BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Smashing Times - ECPv6.17.0//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Smashing Times X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://smashingtimes.ie X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Smashing Times REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Europe/Dublin BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20200329T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20201025T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20210328T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20211031T010000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:+0000 TZOFFSETTO:+0100 TZNAME:IST DTSTART:20220327T010000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:+0100 TZOFFSETTO:+0000 TZNAME:GMT DTSTART:20221030T010000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T120000 DTSTAMP:20211016T150531Z CREATED:20210911T124023Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211016T150531Z UID:10000279-1634641200-1634644800@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-4/ LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Gathering-on-the-pond.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211019T173000 DTSTAMP:20210920T105050Z CREATED:20210913T090803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T105050Z UID:10000316-1634637600-1634664600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-19/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Art-of-Human-Rights.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T190000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T200000 DTSTAMP:20211017T212911Z CREATED:20210911T132622Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T212911Z UID:10000295-1634583600-1634587200@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Fáilte Amnesty - Community Sponsorship - The Open Community DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBookings close at 5pm \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman\, Executive Director\, Amnesty International Ireland \n\n\n\nKevin O’Leary\, Irish Red Cross \n\n\n\nAnna Kierans\, Community Sponsorship \n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\, Community Sponsorship \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCommunity Sponsorship (CS) is a new innovative way for people from Ireland to be able to give support and show solidarity to refugees. So often people want to be able to do something tangible for another person that needs it and Community Sponsorship is an amazing way that people can do this. \n\n\n\nCommunities across Ireland have come together to sponsor a refugee family who have agreed to participate in this resettlement programme. The family then travels to Ireland where they move into the community that has sponsored them. One of the most fantastic things about Community Sponsorship is the friendships that form between the people that participate from the communities and between the resettled family and their new community. This programme reaches a local\, national and International scale\, it is a global movement of ordinary people that are making a real and lasting change in peoples lives. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman\n\n\n\nColm O’Gorman is Executive Director of Amnesty International Ireland. He is the founder and former Director of One in Four\, the national NGO that supports women and men who have experienced sexual violence. Colm has campaigned extensively at both the national and global level for justice and accountability for victims of sexual violence\, and personally initiated ground-breaking litigation on the issue. \nColm has also served as a member of Seanad Éireann\, and is an author and regular media commentator on social justice and human rights issues. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Kierans\n\n\n\nAnna is a member of one of the first Community Sponsorship Groups established in Ireland in 2019.  Anna felt compelled to do something to support refugees so with other Dublin 6 community members they organised\, fund raised and planned for the arrival of the Bourhan family. Since then\, Anna has been a huge advocate and driving force for other communities to get involved in Community Sponsorship.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\n\n\n\nKevin O’Leary is the Community Sponsorship Lead with the Irish Red Cross. Kevin’s previous role as a Senior Migration Caseworker with the Irish Red Cross saw him supporting the resettlement and integration of Iraqi and Syrian’s with Refugee Status. Kevin has over eight years’ experience in high needs case support and is committed to the promotion of an inclusive and intercultural society. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShahera Bourhan\n\n\n\nShahera and her family were forced to flee Syria in 2014 and they spent the next five years in Lebanon. In 2019 they were one of the first families to come to Ireland through Community Sponsorship. Since arriving in Ireland\, Shahera has been a strong advocate for raising awareness about the huge impact Community Sponsorship can make in people’s lives. \n\n\n\n\n\nAmnesty International\n\n\n\nAmnesty International is a global movement of more than 8 million people who take injustice personally. We are campaigning for a world where human rights are enjoyed by all. \n\n\n\nIn Ireland\, our 20\,000 members and supporters campaign on issues like reproductive rights\, ending torture and protecting migrant & refugee rights\, among others. We are independent of any political ideology\, economic interest or religion. We are funded by our members and supporters. \n\n\n\nWhat does Amnesty International do?\n\n\n\nWe investigate and expose the facts\, whenever and wherever human rights abuses happen.We lobby governments and other powerful groups to make sure they respect international law.We mobilise millions of supporters around the world to campaign for change and to stand in defence of human rights activistsWe support people to claim their rights through education and training.\n\n\n\nOur History\n\n\n\nIn 1961\, British lawyer Peter Benenson was outraged when two Portuguese students were jailed just for raising a toast to freedom. He wrote an article in The Observer and launched a campaign that provoked an unprecedented response. Reprinted in newspapers across the world\, his call to action sparked the idea that people everywhere can unite in solidarity for justice and freedom. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/failte-amnesty-community-sponsorship-the-open-community/ CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Failte-Amnesty-image-1-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Amnesty International":MAILTO:info@amnesty.ie LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/failte-amnesty-community-sponsorship-the-open-community/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T153000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T163000 DTSTAMP:20211020T113804Z CREATED:20210911T131329Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211020T113804Z UID:10000292-1634571000-1634574600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Direct Division DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nThe Direct Division art exhibition will be freely available to view on the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery from 15 October 2021. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Carmel Corrigan\, Head of Participation and Rights Education\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\, Participation and Rights Education Coordinator\, Ombudsman for Children’s Office \n\n\n\nGraham Seely \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nDirect Division is a short documentary film featuring children describing\, in their own words\, their experiences of living in Direct Provision.  This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The film highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nDirect Division amplifies the voices of children who are seldom heard. It allows children living in Direct Provision to talk about their experiences in their own words. The children’s identities are protected due to the sensitive nature of the content. \n\n\n\nThis film is one output of a consultation with children living in Direct Provision by the OCO.  \n\n\n\nArt Exhibition: \n\n\n\nDirect Division is an art exhibition featuring children describing\, in their own words and images their experiences of living in Direct Provision. This gives insights into their past journeys\, current life and hopes for their futures. The artwork and writing highlights how the rights and lives of these children are affected by Ireland’s Direct Provision system.  \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children’s Office (OCO) is an independent\, statutory human rights institution that promotes the rights and welfare of children living in Ireland. The OCO has two main functions\, to investigate complaints about services provided to children by public bodies\, and to promote and protect the rights of children under the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. \n\n\n\nChildren living in Direct Provision: 73 children\, aged 12 to 17 years\, seeking international protection in Ireland and living in Direct Provision accommodation came forward to share their experiences and views with the OCO.  Through focus groups\, video interviews and art work\, these children courageously shared stories of their past\, their experience of rights and life in Ireland and their hopes.  \n\n\n\nGansee: Founded in 2013 by Tim Gannon and Graham Seely\, Gansee Films have established themselves as one of Ireland’s leading producers of documentary\, commercial and campaign video content. Gansee work with clients ranging from Trade Unions and NGOs to multinational corporations and arts organisations. \n\n\n\nSplattervan: A mobile youth arts facility\, run by Claire Coughlan and Helen O’ Keeffe\, using visual art as a tool for self expression and empowerment. Running since 2013\, they have worked with many incredible young people and organisations throughout Ireland and beyond to create street art\, animations\, art works and actions that give them space to be seen and have their voices heard. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Carmel Corrigan\n\n\n\nA graduate of Trinity College Dublin\, NUI Maynooth and the Irish Law Society\, Carmel spent 16 years working as an independent researcher specialising in children’s rights\, participation\, policy and law.  Since taking up the post of Head of Participation and Rights Education in in the OCO in 2018\, she had led a number of rights-based consultations with children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife McNamara\n\n\n\nAoife studied in NUI\, Galway and Queen’s University\, Belfast\, she holds an LLB and LLM. She has worked in the fields of human rights and development education for the last 8 years. As the Participation and Rights Education Coordinator in the OCO\, Aoife specialises in consulting with children facing human rights abuses\, teaching them about their rights under the UNCRC and listening to their stories. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGraham Seely\n\n\n\nA lifelong film and photography fanatic\, after completing the Higher National Diploma in Film and TV Production at Colaiste Duhlaigh\, Graham spent several years working as a photographer and freelance cameraman. Gansee Films was established in 2013\, with goal of creating cinematic and photographic projects focusing primarily in the Arts\, Politics\, and NGO sectors. Graham’s photography has been displayed in several exhibitions\, and his feature-length documentary\, The Man in the Hat\, was screened at the Galway Film Fleadh 2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman?\n\n\n\nWhat is the Office of the Children’s Ombudsman? \n\n\n\nWe are a human rights institution and work to protect the rights of children and young people in Ireland.We investigate complaints about services provided to children by public organisations.We want children and young people to be actively heard and respected so they experience safe\, fulfilling and happy everyday lives.\n\n\n\nOur History\n\n\n\nIn Ireland as far back as 1996 many committed people who were interested in children’s rights put pressure on the Government to have an Irish Ombudsman for Children. \n\n\n\nThe Ombudsman for Children Act\, which sets out the role and powers of this Office\, was agreed by the Dáil and the Seanad in 2002. The Ombudsman for Children is a presidential appointment and reports directly to the Oireachtas. \n\n\n\nOriginally Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices were set up to independently investigate complaints against public organisations. However\, after the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child was agreed in 1989\, Ombudspersons for Children’s Offices also began working hard to promote the rights of children. \n\n\n\nDr Niall Muldoon was appointed Ombudsman for Children in February 2015 by President Michael D. Higgins. He was then reappointed by the President in 2021 for a further 6 years. \n\n\n\nWhat is Direct Provision?\n\n\n\nDirect provision is the name used to describe the accommodation\, food\, money and medical services you get while your international protection application is being processed or while you are an asylum seeker\, which means the same thing. \n\n\n\nYou might get direct provision if you have applied for international protection and are waiting for: \n\n\n\nYour first decisionThe result of an appeal to the International Protection Appeals TribunalA judicial review (where the High Court looks at how a decision on your application was made)A decision on whether you will be given leave to remainA deportation\n\n\n\nYour direct provision normally ends if the Department of Justice gives you permission to remain in Ireland\, but sometimes you can stay in direct provision temporarily while you are looking for your own place to live. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/direct-division/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Online,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Direct-Division.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Office of Children's Ombudsman":MAILTO:oco@oco.ie LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/direct-division/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T150000 DTSTAMP:20211017T093401Z CREATED:20210911T125951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T093401Z UID:10000291-1634565600-1634569200@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:CHASE DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDr. Eric Weitz\, Chair: humour scholar and theatre practitioner \n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol: comic practitioner and researcher \n\n\n\nProf. Delia Chiaro: scholar in humour studies and translation studies \n\n\n\nMáirtin Mac an Bhaird: comedian\, writer\, actor \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis one-hour panel is intended as a springboard event for a Centre for Humour and Social Engagement (CHASE)\, to be established under the aegis of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts & Equality. Laughter\, a complex bodied response—with psychological\, social\, cultural and\, indeed\, spiritual implications—is central to human being\, and so it seems is humour\, the attempt to cause laughter in another or others. \n\n\n\nThere are innumerable perspectives\, levels\, and orientations from which to study the everyday human transaction we call humour\, but this initiative will seek in particular to create a space for practitioners\, thinkers\, and thinking practitioners to explore and reflect upon the capacity for humour to be wielded in support of a vision of society based on equality\, diversity and inclusivity. \n\n\n\nAn introduction to the panel by Dr Eric Weitz will clarify further some of the aspirations for CHASE\, as well as sketching some of the issues\, goals and pitfalls foreseen for such an undertaking. The three speakers were chosen for the distinctive perspectives they offer to a proposed creative\, socially conscious meeting place for practice and research in the key of humorous performance. Some issues likely to arise would involve the ethics of joking\, from day-to-day interaction to the wide open spaces of the internet; longstanding questions in humour studies about the capacity for humour to change hearts and minds; and techniques that have proven potent for the humour transaction to gain political traction in specific modes of performance. \n\n\n\nAfter the opening remarks\, each panelist will speak for ten minutes on an area of interest related to the spirit of the centre\, followed by fifteen minutes for discussion and questions. A short amount of time will then be given over to discussion of the next step for CHASE\, and to let attendees know how to register interest in playing some part in the centre’s evolution. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting\, Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin\, and is involved in a part-time capacity with Drama Studies at University College Dublin. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol\n\n\n\nNeslihan Arol combines her artistic and academic work in a multifaceted practice. She finished her MA in Film & Drama Programme at Kadir Has University\, Istanbul\, Turkey\, with a practice-based research project on clowning from a feminist perspective. For her PhD at the Berlin University of the Arts\, she expanded her scope to include stand-up comedy and meddahlık (Turkish storytelling tradition). She presented artistic outcomes of this work on various occasions\, including international festivals in Helsinki\, Izmir\, and Vienna\, and shared her academic findings in many conferences around the world. More information on her practice can be read in her article published in Staging Gender — Reflexionen aus Theorie und Praxis der performativen Künste (2019). In addition to her PhD\, she has continued an artistic research project on shadow play as an Associate Fellow at the Berlin Centre for Advanced Studies in Arts and Sciences since 2019. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Delia Chiaro\n\n\n\nBorn\, raised and educated in the UK\, Delia Chiaro has spent her entire academic life in Italy where she is currently Professor of English Language and Translation at the University of Bologna’s Department of Interpreting and Translation. \n\n\n\nHer research has focused on everything and anything that is benignly multi-faceted and incongruous including bilingualism\, audio-visual translation\, humour and especially a mixture of all three. She has published over 100 articles and book chapters\, she has edited several books and has written two monographs the latest of which\, The Language of Jokes in the Digital Age (London: Routledge)\, came out in 2019.  \n\n\n\nDelia has been invited speaker at conferences around the world and has been interviewed about her work by the BBC\, The Economist\, Mind and several other newspapers and magazines. Her current research explores humour and food and the role of humour used by so-called Digital Tribes on social media and its contamination into the material world. Her forthcoming book\, entitled Comedy in Political Language: How Politicians Use Humour\, will be published by Cambridge University Press\, in 2022. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMairtín Mac an Bhaird\n\n\n\nMairtín Mac an Bhaird is better known as Martin Beanz Warde\, and is a stand-up comedian\, writer\, theatre actor\, podcaster\, and social commentator from the Irish Traveller community. He started his stand-up career in 2005 and has since gone on to perform across Ireland in every major venue. Mairtín has also performed in Electric Picnic\, Altogether Now\, and is the creator of ShamAlive\, Tuam’s first comedy festival. Aside from performing\, Mairtin is an advocate for human rights\, fairness\, equity\, and inclusion. Mairtin can be found releasing podcast episodes on the HazBeanz show and is currently writing his first one man show for theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/chase/ CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/CHASE.png ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/chase/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T140000 DTSTAMP:20211016T150347Z CREATED:20210911T123811Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211016T150347Z UID:10000277-1634562000-1634565600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-2/ LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Gathering-on-the-pond.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211023T180000 DTSTAMP:20210930T131804Z CREATED:20210913T083856Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210930T131804Z UID:10000310-1634554800-1635012000@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Map DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nAlice Maher\, artist \n\n\n\nRachel Fallon\, artist \n\n\n\nMaolíosa Boyle\, curator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nThe Map – a collaboration by Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon (Gallery 1) \n\n\n\nWe are the Map – text and sound installation by Sinéad Gleeson and Stephen Shannon (Gallery 2)  \n\n\n\nOpen to the public – 18 October 2021 – 29 January 2022 \n\n\n\nThe Map\, a collaborative workby artists Alice Maher and Rachel Fallonis the second exhibition in the Magdalene Series at Rua Red\, curated by Maolíosa Boyle.  \n\n\n\nThe series features the work of five of Ireland’s leading artists Amanda Coogan\, Jesse Jones\, Grace Dyas\, Alice Maher and Rachel Fallon. They were commissioned by Rua Red in 2018 to create work in response to the history and legacy of Mary Magdalene and her association with the incarceration and institutionalisation of women\, and to propose a new world uncurbed by religious\, political or societal doctrine. It is a world viewed through the lens of contemporary feminism and feminist theology. \n\n\n\nThe Map is a monumental textile sculpture spanning the enormous space of Gallery One. With its own continents\, winds\, currents and constellations\, The Map draws the viewer in\, inviting a reorientation. Its richly worked surface is an epic mappa mundi where the structures and languages of cartography are used to imagine and re-imagine the life\, legacy and mythology of Mary Magdalene and her impact on women’s lives. An alternative topographic and psychic landscape is uncovered in this witty\, complex un-picking of the established narrative of Mary Magdalene.  \n\n\n\n“Maps are neither mirrors of nature nor neutral transmitters of universal truths.  They contain silences as well as articulations\, secrets as well as knowledge\, lies as well as truth.”  \n\n\n\nThe Sovereign Map: Theoretical approaches to cartography throughout history’ by Jacob\, Conley and Dahl. \n\n\n\nThe Map comprises highly detailed hand-embroidered\, sewn\, painted\, appliqued\, printed\, found and crocheted components. The intense two and a half years of labour over three lockdowns to create the map is a testament to the invisible labour of women everywhere.  \n\n\n\nMaher and Fallon utilise the iconography of Renaissance maps and medieval tapestries\, as well as the language of Victorian ‘cartes de tendre’ and moral schemas such as ‘the Pilgrim’s Progress’\, to subvert and challenge the very belief systems and power structures that these maps were established to uphold.   \n\n\n\nTo the side of The Map\, a whisper\, emanates from a deep blue space (Gallery 2). \n\n\n\nYou do not need to know my name but: \n\n\n\nI am Mary\, Amina\, Penelope\, Brigid\,  \n\n\n\nPersephone\, Frida\, Maebh\, Makeda\,  \n\n\n\nSojourner\, Granuaile\, Cassiopeia\, Nan \n\n\n\nI am Hecate\, Rosa\, Lakshmi\, Aphra  \n\n\n\nthe X-Case Girl; the women given letters not names\,  \n\n\n\nSappho\, Marsha\, Maura\, Edna\, \n\n\n\nGreen Tara\, Black Madonna \n\n\n\nI am the first girl child they put in the septic tank \n\n\n\nCome to the loud\, feral  \n\n\n\nHerland\, SheLand\, Theyland.  \n\n\n\nA Queenopolis\, Cisopolis\, Transopolis  \n\n\n\nA Republic of personhood.  \n\n\n\nI am the map. \n\n\n\nWe are the map. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’; is an ekphrasis / intimate\, immersive sound response located in Gallery Two\, by writer Sinéad Gleeson and composer Stephen Shannon. Gleeson was originally paired with Maher and Fallon to write a text in response to the work in Gallery 1 for the catalogue publication –– but from this\, a new collaboration developed. It become an integral audio piece\, moving from Gleeson’s original text into an immersive soundscape that accompanies ‘The Map’. \n\n\n\nTheir incantatory sound quest is narrated by an ‘everywoman’ who moves around a new terrain. The everywoman’s freedom of movement is in contrast to the many women who were unable to escape the laundries\, mother & baby homes or homes where they worked non-stop. \n\n\n\n‘We are the Map’ is divided into 24 sections echoing the 24 books of the Odyssey. It’s a journey\, a pilgrim’s progress\, a quest through new lands and terrains. \n\n\n\nGleeson and Shannon collaborated on the sound and texture of the piece\, adding music from Mary Barnecutt\, Sadhbh Sullivan and Matthew Nolan. It builds to a final chorus of 36 individual voices united in a mantra; their herstories filling areas of Mahers and Fallon’s mappa mundi. Voices such as Lynn Ruane\, Catherine Corless\, Vicky Phelan\, Ailbhe Smith\, Felicia Speaks\, Rosaleen Mc Donagh\, Olwyn Fouéré\, Marian Keyes\, local women from Tallaght and the Magdalene artists themselves. They all carry their own stories that now inhabit The Map.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRua Red\n\n\n\nRua Red is a contemporary art space housing two galleries\, a theatre/cinema\, a dance studio\, a conference room\, a digital media suite\, recording facilities\, music rooms\, workshop areas\, artist’s studios\, office space and a café. \n\n\n\nRua Red exhibit the work of established Irish and International artists who are committed to producing work within a socio political framework. The education programme reflects the organisations interests with place\, politics and people through a challenging programme of events\, workshops\, screenings and performances that allow audiences and visitors to engage with the exhibitions through the mediums of music\, dance\, theatre and visual art. \n\n\n\nIn addition to Rua Red’s programme the organisation also houses and works alongside a number of independent creative organisations and individuals through the provision of office spaces. Rua Red also provide subsidised artist studios which practising artists can hire at a subsidised rate for 1-3 years. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nRua Red is committed to providing a fully accessible experience for all visitors. We are constantly working to try and improve our facilities to make them as accessible as possible. If you have any suggestions as to how we could improve please let us know. For assistance with planning your visit around contact reception on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie. \n\n\n\nInformation Desk\n\n\n\nRua Red’s Reception is located straight on from the main entrance. Staff are happy to help with any questions you have. \n\n\n\nLift Access\n\n\n\nOur entrance is at street level and all the galleries are wheelchair and buggy accessible. All levels are lift-accessible. A large lift beside the reception area provides access to all floors. \n\n\n\nToilets & baby care facilities\n\n\n\nThere are accessible toilets on each level and baby changing facilities are available on the ground floor. \n\n\n\nAssistance Animals\n\n\n\nGuide dogs\, hearing and registered assistance dogs are welcome. Staff can provide a bowl of water. \n\n\n\nSound enhancement system / Induction loops\n\n\n\nHearing induction loops are fitted at the reception desk and Infra~Hear infrared assistive listening devices are available for use in our Performance Space. \n\n\n\nSubtitles and transcripts\n\n\n\nTranscripts are available for selected exhibitions. Please contact the Reception Desk in advance on 01 451 5860 or email info@ruared.ie \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\n2 hours free parking is available in the close by Square Towncentre Car Park. €3 for 2 hours parking is available in the close by Euro Car Parks. Check Parkopedia for full information and best options. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-map/2021-10-18/ LOCATION:Rua Red\, South Dublin Arts Centre\, County Hall\, Belgard Square North\, Dublin 24\, D24 KV8N\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Onsite,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Map-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Rua Red%2C South Dublin Arts Centre":MAILTO:info@ruared.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T120000 DTSTAMP:20211016T145358Z CREATED:20210911T103006Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211016T145358Z UID:10000276-1634554800-1634558400@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\,  colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song  on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams!  Our play takes place outdoors in the natural\, outside  ‘amphitheatre’  of Rathfarnham Castle park\, around the beautiful pond at the  Castleside Drive end of the park. \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives at Rathfarnham Castle in a panic. It’s her first night in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 16 bus\, so say no more. A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams and especially . . . the  right to dream of a better world!  What will happen next? \n\n\n\nAudiences will be seated on the low stone wall that surrounds the pond and ‘performance’ space.  Bring your own cushion and wrap up warm.  \n\n\n\nAn original show created by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, produced by Smashing Times for The Art of W/Rights: A Literary Carnival of Arts and Rightts. \n\n\n\nPart of In the Open – Faoin Spéir. Funded by The Arts Council. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights\n\n\n\nA literary Carnival of Arts and Rights\n\n\n\nOutdoor Site-Specific Shows\, Live Projections\, Pop-Up Installations and Creative Conversations\n\n\n\npromoting equality\, compassion + rights\n\n\n\nRathfarnham Dublin\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights\, two parks in Dublin – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park -play host to a carnival-style performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows of theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   \n\n\n\nLive performances take place at Rathfarnham Castle Park from the 18 to the 24 October 2021 for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and live performances and outdoor cinema screenings will take place at the Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park in April 2022. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is presented as part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, organised by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders\, in partnership with Amnesty International\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties\, the National Women’s Council of Ireland\, Fighting Words\, Poetry Ireland\, and Trocaire. \n\n\n\nThe festival promises 10 days of exciting events celebrating and promoting the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. The theme of this year’s festival is Hope\, Courage and Resilience: The Story Continues. The festival  reached an international audience of over 10\,000 in 2020 and links the  arts to civil society\, active citizenship and politics through a series of inter-disciplinary performances\, film screenings\, documentaries\, theatre\, music\, dance\, visual and digital art\, poetry\, literature\, historical memory\, discussions and arts-based workshops\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers celebrating and promoting dignity and respect for all people equally. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, Rathfarnham Castle\, Pearse Museum and the Office of Public Works – Rathfarnham Castle Park and St Enda’s Park.  The Art of W/Rights is funded by the Arts Council\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\,  the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  \n\n\n\nThe programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in a time of Covid. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nThe Castle provides access for visitors who require universal access. In the Pay and Display car park\, there is designated parking available. Wheelchair ramps provide full access to the Tearooms and Castle. There are accessible toilets available\, as well as a lift inside the Castle. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond/ LOCATION:Rathfarnham Castle Park (Ornamental Pond Area)\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin\, D14 F439\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Gathering-on-the-pond.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211018T173000 DTSTAMP:20210920T105050Z CREATED:20210913T090803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T105050Z UID:10000315-1634551200-1634578200@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-18/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Art-of-Human-Rights.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T180000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T200000 DTSTAMP:20210917T140003Z CREATED:20210911T101110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T140003Z UID:10000275-1634493600-1634500800@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Human Rights On Film DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nPaul Rice\, Director\, Writer\, Cinematographer\, Producer \n\n\n\nLiam Jackson Montgomery\, Executive Producer\, Interviewer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Worm in the Heart details the extraordinary lives and brave stories of the diverse LGBT+ communities across Russia. Shot in six cities along the Trans-Siberian railway and utilizing intimate interviews about current Russian life\, this documentary features deeply personal and moving accounts from activists and non-activists alike. The film follows queer Irish filmmaker Paul Rice and his boyfriend Liam\, as they go under-cover armed only with two cameras\, to meet with the many heroic members of the LGBTQ+ community who risk their lives living authentically under oppressive laws and prejudices – from Nobel Peace prize nominees and international activists to drag queen performers thriving in remote Siberia.  \n\n\n\nA WORM IN THE HEART is a never-before-seen collection of emotionally driven stories captured on their journey that poignantly document the current state of the Russian LGBTQ+ community. \n\n\n\nPaul and Liam will engage in an online post-show discussion after the screening of the film. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Rice\n\n\n\nPaul Rice is an art director and filmmaker originally from Ireland\, currently based in California. He has worked extensively in Dublin\, London and San Francisco for agencies and creative studios as an art director or lead creative on award-winning commercial projects for culture\, fashion\, and music brands. Paul is a 2012 graduate from the Limerick School of Art & Design in Ireland. A WORM IN THE HEART is his feature film directorial debut. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLiam Jackson Montgomery\n\n\n\nLiam Montgomery is a writer and filmmaker originally from Wales (UK)\, currently based in California. As of 2018 Liam has begun creating queer short films that he writes and co-directs with his partner Paul Rice. His short film\, ‘Snout’ has been part of official selections for various film festivals such as Another Hole in the Head\, SF Indie Fest and received an honorable mention at the London International Comedy Festival. The film also won ‘Best Original Concept’ at the 2019 Videoscream Festival in Portland\, Oregon. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-on-film/ CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Online,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/A-Worm-in-the-Heart.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Irish Council for Civil Liberties":MAILTO:info@iccl.ie LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/human-rights-on-film/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T173000 DTSTAMP:20210920T105050Z CREATED:20210913T090803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T105050Z UID:10000314-1634482800-1634491800@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-17/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Art-of-Human-Rights.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T160000 DTSTAMP:20211013T093029Z CREATED:20210911T163813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T093029Z UID:10000215-1634482800-1634486400@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rights-on-the-rooftop-2021-10-17/ LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Rights-on-the-Rooftop.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T140000 DTSTAMP:20210930T142159Z CREATED:20210914T194438Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210930T142159Z UID:10000331-1634475600-1634479200@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:River of Thorns DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns-3/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Golden-Bride-by-Linda-Greene.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211017T130000 DTSTAMP:20211017T132624Z CREATED:20210910T150723Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211017T132624Z UID:10000265-1634468400-1634475600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Who Tells The Story?: Representational Agency & The Right of Self-Determination in Filmic & Documentary Arts DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \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\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nAlice Feldman – Co-chair \n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro – Co-chair \n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly – panellist \n\n\n\nAla Buisir – panellist \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWe live storied lives. \n\n\n\nIn and through our stories\, we make sense of and share the worlds we inhabit. Through our stories\, we build and sustain relationships and ways of living; we speak out\, survive\, struggle and resist\, carrying the wisdom of our journeys\, our pasts\, our histories towards the futures we are striving to bring into being. \n\n\n\nOur stories are extensions of ourselves; our words\, extensions of our bodies. Our stories have consequences. And the circumstances surrounding the contexts in which they are told\, have consequences. \n\n\n\nWhat is at stake when we give our stories to someone? What responsibilities does this place on those who receive them? Is there an ethics of accountability that grounds this duty of care in the face of the longstanding canon of ‘artistic license’? That honours and maintains the integrity of the storyteller\, the story told\, and the story re-presented? \n\n\n\nThis interactive panel considers such ‘politics of representation’ as more than just abstract ideas\, but matters of human rights. Control over the retellings of our stories – that is\, our representational agency – is inextricably linked to our rights of self-determination – our capacities to act in and upon our life-worlds. It will critically explore the argument that aesthetics and ethics\, far from being mutually exclusive\, are as powerful as they are necessary in their dynamic co-mingling. \n\n\n\nPanelists will first reflect on their work and ‘aest-ethical’ practices (to use the term of activist-artist Tania Brughera). We will then engage the audience in a discussion grounded in their experiences and expertise towards what we hope will lead to a collectively generated aest-ethical manifesto so to speak – a set of principles of engagement relating to representational agency and self-determination in the filmic and documentary arts. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAla Buisir\n\n\n\nAla Buisir is a documentary photographer currently residing in Ireland with roots in Libya. Her work documents the social and political tension around us today. The aim is to raise awareness by presenting events through different perspectives in hopes that it may also bring about change. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr Alice Feldman\n\n\n\nDr Alice Feldman is a lecturer in the School of Sociology at UCD. Her work inheres in transdisciplinary experiments at the intersections of art\, research and teaching. It centres on convening ‘uncomfortable encounters’ and collective inquiries engaging ‘aesthesic’ pedagogies around concerns of colonial inheritances and entanglements\, racial justice\, decoloniality\, reflexive solidarities and creative/cultural agency. Over the last two decades she has also worked in research\, advisory and volunteer capacities for an array of groups involved in anti-racism\, intercultural and integration initiatives. Through collaborations with a range of activists\, artists and students for these many years\, she has cultivated a knowledge justice praxis which became the foundations for the MA Race\, Migration and Decolonial Studies (www.racemigrationdecolonialstudies.com) she convened in 2017. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSandrine Ndahiro\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 co-produced a documentary entitled Unsilencing Black Voices which details personal stories and accounts by members of the black community in Ireland. She is currently an artist in residency in Visual Carlow where she is directing a new documentary film that looks at Irishness from a localised setting. Sandrine is also the co-founder and co-editor in chief of a new online magazine called Unapologetic.  Unapologetic is a multidisciplinary\, literary\, cultural\, and artistic response to the social issues and creative opportunities of contemporary Ireland\, offering a reboot and upheaval.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly\n\n\n\nCaoimhe Butterly is an educator\, therapist\, documentary film-maker and human rights activist. She worked for over 20 years with refugee & undocumented commmunities and human rights defenders in Haiti\, Mexico\, Guatemala\, Palestine\, Iraq\, Lebanon and Syria. She has spent the past seven years engaged in Search and Rescue\, shore support and psycho-social resourcing work\, with those making refuge-seeking journeys across the Central Med and Aegean seas to Europe.  URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/who-tells-the-story-representational-agency-the-right-of-self-determination-in-filmic-documentary-arts/ CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/WhoTellsTheStory.1-page-001-1-scaled.jpg LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/who-tells-the-story-representational-agency-the-right-of-self-determination-in-filmic-documentary-arts/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T200000 DTSTAMP:20211015T212154Z CREATED:20210911T095650Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T212154Z UID:10000274-1634403600-1634414400@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Viewpoints and Suzuki Technique Workshop DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nWe don’t want anyone to miss out\, if you would like to attend a Smashing Times event and cannot meet the costs of the ticket price\, please contact Niamh at Smashing Times – niamh@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\, co – artistic director\, SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company\, Toga. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to host the prestigious Ellen Lauren (co – artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga) as part of the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ellen Lauren will present a three-hour virtual online workshop (with breaks) consisting of one hour based on the Suzuki Training Technique\, one hour of Viewpoints training followed by a one-hour talk/interview with Ellen Lauren\, co – artistic Director of SITI company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga\, and ending with a virtual Q and A.   \n\n\n\nAs part of the talk presentation Ellen will provide a very brief overview of SITI Company\, who they are and the work they do and will speak about the ongoing work of SITI Company in relation to linking equality\, inclusivity\, and cultural diversity to artistic practice. It is hoped we will all share experiences\, lessons and ways forward. \n\n\n\nThis session is in two-parts. Part one is a practical based training workshop engagement that requires active physical engagement for training related to the Suzuki technique and Viewpoints. Part two is a talk and Q and A. The session runs for three hours with breaks incorporated.  The workshop moderator is Michael McCabe\, Smashing Times and the workshop facilitator and guest teacher and speaker is Ellen Lauren\, co-artistic Director of SITI Company and associate artist The SCOT Company Toga. \n\n\n\nWhat do I need to Prepare for the Workshops? \n\n\n\nPlease have water and a towel.For Suzuki technique\, the recommended proposal is to wear shorts primarily to ensure our facilitator can see alignment between hips\, knees and feet. Knee pads are permitted for Suzuki technique\, if that’s comfortable for you. Socks and runners are not recommended. Dance shoes are not recommended.For Viewpoints\, all blacks ideally\, or if not possible as neutral a colour in clothing that you can move in comfortably.  We recommend you avoid wearing clothing that has clear LABEL on it\, so as neutral as possible please. Your personal comfort is the priority with work clothing.We kindly request that in attending\, you are agreeing not to enable any recording of any part of our 3 hour workshop.\n\n\n\nMobile phones to be switched off before we enter the virtual space please and to remain off for the duration of our training.Please don’t bring notebooks (or pens) in the training space.For the Q&A session\, pens and notebooks are recommended.\n\n\n\nWhat To Expect \n\n\n\nPhysical Play!  Please note that Suzuki technique is a very\, very demanding physical engagement\, and we strongly recommend that you are in good aerobic fitness for this workshop.\n\n\n\nPrepared Text \n\n\n\nPlease have the following text prepared and memorised for our workshop\, with the asterisk* showing where the breath is taken \n\n\n\n*Spirits inhabitThe darkness that lightens\, the darkness that darkens\,*The quivering tree\, the murmuring wood\,The water that runs and the water that sleeps:*Spirits much stronger than we\,*The breathing of the dead who are not really dead\,Of the dead who are not really gone\,Of the dead now no more in the earth. \n\n\n\nPreparing Your Space \n\n\n\nPlease ensure prior to the workshop you modem and computer/laptop are working.Please ensure that you have access to Zoom and can adjust your volume and screen to your satisfaction. For the facilitator\, it’s most important that when you stand\, this is within the frame of your computer screen.Ideally\, the facilitator to see you at all times on screen.As this is a virtual physical workshop\, we ask you to make sure you have sufficient space to move in comfortably.\n\n\n\nResource Page \n\n\n\nWe will send on a resource page for all those participating in advance as a means to help you engage with the introductory work of this workshop. \n\n\n\nBrave Space \n\n\n\nWe will also send a brief working agreement which we title BRAVE SPACE to all participants and we ask you to sign your consent to what we collectively title a BRAVE SPACE. \n\n\n\nContact List \n\n\n\nWe propose that all artists who participate agree to share their contact details as a means to further support of each other’s work\, and more vitally in this context develop a community of like-minded artists interested in theatre training and arts related human rights activities \n\n\n\nTrainer Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren\n\n\n\nEllen Lauren  is one of the three Co-Artistic Directors of the renown SITI Company\, which she helped found with directors Anne Bogart and Tadashi Suzuki over thirty years ago. She is a member of the acting company\, and the head of SITI ’s educational programming that includes New York based studios\, SITI’s annual Summer Intensive\, national and international residencies\, and the design of SITI’s bi-annual Conservatory.  \n She is also an associate artist with The Suzuki Company of Toga (SCOT) under the direction of Tadashi Suzuki for over 34 years.   \nShe has been on the faculty of The Juilliard School of Drama at Lincoln Center for the last 20 years where she received the President’s Award for Excellence on the occasion of Juilliard’s 50th Anniversary.  \nPerformance credits with SITI include: Three Sisters (in collaboration with Nine Years Theatre and the Singapore Festival) Falling and Loving (with Elizabeth Streb SLAM Dance Company)\, Bacchae\, Chess Match #5\, the theater is a blank page( with Ann Hamilton)\, Persians\, Trojan Women (After Euripides)\, Variations on A Rite of Spring  (with Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company)\, Café Variations\, Under Construction\, Radio Macbeth\, Who Do You Think You Are\, American Document (with Martha Graham Dance Company)\, Death and the Ploughman\, A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, Room\, bobrauschenbergamerica\, Hotel Cassiopeia\, systems/layers\, War of the Worlds\, Cabin Pressure\, The Medium\, Culture of Desire\, Going\, Going\, Gone and Orestes. \nFestival tours with SITI include Bonn Germany\, Iberoamericano Bogota\, six appearances in the  BAM Next Wave\, 8 appearances at the Humana Festival\, Bobigny94\, Melbourne\, UCLA Center for the Art of Performance\, Yerba Buena Arts Center\, UNC Chapel Hill Arts Center\, Edinburgh\, Singapore\, Wexner Center\, Krannert Center and Walker Art Center; In New York: New York Live Arts\, Montclair State Peforming Arts\,  New York Theatre Workshop\, Classic Stage Company\, The Women’s Project\, Miller Theatre\, The Public Theater\, Westbeth Arts Center\, Under the Radar Festival\, New York City Opera at Lincoln Center\, the Guggenheim Museum and the Joyce Theater\, Regional credits with SITI include San Jose Rep\, ART Cambridge\, Court Theatre Chicago\, Alabama Shakespeare and Actors Theatre of Louisville and the Getty Villa Museum in Museum.  \nAdditional credits include The Creative Gesture program at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity\, INCITE with Force Majeure Dance Company in Sydney\, The Women (Hartford Stage)\, Seven Deadly Sins\, New York City Opera (Kosovar Award for Anna II) Marina\, A Captive Spirit\, and Agammenon with Lauren Flanigan\, Steve Schick and Roger Reynolds for the 2004 Theater Olympics.  \nPerformance Credits with the Suzuki Company of Toga include: Clytemnestra in Electra\, Agave in Dionysus\, Goneril in King Lear\, Jocasta in Oedipus\, and Juliet in Waiting for Romeo.   \nTour venues with SCOT include\, Gu Bei Great Wall Theater in Beijing China\, Kitchijoji Theater Tokyo\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Toga International Festival\, Alexandrinsky Theatre Russia\, The RSC London\, Theatre Olympics in Athens and Delphi\, and the Olympic Arts Festival in Shizuoka\, Japan\, Buenos Aires Festival\, The Carnuntum Festival in Vienna\, Bogota Festival\, Vienna Festival\, Harbour Front Festival Toronto\, Istanbul Festival\, Festival Mundial Chile\, Teatro Olympico Italy\, Montpelier France\, and Hong Kong Festival.  \nFor over 6 years she headed the Toga International Suzuki Training Summer Program in Toga\, Japan\, and is a founding member of the International Symposium Committee on the Suzuki Method of Actor Training. In 2017 she produced the International Symposium on SCOT and the Suzuki Training for Actors at Skidmore College in upstate New York and presented SCOT’s last US tour of their acclaimed Trojan Women. \nMs. Lauren has taught for over 300 schools\, companies and universities including TEAC National Academy Helsinki\, Ecole Jacques Lecoq in Paris\, the Royal Shakespeare Company\, Carlos Universidad and Vertiço in Madrid\, Soif Compagnie Paris\, Maastricht School of the Arts in Holland\, Windsor University\, Banff Center for Arts and Creativity\, St Edwards University\, Moscow Art Theatre\, Sfumato Theatre Bulgaria\, Iceland National Academy\, Casa Teatro de Bogota\, Beijing Academy\, UCLA\, OSU\, UNC\, Toronto University\, Columbia University\, UNC Chapel Hill\, Fordham University\, Harvard University\, Yale University\, Harvard University  and the Beijing Academy. She has most recently taught for First Nations Peoples at Prairie Theatre Exchange in Winnipeg\, and Outside In Theater Company\, celebrating the diverse communities\, stories and voices of the Los Angeles area. \nMs. Lauren was a Resident company member at StageWest Theatre in\, The Milwaukee Repertory and the Alley Theatre\, Houston\, Texas. \nHer directing credits include: A Midsummer Night’s Dream (UCLA TFT Graduate program) Iphigenia (The Juilliard School) and Trojan Women (The Juilliard School)  \nShe was the first recipient of the TCG Fox Fellowship for Distinguished Achievement in the United States and is published in American Theatre Magazine (“In Search of Stillness”) and the Modern Masters series edition on Anne Bogart. She is currently working on her book\, The Invisible Body.  \n\n\n\n\n\nWho Are SITI Company?\n\n\n\nSITI was founded in 1992 by Anne Bogart\, Tadashi Suzuki and a group of like-minded artists to redefine and revitalize contemporary theatre in the United States through an emphasis on international cultural exchange and collaboration. \n\n\n\nSITI Company is committed to providing a space where the interaction of art\, artists\, audiences\, and ideas inspire the possibility for change\, optimism\, and hope.  Built on the bedrock of ensemble\, SITI Company believe that through the practice of collaboration\, a group of artists working together over time can have a significant impact on both contemporary theatre and the world at large. \n\n\n\nAs SITI Company nears its 30th anniversary and begin the process of transitioning from a producing organization to a more open artist collective\, it wants to better reflect the diversity of the countries and communities that we work in. SITI Company want to ensure that our impact is actually reaching a wider audience and reflects our inclusive values.  We want anti-racism\, equity\, diversity\, and inclusion to not only be a matter of our social responsibility within our community\, but to be the foundation on which we build our work.  \n\n\n\nA Smashing Times Reflection\n\n\n\nAnne Bogart\, working with the Japanese theatre director\, Tadashi Suzuki\, founded the Saratoga International Theater Institute (SITI) in September 1992. SITI is dedicated to developing new pieces of work and each year presents training programmes for actors and theatre artists as well as international exchanges\, symposia and other creative endeavours.  Bogart has directed a range of productions from modern drama to opera to collaborative dance theatre and has directed both on and off-stage\, on and off Broadway and internationally. \n\n\n\nAs a director\, Bogart puts the actor at the center of the creative process and sees the actor as a creator working with the director who will eventually ‘set things’ a ‘violent . . but necessary act’.  She recognizes that structure can bring freedom\,  the form is fixed but the emotions are fluid\, the physicality is defined but the interpretation is free.  Bogart has developed a system known as ‘Viewpoint’ Training and composition workshops building a common language for the ensemble as they work together to collaborative and spontaneously create.   Bogart’s viewpoint training was initially inspired by the  work of choreographer Mary Overlie who had developed the Six Viewpoints. \n\n\n\nAs part of the creative process\,  Bogart works on a system or ‘choreographed form’ within which the actors can work with Bogart as the director setting decisions or putting decisions in place early on in rehearsals. The director and actors engage in and explore a series of compositional choices working together in collaboration and as part of an ensemble.  Having freedom in rehearsal is important to support spontaneity and a more creative\, ensemble process even as the director and actors are working towards setting decisions in stone. \n\n\n\nAccording to Bogart\, \n\n\n\n‘I think what keeps theatre from being very good often is that . . . one is afraid of the violence\, you’re afraid of committing the violence of setting something or of saying\, “This is what we’re after\,” because it cuts off all other possibilities. But in the definition of that gesture or that moment or that choice opens up eventually a whole another realm of life.’ \n\n\n\nThe mis-en-scene is a key part of the work and is made up of all the different elements that go into creating the final theatre experience from the text or non-text elements to the physical elements creating the visual and aural composition in space. Bogart is influenced by practitioners from Constantine Stanislavski to Eastern dance and movement. \n\n\n\nViewpoint training is based on a series of exercises and improvisations including movement and sound improvisation. The viewpoints as developed by Anne Bogart are referred to as Spatial Relationship\, Shape\, Architecture\, Kinesthetic Response\, Repetition\,  Gesture and Tempo.  Actors are trained in an awareness of spatial and temporal elements and develop a sense of ensemble and an awareness of the energy in the space\, the energy of the space and the energy of the  group focusing on improvisations in the space related to the viewpoints and the creation of formal compositions.   Actors explore qualities of movement such as lightness\, quickness\, visibility\, multiplicity\, exactitude and continuity (after Italo Calvino’s four elements of Lightness\, quickness\, visibility and multiplicity) as well as emotion\, tempo and kinesthetic senses. In relation to performance the focus is on the actor as creator within the ensemble with actors having a strong awareness of the group and the different elements of staging and composition. \n\n\n\nTraining with a group is a key part of the work which requires a physical\, intuitive response as artists work through the body aiming to bring a  sensorial and instinctive physicality to performance.  Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to partner with CITI to present a unique training  opportunity for artists with regard to conducting a theatre workshop on Viewpoints and Suzuki technique with SITI company. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/siti-company-workshop/ CATEGORIES:Online,Theatre,Workshop ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/SITI-Company-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/siti-company-workshop/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T173000 DTSTAMP:20210920T105050Z CREATED:20210913T090803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T105050Z UID:10000313-1634396400-1634405400@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-16/2/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Art-of-Human-Rights.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T160000 DTSTAMP:20211013T093116Z CREATED:20210911T163813Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T093116Z UID:10000214-1634396400-1634400000@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rights-on-the-rooftop-2021-10-16/ LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Rights-on-the-Rooftop.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T130000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T140000 DTSTAMP:20210930T142156Z CREATED:20210914T193252Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210930T142156Z UID:10000329-1634389200-1634392800@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:River of Thorns DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n Image: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns-2/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Golden-Bride-by-Linda-Greene.jpeg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T150000 DTSTAMP:20211007T101123Z CREATED:20210913T135034Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211007T101123Z UID:10000324-1634382000-1634396400@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Stát na mBan DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nHina Khan \n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nStát na mBan (translation: The Women’s State / The State of Women) is a visual art exhibition and film installation  in the DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum\, exploring gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights. The exhibition is presented as part of State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. The exhibition features visual artworks in the gallery space\, a film installation in the Studio and is accompanied by a series of compelling poems in print form hung in the gallery. The exhibition features work from visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann and poetry by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Michelle Costello. \n\n\n\nFramed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and a reflection on themes of gender-based violence\, racism\, migration\, colonialism\, feminism\, silence\, womanhood and women’s rights as human rights\,  this exhibition presents artworks from artists working with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. These works tell stories of hidden voices\, gender discrimination\,  racism  and fear  intertwined with courage\, radical self-representation and love.  Stories hidden or denied in the  past often live in liminal spaces until the time comes to move out of the shadows and into the light\, finding expression through paintings\, drawings\, film work\, poetry\, original song and voice. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features An Agreement of Silence by Sinead McCann \n\n\n\nAn Agreement of Silence is a new video artwork created and directed by Sinead McCann. It explores women’s experience and the alliance of the church\, the state and the broader community in the confinement\, exploitation and abuse of women in Magdalene laundries in Ireland. Monologue by writer Féilim James\, movement direction by Kate Finnegan with dancers Vitor Bassi\, Siobhán O’Connor and Mufaro Gambe\, voice over by Michelle Costello\, original composition and music by ELKIN. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition features visual artworks by Hina Khan exploring racism and migration and visual artworks by Amna Walayat\, exploring issues relating to women in Ireland\, Pakistan and internationally\, such as feminism\, gender-based violence\, reproductive rights\, and women’s relationships with Church and State. Visual artist  Noelle McAlinden is exploring aspects of the fragile and resilient female form\, and a sense of isolation\, retreat and self-preservation\, as well as reflecting upon the fragility\, isolation\, disconnection and resilience of the human spirit. \n\n\n\nThe fragility of the human condition is portrayed by exploring the female form\, a vessel of memories\, life experiences\, lost and found\, on  voyages of emotional reflection\, brokenness\,  recovery and discovery and in some cases enlightenment. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoelle McAlinden\n\n\n\nNoelle Mc Alinden is a practicing artist exhibiting locally\, regionally and internationally\, with work in public and private collections across UK\, Europe\, US and Canada. McAlinden also works as a creative adviser\, curator\, arts educator\, a former Head of Art and Design in a post-primary school and Senior Lecturer for Arts at Fermanagh College of Further Education. She teaches across a range of sectors including\, primary\, post primary\, university and the prison Sector\, and was an international artist in residence in University of Transylvania\, Lexington\, Kentucky as part of The Governors School of Art. \n\n\n\nAs an arts activist for almost 39 years\, McAlinden has worked across statutory and voluntary Youth and Community sectors. She is passionate about all artforms promoting visual and performing arts\, moving image\, film and digital literacy. She was Chair of Creative Youth Partnerships and served as Chair of The Forum for Local Government and the Arts. She is an active advocate for the arts supporting the development of artists and creatives promoting collaborative and strategic partnerships locally\, regionally and internationally. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a visual artist and holds an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from UCC\, Cork\, Ireland (2015). She also holds an M.A. Fine Arts degree from University of the Punjab\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2002). \n\n\n\nShe has worked as a Programme Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; as a Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and as a PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with a current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland where she is currently based. Aman works as an artist and curator with a keen interest in history\, art history and contemporary art\, particularly in the area of colonialism\, orientalism\, migration and gender while dealing with the subject of hegemony\, exploitation\, power\, and control. \n\n\n\nShe is a recipient of an Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and a recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is a member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, and Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\nAmna initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna’s shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA (2021); Transhumance\, The Space Gallery\, Dublin 7 (2020); a solo show in Cork Lifelong Learning Festival\, Turners Cross Community Centre\, Cork (2019\, 2020); Girl Summit Ireland\, Cork City Council Millennium Hall (2016) Cork\, Ireland; Annual Exhibition\, AAP\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2020\, 2019\, 2018\, 2017\, 2006\, 2005\, 2004\, 2003 and 2002); Members Annual Exhibition\, Lavit Gallery\, Cork (2016\, 2017\, 2018); Group Show\, Co-opera Art Gallery\, Lahore\, Pakistan (2005\, 2016\, 2017 ); A Vision of the Future\, The Lahore Arts Council\, Lahore (2006); Work in Progress Doctoral Program in Fine Arts\, University of Punjab (2005);  Expression Art Extravaganza\, Pearl Continental\, Rawalpindi\, Pakistan (2004); Exhibition of Painting & Calligraphy\, Bahrain (2004); Spring Nomad Art Gallery\, Islamabad (2004); GIK University\, Toppi\, NWFP (2003); SAARC Exhibition of Paintings\, Convention Center\, Islamabad (2003); National Exhibition of Landscape Painting\, Islamabad & Peshawar (2003); National Exhibition of Sculptures & Ceramics\, Lahore (2002) and a Graduate Group Show at Alhamra Art Gallery\, Lahore (2002). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\,  A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation.  Visit his website \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that  ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and a Theatre Lecturer at the TU Dublin Conservatoire. As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in using interdisciplinary arts practice to promote human rights\, peace building\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge arts-based projects with a range of organisations in Ireland\, Northern Ireland and across Europe. Award-winning projects include Acting for the Future\, which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans\, and the highly successful Women War and Peace\, using theatre and film to promote equality and peace. As playwright and theatre director\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Bawn Thompson\, and Féilim James; In One Breath from Testimonies and Constance and Her Friends\, selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and the Kerry Film Festival\,  the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and a new short film Courageous Women inspired by women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 period in Irish history. Mary has worked extensively in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building\, reconciliation and positive community relations. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\, to explore\, share and engage in creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the entrance is via the main entrance to the Theatre Venue.  Wheelchair users can access all levels of the theatre venue via the lift on the first floor. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Car\n\n\n\nM50: Leave the M50 at Junction 13 and follow the sign posts to DundrumCity: Follow the N11 to the junction with Fosters Avenue. Turn right and follow R112 until the junction with Taney Road. Turn Left and make another left at the first traffic signals onto the R117 and follow the road into Dundrum. \n\n\n\nParking\n\n\n\nThe most convenient place to park is the Green Car Park of the shopping centre. This may be accessed from Ballinteer Road and the Dundrum Bypass. \n\n\n\nParking Rates:8am – 6pm: €3 for the first hour\, and the 2nd and 3rd hours are free\, €3 per every hour after the 3rd hour until 6pm.6pm – 11pm: €3 flat rate.11pm – 8am: Free parking.Opening Hours: 6am – 12.30am. \n\n\n\nFor further parking information see Dundrum Town Centre Parking \n\n\n\nSchools and Group Visits\n\n\n\nFor school and group coach drops see the Area Map below. Coaches can go to Option A  or Option B. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Bus\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by 7 Dublin Bus Routes:14 – Dundrum Main Street – Beaumont (Ardlea Road) – D’Olier St / Westmoreland St17 – Blackrock Dart Station –Dundrum Highfield Pk – Rialto44 – Larkhill – Dromcondra – City Centre – Ranelagh – Dundrum Town Centre – Enniskerry44b – Dundrum Luas Station – Dundrum Town Centre- Sandyford – Glencullen75 – Tallaght – Dundrum (Ballinteer Rd.) – Dun Laoghaire61 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Ranelagh – D’Olier Street116 – Whitechurch – Dundrum – Sandyford – Stillorgan – Burlington Hotel \n\n\n\nFor timetables and more information you can visit the Dublin Bus website at www.dublinbus.ie\, or visit the Customer Service Desk located on Level 2 in the Centre. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Coach\n\n\n\nCityscape Express City Transit service links Dublin Airport – Red Cow Luas – Dundrum 32 times a day! A single ticket from Dundrum to the Airport is just €7 and two children under 12 can travel free with a paying adult passenger. \n\n\n\nGetting to the DLR Mill Theatre by Luas\n\n\n\ndlr Mill Theatre and Dundrum Town Centre are served by LUAS Green Line – St. Stephens Green to Brides Glen. The Dundrum and Balally stops are only a few minutes walk from our doorstep. From the Dundrum Station (estimated time: 5 minutes) \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/stat-na-mban/2021-10-16/ LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Onsite,Visual Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Herstory-Dublin-Castle-31.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T130000 DTSTAMP:20211026T090333Z CREATED:20210911T093310Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211026T090333Z UID:10000272-1634382000-1634389200@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Writing A Protest Song DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets Free. Book here \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nFighting Words is delighted to be part of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, hosted by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality.  At these three workshops we will look at the history of these songs\, and draw on these themes to create our own songs relevant for today’s generation. The workshops will culminate in a performance at Fighting Words on Saturday 16th October 2020. Participants need to be available to attend all workshops. Workshop will take place in accordance with Government Covid-19 guidelines and best practice. Workshops may be moved online if necessary. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCheck out the song written by participants in the workshop below! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThey say that in just 30 years\, \n\n\n\nThe world we know will disappear\, \n\n\n\nThe plastic in our atmosphere – \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe north is full of melting ice\, \n\n\n\nAnd then our sea levels will rise\, \n\n\n\nPlastic right before our eyes \n\n\n\nWhere Does it All Go? \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nBy Aoibhinn Danneels \n\n\n\nFacilitator Biography\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\nOur aim is to help children and young people\, and adults who did not have this opportunity as children\, to discover and harness the power of their own imaginations and creative writing skills. At its core\, Fighting Words is also about something much broader and more inclusive. It is about using the creative practice of writing and storytelling to strengthen our children and teenagers – from a wide range of backgrounds – to be resilient\, creative and successful shapers of their own lives. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song/2021-10-16/ LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53 CATEGORIES:Onsite,Songwriting,Workshop,Youth Event ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Song-Writing-Workshops.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Fighting Words":MAILTO:info@fightingwords.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T120000 DTSTAMP:20211018T145300Z CREATED:20210911T094144Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T145300Z UID:10000273-1634382000-1634385600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Ultimate Climate Activist Toolkit hosted by the Climate Queens DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \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\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin the Climate Queens as they bring you 1 full hour of wholesome tips and tricks to help the climate activist in you. \n\n\n\nWe will be asking some amazing youth activists from around the world to share their top 3 tips for a better planet. Find out what they do to protect themselves\, their local community and the planet as a whole. Join us for a guided body scan and meditation to finish the session. \n\n\n\nThis event is free to join and all we ask is that you bring a friend to this online event who may not normally be involved in the climate movement. \n\n\n\nJoin our amazing guests on Saturday\, October 16th at 11am IST/BST on YouTube \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSamia Dumbuya\n\n\n\nSamia (she/they) is a climate justice activist that focuses on empowering young activists to create impactful change in their communities by facilitating workshops\, seminars\, talks and by sharing tools and resources for youth activists to use to strengthen their campaigning skills. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeth Doherty\n\n\n\nBeth (she/her) is an 18 year old climate activist. She has been an organiser with Fridays For Future since February 2019\, and works on education and empowerment alongside climate action. She is currently studying law at the University of Cambridge. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDr. Jennifer Fennell\n\n\n\nJennifer Fennell (she/her) is a Counselling Psychologist who has five years’ experience providing psychological support to individuals who are going through various emotional challenges. She has worked in a variety of different contexts\, including physical illness and injury\, short-term and online support in a third level institution\, and in the community with individuals with depression\, anxiety\, and other psychological difficulties. Her particular therapeutic interests include the importance of self-compassion\, meaning-making in difficult circumstances\, and the use of mindfulness as a therapeutic tool. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHowey Ou\n\n\n\nHowey Ou is a 18 year old vegan and minimalist who had been on the street Climate Striking with limited resources and risky conditions in China for over 100 days. She initiated Plant For Survival movement in China to use her own path to mobilize the natives in response to backlash of Fridaysforfuture and Greta Thunberg. She has been nominated to 1st UN Youth Climate Summit in 2019\, has been reported by the New York Times and known by millions at home. This year\, she is currently a nomad in Europe exchanging experience with local activists\, and has been initiated several hunger strikes in Switzerland in order to ask for acquittal for hill defenders including herself\, who have been accused now for 60 days. She shows a huge commitment of radical international solidarity between nations in the essential times of ecological and climate emergency. She plans to go back to China after COP26. \n\n\n\n\n\nClimate Queens\n\n\n\nCLIMATE QUEENS is a podcast series aiming to raise awareness about the effect that we\, as humans\, are having on our shared planet and what we can do about it. Climate change is a vast subject and can be very overwhelming\, but through sincere chats and numerous cups of tea\, these two Irish gals are breaking down the facts and providing easy\, everyday solutions for their listeners. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-ultimate-climate-activist-toolkit-hosted-by-the-climate-queens/ CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Climate-Queens.png LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-ultimate-climate-activist-toolkit-hosted-by-the-climate-queens/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211016T120000 DTSTAMP:20210920T105050Z CREATED:20210913T090803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T105050Z UID:10000312-1634378400-1634385600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-16/1/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Art-of-Human-Rights.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T200000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T210000 DTSTAMP:20211015T190205Z CREATED:20210911T092206Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211015T190205Z UID:10000270-1634328000-1634331600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Sophistry Vs. Hope DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nKwasie Boyce\, Director \n\n\n\nKaryn McCooey\, Musical Director \n\n\n\nKevin Cumiskey\, Composer \n\n\n\nSinead McNally\, Songwriting and Compser \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nPrincipal Cast \n\n\n\nJodie Daly \n\n\n\nSame Cosgrove \n\n\n\nCian Byrne \n\n\n\nNicky Markey \n\n\n\nMars McNamee \n\n\n\nSarah Cooney McCann \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nEnsemble and Chorus \n\n\n\nM.A.D. Youth Theatre members \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nShannon tries to bring the group together after the last fall out amongst her friends. Was this a deliberate ploy to keep Trevor out of the loop? \n\n\n\nThe now hurt Trevo is on the attack. \n\n\n\nThe erosion of friendship caused by miscommunication and shocking social media content. Disagreements and differences of opinion cause a huge rift in the group. \n\n\n\nWe hope to fully stage our new work in 2022.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nM.A.D. Youth Theatre\n\n\n\nM.A.D Youth Theatre has been working with children and young people between the ages of 6 to 21 years old in Dundalk and wider community since 2011\, providing professionally led weekly drama workshops and quality arts experience in a variety of arts disciplines.  