territories and histories through painting\, video and installation. Fee: €5\, incl tea/coffee https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/claire-halpin/ \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nThursday 17 October\, 11amTour for People who are Hard of Hearing with a focus discussion of artworks in our new exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. This tour will focus on the artworks in Galleries 1 The Invisible Becomes Visible and Gallery 2 Remains. Free\, book on Eventbrite. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/hard-of-hearing-17-oct/ \n\n\n\nFilms Screening‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition La Grande Illusion. \n\n\n\nFriday 18 October 2024\, 1pm La Grande Illusion (1hr 53 minutes)\, 1937; Directed by Jean Renoir.La Grande Illusion takes place in a German fortress where two French aviators – aristocratic Boeldieu (Pierre Fresnay) and working-class Breton lieutenant Maréchal (Jean Gabin) – are held captive by monocled Captain von Rauffenstein (played by the silent film director Erich von Stroheim). Introduced and followed by Q+A moderated by Film Curator Alice Butler. Free\, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-la-grande-illusion/ \n\n\n\nParent and Baby ToursThursday 31 October\, 28 November 2024 and 27 March\, 11amNew parents are invited to join us on this guided tour of Brian Maguire’s exhibition La Grande Illusion\, with their babies up to the age of 1 year.  Followed by tea/coffee and further conversation. Fee: €5\, booking essential via Eventbrite.ie.  \n\n\n\nFilm Screening \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 November\, 2\,30pmOff Frame AKA Revolution Until Victory directed by Mohanad Yaqubi. (62 min\, Color & B&W\, digital\, Arabic\, English\, French\, and Italian with English subtitles; Palestine\, France\, Qatar\, Lebanon\, 2016. This screening is programmed and presented by artist and filmmaker Helena Gouveia Monteiro\, who will moderate a post-screening conversation. Free\, booking on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/film-screening-off-framenov24  \n\n\n\nFilm Screening  \n\n\n\n‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’. \n\n\n\nFriday 22 November 2024\, 1pmForagers (64 mins)\, 2022; by Jumana Manna‘Foragers’ depicts the dramas around the practice of foraging for wild edible plants in Palestine/Israel with wry humor and a meditative pace. Shot in the Golan Heights\, the Galilee and Jerusalem\, it moves between fiction\, documentary and archival footage to portray the impact of Israeli nature protection laws on these customs. With an introduction and post-screening Q+A with Film Curator Alice Butler. Free\, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability. https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/?cat=talks-art-courses \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nTour for People who are Hard of Hearing   \n\n\n\nThursday 21 November 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in focus discussion of artworks in our new exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. This tour led by Yseult O’Driscoll will focus on the artworks in  Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion  in Gallery 3 War Changes Its Address and Gallery 4 The Clock Winds Down https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/hard-of-hearing-21-nov/  \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nISL Interpreted Tour: Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion  \n\n\n\nTuesday 22 October 2024\, 2.30pm \n\n\n\nJoin us for an introductory guided tour of our current exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion accompanied by an Irish Sign Language (ISL) interpreter. Free \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 13 November\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nThe Clear Cut Amazon by Brian Maguire. €5. Incl. tea/coffee \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 27 November 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nArt and Ecology with artist Gareth Kennedy \n\n\n\nThis illustrated talk by artist Gareth Kennedy will discuss the intersections of contemporary art with ecology. Fee: €5\, incl tea/coffee https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/gareth-kennedy \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 4 December 2024\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. Join us for an illustrated talk about Salmagundi with filmmaker Jijo Sebastian. Awarded the Hugh Lane Gallery-Create commission 2022-24 for a socially engaged artist\, learn more about the collaborative\, transcultural filmmaking and community building project developed by the artist. €5 fee including tea/coffee\, no advance booking required but numbers may be limited. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/coffee-conversation-salmagundi-jijo-sebastian/ \n\n\n\nEvening Lecture \n\n\n\nThursday 5 December\, 6.30pmRaul Araujo is a researcher\, psychoanalyst and consultant on children and adolescents’ rights. Raul has worked on projects with artist Brian Maguire over a timespan of 20 years and in this talk he will explore this work\, as well as his own work on the ground in his native Brazil. Free\, places can be booked via Eventbrite. \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 8 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nOver Our Heads the Hollow Seas Closed Up by Brian Maguire. Fee: €5\, incl. tea/coffee \n\n\n\nFilm Screening \n\n\n\n‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’. \n\n\n\nFriday 10 January 2025\, 1pmShouting at the Ground (21 mins)\, 2017; by Graeme ArnfieldIn a peat bog in North West England a Spanish woman was murdered\, her body buried and subsumed into the treacherously dense ecological matter. A matter which labours have extracted for centuries\, selling this fertile material as fuel worldwide; a material which upon burning releases timeless carbon deposits into our increasingly precarious and damaged ecosphere. After laying dormant under the rich dark peat for an unknown amount of time a body returned to the surface but its identity had become dislocated; it has become entwined with the history of its material host.  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/shouting-film-10jan25 \n\n\n\nPoetry Course: Invisible Becomes Visible \n\n\n\n11\, 18  and 25 January 2025\, 1.45-4.15pm \n\n\n\nLed by poet Grace Wilentz\, three part series of workshops engaging with “La Grande Illusion”\, a major exhibition of the work of Brian Maguire. In each workshop\, participants will spend time with the exhibition\, before being guided to write original poems in response to it.  