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SUMMARY:Change-Maker Stories: Tales from an Afterworld
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \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. 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: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:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \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:Courageous Women - A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/courageous-women-a-celebration-of-change-makers-2/
LOCATION:The Tearooms\, Glebe House\, Co Donegal\, Letter Kenny\, Donegal\, F92 WP70\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Donegal,Installation
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SUMMARY:Paradise Lost and Found
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \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:Ancient Futures
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \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. 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/ancient-futures/
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:Courageous Women – A Celebration of Change-Makers
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \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:Eternal Rebels
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \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:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/eternal-rebels/
LOCATION:St John the Baptist Church\, Valentia Island\, Co Kerry\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, Kerry\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Kerry
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SUMMARY:Change-Maker Theatre-Based Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSoloSIRENS Change-Maker Theatre-Based Workshop – Open to All \n\n\n\nCome along and enjoy a theatre-based ‘Change-Maker’ workshop with SoloSIRENS theatre collective\, open to the public and celebrating stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of change-makers today working to make society a better place. Join us as we explore ‘Who are the change-makers\, visionaries\, champions or warriors that inspire us?’ and ‘Revolutionary Visions for the Future’ exploring new visions for an equal and peaceful society for all. \n\n\n\nThe workshops use a fun\, theatre-based process to explore and collect stories of change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries and  stories of change-makers from today\,  as well as 100 quotes and statements for the future on two key themes ‘Who are the change-makers\, visionaries or warriors that inspire us ?’ and ‘Revolutionary Visions for the Future’. \n\n\n\nWhen it comes to who our change-makers are\, we need to move beyond the traditional narratives to learn about new change-makers for new states of independence on the island of Ireland. A key theme is to explore why do we need change-makers and what are our revolutionary visions for the future? States of Independence generates discussion and reflection on how the past impacts on our lives today in positive\, inspiring ways and highlights the future as a place where anything can happen\, and you can be anything you want to be. \n\n\n\nPresented as part of States of Independence\, a project celebrating stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries 1912-1922 linked to the stories of ten change-makers today working to make society a better place. The twenty stories gathered act as inspiration for the creation of new artworks by ten artists\, working in visual art\, film\, dance\, theatre\, creative writing and digital arts. The artists come together to create a range of artworks and performances for public display in eight sites – both ancient and modern – across Ireland and for display via a creative billboards campaign and online on the Smashing Times Virtual Art Gallery. \n\n\n\nPresented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for States of Independence and SoloSIRENS. \n\n\n\nCelebrating the stories of ten change-makers from the Decade of Centenaries and the stories of ten changemakers today working to make society a better place for all. \n\n\n\nSupported by The Arts Council Open Call \n\n\n\nAs part of ART: 2023 a Decade of Centenaries Collaboration between The Arts Council and the Department of Tourism\, Culture\, Arts\, Gaeltacht\, Sport and Media \n\n\n\n\n\nSubmit Your Changemaker\n\n\n\nAs part of States of Independence\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are conducting ten creative workshops open to the public and are holding an open call inviting members of the public to nominate a change-maker story from the Decade of Centenaries and a change-maker story from today. \n\n\n\nWho was a change-maker\, visionary\, champion or warrior in your life\, a person who inspired you\, made change for you\, themselves or others? This can be a friend\, relative\, a loved one\, a stranger\, your best friend\, someone from history or yourself! \n\n\n\nTell us who is the change-maker that inspires you. \n\n\n\nNominate a change-maker. Submit your change-maker story here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWho We Are:\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning creative arts organisation\, leading the developing of the arts to promote and advance  equality\, human rights and diversity. Founded in 1991\, Smashing Times operates as a world class arts space and digital hub for artists\, activists\, citizens\, communities and the general public presenting work on the national and international arena and working with over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally.  The vision is to connect citizens to the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity\, health\, well-being and peace\, working with artists and local communities and communities of interest to create collaborative art practice in local\, national\, European\, and international settings.   The company provides a Resource  and Advice service; an Arts and Human Rights network; an annual and multi-annual interdisciplinary arts programme; training and an annual international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival.  All artistic mediums are supported with a focus on the performing and collaborative arts including theatre\, film\, visual arts\, dance\, music and digital arts.  The company is led by award-winning writer\, theatre\, film-maker and Artistic Director Mary Moynihan and Producer Freda Manweiler. Company patrons are Sabina Coyne Higgins\,  Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/change-maker-theatre-based-workshop/
LOCATION:Civic Theatre\, Belgard Square East\, Tallaght
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20230128T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20230128T210000
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SUMMARY:The Aisling Programme
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €5\, payable on the night. \nTo reserve your ticket\, please email communications@smashingtimes.ie  \n  \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nColm MacGearailt\, spoken word artist\, actor\, and historian \n\n\n\nOlwen Pendred\, bean feasa of the Celtic Mystery tradition and an ordained priestess of Danú  \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, director and actor \n\n\n\nAlan O’Brien\, spoken word artist and writer \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, writer\, Laureate na nÓg \n\n\n\nCiara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only) \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin Smashing Times on Winter Solstice\, 21 December 2022\, and on 28 January 2023 for evenings of poetry\, song\, and storytelling in the Irish language! In the darkest of winter days\, we will celebrate the light and the power of coming together to share tales and arts like the seanchaí of old. \n\n\n\nThe event will feature Áine Ni Ghlinn\, writer and Laureate na nÓg; Féilim James\, writer; Rob Harrington\, actor and director; Colm Mac Gearailt\, spoken word artist\, writer and historian; Olwen Pendred\, storyteller and performer; Finn O’Driscoll\, Irish language artist; Ciara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only); Alan O’Brien\, poet and spoken word artist; and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-aisling-programme-2/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Music,Onsite,Performance,Poetry,Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221221T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221221T210000
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SUMMARY:The Aisling Programme
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets €5\, payable on the night. \nTo reserve your ticket\, please email communications@smashingtimes.ie  \n  \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nColm MacGearailt\, spoken word artist\, actor\, and historian \nOlwen Pendred\, bean feasa of the Celtic Mystery tradition and an ordained priestess of Danú  \nFéilim James\, writer \nRob Harrington\, director and actor \nAlan O’Brien\, bricklayer\, playwright\, writer\, and sonneteer \nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer \nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, children’s writer\, Laureate na nÓg \nFinn O’Driscoll\, rapper \nMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, choreographer \nCiara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only) \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin Smashing Times on Winter Solstice\, 21 December 2022\, and on 28 January 2023 for evenings of poetry\, song\, and storytelling in the Irish language! In the darkest of winter days\, we will celebrate the light and the power of coming together to share tales and arts like the seanchaí of old. \n\n\n\nThe event will feature Áine Ni Ghlinn\, writer and Laureate na nÓg; Féilim James\, writer; Rob Harrington\, actor and director; Colm Mac Gearailt\, spoken word artist\, writer and historian; Olwen Pendred\, storyteller and performer; Finn O’Driscoll\, Irish language artist; Ciara Ní É\, actor and spoken word performer (28th January performance only); Alan O’Brien\, poet and spoken word artist; and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, musician and composer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-aisling-programme/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance,Poetry,Storytelling
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221026T193000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221029T210000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153551Z
CREATED:20220907T141219Z
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SUMMARY:Othello - maybe a dance
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMufutau Yusuf\, dancer \n\n\n\nFavour Odusola\, dancer \n\n\n\nMagdalena Hylak\, dancer \n\n\n\nConor Thomas Doherty\, dancer \n\n\n\nValda Setterfield\, guest appearance \n\n\n\nJohn Scott\, choreographer \n\n\n\nEric Würtz\, Lighting \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJohn Scott explores relationships\, race\, identity\, and domestic violence in a physical approach to Shakespeare’s Othello\, leading the audience on a journey – weaving dance and music. \n\n\n\nThe cast includes Favour Odusola\, Mufutau Yusuf\, Magdalena Hylak\, Vitor Bassi\, and Conor Thomas Doherty. Film and video by Rolex Award winner Jason Akira Somma. With a special appearance by veteran NYC dancer Valda Setterfield on film. \n\n\n\nThis is John Scott’s second Shakespeare work: his award-winning Lear\, commissioned by Kilkenny Arts Festival\, was a major success in Queen Elizabeth Hall\, London\, New York Live Arts\, Edinburgh Fringe(Herald Angel Award)\, and Dance Cork Firkin Crane.  \n\n\n\nChoreography John Scott Lighting Eric Wurtz Film and Video Jason Akira Somma  \n\n\n\n\n\nOthello – maybe a danceTrailer\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nJohn Scott \n\n\n\nJohn Scott is a Dublin born choreographer\, performer\, founder and Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Dancer from the Dance Festival and member of Aosdána. He studied and performed at Irish National College of Dance/Dublin City Ballet from 1982 to 1985 in works by Anton Dolin\, Anna Sokolow\, Pearl Gaden and Babil Gandara. \n\n\n\nHis choreographic works include Divine Madness\, Inventions\, Cloud Study\, Everything Now\, Lear\, Fall and Recover\, Actions in Ireland at Dublin Dance Festival\, Galway International Arts Festival\, Kilkenny Arts Festival\,  Dublin Fringe Festival and internationally at John F Kennedy Center\, Washington  DC\, New York Live Arts\, La MaMa\, Danspace Project at St Mark’s Church\, PS  122\, New York and Dance Base\, Edinburgh\, Sounded Bodies Festival and Queer  Zagreb\, Croatia\, Les Hivernales\, Avignon\, Tanzmesse Dusseldorf\, Forum Cultural  Mundial\, Brazil. \n\n\n\nHe danced in Oona Doherty’s Hard to be Soft\, Meredith Monk’s Quarry (Spoleto Festival) and for Yoshiko Chuma\, Sarah Rudner\, Anna Sokolow and Thomas Lehmen. He recently collaborated with Pan Pan on Beckett’s QUAD. \n\n\n\nJohn was awarded African Refugee Network’s Culture Award for his work with Refugees and Survivors of Torture and is a subject of Sadlers Wells’ 52 Portraits by Jonathan Burrows\, Matteo Fargion and Hugo Glendinning. He has taught dance and choreography at the Irish World Academy\, University of Limerick; The Body in Performance\, Drama Department\, UCD; Drama Department NUIG; Drexel University\, Philidelphia; University of Colorado at Boulder\, USA and San Jose State University\, CA\, USA. He was a founding board member of Dublin Dance Festival and Dance Ireland. \n\n\n\nJohn is an associate artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and has worked with the organisation for many years. Irish Modern Dance Theatre have been Creative Partners of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival since its inception in 2019. \n\n\n\nIrish Modern Dance Theatre \n\n\n\nFounded in 1991 by dancer and choreographer John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre is one of the most original and responsive dance companies working in Ireland today. A Dublin-based ensemble\, Scott and international guest choreographers create distinctive dance works with diverse casts\, mixing virtuosic Irish and international dancers with African and Middle Eastern refugees and torture survivors. Our works include ‘Lear’\, ‘Inventions’\, Actions’ and ‘Fall and Recover’ – all recognised for their intelligence\, honesty and humanity. Our work crosses disciplines\, subverts expectations of dance and dancers and finds new ways to explore contemporary issues. Irish Modern Dance Theatre is Strategically funded by the Arts Council. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/othello-maybe-a-dance/