We focus on creating a fun an innovative approach to drama and challenge the thinking and attitude toward the arts in our community. Through our engagement we endeavour to create new and exciting work and have relevant themes that are youth centred. M.A.D YT plans to continue to honour Irish heritage and contribute to the new voices that will help shape tomorrows Ireland. \n\n\n\nM.A.D Youth Theatre empowers youth in the greater Dundalk area to reach their fullest potential through a wide range of services. We care about our members\, and provide them with a number of enrichment programs to help shape their identity. Our Community engagement program provides our youth the chance to get involved in the community and meet new and exciting faces from all walks of life. Come experience it for yourself today! \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/sophistry-vs-hope/ CATEGORIES:Musical Theatre,Online,Youth Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sophistry-vs-Hope-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="M.A.D. Youth Theatre":MAILTO:info@madyouththeatre.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T183000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T200000 DTSTAMP:20211018T145137Z CREATED:20210911T090004Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211018T145137Z UID:10000269-1634322600-1634328000@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Ireland Step Up: Hold Irish companies to account for harming people and the planet abroad DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \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\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty – Environment Correspondent at the Irish Independent \n\n\n\nGarry Walsh\, Trócaire \n\n\n\nHannah Storey\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra\, Secretary of the Assembly and coordinator of the Work Axis Defense of the Territory and Fight against the Climate Crisis \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWhen we buy groceries\, new clothes\, use electricity or go about our day-to-day lives\, we want to be sure that we’re not having a negative impact on others. Yet the operations of many corporations have a profound negative impact on people and the environment around the world. In this event\, we’ll hear directly from human rights defenders about their experiences standing up to corporations and what we can do in Ireland to hold Irish companies to account for their impacts abroad. \n\n\n\nThis event aims to raise awareness and encourage action as part of the Irish Coalition on Business and Human Rights’ push for stronger regulation to stop corporate human rights abuses and environmental destruction.  \n\n\n\nDuring the event\, we’ll hear from representatives from the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Cajar) in Columbia and the Defence Movement of Earth\, Environmental Protection and Access to Water (MODATIMA) in Chile. \n\n\n\nCajar supports indigenous communities to peacefully resist the Cerrejon mine in Northern Columbia\, which is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mine has a long and well documented history of serious human rights abuses. In 2019\, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted that Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has purchased coal from the Cerrejon mine.[1] \n\n\n\nMembers of MODATIMA have suffered death threats in response to their water rights activism. They have worked for years to draw public attention to the impact of water policies on rural communities in Chile’s central Petorca Province\, an area that has been seriously impacted by water scarcity. Tesco and other supermarkets operating in the UK and Ireland\, have been sourcing avocados from the region.[2] \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/may/17/chilean-villagers-claim-british-appetite-for-avocados-is-draining-region-dry \n\n\n\n2  https://www.christianaid.ie/resources/undermining-human-rights-ireland-esb-and-cerrejon-coal \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty\n\n\n\nCaroline O’Doherty has been Environment Correspondent with the Irish Independent since 2019. She reports on a wide range of topics including climate change\, conservation\, the natural and built environment and where the two interact\, and the energy and extractive industries. Prior to joining the Irish Independent\, she had a roaming brief at home and abroad over three decades in journalism. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra \n\n\n\nRosa María Mateus Parra is Secretary of the Assembly and is the coordinator of the Work Axis Defense of the Territory and Fight against the Climate Crisis. Rosa supports the work of the José Alvear Restrepo Lawyers’ Collective (Cajar) in Columbia. \n\n\n\nCajar supports indigenous communities to peacefully resist the Cerrejon mine in Northern Columbia\, which is the largest opencast coal mine in Latin America and is owned by three mining companies listed on the London Stock Exchange. The mine has a long and well documented history of serious human rights abuses. In 2019\, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination highlighted that Ireland’s Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has purchased coal from the Cerrejon mine.[1] Rosa has supports and accompanies communities to defend their territories. She has direct experience of the risks human rights activists are face in this work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] https://www.christianaid.ie/resources/undermining-human-rights-ireland-esb-and-cerrejon-coal \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGarry Walsh \n\n\n\nGarry Walsh leads Trócaire’s policy and advocacy work on Business & Human Rights. He has a keen interest in corporate accountability and advancing stronger regulations to end corporate human rights harms. Having worked on a range of campaign issues over two decades\, he has extensive experience in advocacy\, research\, public campaigning\, and communications. He has also managed human rights and development programmes in Africa\, Asia and the Middle East. He has previously overseen Trócaire’s Human Rights programmes in Myanmar and Palestine and worked with UNAIDS in Malawi. Garry is Trócaire’s Policy and Advocacy Advisor for Human Rights and Democratic Space. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHannah Storey \n\n\n\nHannah Storey leads Front Line Defenders’ Business & Human Rights focused work. Hannah works with defenders working on business-related human rights abuses and is responsible for providing advocacy support to defenders at risk as well as conducting research and working on policy development relevant to defenders and business. She has a particular interest in development finance and the responsibilities of international finance institutions. Prior to joining the Front Line Defenders\, Hannah was part of Forest Peoples Programme’s responsible finance team where she was closely involved in launching a global coalition focused on addressing abuses of defenders linked to global supply chains – The Zero Tolerance Initiative. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ireland-step-up-hold-irish-companies-to-account-for-harming-people-and-the-planet-abroad/ CATEGORIES:Online,Panel Discussion ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/DAHRF21-web-image-Sept21.png ORGANIZER;CN="Front Line Defenders":MAILTO:events@frontlinedefenders.org LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ireland-step-up-hold-irish-companies-to-account-for-harming-people-and-the-planet-abroad/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T150000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T160000 DTSTAMP:20211013T092932Z CREATED:20210915T131629Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211013T092932Z UID:10000335-1634310000-1634313600@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Rights on the Rooftop DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nRights on the Rooftop is a live performance showcasing theatre\, poetry\, song and dance and is a poetic reflection on equality and rights drawing inspiration from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.   The performance is presented on the roof garden of the Chester Beatty and has been created by \n\n\n\nemerging and established artists who have taken part in State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\, a year-long project implemented by a range of partners with support from The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nThe roof garden of the Chester Beatty is divided into a series of different surfaces: stone\, hardwood\, gravel and ornamental grasses with timber trellises situated around the garden’s perimeter. These lead from the door of the garden to a high point where a large silver birch becomes the focal point.  Rights on the Rooftop is a poetical installation brought to life in the rooftop garden creating a dance between the human body and soul intersecting with fundamental desires for freedom and equality. \n\n\n\nThe performance is an interdisciplinary installation created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden and Michael McCabe based on theatrical writings and poetry by writers Féilim James\, Geraldine McAlinden and Mary Moynihan with choreography by Michael McCabe. A key element of the performance is an  extract from John Scott’ acclaimed dance\, Cloud Study\, created by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer with Irish modern Dance Theatre.   \n\n\n\nCloud Study is part dance\, part dream\, part theatre\, part athletics. Two compelling dancers\, Favour Odusola and Vitor Bassi\, attempt to run 1\,000 kilometres in circles and lines through the space\, chasing dreams\, memories\, and home. This performance is a wild explosive running dance: running away\, running in circles\, which become turns and then falls. Each fall and run generates beautiful\, frantic wild movements\, lifts\, wild shapes in the air. The specially created score by Northern Irish award-winning composer Ryan Vail features everyday sounds blended with voice and electronics culminating in huge orchestral textures\, then dissolving into sparse piano. Cloud Study premiered at Galway International Arts Festival in July 2018\, then ran at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin in November 2018 and at Dance Limerick in December 2018. Cloud Study is an Irish Modern Dance Theatre production directed by John Scott\, Artistic Director and Choreographer. \n\n\n\nThis is an outdoor performance\, warm clothing is recommended. \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun\n\n\n\nTobi Balogun is a Dublin based multidisciplinary creative specialising in dance and fashion. Tobi has garnered tremendous experience in styling\, visual merchandising\, brand consultancy\, direction. Clients include Arnotts\, Selected Homme\, Reiss\, Dublin Vintage Factory. As a Dance Artist\, Tobi is a professional member of Dance Ireland. With a background in Hip Hop and other forms of Street Dance he has won international competitions and continues to mentor youth dance groups nationally through weekly classes and workshops. Over the last three years he has danced and performed regularly in several projects with various companies including EMERSION (2016) choreographed by Matt Szczerek which was performed as part of OIL&WATER (2016)\, a collaboration with Cathy Coughlan (HAVOC)\, supported by The Arts Council and South Dublin County Council. In April 16 as part of the ensemble for LAOCHRA choreographed by David Bolger. In September 2016 he performed as part of the cast for TRANS-BORDER choreographed by Matt Szczerek in collaboration with HAVOC for the launch of IN CONTEXT 4\, South Dublin. In 2018 as a founding member of Human Collective he performed in the new piece titled FABLE at Dublin Fringe Festival at Project Arts Centre. The work was nominated for a Best Ensemble Award. In 2019 he completed a residency in Dance House with Human Collective\, mentored by Elon Hoglund of Tentacle Tribe. He is creating a piece to be performed at Dance2Connect\, a 3 day Urban Dance Festival at The Civic Theatre\, South Dublin\, Funded by the Dublin Arts Council. Within his work he focuses on evocative storytelling and the embodiment of life experiences\, on the politics of the black body\, and his work always searching for ways to show new perspectives and express and heal through movement and film. Currently he is in the research phase of a collaborative Arts project titled Black Canvas\, focused on addressing expanding points of access for young adults who do not identify as professional artists\, but have expressed a strong desire to engage with the sector; to examine the barriers for Black communities in establishing meaningful and ongoing engagement with the arts. Supported by Create and The Arts Council of Ireland. This work has emerged from the Bursary Award which was supported by the Arts Council’s Artist in the Community Scheme managed by Create\, the national development agency for collaborative arts. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVitor Bassi\n\n\n\nContemporary dancer and actor graduated at School of Drama Escola de Arte Dramática EAD/ECA/USP\, SP\, Brazil (considered one of the best drama college in Brazil inside University of São Paulo)\, where has worked with the professionals such as Dagoberto Feliz\, Cláudia Schapira\, Iacov Hillel\, Carlos Bauzys\, Isabel Setti\, Cristiane Paoli-Quito\, among others. Has studied with the cinema professionals Luciana Canton\, Fernando Leal and Luiz Mario Vicente. Had been working with Irish Modern Dance Theatre directed by John Scott. Had worked for 9 years with Cia. Repentistas do Corpo (which uses body percussion\, dance\, live music and acting) directed by Sérgio Rocha. Was part of the cast at Selo Homens de COR (a performing company) directed by Sidney Santiago Kuanza. Had also worked as an actor with Luciana Ramanzini and Eduardo Leão at show called Bento Batuca\, with Cia. Teatro do Bardo directed by Fernanda Maia\, with Ricardo Ripa at another show called Corcunda Quaquá\,\, with Núcleo Experimental direct by Zé Henrique de Paula\, Cia. Os Crespos directed by Lucélia Sergio and Sidney Santiago Kuanza\, and Cia. Ouroboros directed by Luanda Eliza. The experience in dance goes through different independent dance companies such as Núcleo OMSTRAB directed by Fernando Lee\, Cia. 3 de Paus directed by Aguinaldo Bueno\, Sérgio Rocha and Ricardo Iazetta\, Um Trilha para sua História directed by Gustavo Kurlat with choreographies from Dafne Michellepis and Marina Caron\, Jorge Garcia cia de dança directed by himselfand GRUA – Gentleman de Rua directed by Osmar Zampieri\, Jorge Garcia and Willy Helm. \n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/rights-on-the-rooftop-2/ LOCATION:Roof Garden\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin\, Dublin Castle\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Music,Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Rights-on-the-Rooftop.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T143000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T153000 DTSTAMP:20210917T135531Z CREATED:20210911T080745Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210917T135531Z UID:10000266-1634308200-1634311800@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Forgotten Voices International Partner Exchange DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for the Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage\, Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII project. The project uses a diverse collection of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\nFour European partners from Ireland\, Spain\, Poland and Germany come together and select 20 stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ in a time of war\, 5 from each partner country. The stories inform the creation of a digital book\, ‘live’ theatre monologues and a twenty-minute film which are  then shown to the public and used to bring people together to promote a remembrance of European history. The stories explore what happens when democracy is denied and how this impacts on ordinary people from the genocide of the Jewish and Roma communities to the imprisonment and deaths of  political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish Refugees\, Polish civilians\, German anti-Fascist resisters and many more. By shining a light on dark events of the past\, the  project uses stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ to highlight the role of the EU today  to promote democracy\, equality and peace for all. By telling the stories of ordinary people who stood up against fascism and supported democracy and freedom\, the project promotes a remembrance of a shared European history and raises awareness of the shared values that Europe stands for in relation to promoting peace\, democracy and the wellbeing of all its people equally. \n\n\n\nThe project culminates in an international creative arts event held for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival where participants take part in interactive theatre performances\, film screenings\, panel discussions and debates\, highlighting stories of a diverse range of groups who stood up against fascism and hatred of the other.  