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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists & Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The 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 supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist & Speaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinead McCoole\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:St Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Film Screening,Onsite,Performance,Storytelling,Theatre
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SUMMARY:The Art of W/Rights
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \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\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe \n\n\n\nRob Harrington \n\n\n\nMary Duffin \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi \n\n\n\nSinead McCoole \n\n\n\nFéilim James \n\n\n\nDeirdre Molloy \n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present The Art of W/Rights in the grounds of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park on the 9\, 10 April and the 15\, 16\, 17 and 18 April (Easter Week) 2022. Engaging with the unique historical setting of Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, Smashing Times present stories of people from Irish history\, with links to the area of Rathfarnham\, who spoke out for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nEnjoy a magical walk-in-the-park performance as we regale you with storytelling\, poetry and song. The play reflects on the lives of Robert Emmet and Sarah Curran; William Butler Yeats and the Pearse Women. Visit a book display and engage in creative conversations inspired by figures of the past associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham who influenced the shaping of Irish society. Join with us as we create a ‘gathering space’ to celebrate stories and creative conversations on visions of a better world\, reflecting on of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times and asking what kind of Ireland we want to live in today. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side – Walks in the Park at Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park – 9\, 10\, 15\, 16\, 17\, 18 April 2022\, daily 1pm and 2pm \n\n\n\nEnjoy a guided promenade performance as you meet and greet with characters associated with Pearse Museum\, St Enda’s Park and Rathfarnham down the years. A Walk on the Wild Side is a walkabout performance featuring monologues\, poetry and song inspired by the life stories of Robert Emmet\, Sarah Curran\, John Philpot Curran\, William Butler Yeats\, and three women from the Pearse family\, Margaret (Brady) Pearse\, mother to sisters Margaret Pearse and Mary Brigid Pearse. Listen to our stories while taking time to reflect on nature and the varied wildlife and river itself to be found in St Enda’s Park. \n\n\n\nA Walk on the Wild Side features: \n\n\n\nA Beauty That Will Pass written and directed by Mary Moynihan performed by Michael McCabe\, is a poetical response to the love story of Sarah Curran (1782-1808) and Robert Emmet (1778-1803) interwoven with reference to John Philpott Curran (1750-1817) and Padraig Pearse (1879-1916) \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James\, directed by Geraldine McAlinden\, performed by Rob Harrington\, a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Women\, a talk by Dr Sinead McCoole\, historian\, inspired by the life-stories of Mrs Margaret (Brady) Pearse (1857-1932)\, Politician and Dail Deputy; Margaret Mary Pearse (1878-1968)\, teacher\, TD and Senator and Mary Brigid Pearse (1884-1947)\, musician\, teacher and author; linked to objects in the Pearse Museum collection\, exploring role these women played in shaping Irish society and their relevance to a diverse Ireland today. \n\n\n\nAn Ród Seo Romhainn\, an Irish poem written by Áine Ní Ghlinn\, a bilingual Irish journalist\, poet\, playwright and children’s writer and current Arts Council Laureate na nÓg\, 2020—2023\, the first to write exclusively in Irish. The poem is inspired by the two teacups on display in the Pearse Museum\, left out by the mother of Padraig and Willie Pearse\, before her two sons went to join the Rising in 1916. The poem will be performed by Mary Duffin\, directed by Deirdre Molloy. \n\n\n\nPerformances and talks linked by music performed by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights Story Book \n\n\n\nAs part of The Art of W/Rights Smashing Times have created a book featuring stories of historical figures associated with the Rathfarnham area of Dublin and stories of people who inspire us submitted by the public through an open call. The book can be viewed virtually on the Smashing Times website from April 10 2022 and a ‘book installation’ will be located on site in St Enda’s Park featuring a selection of stories and quotes from the book submitted by artists and members of the public. \n\n\n\nDates and Times for Walks in the Park \n\n\n\nSaturday 9 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, Performances at 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nSunday 10 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm \n\n\n\nFriday 15 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSaturday 16 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nSunday 17 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm. \n\n\n\nMonday 18 April 2022\, Walks in the Park\, 1pm\, 2pm.  \n\n\n\nPerformance live at St Enda’s Park. Hosted by Smashing Times \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nWalks in the Park Meeting Point: Outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16.  D16 Y7Y5 \n\n\n\nBooking Required. Tickets: €12/10 \n\n\n\nInformation:  communications@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nThe Art of W/Rights is an outdoor performing arts spectacle by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality featuring site-specific outdoor shows and Walks in the Park combining theatre\, film\, literary pop-up installations and creative conversations\, promoting equality\, compassion\, and human rights in changing times.   The 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 supported by the Arts Council In the Open | Faoin Speir\, South Dublin County Council Arts Office\, the Creative Ireland programme of South Dublin\, Erasmus+ and the Citizens\, Equality\, Rights and Values programme (CERV).  The programme generates a celebration of literature\, visual and performing arts and discussion on key themes of equality\, compassion and rights in changing times. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality incorporating Smashing Times Theatre and Film Company and Smashing Times Youth Arts Ensemble. Mary is a Theatre Lecturer at TU Dublin Conservatoire.  As Artistic Director of Smashing Times\, Mary specialises in professional theatre and film practice and in using the arts to promote human rights\, peace\, gender equality and positive mental health\, developing cutting edge\, arts-based programmes with a range of organisations at local\, national and international levels.  The work of Smashing Times is underpinned by a rights-based approach and a commitment to artistic excellence and social engagement. Company patrons are First Lady Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian.  \n\n\n\nMary has worked as lead artist on a range of award winning projects including Acting for the Future which uses theatre to promote positive mental health and well-being\, run in partnership with the Samaritans and supported by the HSE National Office for Social Inclusion\, and the highly successful European projects  Women War and Peace\, Women in an Equal Europe and the Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe run in partnership with organisations from Spain\, Germany\, Poland\, Croatia\, Belgium and Serbia\, with repeat funding from Europe for Citizens. Mary has worked on a range of projects in Northern Ireland using the arts to promote peace building and reconciliation. Key work includes The Memory Project which uses theatre and film to promote peace and non-violence\, run in partnership with CAIN (Conflict Archive on the Internet) and the University of Ulster INCORE International Conflict Research Institute. Mary has designed a series of drama workshop models to promote anti-racism\, anti-sectarianism\, human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health and suicide prevention.  Mary has been invited to present in Ireland and across Europe in relation to the numerous award-winning projects she has created and worked on. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII by Mary Moynihan\, Deirdre Kinahan\, Paul Kennedy and Fiona Bawn Thompson; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies (co-written with Paul Kennedy); Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night – and May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  Mary is the author of ‘Loving the art in yourself’ and ‘Interview with Margaret Toomey’ in Stanislavski in Ireland – Focus at 50 edited by Steve Burch and Brian McAvera\, published by Carysfort Press\, 2013. She wrote a chapter titled ‘Death of a Mother’ for Motherhood in Ireland\, edited by Dr Patricia Kennedy\, Department of Social Policy\, UCD\, Mercier Press\, 2003. She co-authored a chapter titled ‘Laughing Together: Community-based theatre’s vital sense of humour’ for Comedy in Contemporary Irish Theatre\, edited by Dr Eric Weitz\, University of Dublin\, Trinity College\, Carysfort Press\, 2004. \n\n\n\nAs a theatre director\, professional directing credits include the The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII on Irish and international tour (co-director Bairbre Ni Chaoimh); scenes from A Midsummer Night’s Dream by William Shakespeare for the Abbey Theatre\, Dublin; Uprising scripted by Tara McKevitt and devised by Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre Dublin and on national tour; Thou Shalt Not Kill by Paul Kennedy at Project Arts Centre Dublin and Lyric Theatre Belfast;  Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare\, Samuel Beckett Theatre; Macbeth by William Shakespeare\, Conservatory of Music and Drama Theatre; Orphans by Dennis Kelly\, Focus Theatre; The Crucible by Arthur Miller\, St. Dymphna’s Oratory\, Grangegorman; Shattering Glass and In One Breath (Testimonies) for Smashing Times at Project Arts Centre and Helix Theatre\, Dublin; Olga from Picasso’s Women by Brian McAvera for Focus Theatre; Orpheus Descending by Tennessee Williams\, Mill Theatre Dundrum; Two Rooms by Lee Blessing for Focus Theatre; Talk To Me Like The Rain and Let Me Listen by Tennessee Williams\, Focus Theatre; May Our Faces Haunt You (nationwide tour); A Chain of Hands (Royal Hibernian Academy\, National Museum of Ireland and the Mansion House\, Dublin); Medea  (Smashing Times on nationwide tour); Yerma by Federico Garcia Lorca and Riders to the Sea by JM Synge\,  Samuel Beckett Theatre\, Dublin.  As an actor Mary has worked in theatre\, television and film including RTE’s Fair City\, Federico Garcia Lorca’s The House of Bernarda Alba at Focus Theatre and End of Term by Maeve Binchy on nationwide tour. \n\n\n\nFilm work includes the television documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women based on powerful women’s stories from the decade of commemorations period 1916 to 1923 in Irish history. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington is an actor and editor\, known for The Rattle Shakes: Strange Longings (2015)\, A Date for Mad Mary (2016) and Vaudevillains (2019). \n\n\n\nHis film and TV credits include CRLT\, Black Sheep Productions; The Guarantee\, TV3; Love’s Labour\, That’s The Shot Productions; Ros na Rún\, TG4; The Enchanted Island\, Noel Kearns Productions; The Martyr’s Crown; Park Films. \n\n\n\nTheatre credits include Forgiveness\, Shiva Productions; Juno and the Paycock\, The New Theatre; Jesus Christ it’s Jesus\, Maylin Productions; and The Girls of Dublin\, Sean O’Casey Theatre. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSinéad McCoole is the author of many books including Hazel\, A Life of Lady Lavery (1996) and No Ordinary Women (1997) and Easter Widows\, the untold story of the wives of the executed leaders (2014) and Women 1916-Mná 2016 (2017). She is a member of the Government’s Expert Advisory Group on the Decade of Centenaries (2012-to date). She was Historical Advisor to the 2016 National Commemoration Programme\, Curator of Mná 1916. She has curated exhibitions on Irish history & art in both Ireland and the U.S. A Broadcaster and script writer her work includes Guns and Chiffon (2003) and A Father’s Letter part of the After ’16 Irish Film Board shorts commissioned for the centenary was based on her interviews with Fr. Joe Mallin (1913-2018). Her areas of expertise are Modern Irish History from the 1880 to the present\, Material culture\, museums\, the history of Irish women\, child prisoners\, Sir John and Lady Lavery. She is an expert in the area of women’s imprisonment 1916-1923. Her current area of interest is women in politics and public life 1918-2018. \n\n\n\n\n\nAdditional Information\n\n\n\nIn the Open – Faoin Spéir \n\n\n\nFunded by The Arts Council \n\n\n\nWhy Walks in the Park – A Walk on the Wild Side! \n\n\n\nDublin is a city of incredible energy and excitement\, with heritage and history around every corner.  The Smashing Times Walk in the Park series are an artistic celebration of Ireland’s rich cultural heritage\, sharing stories of artists\, human rights defenders\, citizens and forgotten heroes\, men and women from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nParks are freely used by members of the public for walking\, running\, chatting\, meeting friends\, enjoying nature\, playing sport\, walking with the family\, walking the dog\,  spending some ‘alone’ time\, doing yoga and so on. Our aim is to utilise the park space as a centre for arts and creativity intersecting with sustainability  linked to equality\, rights and diversity.  Smashing Times are committed to working in local settings and our aims for parks are: \n\n\n\nTo build a co-creative space in the parks of DublinTo utilise the park space for positive exchanges and community-building linking the arts to community development\, sustainability and equality\, human rights and diversityTo create an inspirational model for community parks and gardens combining the arts with creativity for sustainability\n\n\n\nIt is important to celebrate Dublin as a cultural and creative hub for the arts and human rights.  Storytelling is a key way to  share Dublin and Ireland’s rich heritage\, while showcasing the talent of our local artists and performers\, and also sharing knowledge about why promoting human rights is an important aspect of contemporary society.  Smashing Times are committed to presenting art-based programmes generating small\, intimate events in public places\, to ensure that there is  a thriving ecosystem supporting all variations of artistic practice including generating art in local spaces. A key aim is to link artists\, arts organisations and communities. \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation – With MemoLabs: Performances\, Workshops\, Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisitors welcome from Monday-Sunday\, 3-23 October\, 10am-6pm (16 October 2-6pm). Contact info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\,  visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\, \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann\, visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda \n\n\n\nJuliane Okot Bitek\,  Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer\, academic and poet\, who lives in Canada \n\n\n\nPeter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor\, British Columbia\, Canada \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers in MemoLabs (in addition to above artists): \n\n\n\nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nNiamh Sweeney\, performer \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer and songwriter \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, violinist \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Deputy Director of Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nSenator Mary Fitzpatrick \n\n\n\nCllr Donna Cooney\, Deputy Lord Mayor\, Dublin City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe flagship event for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 is the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.  \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition at The Chocolate Factory features the work of artists responding creatively to themes of freedom\, remembrance\, political violence\, transformation\, power and control.   The exhibition highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan and Amna Wayalat and accompanying  by a series of MemoLab activities – talks\, workshops and live performances. The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nState of the Art MemoLabs\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition and installation is accompanied by an eight-day programme of State of the Art MemoLab activities made up of talks\, workshops and performances presented by international artists working with local artists from Ireland and Northern Ireland. The MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are open to the public and take place over three days at the Chocolate Factory\, 26 King’s Inns Stree\, Dublin 1\, on the  14\, 15\, 16 October and for five days in Northern Ireland on the 17-21 October.  