LOCATION:Project Arts Centre\, 39 East Essex Street\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 2\, D02 RD45\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Dance,Performance
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T173000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153554Z
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SUMMARY:In- Between
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn\, Technical Writer\, personal writer\, and activist \n\n\n\nCharlie Mullowney\, founding member of Disability Power Ireland \n\n\n\nAbe Blake\, writer and poet \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\, English PhD student \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIn recent years Ireland has been a melting pot of different multicultural societies which has impacted the Irish cultural scene. Stories from silenced voices\, specifically those on the fringe of society are shaping contemporary discussions regarding belonging\, identity\, sexuality\, gender\, migration\, etc. This roundtable celebrates these voices as they are redefining the meaning of Irishness and belonging by paving way for more fruitful conversations on the importance of including marginalized voices which will shape contemporary Ireland’s cultural landscape for years to come. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake\n\n\n\n\n\nGareth Brinn is a Technical Writer\, personal writer\, and activist from Limerick City. Gareth’s main pursuit is being the Co-Editor-in-Chief of Unapologetic\, a multi-disciplinary magazine that champions minority voices and tackles Ireland’s social issues. Under is role as Co-Editor-in-Chief\, Gareth and the Unapologetic team have partnered with Irish Film Institute\, Gorm Media\, and Culture Night. Finally\, Gareth sees writing as a form of activism having written for Unsilencing Black Voices and Douglass Week. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie Mullowney\n\n\n\n\n\nCharlie is an Irish disability activist. She is currently studying for a Masters in Technical Communication and eLearning. She is the communications officer and founding member of Disability Power Ireland\, a Disabled People’s Organisation. Disability Power Ireland focuses on promoting and advocating for the issues of disabled people by disabled people. She also took part in Gorm Media’s “This is Them” Series which involved combatting stereotypes surrounding the autistic community. Charlie focused on the media representation of autistic individuals for her Final Year Project. She was privileged to be chosen to participate in the 2021 All Ireland Conference of Undergraduate Research and the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake\n\n\n\n\n\nAbe Blake is an Irish-Nigerian writer living in Limerick since 2016. Before this\, they lived all over England and Ireland engaging with work from Shakespeare to Yeats. From humble beginnings in Co. Mayo\, they now seek to inspire\, celebrate\, uplift\, and maybe even have a bit of fun along the way. Looking at the intersection of race\, national identity\, gender and queerness\, they invite you to see how the “other” side lives. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Uwase Ndahiro is an English Ph.D. student in the University of Limerick. Sandrine’s research centres on third generation African writers\, such as Afrofuturists\, who have emerged during the era of late liberalism and who have introduced multiple and nuanced perspectives for reflecting on African lives and aspirations. She recently co-produced a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland. Sandrine’s work now highlights the lived experiences of the Black and Irish community with her recent publication of her essay ‘Irishness does not mean whiteness’. \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/in-between/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T160000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153556Z
CREATED:20220912T133334Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153556Z
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SUMMARY:Housing as a Human Right: Stories from the Frontline
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nWHRD Camila Santos “Moradia”\, Brazil\, Mulheres em Ação no Alemão \n\n\n\nWHRD Yvonne Toba\, Cote D’Ivoire\, Novox \n\n\n\nHRD Buhle Booi\, South Africa\, Ndifuna Ukwazi \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n“Increasingly viewed as a commodity\, housing is most importantly a human right.” \n\n\n\nAs recognized by the United Nations\, “to be adequately housed means not having to worry about being evicted or having your home or lands taken away. It means living somewhere that is in keeping with your culture\, and having access to appropriate services\, schools\, and employment. However\, too often violations of the right to housing occur with impunity. “ \n\n\n\nHousing precariousness has reached an unprecedented scale and worldwide housing is rarely treated as a human right. On the contrary\, those people organising and acting to defend and promote this right are often targeted with criminal lawsuits\, difamation campaigns and physical attacks. \n\n\n\nAt this activity\, we will talk with activists in the forefront of housing movements around the world\, hear about the obstacles they are facing and the strategies they are using to advance housing rights in their countries. \n\n\n\nThis round table discussion involves talks with human rights defenders from Cote D’Ivoire\, Cape Town\, South Africa and Brazil. Yvonne Toba\, Cote D’Ivoire is a human rights defender who is well known for her work denouncing corruption\, bad governance\, impunity and social injustice and is the National Coordinator of Novox Cote d’Ivoire\, an organization raising the voice of the voiceless in Cote d’Ivoire by promoting an equal access to justice. Buhle Booi\, South Africa\,  is the head of political organising at Ndifuna Ukwazi\,  an activist organisation and law centre that advocates for access to well-located land and affordable housing for poor and working class families\, communities and social movements.  Camila Santos\, Brazil\, is a woman human rights defender born in a place known as Grota\, in the group of favelas that make up the Complexo do Alemão. She is one of the leaders of the fight for housing in the Alemão complex and started to give voice to 1\,300 families. In 2015\, based on the actions she was already carrying out and the demands of women who arrived\, Camila established the collective Women in Action in Alemão (MEAA). Camila was 2021 Front Line Defender’s Award Winner for the Americas. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nYvonne Toba\n\n\n\n\n\nYvonne Toba\, Cote D’Ivoire. Yvonne is a woman human rights defender who is well known for her work denouning corruption\, bad governance\, impunity and social injustice. Committed against land grabbing and for the rights of the peasantry\, she is also the National Coordinator of Novox Cote d’Ivoire\, an organization raising the voice of the voiceless in Cote d’Ivoire by promoting an equal access to justice. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBuhle Booi\n\n\n\n\n\nBuhle Booi\, South Africa. Buhle is the head of political organising at Ndifuna Ukwazi. Ndifuna Ukwazi is an activist organisation and law centre that advocates for access to well-located land and affordable housing for poor and working class families\, communities and social movements. Buhle is interested in building solidarity across land and housing struggles to advance urban land justice in Cape Town. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCamila Santos\n\n\n\n\n\nCamila Santos\, Brazil. Camila is a woman human rights defender born in a place known as Grota\, in the group of favelas that make up the Complexo do Alemão. In 2010\, with the removal of the “Favelinha da Skol”\, Camila became one of the leaders of the fight for housing in the Alemão complex and started to give voice to 1\,300 families. In 2015\, based on the actions she was already carrying out and the demands of women who arrived\, Camila established the collective Women in Action in Alemão (MEAA). Camila was 2021 Front Line Defender’s Award Winner for the Americas. \n\n\n\nhttps://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/profile/camila-moradia \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/housing-as-a-human-right-stories-from-the-frontline/
LOCATION:Toast\, Temple Bar Hotel\, 13-17 Fleet Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 WD51\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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ORGANIZER;CN="Front Line Defenders":MAILTO:events@frontlinedefenders.org
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T120000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221023T130000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153558Z
CREATED:20221010T120106Z
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SUMMARY:Online Exhibition Launch
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisit www.smashingtimes.ie/virtual-arts-centre  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTwo new exhibitions\, the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, and the #Connected2: Climate and Food Systems exhibition are presented in a digital format in the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre. \n\n\n\nState of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\n#Connected2: Climate and Food Systems is created by GOAL’s NextGen Youth members from across Ireland\, Ethiopia\, Honduras\, Malawi\, Uganda\, and Zimbabwe. Through the pertinent themes of Global Food Systems and Climate Change\, participants learned how each relates to global citizenship and development. They created this photo exhibition to share their learnings with you and hope to raise awareness of how climate change is affecting our food systems. \n\n\n\nBoth exhibitions will be available online for a period of one year. \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\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/online-exhibition-launch/
LOCATION:Virtual Arts Centre\, Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre
CATEGORIES:Launch,Online,Online Exhibition
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ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221022T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221022T160000
DTSTAMP:20221209T153601Z
CREATED:20220907T131329Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221209T153601Z
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SUMMARY:Stories for Children from Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina\, writer \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina will entertain Ukrainian kids and their parents with funny stories from a writer’s life and teach the children to draw the characters from her latest book\, Ten Ways for an Excavator to Save the World (“Ееесторії екскаватора Еки”). Suitable for children aged 4-10 years. \n\n\n\nThis event is supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. \n\n\n\nIrish PEN \n\n\n\nIn November 2020 Irish PEN was relaunched as Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann. This followed the amalgamation of the original organisation and the Freedom to Write Campaign. \n\n\n\nThe aims of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are: \n\n\n\nto promote literature in and about Ireland both nationally and internationallyto defend worldwide the right of writers to responsible freedom of expression as defined in the PEN Charterto foster international understanding through the appreciation of literature\n\n\n\nVisit www.irishpen.com for more info and to become a member. \n\n\n\nDublin UNESCO City of Literature \n\n\n\nDublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature\, one of 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide. \n\n\n\nWith four Nobel prize winners (Yeats\, Beckett\, Shaw and Heaney)\, a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD\, over half a dozen books festivals\, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning\, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has literature in its blood. \n\n\n\nThe Literature designation is one of seven designations within the Creative Cities Network. \n\n\n\nThe Office is advised by a Management Group 2021 and a wider Steering Group and is part of Dublin City Libraries. The work of the office is guided by a Strategic Plan 2020-2022 \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina is a Ukrainian novelist\, essayist\, and human rights activist based in Kyiv. She is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literature Prize for her prose works\, including the novels Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome\, and a finalist of the European Union Prize for Literature. She is a founder of the New York Literature Festival\, which takes place in a small town called New York in the Donetsk region. Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022\, instead of the festival\, the team launched the “Fight Them with Poetry” initiative to help supply the Ukrainian Army units defending the region. \n\n\n\nSince 2022 Victoria Amelina has been collaborating with Ukrainian teams to document Russian war crimes and advocate for accountability for the international crimes committed by the Russian Federation and its troops on the territory of Ukraine and other countries. She is now working on a non-fiction project: War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War. \n\n\n\nHer prose\, poems\, and essays have been translated into many languages\, including English\, Polish\, Italian\, German\, Croatian\, Dutch\, Chezh\, and Hungarian. She teaches a special Creative Writing course\, Crafting the Future\, at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stories-for-children-from-ukraine/