Participants then engage in debate on how to recognise the growth of fascism in society and debate on contemporary democratic achievements in Europe and how European solidarity plays a key role in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all people today. A key aim is to encourage participants to recognise the importance of European solidarity and the way in which the EU promotes right and values for all people equally and to engage citizens in actions to prevent the growth of intolerance and to promote diversity and inclusion. \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by Europe for Citizens and the partners are Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead partner); IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/forgotten-voices-international-partner-exchange/ LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Forgotten-Voices-logo.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T133000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T173000 DTSTAMP:20210920T105050Z CREATED:20210913T090803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210920T105050Z UID:10000311-1634304600-1634319000@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Art of Human Rights DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Art of Rights is a powerful film installation situated in the Lecture Theatre of the Chester Beatty featuring a selection of artworks displayed on screen created by artists working on State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights. \n\n\n\nDisplayed on screen are artworks by visual artists Amna Walayat\, Hina Khan\, Noelle McAlinden and Sinead McCann\, dance performances by John Scott\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, music by Elkin (Carla Ryan and Ellen O Mahony)\, writings by Féilim James\, Mary Moynihan and Geraldine McAlinden and artworks from theatre and film artists Mary Moynihan\, Geraldine McAlinden\, Áine O Hara\, Michelle Costello\,  Michael McCabe and Pamela McQueen\, exploring themes of  gender equality\, migration\, racism\, feminism\,  disability rights\, fragility\, resilience\, and more. Experience a kaleidoscope of visual art\, theatre\, dance\, poetry\, creative writing alongside responses by artists to key themes. \n\n\n\nA key artwork representing the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is created and evolving around this core artwork are a series of interdisciplinary artworks created by artists independently and collaboratively. The artworks are presented in film format on site at the Chester Beatty and\, in order to promote access\, the artworks can be viewed online on the Smashing Times virtual art gallery.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have engaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. Artists have met\, discussed\, and explored the arts for human rights\, while engaging in knowledge sharing and peer learning. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery designed by Paul Marshall\, curated by Mary Moynihan and supported by The Arts Council. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-human-rights/2021-10-15/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Dance,Exhibition,Film Screening,Music,Onsite,Poetry ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/The-Art-of-Human-Rights.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T113000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T130000 DTSTAMP:20211014T124647Z CREATED:20210914T193915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T124647Z UID:10000330-1634297400-1634302800@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:River of Thorns DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\nImage: Golden Bride by Linda Greene \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nEric Weitz\, director \n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\, set design \n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\, performer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, producer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, producer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details:\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is a new play\, written by Féilim James\, directed by Eric Weitz\, performed by Michelle Costello\,  designed by Áine O Hara and  produced by Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns tells the story of Margaret Kearney Taylor\, an Irishwoman who escapes extreme poverty to mix with the elite of Spanish society\, running the prestigious Embassy tearoom in Madrid. Yet when the Second World War strikes\, and word spreads of Nazi death camps\, Margaret is compelled to act\, to risk it all for the sake of humanity despite living in a fascist state. Charting her journey from an austere English workhouse to the glamour of Spanish high life\, to secret wartime saviour\, this dramatic one-woman monologue is both riveting and moving\, exploring what it means to be human in a time of massive injustice.  \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns receives its world premiere at the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\, with five performances only taking place at the Chester Beatty hosted\, Dublin Castle hosted by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality in partnership IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. Each performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists involved. \n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is presented as part of the ‘State of the Art: Nation State as Both Violator and Protector of Human Rights’ project\, funded by the Arts Council of Ireland and as part of the ‘Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII’ project\, funded by the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme of the EU. \n\n\n\nRemembrance \n\n\n\nEach performance of River of Thorns is followed by a post-show discussion with the artists reflecting on creative processes and artistic creation. \n\n\n\nGuest speakers will  reflect on the launch of ‘Remembrance’\, a  digital book  exploring forgotten stories from diverse communities – Jewish people\, political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish refugees\,  German anti-Fascist resisters\, and Polish citizens – who stood up against Fascism and a hatred of the other during WWII\,  highlighting a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  A key question is  ‘what does the EU mean to you’ and how can we work together to promote a Europe united in diversity and shared  values of democracy\, equality\, peace and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nWho was Margaret Kearney Taylor?\n\n\n\nMargaret Kearney Taylor was born in the United Kingdom to an Irish family. She lived in Paris and later moved to Madrid where she was involved in sheltering people who had fled France during WW2 including Jewish people. Margaret\, or Margarita as everyone called her\, ran an elegant tearoom called The Embassy on Madrid’s Paseo de la Castellana for more than fifty years. What almost nobody knew was that she also helped orchestrate the escape of Allied servicemen and Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi terror during World War II.   \n\n\n\nMargarita displayed enormous courage. When she died in Madrid in 1982\, no one knew – beyond a few other people still alive who were involved in the rescue operation – about the heroic role she played during the war. The RTÉ Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War. \n\n\n\nMargaret died on 2 December 1982 and is buried in the British cemetery in Madrid.  She was a clever\, brave and compassionate woman who played a key role in saving thousands of lives and her story deserves to be remembered – ‘her greatest legacy was that she managed to use her position in Spanish society to help so many Allied service and Jewish refugees . . escape to freedom’[1]. \n\n\n\nThe RTE Radio One documentary Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, tells her story and includes interviews with wartime friends who knew Margarita\, as well as testimony from a Jewish survivor who was spirited through Madrid during the Second World War.  \n\n\n\nhttp://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Tearoom\, Taylor\, Saviour\, Spy\, Radio Documentary produced by Richard Fitzpatrick and Tim Desmond\, 2016 \n\n\n\n http://www.rte.ie/radio1/doconone/2016/0624/797910-tearoom-taylor-soldier-spy/ \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nHis work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, Comhar\, A New Ulster\, and the Trinity Journal of Literary Translation. Visit his website. \n\n\n\nA short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim says that ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin; he has been involved with Smashing Times as director\, dramaturg\, lecturer and board member for almost twenty years. \n\n\n\nMost recently Eric has co-edited the six-volume Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy while contributing a chapter on ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; other publications include Theatre & Laughter and The Cambridge Introduction to Comedy(2009)\, as well as two edited collections\, For the Sake of Sanity: Doing things with humour in Irish society and The Power of Laughter: Comedy and Contemporary Irish Theatre. Eric co-edited and contributed to the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance\, and edited the European Journal of Humour Research Special Issue on ‘Humour and Social Media’. His articles and chapters include ‘Failure as Success: On clowns and laughing bodies’; ‘Online and Internet Humor’; ‘Playing with the Rules: Thoughts on a Trickster Spirit and the Soul of Comedy’; and ‘Who’s Laughing Now?: Comic Currents for a New Irish Audience’. \n\n\n\nThis summer Eric was special guest interviewee for the Theatre Unwrapped Podcast\, Episode 4: ‘Laughing Matters’\, from the New Wolsey Theatre\, Suffolk\, UK; and he wrote and filmed a practice-based video series on comedy\, to be released this autumn by the GSA. He currently serves on the editorial panel for ‘Humor’\, the journal of the International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). He is a longstanding board member for Collective Encounters\, a socially engaged theatre company based in Liverpool\, UK. \n\n\n\nEric organised and hosted the international conference for ISHS at Trinity College Dublin in 2016\, which was attended by 180 delegates from forty different countries\, representing a wide range of disciplinary orientations. As part of the conference activities\, he conceived and produced an event in the Samuel Beckett Theatre\, titled\, Laughter in Our Bones\, a promenade performance comprised of short comic texts chosen and performed by people from a range of cultures residing in Ireland\, hosted by Little John Nee. This event can be seen in retrospect as a first step toward the Centre for Humour and Social Engagement. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara\n\n\n\nÁine O’Hara is an award winning theatremaker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. Áine’s work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal\,’ ‘valuable’\, and ‘productive. Áine is interested in intimate one on one performance and often makes work about being a queer\, disabled & chronically ill person. O’Haras long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale\, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats\, a creative and social group for chronically ill people run with the support of the A4 Sounds Studios Project award. O’Haras work has toured nationally and internationally\, and she has shown work in the U.K\, Sofia\, Bulgaria In September 2020 she presented The Owl that lost the Cat\, an interactive performance about loneliness and how to connect in a digital society at Survival Kit festival in Latvia. In 2019 GAA MAAD\, an exploration of what it means to be a queer GAA fan and the difficulty in loving a sport and a community that quite often hates and abuses you was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme. DUETS is an initiative developed by Fishamble: The new play company\, Dublin Fringe Festival and the Irish Theatre Institute. DUETS is an artist development scheme that supports theatre makers in the creation of their own tourable productions. GAA MAAD was written and performed by Aine O’Hara & Vickey Curtis at Bewleys Cafe Theatre for Dublin Fringe Festival 2019. GAA MAAD was awarded the Outburst Queer Fringe Award 2019. Áine has also worked in art departments for film and tv including ‘Red Rock’ currently on Virgin Media One and upcoming Irish feature film ‘Broken Law’ by Paddy Slattery. Recent achievements: Group show-A consideration of all bodies at The Lab\, 2021\, Axis Playground Award 2020\, A4 Sounds Studios Project Award 2020\, during which she created ‘Chronic Chats’ a social and creative group for the chronically ill. GAA MAAD (2019) – which was selected for the inaugural DUETS programme for Dublin Fringe Festival and went on to win the Outburst Queer Fringe Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello\n\n\n\nMichelle Costello is an actor\, drama teacher\, puppeteer and artist and is finishing a collaboration writing a children’s book. Trained in conventional acting through The Gaiety School as well as method acting\, through Focus Theatre and the late great Deirdre O’Connell\, Michelle has over 30 years of experience in television\, film and theatre\, such as; Game of Thrones\, Vikings\, Fair City\, Killinaskully\, Bull Island\, The House of Bernarda Alba to name but a few. She also works in corporate events\, teambuilding and role play and Master of Ceremonies. Michelle trained as a puppeteer through Conor Lambert of the late Lambert Puppet Theatre\, and teaches drama to young children as a self-discovery and development activity. Michelle holds a certificate in Art and Design (N.C.A.D.) 2012\, an honours degree in Fine Art\, Sculpture (N.C.A.D.) 2015 and has delved into issues such as: Observations on Unethical Textile Manufacturing\, The Obsession and Impact of ‘Looking’ Through Social Media\, including the Oversexualisation of Teenage Girls. She has worked with Dublin City Artsquad\, creating art projects for children from the inner city\, and also performed in the RTE Junior Panto as well as a residency at Farmleigh. Michelle was also awarded a Postgraduate in ‘Innovation\, Entrepreneurship and Enterprise’ (U.C.D.) in 2016 and went on to secure contracts as manager of a Horror Themed House\, Marketing Manager for a Kayaking Company and Sole Performer on a Live Moving Theatre Bus. Michelle is at present training as a Radio Presenter\, has been cast in a radio play\, and performs voiceover comedy sketches for DiCtv. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nForgotten Voices\n\n\n\nRiver of Thorns is one of a series of artworks created by Smashing Times remembering women’s stories in history and is presented as part of a European wide project Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage and Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII. \n\n\n\nForgotten Voices  uses creative processes of theatre\, film\, online digital technologies and social media campaigns to remember forgotten stories of humanity\, courage and resilience from the Holocaust and World War II\, linking those stories to solidarity today and the key role the EU plays in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all.  The project uses a diversity of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights\n\n\n\nEvents at Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival\n\n\n\n15 – 24 October 2021\n\n\n\nState of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights is a year-long project curated by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a range of artists and partners\, funded by The Arts Council of Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art project brings together fourteen diverse artists through six collaborative artist exchanges and ongoing artistic engagement. Artists come together over one year\, January to December 2021\,  to explore\, share and engage in  creative arts practice for human rights and to create a showcase of new work to be presented to a public audience. The artists include visual artists\, theatre and film makers\, dance artists\, poets\, writers\, multi-disciplinary artists\,  musicians and singer-songwriters.  Artists share\, support and inspire each other in creative arts practice for human rights\, equality and diversity –promoting experiential professional development and creativity. \n\n\n\nThe artists have engaged in  research on national and international best practice examples of arts and human rights from across Europe linked to sociological and anthropological standpoints and a study of ‘art as activism’ from the personal to the political. Through the collaborative exchanges\, artists have \n\n\n\nengaged in a variety of activities as well as giving presentations on their own work\, on work that inspires them\, and meeting with representatives of a variety of human rights organisations and government officials\, including Front Line Defenders\, the Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL)\, the Irish Network Against Racism (INAR)\, former Lord Mayor of Dublin Hazel Chu and Cllr Carly Bailey. \n\n\n\nThe artists are: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and EqualityPamela McQueen\, dramaturgCarla Ryan\, actor\, singer-songwriterNoelle McAlinden\, Visual Artist\, Creative Advisor\, Mental Health Campaigner\, Curator and Cultural BrokerÁine O’Hara\, visual artist\, theatre makerGeraldine McAlinden\, writer\, actor\, directorHina Khan\, visual artistMichael McCabe\, actor\, director\, drama facilitatorFéilim James\, writerAmna Walayat\, visual artistMichelle Costello\, actor\, visual artistSinead McCann\, visual artistJohn Scott\, dancer\, choreographer\, Artistic Director of Irish Modern Dance TheatreEllen O’Mahony\, singer-songwriter\n\n\n\nRead the artists biogs here \n\n\n\nArtistic Creation \n\n\n\nAs part of State of the Art\, the artists have created a series of showcase artworks to be presented for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival both live – at the Chester Beatty and dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum – and virtually as part of a visual art exhibition and film installation screened via the new Smashing Times Virtual Art gallery. The artworks are inspired by the theme State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and by the UN Declaration of Human Rights\,  intersecting with equality\, human rights and diversity and created under the framework of ‘Art as a Place of Performative Remembrance’ and ‘Art as Activism and Transformation’. \n\n\n\nAccess\n\n\n\nFor visitors with reduced mobility\, the most suitable entrance is via the Ship St Gate of Dublin Castle\, as it is the closest entrance to the Chester Beatty. If you are coming by car and you have a Disabled Person’s Parking Permit or Card\, you will be permitted access to the grounds of the Castle\, via the Ship Street entrance.  The nearest public car park is Christchurch Carpark. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty is a wheelchair/buggy-friendly building\, with wheelchairs available free of charge.  An accessible restroom for visitors in a wheelchair is located on the ground floor and many of our exhibits are placed at a comparatively low height to facilitate viewing by those visitors who use wheelchairs. \n\n\n\nThe Chester Beatty offers dementia-friendly tours on a regular basis\, the lecture theatre is fitted with a loop system and visitors with guide or service dogs are welcome. \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information: URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/river-of-thorns/ LOCATION:Lecture Theatre\, Chester Beatty\, Dublin Castle\,\, Dublin 2\, D02 AD92\, Ireland CATEGORIES:Onsite,Theatre ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Golden-Bride-by-Linda-Greene.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211024T230000 DTSTAMP:20211108T100453Z CREATED:20210915T151910Z LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T100453Z UID:10000216-1634295600-1635116400@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:Sound On! DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSinead McCann \n\n\n\nAlanJames Burns \n\n\n\nSound On!\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSound On!  \n\n\n\n3 audio tracks with different lengths\, 2021 \n\n\n\nSound On! is a creative sound art project presenting experiences of human rights and happiness for and by people with an intellectual disability. The artwork was developed over a six-month period through weekly on-line creative workshops. Everyone learnt new digital skills including how to record their voices and sounds using accessible sound recording and editing software. \n\n\n\nSound On! was facilitated and led by artists Sinead McCann and AlanJames Burns in collaboration with Aidan Winters\, Conor Begley\, David Carter\, David Deane\, Frances Quinn\, Jonathan Smith\, Keith Whelan\, Laura Hickey\, Niamh Fortune and Sean Winder who were supported to create fun and self-expressive sound artworks. Co–designers Niamh and Conor worked closely with the artists to design the delivery of the Sound On! project. This project was fully supported by Saint John of God Liffey Services support staff led by Assistive Technology facilitator Sarah Boland and Suzanne Cunningham through the Online Engage Programme. The music composition was created in collaboration with composer Conor O’Malley. \n\n\n\nThe initial ideas and creative processes for Sound On! were created through a creative research and development phase of the project facilitated and led by McCann and Burns in collaboration with Alex Kennedy\, Chloe Larkin\, David Carter\, Eric Nolan\, Jonathan Smith\, Rachel Coss and supported by Saint John of God. \n\n\n\nThis project is funded by the Arts Council Artist in the Community Scheme\, managed by Create and Kildare County Council Creative Ireland Community Grant. \n\n\n\nSaint John of God Liffey Services\n\n\n\nSaint John of God Liffey Services\, formerly known as Menni Services and Kildare Services\, was amalgamated in 2014\, to form Liffey Services\, a region within Saint John of God Community Services clg. \n\n\n\nLiffey Services supports over 850 children and adults with intellectual disabilities providing a range of Respite\, Residential\, Day Services and Early Services. There are two schools\, at Islandbridge and Saint Raphael’s Celbridge\, which cater for 165 children with intellectual disabilities. \n\n\n\nDay Services locations across the region expand from Dublin South West to North. We provide Early Services in Cork Street and Cookstown.  Residential services are predominantly community based across the region with a reducing number of residents living on campus in Islandbridge\, Inchicore and Saint Raphael’s Celbridge. \n\n\n\nWe provide a range of life-long learning\, community engagement\, supported employment\, independent living skills teaching\, sports\, recreation\, respite\, residential and early services. Our mission is to identify\, respond and support the needs of all individuals we support and to provide opportunities for each individual to reach their full potential. We have a highly skilled and diverse workforce delivering rights-based services. Building strong community partnerships is vital to ensure that we deliver a person-centered model of support. \n\n\n\nWhat is Sound Art?\n\n\n\nSound art is an artistic discipline in which sound is utilised as a primary medium or material. Like many genres of contemporary art\, sound art may be interdisciplinary in nature\, or be used in hybrid forms. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCann\n\n\n\nI am a Dublin based Artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. I often work collaboratively with arts and non-arts professionals to produce innovative and challenging artworks which add an artistic contribution to public debate on important social issues in modern life. \n\n\n\nRecent works: \n\n\n\nSound On! (2021)\, a 3D creative sound project in collaboration with artist AlanJames Burns and Saint John of God Liffey Service exploring happiness and human rights. Funded by Artist in Community Realisation Award.Small Talk (2021)\, a 45-minute radio documentary in collaboration with The Bridge Project Dublin 8 exploring access to employment for people with a criminal record. Funded by a research grant as part of the Engage the City programme with Dublin City Council Culture Company and Artist in Community Project Realisation Award.The Trial (2018)\, is a four channel synced video and sound installation made in collaboration with the Bridge Project Dublin 8\, and University College Dublin medical historians Associate Professor Catherine Cox and Dr Fiachra Byrne. Funded by a Participation Project Award Arts Council\, Community Award Dublin City Council\, with further funding from University College Dublin and Wellcome Trust UK. National tour in 2019.Living Inside (2019)\, a photographic exhibition of the work of Irish photo journalist Derek Speirs\, Kilmainham Jail\, co curated with historian Dr Oisin Wall. Funded by the Wellcome Trust UK\, and University College Dublin.Health Inside (2018)\, a public art intervention on large scale billboards and bus shelters in Dublin 7 near Mountjoy prison\, in collaboration with UCD historians Dr Oisin Wall and Associate Professor Catherine Cox. Funded by Open Call Award.\n\n\n\nI studied for my degree in Fine Art TU Dublin (00-04)\, and Masters of Fine Art (05-08) and Practice Based PhD Fine Art Sculpture (2009-2015) at the National College of Art and Design Dublin. I have worked part time (since 2009) in Technological University Dublin coordinating socially engaged curriculum-based projects between community organisations\, staff and students across disciplines. I served on the board of directors of Common Ground 2013-2014. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlanJames Burns\n\n\n\nAlanJames Burns is a Dublin-based artist producing immersive sensory environments and event with mixed-reality technologies in site-specific locations reflecting on the inner psychological space by giving voices and consciousness to structures and systems. Burns works highly collaborative with other artists\, writers\, composers and technicians. \n\n\n\nRecent projects include: \n\n\n\n‘Open Mind\, Closed System’ an interactive audio-visual artwork using a brain computer interface with generative imagery and audio\, commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival 2021. An ambitious expansion of this work; ‘Augmented Body\, Altered Mind’ has been commissioned by Carlow Arts Festival for their 2022 programme core funded by Arts Council Of Ireland Commissions Award and Arts and Disability Ireland Project Award. \n\n\n\n‘Silicon Synapse’\, a Virtual Reality experience conceived for the Carnegie Library in Swords\, Fingal; redeveloped for JRC Milan\, Italy and Bozar\, Brussels\, 2019; core funded by Arts Council of Ireland and jointly commissioned by Fingal Arts & European Commission. \n\n\n\n‘Entirely hollow aside from the dark’\, a sound installation produced inside caves commissioned by Fingal Arts 2016 and redeveloped for an Irish tour 2017 core funded by Arts Council of Ireland\, North/South Co-Operation Fund & Creative Ireland. The first international presentation of this work took place at Creswell Cave\, England\, Aug 2019 \n\n\n\nRecent residencies include; Rapid Residency with Science Gallery Dublin\, 2020; Research Residency with Hermes Artes Visuais\, São Paulo\, 2021; The Space Programme with the Performance Corporation at Tyrone Guthrie Centre 2019; Resonance Residency\, JRC Milan\, Italy and Seville\, Spain\, 2018-2020. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/sound-on/ CATEGORIES:Online,Sound Art ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Sound-On-Web-page-image-for-Smashing-Times-scaled.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/sound-on/ END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T110000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211024T230000 DTSTAMP:20210916T160845Z CREATED:20210911T084506Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210916T160845Z UID:10000268-1634295600-1635116400@smashingtimes.ie SUMMARY:The Art of Behaving Badly by Guerrilla Girls DESCRIPTION:Duck\, Duck\, Goose\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nTour of new play\, Duck\, Duck\, Goose\, and online discussion with the creative team. Hosted by Fishamble Theatre Company. \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nGuerrilla Girls \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Guerrilla Girls are feminist activist artists. We wear gorilla masks in public and use facts\, humour and outrageous visuals to expose racism\, gender bias and corruption in politics\, art\, film\, and pop culture. Our anonymity keeps the focus on the issues\, and away from who we might be: we could be anyone and we are everywhere. \n\n\n\nWe believe in an intersectional feminism that fights discrimination and supports human rights for all people and all genders. We undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory\, the subtext\, the overlooked\, and the downright unfair. We have done hundreds of projects (posters\, actions\, books\, videos\, stickers) all over the world. We also do interventions and exhibitions at museums\, blasting them on their own walls for their bad behaviour and discriminatory practices\, including our 2015 stealth projection on the façade of the Whitney Museum about income inequality and the super-rich hijacking art. \n\n\n\nOur retrospectives in Bilbao and Madrid\, and our US traveling exhibition\, Guerrilla Girls: Not Ready To Make Nice\, have attracted thousands. Recently we produced new street and museum projects at Tate Modern and Whitechapel Gallery\, London; São Paulo Museum of Art; Van Gogh Museum\, Amsterdam; Museum of Military History\, Dresden; Art Basel Hong Kong; and many other places. What’s next: More creative complaining!! More interventions!! More resistance!! \n\n\n\nThe Guerrilla Girls’ motto: Do one thing. If it works\, do another. If it doesn’t\, do another anyway. Keep chipping away. Creative complaining works! \n\n\n\nFor the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2021\, Guerrilla Girls present 20 artworks in an exhibition called The Art of Behaving Badly. The pieces are available to view on the Smashing Times Virtual Gallery from 15 – 24 October 2021. \n\n\n\nCopyright © Guerrilla Girls and courtesy of guerrillagirls.com \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-behaving-badly-by-guerrilla-girls/ CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Online ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/gif:https://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/Guerrilla-GIrls.gif ORGANIZER;CN="Smashing Times":MAILTO:info@smashingtimes.ie LOCATION:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-art-of-behaving-badly-by-guerrilla-girls/ END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR