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SUMMARY:Eternal Rebels
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA reflection on the stories of  women change-makers in Irish history including Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of Constance Markiewicz;  Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes;  and Mary Elmes\,  (1908-2002) from Cork\, who was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II. Two of the women in the exhibition are Maude Jane Delap (1866-1953)\, a pioneering marine biologist\, and Helen Blackburn (1842–1903)\, suffragist and writer\, both from Valentia Island in County Kerry. The exhibition is open from 24 July to 13 August 2023\, 10am-4pm Monday to Saturday\, 1-5pm Sunday \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features Change-Maker Stories – A Book of Names capturing timeless change-maker stories and photographs of activists and artists from the Decade of Centenaries period in Irish history\, with space in the book inviting you to share the name of a change-maker who inspired you.  Artists involved in the project are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Artistic Curator of the Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival; Hina Khan\, Visual Artist and Miniaturist; Amna Walayat\, Visual Artist\, Féilim James\, writer\, Michael McCabe\, choreographer and performer and John Scott\, of Irish Modern Dance Theatre.  \n\n\n\nSet in the beautiful St John’s Church built to a design by the Irish architect Joseph Wellard 150 years ago. The building is surrounded by a Sensory Garden to cater for people with disabilities. The garden provides individual and combined sensory opportunities and focuses on the five main senses such as smell\, touch\, sight\, hearing and taste. \n\n\n\nPage image is Edge by Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St John the Baptist Church\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Courageous Women – A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nCreative and Production Team\n\n\n\nLead Artist and Curator: Mary Moynihan\, Theatre and Film Maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times \n\n\n\nProducer: Freda Manweiler \n\n\n\nAssociate Curator/Researcher: Niamh Clowry \n\n\n\nCast: Megan O’Malley\, Róisín McAtamney and Ann Sheehy \n\n\n\nCostumes: Risa Ando \n\n\n\nSet Design: The Company \n\n\n\nDigital Artist/Graphic Design: EM Creative \n\n\n\nConsultant Historian (pro bono): Sinead Mc Coole \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCourageous Women is a film inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927)\, an Irish politician\, revolutionary nationalist\, suffragette and socialist; Helena Moloney (1884-1967)\, a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen Army who was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916; Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971)\, a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising and Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, a radical activist\, feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes. Hanna was one of the original founders of the militant Irish Women’s Franchise League set up in 1908 with Margaret Cousins to fight for emancipation and a woman’s right to vote. \n\n\n\nThe film is written by Mary Moynihan and is inspired by and incorporates original writings from ConstanceMarkievicz; poetry excerpts by Eva Gore Booth; original testimony including an adaptation from Doing My Bit for Ireland by Margaret Skinnider; original testimony from Helena Molony and writings by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.  \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to feature this film installation in the Valentia Island Heritage Centre which was founded and opened by Tessa O’Connor in 1986 as a volunteer-run non-profit organisation. Enjoy a visit to the centre to read and view stories of Valentia Island and to engage in lively conversation as people describe and compare histories and lifestyles. \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan O’Malley has recently completed a ‘Masters in Theatre Practice’ student in University College Dublin. Previous to this she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting’s two-year full time course in 2015. While training she took on many roles\, including: Runt in Disco Pigs\, Ophelia in Hamlet\, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew\, and Mags in The Spinning Heart. Megan also played Melissa in The Full Moon Hotel by Philip Doherty. Since graduating she has played Queen Elizabeth in ‘Gráinne’\, and has worked on several short films including ‘Rising’\, ‘The Nest’\, ‘Lilith’ etc . She also stared in Kerry Gold’s latest TV commercial and We Cut Corners music video ‘Of whatever’ by Stoneface Films. Megan was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary\, 2014. More recently\, Megan won the F.A.B. bursary award for Best Actress 16-21. Megan is also a passionate writer and was the first in the school’s history to premier her own work ‘MJ’ for the GSA graduation industry showcase. She also worked alongside Paul Meade for her Manifesto piece ‘The Mourning Seat’. From there Megan worked with Paul Meade over 2016 in developing her idea for ‘Home’\, and was thrilled to present it as part of Smock Alley’s Scene and Heard festival for new work in 2017. Megan has since expanded ‘Home’ to a full length production and which premiered in The New Theatre in 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín is an actor and facilitator based in Dublin. Originally from Cork\, Róisín undertook a BA in Drama Performance from DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama. Upon graduating from DIT Róisín worked in New York on off-Broadway show Ten Ways on A Gun. Other theatre credits include Antigone\, Romeo and Juliet and Smashing Times’ The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of 1916 and If you could Read my Mind from the highly acclaimed Testimonies. Róisín has performed in the Smashing Times tour of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII performing in Deirdre Kinahan’s new piece Ode to Ettie Steinberg\, which toured to Ireland\, Northern Ireland and Germany. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/courageous-women-a-celebration-of-change-makers/
LOCATION:Valentia Island Heritage Centre\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Ancient Futures
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nDumnac Goulet\, sound and visual artist \n\n\n\nFaye Boland\, poet \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEnjoy three short films on display in the Lighthouse Engine Room at Valentia Island lighthouse including: \n\n\n\nGlanleam Gallaun created by Dumnac Goulet\, location sound designer\, in collaboration with poet Faye Boland\, which tells the story of history and markers on the island of Valentia. \n\n\n\nOn the Ledge of Courage by Mary Moynihan\, performed by Carla Ryan. \n\n\n\nIn Time by Mary Moynihan\, a poem based on her personal experience of Covid-19\, and a personal response to the changing landscape around us. In Time was later transformed into a poem-film\, co-directed by Mark Quinn\, and features performances by Carla Ryan and Kwasie Boyce. Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi performs the musical score\, which is an original composition of her own creation\, inspired by “Jewish incantations at a synagogue or at prayer\, invoking God’s help\, a cry of the human spirit…I was inspired too by the solo plainchant of Monks or Irish Sean Nos singing.” \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFaye Boland lives in Kenmare\, Co.Kerry. \n\n\n\nHer work has been published in numerous literary magazines and journals. She has won the Robert Leslie Boland poetry prize 2018 and the Hanna Greally International Literary Award 2017. She was shortlisted in 2013 for the Poetry on the Lake XIII International Poetry Competition and was highly commended for a Kerry Literary Award (for fiction) in 2015. \n\n\n\nShe is also a Volunteer Tutor on the Fighting Words Creative Writing Programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release early 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nKwasie Boyce lives in Dundalk\, County Louth. He was born and raised in Trinidad and later grew up in New York from his early teens. He found his calling as an actor and trained and performed with IMPACT Repertory Theatre Performance Company\, Negro Ensemble Company and Theatre For the New City. He was drawn to theatre companies where Activism is at the core to the work they create and stories they tell. \n\n\n\nHe took part in many film projects including features in Vikings\, Red Rock and Bloods.  He is the Founder and Artistic Director of Dundalk’s M.A.D. Youth Theatre and proud to say they are heading into their 10th Year. They have devised and produced award-winning plays and have a reputation for taking risk and not shying away from issues that young people want to talk about.  He works as a freelance drama facilitator in schools and various youth organisations and currently serves as Dundalk Youth Centre’s programme coordinator for PEACE IV Anticlockwise programme\, where they use art as a tool to explore conflict\, peace and reconciliation. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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LOCATION:Engine Room\, Valentia Lighthouse\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Cromwell Point\, Glanleam\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, V23 P680\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Paradise Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nBooking\n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, available daily. For group tours with a guide\, contact Freda on 087 2214245 or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nEntry fee to The Barracks and Exhibition: €6.50 adults\, €4.50 children\, €5.50 students and older people\, €20 family\, up to 2 adults\, 3 children\, €5 for groups of 10+ \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nParadise Lost and Found is a visual art\, film\, photography and poetry exhibition presented for States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers. The exhibition by three artists\, Mary Moynihan\, Hina Khan and Amna Walayat\, reflects on a search for peace and ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. The work explores intersections between peace\, visibility\, invisibility and fragmentation and the inner world of the mind and soul linked to the physicality of the body and connections to nature. \n\n\n\nThe work of Mary Moynihan is titled ‘The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found’ and features photography and poetic texts and a poem film on love and courage and ‘the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through’.  