LOCATION:Pearse Street Library Conference Centre\, 144 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 DE68\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Storytelling,Workshop
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SUMMARY:David and Goliath: Front line communities challenging corporate abuse
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nHannah Storey\, facilitator \n\n\n\nGrecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro\, Speaker \n\n\n\nBidya Shrestha Maharjan\, Speaker \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLand grabs\, violent evictions\, widespread deforestation and destruction of biodiversity\, poor working conditions and more\, are just some of the negative impacts of corporate abuse-  companies operating with impunity for their human rights violations – companies that grow and process products that we use everyday in Ireland.Communities around the world are on the front lines of challenging these companies\, but sadly\, human rights defenders that dare to speak out on these harmful practices risk dangerous retaliation\, harassment\, threats\, attacks and criminalisation\, and even murder.At this event\, two international guests – women human rights defenders Grecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro from Mexico\, and Bidya Shrestha Maharjan from Nepal -will share the realities of what it is like challenging corporate abuse on the ground. Both are working hard to expose\, and prevent\, corporate-related human rights abuse in their communities\, and have faced backlash for their defence of human rights. The event will also include an exclusive screening of the new Trócaire Documentary ‘Make It Your Business’ – a new short documentary which goes on a journey to explore corporate accountability\, meeting experts and human rights activists on the front lines of corporate exploitation and abuse\, and how we might improve on this in future. To tackle these injustices\, the documentary also explores how we might realise a better future by bringing in new rules to protect people and planet\, and how ordinary people can stand up and take action. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nGrecia Eugenia Rodríguez Navarro is a woman human rights defender who has been accompanying communities and ejidos in the defence of land and water in the state of Zacatecas since 2014. Grecia is a member of the Zacatecas Mining Conflict Observatory\, which was founded in 2016 to provide accompaniment in the defence of the human rights of ejidos\, communities and vulnerable groups affected or threatened by megaprojects and extractive activities in the state of Zacatecas. \n\n\n\nA teacher by profession\, Bidya Shrestha Maharjan is a human rights defender from the Kathmandu valley of Nepal. She is the women’s president of the World Newa Guthi\, an indigenous community organisation that works to protect the rights of the Newa indigenous people. An indigenous woman herself\, Bidya has long been leading the movement to stop the illegal road expansion in the valley inhabited by the Newa people\, which has already seen the displacement of thousands who have not been compensated and/ or have been left landless. During the course of her work for the community\, the human rights defender has been threatened several times\, physically attacked and arbitrarily detained. \n\n\n\nAs Front Line Defenders’ Business & Human Rights Advocate\, Hannah Storey leads the organisation’s business and human rights advocacy as part of the Global Advocacy team. Hannah is responsible for providing advocacy support to human rights defenders at risk for their corporate accountability work\, as well as overseeing research and policy advocacy related to business and human rights. She works closely with the digital protection team on advocacy targeting the technology sector\, as well as with the Defenders in Development campaign on advocacy targeting development financiers. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/david-and-goliath-front-line-communities-challenging-corporate-abuse/
LOCATION:Toast\, Temple Bar Hotel\, 13-17 Fleet Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 WD51\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Writing a Protest Song!
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets are free\, register here \n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality. \n\n\n\nAt this workshop\, we will look at the history of these protest songs\, and draw on their key themes to create our own songs relevant to today’s (your) generation. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have!  This workshop is for young people ages 13 to 17 years. All welcome to attend. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\n \nThe workshop is hosted by Fighting Words\, a partner in the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Fighting Words offer a wide range of workshops\, all of which are designed to promote creativity and writing as a fun and powerful means of self-expression. \n  \nFighting Words is a creative writing organisation and registered charity that provides free workshops and other programmes for young people aged 6-17\, as well as for adults with additional needs.  \n  \nOur programmes are designed and run by our staff and team of writing mentors\, including experienced practitioners in all areas of creative writing – from prose to poetry\, from songwriting to playwriting and everything in between. Workshops are interactive and fun with an emphasis on providing individual support and encouragement as young writers explore their imaginations. \nAll  workshops at Fighting Words are run by teams of volunteer writing mentors\, supervised by Fighting Words staff using our fun and interactive formats. Specialist workshops are delivered by experienced practitioners in a variety of fields\, such as playwriting\, graphic fiction\, short stories and more.All programming is focused on supporting children and young people to tell their own stories in their own voice and at their own pace. There is never a focus on spelling or grammar. The content is decided by the participants\, with advice and guidance from the Fighting Words team. \nThe ’Writing a Protest Song workshop is facilitated by Colm Quearney\, Development and Outreach Officer at Fighting Words.  Colm is a professional musician\, music producer\, song writer and workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song-2/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Music,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Ecopoetry and Ecojustice: A Holistic Human Rights Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDeclan Owens\, CEO of Ecojustice Ireland and Ecojustice Legal Action Centre\, Facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPoets throughout history and in various cultures have advanced our understanding of what it means to be human through using Nature as a poetic device.  Under the Anthropocene and the so-called Enlightenment\, there has been a separation between humanity and Nature where the environment has been objectified and considered as an externality for capitalist extraction.  The concept of the Rights of Nature and the links within this framework to the human right to a safe\, clean\, healthy and sustainable environment becomes more evident through a poetic framework. Declan will explore the themes that can lead to an awakening of human consciousness of our place and role on the planet.   \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeclan Owens is CEO of Ecojustice Ireland and Ecojustice Legal Action Centre after previously working as a strategic campaigning lawyer in the Trade Union Law Group of Thompsons Solicitors\, the UK’s foremost social justice firm working in the field of workers’ rights and trade union law.  He formerly worked for the International Centre for Trade Union Rights\, the legal department of the International Trade Union Confederation (observing the early work of the Just Transition Centre) and the Bureau for Workers’ Activities of the International Labour Organisation (developing a trade union strategy for the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals).  He is Co-chair of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in the UK\, articulating the need for system change for climate justice to its membership. \n\n\n\n Declan represented some of the largest unions in the UK\, including Unite\, Unison\, the National Union of Journalists and the Public & Commercial Services Union (the largest civil service union in the UK).  He has developed a climate justice strategy premised on using the latent power of the union movement to lead a ‘Just Transition’.  To this end\, Declan is a leading campaigner in the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group\, and is the Irish coordinator of the Climate Justice Coalition. He is the Haldane Society’s Bureau member for the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and is the Irish expert adviser to the UN’s Harmony with Nature Agency. Declan is on the Steering Group of the Greener Jobs Alliance\, the Climate Justice group of the Law Society of Northern Ireland\, and the Environmental Task Force of Unite the Union.   \n\n\n\n Declan is embedded in his community of Dundrum\, County Down\, working with the Environmental Justice Network Ireland on a range of issues and has also recently qualified as a mediator with Mediation NI. He is active in the Dolmens Climate Action Network in County Down\, which is part of Climate Action Network International. He works with the European Lawyers for Workers Network and the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights. Declan has recently set up a Climate Justice branch for Unite the Union’s Community membership to link communities and workers to explore the need for a Just Transition.  Declan is also a director of the social enterprise\, Climate Craic CIC\, which uses fun and festivals to convey a positive and inclusive approach to ecojustice.   \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ecopoetry-and-ecojustice-a-holistic-human-rights-consciousness/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
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SUMMARY:Aisling na Saoirse - Dreams of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, performer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality work to promote equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts.  The company are delighted to present a programme of artistic performances\, workshops\, training and talks taking place in a range of venues using the arts to promote equality and rights with a focus on promoting the Irish language and Irish culture and heritage. \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Programme in South Kerry – 2022 Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThree public performances and post-show discussions take place in South Kerry – in The Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, on Thursday\, 20 October 2022\, 7.30pm; in St John the Baptist Church\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, on  Friday 21 October 2022\, 7.30pm and in  10 Bridge Street\, Killorglin\, on  Saturday 22 October 2022\, 7.30pm.  The show Aisling na Saoirse consists of: \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe by Mary Moynihan performed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nAt Summer’s End by Féilim James performed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nNá déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nThe performance venues\, dates and times are: \n\n\n\n\nThe Monsignor Flaherty Room\, Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, County Kerry. Thursday\, 20 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\nSt John the Baptist Church\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, County Kerry. Friday 21 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\n10 Bridge Street\, Killorglin\, County Kerry\, Saturday 22 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\n\nThe show is a bespoke combination of three monologue performances and a poem. Our first performance is Grace and Joe written and directed by Mary Moynihan inspired by Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) and the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising. Next is Tales From an Afterworld by Féilim James based on the life and work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). \n\n\n\nThe final performance is At Summer’s End by Feilim James\, a dramatic monologue told from the perspective of a Jewish-Irish citizen murdered in the Holocaust. Her name was Ettie Steinberg (1914-42). We learn how at a young age her family left Eastern Europe for Dublin\, before love led her away to the European mainland. This by turns tender and harrowing portrait of love\, loss\, and the brutality of war tells one ordinary woman’s extraordinary\, and often forgotten\, story. The show culminates with a poem Ná déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn. \n\n\n\nThe award-winning work of Smashing Times has been acclaimed for its extraordinary story-telling inspired by historical memory and stories of citizens and artists from across the ages. In this\, our 30th anniversary year\, enjoy a gathering of performance and song presenting re-imagined moments from the lives of citizens and artists caught up in extraordinary times\, showcasing stories of Irish people from the 20th century. \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe \n\n\n\nWritten and directed by Mary Moynihan \n\n\n\nBased on on writings and witness statements from Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford \n\n\n\nPerformed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe sees Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) tell the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising and the youngest signatory to the Irish proclamation. It relates how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution. Grace was a cartoonist and Republican and studied at the Metropolitan School Art. \n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld \n\n\n\nWritten by Féilim James \n\n\n\nDirected by Geraldine McAlinden \n\n\n\nPerformed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld is a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nAt Summer’s End \n\n\n\nWritten by Féilim James \n\n\n\nDirected by Eric Weitz \n\n\n\nPerformed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nThis dramatic monologue is told from the perspective of a Jewish-Irish citizen murdered in the Holocaust. Her name was Ettie Steinberg (1914-42). We learn how at a young age her family left Eastern Europe for Dublin\, before love led her away to the European mainland. This by turns tender and harrowing portrait of love\, loss\, and the brutality of war tells one ordinary woman’s extraordinary\, and often forgotten\, story. \n\n\n\nPoem: Ná déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release early 2022. \n\n\n\nELKIN draw influence from the R’n’B\, pop\, indie and folk worlds. With bassist Peter and guitarist Conor of Hatchlings\, plus drummer Rob\, “the band display an eclectic mix of R&B\, pop and hip-hop beats\, bolstered by alternating female vocals and smooth guitars.” Stephen Porzio\, Hot Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and a Producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Freda has worked with Smashing Times since 1999. She is highly skilled in project management\, coordination and implementation. She has extensive experience working at a European level developing and delivering a range of European Initiatives\, collaborating with over 50 cultural\, educational and civil society organisations from over 22 European Countries. Promoting European Values through working on activities and projects that promote human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health\, remembrance and civic engagement. \n\n\n\nShe has worked developing and coordinating accredited training programmes\,  professional productions\, and community exchanges using creative methods to  promote peace building and reconciliation on the island of Ireland.  Working particularly with hard to reach communities in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties building strong community relations. Freda has been instrumental in bringing the learning gained from the Northern Ireland Peace Process to communities experiencing conflict in other European states. She has produced and toured a number of professional performances in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is coordinator of the award winning\, Acting For The Future programme that uses drama and theatre to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention\, which was developed and run in association with the Samaritans and the Irish Association of Suicidology throughout the island of Ireland. As part of her work for Smashing Times she is responsible for all aspects of management and project development and is also involved in teaching practice. \n\n\n\nShe has extensive experience in team management through her work with Smashing Times as a manager and as a manager and Employment Assessment Coordinator for a Working Skills Centre in Toronto\, Canada. Her experience in Canada focused mainly on refugee resettlement\, managing initiatives funded through the federal government of Canada. Her education includes a Bachelor in Social Work (2007) from the Open University and in 2012 she completed an MEd from the National University of Ireland/UCD. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes a producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and the coordinator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ciara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nIn 2016 Ciara branched into arts administration while working with Cyclone Rep; a Cork-based Shakespearean Theatre-in-Education company. In 2017 she took on the role of stage school coordinator at Konfident Kidz\, where she was responsible for the day to day running of the stage school reporting directly to the company’s director. During this time\, she assisted in the organisation of Ireland’s first ever all-autistic conference; AUsome Conference. \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020). She works as Communications Officer at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and as producer for Gaitkrash Theatre Company. \n\n\n\nArts Administration experience includes: Konfident Kidz\, teacher and Stage School Manager (2014-2017); Cyclone Rep Theatre-in-Education Company\, administrator (2016)\, Smashing Times\, Communications Officer (2020-present). \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information\, online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now\, online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeilim James\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting: The National Theatre School of Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin\, having previously served in the TCD Drama Department as Convenor for the Bachelor in Acting Studies and Head of Drama. \n\n\n\nEric is currently Book Review Editor for Humor\, the scholarly journal for the International Society for Humor Studies; he sits on the International Advisory Board for the European Journal of Humour Research and the Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies. He is series co-editor of the recently published Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy (Methuen\, 2020) and contributor of the Vol. 6 chapter\, ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; he is co-editor and contributor for the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance (2018). His single-author works include Theatre & Laughter (2016) and the Cambridge Introduction to Comedy (2009)\, plus widely cited articles in books and journals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett is a graduate from TU Dublin in Creative Industries and Visual Culture and The Gaiety School of Acting’s full time professional actor training. She has worked in theatre in Ireland as an actor\, director\, and producer. Eadaoin joined Smashing Times in July as their administration and communication officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/aisling-na-saoirse-dreams-of-freedom/
LOCATION:County Kerry
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SUMMARY:Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened - Stories from Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook Here \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina\, writer \n\n\n\nLia Mills\, moderator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nUkrainian novelist\, essayist and human rights activist Victoria Amelina will speak and read from her work on Thursday\, 20 October at 7pm at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin. The Ukranian writer and human rights activist will discuss the current situation for writers and artists in Ukraine\, her non-fiction project: War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War\, and her own literary work. \n\n\n\nThis event will be a moving\, thought provoking presentation of the role of writers and artists who chose to remain in Ukraine following the full-scale invasion by Russia on 24 February this year. There will be discussion of an ongoing project documenting the work of journalists\, human rights defenders\, lawyers and volunteers who record war crimes in Ukraine. Victoria Amelina will also read from her own work and explain why it is important to all of us that Ukrainian literature and culture is preserved. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann as part of the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and is supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. \n\n\n\nIrish Pen and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature are core and creative partners in the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Festival organisers include Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nIrish PEN \n\n\n\nIn November 2020 Irish PEN was relaunched as Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann. This followed the amalgamation of the original organisation and the Freedom to Write Campaign. \n\n\n\nThe aims of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are: \n\n\n\nto promote literature in and about Ireland both nationally and internationallyto defend worldwide the right of writers to responsible freedom of expression as defined in the PEN Charterto foster international understanding through the appreciation of literature\n\n\n\nVisit www.irishpen.com for more info and to become a member. \n\n\n\nDublin UNESCO City of Literature \n\n\n\nDublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature\, one of 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide. \n\n\n\nWith four Nobel prize winners (Yeats\, Beckett\, Shaw and Heaney)\, a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD\, over half a dozen books festivals\, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning\, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has literature in its blood. \n\n\n\nThe Literature designation is one of seven designations within the Creative Cities Network. \n\n\n\nThe Office is advised by a Management Group 2021 and a wider Steering Group and is part of Dublin City Libraries. The work of the office is guided by a Strategic Plan 2020-2022 \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina is a Ukrainian novelist\, essayist\, and human rights activist based in Kyiv. She is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literature Prize for her prose works\, including the novels Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome\, and a finalist of the European Union Prize for Literature. She is a founder of the New York Literature Festival\, which takes place in a small town called New York in the Donetsk region. Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022\, instead of the festival\, the team launched the “Fight Them with Poetry” initiative to help supply the Ukrainian Army units defending the region. \n\n\n\nSince 2022 Victoria Amelina has been collaborating with Ukrainian teams to document Russian war crimes and advocate for accountability for the international crimes committed by the Russian Federation and its troops on the territory of Ukraine and other countries. She is now working on a non-fiction project: War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War. \n\n\n\nHer prose\, poems\, and essays have been translated into many languages\, including English\, Polish\, Italian\, German\, Croatian\, Dutch\, Chezh\, and Hungarian. She teaches a special Creative Writing course\, Crafting the Future\, at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. \n\n\n\nEssays in English: \n\n\n\n“Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened” was recently reprinted in the online edition of the Irish Times. “Homo Oblivious” was recently published in The Dublin Review of Books. \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/nothing-bad-has-ever-happened-stories-from-ukraine/
LOCATION:Smock Alley Theatre\, 6-7 Exchange Street Lower\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 8\, D08 EH67\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Reading,Talk
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/arts-climate-justice-and-human-rights-workshop-programme/2022-10-20/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth Event
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SUMMARY:Art Connects: Mental Health - A Time to Breathe
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nArt Connects Mental Health: A Time to Breathe is a two-year European wide transnational partnership project that provides education\, training and awareness-raising at national and European levels using creative processes to promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing with youth. \n\n\n\nSix partner organisations come together to create a Europe-wide Creative Arts for Health and WellBeing hub\, a new online\, interactive\, learning resource centre that supports the role of the arts to promote physical and emotional positive mental health and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nA challenging event like the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic can affect everyone’s mental health. Each of us is doing our best to look after ourselves however young people may need extra attention and support. Building synergies between the arts\, youth education\, and health and well-being\, this project supports the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and emotional well-being\, to overcome stress and anxiety and to build resilience across Europe\, strengthening links across Europe in relation to the arts\, education and positive mental health and well-being with and by young people. \n\n\n\nA Time to Breathe is supported by Erasmus+. The partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead partner); Ente acli istruzione professionale piemonte\, (ENTE) Torino\, Italy; Euroreso\, Naples\, Italy; European Centre in Training for Employment\, Rethymno\, Greece; Fundacion Intras\, Valladolid\, Spain and Youth Peace Group Danube\, Vukovar\, Croatia. \n\n\n\nRepresentatives from each other partner organisations will be in attendance\, with Veronica Leaney attending on behalf of Smashing Times. \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/art-connects-mental-health-a-time-to-breathe/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Partner Exchange