Brian Maguire is an artist whose practice has been defined by sustained engagement with social justice and human rights. In this workshop\, we will focus on how Maguire’s work in “La Grande Illusion” encounters climate justice\, migration and making ‘the invisible become visible’. As Maguire says\, art has the power to make ‘the invisible become visible’. We’ll explore what this means\, with a focus on how your own creative practice might relate to serving the overlooked\, omitted and forgotten. While no prior experience is necessary\, all will be expected to participate actively in discussions and take part in writing exercises. In return\, you can expect to come away with new poems\, and discover fresh approaches to engaging with urgent social justice concerns in your own creative practice. Fee: €100\, advance booking via Eventbrite https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/la-grande-illusion/ \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nLive Online Audio Description for People with a Visual Impairment \n\n\n\nWednesday 15 January 2025\, Noon \n\n\n\nOur live online audio description programme for people with a visual impairment will explore the exhibition Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion with Fala Buggy. \n\n\n\nHow to Book: Free\, advance booking via Eventbrite or by telephone on 01 2225560. https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/online-audio-description-15-jan/ \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 22 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nBentiu Camp South Sudan 1\, 2018. Fee: €5\, incl tea/coffee. \n\n\n\nFilm Screening \n\n\n\n‘The ruined land: the land in ruins’\, a programme of films curated by film curator Alice Butler in parallel to the Brian Maguire exhibition ‘La Grande Illusion’. \n\n\n\nFriday 14 February 2025\, 1pmHistory of the Present (46 mins)\, 2023; by Maria Fusco and Margaret SalmonAn experimental feminist opera-film about class and conflict\, ‘History of the Present’ has been made collaboratively by Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon\, featuring new compositions by Annea Lockwood\, libretto by Maria Fusco and improvisational vocal work by Héloïse Werner. This intersectional\, intergenerational feminist work forefronts working-class women’s voices to ask: who has the right to speak\, and in what way? With an introduction and post-screening Q+A with Film Curator Alice Butler\, Maria Fusco and Margaret Salmon; joining online. Free\, book on Eventbrite or come on the day subject to availability.  https://hughlane.ie/explore_learn/historypresent-film-14feb25 \n\n\n\nAccessibility \n\n\n\nTour for People who are Hard of Hearing \n\n\n\nThursday 23 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nJoin us for an in focus discussion of artworks  in  Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion: A focus on the artworks in Galleries 4 + 5 Blood Rising  with Tony Suttle. Free. \n\n\n\nCoffee Conversation \n\n\n\nWednesday 29 January\, 11am \n\n\n\nOur Coffee Conversations are a great way to explore art in a stimulating and friendly environment. \n\n\n\nArizona 3 by Brian Maguire. Fee: €5\, incl. tea/coffee \n\n\n\nSeminar \n\n\n\nBrian Maguire: La Grande Illusion SeminarFriday 21 March\, 10.30am – 4.30pmThis day long seminar will explore themes arising from Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion with guest contributors including Dr Maria Maclennan\, ‘forensic jeweller’\,  Suha Nabhan\, co-founder and strategic director of Migration Jam; and more. Free\, booking on Eventbrite and further details will be available here https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/ \n\n\n\nFree Sunday Public Tours \n\n\n\nOur free Public Tours led by our expert guides take place every Sunday at 2.15pm\, and explore our collection and temporary exhibitions. Free\, no booking required. \n\n\n\nGuided tours can also be booked here https://hughlane.ie/book-a-tour/ \n\n\n\nCommunity  \n\n\n\nAs well as our public programmes we are connecting with audiences through artist-led community engagement and schools programmes to explore themes arising from Brian Maguire La Grande Illusion. \n\n\n\nOur Explore & Learn programmes are continually being added to and further details can be found here https://hughlane.ie/explore-learn/ and here https://hughlane.ie/whats-on/ \n\n\n\n\n\nArtist Biography\n\n\n\nBrian Maguire lives and works in Dublin and Paris. Brian Maguire’s painting practice is driven by the struggle against inequality and violence\, and the pursuit of justice. His process is foremost an act of solidarity\, rehumanising his subjects and recentring the narratives of the disenfranchised. Social engagement plays a central role\, leading him to work closely and interactively with refugees\, survivors of warzones\, incarcerated peoples\, and local newsrooms in locations including Sudan\, Syria\, São Paulo and Ciudad Juárez. Recent solo exhibitions include Social Forms: Art as Global Citizenship\, Converge 45\, Portland (2023); law of the land\, Kunsthall 3\,14\, Bergen\, Norway (2023); The Clock Winds Down\, Kerlin Gallery\, Dublin (2023); In The Light Of Conscience\, Missoula Art Museum\, Montana (2022); North and South of the Border\, Rhona Hoffman Gallery\, Chicago (2022); Remains\, Crawford Art Gallery\, Cork\, Ireland (2021); An Anatomy of Politics\, Galerie Christophe Gaillard\, Paris (2021). \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/brian-maguire-la-grande-illusion/
LOCATION:Hugh Lane Gallery\, Charlemont House\, Parnell Square N\, Rotunda\, Dublin 1\, D01 F2X9
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Talk,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Songs of Empowerment Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets free\, book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\, Workshop Facilitator and Development and Outreach Officer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSongs of Empowerment is a workshop conducted by Colm Quearney\, a workshop facilitator and Development and Outreach Officer with Fighting Words. The workshop is conducted onsite at Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street Dublin on Saturday 19 October from 11am to 1pm. \n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality. At this workshop\, we will look at the history of these songs that power\, and will draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant to today’s (your) generation. No previous song writing experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\nOur aim is to help children and young people\, and adults who did not have this opportunity as children\, to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. At