The talks and workshops feature artists and researchers from Ireland\, Northern Ireland and around the world talking about their art based methodologies and creative artworks and how the arts can be used to transform society in the wake of political violence. \nThe MemoLab programme of work in Dublin is presented as part of the State of the Art Artist Development programme and the annual networking day for the Arts and Human Rights European Network attended by artists\, citizens\, communities and human rights organisations\, supporting artists to engage in artistic practice promoting equality\, human rights and diversity. The MemoLab programme of work in Northern Ireland is facilitated by Ulster University and Healing Through Remembering (HTR)\, and includes sessions with Conflict Textiles\, the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and National Museums NI on their new “Troubles and Beyond” exhibit at the Ulster Museum. \n  \nKey Questions: \nWhat is the role of the arts in promoting transformative remembrance arising out of political violence and in remembering responsibility for mass and state sponsored violence and how can art arising out of political violence be transformative? \nHow does remembering responsibility in a creative way\, shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country and global politics? \nWhat are the processes of art from the ground up in making impactful activism using culture\, creativity and memory? \n  \nPolitical violence impacts on communities and lives across the globe. It is a multi-faceted issue\, and can take many different forms. Certain specific conflicts are addressed in this exhibition\, while other pieces interrogate the emotions that such violence produces. The exhibition comprises of artworks across all forms reflecting on the role of the arts in highlighting the issue of political violence\, and the ways in which the arts can help people to reflect and move forward in its wake. These artists offer insights into conflicts and post-war communities across the world through their evocative and poignant work. \n  \nThe Artists for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Exhibition and MemoLabs are: \nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and is Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF). \nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores a range of themes including violence against women and feminism. Amna is co-curator with Mary Moynihan on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/amna-walayat \nHina Khan is a visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\,  specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores themes of migration\, racism and human rights. https://visualartists.ie/arts-directory/directory-of-members-_/#!biz/id/5d39abdbf033bfab33f21b4c \nDr Sinead McCann is a Dublin based visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation\, often exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. https://imma.ie/artists/sandra-johnston/ \nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nCarla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nRob Harrington\, Performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n  \nProducing Team \nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nCiara Hayes is Festival Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n  \nPartners \nUlster University \nConflict Textiles \nHealing Through Remembering \nJustice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda \nUniversity of British Columbia \nNational Museums NI\, Northern Ireland \nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nThe Transformative Memory International Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \n  \nPhD Organizing Group for the Transformative Memory International Network \nKetty Anyeko\, Uganda. Ph.D. candidate\, ISGP\, University of British Columbia \nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos\, Colombia. Ph.D. candidate\, University of British Columbia \nAlejandra Gaviria-Serna\, Colombia. Ph.D. student\, GRSJ\, University of British Columbia \nNila Utami\, Indonesia. Ph.D. candidate\, History\, University of British Columbia \nAaron Weah\, Liberia\, Ph.D researcher\, Law\, Ulster University \nPaula Surgenor\, Northern Ireland\, Ph.D candidate\, Anthropology\, Ulster University \nThe Artists\nThe artists in the exhibition are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design\, born in British Columbia\, Canada and identifying as a member of the Crow Clan;   Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights – Artist Development Programme for the Arts and Human Rights\, Supported by the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network and Resource and Advice Service\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality runs an annual  Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme called State of the Art; The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of human rights and is part of a programme of work supporting artists who are dedicating to use their art to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, talks\, mentoring and peer learning.  The programme is supported by the Smashing Times Resource and Advice Service (currently in development by Smashing Times) and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network which is open to all artists\, activists\, citizens\,  communities\, human rights organisations and the general public to join. \n\n\n\nThe programme is  made up of three components. The first component is an Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme bringing together artists through six exchanges and ongoing collaboration and research\, who are dedicated to using their artforms to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe second component is the creation of  new productions and exhibitions  to be presented for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. For the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival the company created State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition on display at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\,  and at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, with MemoLabs consisting of Performances\, Workshops and Artist Talks. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. The exhibition displays artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe and  features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\,  Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. Artists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.    \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by MemoLabs\, a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nA chapter of the Transformative Memories was created and ran at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery in Dundrum.  The State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  The exhibition runs from the 20 September to the 29 October 2022. \n\n\n\nThe third component of State of the Art is the holding of an annual Arts and Human Rights networking day held as part of the European Arts and Human Rights network which aims to bring together artists\, citizens\, communities\, human rights organisations and the general public and is open to all those interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  The annual networking day for 2022 consists of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival launch and the four MemoLab events held at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin for the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNetworks\n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network is open to all\, artists and activists\, organisations and individuals\, who believe in using the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights for all. The Network offers opportunities to meet\, discuss and explore human rights\, human rights defenders\, and the artists who use their work to stand up and speak out for the rights of others. The Network is free to join\, and includes information and resources emailed throughout the year. Join now: https://smashingtimes.ie/signupform/ \n  \nTransformative Memory Network \nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\nThe exhibition and accompanying MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are presented in partnership with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ulster University\, University of British Columbia\, the Transformative Memory International Network\, the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network\, Healing Through Remembering\, Conflict Textiles\, Justice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda and National Museums NI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation – With MemoLabs: Performances\, Workshops\, Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nVisitors welcome from Monday-Sunday\, 3-23 October\, 10am-6pm (16 October 2-6pm). Contact info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\,  visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\, \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann\, visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda \n\n\n\nJuliane Okot Bitek\,  Kenyan-born Ugandan-raised diasporic writer\, academic and poet\, who lives in Canada \n\n\n\nPeter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor\, British Columbia\, Canada \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers in MemoLabs (in addition to above artists): \n\n\n\nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nNiamh Sweeney\, performer \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer and songwriter \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, violinist \n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Deputy Director of Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nSenator Mary Fitzpatrick \n\n\n\nCllr Donna Cooney\, Deputy Lord Mayor\, Dublin City \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe flagship event for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 is the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.  \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition at The Chocolate Factory features the work of artists responding creatively to themes of freedom\, remembrance\, political violence\, transformation\, power and control.   The exhibition highlights the role of art in post-conflict transformative work and in transforming memory arising out of political violence\, bringing together the work of twenty artists from the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, England\, Pakistan\, Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia and Argentina\, whose work explores conflict\, war and the telling of stories arising out of political violence. The artists’ work is a response to conflict in a range of countries including the Republic of Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Colombia\, Argentina\, Nigeria\, Syria\, Chile\, Palestine\, Peru\, Mexico\, Spain\, Poland and Germany and is also a means through which society can examine historic conflicts\, enabling open discussion and exploration to play a part in the healing process\, to provoke conversations\, questions and an exploration of key issues. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan and Amna Wayalat and accompanying  by a series of MemoLab activities – talks\, workshops and live performances. The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nState of the Art MemoLabs\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition and installation is accompanied by an eight-day programme of State of the Art MemoLab activities made up of talks\, workshops and performances presented by international artists working with local artists from Ireland and Northern Ireland. The MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are open to the public and take place over three days at the Chocolate Factory\, 26 King’s Inns Stree\, Dublin 1\, on the  14\, 15\, 16 October and for five days in Northern Ireland on the 17-21 October.  The talks and workshops feature artists and researchers from Ireland\, Northern Ireland and around the world talking about their art based methodologies and creative artworks and how the arts can be used to transform society in the wake of political violence. \nThe MemoLab programme of work in Dublin is presented as part of the State of the Art Artist Development programme and the annual networking day for the Arts and Human Rights European Network attended by artists\, citizens\, communities and human rights organisations\, supporting artists to engage in artistic practice promoting equality\, human rights and diversity. The MemoLab programme of work in Northern Ireland is facilitated by Ulster University and Healing Through Remembering (HTR)\, and includes sessions with Conflict Textiles\, the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and National Museums NI on their new “Troubles and Beyond” exhibit at the Ulster Museum. \n  \nKey Questions: \nWhat is the role of the arts in promoting transformative remembrance arising out of political violence and in remembering responsibility for mass and state sponsored violence and how can art arising out of political violence be transformative? \nHow does remembering responsibility in a creative way\, shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country and global politics? \nWhat are the processes of art from the ground up in making impactful activism using culture\, creativity and memory? \n  \nPolitical violence impacts on communities and lives across the globe. It is a multi-faceted issue\, and can take many different forms. Certain specific conflicts are addressed in this exhibition\, while other pieces interrogate the emotions that such violence produces. The exhibition comprises of artworks across all forms reflecting on the role of the arts in highlighting the issue of political violence\, and the ways in which the arts can help people to reflect and move forward in its wake. These artists offer insights into conflicts and post-war communities across the world through their evocative and poignant work. \n  \nThe Artists for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Exhibition and MemoLabs are: \nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival and is Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF). \nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores a range of themes including violence against women and feminism. Amna is co-curator with Mary Moynihan on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. https://www.westcorkartscentre.com/amna-walayat \nHina Khan is a visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\,  specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Her work explores themes of migration\, racism and human rights. https://visualartists.ie/arts-directory/directory-of-members-_/#!biz/id/5d39abdbf033bfab33f21b4c \nDr Sinead McCann is a Dublin based visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation\, often exploring the aftermath of trauma through developing acts of commemoration as forms of testimony and empathetic encounter. https://imma.ie/artists/sandra-johnston/ \nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nCarla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \nRob Harrington\, Performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n  \nProducing Team \nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nCiara Hayes is Festival Producer for Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n  \nPartners \nUlster University \nConflict Textiles \nHealing Through Remembering \nJustice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda \nUniversity of British Columbia \nNational Museums NI\, Northern Ireland \nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \nThe Transformative Memory International Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \n  \nPhD Organizing Group for the Transformative Memory International Network \nKetty Anyeko\, Uganda. Ph.D. candidate\, ISGP\, University of British Columbia \nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos\, Colombia. Ph.D. candidate\, University of British Columbia \nAlejandra Gaviria-Serna\, Colombia. Ph.D. student\, GRSJ\, University of British Columbia \nNila Utami\, Indonesia. Ph.D. candidate\, History\, University of British Columbia \nAaron Weah\, Liberia\, Ph.D researcher\, Law\, Ulster University \nPaula Surgenor\, Northern Ireland\, Ph.D candidate\, Anthropology\, Ulster University \nThe Artists\nThe artists in the exhibition are Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Theatre and Film-Maker\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor at the Ontario College of Art and Design\, born in British Columbia\, Canada and identifying as a member of the Crow Clan;   Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights – Artist Development Programme for the Arts and Human Rights\, Supported by the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network and Resource and Advice Service\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality runs an annual  Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme called State of the Art; The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of human rights and is part of a programme of work supporting artists who are dedicating to use their art to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features performances\, exhibitions\, workshops\, talks\, mentoring and peer learning.  The programme is supported by the Smashing Times Resource and Advice Service (currently in development by Smashing Times) and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network which is open to all artists\, activists\, citizens\,  communities\, human rights organisations and the general public to join. \n\n\n\nThe programme is  made up of three components. The first component is an Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme bringing together artists through six exchanges and ongoing collaboration and research\, who are dedicated to using their artforms to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe second component is the creation of  new productions and exhibitions  to be presented for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. For the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival the company created State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition on display at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\,  and at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, with MemoLabs consisting of Performances\, Workshops and Artist Talks. \n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. The exhibition displays artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe and  features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\,  Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. Artists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.    \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is accompanied by MemoLabs\, a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nA chapter of the Transformative Memories was created and ran at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery in Dundrum.  The State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  The exhibition runs from the 20 September to the 29 October 2022. \n\n\n\nThe third component of State of the Art is the holding of an annual Arts and Human Rights networking day held as part of the European Arts and Human Rights network which aims to bring together artists\, citizens\, communities\, human rights organisations and the general public and is open to all those interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  The annual networking day for 2022 consists of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival launch and the four MemoLab events held at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin for the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nNetworks\n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network \nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network is open to all\, artists and activists\, organisations and individuals\, who believe in using the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights for all. The Network offers opportunities to meet\, discuss and explore human rights\, human rights defenders\, and the artists who use their work to stand up and speak out for the rights of others. The Network is free to join\, and includes information and resources emailed throughout the year. Join now: https://smashingtimes.ie/signupform/ \n  \nTransformative Memory Network \nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\nThe exhibition and accompanying MemoLab talks\, workshops and performances are presented in partnership with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ulster University\, University of British Columbia\, the Transformative Memory International Network\, the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Network\, Healing Through Remembering\, Conflict Textiles\, Justice and Reconciliation Project\, Uganda and National Museums NI. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/state-of-the-art-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/2022-10-03/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Film Screening,Installation,Interdisciplinary,Music,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Revolutionary Routes
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook here \n\n\n\nArtists/Speakers\n\n\n\nThe research for this exhibition was carried out by: \nDr Maurice J Casey\, the Department of Foreign Affairs Historian in Residence at EPIC \nAfrican American Irish Diaspora Network (AAIDN) \nDennis Brownlee\, AAIDN Board Member \nChristine Kinealy\, AAIDN Board Member \nLenwood Sloan\, AAIDN Board Member \nDon Mullan\, AAIDN Board Member \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIreland’s diaspora history is more diverse than you may think. \n\n\n\nFrom 2022\, EPIC is proud to present this exhibition exploring journeys that demonstrate significant themes and moments in the intertwining histories of the African and Irish diasporas. The exhibition is running until 30th October at EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum. \n\n\n\nWe feature stories of departure\, arrival and return\, tracing histories from the Age of Revolutions (1790s) to the present day\, encapsulating Irish diaspora histories of abolition\, racism\, anti-racism and solidarity. \n\n\n\nDiscover stories of the ‘Wild Geese’ Families in the Haitian Revolution\, of Edward and Catherine Despard\, an interracial couple active in 18th century Irish revolutionary movements and of Ira Aldridge\, the most famous Black actor of the early 19th century who spent six years in Ireland in the 1830s\, touring across the country. Learn about Frederick Douglass’s encounters with the Irish in America upon his return from Ireland\, of the Fisk Jubilee Singers\, a choir of formerly enslaved people who toured Ireland in the 1870s and of Lady Kathleen Simon\, the Dublin born anti-slavery activist of the early 20th century. \n\n\n\nYou will also learn about Michael Harmel\, the son of Irish Jewish migrants in South Africa who was a comrade of Nelson Mandela and of Mayo born Mary Mooney\, who toured the US\, Russia and Europe alongside African American women to demand the release of their sons from death row. \n\n\n\nThese stories\, featuring 22 countries and 11 Irish locations allow us to trace inward migration and multiculturalism within Ireland in addition to highlighting the diversity of the diaspora. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/revolutionary-routes/
LOCATION:EPIC The Irish Emigration Museum\, CHQ\, Custom House Quay\, Dublin 1\, D01 R9Y0\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition
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SUMMARY:State of the Art: Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition - dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking required. All welcome weekly Tuesday – Saturday 11am-4pm\, until Friday 28 October 2022.  For information: info@smashingtimes.ie \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners. \n\n\n\nThe chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nIn a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetry created under the title of The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found\, artist Mary Moynihan explores the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work of visual artist Amna Walayat  is informed by Michel Foucault’s[1] ideas on power and Edward Said’s[2] work on Orientalism.  Using the medium of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting and the language of symbolism\, Amna’s work expresses her hybrid cultural experiences with artworks on display created under the titles of Migration and In the Name of Shame. The artist says ‘being female\, Asian\, and Muslim\, and a migrant\, mother and artist\, these are all the strands that are personal but also provide me  with the opportunity to connect with global issues in general. My paintings are silent protests or performances against violence experienced by women and children\, particularly in various cultural contexts’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian. \n\n\n\n[2] Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic\, political activist and literary critic. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, she mounted her first solo exhibition as a part of the Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work was exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 October 2021) and with a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland and Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project ‘South Asia Community Museum in Ireland’. \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts and as a Curator with Alhambra Arts Council (2001-07). She has  worked with Cultural Action Europe as a MENA Cultural Agent for advising on policies (2021).  She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Visual Artists Ireland\, and is a recent recipient of The Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/state-of-the-art-transformative-memories-in-political-violence-mill-theatre-2/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:Staging and Cooperation: From words to visuals with emerging artists
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo booking required\, access the event via Zoom here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84656046016?pwd=S1dGdGhwTlZkcitwSkVUNGxFUEM1dz09 \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nA Digital Coffee Talk will be hosted by the amazing Já Theatre from Portugal. Tania Kumeda directed Já’s first shows in Lisbon: a double bill of Chekhov’s The Bear and Oscar Wilde’s A Florentine Tragedy as well as site-specific show Memory Lanes\, a Nabokov triple bill. In this Digital Coffee Talk\, Tania reflects on the experience of working with a variety of emerging artists and the lessons learnt during the process of how to convert words to visuals and action onstage. She also talks about site-specific events\, for example turning a photo studio into a dimly-lit photo theatre. \n\n\n\nJá is an artistic association founded in Lisbon in July 2017\, by Dan Cotterall\, Tania Kumeda\, Margarida Rocha and Suresh Nampuri\, to perform innovative English language theatre. The company aims to tell stories for the here and now – in English – in Lisbon\, in the cultural cradle of Europe. Apart from  mainstage productions\, staged readings and workshops\, the company are also involved in experiments with other dedicated professionals from around the globe who enjoy pushing the boundaries of the theatrical medium. This is the Já Universe. Hopefully\, these creative explorations will plant the seed for ground-breaking new productions in the future. \n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nTania Kumeda\n\n\n\n\n\nTania is an artist\, stage director\, event manager and avid movie-goer who draws her inspiration from words\, images and memories. \nA native of Kyiv\, Tania completed a Master’s degree in Foreign Languages & Literature in Ukraine\, as well as an FIFA/CIES program in Sports Management. After 12 years’ experience of teaching and sports & event management in Kyiv and Lisbon\, she decided to refocus on her art. For three years\, she was a leading actress at the Kyiv Theatre of Comedy. In 2017\, she directed JÁ’s inaugural show “RED” in Lisbon. \nApart from projects ranging from stage directing to podcasting and video poetry\, Tania will be involved in the EU-funded “Theatre in PALM” initiative spanning the period 2022-2024. \nTania is also a certified translator of scripts\, sports literature\, subtitles and voiceover material. \n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/digital-coffee-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221014T180000
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SUMMARY:State of the Art Launch and Performance - All Welcome in Celebration and Solidarity
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Speakers\n\n\n\nOlive Moore\, Deputy Director\, Front Line Defenders \nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \nSenator Mary Fitzpatrick \nCarla Ryan\, singer and performer \nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \nRepresentative of the Lord Mayor of Dublin\, Caroline Conroy \nRob Harrington\, performer \nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, Violinist \nHilary Bow\, Singer\, Songwriter \nMC’s:  Ciara Hayes and Michael McCabe \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis special event features presentations\, artist talks and live music and performances  to launch the fourth annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 and to launch the flagship event the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media installation and exhibition displaying a selection of artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online.  The evening features performances by Jeff Korondo\, a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies and performances and readings from The Feeling Soul\, a new work by artist Mary Moynihan with song and poetry from artists including Carla Ryan\, Rob Harrington\, Áine Ni Ghlinn\, and Michael McCabe and music by Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOlive Moore\n\n\n\n\n\nOlive Moore took up the role of Deputy Director at Front Line Defenders in September 2020. \n\n\n\nOlive’s passion for human rights and social justice began when she became a member Amnesty International at the age of sixteen. Her activism and interest in global politics and international relations led her to undertaking a Degree in Politics and Social Policy in UCD\, and then a European Masters in Human Rights and Democratisation in Venice\, Italy. \n\n\n\nOlive’s experience at the beginning of her career with Trocaire\, of living in Kenya and working in South Sudan and Somalia\, and the Human Rights Defenders she met during this time\, formed her lasting appreciation of\, and deep respect for\, the work of HRDs. \n\n\n\nOlive has held a number of roles in Trocaire\, including Human Rights Officer\, Policy Officer\, Governance and Human Rights Coordinator\, and Head of Programmes for the last four and a half years. Previously\, she also interned in the Human Rights Unit of the European Commission\, worked for the Irish Government at the UN Commission on Human Rights\, and spent two years working at the World Bank as Head of Knowledge and Learning at the GPSA (Global Partnership for Social Accountability) in Washington DC. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\n\n\n\n\n\nBased in Kampala\, Uganda\, Jeff Korondo is an artist who has been performing in Uganda since 1990. He has written\, produced\, and performed songs on the reintegration of ex-combatants\, empathy\, the International Criminal Court (ICC)\, defilement\, child sacrifice\, malaria prevention\, women’s rights\, and children’s rights\, among others. His music has inspired and encouraged peace and reconciliation in Uganda. \n\n\n\nHis 2008 album ‘Okwera Nono’ (You Reject Me for Nothing) discourages community members from stigmatizing former abductees and ex-combatants who are reintegrating into society. He has partnered with organizations such as Save the Children\, the Concerned Parents Association\, and the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS and Tuberculosis (NUMAT) program to conduct sensitization campaigns involving advocacy songs and community performances. \n\n\n\nHe is a graduate of Gulu University\, where he has pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. He is also the owner of Link Printers\, one of the only local printers serving post-conflict northern Uganda. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. Michael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release in 2022. \n\n\n\nELKIN draw influence from the R’n’B\, pop\, indie and folk worlds. With bassist Peter and guitarist Conor of Hatchlings\, plus drummer Rob\, “the band display an eclectic mix of R&B\, pop and hip-hop beats\, bolstered by alternating female vocals and smooth guitars.” Stephen Porzio\, Hot Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bow\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bow is a singer-songwriter based in Cork\,  Ireland. Her debut album Sean Nova (in 2005) followed her cocktail bar experiences.  Sean Nova was a collection of reworkings of jazz standards translated into Irish\, played in a bossa nova style. She has worked with IMRAM on numerous\, similar projects\, including Irish translations of the songs of Edith Piaf\, Jacques Brel\, Leonard Cohen\, and Van Morrison. The Réaltnach (Starman)\, Bow’s latest album\, released in 2016\, sees her collaborate with Liam Ó Maonlaoí\, the Brad Pitt Light Orchestra\, poet\, Gabriel Rosenstock\, and visual artist\, Margaret Lonergan\, to bring Irish-language renditions of some of Bowie’s songs to the IMRAM Irish Language Literature festival.  \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/opening-ceremony/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Performing Memories
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Facilitators\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland \n\n\n\nDr Paulo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator \n\n\n\nCate Turner\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPerforming Memories is a  practical theatre based workshop followed by an artist talk. The event begins with an hour long interactive and participatory creative arts workshop conducted by Michael McCabe and based on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition which is situated in the space where the workshop takes place.  The workshop runs from 10-11am and requires active participation in games and exercises and is followed by a panel discussion with artists Amna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland; and Michael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator\, Fernanda Barbosa\, Fernanda Barbosa\, Journalist and Historian\, Colombia\, and Dr Paulo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. \n\n\n\nArtists Amna Walayat\, Pakistan and Ireland\, and Michael McCabe\, Ireland\, come together to share their artistic arts practice and the role of the arts in ‘performing memories’\, looking at performing and visual arts practice arising out of war\, conflict\, equality and human rights. The Facilitator is Cate Turner\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Pakistan and Ireland\, is a visual artist and curator\, specialising in Pakistani miniature painting. Amna speaks about her work as a visual artist and curator exploring a range of themes including violence against women\, feminism\,  war\, conflict\, equality and human rights. She speaks on her work as co-curator of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition co-curated with Mary Moynihan\, artist and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is an actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Michael speaks about his work using the arts for peace and reconciliation in Northern Ireland and how his international training with SITI Company and Tadashi Suzuki impacts on his work in equality and rights. \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia will speak about her contribution to the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition at the Chocolate Factory and the work of Rutas del Conflicto (Routes of the conflict)\, an independent and digital native media that gathers reliable information about the armed conflict in Colombia\, through the convergence between traditional and digital formats\, including data\, investigative and citizen journalism tools.  \n\n\n\nDr Paulo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, She has mounted her 1st solo as a part of Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 Oct) and a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland/ Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project “South Asia Community Museum in Ireland” and with Cultural Action Europe as MENA Cultural Agent for advising policies.   \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council (2001-07). She has also worked with Cultural Action Europe as MENA Cultural Agent for advising policies (2021). She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times and Visual Artists Ireland\, and a recent recipient of Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaulo Vignolo\n\n\n\n\n\nPaolo Vignolo is associate professor of history and humanities at the National University of Colombia\, Bogota. He holds a PhD in history at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (E.H.E.S.S.) of Paris. His fields of research and creation deal with public history\, cultural heritage and memory studies with a focus on geographic imaginaries\, live arts and performance. He is associate researcher at the Centre of Historical\, Anthropological and Cultural Research –CIHAC of Panama and has been visiting scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University in 2013. He is also a member of the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics of the New York University\, the Transformative Memory Network of the University of British Columbia\, Vancouver and the “Collective memory and practices of resistance” work group of The Latin American Council of Social Sciences – CLACSO. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\n\n\n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa dos Santos is a journalist and historian who works for Rutas del Conflicto media outlet\, with a main focus on investigative and data journalism about conflicts and peace processes in Colombia. She is currently a PhD candidate in human and social sciences at Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, with a project about peace journalism\, storytelling and memory. She worked as a consultant to the Colombian Truth Commission\, as a professor at Universidad del Rosario (Colombia)\, and as a reporter in local and international sections of Grupo Folha and the Lusa news agency\, in Brazil. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course).            \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nMichael recently completed training with SITI Company\, New York\, while artist in residence at the Civic Theatre\, Dublin. Michael also travelled to Japan to train for five weeks at the Suzuki Company of Toga\, under the mentorship of Tadashi Suzuki\, in association with Smashing Times.           \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/performing-memories/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Panel Discussion
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SUMMARY:Creative Dialogues - Artist Talks
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. \n\n\n\nDocus Atyeno\, activist\, Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nArtists\, curators and academics from Northern Ireland\, Uganda and Indonesia come together to talk about the journey of the Transformative Memory Network and the creation  of artworks from Northern Ireland\, Uganda and Indonesia in the context of war and peace. The artists and curators talk about their work in terms of co-creation\, recording oral works\, poster art\, textiles and music\, exploring a dialogue between the organisation Conflict Textiles based in Northern Ireland and the work of artists from Uganda and Indonesia\, with themes ranging from the Holocaust to the disappeared. \n\n\n\nTalks are intercut with music by artist Jeff Korondo who is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies.  Jeff will also talk about his work promoting children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, the curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile\, talks about the creation of Conflict Textiles and her work as curator\,  looking at individual textile artworks reflecting themes of disappearance\, war and peace. She will reflect on the textiles on display in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition at the Chocolate Factory presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival\, sharing the language of textile artworks with the public. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses. The Conflict Textile pieces in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nDorcus Atyeno\, an activist from Uganda\, presents on the Beads Project\, a Ugandan textile  on display as part of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and talk about the Women’s Advocacy Group from Uganda who created the paper beads mural. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia. Alit talks about his work as a visual artist specialising in poster art and his work as the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters. Alit’s work can be seen in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition at the Chocolate Factory. \n\n\n\nFacilitators Dr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá and Dr Erin Baines from the University of British Columbia talk about the development of the Transformative Memory Network and their work with  artists from Canada\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Northern Ireland and Ireland. \n\n\n\nMemoLabs are a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events and taking place from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nBiographies\n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\n\n\n\n\n\nBased in Kampala\, Uganda\, Jeff Korondo is an artist who has been performing in Uganda since 1990. He has written\, produced\, and performed songs on the reintegration of ex-combatants\, empathy\, the International Criminal Court (ICC)\, defilement\, child sacrifice\, malaria prevention\, women’s rights\, and children’s rights\, among others. His music has inspired and encouraged peace and reconciliation in Uganda. \n\n\n\nHis 2008 album ‘Okwera Nono’ (You Reject Me for Nothing) discourages community members from stigmatizing former abductees and ex-combatants who are reintegrating into society. He has partnered with organizations such as Save the Children\, the Concerned Parents Association\, and the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS and Tuberculosis (NUMAT) program to conduct sensitization campaigns involving advocacy songs and community performances. \n\n\n\nHe is a graduate of Gulu University\, where he has pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. He is also the owner of Link Printers\, one of the only local printers serving post-conflict northern Uganda. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\n\n\n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic is a Chilean Human Rights advocate and researcher living in Northern Ireland. Since 2007 she has curated more than 150 international exhibitions of arpilleras and associated events in museums\, universities\, art galleries\, embassies and community spaces worldwide. Over time\, these exhibitions have expanded from Chilean arpilleras focused on the Pinochet dictatorship\, to include quilts and other textile narratives of loss\, resistance\, testimony\, protest and healing from around the world. The use of textile language in contested spaces has been at the centre of her curatorial work. \n\n\n\nIn 2017 Ulster University hosted an international colloquium attended by academics from nine countries. At the centre of this event\, Bacic curated Textile Language of Conflicts\, an exhibition open to participants\, the academic community\, schools and the general public. \n\n\n\nYou can access her work on https://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/  at CAIN\, Ulster University\, which holds and documents her CONFLICT TEXTILES collection. The material collection currently comprises 398 documented textiles. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDocus Atyeno\n\n\n\n\n\nDocus Atyeno Hails from Africa\, Uganda and particularly from the Northern region. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Public Administration and a Diploma in Computer Science from Gulu University in Uganda. She Studied Fundamental Framework for Peace building\, Peace development\, conflict analysis and Understanding response to stress and trauma in the great lakes region from the Great Lakes Peace Institute(GLPI) in Gitega\, Burundi Africa.Atyeno Docus is a project officer at Justice and reconciliation Project (JRP) under Gender Justice Department; she has worked for JRP since 2014 up to date\, she is responsible for project formulation\, implementation and monitoring processes. Docus has worked to advocate for peace building and rights of fellow conflict affected women and children especially in enhancing justice and accountability for women affected by Lords Resistant Army(LRA) conflict\, participated in documentation of SGBV experiences to increase insights and understanding into Northern Uganda’s conflict sexual violence. She has taken a lead in the reintegration of children born from captivity helping to facilitate reconciliation between the families and enhance sense of identity and the wellbeing of the children. Participated in different research to understand the Transitional Justice needs and concerns of war affected communities in Northern Uganda. She has also taken a lead in the implementation of Livelihood Projects and the Programme for Connecting Survivors\, Strengthening Voices and Creating Sustainable Change among SGBV survivors in Northern Uganda region especially in war affected areas.Last but not least Docus took a lead to support the family of the missing persons of conflict in the processes of coping with grief and emotional healing through counseling sessions \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\n\n\n\n\n\nAlit Ambara (Indonesia) is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist who has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s. He received his BA from the Jakarta Institute for the Arts and MA in art history from Savannah College of Art and Design. Since 2009 he has intensively used posters to respond to social-political issues. Under the label Nobody Corp. Internationale Unlimited he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. He believes that with social media channels  – which are flexible and open to the public – the artistic possibilities for responding to countless issues of injustices are endless. Website link: https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/creative-dialogues/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Remembrance
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, performer \n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\, composer and violinist \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nHilary Bow\, singer-songwriter \n\n\n\nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, (PI)\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and partners are delighted to present Remembrance\, a cross-cultural artistic performance and post-show artist panel discussion presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Remembrance is a MemoLab a live musical performance featuring Ugandan musician Jeff Korondo and musical performances from Hilary Bow and Lisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi; poetry from The Feeling Soul by Mary Moynihan performed by Rob Harrington and Ciara Hayes; and At Summer’s End by Féilim James\, performed by Carla Ryan. The evening features Artist Talks by  Mary Moynihan\, Ireland\, writer\, theatre and film-maker  and Erika Diettes\, Bogota\, Colombia\, a visual artist and social communicator. Both artists have work on display in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition at the Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1 as part of the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Northern Uganda. Carla Ryan is a singer and actor with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland and Rob Harrington is a performer  with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/  Erika presents a talk on her artistic practise and the work on display as part of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition\, exploring themes of grief\, disappearances and remembrance. \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focus on the role of the arts to promote equality and human rights. Mary is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival.  Mary presents a talk on her artistic practice and work on  display as part of the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition\, with a focus on the arts for historical memory and for equality\, peace and non-violence.  Mary will also speak on her work at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery where she is showing a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetry created under the title of The Feeling Soul: Paradise Lost and Found. As part of this work the artist  reflects on the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe Facilitator and speaker and is Professor Brandon Hamber\, (PI)\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nMemoLabs are a series of talks\, workshops and performances held as public events and taking place from the 14-16 October 2022\, Dublin and 17-21 October\, Belfast\, as part of State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition in the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. MemoLabs bring together artists\, activists\, community members and the public to explore the arts and themes of equality\, human rights and Transformative Memories in Political Violence. \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\n\n\n\n\n\nBased in Kampala\, Uganda\, Jeff Korondo is an artist who has been performing in Uganda since 1990. He has written\, produced\, and performed songs on the reintegration of ex-combatants\, empathy\, the International Criminal Court (ICC)\, defilement\, child sacrifice\, malaria prevention\, women’s rights\, and children’s rights\, among others. His music has inspired and encouraged peace and reconciliation in Uganda. \n\n\n\nHis 2008 album ‘Okwera Nono’ (You Reject Me for Nothing) discourages community members from stigmatizing former abductees and ex-combatants who are reintegrating into society. He has partnered with organizations such as Save the Children\, the Concerned Parents Association\, and the Northern Uganda Malaria AIDS and Tuberculosis (NUMAT) program to conduct sensitization campaigns involving advocacy songs and community performances. \n\n\n\nHe is a graduate of Gulu University\, where he has pursued a Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology. He is also the owner of Link Printers\, one of the only local printers serving post-conflict northern Uganda. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release in 2022. \n\n\n\nELKIN draw influence from the R’n’B\, pop\, indie and folk worlds. With bassist Peter and guitarist Conor of Hatchlings\, plus drummer Rob\, “the band display an eclectic mix of R&B\, pop and hip-hop beats\, bolstered by alternating female vocals and smooth guitars.” Stephen Porzio\, Hot Press \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nErika Diettes\n\n\n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Colombia\, 1978) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes. Both her double degree and her anthropological background are reflected in her exhibitions as well as in her publications\, due to the clear intention of establishing an intimate dialogue between her work and the observer. This can be evidenced in her work as she puts the knowledge\, she has at her disposal to intervene artistically\, taking into account a previous process of research and critical analysis of the context and its protagonists.  As a result\, there is a confluence between image\, message\, and process\, a trinity that is the conceptual and structural cornerstone of all her works. One of Erika Diettes’ focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict. An exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is also known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. Among them was a nomination for the Visionary Awards in 2015 where she was a finalist\, and as a winner of the Tim Hetherington Trust Scholarship and the World Press Photo Foundation Fellowship (2017-2018). \n\n\n\nIn April 2019 Erika Diettes was selected as part of the group of women artists\, leaders\, and intellectuals who within each of their respective fields are exemplary for their contribution to commemorating and celebrating the achievements and struggle of women around the world. Her exhibition SUDARIOS has been chosen to open the cultural calendar of the city of Liverpool\, England\, dedicated throughout 2019 to celebrate and commemorate International Women’s Day. \n\n\n\nWebsite link: https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa McLoughlin-Gnemmi\n\n\n\n\n\nLisa Mc Loughlin-Gnemmi is a graduate of the Royal College of Music\, London where she received her B.Mus Hons degree. She is a lecturer in violin at the TU Dublin Conservatoire for Music and Drama. She gained her masters in performance at TU Dublin studying under Joanna Matkowska. She has performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland under conductors Alexander Anissimov\, George Hurst and Gerhardt Markson. She also worked with Lyric Opera and The Irish Film Orchestra. She has regularly performed with the RTE Concert Orchestra. \n\n\n\nPerformances with the RTECO include a chamber music recital for the commemoration of the 1916 rising at The Irish Museum of Modern Art in the presence of An t-Uachtarán and with a group of members of the RTECO playing a new composition by Simon O’ Connor narrated by actress Olwen Fouéré. Other concerts included ‘Back to the Future’\, ‘The Godfather’ with film music by Nino Rota\, ‘The Music of John Williams’ film music and RTECO’s recording of the music of Steve Mc Keon for the film ‘Norm of the North’. \n\n\n\nLisa has performed at the Dublin Metropolis Festival\, RDS and at The Button Factory\, Temple Bar with DJ Kormac. Lisa has also toured France\, South Africa and the US as solo violinist with Michael Flatley’s ‘Lord of the Dance’. Solo and chamber music recitals include DIT\, Trinity College Dublin\, The Goethe institute\, UCD and The John Field Room\, N.C.H. and The Galway Arts Festival. \n\n\n\nLisa recently performed at Dublin Castle for a production of ‘Constance and her Friends’ a play about Constance Markievicz and activists during the 1916 rising written by Mary Moynihan and performed by Smashing Times. Passionate about teaching as well as performing\, Lisa gives masterclasses\, prepares students for exams\, recitals and Feis Ceoil competitions. Lisa is married to oboist with the National Symphony Orchestra\, Sylvain Gnemmi. They have four children and live in Dublin. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bow\n\n\n\n\n\nHilary Bow is a singer-songwriter based in Cork\,  Ireland. Her debut album Sean Nova (in 2005) followed her cocktail bar experiences.  Sean Nova was a collection of reworkings of jazz standards translated into Irish\, played in a bossa nova style. She has worked with IMRAM on numerous\, similar projects\, including Irish translations of the songs of Edith Piaf\, Jacques Brel\, Leonard Cohen\, and Van Morrison. The Réaltnach (Starman)\, Bow’s latest album\, released in 2016\, sees her collaborate with Liam Ó Maonlaoí\, the Brad Pitt Light Orchestra\, poet\, Gabriel Rosenstock\, and visual artist\, Margaret Lonergan\, to bring Irish-language renditions of some of Bowie’s songs to the IMRAM Irish Language Literature festival.  \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/remembrance/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Music,Performance,Talk
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SUMMARY:The Gathering: Transforming Memory Networking Day
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFacilitators\n\n\n\nProfessor Brandon Hamber\,  John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland. \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\,  writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Artistic Curator Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF)\, Co-Curator with Amna Walayat for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation and Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, Actor\, Choreographer\, Facilitator\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Gathering: Transforming Memory  is a MemoLab event involving a workshop\, panel discussions and networking held as part of the Smashing Times artist development programme called State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights and as part of the Transformative Memory Network. All artists and academics involved in the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition\, MemoLabs and in the Transformative Memory network and the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network  come together to collectively reflect and share on the work and journey of the Transformative Memory project and network\, how the artists met\, how the work has  evolved and to explore new ideas and future happenings with a focus on how the arts can transform memory.  What are the collective\, common themes from artists across the world\, what are the shared possibilities for future work. This is a hands-on practical\, experimental workshop with panel discussions addressing transformative memory via the arts and will explore the idea of  creating new work.  Audiences are welcome to attend to share in the Gathering. \n\n\n\nThe Gathering is a key event for the  annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival 2022 linked to the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, a multi-media exhibition and installation displaying artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on themes of arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence impacting on communities across the globe. The exhibition features artworks in a multitude of forms –  film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\,  painting\, live performance and installation – and can be viewed on site and online.  The State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, King’s Inns Street\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival (14-23 October 2022) presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners and supported by The Arts Council. In addition to the onsite exhibition\, a selection of work is available online via the Smashing Times Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival gallery.  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nState of the Art\n\n\n\nState of the Art \n\n\n\nThe Gathering: Transforming Memory workshop\, panel discussion and networking day  is held as part of the Smashing Times artist development programme called State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights.  This is an annual programme that Smashing Times implement made up of three components. The first component is an Arts and Human Rights Artist Development programme bringing together artists through six exchanges and ongoing collaboration and research\, who are dedicated to using their artforms to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. The second component is the creation of  new productions and exhibitions  to be presented for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. For the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival the company created State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Installation and Exhibition on display at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\,  and at the dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, with MemoLabs consisting of Performances\, Workshops and Artist Talks. \n\n\n\nThe third component of State of the Art is the holding of an annual Arts and Human Rights networking day held as part of the European Arts and Human Rights network which aims to bring together artists\, citizens\, communities\, human rights organisations and the general public and is open to all those interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  The annual networking day for 2022 consists of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival launch and the four MemoLab events held at the Chocolate Factory\, Dublin for the Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, including this session\, The Gathering: Transforming Memory\, held at the Chocolate Factory on 16 October 2022 for the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nArtists: \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\,  writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Artistic Curator Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF)\, Co-Curator with Amna Walayat for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation and Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\,  visual artist from Pakistan and Ireland\, \n\n\n\nDr Sinead McCann\, visual artist working across the mediums of performance\, video\, installation and sculpture often in a context\, site or community specific way. \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia)\, visual artist and social communicator \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo\, solo musician\, singer\, songwriter\, Uganda \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nSandra Johnston\, Northern Ireland\, artist working in site-responsive performance and installation \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-gathering/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Networking Event,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Advocacy Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nWhether you’re a human rights defender\, a public speaker or an educator\, this interactive workshop will deliver useful tools for storytelling and audience engagement. Each participant will get the opportunity to apply these tools and approaches to their own life and is encouraged to bring a campaign or human rights issue into the workshop. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Dónal Kearney combines his diverse and varied experience from the worlds of musical performance\, vocal pedagogy and international human rights law to bring a unique approach to advocacy. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney\n\n\n\n\n\nDónal Kearney is a facilitator and community-builder withdiverse experience of content design and delivery in thecorporate\, public and voluntary sectors. He holds a Master’sin International Human Rights law\, a degree in Law from theUniversity of Cambridge\, and has worked at the Office of theHigh Commissioner for Human Rights in Geneva. He hascompleted intensive leadership training with UCDInnovation Academy and global humanitarian organisationMusicians Without Borders\, and has reached people of allages and ability\, including groups experiencinghomelessness\, families living in direct provision\, people withdisabilities\, teenagers and children as young as 4 years old.He is Community Facilitator for non-profit social enterpriseGrow Remote and builds local communities of remoteworkers online and offline.Dónal is also an artist and is co-founder of the Irish Instituteof Music and Song. He has delivered workshops to elite artsorganisations in Ireland\, the UK\, the Netherlands\, China\, andthe USA. Dónal’s dynamic and interactive facilitation styleencourages the audience to engage with social justice issueswith a creative and playful approach. Previous clientsinclude EY Ireland\, the Dublin Arts & Human Rights Festival\,the Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival\, Early Years (NI)\,Focus Ireland and Clanrye Group (NI). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/advocacy-workshop/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Out of the Frying Pan into the Fire