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SUMMARY:Smashing Times Birthday Party Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Guest Speakers include\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nWilliam Caughey\,  Guest\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFernando Benavente\, International Guest\, IFES Coop\, Valencia\, Spain \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer\, Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality  invite you to take part in an open mic night for the arts and to join  us in celebrating 30 years as the leading voice in arts for equality\, human rights and diversity in Europe and internationally! \n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality celebrates 30 years of working with incredible artists\, partners\, citizens and communities  and in a range of different artforms\, promoting human rights\, equality and diversity for all\, we invite you to join us in a wonderful and celebratory gathering of arts\, music\, song and chat. We are delighted that artists\, partners\, citizens and communities from across Ireland and Europe will join us on the evening for creative conversations and taking part in our Open Mic Art session! \n\n\n\nCome to the Chocolate Factory and explore the extraordinary State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, while meeting with some of Smashing Times artists and partners who have worked with us throughout the years. The evening will be an opportunity for fun ‘meeting and greeting’\, for informal networking\, and for creative expression and celebration in an artistic setting. All welcome! \n\n\n\nThe Open Mic session is a celebration of talent in all ages and  artforms and we love all styles and arts. We welcome you to pop on stage for a short performance and to show and share with us your creativity. A delightful evening with an electric\, fun atmosphere \n\n\n\nThe evening will feature short chats celebrating equality\, diversity and human rights and you are welcome to contribute to our vision board with ideas for future ways forward for working with the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights and to acknowledge and remember all those who have inspired us on our journey as we endeavour to create a world where all people are treat equal with dignity and respect. \n\n\n\nAs part of our the evening’s entertainment\, we welcome you to view the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition and installation at the Chocolate Factory\, open daily 10am-6pm from Monday to Sunday\,  3-23 October 2022 (16 October 2-6pm). \n\n\n\nState of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence is a live\, multi-media exhibition and  installation displaying artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence with artists exhibiting their work interrogating political violence in communities across the globe. The exhibiton features a multitude of artworks – film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\, painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\, Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\nArtists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. \n\n\n\nWe also invite you to attend the  Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, open Tuesday to Saturday\, 11am-4pm from 13 September to 29 October 2022 and featuring the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\n ‘Smashing Times has a deserved reputation for exploring social issues with sensitivity and in depth… The plays are true theatre… extraordinary. Smashing Times must continue with it.’IRISH TIMES‘Fascinating\, executed by the innovative and dynamic Smashing Times.’SUNDAY INDEPENDENT‘Smashing Times is a wonderful endeavour and I wish you well with all your future work.’THOMAS KILROY\, PLAYWRIGHT‘This production and the discussion afterwards should be compulsory for all young people.It is Theatre-in-Education at its best.’MAEVE INGOLDSBY\, WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT‘This work is so powerful\, I wish there was more of this.’MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘What Smashing Times are contributing is cutting-edge… this is serious\, thought-provoking and provocative work that is really impressive and valid.’BRIDGET KELLY\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘I’ve never been presented with an issue like this in my experience before\,this has been extraordinary\, powerful.’TOM O’HAGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘The Department of Education should fund this show to go into every school in the country. It is excellent and extremely important.’LIAM HALLIGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘This work is excellent . . . drama is so important\, particularly for young people in schools.’SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL\, CBS\, WESTLAND ROW \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 We Admire\n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times celebrates its 30th anniversary this year\, we have decided to bring you a series called 30 We Admire – a selection of 30 activists\, artists\, books\, films and more that celebrate our values of arts and human rights! \n30 Activists We Admire\n\nGreta Thunberg\n\nGreta is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Her ‘School Strike for Climate Change’ has led to global campaigns for climate action. \n\nMahatma Gandhi\n\nGandhi was an Indian lawyer\, anti-colonial nationalist\, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule\, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. \n\nPanti Bliss / Rory O’Neill\n\nRory O’Neill\, also known by his stage name Panti Bliss\, is a drag queen and gay rights activist from Mayo. Panti’s famous ‘Noble Call’ highlighted everyday homophobia in Ireland\, and now has over 1 million views on YouTube. \n\nRosa Parks\n\nRosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery\, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities. \n\nEvanna Lynch\n\nAn avid animal rights activist\, Evanna Lynch has launched a vegan-themed podcast titled The ChickPeeps and a cruelty-free make-up box named Kinder Beauty Box. \n\nPhilomena Lee\n\nPhilomena is an advocate and spokesperson for adoption rights. She has created The Philomena Project in order to raise awareness about adoption laws and find ways to improve them. \n\nVicky Phelan\n\nVicky is a women’s health campaigner\, and is a central figure in the CervicalCheck scandal. She has campaigned for the programme to be reviewed\, and has called on the Irish medical system to be overhauled due to its failings. \n\nSinead Burke\n\nSinead Burke is a teacher and designer from Ireland. She advocates for inclusivity in the fashion industry\, especially in the development of clothing inclusive of people with dwarfism. \n\nIfrah Ahmed\n\nIfrah is a Somali-Irish social activist. She is the founder of the United Youth of Ireland non-governmental organization and the Ifrah Foundation\, which is devoted to eliminating female genital mutilation. \n\nMairead Maguire\n\nMairead is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. Along with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown\, she co-founded the Women for Peace (now known as Community for Peace People). Maguire and Williams received the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. More recently\, she was involved in discussions around the Rohingya crisis. \n\nMother JonesMother Jones was a 19th century social activist and trade unionist from Cork\, who protested lax enforcement of child labour laws in the US\, and whose successful organising of the United Mine Workers union earned her the moniker ‘the most dangerous woman in America’.\nMary Lawlor\n\nMary Lawlor is UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders\, an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Social Innovation\, Trinity College Business School and founder of Front Line Defenders. \n\nNelson Mandela\n\nNelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary\, political leader and philanthropist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. \n\nMalala Yousafzai\n\nMalala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is also the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate\, and second Pakistani to ever receive a Nobel Prize. \n\nEmily Davison\n\nEmily Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause\, she was arrested on nine occasions\, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V’s horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. \n\nHarriet Tubman\n\nHarriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. \n\nHarvey Milk\n\nHarvey Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California\, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. \n\nDil Wickremasinghe\n\nDil Wickremasinghe lives in Ireland and is a social justice and mental health journalist\, podcaster\, speaker\, mental health service provider\, social entrepreneur\, activist and occasional stand-up comedian. Dil is an outstanding advocate for the LGBTQI+ community and provides training and consultancy in equality and diversity. \n\nSamantha Ncube\n\nSamantha is a youth ambassador and youth worker for the European Youth in Migration Forum with the Irish Refugee Council in which she meets with policy makers to discuss issues affecting young migrant people living in Ireland. \n\nSenator Eileen Ní Fhloinn\n\nSenator Ní Fhloinn has been an activist and community worker for many years\, working with groups such as the Irish Traveller Movement\, the National Traveller Women’s Forum and Ballyfermot Traveller Action Programme. She also campaigned on issues such as housing\, marriage equality\, abortion rights and anti-racism. \n\nStaša Zajović\n\nStaša Zajović is the co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black\, which is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice\, war\, militarism and other forms of violence. \n\nVesna Teršelič\n\nVesna Teršelič is a peace activist and was largely responsible for founding the Croatian Anti-War Campaign (ARK) in 1991 in Zagreb\, Croatia. ARK promotes education for non-violent conflict transformation\, human rights protection\, social reconstruction and reconciliation\, support for refugees and displaced persons\, and help for the unemployed and the bereaved and those severely traumatised by war. \n\nFrancisca Sauquillo Pérez\n\nFrancisca is a Spanish lawyer and politician known for her activism as a labour lawyer and in defence of democratic freedoms during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. She was deputy of the Assembly of Madrid\, Senator and MEP. \n\nHelena Maleno\n\nHelena is a human rights defender\, journalist and researcher and founder of Caminando Fronteras or Walking Borders. She denounces human rights violations taking place on the southern Spanish border and works with the migrant communities in the defence of their rights. \n\nSanja Sarnavka\n\nSanja Sarnavka is a peace and human rights activist. Since 2000\, Sanja Sarnavka has been President of B.a.B.e.\, a Croatian non-governmental organisation which promotes and protects women’s rights.  \n\nKatarina Kruhonja\n\nDr. Kruhonja is a peace activist and director of the Centre for Peace\, Non-violence and Human Rights\, Osijek\, Croatia.  \n\nSlađana Petrović Varagić\n\nSlađana is an independent cultural worker – a curator and producer – who works proactively in the field of cultural policy by opening new critical topics about art\, art rights\, women’s rights and the position of the independent artists and cultural worker. She fights against the influence of politics and parties on decision-making autonomy in the field of culture and art. \n\nSylvia Rivera\n\nSylvia Rivera was a Latina-American drag queen who was a gay and transgender activist in the 1960s and 70s. She’s known for participating in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and establishing the political organization STAR. \n\nNellie Bly\n\nNellie Bly was a pioneering journalist\, known for her ground-breaking 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell’s Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip around the world. \n\nMarsha P. Johnson\n\nMarsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender woman and revolutionary LGBTQ rights activist. She is credited for being an instigator in the Stonewall riots. \n  \n30 Books We Admire\n\nSister Anne’s Hands by Marybeth Lorbiecki. This book is set in the early 1960s\, and a little girl named Anna has never seen a person with dark skin before. At first\, she is afraid of her new second-grade teacher\, but she quickly discovers how wonderful Sister Anne is.\nThe Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S. K. Ali (Authors) Hatem Aly (Illustrator). A beautifully illustrated story about two sisters and the events that unfold on the first day of school when the older sister\, Asiya\, makes her debut in her hijab. A story of how words can be hurtful\, but also the beauty in sibling relationships and self-confidence.\nMaddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt. Bursting with colourful\, digital illustrations\, this book addresses the issues of poverty and childhood hunger through the relationship of two best friends\, one who only has milk in her fridge\, and the other whose fridge is stocked with options.\nSulwe by Lupita Nyong’o. This book discusses self-love and the battles it sometimes takes to get there. Through vivid colours\, this children’s book revolves around a young girl facing colourism and the pain that comes with it.\nChocolate Milk\, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy by Maria Dismondy and Nancy Raines Day. The story revolves around a little boy\, Johnny\, who loves school\, until Gabe\, a boy from Brazil becomes the new student. Johnny’s initial instinct is to reject him\, but that becomes challenged when his peers are kind.\nThe Boy and the Wall by Youth at Lajee Centre in Aida Refugee Camp. A bilingual picture book about a Palestinian boy who has become a refugee. In this book\, he recollects “the wall” being built and the unfortunate and sometimes scary circumstances that came with it. Written by young people living in a refugee camp.\nJust Jamie by Terri Libenson. This story centres around the theme of exclusion. Jaime a girl in middle school knows something is off with her friend group. They have started to exclude her and make fun of the way she dresses and the things she likes.\nI Am Enough by Grace Byers. This book provides constructive affirmations for children who lack self-esteem and self-acceptance. It celebrates children for who they are and promotes positive female role models. It sends a message that people are unique and that they will always be enough.\nChocolate Me! By Tate Diggs. This book encourages kids to love themselves\, even if they feel like they do not fit in. This timely book explores how it feels to be teased and how each of us is beautiful\, no matter how we look.\nSame Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. This book shows how two boys who live oceans apart can become the best of friends. By becoming pen pals and exchanging letters and pictures\, they learn that they both love to climb trees\, have pets\, and go to school and although their worlds might look different\, they are very similar.\nDon’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri. This book explores the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history\, with ruminations on body politics\, race\, pop culture\, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair.\nThe Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward. This book is a deeply moving collection of essays\, short memoir\, and poetry written by contemporary thinkers and writers on race. Shedding light on both past and the present issues of inequality in the United States\, The Fire This Time demonstrates where we’ve come from as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve true equality.\nWe Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler. The book takes an important look at some of the more recent (and less-productive) manifestations of feminism — in particular\, how the word “feminist” has transformed from activist movement to marketing device.\nThe Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez. Shedding light on the enslavement of America’s indigenous people and arguing that slavery — more than disease and violence — was really what decimated the people who were already living here when the Europeans arrived\, The Other Slavery is a harrowing account of the first slavery and genocide to take place in the United States.\nIn Order to Live by Yeonmi Park. In this book\, Park tells the story of her repressive and fear-filled upbringing in North Korea\, and her harrowing escapes.\nUnorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman. In the book\, Feldman documents her life in an ultra-religious Jewish community in Brooklyn\, New York.\nBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda. This memoir is for anyone who has ever struggled to make sense of their identity\, and to find a home where genetics and experience meet — because\, in the end\, we’re all patchwork quilts of our family history.\nStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi profiles five key people in American history: Angela Davis\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Cotton Mather\, Thomas Jefferson\, and William Lloyd Garrison\, using their examples to argue against the myth of a post-racial America and explore the beliefs and practices of various race-related schools of thought.\nAll Our Relations by Winona LaDuke. LaDuke’s merges her own experiences and research with testimonies from First Nations activists — including the Seminoles\, the Anishinaabeg\, the Innu\, the Northern Cheyenne\, the Mohawks\, and others — who have fought for their rights for generations.\nA Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde. Lorde writes passionately about everything from radical politics and the need for intersectionality in feminism to her experiences navigating her own identity as a black lesbian writer and mother and her battle with cancer. She’ll leave you feeling both empowered and inspired.\nMen Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit. Inspired by a particularly “mansplain-y” dinner party attended by the author\, this book explores the gender-based inequalities present in routine exchanges between men and women. On point\, hilarious\, and infuriating\, Men Explain Things to Mealso addresses the issue of women being silenced all over the world — many times at the expense of their health\, freedom\, and/or life.\nWhen We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova. This book is a whirlwind of feminist politics\, passionate protest\, ambitious activism\, and the writer’s own struggle with discrimination and her personal identity. \nPrelude and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. This selection of stories showcases the author’s remarkable ability to delve into the human mind; in stories such as ‘The Garden Party’ she reveals the tension between innocence and corruption\, the dark side of love and romance are explored in ‘Bliss’ and ‘Love à la Mode’\, and in the title story\, ‘Prelude’\, inspired by her own childhood\, her concern is for the isolated and the lonely.\nBreasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. Kawakami paints a radical picture of contemporary working-class womanhood in Japan as she recounts the heart breaking stories of three women who must survive in a society where the odds are stacked against them.\nThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. This masterful dystopia is set in a future America where women are reduced to their reproductive usefulness.\nThe Awakening by Kate Chopin. The Awakeningis considered one of the earliest and boldest examples of feminist fiction. When Edna meets the charming Robert Lebrun while holidaying with her husband and two young children\, a flirtation turns into an affair which opens her eyes to a life outside her passionless marriage and the stifling restrictions of nineteenth-century society.\nThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. In this novel\, Toni explores the problematic and racist beauty ideals of western society\, as well as addressing issues of race\, poverty and abuse.\nThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Written in 1962\, this experimental\, Nobel Prize-winning novel brings taboo issues of the time\, including women’s sexuality\, bodily functions and mental illness\, to the fore.\nCracking the Menopause by Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smellie. This book debunks myths and addresses fears about the menopause\, with straight-talking advice to help you deal with an issue that half of us will face\, yet is rarely spoken about. With case studies\, personal testimonies\, expert guidance and witty illustrations\, this is a wise but humorous guide to the topic.\nA Bigger Picture by Vanessa Nakate. Witnessing the suffering caused by global warming propelled Vanessa Nakate into action and despite risks to her personal safety she became the first climate striker in Uganda at just twenty-one years old. In A Bigger Pictureshe traces the links between the climate crisis and anti-racism\, feminism\, education\, economics and even extremist radicalization.\n\n  \n30 Women We Admire\n\nMary Moynihan – Writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Mary’s work promoting equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts is award-winning and internationally recognised.\nDijana Milosevic – Dijana is a theatre director\, co-founder and artistic director of DAH Theatre in Belgrade\, Serbia\, the first theatre laboratory in her country. In addition to directing socially engaged theatre works\, she has worked on issues of violence against women with the activist group ‘Women in Black’\, performing stories of women from Kosovo\, Bosnia-Herzegovina\, Serbia and Croatia.\nFrederique Lecomte – Frederique is the founder and main facilitator of the Theatre and Reconciliation method. She is a sociologist\, writer and stage director from Belgium. She is an expert in rebuilding traumatised and conflicted communities\, organising theatre workshops and performances both with and for the community in war areas all over the world.\nFelispeaks – Felispeaks is a Nigerian-Irish Poet\, Performer\, Playwright from Co. Longford. She enjoys creating poetry and performance pieces that always promises to introduce her audience to the journey of emotion in every story.\nEmma Dabiri – Emma is an Irish author\, podcaster and presenter. Her debut book ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ moves beyond the personal to examine African hair in wider contexts\, with the book travelling across geographical space and through time to take in pre-colonial Africa up to modern day Western society.\nNina Simone – Nina was an American singer\, songwriter\, musician\, arranger\, and civil rights activist.\nMaya Angelou – Maya was an American poet\, memoirist\, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies\, three books of essays\, several books of poetry\, and is credited with a list of plays\, movies\, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.\nAva DuVernay – Ava is an American filmmaker. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere\, becoming the first Black woman to win the award.\nAmaranta Osorio – Amaranta is a writer\, actress and producer\, Mexican\, Colombian and Spanish. Her work promote equality and human rights.\nMary Robinson – Mary was the first Irish female president. She was involved in the decriminalisation of homosexuality\, the legalisation of contraception\, the legalisation of divorce\, enabling women to sit on juries\, and securing the right to legal aid in civil legal cases in Ireland.[4] She was Ireland’s most popular president\, at one point having a 93% approval rating among the electorate.\nHina Khan – Hina is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. Her work explores human rights issues such as migration\, racism\, and violence against women.\nNoelle McAlinden – Noelle is a visual artist\, curator\, cultural broker\, and mental health advocate. Her work covers topics relating to contemporary women.\nAmna Walayat – Amna is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. She is currently the Cork County Council Creative Producer in Residence. Her work engages with human rights issues\, most recently\, the Mother and Baby Homes scandal.\nÁine O’Hara – Áine is an Irish theatre maker and visual artist\, whose work highlights the reality of living with a chronic illness.\nPillow Queens – Pillow Queens are an all-female alt-pop band from Dublin. Their songs cover topics like body positivity\, mental health\, and growing up gay in Ireland.\nGizele Martins – Gizele was at the frontline of actions to tackle COVID-19 in marginalized communities of Rio de Janeiro\, participating in the Maré Mobilization Front\, a collective of grassroots communicators created to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the favela.\nJuana Ruiz Sánchez – Juana Ruiz Sánchez is a Spanish woman human rights defender. She has been working as a project coordinator for 28 years at the Health Work Committee (HWC)\, an NGO providing health assistance in rural Palestinian villages across the West Bank.\nMary Elmes – Mary was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II.\nAlice Kuvheya – Alice is a human rights defender and director of Chitungwiza Residents Trust (CHITREST). The community trust works to provide civic education and human rights advocacy at a community level\, but also carries out advocacy on health and environmental issues.\nNan Joyce – Nan was an Irish Travellers’ rights activist. She worked to improve the lives of Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1981 until her death in 2018. She was the first Traveller candidate in an Irish general election\, in 1982.\nMariem Cheikh – Mariem is a human rights defender and a member of the NGO Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA)\, which aims to eradicate the practices of slavery.\nEnira Bronitskaya – Enira is a human rights defender and a member of the human rights organization Human Constanta\, which works to promote the protection of the rights of foreign citizens and stateless persons in Belarus\, as well as anti-discrimination and digital freedoms.\nSinzeri Nabeza Jolie – Sinzeri is a human rights defender and member of SOS HANDICAP\, an organisation created by disabled women to defend and protect the human rights of women and girls living with disabilities and to promote a fair world for all.\nGrecia Eugenia Rodriguez Navarro – Grecia is a human rights defender who has been accompanying communities and ejidos in the defence of land and water in the state of Zacatecas\, Mexico\, since 2014.\nLeanne Betasamosake Simpson – Leanne is an activist\, scholar\, writer\, and poet. She was heavily involved with the Idle No More movement that raised awareness of treaty betrayals and environmental injustices impacting First Nations people.\nWinona LaDuke – Winona is an environmental activist and author. She has founded two prominent organizations: Honor the Earth and the White Earth Land Recovery Project.\nGordana Comic – Gordana is Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the Republic of Serbia. As the founder of the Women’s Parliamentary Network of the National Assembly and a member of the women’s movement in Serbia\, she has played a significant role in the country’s fight for women’s equality and equal participation in decision-making processes.\nMaria Edgeworth – Maria one of the most successful novelists of her generation\, with a gift for social observation and dialogue that earned the admiration of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. She was one of the first writers to portray the Irish peasant class as real people\, with real stories\, and during the Irish Famine\, while in her 80s\, went door to door distributing food.\nLady Jane Wilde – Lady Jane was a gifted linguist and poet who published under the name Speranza\, a documenter of the Famine\, a women’s rights activist\, and a nationalist who used her writing to call for insurrection.\nDr Kathleen Lynn – Kathleen was a medical doctor specialising in ophthalmology; a volunteer in the soup kitchens during the 1913 Lockout; medical officer to the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) during the Rising\, for which she was imprisoned; a campaigner for equal rights for women; and the co-founder with her lifelong partner\, the equally fearless Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (and a budget of €70) of St Ultan’s Hospital for Infants.\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/arts-climate-justice-and-human-rights-workshop-programme/2022-10-19/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth Event
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SUMMARY:Equality Ambassadors
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEquality Ambassadors is an innovative transnational partnership project bringing together five partner organisations from Ireland\, Croatia\, Serbia\, Greece and Spain who work with young people including those most marginalised. The project promotes an exchange and transfer of good practice and the sharing of ideas at a European level between five partner organisations involved in youth work\, bringing them together to collaboratively design a new European Equality Ambassador Peer Leadership Training Programme\, resource book and digital app. \n\n\n\nThe Equality Ambassadors curriculum is an innovative training programme that uses creative processes of theatre-based workshops combined with new digital technologies and online resources to develop a range of skills with young people in order to train them as Equality Ambassadors. An Equality Ambassador is a young person who receives training in personal and social development\, in leadership and communication skills\, in creative practice and the use of new digital technologies to engage with other young people to promote democracy\, equality and human rights and active civic engagement at a European level. \n\n\n\nGrowing consensus around the world recognises education for human rights as essential. It can contribute to the building of free\, just\, and peaceful societies. Equality and Human rights education is increasingly recognised as an effective strategy to prevent human rights abuses and assists in promoting a more inclusive\, tolerant and diverse society. The Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) exhorts every individual and every organ of society to ‘strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms’. \n\n\n\nThe EU is founded on principles of liberty\, democracy\, gender equality\, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. This project uses the creative mediums of theatre and new digital technologies to promote democracy\, equality and human rights\, all key values underpinning the EU. Young people are actively involved in the democratic life of Europe and gain expertise in supporting the role of the EU to promote diversity and respect for all. \n\n\n\nEquality Ambassadors is supported by Erasmus+ and the partners are Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead); Dah Theatre\, Belgrade\, Serbia; Youth Peace Group (Danube)\, Vukovar\, Croatia; KANE\, Kalamata\, Greece; and IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain. \n\n\n\nMembers from each partner organisation will be in attendance to share good practice and project findings from the Equality Ambassadors programme. \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/equality-ambassadors/
CATEGORIES:Partner Exchange
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SUMMARY:My Body My Choice: Abortion Rights Activism Across the Globe
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Repeal movement was one of the most important political and social movements in Irish history. It involved tens of thousands of activists from every corner of the island making the case for women to be allowed to make decisions for themselves\, about their own bodies\, their own health and well-being. \n\n\n\nAs we enter the final stages of the Government’s Abortion Review\, we want to explore the challenges that remain since Repeal and hear how the struggle to widen access across the island of Ireland is part of a global movement for women and pregnant people’s reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear from brave human rights defenders who are persecuted for their work on abortion access in Poland. Join us to learn how you can be part of the campaign for abortion rights at home. \n\n\n\nThis event features guest speakers Ailbhe Smyth\,  Emma Campbell and Justyna Wydrzyńska. Ailbhe Smyth is  long-time feminist\,  LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. Emma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\nAbortion in Chile is legal in the following cases: when the mother’s life is at risk\, when the fetus will not survive the pregnancy\, and during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (14 weeks\, if the woman is under 14 years old) in the case of rape. However\, these scenarios account for only about three percent of the thousands of clandestine abortions taking place in the country\, according to activists. Between 1989 and 2017\, Chile had one of the most restrictive abortion policies in the world\, criminalizing its practice without exception. Abortion on these grounds was approved by the National Congress in August 2017\, and came into force a month later\, following a constitutional challenge brought by the conservative opposition. Medical coverage in the public and private sector became available on these ground in January 2018. \n\n\n\nNational Women’s Council of Ireland \n\n\n\nThe National Women’s Council of Ireland’s (NWCI) mission is to lead and to be a catalyst in the achievement of equality for women. They are the leading national representative organisation for women and women’s groups in Ireland. A non-governmental\, not-for-profit organisation\, founded in 1973\, they seek to achieve equality for women. They represent and take their mandate from over 180 member groups from across a diversity of backgrounds\, sectors and geographical locations. They also have a growing number of individual members who support the campaign for women’s equality in Ireland. \n\n\n\nTheir mandate is to take action to ensure that the voices of women in all their diversity are heard. Their vision is of an Ireland and of a world where women can achieve their full potential in a just and equal society. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs)\, people who work\, non-violently\, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by HRDs themselves. Front Line Defenders maintains its headquarters in Dublin\, an EU Office in Brussels\, and regionally-based field staff in the Americas\, Asia\, Africa\, Europe & Central Asia\, and the Middle East. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders provides rapid and practical support to human rights defenders at risk through: international advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at risk\, including emergency support for those in immediate danger; grants to pay for the practical security needs of human rights defenders; trainings and resource materials on security and protection\, including digital security; rest\, respite and other opportunities for human rights defenders dealing with extreme stress; opportunities for networking and exchange between human rights defenders\, including at the biennial Dublin Platform; the annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk; an emergency 24-hour phone line for human rights defenders operating in Arabic\, English\, French\, Russian and Spanish. \n\n\n\nIn emergency situations Front Line Defenders can facilitate temporary relocation of human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders promotes strengthened international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders through support for the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.  Support for the office of the Special Rapporteur is also made through the Frank Jennings Internship Programme. Front Line Defenders promotes respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Front Line Defenders has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Front Line Defenders has partnership status with the Council of Europe. Front Line Defenders has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights\, and supports the work of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights by providing an intern on an annual basis. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\, former Co-Director\, Together for Yes \n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\, Co-Convenor\, Alliance for Choice \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\, Founder\, Women on the Net\, and member\, Abortion Dream Team (ADT) \n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\, lawyer and university professor\, Chile \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth is a long-time feminist and LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. She was also a member of the Strategic Executive of the referendum campaign for marriage equality in 2015. A pro-choice activist since the early 1970s\, she has campaigned in all of the Irish abortion referendums. In 2022\, Ailbhe was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin.   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  She also actively supports women and pregnant people through their abortions as a doula with Lucht Cabhrach (pronounced lu-kt\, cow-rack). Emma is completing her practice-based PhD addressing photography as an activist tool for abortion rights\, at Ulster University. Emma is also a member of the Turner Prize winning Array Collective and has exhibited in international solo and group shows. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho is a lawyer and university professor from Chile. She studied as a lawyer in the University of Chile\, has a Diploma in Gender and Violence from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Chile\, a Masters in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths University\, which is part of the University of London. She currently conducts research at the Human Rights Center of the Diego Portales University. She is also a research associate at the Center for the Study of Applied Ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile. Lieta is also the director of the Gender\, Law and Social Justice program at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on gender\, sociology and law.Lieta is specialised in human rights\, sexual and reproductive rights\, legal sociology\, biopolitics\, ethics and feminisms. Her doctoral thesis was Abortion in Chile: Biopolitics and Contemporary Feminist Resistance\, and she has published several articles and book chapters on biopolitics\, feminisms\, bioethics\, human rights\, among others.In 2018\, Lieta worked as a Researcher on a project titled “Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe”\, funded by the European Research Council and University of Barcelona\, and in 2016\, she was a Co-investigator in a project on experiences in Chile concerning malformed fetuses incompatible with life at the Universidad Diego Portales\, which was presented at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. \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/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland-and-internationally/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Launch of Visual Art\, Poetry and Photography exhibition as part of Transformative Memories in Political Violence at the dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nThe event facilitator is Ciara Hayes\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. The official launch is conducted by Cllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners.  The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nThis chapter of the exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nIn a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetic expressions created under the title of Paradise Lost and Found\, artist Mary Moynihan explores the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work of visual artist Amna Walayat is informed by Michel Foucault’s[1] ideas on power and Edward Said’s[2] work on Orientalism.  Using the medium of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting and the language of symbolism\, Amna’s work expresses her hybrid cultural experiences with artworks on display created under the titles of Migration and In the Name of Shame. The artist says ‘being female\, Asian\, and Muslim\, and a migrant\, mother and artist\, these are all the strands that are personal but also provide me with the opportunity to connect with global issues in general. My paintings are silent protests or performances against violence experienced by women and children\, particularly in various cultural contexts’. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is launched by Cllr Emma Murphy and will feature speeches from the artists and curators\, Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian. \n\n\n\n[2] Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic\, political activist and literary critic. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, she mounted her first solo exhibition as a part of the Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work was exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 October 2021) and with a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland and Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project ‘South Asia Community Museum in Ireland’. \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts and as a Curator with Alhambra Arts Council (2001-07). She has  worked with Cultural Action Europe as a MENA Cultural Agent for advising on policies (2021).  She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Visual Artists Ireland\, and is a recent recipient of The Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of SDCC\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy was elected to South Dublin County Council in 2016 and re-elected in 2019. Emma is a member of the Fianna Fáil party and was extremely active during the referendums for Marriage Equality and Repealing the Eighth Amendment (Abortion Rights in Ireland) over the past number of years. \n\n\n\nEmma’s background is in the NGO sector and previous roles include working as a Communications and Fundraising professional with NGO’s in the areas of Intellectual Disability\, Education\, International Development and LGBTQ+ Sport. In July 2020 Emma took up the position of Communications Director for Barry Andrews MEP of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. \n\n\n\nEmma is a past Chairperson of the Joint Policing Committee for South County Dublin and uses her passion and knowledge of cycling as the Chairperson of the Dodder Greenway Steering Committee. She is a member of the Environment Special Policy Committee on South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nShe has a personal interest in gender equality and education. Emma took part in the ALDE European Womens’ Academy in 2018\, which promotes females in political life across Europe. She has a passion for driving female representation in politics and acts as an advocate for increased female representation across all facets of the political spectrum.  In March 2021 Emma tabled a motion to establish the South Dublin Women’s Caucus for current and past female members of South Dublin County Council to come together to strengthen female representation in the Local Authority. \n\n\n\nEmma’s other passion is sport and she has recently graduated from the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s Learn to Lead programme which empowers females in sport. Emma has used this platform to advocate for community\, sport and LGBTQ+ issues via this forum. \n\n\n\nEmma lives in Ballycullen in South Dublin with her wife Caroline and their miniature Jack Russell named Junior. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Title\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-of-visual-art-poetry-and-photography-exhibition-as-part-of-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Global Citizens Journey Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Global Citizens Journey is an innovative and interactive workshop created by GOAL Youth Members. The activities aim to develop the critical thinking skills to explore the realities and complexities of our interconnected world and recognize the imperative for active solidarity at local and global levels.  Each activity was designed to be adapted to any context and is appropriate for ages 10+ and works very well with adults. It is our hope that these discussions bring you and your local community the confidence to act for fair and sustainable change. The workshop will be facilitated by GOAL NextGen Facilitators. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/global-citizens-journey-workshop/
LOCATION:GOAL Global\, Carnegie House\, Library Rd\, Dún Laoghaire\, Dublin\, A96 C7W7
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond – Dazzling\, Creative Eco-Performance
DESCRIPTION:Love Story\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA seven-channel video installation\, interrogating the mechanics of identification and the conditions under which empathy is produced. Available Monday-Saturday only until 11 November  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTues 18 – SOLD OUT \nWed 19 – SOLD OUT \nThurs 20 – SOLD OUT \nFri 21 – SOLD OUT \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nThe core creative team are: \n\n\n\nAoife Reilly\, writer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\,  writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Artistic Curator Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF)\, Co-Curator with Amna Walayat for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation and Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nFranziska Detrez\, Director \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nNiamh McPhillips\, Performer \n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, Performer \n\n\n\nSaoirse O’Shea\, Set\, Costume and Props \n\n\n\nMatt McGowan\, Lighting Design and Operation      \n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett\, Communications \n\n\n\nEM Creative\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nPaul Marshall\,  Virtual Designer for Creative Eco-Centre with content design by Mary Moynihan and Ciara Hayes \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\,  and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.                                                                                               \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNiamh McPhillips\n\n\n\n\n\nNiamh is from Co. Monaghan and lives in Dublin. While studying at TU Dublin Conservatoire Of Music and Drama\, she graduated with a BA in Drama (Performance). Her final year production was Caryl Churchill’s play of ‘LOVE AND INFORMATION’ directed by Ronan Phelan. She recently performed as Inga Ingram in the world premiere of ‘Looking At The Sun’ by Emily Bohannon at the Smock Alley Theatre and Civic Theatre. Niamh has worked in several different forms of drama such as Dance\, Audio and Opera. She is an alumna of the Monaghan Youth Theatre. She has performed in visual artists Lisa Freeman’s ‘Slipped\, Fell and Smacked my face off the dance floor’ and Jesse Jones’ ‘The Tower’. She collaborated on CoisCéim Broadreach’s project: BUILDING SPACES OF POSSIBILITY which saw her work with choreographer Muirne Bloomer and Dr. Niamh Shaw. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\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\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFranziska Detrez\n\n\n\n\n\nFranziska Detrez is a theatre director and performer based in Dublin. She is a founding member of the German performance art collective schmarrnintelligenz\, die as well as the Dublin based Common Crow Theatre. In 2021 she finished her MFA in Theatre Directing at the Lir Academy in Dublin staging the Irish premiere of Gillian Greer’s „Meat“. Her latest productions include „We Are an Archipelago“ which was part of the 2022 Dublin Fringe Festival. In the past\, she has worked in Germany\, India\, Switzerland and Ireland. She has collaborated internationally on productions with the Auroville Theatre Group in Pondicherry (India) and the Estonian Polygon Teater from Tallinn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and a Producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Freda has worked with Smashing Times since 1999. She is highly skilled in project management\, coordination and implementation. She has extensive experience working at a European level developing and delivering a range of European Initiatives\, collaborating with over 50 cultural\, educational and civil society organisations from over 22 European Countries. Promoting European Values through working on activities and projects that promote human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health\, remembrance and civic engagement. \n\n\n\nShe has worked developing and coordinating accredited training programmes\,  professional productions\, and community exchanges using creative methods to  promote peace building and reconciliation on the island of Ireland.  Working particularly with hard to reach communities in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties building strong community relations. Freda has been instrumental in bringing the learning gained from the Northern Ireland Peace Process to communities experiencing conflict in other European states. She has produced and toured a number of professional performances in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is coordinator of the award winning\, Acting For The Future programme that uses drama and theatre to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention\, which was developed and run in association with the Samaritans and the Irish Association of Suicidology throughout the island of Ireland. As part of her work for Smashing Times she is responsible for all aspects of management and project development and is also involved in teaching practice. \n\n\n\nShe has extensive experience in team management through her work with Smashing Times as a manager and as a manager and Employment Assessment Coordinator for a Working Skills Centre in Toronto\, Canada. Her experience in Canada focused mainly on refugee resettlement\, managing initiatives funded through the federal government of Canada. Her education includes a Bachelor in Social Work (2007) from the Open University and in 2012 she completed an MEd from the National University of Ireland/UCD. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes a producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and the coordinator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ciara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nIn 2016 Ciara branched into arts administration while working with Cyclone Rep; a Cork-based Shakespearean Theatre-in-Education company. In 2017 she took on the role of stage school coordinator at Konfident Kidz\, where she was responsible for the day to day running of the stage school reporting directly to the company’s director. During this time\, she assisted in the organisation of Ireland’s first ever all-autistic conference; AUsome Conference. \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020). She works as Communications Officer at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and as producer for Gaitkrash Theatre Company. \n\n\n\nArts Administration experience includes: Konfident Kidz\, teacher and Stage School Manager (2014-2017); Cyclone Rep Theatre-in-Education Company\, administrator (2016)\, Smashing Times\, Communications Officer (2020-present). \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information\, online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now\, online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaoirse O’Shea\n\n\n\n\n\nSaoirse studied at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art\, Design and Technology where she did a BA in Production Design for Stage and Screen as part of the National Film School. While still in college she got the opportunity to work with a team of international masters in cinematography students on a series of short films along with Banished (2019)\, an opera in Kilmainham Gaol that was staged in conjunction with RIAM. This led to a placement in the props department of the Abbey Theatre for Dublin Will Show You How and the costume department for an Irish National Opera production of The Magic Flute where she worked as a costume prop maker. \n\n\n\nIn the last year she has worked in the art department on a range of commer- cials as a buyer and set dresser for The Tenth Man advertising agency for house- hold brands such as Bewleys\, Lidl\, Jameson and Brown Thomas. More recent theatre credits include set dresser for Dances like a Bomb (2022) as part of the Dublin Dance Festival\, scenic painter on Dubliners in Smock Alley as well as assistant designer and model-maker to a number of established theatre design- ers. Her costume work with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for Gathering on the Pond and more recently The Art of W/Rights at the Pearse Museum led to a residency with them as Set and Costume Designer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt McGowan\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt McGowan is an emerging freelance artists\, particularly focussed on acting\, lighting design and devised work. He also has experience in playwriting and directing. Recent credits include: Narcissus (LX\, Tasteinyourmouth Theatre\, Chiswick Playhouse\, 2022); ROOT (LX\, Luke Casserly dir.\, Dublin Theatre Festival\, 2021). Matt has been extensively involved in the Dublin theatre scene\, particularly in the Dublin Fringe Festivals\, 2017-present\, Smock Alley’s Scene+Heard Festivals 2017-present\, and a number of standalone and touring productions both played in Ireland and internationally. Matt has worked as technical crew\, front of house staff\, and performed in a number of venues and festivals across Dublin. Matt was recently Assistant Technical Manager of Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray\, Wicklow under TM Eoin Fegan earlier this year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett is a graduate from TU Dublin in Creative Industries and Visual Culture and The Gaiety School of Acting’s full time professional actor training. She has worked in theatre in Ireland as an actor\, director\, and producer. Eadaoin joined Smashing Times in July as their administration and communication officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEM Creative\n\n\n\n\n\nEM Creative is a graphic and web design company based in Navan. We pride ourselves on being highly creative and always strive for perfection on all projects to ensure work is produced to the highest standards. \n\n\n\nAt EM Creative we cover all of your design needs. We regularly work on magazines\, brochures\, booklets\, posters\, annual reports and digital ezines\, as well as advertising campaigns and brand development for clients and companies. \n\n\n\nWe are also web design specialists\, creating stylish\, modern websites using the latest software and tools. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Marshall\, MBA\, MFA\, is a Producer\, Director\, Videographer and Photographer. Paul Marshall is a self-shooting Producer Director. The equivalent of putting a cameraperson\, sound recordist\, scriptwriter\, director and producer into one body. He is a lifelong photographer\, a 20+ year video shooter / editor  and now films in broadcast quality 4K and Full HD.  He has thousands of hours logged on Final Cut and have produced hundreds of short films. He is delighted to be on the BBC Assistant Producer register. His work is based around telling stories through short films. The stories can be of many types and for many purposes depending on the client needs. In general he works in a documentary manner\, using interviews and extensive B-roll footage.    \n\n\n\nA significant part of Paul’s work in recent years has been within the visual arts and the performing arts. He is fortunate that it has taken him around the globe several times. It is natural for Paul to be drawn to the energy of art and artists; as a creative and arts graduate myself\, I feel those influences informing my shooting style. Paul has a Masters degree in Fine Art\, practicing in video and photography and passed with Distinction. He won the Royal Ulster Academy Outstanding MFA Graduate Award. \n\n\n\nBefore MarshallArtsMedia\, Paul ran a small company that made outdoor musical instruments and sound sculptures; he also built an orchestra for Stomp and appeared on Dragon’s Den amongst other trivia.  He has a Masters degree in business (MBA) and feels that through MarshallArtsMedia\, he can work in the Art and Business venn intersection. Paul is a recipient of a 2015 Royal Ulster Academy Outstanding Student Award (MFA)\, and of the Digital Arts Studios 2015 MFA Residency Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-17/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
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