its core\, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers – from a wide range of backgrounds – to be resilient\, creative and successful shapers of their own lives. \n\n\n\nwww.fightingwords.ie \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/songs-of-empowerment-workshop/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Seift: Bi-lingual Drama Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets free\, Book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCian Ó Náraigh – Theatre-maker\, Playwright and Drama Facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSign up for a series of three accessible bi-lingual drama workshops through English and Irish focusing on arts and creativity with Theatre-Maker and playwright Cian Ó Náraigh. Workshop participants will then be invited to a rehearsed reading of a new play ‘Seift’ with Cian and his company Scaoilte Theatre\, in collaboration and partnership with Roscommon Arts Centre and Creative Communities Roscommon. These drama workshops will explore useful tools and dramatic exercises to incorporate Irish in theatre\, and in your creative processes. The workshops will include group exercises\, exploring verbatim theatre and tips on how to devise a new piece of theatre. Participants do not need to be fluent in Irish to participate. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCian Ó Náraigh \n\n\n\nCian is a drama facilitator\, theatremaker\, and playwright. His practice is interested in creating workshops that are playful and engaging\, with a grounding in our contemporary experiences. As a Gaeilgeoir\, he has a specific interest in exploring more as Gaeilge.  Cian was the Artist in Residence in Roscommon Arts Centre in 2023\, where he developed his work as a playwright. He has previously received Kildare County Council’s Research and Thinking Bursary. Previous works have been included in festivals such as Scene&Heard and For/With/By. \n\n\n\n\n\nRoscommon Arts Centre\n\n\n\nRoscommon Arts Centre is a vibrant\, purpose-built arts space which is committed to presenting a dynamic and ambitious multidisciplinary programme of evens that creates and develops audiences for the arts and contributes to local arts development in county Roscommon. \n  \nThe centre provides opportunities for the local community to actively engage with a range of artforms through participatory and performance-based activities. The centre presents work by professional and community based artists in theatre\, dance\, music\, visual art\, comedy and literature\, along with a programme of cinema in the auditorium space. The centre also programmes a number of workshops and classes for children and adults both in the centre and off-site. \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/seift-bi-lingual-drama-workshops/2024-10-22/
LOCATION:Roscommon Arts Centre\, Circular Road\, Roscommon\, F42YX61\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Seift: Bi-lingual Drama Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets free\, Book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCian Ó Náraigh – Theatre-maker\, Playwright and Drama Facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSign up for a series of three accessible bi-lingual drama workshops through English and Irish focusing on arts and creativity with Theatre-Maker and playwright Cian Ó Náraigh. Workshop participants will then be invited to a rehearsed reading of a new play ‘Seift’ with Cian and his company Scaoilte Theatre\, in collaboration and partnership with Roscommon Arts Centre and Creative Communities Roscommon. These drama workshops will explore useful tools and dramatic exercises to incorporate Irish in theatre\, and in your creative processes. The workshops will include group exercises\, exploring verbatim theatre and tips on how to devise a new piece of theatre. Participants do not need to be fluent in Irish to participate. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCian Ó Náraigh \n\n\n\nCian is a drama facilitator\, theatremaker\, and playwright. His practice is interested in creating workshops that are playful and engaging\, with a grounding in our contemporary experiences. As a Gaeilgeoir\, he has a specific interest in exploring more as Gaeilge.  Cian was the Artist in Residence in Roscommon Arts Centre in 2023\, where he developed his work as a playwright. He has previously received Kildare County Council’s Research and Thinking Bursary. Previous works have been included in festivals such as Scene&Heard and For/With/By. \n\n\n\n\n\nRoscommon Arts Centre\n\n\n\nRoscommon Arts Centre is a vibrant\, purpose-built arts space which is committed to presenting a dynamic and ambitious multidisciplinary programme of evens that creates and develops audiences for the arts and contributes to local arts development in county Roscommon. \n  \nThe centre provides opportunities for the local community to actively engage with a range of artforms through participatory and performance-based activities. The centre presents work by professional and community based artists in theatre\, dance\, music\, visual art\, comedy and literature\, along with a programme of cinema in the auditorium space. The centre also programmes a number of workshops and classes for children and adults both in the centre and off-site. \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/seift-bi-lingual-drama-workshops/2024-10-29/
LOCATION:Roscommon Arts Centre\, Circular Road\, Roscommon\, F42YX61\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Seift: Bi-lingual Drama Workshops
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets free\, Book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCian Ó Náraigh – Theatre-maker\, Playwright and Drama Facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSign up for a series of three accessible bi-lingual drama workshops through English and Irish focusing on arts and creativity with Theatre-Maker and playwright Cian Ó Náraigh. Workshop participants will then be invited to a rehearsed reading of a new play ‘Seift’ with Cian and his company Scaoilte Theatre\, in collaboration and partnership with Roscommon Arts Centre and Creative Communities Roscommon. These drama workshops will explore useful tools and dramatic exercises to incorporate Irish in theatre\, and in your creative processes. The workshops will include group exercises\, exploring verbatim theatre and tips on how to devise a new piece of theatre. Participants do not need to be fluent in Irish to participate. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCian Ó Náraigh \n\n\n\nCian is a drama facilitator\, theatremaker\, and playwright. His practice is interested in creating workshops that are playful and engaging\, with a grounding in our contemporary experiences. As a Gaeilgeoir\, he has a specific interest in exploring more as Gaeilge.  