Amna Walayat’s work is a celebration and remembrance of womanhood and consists of ten pieces making up one artwork created under the title of ‘Fall’.   Artist Hina Khan has created a body of work titled ‘Visible and Invisible’ reflecting on themes of visibility\, invisibility\, migration and a search for peace.  Collectively all three artists are creating a profound body of work inspired by a celebration of the human spirit and a search for peace\, equality and human rights.  \n\n\n\nThe Old Barracks is a unique building perched on an elevated site close to the bridge over the River Fertha in Cahersiveen. It is home to a permanent exhibition which recounts the building’s remarkable history and that of the local region\, including an exhibition on Daniel O’Connell\, who was born in Cahersiveen\, and was known as ‘The Liberator’ for his role in ending discrimination against Catholics. \n\n\n\nPage photo is Haunting by Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in Born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in Miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing etc in her work. \n\n\n\nHina has chosen Miniature because of its intricacy and delicacy of brush work which has a unique identity. Most of Hina’s work is a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature. My work is the constant search for the best way to interpret the ideas expresses my own ideologies through symbolism. Shifting my practice to installation\, videos\, 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my art practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibition at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s next solo exhibition will be exhibited in the coming months.  Her art pieces are also in the permanent collection of Arts Council Ireland. She is the recipient of several Awards from Arts Council Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and different counties. Currently she is preparing a solo show which will be displayed in LHQgallery 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that\, ‘as an artist\, I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ieBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/paradise-lost-and-found/
LOCATION:Old Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, Co Kerry\, Cahersiveen\, Kerry\, V23VR62\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Installation,Kerry,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Courageous Women - A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nLead Artist and Curator: Mary Moynihan\, Theatre and Film Maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times \n\n\n\nProducer: Freda Manweiler \n\n\n\nAssociate Curator/Researcher: Niamh Clowry \n\n\n\nCast: Megan O’Malley\, Róisín McAtamney and Ann Sheehy \n\n\n\nCostumes: Risa Ando \n\n\n\nSet Design: The Company \n\n\n\nDigital Artist/Graphic Design: EM Creative \n\n\n\nConsultant Historian (pro bono): Sinead Mc Coole \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCourageous Women is a film by Mary Moynihan inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of women in Irish history from 1916 to 1923. The film is inspired by the stories of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927); Helena Molony (1884-1967); Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971); Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) and Eva Gore Booth (1870-1926).   \n\n\n\nCourageous Women is on display in The Tearooms\, Glebe House\, Co Donegal from 1 August to 31 October 2023.  \n\n\n\nThe women whose stories inspire the film are: \n\n\n\nConstance Markievicz (1868-1927) an Irish politician\, revolutionary nationalist\, suffragette and socialist \n\n\n\nHelena Molony (1884-1967)\, a Republican\, feminist and labour activist. Helena was a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen Army and was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916. \n\n\n\nMargaret Skinnider (1893-1971)\, a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising. \n\n\n\nHanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, radical activist\, feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes. Hanna was one of the original founders of the militant Irish Women’s Franchise League set up in 1908 to fight for emancipation and a woman’s right to vote. \n\n\n\nEva Gore Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, feminist\, campaigner for social justice\, and a sister of Irish revolutionary Countess Markievicz. \n\n\n\nThe film is written by Mary Moynihan and is inspired by and incorporates original writings from Constance Markievicz; poetry excerpts by Eva Gore Booth; original testimony including an adaptation from Doing My Bit for Ireland by Margaret Skinnider; original testimony from Helena Molony and writings by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.   \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, open daily. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan O’Malley has recently completed a ‘Masters in Theatre Practice’ student in University College Dublin. Previous to this she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting’s two-year full time course in 2015. While training she took on many roles\, including: Runt in Disco Pigs\, Ophelia in Hamlet\, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew\, and Mags in The Spinning Heart. Megan also played Melissa in The Full Moon Hotel by Philip Doherty. Since graduating she has played Queen Elizabeth in ‘Gráinne’\, and has worked on several short films including ‘Rising’\, ‘The Nest’\, ‘Lilith’ etc . She also stared in Kerry Gold’s latest TV commercial and We Cut Corners music video ‘Of whatever’ by Stoneface Films. Megan was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary\, 2014. More recently\, Megan won the F.A.B. bursary award for Best Actress 16-21. Megan is also a passionate writer and was the first in the school’s history to premier her own work ‘MJ’ for the GSA graduation industry showcase. She also worked alongside Paul Meade for her Manifesto piece ‘The Mourning Seat’. From there Megan worked with Paul Meade over 2016 in developing her idea for ‘Home’\, and was thrilled to present it as part of Smock Alley’s Scene and Heard festival for new work in 2017. Megan has since expanded ‘Home’ to a full length production and which premiered in The New Theatre in 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín is an actor and facilitator based in Dublin. Originally from Cork\, Róisín undertook a BA in Drama Performance from DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama. Upon graduating from DIT Róisín worked in New York on off-Broadway show Ten Ways on A Gun. Other theatre credits include Antigone\, Romeo and Juliet and Smashing Times’ The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of 1916 and If you could Read my Mind from the highly acclaimed Testimonies. Róisín has performed in the Smashing Times tour of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII performing in Deirdre Kinahan’s new piece Ode to Ettie Steinberg\, which toured to Ireland\, Northern Ireland and Germany. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:The Tearooms\, Glebe House\, Co Donegal\, Letter Kenny\, Donegal\, F92 WP70\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Donegal,Installation
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nEmma Byrne\, musician \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTales of Love and Loss is a unique performance featuring A Beauty that will Pass and Grace and Joe by Mary Moynihan\, with poetry by Eva Gore-Booth and music by composer and violinist Emma Byrne.  \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass is a poetical\, storytelling reflection inspired by the life stories and clandestine engagement of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803)\, leader of the 1803 Irish rebellion.  \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe sees Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) tell the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising and the youngest signatory to the Irish proclamation. It relates how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution.   \n\n\n\nThe event culminates in a panel discussion on States of Independence – Women Change-Maker Stories from the Decade of Centenaries  and New Visions for the Future with artist Mary Moynihan and invited guest speakers\, all welcome.  Enjoy a reflection on change-maker stories and intersections between art\, equality\, human rights\, diversity and peace with reference to the stories of women including Eva Gore-Booth and Mary Elmes. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClassical musician Emma Byrne is an active performer across Ireland and abroad. She is an enthusiastic young violinist with a passion for the arts. She has performed at venues such the National Concert Hall\, the RDS\, the Helix Theatre and the Whale Theatre. Having studied at the Young European Strings School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music\, she now divides her time between teaching\, orchestral playing\, chamber music and solo performances. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/tales-of-love-and-loss-9/
LOCATION:St John the Baptist Church\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Kerry,Performance,Poetry,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nEmma Byrne\, musician \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld  by Féilim James is a reflection on the life and work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)\, an Irish poet\,  dramatist\, and prose writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 and is considered one of the great English-language poets of the twentieth century.  With poetry by Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of the Irish revolutionary leader Constance Markiewicz and live music performed by violinist Emma Byrne.  The event culminates in a panel discussion on States of Independence – Artist Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries and New Visions for the Future with the artists and invited guest speakers. \n\n\n\nValentia Island lighthouse is a unique building in a spectacular setting. The Lighthouse is home to the most westerly harbour light on the island of Ireland\, guiding vessels through the Northern entrance to Valentia Island harbour. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClassical musician Emma Byrne is an active performer across Ireland and abroad. She is an enthusiastic young violinist with a passion for the arts. She has performed at venues such the National Concert Hall\, the RDS\, the Helix Theatre and the Whale Theatre. Having studied at the Young European Strings School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music\, she now divides her time between teaching\, orchestral playing\, chamber music and solo performances. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/change-maker-stories-tales-from-an-afterworld/
LOCATION:Lighthouse Courtyard\, Valentia Lighthouse\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Cromwell Point\, Glanleam\, Kerry\, V23 P680\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Kerry,Panel Discussion,Performance,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020). She works as Communications Officer at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and as producer for Gaitkrash Theatre Company. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/tales-of-love-and-loss/
LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dublin,Music,Performance,Poetry,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nedf\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. 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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nedf\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nedf\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales of Love and Loss
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie to avail of free tickets. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, actor \n\n\n\nLorna Fox\, actor \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, actor \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\, writer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, poet\, children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023 \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Tales of Love and Loss\, a guided\, walkabout\, outdoor performance taking place at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Rathfarnham\, on the 12\, 13\, 19 and 20 August 2023\, two shows daily at 1pm and 2pm. The show features change-maker stories from history as we engage with the unique\, historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, where Patrick Pearse and the Pearse family lived and ran their innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna.Enjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and music reflecting on the lives of Sarah Curran\, Robert Emmet\, William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women\, Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, Margaret Mary Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Lorna Fox\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916). \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Family \n\n\n\nThe Wayfarer\, a poem by Pádraig Pearse. This was the last poem written by Pearse on the eve of his execution at Kilmainham Gaol\, Dublin (May 2\, 1916). The Wayfarer reflects on the fleeting beauty of life’s journey at a moment of decisive personal and political change\, performed by Michael McCabe. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, an historical insight by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian and curator\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum and exploring the role these women played in shaping Irish society. Recited by Michael McCabe \n\n\n\nMrs Pearse monologue performed by Ciara Hayes. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and a former Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Rob Harrington. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council. Michael recently completed training in Suzuki and Viewpoints Techniques under Tadashi Suzuki of SCOT Theatre Company\, in Toga Mura\, Japan. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Sinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and festival coordinator for Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020 – present). She works at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information – online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now – online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014); The Pearse Women\, Smashing Times (2022); The Plough and the Stars for Bloomsday\, Áras an Uachtaráin\, Smashing Times (2023). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFile agus scríbhneoir do dhaoine óga í Áine Ní Ghlinn\, agus Laureate na nÓg 2020 – 2023.  \n\n\n\nTá 36 leabhar foilsithe aici\, idir fhilíocht\, dhrámaí\, úrscéalta agus scéalta do dhaoine óga. I measc na nduaiseanna atá buaite aici\, tá Gradam Reics Carló Leabhar na Bliana (2014\, 2016\, 2019 do na húrscéalta Daideo\, Hata Zú Mhamó & Boscadán)\, Gradam Ficsin\, Leabhair Pháistí Éireann & Gradam Leabhar na Bliana\, Cumann Litearthachta na hÉireann (Daideo\, 2015). Bronnadh Comhaltacht Patrick Kavanagh uirthi i 2019 agus tá go leor duaiseanna filíochta buaite aici ag Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí Lios Tuathail\, Féile Filíochta Bhéal na mBuillí agus Oireachtas na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a poet and children’s writer and is Laureate na nÓg\, 2020-2023. She has 36 books published. Awards include Gradam Reics Carló Children’s Book of the Year on three occasions\, LAI Book of the Year\, CBI Fiction Honour award\, Patrick Kavanagh Fellowship (2019) and a range of poetry awards (Oireachtas/ Listowel Writers’ Week/Strokestown Poetry Festival + others). \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\nNi Ghlinn was appointed Laureate na nÓg/Children’s Literature Laureate in May 2020. Laureate na nÓg is an honour which was established in 2010 to engage young people with high quality literature and to underline the importance of children’s literature in our cultural and imaginative lives. Her ambition as Laureate is to lift the cloak of invisibility from Irish language authors and books\, and to encourage children and young people to read for pleasure as Gaeilge. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham\, Co Dublin\, St Endas Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Tales From an Afterworld
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to attendance. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie for a free ticket. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, actor \n\n\n\nEmma Byrne\, musician \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nGeraldine McAlinden\, director \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass by Mary Moynihan\, a poetical\, storytelling reflection inspired by the life stories and clandestine engagement of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803)\, leader of the 1803 Irish rebellion.  \n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld  by Féilim James is a reflection on the life and work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)\, an Irish poet\,  dramatist\, and prose writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1923 and is considered one of the great English-language poets of the twentieth century.  With poetry by Eva Gore-Booth  (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, campaigner for equality and a sister of the Irish revolutionary leader Constance Markiewicz and live music performed by violinist Emma Byrne.  The event culminates in a panel discussion on States of Independence – Artist Change-Makers from the Decade of Centenaries and New Visions for the Future with the artists and invited guest speakers. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClassical musician Emma Byrne is an active performer across Ireland and abroad. She is an enthusiastic young violinist with a passion for the arts. She has performed at venues such the National Concert Hall\, the RDS\, the Helix Theatre and the Whale Theatre. Having studied at the Young European Strings School of Music and the Royal Irish Academy of Music\, she now divides her time between teaching\, orchestral playing\, chamber music and solo performances. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLorna is an actor and dancer from Co. Wicklow. Graduating from The Lir Academy last year she has since been in shows for the Scene + Heard Festival and Dublin Theatre Festival. She most recently finished on a new play ‘Yesteryear’ which ran for a week in Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford. \n\n\n\nTheatre Credits include: To Let (Dublin Theatre Festival)\, Moving On (Scene + Heard)\, Yesteryear (Garter Lane Theatre\, Waterford). \n\n\n\nFilm/TV Credits include: Five Letters to the stranger who will Dissect my brain (Short)\, Love in the Time of Corona (Short)\, The Hunted (Series\, Channel 5).  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeraldine is an actor\, director\, producer and writer originally from Armagh in Northern Ireland. She started training in acting in the Gaiety School of Acting in 2000 and later in Stanislavski at the Focus Theatre in Dublin. In 2012/13 Geraldine completed the full time Screen Acting Programme at The Factory (now Bow Street Academy) in Dublin where she trained with Lance Daly\, Kirsten Sheridan\, Shimmy Marcus\, Jim Sheridan\, Aisling Walsh\, Derbhla Walsh\, Frank Berry and Ian Power\, among others. \n\n\n\nHer film acting credits include Ordinary Love\, Black 47\, The Secret Scripture\, Dark Lies the Island\, Procession\, and Portrait of a Zombie. Geraldine’s performance in Portrait of a Zombie led to her being long listed for an IFTA for Best Actress in a leading role in a feature film in 2013. Geraldine’s TV Credits include Miss Scarlet and the Duke\, Blood\, Striking Out and Red Rock. Her stage performances include The 24 Hour Plays Dublin 2020 (Abbey Theatre)\, One Day by Dick Walsh as well as Dublin Fringe theatre shows A Remember to Breathe and Spoonfed (a long play improvisation)\, Philadelphia\, Here I come! and Beyond Therapy! \n\n\n\nGeraldine trained in directing with Kristian Marken and she subsequently became an associate director with The Focus theatre. Her stage directing credits include Play/Record – The Granby Transcripts\, (Players Theatre\, Trinity)\, My Name is Mary (Project Theatre)\, The Cripple of Inishmaan\, (Smock Alley) The New York Monologues (The International Bar\, Smock Alley\, The Electric Picnic\, the Bulmer’s Comedy Festival and The Focus Theatre)\, One flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest (The Factory)\, Orphans (The New Theatre).  Film directing credits include the short films Helmets and Thorny Ireland. \n\n\n\nGeraldine has trained in writing with Stephen Walsh (Filmbase) and Pat McCabe (The Factory) among others. Her tiny play Knowing was published and produced by Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland. She has also written several short films. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is one of two founding members of Alchemy 8 Productions which produces theatre and film with a particular focus on stories of the human heart in conflict with itself. Its theatre production Orphans by Lyle Kessler which Geraldine also directed was included in a round-up of best theatre performances in Ireland in 2015. \n\n\n\nGeraldine is fascinated by investigating themes of the human need for connection and community\, the importance of sense of place and roots and the presumptions and prejudices these can bring. This is reflected in much of her work involving large ensemble casts\, with a focus on developing well rounded\, interesting characters and their physical and emotional juxtaposition in relation to each other. \n\n\n\nShe is passionate about the arts’ ability to positively impact audiences in many far-reaching ways from providing much needed entertainment and escapism\, to being a salve for the soul\, a cathartic release and a means of encouraging and developing empathy. Geraldine believes in the power of humour to provoke an emotional shift. As a solicitor in her previous life\, Geraldine is passionate about justice and promoting Human Rights on an individual and collective basis. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis show is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies. \n\n\n\nThe team collaboratively create a series of interconnected artworks including a live multi-disciplinary performance\, visual art projections and a creative billboards campaign to be launched for the 2023 annual International Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival taking place from the 13 to 22 October 2023. Events are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. \n\n\n\nEvents take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all. Events take place in a range of venues both ancient and modern including Office of Public Work spaces throughout Ireland. \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. Supported by Creative Europe as part of the Theatre in Palm project. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/tales-from-an-afterworld/
LOCATION:The Classroom\, Glebe House\, Co Donegal\, Letterkenny\, Donegal\, F92 WP70\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Donegal,Performance,Poetry,Theatre
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SUMMARY:Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \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/love-story/2023-08-28/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation
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SUMMARY:Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \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/love-story/2023-09-04/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
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DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \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/love-story/2023-09-11/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation
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SUMMARY:HOUSE
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook Here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nJym Daly – writer and composer \n\n\n\nChantal McCormick – producer\, director and choreographer \n\n\n\nSara Granda – Aerialist  \n\n\n\nGill Byrne – Elvis impersonator & aerialist  \n\n\n\nPolina Shapkina – Aerialist  \n\n\n\nClaire Carroll – Aerialist \n\n\n\nJean McGlynn – Biddy\, the event organiser \n\n\n\nAshton Fenix – Engagement Officer  \n\n\n\nJamie Carswell – Bingo Caller \n\n\n\nClara Kerr – Aerialist & Soar Up \n\n\n\nMaire Morrison – Performer & Soar Up \n\n\n\nAndrea Healy – Performer & Soar Up \n\n\n\nBethany Hayes – Aerialist & Soar Up \n\n\n\nFintan Sweeney – Production Manager \n\n\n\nGemma Trimble – Stage Manager \n\n\n\nKeylor Rojas – Rigger \n\n\n\nMark Carry – Rigger \n\n\n\nJose Portillo  – Rigger \n\n\n\nBryan Donaldson – Rigger \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA drive-in bingo and aerial dance show extravaganza. \n\n\n\nIreland’s leading Circus Company Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre brings their Bingo? Circus! Extravaganza to Cashel as part of the Cashel Arts Festival this September and Ballyshannon in October.  \n\n\n\nDrive-in\, park up and play Bingo all while aerial dancers dance in the air 40 metres high with giant bingo balls and a feast of comedy unfolds below between Biddy and the new bingo caller\, John O Dowd. Let’s not forget the local Elvis impersonator! \n\n\n\nHouse! brings a refreshing uplifting show that gets the audience out of their cars and dancing with our local community performers\, the Fidget Feet Soar Up’s\, and to original music by Fidget Feet’s own Jym Daly. \n\n\n\nA fun and outrageous outdoor bingo spectacle show\, suitable for everyone from 6 to 96!  \n\n\n\nIf you don’t have a car\, don’t worry! Bring blankets\, camp chairs and a picnic and settle in for an amusing and laughter-filled show with your family and friends. \n\n\n\nCashel – Saturday 16th September 1pm & 4pm Sunday 17th September 1pm & 4pm  \n\n\n\nAs part of the Cashel Arts Festival  \n\n\n\nLocation: Tesco Car Park Cashel\, Cork Road  \n\n\n\nTickets: €20 per car | pedestrian access €5 pp  \n\n\n\nBallyshannon – Saturday 7th October 1.30pm & 4.30pm | Sunday 8th October 1pm & 4pm  \n\n\n\nLocation: Market Yard\, Ballyshannon \n\n\n\nTickets: €40 per car | €10 per person  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChantal McCormick trained as a dancer and choreographer at the London School of Contemporary Dance. After graduation\, she became interested in aerial circus and trained at Circus Space\, London. Chantal toured with established dance and circus companies in the UK from 1999-2008. Fidget Feet was founded in 2004 by Chantal (Donegal) and her husband Jym Daly (Cork). Chantal has directed\, choreographed\, and performed shows with Fidget Feet including; Wired and Free\, Fairies Tail\, Remember Her\, Madam Silk\, Raw\, Hang On\, Catch Me\, Fire Birds and Elves and the Shoemaker\, House!\, A Handful of Dreams and most recently When the Moon Spun Round. Chantal is also the Festival Director of the Irish Aerial Dance Fest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeginning at the Crawford Municipal (Cork Art School). In London\, Jym attracted the attention of London’s avant-garde scene by playing kitchen sinks along with Chinese violins in nightclubs like the Camden Palace etc. Never feeling any one art form to be fully satisfactory\, Jym later found himself involved in the development of a new sound which combined spiritual music from around the world with the emerging world of dance beats. Loop Guru toured the world for many years leaving a rich legacy of albums. During that time Jym also created videos for the band and created a cartoon which ran in a national music magazine. His eclectic artistic past has now culminated in Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre\, co-founded with his wife Chantal McCormick\, where music\, film\, dance\, acting and swinging boats off cranes co-exist peacefully in one expression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Granda is a performance artist from Malaga\, Spain and has been based in Ireland since 2017. She has a degree in Drama from Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Málaga with a specialisation in physical theatre. Sara was part of the El Espeto Feliz Company and performed with them for several years. She is now the head teacher at the Irish Aerial Creation Centre and also an associate artist at Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre. She was recently seen on tour in “A Handful of Dreams” at the Hat-fair Festival in Winchester and also “House!” A new Fidget Feet aerial theatre show. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshton is a multidisciplinary queer and neurodivergent artist\, and the Community Engagement Officer for the House! 2023 tour. They accidentally fell in love with trapeze and now work across movement\, theatre and circus.  Twelve countries and several questionable costume choices later\, Ashton creates performance pieces which explore authentic communication and connection; they are currently developing techniques which combine text with physical expression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara is a dance artist from Co. Down who trained at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts\, achieving a 1st class BA (Hons) in Dance in 2019. She has a background in festival Irish dance and contemporary dance and has worked professionally throughout the UK and Ireland since graduating. Recent choreography work includes “The Line of Life”\, a contemporary dance and interactive projection design piece commissioned by Maiden Voyage Dance for the Belfast Children’s Festival 2023. Clara has also performed extensively\, including a west end and national tour with “Fairytale of New York” and as an ensemble member in Northern Ireland Opera’s “La Traviata” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaire is a contemporary dancer from Derry\, Northern Ireland who is imminently finishing her BA in Professional Dance at Dance City (Newcastle\, Uk). Her primary focus is contemporary dance however her diverse background of training involves ballet\, jazz\, acrobatics and others. Throughout her degree and outside work\, she has worked with companies and choreographers such as Voxed Dance Theatre\, Michael Spencer Philips and Lizzie Klotz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany is a dancer from Co. Laois who is currently in her last year of the BA in Irish dance at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick. She started dancing at a young age with Fluxus Dance\, a contemporary dance company\, run by Cathy O’ Kennedy. She then started Irish dance at age nine with the Farrell Caffrey School of Irish dance. She was introduced to aerial dance during her first year of college and spent time as an intern during her college placement with the Irish Aerial Creation Centre. Since then\, Bethany has continued to train and perform Irish dance\, aerial dance and contemporary dance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFintan Sweeney is the current production manager with Fidget Feet.  Going for a big career change from the Tech world in 2018 he started working in theatre on lights\, Sound\, Production and Stage Management while in the background working on his own ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Costa Rica at the age of 38\, he is one of the most experienced riggers in the world of flight effects and acrobatics in Central America. \n\n\n\nHe is a lover of the vertical world\, trainer of high performance professionals for years. He began his professional adventure in Scouting at the age of 14 where he became involved in the world of ropes and knots\, competent person for fall protection\, rope access technician SPRAT N3 and IRATA N1. Trained to access safely in arborism technique and flood rescue\, ancient and modern rope splicer. Volunteer collaborator of emergency departments such as firefighters and Red Cross. \n\n\n\nHe teaches specialized workshops in person and also shares knowledge on his social networks of the vertical world based on his experience. \n\n\n\n\n\nFidget Feet\n\n\n\nSince 1998\, Fidget Feet have created\, established and nurtured the aerial dance sector in Ireland\, and created international connections and collaborations. Over 35 shows have been created and toured in this time\, ranging from indoor\, outdoor\, crane\, and vertical dance performances around iconic Irish landmarks\, shows for young audiences\, community development regionally\, professional development through establishing Ireland’s first aerial dance festival and training center. These performances and opportunities take place throughout the country to make the art form accessible to all. We have achieved this through hard work\, successful partnerships with venues\, educational institutes\, festivals and funding bodies such as Creative Europe\, and the Arts and Cultural Capital Scheme 2016. \n\n\n\nIn 2010\, with An Grianán Theatre and the Donegal County Council\, Fidget Feet founded the Irish Aerial Dance Fest – one of the largest aerial festivals in Europe. Run annually the Irish Aerial Dance Fest hosts more than 100 classes over two weeks\, and is attended by participants from all over the world. Fidget Feet are artists in residence at the prestigious Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. In 2013 Fidget Feet were awarded an Arthur Guinness Project award for the Irish Aerial Creation Centre\, a new home for aerial in Ireland\, which opened in Limerick in 2015. \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/house/
LOCATION:Tesco Car Park Cashel\, Moloughney\, Ashwell's-Lot\, Cashel\, Co. Tipperary
CATEGORIES:Aerial,Performance
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SUMMARY:Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \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/love-story/2023-09-18/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation
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DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \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/love-story/2023-09-25/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation
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SUMMARY:Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \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/love-story/2023-10-02/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation
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SUMMARY:In Your Corner
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary. Exhibition open 10am-5pm (closed 1-2pm) Monday to Saturday only. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMatt Spalding\, photographic artist \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPhotographic artist Matt Spalding has been embedded with the Dublin Docklands Boxing Club Seville Place for a year. Spalding has been taking action shots and also works in the National Stadium. His images are striking and very strong. He was awarded funding from the NEIC ARTS DEPARTMENT \n\n\n\n“This exhibition gives the boxers a voice and the rightful opportunity to view themselves as positive role models for their community\, to soften the image of boxing to the wider public and critically\, highlight the enormous amount of voluntary work\, love and pride delivered gratis to our local club Dublin Docklands Boxing Club by coaches and parents alike. \n\n\n\nDDBC\, an all inclusive club\, has steered\, and continues to steer local boys and girls – kids who could just as easily slip through the cracks and onto a very different path – into an arena that teaches them manners\, humility\, grace\, honour\, courage\, respect and discipline. \n\n\n\nI am truly humbled by them.” \n\n\n\n– Matt Spalding \n\n\n\nFive Lamps Arts Festival\n\n\n\nThe Five Lamps Arts Festival primary commitment is connecting the north inner city of Dublin with the arts and we achieve this through inclusivity\, participation\, environmental enhancement\, and the creation and presentation of locally relevant\, artistically ambitious work. Through this we aim to contribute to the development of the perception of the Five Lamps area as a positive and creative place in which to live and work. \n\n\n\nWe are best known for our flagship event The Five Lamps Arts Festival\, an award-winning annual community-based arts festival which has taken place each spring in the North East Inner City. \n\n\n\nToday\, in addition to the annual festival\, we run community arts programmes\, guided walking tours across the area\, workshops\, and events throughout the year. We also provide project management consulting to several volunteer and community groups. \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/in-your-corner/
LOCATION:Charleville Mall Library\, North Strand Road\, Dubin 1\, D01 AX99
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography
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SUMMARY:Bullied
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €12. Book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael J Harnett\, writer \n\n\n\nVinnie McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nShauna Brennan\, actor \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nAnna\, (16) is spending mid-term break with Grandad who lives alone in the East Wall. But Anna is having problems. Her parents are not getting on. She is being secretly bullied. Sinister texts\, fake invites and on-line images are making her life hell. Grandad\, too\, is having problems. The gas company are about to cut him off. His bank is bouncing payments. And he can’t get answers to any of his questions. \n\n\n\nBullied is a cross-generational play with two people\, 50 years apart\, facing up to and finally challenging the on-line and secret world of cyber communication \n\n\n\nFive Lamps Arts Festival\n\n\n\nThe Five Lamps Arts Festival primary commitment is connecting the north inner city of Dublin with the arts and we achieve this through inclusivity\, participation\, environmental enhancement\, and the creation and presentation of locally relevant\, artistically ambitious work. Through this we aim to contribute to the development of the perception of the Five Lamps area as a positive and creative place in which to live and work. \n\n\n\nWe are best known for our flagship event The Five Lamps Arts Festival\, an award-winning annual community-based arts festival which has taken place each spring in the North East Inner City. \n\n\n\nToday\, in addition to the annual festival\, we run community arts programmes\, guided walking tours across the area\, workshops\, and events throughout the year. We also provide project management consulting to several volunteer and community groups. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/bullied/2023-10-03/
LOCATION:Sean O’Casey Theatre\, 18-26 St Mary's Rd\, East Wall\, Dublin\, D03 AY74
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of Changemakers
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAisha Hamdulay\, exhibition coordinator\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, exhibition curator and artist\, writer\, director\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis multidisciplinary exhibition features photography\,  poetry and story and is a visual and poetical reflection on the stories of  change-maker Human Rights Defenders today.  The exhibition runs Tuesday 3 October – Saturday 11 November 2023\, Tuesday – Saturday only\, 11am-4pm (closed 1.30-2.30pm) daily at the dlr Mill Theatre\, Dundrum. The exhibition is a collaboration between Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is presented for States of Independence\, a major project celebrating the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries in Irish history linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. \n\n\n\nChange-Makers as Human Rights Defenders \n\n\n\nHuman rights defenders are persons\, who individually\, or in association with others\, work peacefully to promote and protect universally recognized human rights and fundamental freedoms\, in accordance with the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders.  An important document that identifies key human rights that all people are entitled to is the Universal Declaration on Human Rights. \n\n\n\nIn relation to human rights our world needs a commitment to documents such as the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which arose out of a response to the horrific atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust and to the Geneva Convention of 1949 which sets limits on the ways in which states may conduct themselves in armed conflict. The following is a summary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nArticle 1: All human beings are born free and equal. \n\n\n\nArticle 2: Everyone entitled to rights outlined\, without distinction such as race\, colour\, sex\, language\, religion\, political or other opinion\, national or social origin\, property\, birth or other status. \n\n\n\nArticle 3: Right to life\, liberty and security of person. \n\n\n\nArticle 4: No one shall be held in slavery or servitude. \n\n\n\nArticle 5:  No one shall be subjected to torture or degrading treatment. \n\n\n\nArticle 6: Right to recognition everywhere as a person before the law. \n\n\n\nArticle 7: All are equal before the law. \n\n\n\nArticle 8: Right to an effective remedy by the competent national tribunal. \n\n\n\nArticle 9: No one subjected to arbitrary arrest\, detention or exile. \n\n\n\nArticle 10: Entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing. \n\n\n\nArticle 11: Right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty. \n\n\n\nArticle 12: Freedom from interference with privacy\, family\, home or correspondence. \n\n\n\nArticle 13: Right to freedom of movement in and out of a country. \n\n\n\nArticle 28: Right to a social order where these rights can be fully realized. \n\n\n\nArticle 29: Duties to the community essential to free and full development. \n\n\n\nArticle 30: Right to freedom from state interference in relation to  the above outlined rights.All over the world human rights defenders work peacefully to protect the rights of others. These rights are enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In their tireless struggle to create more just and equal societies\, human rights defenders put themselves at huge personal risk. Every year\, HRDS are beaten\, tortured\, jailed or killed. Human Rights defenders are beacons of hope and their work must never be forgotten. Despite these challenges\, human rights defenders have achieved significant successes over the past 25 years in bringing about more equitable and just societies. There has been significant developments in international law and standards on the role\, recognition and protection of human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nHuman Rights Defenders include the five winners of the Front Line Defenders Award 2023:  \n\n\n\nOlivier Bahemuke Ndoole (Democratic Republic of the Congo) is a leader among environmental and land defenders in DRC and one of the most trusted advocates on behalf of communities impacted by land grabs\, trafficking\, and illegal resource extraction activities. He is also the only advocate who organises judicial training and capacity-building sessions for DRC citizens on topics related to environment and community rights in Goma\, eastern DRC. \n\n\n\nSegundo Ordóñez (Ecuador)\, an Afro-descendant human rights defender\, is one of the most visible faces and the community representative in the two legal proceedings brought against the Japanese-owned company Furukawa Plantaciones C. A. and the State of Ecuador. The cases have focused on how workers on abacá (Manila hemp) plantations suffer labour exploitation as they farm the raw materials in slavery-like conditions. \n\n\n\nJeany ‘Rose’ Hayahay (Philippines) is a woman human rights defender based in Mindanao\, the Philippines. Since 2019\, she has been the spokesperson of the Save Our Schools Network (SOS Network)\, a coalition of child-focused NGOs\, church-based groups and other stakeholders advocating for children’s right to education in Mindanao. \n\n\n\nDigital Security Lab Ukraine (Ukraine) is a team of specialists in the field of digital security and internet freedom. They help Ukrainian journalists\, human rights defenders and public activists solve problems with digital security\, as well as promote the realisation of human rights on the internet by influencing government policy in the field of digital rights. \n\n\n\nHala Ahed (Jordan) is a Jordanian human rights lawyer who has worked with a number of human rights and feminist organisations to defend women’s rights\, workers’ rights\, and the freedoms of opinion\, expression and peaceful assembly in Jordan. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/2023-front-line-defenders-award-human-rights-defenders-risk \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality as part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call as part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-defenders-changemakers-exhibition/2023-10-03/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Photography,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Courageous Women - A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary\, available daily. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nLead Artist and Curator: Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Director\, Theatre and Film Maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityProducer: Freda ManweilerAssociate Curator/Researcher: Niamh ClowryCast: Megan O’Malley\, Róisín McAtamney and Ann SheehyCostumes: Risa AndoSet Design: The CompanyDigital Artist/Graphic Design: EM CreativeConsultant Historian (pro bono): Sinead Mc Coole \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCourageous Women is a film by Mary Moynihan inspired by a creative re-imagining of moments from the lives of women in Irish history from 1916 to 1923. The film is inspired by the stories of Constance Markievicz (1868-1927); Helena Molony (1884-1967); Margaret Skinnider (1893-1971); Hanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946) and Eva Gore Booth (1870-1926).   \n\n\n\nCourageous Women is on display in Rathfarnham Castle\, Dublin\, from 4 October to 5 November 2023\, Wednesday to Sunday only. \n\n\n\nThe women whose stories inspire the film are: \n\n\n\nConstance Markievicz (1868-1927) an Irish politician\, revolutionary nationalist\, suffragette and socialist \n\n\n\nHelena Molony (1884-1967)\, a Republican\, feminist and labour activist. Helena was a member of Inghinidhe na hÉireann and the Irish Citizen Army and was stationed at City Hall Garrison during the Easter Rising of 1916. \n\n\n\nMargaret Skinnider (1893-1971)\, a revolutionary feminist and maths teacher who came to Dublin from Scotland at the age of 23 to take part in the Easter Rising. \n\n\n\nHanna Sheehy Skeffington (1877-1946)\, radical activist\, feminist\, pacifist and human rights campaigner and one of Ireland’s foremost suffragettes. Hanna was one of the original founders of the militant Irish Women’s Franchise League set up in 1908 to fight for emancipation and a woman’s right to vote. \n\n\n\nEva Gore Booth (1870-1926)\, a poet\, writer\, trade unionist\, feminist\, campaigner for social justice\, and a sister of Irish revolutionary Countess Markievicz. \n\n\n\nThe film is written by Mary Moynihan and is inspired by and incorporates original writings from Constance Markievicz; poetry excerpts by Eva Gore Booth; original testimony including an adaptation from Doing My Bit for Ireland by Margaret Skinnider; original testimony from Helena Molony and writings by Hanna Sheehy Skeffington.   \n\n\n\nNo booking necessary\, available daily. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short films Courageous Women and Grace and Joe inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRóisín is an actor and facilitator based in Dublin. Originally from Cork\, Róisín undertook a BA in Drama Performance from DIT’s Conservatory of Music and Drama. Upon graduating from DIT Róisín worked in New York on off-Broadway show Ten Ways on A Gun. Other theatre credits include Antigone\, Romeo and Juliet and Smashing Times’ The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of 1916 and If you could Read my Mind from the highly acclaimed Testimonies. Róisín has performed in the Smashing Times tour of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII performing in Deirdre Kinahan’s new piece Ode to Ettie Steinberg\, which toured to Ireland\, Northern Ireland and Germany. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMegan O’Malley has recently completed a ‘Masters in Theatre Practice’ student in University College Dublin. Previous to this she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting’s two-year full time course in 2015. While training she took on many roles\, including: Runt in Disco Pigs\, Ophelia in Hamlet\, Kate in The Taming of the Shrew\, and Mags in The Spinning Heart. Megan also played Melissa in The Full Moon Hotel by Philip Doherty. Since graduating she has played Queen Elizabeth in ‘Gráinne’\, and has worked on several short films including ‘Rising’\, ‘The Nest’\, ‘Lilith’ etc . She also stared in Kerry Gold’s latest TV commercial and We Cut Corners music video ‘Of whatever’ by Stoneface Films. Megan was awarded the Gaiety Theatre Bursary\, 2014. More recently\, Megan won the F.A.B. bursary award for Best Actress 16-21. Megan is also a passionate writer and was the first in the school’s history to premier her own work ‘MJ’ for the GSA graduation industry showcase. She also worked alongside Paul Meade for her Manifesto piece ‘The Mourning Seat’. From there Megan worked with Paul Meade over 2016 in developing her idea for ‘Home’\, and was thrilled to present it as part of Smock Alley’s Scene and Heard festival for new work in 2017. Megan has since expanded ‘Home’ to a full length production and which premiered in The New Theatre in 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nStates of Independence\n\n\n\nThis event is part of States of Independence\, a project that celebrates the stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts.  \n\n\n\nThe artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. The stories\, artworks and performances are shared with public audiences to reflect on modern day revolutionary visions for the future inspired by the past\, launched for the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival 13 to 22 October 2023. The internationally acclaimed team of ten artists is led by Mary Moynihan\, an award-winning writer\, poet\, director\, theatre and filmmaker and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, working with John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, and a range of artists working in literature\, visual arts\, theatre\, film and new digital technologies.  \n\n\n\nEvents are accompanied by panel discussions and public talks on new visions for a peaceful and equal society for all. Events  take place in Dublin\, Kerry\, Clare and Donegal with online work accessible across Ireland and internationally\, celebrating changemakers and heroes from the past and today\,  bringing people together to promote active citizenship\,  equality\, human rights and diversity and celebrating new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.  \n\n\n\nFor further information please contact Freda Manweiler\, producer\, telephone 087 2214245 or email freda@smashingtimes.ie  \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence – A Celebration of Change-Makers \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media. \n\n\n\nPresented for the annual international Arts and Human Rights Festival and Theatre in Palm. \n\n\n\nFor information telephone 021 4215104 10am-1pm Monday to Friday or email admin@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nBookings:  www.smashingtimes.ieSmashing Times don’t want ticket cost to be a barrier to experiencing any of our shows. Please contact admin@smashingtimes.ie if you would like to attend. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/courageous-women-a-celebration-of-change-makers-3/
LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle\, Rathfarnham Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 K3T6
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Installation
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SUMMARY:Bullied
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €12. Book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael J Harnett\, writer \n\n\n\nVinnie McCabe\, actor \n\n\n\nShauna Brennan\, actor \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nAnna\, (16) is spending mid-term break with Grandad who lives alone in the East Wall. But Anna is having problems. Her parents are not getting on. She is being secretly bullied. Sinister texts\, fake invites and on-line images are making her life hell. Grandad\, too\, is having problems. The gas company are about to cut him off. His bank is bouncing payments. And he can’t get answers to any of his questions. \n\n\n\nBullied is a cross-generational play with two people\, 50 years apart\, facing up to and finally challenging the on-line and secret world of cyber communication \n\n\n\nFive Lamps Arts Festival\n\n\n\nThe Five Lamps Arts Festival primary commitment is connecting the north inner city of Dublin with the arts and we achieve this through inclusivity\, participation\, environmental enhancement\, and the creation and presentation of locally relevant\, artistically ambitious work. Through this we aim to contribute to the development of the perception of the Five Lamps area as a positive and creative place in which to live and work. \n\n\n\nWe are best known for our flagship event The Five Lamps Arts Festival\, an award-winning annual community-based arts festival which has taken place each spring in the North East Inner City. \n\n\n\nToday\, in addition to the annual festival\, we run community arts programmes\, guided walking tours across the area\, workshops\, and events throughout the year. We also provide project management consulting to several volunteer and community groups. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/bullied/2023-10-05/
LOCATION:Sean O’Casey Theatre\, 18-26 St Mary's Rd\, East Wall\, Dublin\, D03 AY74
CATEGORIES:Theatre
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SUMMARY:HOUSE
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook Here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nJym Daly – writer and composer \n\n\n\nChantal McCormick – producer\, director and choreographer \n\n\n\nSara Granda – Aerialist  \n\n\n\nGill Byrne – Elvis impersonator & aerialist  \n\n\n\nPolina Shapkina – Aerialist  \n\n\n\nClaire Carroll – Aerialist \n\n\n\nJean McGlynn – Biddy\, the event organiser \n\n\n\nAshton Fenix – Engagement Officer  \n\n\n\nJamie Carswell – Bingo Caller \n\n\n\nClara Kerr – Aerialist & Soar Up \n\n\n\nMaire Morrison – Performer & Soar Up \n\n\n\nAndrea Healy – Performer & Soar Up \n\n\n\nBethany Hayes – Aerialist & Soar Up \n\n\n\nFintan Sweeney – Production Manager \n\n\n\nGemma Trimble – Stage Manager \n\n\n\nKeylor Rojas – Rigger \n\n\n\nMark Carry – Rigger \n\n\n\nJose Portillo  – Rigger \n\n\n\nBryan Donaldson – Rigger \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA drive-in bingo and aerial dance show extravaganza. \n\n\n\nIreland’s leading Circus Company Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre brings their Bingo? Circus! Extravaganza to Cashel as part of the Cashel Arts Festival this September and Ballyshannon in October.  \n\n\n\nDrive-in\, park up and play Bingo all while aerial dancers dance in the air 40 metres high with giant bingo balls and a feast of comedy unfolds below between Biddy and the new bingo caller\, John O Dowd. Let’s not forget the local Elvis impersonator! \n\n\n\nHouse! brings a refreshing uplifting show that gets the audience out of their cars and dancing with our local community performers\, the Fidget Feet Soar Up’s\, and to original music by Fidget Feet’s own Jym Daly. \n\n\n\nA fun and outrageous outdoor bingo spectacle show\, suitable for everyone from 6 to 96!  \n\n\n\nIf you don’t have a car\, don’t worry! Bring blankets\, camp chairs and a picnic and settle in for an amusing and laughter-filled show with your family and friends. \n\n\n\nCashel – Saturday 16th September 1pm & 4pm Sunday 17th September 1pm & 4pm  \n\n\n\nAs part of the Cashel Arts Festival  \n\n\n\nLocation: Tesco Car Park Cashel\, Cork Road  \n\n\n\nTickets: €20 per car | pedestrian access €5 pp  \n\n\n\nBallyshannon – Saturday 7th October 1.30pm & 4.30pm | Sunday 8th October 1pm & 4pm  \n\n\n\nLocation: Market Yard\, Ballyshannon \n\n\n\nTickets: €40 per car | €10 per person  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChantal McCormick trained as a dancer and choreographer at the London School of Contemporary Dance. After graduation\, she became interested in aerial circus and trained at Circus Space\, London. Chantal toured with established dance and circus companies in the UK from 1999-2008. Fidget Feet was founded in 2004 by Chantal (Donegal) and her husband Jym Daly (Cork). Chantal has directed\, choreographed\, and performed shows with Fidget Feet including; Wired and Free\, Fairies Tail\, Remember Her\, Madam Silk\, Raw\, Hang On\, Catch Me\, Fire Birds and Elves and the Shoemaker\, House!\, A Handful of Dreams and most recently When the Moon Spun Round. Chantal is also the Festival Director of the Irish Aerial Dance Fest. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeginning at the Crawford Municipal (Cork Art School). In London\, Jym attracted the attention of London’s avant-garde scene by playing kitchen sinks along with Chinese violins in nightclubs like the Camden Palace etc. Never feeling any one art form to be fully satisfactory\, Jym later found himself involved in the development of a new sound which combined spiritual music from around the world with the emerging world of dance beats. Loop Guru toured the world for many years leaving a rich legacy of albums. During that time Jym also created videos for the band and created a cartoon which ran in a national music magazine. His eclectic artistic past has now culminated in Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre\, co-founded with his wife Chantal McCormick\, where music\, film\, dance\, acting and swinging boats off cranes co-exist peacefully in one expression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSara Granda is a performance artist from Malaga\, Spain and has been based in Ireland since 2017. She has a degree in Drama from Escuela Superior de Arte Dramático de Málaga with a specialisation in physical theatre. Sara was part of the El Espeto Feliz Company and performed with them for several years. She is now the head teacher at the Irish Aerial Creation Centre and also an associate artist at Fidget Feet Aerial Dance Theatre. She was recently seen on tour in “A Handful of Dreams” at the Hat-fair Festival in Winchester and also “House!” A new Fidget Feet aerial theatre show. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshton is a multidisciplinary queer and neurodivergent artist\, and the Community Engagement Officer for the House! 2023 tour. They accidentally fell in love with trapeze and now work across movement\, theatre and circus.  Twelve countries and several questionable costume choices later\, Ashton creates performance pieces which explore authentic communication and connection; they are currently developing techniques which combine text with physical expression. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClara is a dance artist from Co. Down who trained at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts\, achieving a 1st class BA (Hons) in Dance in 2019. She has a background in festival Irish dance and contemporary dance and has worked professionally throughout the UK and Ireland since graduating. Recent choreography work includes “The Line of Life”\, a contemporary dance and interactive projection design piece commissioned by Maiden Voyage Dance for the Belfast Children’s Festival 2023. Clara has also performed extensively\, including a west end and national tour with “Fairytale of New York” and as an ensemble member in Northern Ireland Opera’s “La Traviata” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaire is a contemporary dancer from Derry\, Northern Ireland who is imminently finishing her BA in Professional Dance at Dance City (Newcastle\, Uk). Her primary focus is contemporary dance however her diverse background of training involves ballet\, jazz\, acrobatics and others. Throughout her degree and outside work\, she has worked with companies and choreographers such as Voxed Dance Theatre\, Michael Spencer Philips and Lizzie Klotz. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBethany is a dancer from Co. Laois who is currently in her last year of the BA in Irish dance at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick. She started dancing at a young age with Fluxus Dance\, a contemporary dance company\, run by Cathy O’ Kennedy. She then started Irish dance at age nine with the Farrell Caffrey School of Irish dance. She was introduced to aerial dance during her first year of college and spent time as an intern during her college placement with the Irish Aerial Creation Centre. Since then\, Bethany has continued to train and perform Irish dance\, aerial dance and contemporary dance. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFintan Sweeney is the current production manager with Fidget Feet.  Going for a big career change from the Tech world in 2018 he started working in theatre on lights\, Sound\, Production and Stage Management while in the background working on his own ideas. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBorn in Costa Rica at the age of 38\, he is one of the most experienced riggers in the world of flight effects and acrobatics in Central America. \n\n\n\nHe is a lover of the vertical world\, trainer of high performance professionals for years. He began his professional adventure in Scouting at the age of 14 where he became involved in the world of ropes and knots\, competent person for fall protection\, rope access technician SPRAT N3 and IRATA N1. Trained to access safely in arborism technique and flood rescue\, ancient and modern rope splicer. Volunteer collaborator of emergency departments such as firefighters and Red Cross. \n\n\n\nHe teaches specialized workshops in person and also shares knowledge on his social networks of the vertical world based on his experience. \n\n\n\n\n\nFidget Feet\n\n\n\nSince 1998\, Fidget Feet have created\, established and nurtured the aerial dance sector in Ireland\, and created international connections and collaborations. Over 35 shows have been created and toured in this time\, ranging from indoor\, outdoor\, crane\, and vertical dance performances around iconic Irish landmarks\, shows for young audiences\, community development regionally\, professional development through establishing Ireland’s first aerial dance festival and training center. These performances and opportunities take place throughout the country to make the art form accessible to all. We have achieved this through hard work\, successful partnerships with venues\, educational institutes\, festivals and funding bodies such as Creative Europe\, and the Arts and Cultural Capital Scheme 2016. \n\n\n\nIn 2010\, with An Grianán Theatre and the Donegal County Council\, Fidget Feet founded the Irish Aerial Dance Fest – one of the largest aerial festivals in Europe. Run annually the Irish Aerial Dance Fest hosts more than 100 classes over two weeks\, and is attended by participants from all over the world. Fidget Feet are artists in residence at the prestigious Irish World Academy of Music and Dance. In 2013 Fidget Feet were awarded an Arthur Guinness Project award for the Irish Aerial Creation Centre\, a new home for aerial in Ireland\, which opened in Limerick in 2015. \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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LOCATION:Market Yard\, Ballyshannon\, Co Donegal
CATEGORIES:Aerial,Performance
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SUMMARY:Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Edition VII of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeaturing the work of Paddy Bushe (poet)\, Dominika Piekarska (visual artist)\, June O’Sullivan (novelist)\, Ita Ryan (writer)\, John Goode (poet)\, and Marie O’Shea (writer).  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz\, artist \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLove Story (2016)\, a seven-channel video installation\, interrogates the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini\, a competitive swimmer who escaped war-torn Syria; José Maria João\, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa\, a survivor of sexual violence from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Francis Saveri\, a transgender activist from India; Luis Ernesto Nava Molero\, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed\, an idealistic young atheist from Somalia. Love Story evokes the global scale of the so-called refugee crisis\, having evolved out of lengthy interviews conducted with the six participants in the countries where they are seeking or have been granted asylum (two interviews took place in Berlin\, two in New York\, and two in Cape Town). \n\n\n\nThe personal accounts shared by the interviewees are articulated twice by Love Story. In the first space of the installation\, re-performed fragments from the six interviews are woven into a fast-paced montage featuring Hollywood actors Alec Baldwin and Julianne Moore (who are cast in the work as themselves: ‘an actor’ and ‘an actress’). Each was asked to channel excerpts from three of the first-person narratives on a greenscreen set\, without the support of fictional backdrops\, costumes\, props\, accents\, or interlocutors. Breitz’s edit intertwines the six renditions\, plotting the diverse socio-political circumstances and personal experiences that prompted the interviewees to leave their countries. Her polished restaging of the six stories strips the source interviews of their depth and nuance\, of their imperfect grammar and accented English\, provocatively mimicking and exposing the logic by means of which ‘true life stories’ migrate into popular entertainment. It is no coincidence that the two actors at the heart of this manoeuvre are white\, and that the stories which they voice are predominantly those of people of colour. \n\n\n\nIn a second space that is accessible only via the first\, the original interviews unfold across six suspended screens in their full duration and complexity\, now intimately voiced by the individuals whose lived experiences they archive. \n\n\n\nSuspending viewers between the gritty firsthand accounts of people who would typically remain nameless and faceless in the media\, and an accessible drama featuring two actors who are the very embodiment of visibility\, Love Story raises questions about how and where our attention is focused. The work deploys the hypervisibility of Moore and Baldwin to amplify stories that might otherwise fail to elicit mainstream attention or empathy. At the same time\, it invites reflection on the callousness of a media-saturated culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to a widespread lack of interest in people facing real-world adversity. \n\n\n\nLove Story is the first chapter of a trilogy of video installations. The work was shown prominently in the South African Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale in 2017. As of July 2020\, Breitz is working on the final installation in the trilogy. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCandice Breitz (born in Johannesburg\, 1972) is a Berlin-based artist. Her moving image installations have been shown internationally. Throughout Breitz’s career\, she has explored the dynamics by means of which an individual becomes him or herself in relation to a larger community\, be that the immediate community that one encounters in family\, or the real and imagined communities that are shaped not only by questions of national belonging\, race\, gender and religion\, but also by the increasingly undeniable influence of mainstream media such as television\, cinema\, and other popular culture. Most recently\, Breitz’s work has focused on the conditions under which empathy is produced\, reflecting on a media-saturated global culture in which strong identification with fictional characters and celebrity figures runs parallel to widespread indifference to the plight of those facing real-world adversity. In 2022\, she completed The White Noise Trilogy\, a trio of multichannel video installations that includes Love Story (2016)\, TLDR (2017) and Whiteface (2022). \n\n\n\nBreitz holds degrees from the University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)\, the University of Chicago and Columbia University (NYC). She has participated in the Whitney Museum’s Independent Studio Program and led the Palais de Tokyo’s ‘Le Pavillon’ residency as a visiting artist during the year 2005-2006. She has been a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Braunschweig since 2007. \n\n\n\nSolo exhibitions of Breitz’s work have been held at the Tate Liverpool\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, Museum Folkwang (Essen)\, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart\, National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, Kunsthaus Bregenz\, Palais de Tokyo (Paris)\, The Power Plant (Toronto)\, Boston Museum of Fine Arts\, Modern Art Oxford\, De Appel Foundation (Amsterdam)\, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead)\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, Moderna Museet (Stockholm)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Pinchuk Art Centre (Kyiv)\, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève\, Bawag Foundation (Vienna)\, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (Spain)\, FMAV / Fondazione Modena Arti Visive (Modena)\, Wexner Center for the Arts (Ohio)\, O.K Center for Contemporary Art Upper Austria (Linz)\, ACMI / The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (Melbourne)\, Collection Lambert en Avignon\, Sonnabend Gallery (New York)\, FACT / Foundation for Art & Creative Technology (Liverpool)\, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein (Berlin)\, Arken Museum of Modern Art (Ishøj-Copenhagen)\, Blaffer Art Museum (Houston)\, Void Contemporary Art Space (Derry)\, EMMA / Espoo Museum of Modern Art (Espoo\, Finland)\, West Den Haag (Den Haag)\, Iziko South African National Gallery (Cape Town)\, Kunstmuseum Bonn\, the Baltimore Museum of Art\, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki (Auckland)\, the Contemporary Jewish Museum (San Francisco)\, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden and Centrale for Contemporary Art (Brussels)\, among other institutions. \n\n\n\nIn 2017\, Breitz represented South Africa at the 57th Venice Biennale (alongside Mohau Modisakeng). In the past\, she has also participated in biennials and triennials in Johannesburg (1997)\, São Paulo (1998)\, Istanbul (1999)\, Taipei (2000)\, Gwangju (2000)\, Tirana (2001)\, Göteborg (2003 + 2009)\, Venice (2005 + 2017)\, New Orleans (2008)\, Singapore (2011)\, Dakar (2014)\, Melbourne (2017)\, Cleveland (2018)\, Sharjah (2019)\, Aichi (2019)\, Rabat (2019) and Prague (2020). Her work has been featured at the Sundance Film Festival (New Frontier\, 2009)\, at the Toronto International Film Festival (David Cronenberg: Transformation\, 2013) and in the Gorki Theatre’s Herbstsalon (4. Berliner Herbstsalon: De-heimatize It!\, Berlin\, 2019). \n\n\n\nSelected group exhibitions include The Cinema Effect (Hirshhorn Museum + Sculpture Garden\, Washington\, D.C.\, 2008)\, South Africa: the art of a nation (British Museum\, London\, 2016)\, Laughing in a Foreign Language (The Hayward\, London\, 2008)\, Made in Germany (Kunstverein Hannover\, 2007)\, Superstars (Kunsthalle Wien\, 2005)\, CUT: Film as Found Object (Museum of Contemporary Art\, North Miami\, 2004)\, Continuity + Transgression (National Museum of Modern Art\, Tokyo\, 2002)\, Thank You for the Music (Kiasma Museum of Modern Art\, Helsinki\, 2012)\, Rollenbilder–Rollenspiele (Museum der Moderne Salzburg\, 2011)\, Performa (New York\, 2009)\, Contemporary Outlook: Seeing Songs (Museum of Fine Arts\, Boston\, 2009)\, Remix: Contemporary Art and Pop (Tate Liverpool\, 2002)\, Looking at You (Museum Fridericianum\, Kassel\, 2001)\, and Michael Jackson: On the Wall (National Portrait Gallery\, London\, 2018).Works by Breitz have been acquired by museums including the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (both in New York)\, Tate Modern (London)\, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (Humlebæk)\, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, the National Gallery of Canada (Ottawa)\, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus (Munich)\, Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto)\, FNAC / Fonds national d’art contemporain (France)\, Castello di Rivoli (Turin)\, Hamburger Kunsthalle (Hamburg)\, M+ / Museum of Visual Culture (Hong Kong)\, the National Gallery of Victoria (Melbourne)\, Milwaukee Art Museum\, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen\, MUDAM / Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean (Luxembourg)\, MUSAC / Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (León\, Spain)\, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein (Vaduz)\, MONA / Museum of Old and New Art (Tasmania)\, QAGGOMA / Queensland Art Gallery (Brisbane)\, Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) and MAXXI / Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo (Rome). \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/love-story/2023-10-09/
LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Installation
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