Cian was the Artist in Residence in Roscommon Arts Centre in 2023\, where he developed his work as a playwright. He has previously received Kildare County Council’s Research and Thinking Bursary. Previous works have been included in festivals such as Scene&Heard and For/With/By. \n\n\n\n\n\nRoscommon Arts Centre\n\n\n\nRoscommon Arts Centre is a vibrant\, purpose-built arts space which is committed to presenting a dynamic and ambitious multidisciplinary programme of evens that creates and develops audiences for the arts and contributes to local arts development in county Roscommon. \n  \nThe centre provides opportunities for the local community to actively engage with a range of artforms through participatory and performance-based activities. The centre presents work by professional and community based artists in theatre\, dance\, music\, visual art\, comedy and literature\, along with a programme of cinema in the auditorium space. The centre also programmes a number of workshops and classes for children and adults both in the centre and off-site. \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/seift-bi-lingual-drama-workshops/2024-11-05/
LOCATION:Roscommon Arts Centre\, Circular Road\, Roscommon\, F42YX61\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Crafting Stories Together – Creative Multilingual workshops for families with children 3 to 6 years old
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission\, book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMargot A. Jones\, puppeteer\, performer and facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCan you whisper\, rustle\, or growl? How about colour\, create\, and stick things together? If so\, this workshop is for you! Discover the magic of storytelling\, bring the story to life with sound and movement and craft your own imaginative art to take home. Perfect for kids and grown-ups who love to get creative and have fun! In these series each session is different but connected to an overall theme. Come to as many workshops as you like! \n\n\n\nLanguage: English + Irish + Bring your own! While the workshops will be guided in English\, we encourage families to embrace their home languages. This fosters meaningful connections between parents and children\, creating a truly inclusive environment. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers workshops promote a human rights agenda by creating inclusive\, accessible artistic spaces that respect and celebrate every child’s right to participate in cultural life\, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 12). The programme empowers children and families to express their linguistic and cultural identities\, fostering pride in their mother tongues and ensuring that minority and migrant voices are heard and valued. \n\n\n\nBy actively engaging parents and children from diverse backgrounds\, including those living in Direct Provision and socio-economically disadvantaged areas\, the workshops address the right to equality\, cultural participation\, and freedom of expression. The methodology places the child’s voice at the centre\, ensuring they are not only participants but active co-creators\, aligning with a rights-based approach to arts education and community engagement. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers is Mother Tongues’ award-winning programme\, designed for children aged 3 to 6 and their families.Facilitated by our specially trained multilingual artists\, the workshops provide a welcoming space for families from all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. \n\n\n\nEach workshop is an invitation to connect with your family language(s)\, through storytelling\, play\, visual arts\, music and movement. \n\n\n\nOur artists create a space full of imagination and creativity\, in which speaking and listening to languages is fun and something to be proud of. Families come together in high-quality artistic activities while sharing and exploring the diversity of languages in the room – an experience equally inspiring for multilingual families as for those who are curious about other languages and cultures. Workshops are delivered in English\, but families are warmly encouraged to bring any and all languages they speak. Whether your child is fluent\, just learning\, non-speaking\, or uses a different way to communicate\, this space is for you. \n\n\n\nMother Tongues\, established in 2017\, is a leading organisation working at the intersection of the arts\, language and cultural diversity in Ireland. Its mission is to unlock the creative potential of multilingualism through high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences that promote social cohesion\, celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity and foster a sense of belonging for children\, families and communities. Since 2022\, our Language Explorers programme has engaged 18 plurilingual artists and reached over 2\,500 children and parents. By facilitating high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences\, we nurture children’s creativity and language skills\, strengthen family bonds and enhance community wellbeing. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMargot A. Jones is a puppeteer\, performer and facilitator living in Co\, Wicklow.Born and schooled in Tyrone\, she initially trained in in Ireland\, the USA and Vietnam\, where she earned a PhD in traditional puppetry. During this time she was influenced by Grotowski and Boal and by work at Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theatre. On her return to Ireland she worked with various companies including Puca Puppets\, and toured to various venues with Irish language work for young audiences. \n\n\n\nAn insatiable curiosity has led her to extend her work into such areas as early years development\, therapeutic theatre\, visual arts practice and community gardening. She is fascinated by differences in perception and experience. Working in communities\, hospitals\, care settings\, museums and schools she pursues this interest through specific facilitative work. \n\n\n\nMargot’s recent work includes: shadow-puppet performance of Gilgamesh (Cashel Arts Festival 2004)\, studio artist at Signal Arts Centre (2023)\, puppetry workshops (Lexicon 2024)\, language explorers workshops (Mother Tongues 2024)\, Shared Island-Civic Society Cross Border Arts Project (2024-25)\, participative research in elder care settings (Age and Opportunity 2024-25). She is currently devising a new performance piece which incorporates traditional Irish ballads and aspects of puppetry. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/crafting-stories-together-creative-multilingual-workshops-for-families-with-children-3-to-6-years-old-4/2025-10-11/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Songs of Empowerment Workshop presented by Fighting Words for teenagers aged 13-17
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission\, book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\, Workshop Facilitator and Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSongs of Empowerment is a workshop conducted by Colm Quearney\, a workshop facilitator and Development and Outreach Officer with Fighting Words. The workshop is conducted onsite at Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street Dublin on Saturday 18 October from 11am to 1pm. \n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality. At this workshop\, we will look at the history of these songs that power\, and will draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant to today’s (your) generation. No previous song writing experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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/songs-of-empowerment-workshop-presented-by-fighting-words-for-teenagers-aged-13-17/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Language Explorers - Out of this world Workshops for parents and their children ages 3 to 6
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree Admission\, book here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/language-explorers-out-of-this-world-tickets-1535865177089 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPaola Invernizzi\, visual artist \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nReady for liftoff? Join us with Paola Invernizzi on a magical journey through space and imagination in our Out of This World workshops! Designed for curious young explorers\, these sessions blend storytelling\, art and multilingual play into an unforgettable adventure. \n\n\n\nTogether\, we will travel from the shimmering Moon to the twinkling Stars\, past distant Planets\, and back to our very own Planet Earth\, discovering what makes it so unique. But the most important destination? The universe inside ourselves. Embark on a journey where every child is a star. Each session is different but connected to an overall theme. Come to as many workshops as you like! \n\n\n\nMother Tongues’ Language Explorer workshops provide a unique creative experience for parents and their children based on storytelling\, play\, visual arts and music. While the workshops will be guided in English\, we encourage families to embrace their home languages.  This fosters meaningful connections between parents and children\, creating a truly inclusive environment. Meet and connect with other like-minded families and share your language journey! \n\n\n\nWorkshops are free of charge\, but booking is required as there is limited capacity. When you reserve a child ticket\, the accompanying adult is automatically included. If you can’t make the event\, please email us at hanna@mothertongues.ie so some other family can benefit from attending the workshop. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers workshops promote a human rights agenda by creating inclusive\, accessible artistic spaces that respect and celebrate every child’s right to participate in cultural life\, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 12). The programme empowers children and families to express their linguistic and cultural identities\, fostering pride in their mother tongues and ensuring that minority and migrant voices are heard and valued. \n\n\n\nBy actively engaging parents and children from diverse backgrounds\, including those living in Direct Provision and socio-economically disadvantaged areas\, the workshops address the right to equality\, cultural participation\, and freedom of expression. The methodology places the child’s voice at the centre\, ensuring they are not only participants but active co-creators\, aligning with a rights-based approach to arts education and community engagement. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers is Mother Tongues’ award-winning programme\, designed for children aged 3 to 6 and their families. Facilitated by our specially trained multilingual artists\, the workshops provide a welcoming space for families from all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Each workshop is an invitation to connect with your family language(s)\, through storytelling\, play\, visual arts\, music and movement.Our artists create a space full of imagination and creativity\, in which speaking and listening to languages is fun and something to be proud of. Families come together in high-quality artistic activities while sharing and exploring the diversity of languages in the room – an experience equally inspiring for multilingual families as for those who are curious about other languages and cultures. Workshops are delivered in English\, but families are warmly encouraged to bring any and all languages they speak. Whether your child is fluent\, just learning\, non-speaking\, or uses a different way to communicate\, this space is for you. \n\n\n\nMother Tongues\, established in 2017\, is a leading organisation working at the intersection of the arts\, language and cultural diversity in Ireland. Its mission is to unlock the creative potential of multilingualism through high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences that promote social cohesion\, celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity and foster a sense of belonging for children\, families and communities. \n\n\n\nSince 2022\, our Language Explorers programme has engaged 18 plurilingual artists and reached over 2\,500 children and parents. By facilitating high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences\, we nurture children’s creativity and language skills\, strengthen family bonds and enhance community wellbeing. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaola Invernizzi is an Italian visual artist based in Dublin. Having completed her studies in Arts and Health at the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, she has gained diverse experience in both health and educational contexts. Through this journey\, she has come to recognize the potential of art in promoting well-being. \n\n\n\nEmbracing a phenomenological approach and employing a variety of techniques\, Invernizzi facilitates the inner connection between individuals and different art forms. Her primary goal is to extend this connection to the broader community\, thereby enhancing the sense of belonging. Since 2018\, she has been working in Ireland\, undertaking tailored initiatives that respond to community needs\, with a particular focus on arts and health\, arts in education\, and arts in early childhood.In 2020\, Invernizzi was awarded the Professional Development Award by the Arts Council of Ireland\, and in 2021\, she received the Agility Award in arts participation. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Invernizzi is actively involved in residencies at primary and secondary schools\, while also expanding her knowledge and skills in early childhood education through experiences in school settings and collaborations with Mother Tongues. \n\n\n\nIn the field of Arts and Health\, she has begun a collaboration with Waterford Healing Arts\, focusing on the psychiatric department. She is also an artist in residence at Tallaght University Hospital and has recently joined the panel of Helium Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/language-explorers-out-of-this-world-workshops-for-parents-and-their-children-ages-3-to-6/2025-10-11/
LOCATION:Clondalkin Library\, Clondalkin Library\, Monastery Road\, Clondalkin\, Dublin\, Leinster\, D22 XPO3\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Language Explorers - Make it and Play! Creative Multilingual workshop for families with children 3 to 6 years old
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission\, book here https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/language-explorers-make-it-and-play-tickets-1537057322829 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFernanda Ferrari\, multidisciplinary artist and workshop facilitator \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCraft vintage toys with Fernanda Ferrari in our Language Explorers workshops! Unleash creativity using simple everyday materials\, make friends from all over the world\, and create a special bond with your child through the magic of art-making. Each session is different but connected to an overall theme. Come to as many workshops as you like! \n\n\n\nMother Tongues’ Language Explorer workshops provide a unique creative experience for parents and their children based on storytelling\, play\, visual arts and music. While the workshops will be guided in English\, we encourage families to embrace their home languages.  This fosters meaningful connections between parents and children\, creating a truly inclusive environment. Meet and connect with other like-minded families and share your language journey! \n\n\n\nWorkshops are free of charge\, but booking is required as there is limited capacity. When you reserve a child ticket\, the accompanying adult is automatically included. If you can’t make the event\, please email us at hanna@mothertongues.ie so some other family can benefit from attending the workshop. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers workshops promote a human rights agenda by creating inclusive\, accessible artistic spaces that respect and celebrate every child’s right to participate in cultural life\, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 12). The programme empowers children and families to express their linguistic and cultural identities\, fostering pride in their mother tongues and ensuring that minority and migrant voices are heard and valued. \n\n\n\nBy actively engaging parents and children from diverse backgrounds\, including those living in Direct Provision and socio-economically disadvantaged areas\, the workshops address the right to equality\, cultural participation\, and freedom of expression. The methodology places the child’s voice at the centre\, ensuring they are not only participants but active co-creators\, aligning with a rights-based approach to arts education and community engagement. \n\n\n\nMother Tongues\, established in 2017\, is a leading organisation working at the intersection of the arts\, language and cultural diversity in Ireland. Its mission is to unlock the creative potential of multilingualism through high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences that promote social cohesion\, celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity and foster a sense of belonging for children\, families and communities. \n\n\n\nSince 2022\, our Language Explorers programme has engaged 18 plurilingual artists and reached over 2\,500 children and parents. By facilitating high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences\, we nurture children’s creativity and language skills\, strengthen family bonds and enhance community wellbeing. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFernanda Ferrari is an award-winning multidisciplinary artist with a 25-year career spanning performance\, puppetry\, filmmaking\, and beyond. Her artistic journey began in Brazil after graduating with an Honors Degree in Performance Arts from Unicamp\, a leading Brazilian university. As a performer\, Fernanda collaborated with renowned companies like Boa Companhia and MídiaKa\, working alongside visionary directors such as Verônica Fabrini and Renato Cohen. Her work has been showcased internationally\, with performances in Havana (Cuba)\, Seattle (USA)\, and London (UK). \n\n\n\nA champion of social transformation through the arts\, Fernanda has designed and led numerous initiatives that blend education and creativity. She founded AMORA\, a production company that produced cultural events and educational projects for governments and corporations. \n\n\n\nFor eight years\, Fernanda collaborated with SESC\, the largest art/social Brazilian organization. Through theatrical performances and media\, she developed and performed educational work focused on informing the public and providing solutions to issues related to health\, the environment\, well-being\, and accessibility. Her collaboration with the Young Vic Theatre and People’s Palace Projects on the “Amazônia” project in Acre\, Brazil\, addressed deforestation and climate change. This project involved cultural workshops and culminated in the impactful documentary “Dancers of the Forest.” In 2012\, Fernanda collaborated with the Brazilian Foreign Ministry and the United Nations in the coordination of the International Rio+20 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. \n\n\n\nAlongside her artistic career\, Fernanda spent 15 years in the film industry\, working as a producer and director. Her passion for creating stop-motion animation for educational projects and advertising campaigns led to professional opportunities in Los Angeles (USA) and Montreal (Canada). Since relocating to Ireland\, Fernanda has honed her artistic practice\, working with children and youth across various counties. Her projects for young audiences\, including “The Magic Field” and “What to Do on a Rainy Day\,” have received support from the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council (SDCC)\, Dept. of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport\, and Media and The Civic through bursaries and commissions. \n\n\n\nFernanda’s relationship with Mother Tongues began over three years ago. During this time\, she collaborated on the development of programs such as Language Explorers and OWL. She has facilitated over 100 workshops for the Language Explorers Programme\, fostering linguistic diversity in schools and community settings. Fernanda has also directed and produced interactive installations blending puppetry with augmented reality\, showcasing her commitment to innovation and inclusion. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/language-explorers-make-it-and-play-creative-multilingual-workshop-for-families-with-children-3-to-6-years-old/
LOCATION:Hill Street Family Resource Centre\, Hill Street Family Resource Centre\, 1 Hill St\, Rotunda\, Dublin\, Leinster\, D01 TC90\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Crafting Stories Together – Creative Multilingual workshops for families with children 3 to 6 years old
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission\, book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMargot A. Jones\, puppeteer\, performer and facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCan you whisper\, rustle\, or growl? How about colour\, create\, and stick things together? If so\, this workshop is for you! Discover the magic of storytelling\, bring the story to life with sound and movement and craft your own imaginative art to take home. Perfect for kids and grown-ups who love to get creative and have fun! In these series each session is different but connected to an overall theme. Come to as many workshops as you like! \n\n\n\nLanguage: English + Irish + Bring your own! While the workshops will be guided in English\, we encourage families to embrace their home languages. This fosters meaningful connections between parents and children\, creating a truly inclusive environment. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers workshops promote a human rights agenda by creating inclusive\, accessible artistic spaces that respect and celebrate every child’s right to participate in cultural life\, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 12). The programme empowers children and families to express their linguistic and cultural identities\, fostering pride in their mother tongues and ensuring that minority and migrant voices are heard and valued. \n\n\n\nBy actively engaging parents and children from diverse backgrounds\, including those living in Direct Provision and socio-economically disadvantaged areas\, the workshops address the right to equality\, cultural participation\, and freedom of expression. The methodology places the child’s voice at the centre\, ensuring they are not only participants but active co-creators\, aligning with a rights-based approach to arts education and community engagement. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers is Mother Tongues’ award-winning programme\, designed for children aged 3 to 6 and their families.Facilitated by our specially trained multilingual artists\, the workshops provide a welcoming space for families from all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. \n\n\n\nEach workshop is an invitation to connect with your family language(s)\, through storytelling\, play\, visual arts\, music and movement. \n\n\n\nOur artists create a space full of imagination and creativity\, in which speaking and listening to languages is fun and something to be proud of. Families come together in high-quality artistic activities while sharing and exploring the diversity of languages in the room – an experience equally inspiring for multilingual families as for those who are curious about other languages and cultures. Workshops are delivered in English\, but families are warmly encouraged to bring any and all languages they speak. Whether your child is fluent\, just learning\, non-speaking\, or uses a different way to communicate\, this space is for you. \n\n\n\nMother Tongues\, established in 2017\, is a leading organisation working at the intersection of the arts\, language and cultural diversity in Ireland. Its mission is to unlock the creative potential of multilingualism through high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences that promote social cohesion\, celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity and foster a sense of belonging for children\, families and communities. Since 2022\, our Language Explorers programme has engaged 18 plurilingual artists and reached over 2\,500 children and parents. By facilitating high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences\, we nurture children’s creativity and language skills\, strengthen family bonds and enhance community wellbeing. \n  \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMargot A. Jones is a puppeteer\, performer and facilitator living in Co\, Wicklow.Born and schooled in Tyrone\, she initially trained in in Ireland\, the USA and Vietnam\, where she earned a PhD in traditional puppetry. During this time she was influenced by Grotowski and Boal and by work at Peter Schumann’s Bread and Puppet Theatre. On her return to Ireland she worked with various companies including Puca Puppets\, and toured to various venues with Irish language work for young audiences. \n\n\n\nAn insatiable curiosity has led her to extend her work into such areas as early years development\, therapeutic theatre\, visual arts practice and community gardening. She is fascinated by differences in perception and experience. Working in communities\, hospitals\, care settings\, museums and schools she pursues this interest through specific facilitative work. \n\n\n\nMargot’s recent work includes: shadow-puppet performance of Gilgamesh (Cashel Arts Festival 2004)\, studio artist at Signal Arts Centre (2023)\, puppetry workshops (Lexicon 2024)\, language explorers workshops (Mother Tongues 2024)\, Shared Island-Civic Society Cross Border Arts Project (2024-25)\, participative research in elder care settings (Age and Opportunity 2024-25). She is currently devising a new performance piece which incorporates traditional Irish ballads and aspects of puppetry. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/crafting-stories-together-creative-multilingual-workshops-for-families-with-children-3-to-6-years-old-4/2025-10-18/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Language Explorers - Out of this world Workshops for parents and their children ages 3 to 6
DESCRIPTION:Tintreach Creative Writing Workshop\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative Writing Workshop conducted to support and facilitate collaboration between artists\, creative practitioners and local communities in Uíbh Ráthach  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree Admission\, book here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/language-explorers-out-of-this-world-tickets-1535865177089 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPaola Invernizzi\, visual artist \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nReady for liftoff? Join us with Paola Invernizzi on a magical journey through space and imagination in our Out of This World workshops! Designed for curious young explorers\, these sessions blend storytelling\, art and multilingual play into an unforgettable adventure. \n\n\n\nTogether\, we will travel from the shimmering Moon to the twinkling Stars\, past distant Planets\, and back to our very own Planet Earth\, discovering what makes it so unique. But the most important destination? The universe inside ourselves. Embark on a journey where every child is a star. Each session is different but connected to an overall theme. Come to as many workshops as you like! \n\n\n\nMother Tongues’ Language Explorer workshops provide a unique creative experience for parents and their children based on storytelling\, play\, visual arts and music. While the workshops will be guided in English\, we encourage families to embrace their home languages.  This fosters meaningful connections between parents and children\, creating a truly inclusive environment. Meet and connect with other like-minded families and share your language journey! \n\n\n\nWorkshops are free of charge\, but booking is required as there is limited capacity. When you reserve a child ticket\, the accompanying adult is automatically included. If you can’t make the event\, please email us at hanna@mothertongues.ie so some other family can benefit from attending the workshop. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers workshops promote a human rights agenda by creating inclusive\, accessible artistic spaces that respect and celebrate every child’s right to participate in cultural life\, as outlined in the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (Article 12). The programme empowers children and families to express their linguistic and cultural identities\, fostering pride in their mother tongues and ensuring that minority and migrant voices are heard and valued. \n\n\n\nBy actively engaging parents and children from diverse backgrounds\, including those living in Direct Provision and socio-economically disadvantaged areas\, the workshops address the right to equality\, cultural participation\, and freedom of expression. The methodology places the child’s voice at the centre\, ensuring they are not only participants but active co-creators\, aligning with a rights-based approach to arts education and community engagement. \n\n\n\nLanguage Explorers is Mother Tongues’ award-winning programme\, designed for children aged 3 to 6 and their families. Facilitated by our specially trained multilingual artists\, the workshops provide a welcoming space for families from all linguistic and cultural backgrounds. Each workshop is an invitation to connect with your family language(s)\, through storytelling\, play\, visual arts\, music and movement.Our artists create a space full of imagination and creativity\, in which speaking and listening to languages is fun and something to be proud of. Families come together in high-quality artistic activities while sharing and exploring the diversity of languages in the room – an experience equally inspiring for multilingual families as for those who are curious about other languages and cultures. Workshops are delivered in English\, but families are warmly encouraged to bring any and all languages they speak. Whether your child is fluent\, just learning\, non-speaking\, or uses a different way to communicate\, this space is for you. \n\n\n\nMother Tongues\, established in 2017\, is a leading organisation working at the intersection of the arts\, language and cultural diversity in Ireland. Its mission is to unlock the creative potential of multilingualism through high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences that promote social cohesion\, celebrate linguistic and cultural diversity and foster a sense of belonging for children\, families and communities. \n\n\n\nSince 2022\, our Language Explorers programme has engaged 18 plurilingual artists and reached over 2\,500 children and parents. By facilitating high-quality\, inclusive arts experiences\, we nurture children’s creativity and language skills\, strengthen family bonds and enhance community wellbeing. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaola Invernizzi is an Italian visual artist based in Dublin. Having completed her studies in Arts and Health at the Brera Academy of Art in Milan\, she has gained diverse experience in both health and educational contexts. Through this journey\, she has come to recognize the potential of art in promoting well-being. \n\n\n\nEmbracing a phenomenological approach and employing a variety of techniques\, Invernizzi facilitates the inner connection between individuals and different art forms. Her primary goal is to extend this connection to the broader community\, thereby enhancing the sense of belonging. Since 2018\, she has been working in Ireland\, undertaking tailored initiatives that respond to community needs\, with a particular focus on arts and health\, arts in education\, and arts in early childhood.In 2020\, Invernizzi was awarded the Professional Development Award by the Arts Council of Ireland\, and in 2021\, she received the Agility Award in arts participation. \n\n\n\nCurrently\, Invernizzi is actively involved in residencies at primary and secondary schools\, while also expanding her knowledge and skills in early childhood education through experiences in school settings and collaborations with Mother Tongues. \n\n\n\nIn the field of Arts and Health\, she has begun a collaboration with Waterford Healing Arts\, focusing on the psychiatric department. She is also an artist in residence at Tallaght University Hospital and has recently joined the panel of Helium Arts. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/language-explorers-out-of-this-world-workshops-for-parents-and-their-children-ages-3-to-6/2025-10-18/
LOCATION:Clondalkin Library\, Clondalkin Library\, Monastery Road\, Clondalkin\, Dublin\, Leinster\, D22 XPO3\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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