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nDr Amanda Slevin\, Co-Director of QUB’s Centre for Sustainability\, Equality and Climate Action and former Chair of the NI Climate Coalition \n\n\n\nPaul Quinn\, Head of From Violence to Peace\, Christian Aid Ireland \n\n\n\nJoseph Ansumana\, Network Movement for Justice & Development in Sierra Leone \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe climate crisis is already causing severe global impacts\, such as heatwaves\, wildfires\, droughts\, floods and storms resulting in a terrible cost to human life and livelihoods. For those countries where the threat of violent conflict is also a constant reality the climate crisis is an additional trigger that may cause or exacerbate conflict. In this event we will consider the evidence for links between the climate crisis and violent conflict both now and into the future. We will ask the question how can we hope to build peace in a warming world?  \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear from the Network Movement for Justice & Development (NMJD) in Sierra Leone about their experience of the connection between the climate crisis and conflict and the steps they took to mitigate it. This will be followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with guest speakers including Paul Quinn\, Head of Christian Aid Ireland’s ‘From Violence to Peace’ programme\, a representative from NMJD and others. \n\n\n\nEvent image credit: “Adut Mariu Gout from South Sudan carries water from a borehole installed by Christian Aid. South Sudan is highly vulnerable to climate change and protracted conflict which has resulted in humanitarian crisis with mass displacements.” Christian Aid/ Silvano Yokwe \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/out-of-the-frying-pan-into-the-fire/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221018T080000
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SUMMARY:Transformative Memory International Network
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nArtists and Academics \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \n\n\n\nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTransformative Memory Network \n\n\n\nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network is travelling throughout Northern Ireland with for both closed and open events. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nVISUALISING CONFLICT: PHOTOGRAPHIC APPROACHES\n\n\n\n18 October 2022 (9am to 12pm) \n\n\n\nThis workshop will introduce Northern Ireland’s practice-based research into photographic representation of conflict\, with examples of relevant work from the Troubles to the present day. The morning will include discursive talks and exhibition visits beginning at the university and walking through the city centre via Belfast Exposed Gallery to the Ulster Museum. We will look at how photographic artists have challenged simplistic photojournalism of conflict through the work of artists such as Victor Sloan\, Mairead McClean and Tabitha Soren and the collaborative project Now You See Me Moria\, as well as emerging artists from the Belfast School of Art. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Dr Clare Gallagher \n\n\n\nhttps://www.belfastexposed.org/exhibitions/here-mairead-mcclean-northern-irelandinternment/https://www.nmni.com/whats-on/against-the-image-photography-media-manipulation-2022Clare Gallagher has been a lecturer in photography since 2003 and her research focuses onmaking women’s experience of home and the everyday visible. Her work The Second Shiftwas published as a book in 2019\, has been exhibited internationally and was nominated forthe Deutsche Börse Prize in 2021. She currently supervises practice-based PhD projects on women and conflict\, post-memory\, the missing Black body in archives of war\, memory and land\, and collaborative photography with victim & survivor groups.https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/clare-gallagherwww.claregallagher.co.uk \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHIDDEN BARRIERS: A TOUR OF BELFAST’S SECRET PEACE LINESDavid Coyles\, Senior Lecturer at Ulster University will lead a tour visiting a number of hiddenpeace lines across the city. See https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/d-coyles \n\n\n\nThis event takes an alternative tour through the city of Belfast. Drawing on recent findingsfrom the Hidden Barriers research programme at Ulster University\, the tour visits a range ofdivisive architectural installations put in place by a confidential government securitycommittee during ‘The Troubles’\, the period between 1969 and 1998 when the sectarianconflict in and about Northern Ireland was at its most extreme. Whilst Belfast’s highly visibleand widely recognised ‘peace walls’ are both major tourist attractions and the subject ofdedicated government conflict-transformation policy seeking their removal\, these hiddenbarriers are instead a little-known and fundamentally overlooked legacy of conflict. Made upof ordinary\, ‘everyday’ parts of the built environment such as shops\, houses\, factories\, roads\,and landscaping\, they effectively hide in plain sight across the city. The tour travels to thenorth\, east and west of Belfast to reveal first-hand the ways in which these seemingly benignstructures actually act as hidden peace walls between Catholic and Protestant communitieswhich enforce social and physical division in unseen and problematic ways.  \n\n\n\nThe Hidden Barriers research programme at Ulster University is led by Dr. David Coyles\, SeniorLecturer in Architecture at the Belfast School of Architecture and Built Environment. HiddenBarriers examines how the processes of political\, economic\, military and ideological conflictshape urban space and community development. The ongoing work of the programme buildson a series of grant awards from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)\, whichhave so far funded seven years of investigations into cities such as Belfast\, Derry\, Liverpool\,Bilbao\, and Detroit. The tour will stop at a number of locations where participants will beinvited to leave the bus for short intervals and walk around the immediate area. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLINEN HALL LIBRARY & EVERYDAY OBJECTS TRANSFORMED BY CONFLICT EXHIBITIONFacilitator: Cate Turner \n\n\n\nThis workshop will involve visits to three collections in two locations which gather items tohelp people to understand the complexity of the conflict. \n\n\n\nFirst we will visit the Linen Hall Library\, founded in 1788\, it is the oldest library in Belfast andthe last subscribing library in Northern Ireland. Amongst its various collections are ThePolitical Collection and Troubled Images. The Everyday Objects Exhibition is currentlyhosted by LibrariesNI and we will visit part of it in a Library in a Belfast suburb.The Political Collection is an archive gathered by the Library since 1968 of items relating tothe ‘troubles’ and peace process. It includes thousands of artefacts\, books and pamphlets\,leaflets\, posters\, and periodicals\, encompassing all shades of opinion. In the political collection\, academic studies and government publications are housed alongside more ephemeral items such as election flyers\, badges\, postcards and Christmas cards. The ephemera is a particular strength of the collection – from miniscule messages written on cigarette papers by Hunger Strikers in the 1980s\, to the original plan clandestinely produced by Maze prison inmates for the 1983 IRA escape plan\, and rarely-seenphotographs of the main political players.Troubled Images is some of the several thousand posters in the political collection reflecting the extraordinary outpouring of political imagery in Northern Ireland during this period. These posters give real insight – they are the physical remnants of the times in which they were collected and serve as historical documents that help us to better understand those times; conveying the messages of the moment\, stirring emotions\, encouraging reflection or in many cases promoting action. \n\n\n\nEveryday Objects Transformed by the Conflict is an Exhibition which brings together manyviews and experiences of the recent conflict in and about Northern Ireland. The exhibitionreveals both unique and everyday stories through a range of loaned objects and their accompanying labels\, all written in the words of those who own them. The exhibition does not aim to agree on one single version of history but instead lets people from various backgrounds speak for themselves.Objects such as a bin lid used as a street communication tool in nationalist areas\, a bullet-proof clipboard used by the security forces\, as well as a matchbox with a well-known unionist slogan ‘Ulster says No’ printed on its cover are examples of the range of diverse objects on loan for this exhibition. The stories behind these objects not only offer a glimpse into the everyday lives and memories of individuals\,communities and organisations\, they also help visitors explore the nature\, causes and effectsof conflict. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCONFLICT TEXTILES: TEXTILE LANGUAGE OF CONFLICT\n\n\n\nOn the last day of our shared space as Transformative Memory International Network\, Conflict Textiles will facilitate a hands-on workshop which aims at communicating\, via scraps of cloth\, needle and thread\, a material and tactile response to the displays of arpilleras and other textiles exhibited at The Chocolate Factory in Dublin; Ulster Museum & Ulster University in Belfast; and Ulster University Magee Library and the Great Hall in Derry. No sewing skills are required and the outcome created by of participants will be added to existing exhibited work. \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Chilean\, resides in Northern Ireland and is the collector and curator of Conflict Textiles.  \n\n\n\nDeborah Stockdale is a Donegal-based textile artist who provides textile expertise in themaintenance and preparation of textiles for exhibitions of the Conflict Textiles collection. Seehttps://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMATERIAL CULTURE & MEMORY WORKSHOPAs Northern Ireland seeks ways to deal with the memory of the conflict\, artefacts associatedwith the period\, which can be ascribed with an aura of historical authenticity\, are placed onpublic display as yet another means to employ the past. This workshop will explore the roleof memorial museums as housing such artefacts specifically as deliberate acts that is seekingpublic acknowledgement and action for those who suffered in conflict. It will draw on localmuseums and projects\, but also provide a vehicle to share experiences with internationalparticipants to critically discuss these questions. \n\n\n\nElizabeth Crooke is Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at Ulster University where shewrites in the areas of museums\, material culture and memory studies. She has publishedHeritage After Conflict (Routledge 2018 ed. with Maguire); Museums and Community: Ideas\,Issues and Challenges (Routledge 2007) and Politics\, Archaeology and the Creation of aNational Museum of Ireland (Irish Academic Press 2000). Her peer-reviewed articles can befound in Cultural Geographies; Memory Studies; Museum and Society; Irish Studies Review\,International Journal of Heritage Studies and Irish Political Studies. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHEATRE AND CONFLICT\n\n\n\nIn responding to the aftermath of the Northern Ireland conflict\, the Derry Playhouse has beenthe centre for testimonial theatre that engages with the personal\, lived experience ofdifferent sections of the population. To date\, this work has engaged with formerparamilitaries\, former members of the security forces\, refugees and asylum seekers\,bereaved parents\, and front-line workers in the medical services and in journalism. Thisworkshop will explore the creation of testimonial work through video and discussion ofexisting performances\, and creative exercises that engage with the memories of theparticipants. \n\n\n\nDr Lisa Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Ulster University. She works in the areas oftheatre\, gender-based violence and conflict\, and contemporary theatre practices in Ireland.She has published Rape on the Contemporary Stage (Palgrave 2018) and Performing Violencein Contemporary Ireland (Carysfort 2013)\, as well as edited volumes on Irish womenplaywrights\, feminism in Ireland\, postcolonial theatre\, and Irish theatre in translation. Herpeer reviewed articles can be found in Modern Drama\, Performance Research\, andContemporary Theatre Review. She is the Associate Editor of Theatre Research Internationaland convenes the Feminist Studies Working Group for the International Federation of TheatreResearch. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/transformative-memory-international-network/
LOCATION:Northern Ireland
CATEGORIES:Sold Out
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SUMMARY:ACDC 4 You
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n“ACDC 4 You: Artistic Creativity Development Course for You” is a European transnational partnership project promoting the development of adults’ creativity through using creative processes of participatory music and raising awareness of creativity as a crucial and the most coveted skill for the future economies across Europe and the globe. The project consolidates the competencies of adult educators and musicians for developing innovative resources introducing a new type of trainers prepared to teach adults’ creativity. \n\n\n\nThe main aim of the project is to equip adult educators\, musicians and other cultural workers – as individuals the most vulnerable to economic shocks\, such as those created by the COVID-19 crisis – with the skills and knowledge necessary to become successful facilitators of music-based creativity trainings for adults and at the same time gain creative confidence and develop “creativity literacy” themselves. \n\n\n\nACDC is supported by Erasmus+. The partners are Soros International House\, Villinus\, Lithuania\, Lead Partner; Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland; IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; Fundatia Euroed\, Iasi\, Romania and KU TU\, Sofia\, Bulgaria.  \n\n\n\nMembers from all partner organisations are attending and will present on their creative training programmes and Creativity labs. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/acdc-4-you/
LOCATION:Macro Community Resource Centre\, 1 Green St\, Dublin 7\, D07 X6NR
CATEGORIES:Partner Exchange
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SUMMARY:Gathering on the Pond – Dazzling\, Creative Eco-Performance
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTues 18 – SOLD OUT \nWed 19 – SOLD OUT \nThurs 20 – SOLD OUT \nFri 21 – SOLD OUT \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nThe core creative team are: \n\n\n\nAoife Reilly\, writer \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\,  writer\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Artistic Curator Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF)\, Co-Curator with Amna Walayat for the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation and Artistic Curator of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nFranziska Detrez\, Director \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nNiamh McPhillips\, Performer \n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\, Performer \n\n\n\nSaoirse O’Shea\, Set\, Costume and Props \n\n\n\nMatt McGowan\, Lighting Design and Operation      \n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett\, Communications \n\n\n\nEM Creative\, Graphic Design \n\n\n\nPaul Marshall\,  Virtual Designer for Creative Eco-Centre with content design by Mary Moynihan and Ciara Hayes \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\,  and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.                                                                                               \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNiamh McPhillips\n\n\n\n\n\nNiamh is from Co. Monaghan and lives in Dublin. While studying at TU Dublin Conservatoire Of Music and Drama\, she graduated with a BA in Drama (Performance). Her final year production was Caryl Churchill’s play of ‘LOVE AND INFORMATION’ directed by Ronan Phelan. She recently performed as Inga Ingram in the world premiere of ‘Looking At The Sun’ by Emily Bohannon at the Smock Alley Theatre and Civic Theatre. Niamh has worked in several different forms of drama such as Dance\, Audio and Opera. She is an alumna of the Monaghan Youth Theatre. She has performed in visual artists Lisa Freeman’s ‘Slipped\, Fell and Smacked my face off the dance floor’ and Jesse Jones’ ‘The Tower’. She collaborated on CoisCéim Broadreach’s project: BUILDING SPACES OF POSSIBILITY which saw her work with choreographer Muirne Bloomer and Dr. Niamh Shaw. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley\n\n\n\n\n\nMaeve Bradley is an actress from Co. Tyrone and a 2021 graduate of The Lir Academy Dublin. \n\n\n\nHer recent credits include This\, That and The Other – Cork Arts Theatre\, BBC Northern Ireland Radio Drama – The Heiress and The General\, Krabat- Common Crow Theatre\, Gulliver’s Travels- The Lyric Theatre Belfast and Les Miserables- The Grand Opera House Belfast. \n\n\n\nDuring her time at The Lir some of Maeve’s most memorable roles include Olga in Summerfolk -directed by Tom Creed\,  Flaminia in Everybody loves Sylvia- directed by Wayne Jordan\, Mother Victoria in Eclipsed- directed by Caroline Byrne\, Antigone in Burial at Thebes- directed by  Caitríona Mclaughlin and The mother in Machinal- directed by Holly Griffith. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFranziska Detrez\n\n\n\n\n\nFranziska Detrez is a theatre director and performer based in Dublin. She is a founding member of the German performance art collective schmarrnintelligenz\, die as well as the Dublin based Common Crow Theatre. In 2021 she finished her MFA in Theatre Directing at the Lir Academy in Dublin staging the Irish premiere of Gillian Greer’s „Meat“. Her latest productions include „We Are an Archipelago“ which was part of the 2022 Dublin Fringe Festival. In the past\, she has worked in Germany\, India\, Switzerland and Ireland. She has collaborated internationally on productions with the Auroville Theatre Group in Pondicherry (India) and the Estonian Polygon Teater from Tallinn. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and a Producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Freda has worked with Smashing Times since 1999. She is highly skilled in project management\, coordination and implementation. She has extensive experience working at a European level developing and delivering a range of European Initiatives\, collaborating with over 50 cultural\, educational and civil society organisations from over 22 European Countries. Promoting European Values through working on activities and projects that promote human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health\, remembrance and civic engagement. \n\n\n\nShe has worked developing and coordinating accredited training programmes\,  professional productions\, and community exchanges using creative methods to  promote peace building and reconciliation on the island of Ireland.  Working particularly with hard to reach communities in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties building strong community relations. Freda has been instrumental in bringing the learning gained from the Northern Ireland Peace Process to communities experiencing conflict in other European states. She has produced and toured a number of professional performances in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is coordinator of the award winning\, Acting For The Future programme that uses drama and theatre to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention\, which was developed and run in association with the Samaritans and the Irish Association of Suicidology throughout the island of Ireland. As part of her work for Smashing Times she is responsible for all aspects of management and project development and is also involved in teaching practice. \n\n\n\nShe has extensive experience in team management through her work with Smashing Times as a manager and as a manager and Employment Assessment Coordinator for a Working Skills Centre in Toronto\, Canada. Her experience in Canada focused mainly on refugee resettlement\, managing initiatives funded through the federal government of Canada. Her education includes a Bachelor in Social Work (2007) from the Open University and in 2012 she completed an MEd from the National University of Ireland/UCD. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes a producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and the coordinator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ciara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nIn 2016 Ciara branched into arts administration while working with Cyclone Rep; a Cork-based Shakespearean Theatre-in-Education company. In 2017 she took on the role of stage school coordinator at Konfident Kidz\, where she was responsible for the day to day running of the stage school reporting directly to the company’s director. During this time\, she assisted in the organisation of Ireland’s first ever all-autistic conference; AUsome Conference. \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020). She works as Communications Officer at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and as producer for Gaitkrash Theatre Company. \n\n\n\nArts Administration experience includes: Konfident Kidz\, teacher and Stage School Manager (2014-2017); Cyclone Rep Theatre-in-Education Company\, administrator (2016)\, Smashing Times\, Communications Officer (2020-present). \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information\, online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now\, online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSaoirse O’Shea\n\n\n\n\n\nSaoirse studied at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art\, Design and Technology where she did a BA in Production Design for Stage and Screen as part of the National Film School. While still in college she got the opportunity to work with a team of international masters in cinematography students on a series of short films along with Banished (2019)\, an opera in Kilmainham Gaol that was staged in conjunction with RIAM. This led to a placement in the props department of the Abbey Theatre for Dublin Will Show You How and the costume department for an Irish National Opera production of The Magic Flute where she worked as a costume prop maker. \n\n\n\nIn the last year she has worked in the art department on a range of commer- cials as a buyer and set dresser for The Tenth Man advertising agency for house- hold brands such as Bewleys\, Lidl\, Jameson and Brown Thomas. More recent theatre credits include set dresser for Dances like a Bomb (2022) as part of the Dublin Dance Festival\, scenic painter on Dubliners in Smock Alley as well as assistant designer and model-maker to a number of established theatre design- ers. Her costume work with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for Gathering on the Pond and more recently The Art of W/Rights at the Pearse Museum led to a residency with them as Set and Costume Designer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt McGowan\n\n\n\n\n\nMatt McGowan is an emerging freelance artists\, particularly focussed on acting\, lighting design and devised work. He also has experience in playwriting and directing. Recent credits include: Narcissus (LX\, Tasteinyourmouth Theatre\, Chiswick Playhouse\, 2022); ROOT (LX\, Luke Casserly dir.\, Dublin Theatre Festival\, 2021). Matt has been extensively involved in the Dublin theatre scene\, particularly in the Dublin Fringe Festivals\, 2017-present\, Smock Alley’s Scene+Heard Festivals 2017-present\, and a number of standalone and touring productions both played in Ireland and internationally. Matt has worked as technical crew\, front of house staff\, and performed in a number of venues and festivals across Dublin. Matt was recently Assistant Technical Manager of Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray\, Wicklow under TM Eoin Fegan earlier this year. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett is a graduate from TU Dublin in Creative Industries and Visual Culture and The Gaiety School of Acting’s full time professional actor training. She has worked in theatre in Ireland as an actor\, director\, and producer. Eadaoin joined Smashing Times in July as their administration and communication officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEM Creative\n\n\n\n\n\nEM Creative is a graphic and web design company based in Navan. We pride ourselves on being highly creative and always strive for perfection on all projects to ensure work is produced to the highest standards. \n\n\n\nAt EM Creative we cover all of your design needs. We regularly work on magazines\, brochures\, booklets\, posters\, annual reports and digital ezines\, as well as advertising campaigns and brand development for clients and companies. \n\n\n\nWe are also web design specialists\, creating stylish\, modern websites using the latest software and tools. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPaul Marshall\, MBA\, MFA\, is a Producer\, Director\, Videographer and Photographer. Paul Marshall is a self-shooting Producer Director. The equivalent of putting a cameraperson\, sound recordist\, scriptwriter\, director and producer into one body. He is a lifelong photographer\, a 20+ year video shooter / editor  and now films in broadcast quality 4K and Full HD.  He has thousands of hours logged on Final Cut and have produced hundreds of short films. He is delighted to be on the BBC Assistant Producer register. His work is based around telling stories through short films. The stories can be of many types and for many purposes depending on the client needs. In general he works in a documentary manner\, using interviews and extensive B-roll footage.    \n\n\n\nA significant part of Paul’s work in recent years has been within the visual arts and the performing arts. He is fortunate that it has taken him around the globe several times. It is natural for Paul to be drawn to the energy of art and artists; as a creative and arts graduate myself\, I feel those influences informing my shooting style. Paul has a Masters degree in Fine Art\, practicing in video and photography and passed with Distinction. He won the Royal Ulster Academy Outstanding MFA Graduate Award. \n\n\n\nBefore MarshallArtsMedia\, Paul ran a small company that made outdoor musical instruments and sound sculptures; he also built an orchestra for Stomp and appeared on Dragon’s Den amongst other trivia.  He has a Masters degree in business (MBA) and feels that through MarshallArtsMedia\, he can work in the Art and Business venn intersection. Paul is a recipient of a 2015 Royal Ulster Academy Outstanding Student Award (MFA)\, and of the Digital Arts Studios 2015 MFA Residency Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/gathering-on-the-pond-17/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
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SUMMARY:Global Citizens Journey Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Global Citizens Journey is an innovative and interactive workshop created by GOAL Youth Members. The activities aim to develop the critical thinking skills to explore the realities and complexities of our interconnected world and recognize the imperative for active solidarity at local and global levels.  Each activity was designed to be adapted to any context and is appropriate for ages 10+ and works very well with adults. It is our hope that these discussions bring you and your local community the confidence to act for fair and sustainable change. The workshop will be facilitated by GOAL NextGen Facilitators. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/global-citizens-journey-workshop/
LOCATION:GOAL Global\, Carnegie House\, Library Rd\, Dún Laoghaire\, Dublin\, A96 C7W7
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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SUMMARY:Launch of Visual Art\, Poetry and Photography exhibition as part of Transformative Memories in Political Violence at the dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Speakers\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan is a writer\, poet\, theatre and film-maker\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland. Mary’s work explores stories linked to historical memory in  war and conflict and focuses on the role of the arts to promote equality\, diversity\,  human rights\, gender equality and peace. Mary is Artistic Curator of the annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights Festival (DAHRF) and is co-curator with Amna Walayat on the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, visual artist and curator\, Pakistan and Ireland. Co-Curator with Mary Moynihan for State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence Multi-Media Exhibition and Installation \n\n\n\nThe event facilitator is Ciara Hayes\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. The official launch is conducted by Cllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition is hosted at The Chocolate Factory\, Dublin 1\, and Gallery Space\, dlr Mill Theatre Dundrum for the 2022 Arts and Human Rights Festival presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders with a range of partners.  The chapter of the exhibition hosted at the dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nThis chapter of the exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre gallery features the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Aman Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\nIn a series of visual art poetic visions consisting of photography and poetic expressions created under the title of Paradise Lost and Found\, artist Mary Moynihan explores the internal journey of a person experiencing loss and crisis and the possibility of finding a way through.  Reflecting on ‘A Broken Heart\, Imperfections\, Finding My Way\, Dreamscape and Freedom’ the artist explores ways to hold on to the courage to carry on and let ourselves shine. \n\n\n\nThe work of visual artist Amna Walayat is informed by Michel Foucault’s[1] ideas on power and Edward Said’s[2] work on Orientalism.  Using the medium of traditional and neo-Indo-Persian miniature painting and the language of symbolism\, Amna’s work expresses her hybrid cultural experiences with artworks on display created under the titles of Migration and In the Name of Shame. The artist says ‘being female\, Asian\, and Muslim\, and a migrant\, mother and artist\, these are all the strands that are personal but also provide me with the opportunity to connect with global issues in general. My paintings are silent protests or performances against violence experienced by women and children\, particularly in various cultural contexts’. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is launched by Cllr Emma Murphy and will feature speeches from the artists and curators\, Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[1] Michel Foucault (1926-1984) was a French philosopher and historian. \n\n\n\n[2] Edward Said (1935-2003) was a Palestinian American academic\, political activist and literary critic. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat is a Cork-based Pakistani-born emerging mixed media visual artist. Her current practice is based on traditional and neo-Indo-Persian Miniature painting\, expressing her hybrid cultural experiences and her position as migrant artist.  Recently\, she mounted her first solo exhibition as a part of the Cork mid-summer festival under Pluck Project (2022). Her work was exhibited in the yearlong exhibition The Narrow Gate of Here and Now at IMMA (2021-2022)\, 191 RHA (2021)\, Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in Chester Beatty and Mill Theatre (15-24 October 2021) and with a two-person show at LHQ (March 2021).  \n\n\n\nShe is interested in the promotion of South Asian Art and Culture in Ireland and Europe. She has worked as Creative Producer in Residence with Cork County Council for her community-based project ‘South Asia Community Museum in Ireland’. \n\n\n\nAmna has an MA in Modern and Contemporary Art History Theory and Criticism from UCC\, and an MA in Fine Arts from Punjab University\, Lahore. She has worked as Programme Organiser with the Pakistan National Council of Arts and as a Curator with Alhambra Arts Council (2001-07). She has  worked with Cultural Action Europe as a MENA Cultural Agent for advising on policies (2021).  She is a member of Sample-Studios\, Backwater Artists\, Art Nomads\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Visual Artists Ireland\, and is a recent recipient of The Arts Council Ireland’s Next Generation Award and Project Arts Centre Bursary Award. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy\, Mayor of SDCC\n\n\n\n\n\nCllr Emma Murphy was elected to South Dublin County Council in 2016 and re-elected in 2019. Emma is a member of the Fianna Fáil party and was extremely active during the referendums for Marriage Equality and Repealing the Eighth Amendment (Abortion Rights in Ireland) over the past number of years. \n\n\n\nEmma’s background is in the NGO sector and previous roles include working as a Communications and Fundraising professional with NGO’s in the areas of Intellectual Disability\, Education\, International Development and LGBTQ+ Sport. In July 2020 Emma took up the position of Communications Director for Barry Andrews MEP of the Renew Europe group in the European Parliament. \n\n\n\nEmma is a past Chairperson of the Joint Policing Committee for South County Dublin and uses her passion and knowledge of cycling as the Chairperson of the Dodder Greenway Steering Committee. She is a member of the Environment Special Policy Committee on South Dublin County Council. \n\n\n\nShe has a personal interest in gender equality and education. Emma took part in the ALDE European Womens’ Academy in 2018\, which promotes females in political life across Europe. She has a passion for driving female representation in politics and acts as an advocate for increased female representation across all facets of the political spectrum.  In March 2021 Emma tabled a motion to establish the South Dublin Women’s Caucus for current and past female members of South Dublin County Council to come together to strengthen female representation in the Local Authority. \n\n\n\nEmma’s other passion is sport and she has recently graduated from the Ladies Gaelic Football Association’s Learn to Lead programme which empowers females in sport. Emma has used this platform to advocate for community\, sport and LGBTQ+ issues via this forum. \n\n\n\nEmma lives in Ballycullen in South Dublin with her wife Caroline and their miniature Jack Russell named Junior. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nAnother Title\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/launch-of-visual-art-poetry-and-photography-exhibition-as-part-of-transformative-memories-in-political-violence/
LOCATION:DLR Mill Theatre\, Dundrum Town Centre\, Dublin 16\, D16 C5X6\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Launch,Poetry,Visual Art
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SUMMARY:My Body My Choice: Abortion Rights Activism Across the Globe
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Repeal movement was one of the most important political and social movements in Irish history. It involved tens of thousands of activists from every corner of the island making the case for women to be allowed to make decisions for themselves\, about their own bodies\, their own health and well-being. \n\n\n\nAs we enter the final stages of the Government’s Abortion Review\, we want to explore the challenges that remain since Repeal and hear how the struggle to widen access across the island of Ireland is part of a global movement for women and pregnant people’s reproductive rights. \n\n\n\nJoin us to hear from brave human rights defenders who are persecuted for their work on abortion access in Poland. Join us to learn how you can be part of the campaign for abortion rights at home. \n\n\n\nThis event features guest speakers Ailbhe Smyth\,  Emma Campbell and Justyna Wydrzyńska. Ailbhe Smyth is  long-time feminist\,  LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. Emma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\nAbortion in Chile is legal in the following cases: when the mother’s life is at risk\, when the fetus will not survive the pregnancy\, and during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy (14 weeks\, if the woman is under 14 years old) in the case of rape. However\, these scenarios account for only about three percent of the thousands of clandestine abortions taking place in the country\, according to activists. Between 1989 and 2017\, Chile had one of the most restrictive abortion policies in the world\, criminalizing its practice without exception. Abortion on these grounds was approved by the National Congress in August 2017\, and came into force a month later\, following a constitutional challenge brought by the conservative opposition. Medical coverage in the public and private sector became available on these ground in January 2018. \n\n\n\nNational Women’s Council of Ireland \n\n\n\nThe National Women’s Council of Ireland’s (NWCI) mission is to lead and to be a catalyst in the achievement of equality for women. They are the leading national representative organisation for women and women’s groups in Ireland. A non-governmental\, not-for-profit organisation\, founded in 1973\, they seek to achieve equality for women. They represent and take their mandate from over 180 member groups from across a diversity of backgrounds\, sectors and geographical locations. They also have a growing number of individual members who support the campaign for women’s equality in Ireland. \n\n\n\nTheir mandate is to take action to ensure that the voices of women in all their diversity are heard. Their vision is of an Ireland and of a world where women can achieve their full potential in a just and equal society. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders was founded in Dublin in 2001 with the specific aim of protecting human rights defenders at risk (HRDs)\, people who work\, non-violently\, for any or all of the rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). Front Line Defenders addresses the protection needs identified by HRDs themselves. Front Line Defenders maintains its headquarters in Dublin\, an EU Office in Brussels\, and regionally-based field staff in the Americas\, Asia\, Africa\, Europe & Central Asia\, and the Middle East. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders provides rapid and practical support to human rights defenders at risk through: international advocacy on behalf of human rights defenders at risk\, including emergency support for those in immediate danger; grants to pay for the practical security needs of human rights defenders; trainings and resource materials on security and protection\, including digital security; rest\, respite and other opportunities for human rights defenders dealing with extreme stress; opportunities for networking and exchange between human rights defenders\, including at the biennial Dublin Platform; the annual Front Line Defenders Award for Human Rights Defenders at Risk; an emergency 24-hour phone line for human rights defenders operating in Arabic\, English\, French\, Russian and Spanish. \n\n\n\nIn emergency situations Front Line Defenders can facilitate temporary relocation of human rights defenders. \n\n\n\nFront Line Defenders promotes strengthened international and regional measures to protect human rights defenders through support for the work of the UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights Defenders.  Support for the office of the Special Rapporteur is also made through the Frank Jennings Internship Programme. Front Line Defenders promotes respect for the UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders. Front Line Defenders has Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. Front Line Defenders has partnership status with the Council of Europe. Front Line Defenders has Observer Status with the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights\, and supports the work of the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Defenders at the African Commission on Human and Peoples’ Rights by providing an intern on an annual basis. \n\n\n\nSpeakers:\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\, former Co-Director\, Together for Yes \n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\, Co-Convenor\, Alliance for Choice \n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\, Founder\, Women on the Net\, and member\, Abortion Dream Team (ADT) \n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\, lawyer and university professor\, Chile \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth\n\n\n\n\n\nAilbhe Smyth is a long-time feminist and LGBTQ+ campaigner and the former founding head of Women’s Studies at UCD. Ailbhe co-founded and led the Coalition to Repeal the 8th\, and was co-Director of Together for Yes\, the national Civil Society Campaign to remove the 8th Amendment from the Irish constitution. She was also a member of the Strategic Executive of the referendum campaign for marriage equality in 2015. A pro-choice activist since the early 1970s\, she has campaigned in all of the Irish abortion referendums. In 2022\, Ailbhe was conferred with the Freedom of the City of Dublin.   \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma Campbell\n\n\n\n\n\nEmma is co-convenor of Alliance for Choice and a core campaigner since 2011\, helping secure decriminalisation of abortion as a part of the movement.  She also actively supports women and pregnant people through their abortions as a doula with Lucht Cabhrach (pronounced lu-kt\, cow-rack). Emma is completing her practice-based PhD addressing photography as an activist tool for abortion rights\, at Ulster University. Emma is also a member of the Turner Prize winning Array Collective and has exhibited in international solo and group shows. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska\n\n\n\n\n\nJustyna Wydrzyńska is woman human rights defender and founder of the website Women on the Net\, Poland’s first online forum supporting women seeking safe abortions\, contraception or sex education. She currently works with Abortion Dream Team (ADT)\, a grass roots initiative of four women human rights defenders who came together in October 2016 with the goal of providing direct and immediate assistance to women who needed abortions. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho\n\n\n\n\n\nLieta Vivaldi Macho is a lawyer and university professor from Chile. She studied as a lawyer in the University of Chile\, has a Diploma in Gender and Violence from the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Chile\, a Masters in Sociology from the London School of Economics and Political Science and a PhD in Sociology from Goldsmiths University\, which is part of the University of London. She currently conducts research at the Human Rights Center of the Diego Portales University. She is also a research associate at the Center for the Study of Applied Ethics of the Faculty of Philosophy and Humanities of the University of Chile. Lieta is also the director of the Gender\, Law and Social Justice program at the Universidad Alberto Hurtado and teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on gender\, sociology and law.Lieta is specialised in human rights\, sexual and reproductive rights\, legal sociology\, biopolitics\, ethics and feminisms. Her doctoral thesis was Abortion in Chile: Biopolitics and Contemporary Feminist Resistance\, and she has published several articles and book chapters on biopolitics\, feminisms\, bioethics\, human rights\, among others.In 2018\, Lieta worked as a Researcher on a project titled “Women travelling to seek abortion care in Europe”\, funded by the European Research Council and University of Barcelona\, and in 2016\, she was a Co-investigator in a project on experiences in Chile concerning malformed fetuses incompatible with life at the Universidad Diego Portales\, which was presented at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-struggle-for-abortion-rights-in-ireland-and-internationally/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Online,Online Discussion,Panel Discussion
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221019T100000
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SUMMARY:Equality Ambassadors
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEquality Ambassadors is an innovative transnational partnership project bringing together five partner organisations from Ireland\, Croatia\, Serbia\, Greece and Spain who work with young people including those most marginalised. The project promotes an exchange and transfer of good practice and the sharing of ideas at a European level between five partner organisations involved in youth work\, bringing them together to collaboratively design a new European Equality Ambassador Peer Leadership Training Programme\, resource book and digital app. \n\n\n\nThe Equality Ambassadors curriculum is an innovative training programme that uses creative processes of theatre-based workshops combined with new digital technologies and online resources to develop a range of skills with young people in order to train them as Equality Ambassadors. An Equality Ambassador is a young person who receives training in personal and social development\, in leadership and communication skills\, in creative practice and the use of new digital technologies to engage with other young people to promote democracy\, equality and human rights and active civic engagement at a European level. \n\n\n\nGrowing consensus around the world recognises education for human rights as essential. It can contribute to the building of free\, just\, and peaceful societies. Equality and Human rights education is increasingly recognised as an effective strategy to prevent human rights abuses and assists in promoting a more inclusive\, tolerant and diverse society. The Preamble to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) exhorts every individual and every organ of society to ‘strive by teaching and education to promote respect for these rights and freedoms’. \n\n\n\nThe EU is founded on principles of liberty\, democracy\, gender equality\, respect for human rights and fundamental freedoms. This project uses the creative mediums of theatre and new digital technologies to promote democracy\, equality and human rights\, all key values underpinning the EU. Young people are actively involved in the democratic life of Europe and gain expertise in supporting the role of the EU to promote diversity and respect for all. \n\n\n\nEquality Ambassadors is supported by Erasmus+ and the partners are Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead); Dah Theatre\, Belgrade\, Serbia; Youth Peace Group (Danube)\, Vukovar\, Croatia; KANE\, Kalamata\, Greece; and IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain. \n\n\n\nMembers from each partner organisation will be in attendance to share good practice and project findings from the Equality Ambassadors programme. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/equality-ambassadors/
CATEGORIES:Partner Exchange
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20221019T113000
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Smashing Times Birthday Party Open Mic
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists and Guest Speakers include\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\,  singer and performer\, with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nWilliam Caughey\,  Guest\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFernando Benavente\, International Guest\, IFES Coop\, Valencia\, Spain \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, writer\, Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality  invite you to take part in an open mic night for the arts and to join  us in celebrating 30 years as the leading voice in arts for equality\, human rights and diversity in Europe and internationally! \n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality celebrates 30 years of working with incredible artists\, partners\, citizens and communities  and in a range of different artforms\, promoting human rights\, equality and diversity for all\, we invite you to join us in a wonderful and celebratory gathering of arts\, music\, song and chat. We are delighted that artists\, partners\, citizens and communities from across Ireland and Europe will join us on the evening for creative conversations and taking part in our Open Mic Art session! \n\n\n\nCome to the Chocolate Factory and explore the extraordinary State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence exhibition\, while meeting with some of Smashing Times artists and partners who have worked with us throughout the years. The evening will be an opportunity for fun ‘meeting and greeting’\, for informal networking\, and for creative expression and celebration in an artistic setting. All welcome! \n\n\n\nThe Open Mic session is a celebration of talent in all ages and  artforms and we love all styles and arts. We welcome you to pop on stage for a short performance and to show and share with us your creativity. A delightful evening with an electric\, fun atmosphere \n\n\n\nThe evening will feature short chats celebrating equality\, diversity and human rights and you are welcome to contribute to our vision board with ideas for future ways forward for working with the arts to promote equality\, diversity and human rights and to acknowledge and remember all those who have inspired us on our journey as we endeavour to create a world where all people are treat equal with dignity and respect. \n\n\n\nAs part of our the evening’s entertainment\, we welcome you to view the State of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence multi-media exhibition and installation at the Chocolate Factory\, open daily 10am-6pm from Monday to Sunday\,  3-23 October 2022 (16 October 2-6pm). \n\n\n\nState of the Art: Transformative Memories in Political Violence is a live\, multi-media exhibition and  installation displaying artworks reflecting at both personal and political levels on arts\, human rights and transformative memory in political violence with artists exhibiting their work interrogating political violence in communities across the globe. The exhibiton features a multitude of artworks – film\, video\, poster art\, visual art\, photography\, poetry\, song\, textiles\, sculpture\, painting\, live performance and installation\, with artworks by artists from Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Pakistan\, Colombia\, Indonesia\, Uganda\, Canada\, Chile and Argentina. The Co-Curators are Mary Moynihan and Amna Walayat. \n\n\n\nArtists include Hina Khan\, visual artist\, Pakistan and Ireland; Sinead McCann\, Visual Artist\, Ireland; Erika Diettes\, visual artist and social communicator\, Colombia;  Fernanda Barbosa\, Visual Art\, Photographer\, Colombia; Alit Ambara\, visual and graphic artist and cultural activist\, Indonesia; Jeff Korondo\, solo musician\, Uganda; Juliane Okot Bitek\, Poet\, Canada; Peter Morin\, performance artist\, a Tahltan Nation artist\, author\, curator and professor;  Roberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile and artists and members of the Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda. \n\n\n\nWe also invite you to attend the  Visual Art\, Photography and Poetry Exhibition at dlr Mill Theatre Gallery\, Dundrum\, open Tuesday to Saturday\, 11am-4pm from 13 September to 29 October 2022 and featuring the work of writer and artist Mary Moynihan and visual artist Amna Walayat responding creatively to themes of freedom\, change\, transformation\, power and control.  \n\n\n\n ‘Smashing Times has a deserved reputation for exploring social issues with sensitivity and in depth… The plays are true theatre… extraordinary. Smashing Times must continue with it.’IRISH TIMES‘Fascinating\, executed by the innovative and dynamic Smashing Times.’SUNDAY INDEPENDENT‘Smashing Times is a wonderful endeavour and I wish you well with all your future work.’THOMAS KILROY\, PLAYWRIGHT‘This production and the discussion afterwards should be compulsory for all young people.It is Theatre-in-Education at its best.’MAEVE INGOLDSBY\, WRITER AND PLAYWRIGHT‘This work is so powerful\, I wish there was more of this.’MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘What Smashing Times are contributing is cutting-edge… this is serious\, thought-provoking and provocative work that is really impressive and valid.’BRIDGET KELLY\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘I’ve never been presented with an issue like this in my experience before\,this has been extraordinary\, powerful.’TOM O’HAGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘The Department of Education should fund this show to go into every school in the country. It is excellent and extremely important.’LIAM HALLIGAN\, MEMBER OF PUBLIC‘This work is excellent . . . drama is so important\, particularly for young people in schools.’SECONDARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL\, CBS\, WESTLAND ROW \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n30 We Admire\n\n\n\nAs Smashing Times celebrates its 30th anniversary this year\, we have decided to bring you a series called 30 We Admire – a selection of 30 activists\, artists\, books\, films and more that celebrate our values of arts and human rights! \n30 Activists We Admire\n\nGreta Thunberg\n\nGreta is a Swedish environmental activist who is known for challenging world leaders to take immediate action for climate change mitigation. Her ‘School Strike for Climate Change’ has led to global campaigns for climate action. \n\nMahatma Gandhi\n\nGandhi was an Indian lawyer\, anti-colonial nationalist\, and political ethicist who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India’s independence from British rule\, and to later inspire movements for civil rights and freedom across the world. \n\nPanti Bliss / Rory O’Neill\n\nRory O’Neill\, also known by his stage name Panti Bliss\, is a drag queen and gay rights activist from Mayo. Panti’s famous ‘Noble Call’ highlighted everyday homophobia in Ireland\, and now has over 1 million views on YouTube. \n\nRosa Parks\n\nRosa Parks was a civil rights activist who refused to surrender her seat to a white passenger on a segregated bus in Montgomery\, Alabama. Her defiance sparked the Montgomery Bus Boycott. Its success launched nationwide efforts to end racial segregation of public facilities. \n\nEvanna Lynch\n\nAn avid animal rights activist\, Evanna Lynch has launched a vegan-themed podcast titled The ChickPeeps and a cruelty-free make-up box named Kinder Beauty Box. \n\nPhilomena Lee\n\nPhilomena is an advocate and spokesperson for adoption rights. She has created The Philomena Project in order to raise awareness about adoption laws and find ways to improve them. \n\nVicky Phelan\n\nVicky is a women’s health campaigner\, and is a central figure in the CervicalCheck scandal. She has campaigned for the programme to be reviewed\, and has called on the Irish medical system to be overhauled due to its failings. \n\nSinead Burke\n\nSinead Burke is a teacher and designer from Ireland. She advocates for inclusivity in the fashion industry\, especially in the development of clothing inclusive of people with dwarfism. \n\nIfrah Ahmed\n\nIfrah is a Somali-Irish social activist. She is the founder of the United Youth of Ireland non-governmental organization and the Ifrah Foundation\, which is devoted to eliminating female genital mutilation. \n\nMairead Maguire\n\nMairead is a peace activist from Northern Ireland. Along with Betty Williams and Ciaran McKeown\, she co-founded the Women for Peace (now known as Community for Peace People). Maguire and Williams received the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize. More recently\, she was involved in discussions around the Rohingya crisis. \n\nMother JonesMother Jones was a 19th century social activist and trade unionist from Cork\, who protested lax enforcement of child labour laws in the US\, and whose successful organising of the United Mine Workers union earned her the moniker ‘the most dangerous woman in America’.\nMary Lawlor\n\nMary Lawlor is UN Special Rapporteur on Human Rights Defenders\, an Adjunct Professor at the Centre for Social Innovation\, Trinity College Business School and founder of Front Line Defenders. \n\nNelson Mandela\n\nNelson Mandela was a South African anti-apartheid revolutionary\, political leader and philanthropist who served as the first president of South Africa from 1994 to 1999. He was the country’s first black head of state and the first elected in a fully representative democratic election. \n\nMalala Yousafzai\n\nMalala Yousafzai is a Pakistani activist for female education and a Nobel Peace Prize laureate. She is also the world’s youngest Nobel Prize laureate\, and second Pakistani to ever receive a Nobel Prize. \n\nEmily Davison\n\nEmily Davison was an English suffragette who fought for votes for women in Britain in the early twentieth century. A member of the Women’s Social and Political Union (WSPU) and a militant fighter for her cause\, she was arrested on nine occasions\, went on hunger strike seven times and was force-fed on forty-nine occasions. She died after being hit by King George V’s horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. \n\nHarriet Tubman\n\nHarriet Tubman escaped slavery to become a leading abolitionist. She led hundreds of enslaved people to freedom along the route of the Underground Railroad. \n\nHarvey Milk\n\nHarvey Milk was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California\, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. \n\nDil Wickremasinghe\n\nDil Wickremasinghe lives in Ireland and is a social justice and mental health journalist\, podcaster\, speaker\, mental health service provider\, social entrepreneur\, activist and occasional stand-up comedian. Dil is an outstanding advocate for the LGBTQI+ community and provides training and consultancy in equality and diversity. \n\nSamantha Ncube\n\nSamantha is a youth ambassador and youth worker for the European Youth in Migration Forum with the Irish Refugee Council in which she meets with policy makers to discuss issues affecting young migrant people living in Ireland. \n\nSenator Eileen Ní Fhloinn\n\nSenator Ní Fhloinn has been an activist and community worker for many years\, working with groups such as the Irish Traveller Movement\, the National Traveller Women’s Forum and Ballyfermot Traveller Action Programme. She also campaigned on issues such as housing\, marriage equality\, abortion rights and anti-racism. \n\nStaša Zajović\n\nStaša Zajović is the co-founder and coordinator of Women in Black\, which is a world-wide network of women committed to peace with justice and actively opposed to injustice\, war\, militarism and other forms of violence. \n\nVesna Teršelič\n\nVesna Teršelič is a peace activist and was largely responsible for founding the Croatian Anti-War Campaign (ARK) in 1991 in Zagreb\, Croatia. ARK promotes education for non-violent conflict transformation\, human rights protection\, social reconstruction and reconciliation\, support for refugees and displaced persons\, and help for the unemployed and the bereaved and those severely traumatised by war. \n\nFrancisca Sauquillo Pérez\n\nFrancisca is a Spanish lawyer and politician known for her activism as a labour lawyer and in defence of democratic freedoms during the dictatorship of Francisco Franco. She was deputy of the Assembly of Madrid\, Senator and MEP. \n\nHelena Maleno\n\nHelena is a human rights defender\, journalist and researcher and founder of Caminando Fronteras or Walking Borders. She denounces human rights violations taking place on the southern Spanish border and works with the migrant communities in the defence of their rights. \n\nSanja Sarnavka\n\nSanja Sarnavka is a peace and human rights activist. Since 2000\, Sanja Sarnavka has been President of B.a.B.e.\, a Croatian non-governmental organisation which promotes and protects women’s rights.  \n\nKatarina Kruhonja\n\nDr. Kruhonja is a peace activist and director of the Centre for Peace\, Non-violence and Human Rights\, Osijek\, Croatia.  \n\nSlađana Petrović Varagić\n\nSlađana is an independent cultural worker – a curator and producer – who works proactively in the field of cultural policy by opening new critical topics about art\, art rights\, women’s rights and the position of the independent artists and cultural worker. She fights against the influence of politics and parties on decision-making autonomy in the field of culture and art. \n\nSylvia Rivera\n\nSylvia Rivera was a Latina-American drag queen who was a gay and transgender activist in the 1960s and 70s. She’s known for participating in the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and establishing the political organization STAR. \n\nNellie Bly\n\nNellie Bly was a pioneering journalist\, known for her ground-breaking 1887 exposé on the conditions of asylum patients at Blackwell’s Island in New York City and her report of her 72-day trip around the world. \n\nMarsha P. Johnson\n\nMarsha P. Johnson was an African American transgender woman and revolutionary LGBTQ rights activist. She is credited for being an instigator in the Stonewall riots. \n  \n30 Books We Admire\n\nSister Anne’s Hands by Marybeth Lorbiecki. This book is set in the early 1960s\, and a little girl named Anna has never seen a person with dark skin before. At first\, she is afraid of her new second-grade teacher\, but she quickly discovers how wonderful Sister Anne is.\nThe Proudest Blue: A Story of Hijab and Family by Ibtihaj Muhammad & S. K. Ali (Authors) Hatem Aly (Illustrator). A beautifully illustrated story about two sisters and the events that unfold on the first day of school when the older sister\, Asiya\, makes her debut in her hijab. A story of how words can be hurtful\, but also the beauty in sibling relationships and self-confidence.\nMaddi’s Fridge by Lois Brandt. Bursting with colourful\, digital illustrations\, this book addresses the issues of poverty and childhood hunger through the relationship of two best friends\, one who only has milk in her fridge\, and the other whose fridge is stocked with options.\nSulwe by Lupita Nyong’o. This book discusses self-love and the battles it sometimes takes to get there. Through vivid colours\, this children’s book revolves around a young girl facing colourism and the pain that comes with it.\nChocolate Milk\, Por Favor: Celebrating Diversity with Empathy by Maria Dismondy and Nancy Raines Day. The story revolves around a little boy\, Johnny\, who loves school\, until Gabe\, a boy from Brazil becomes the new student. Johnny’s initial instinct is to reject him\, but that becomes challenged when his peers are kind.\nThe Boy and the Wall by Youth at Lajee Centre in Aida Refugee Camp. A bilingual picture book about a Palestinian boy who has become a refugee. In this book\, he recollects “the wall” being built and the unfortunate and sometimes scary circumstances that came with it. Written by young people living in a refugee camp.\nJust Jamie by Terri Libenson. This story centres around the theme of exclusion. Jaime a girl in middle school knows something is off with her friend group. They have started to exclude her and make fun of the way she dresses and the things she likes.\nI Am Enough by Grace Byers. This book provides constructive affirmations for children who lack self-esteem and self-acceptance. It celebrates children for who they are and promotes positive female role models. It sends a message that people are unique and that they will always be enough.\nChocolate Me! By Tate Diggs. This book encourages kids to love themselves\, even if they feel like they do not fit in. This timely book explores how it feels to be teased and how each of us is beautiful\, no matter how we look.\nSame Same but Different by Jenny Sue Kostecki-Shaw. This book shows how two boys who live oceans apart can become the best of friends. By becoming pen pals and exchanging letters and pictures\, they learn that they both love to climb trees\, have pets\, and go to school and although their worlds might look different\, they are very similar.\nDon’t Touch My Hair by Emma Dabiri. This book explores the ways in which black hair has been appropriated and stigmatized throughout history\, with ruminations on body politics\, race\, pop culture\, and Dabiri’s own journey to loving her hair.\nThe Fire This Time by Jesmyn Ward. This book is a deeply moving collection of essays\, short memoir\, and poetry written by contemporary thinkers and writers on race. Shedding light on both past and the present issues of inequality in the United States\, The Fire This Time demonstrates where we’ve come from as a country and how much further we have to go to achieve true equality.\nWe Were Feminists Once by Andi Zeisler. The book takes an important look at some of the more recent (and less-productive) manifestations of feminism — in particular\, how the word “feminist” has transformed from activist movement to marketing device.\nThe Other Slavery by Andrés Reséndez. Shedding light on the enslavement of America’s indigenous people and arguing that slavery — more than disease and violence — was really what decimated the people who were already living here when the Europeans arrived\, The Other Slavery is a harrowing account of the first slavery and genocide to take place in the United States.\nIn Order to Live by Yeonmi Park. In this book\, Park tells the story of her repressive and fear-filled upbringing in North Korea\, and her harrowing escapes.\nUnorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of my Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman. In the book\, Feldman documents her life in an ultra-religious Jewish community in Brooklyn\, New York.\nBird of Paradise: How I Became Latina by Raquel Cepeda. This memoir is for anyone who has ever struggled to make sense of their identity\, and to find a home where genetics and experience meet — because\, in the end\, we’re all patchwork quilts of our family history.\nStamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi. Kendi profiles five key people in American history: Angela Davis\, W.E.B. Du Bois\, Cotton Mather\, Thomas Jefferson\, and William Lloyd Garrison\, using their examples to argue against the myth of a post-racial America and explore the beliefs and practices of various race-related schools of thought.\nAll Our Relations by Winona LaDuke. LaDuke’s merges her own experiences and research with testimonies from First Nations activists — including the Seminoles\, the Anishinaabeg\, the Innu\, the Northern Cheyenne\, the Mohawks\, and others — who have fought for their rights for generations.\nA Burst of Light: and Other Essays by Audre Lorde. Lorde writes passionately about everything from radical politics and the need for intersectionality in feminism to her experiences navigating her own identity as a black lesbian writer and mother and her battle with cancer. She’ll leave you feeling both empowered and inspired.\nMen Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit. Inspired by a particularly “mansplain-y” dinner party attended by the author\, this book explores the gender-based inequalities present in routine exchanges between men and women. On point\, hilarious\, and infuriating\, Men Explain Things to Mealso addresses the issue of women being silenced all over the world — many times at the expense of their health\, freedom\, and/or life.\nWhen We Were Outlaws by Jeanne Cordova. This book is a whirlwind of feminist politics\, passionate protest\, ambitious activism\, and the writer’s own struggle with discrimination and her personal identity. \nPrelude and Other Stories by Katherine Mansfield. This selection of stories showcases the author’s remarkable ability to delve into the human mind; in stories such as ‘The Garden Party’ she reveals the tension between innocence and corruption\, the dark side of love and romance are explored in ‘Bliss’ and ‘Love à la Mode’\, and in the title story\, ‘Prelude’\, inspired by her own childhood\, her concern is for the isolated and the lonely.\nBreasts and Eggs by Mieko Kawakami. Kawakami paints a radical picture of contemporary working-class womanhood in Japan as she recounts the heart breaking stories of three women who must survive in a society where the odds are stacked against them.\nThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. This masterful dystopia is set in a future America where women are reduced to their reproductive usefulness.\nThe Awakening by Kate Chopin. The Awakeningis considered one of the earliest and boldest examples of feminist fiction. When Edna meets the charming Robert Lebrun while holidaying with her husband and two young children\, a flirtation turns into an affair which opens her eyes to a life outside her passionless marriage and the stifling restrictions of nineteenth-century society.\nThe Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison. In this novel\, Toni explores the problematic and racist beauty ideals of western society\, as well as addressing issues of race\, poverty and abuse.\nThe Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. Written in 1962\, this experimental\, Nobel Prize-winning novel brings taboo issues of the time\, including women’s sexuality\, bodily functions and mental illness\, to the fore.\nCracking the Menopause by Mariella Frostrup and Alice Smellie. This book debunks myths and addresses fears about the menopause\, with straight-talking advice to help you deal with an issue that half of us will face\, yet is rarely spoken about. With case studies\, personal testimonies\, expert guidance and witty illustrations\, this is a wise but humorous guide to the topic.\nA Bigger Picture by Vanessa Nakate. Witnessing the suffering caused by global warming propelled Vanessa Nakate into action and despite risks to her personal safety she became the first climate striker in Uganda at just twenty-one years old. In A Bigger Pictureshe traces the links between the climate crisis and anti-racism\, feminism\, education\, economics and even extremist radicalization.\n\n  \n30 Women We Admire\n\nMary Moynihan – Writer\, director\, theatre and film maker\, and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Mary’s work promoting equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts is award-winning and internationally recognised.\nDijana Milosevic – Dijana is a theatre director\, co-founder and artistic director of DAH Theatre in Belgrade\, Serbia\, the first theatre laboratory in her country. In addition to directing socially engaged theatre works\, she has worked on issues of violence against women with the activist group ‘Women in Black’\, performing stories of women from Kosovo\, Bosnia-Herzegovina\, Serbia and Croatia.\nFrederique Lecomte – Frederique is the founder and main facilitator of the Theatre and Reconciliation method. She is a sociologist\, writer and stage director from Belgium. She is an expert in rebuilding traumatised and conflicted communities\, organising theatre workshops and performances both with and for the community in war areas all over the world.\nFelispeaks – Felispeaks is a Nigerian-Irish Poet\, Performer\, Playwright from Co. Longford. She enjoys creating poetry and performance pieces that always promises to introduce her audience to the journey of emotion in every story.\nEmma Dabiri – Emma is an Irish author\, podcaster and presenter. Her debut book ‘Don’t Touch My Hair’ moves beyond the personal to examine African hair in wider contexts\, with the book travelling across geographical space and through time to take in pre-colonial Africa up to modern day Western society.\nNina Simone – Nina was an American singer\, songwriter\, musician\, arranger\, and civil rights activist.\nMaya Angelou – Maya was an American poet\, memoirist\, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies\, three books of essays\, several books of poetry\, and is credited with a list of plays\, movies\, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.\nAva DuVernay – Ava is an American filmmaker. She won the directing award in the U.S. dramatic competition at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival for her second feature film Middle of Nowhere\, becoming the first Black woman to win the award.\nAmaranta Osorio – Amaranta is a writer\, actress and producer\, Mexican\, Colombian and Spanish. Her work promote equality and human rights.\nMary Robinson – Mary was the first Irish female president. She was involved in the decriminalisation of homosexuality\, the legalisation of contraception\, the legalisation of divorce\, enabling women to sit on juries\, and securing the right to legal aid in civil legal cases in Ireland.[4] She was Ireland’s most popular president\, at one point having a 93% approval rating among the electorate.\nHina Khan – Hina is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. Her work explores human rights issues such as migration\, racism\, and violence against women.\nNoelle McAlinden – Noelle is a visual artist\, curator\, cultural broker\, and mental health advocate. Her work covers topics relating to contemporary women.\nAmna Walayat – Amna is a Pakistani visual artist living in Ireland. She is currently the Cork County Council Creative Producer in Residence. Her work engages with human rights issues\, most recently\, the Mother and Baby Homes scandal.\nÁine O’Hara – Áine is an Irish theatre maker and visual artist\, whose work highlights the reality of living with a chronic illness.\nPillow Queens – Pillow Queens are an all-female alt-pop band from Dublin. Their songs cover topics like body positivity\, mental health\, and growing up gay in Ireland.\nGizele Martins – Gizele was at the frontline of actions to tackle COVID-19 in marginalized communities of Rio de Janeiro\, participating in the Maré Mobilization Front\, a collective of grassroots communicators created to mitigate the effects of the pandemic in the favela.\nJuana Ruiz Sánchez – Juana Ruiz Sánchez is a Spanish woman human rights defender. She has been working as a project coordinator for 28 years at the Health Work Committee (HWC)\, an NGO providing health assistance in rural Palestinian villages across the West Bank.\nMary Elmes – Mary was the first Irish person honoured as ‘Righteous Among Nations’ for her work saving Jewish children from the Nazi gas chambers during World War II.\nAlice Kuvheya – Alice is a human rights defender and director of Chitungwiza Residents Trust (CHITREST). The community trust works to provide civic education and human rights advocacy at a community level\, but also carries out advocacy on health and environmental issues.\nNan Joyce – Nan was an Irish Travellers’ rights activist. She worked to improve the lives of Travellers in Ireland and Northern Ireland from 1981 until her death in 2018. She was the first Traveller candidate in an Irish general election\, in 1982.\nMariem Cheikh – Mariem is a human rights defender and a member of the NGO Initiative for the Resurgence of the Abolitionist Movement (IRA)\, which aims to eradicate the practices of slavery.\nEnira Bronitskaya – Enira is a human rights defender and a member of the human rights organization Human Constanta\, which works to promote the protection of the rights of foreign citizens and stateless persons in Belarus\, as well as anti-discrimination and digital freedoms.\nSinzeri Nabeza Jolie – Sinzeri is a human rights defender and member of SOS HANDICAP\, an organisation created by disabled women to defend and protect the human rights of women and girls living with disabilities and to promote a fair world for all.\nGrecia Eugenia Rodriguez Navarro – Grecia is a human rights defender who has been accompanying communities and ejidos in the defence of land and water in the state of Zacatecas\, Mexico\, since 2014.\nLeanne Betasamosake Simpson – Leanne is an activist\, scholar\, writer\, and poet. She was heavily involved with the Idle No More movement that raised awareness of treaty betrayals and environmental injustices impacting First Nations people.\nWinona LaDuke – Winona is an environmental activist and author. She has founded two prominent organizations: Honor the Earth and the White Earth Land Recovery Project.\nGordana Comic – Gordana is Minister for Human and Minority Rights and Social Dialogue in the Republic of Serbia. As the founder of the Women’s Parliamentary Network of the National Assembly and a member of the women’s movement in Serbia\, she has played a significant role in the country’s fight for women’s equality and equal participation in decision-making processes.\nMaria Edgeworth – Maria one of the most successful novelists of her generation\, with a gift for social observation and dialogue that earned the admiration of Sir Walter Scott and Jane Austen. She was one of the first writers to portray the Irish peasant class as real people\, with real stories\, and during the Irish Famine\, while in her 80s\, went door to door distributing food.\nLady Jane Wilde – Lady Jane was a gifted linguist and poet who published under the name Speranza\, a documenter of the Famine\, a women’s rights activist\, and a nationalist who used her writing to call for insurrection.\nDr Kathleen Lynn – Kathleen was a medical doctor specialising in ophthalmology; a volunteer in the soup kitchens during the 1913 Lockout; medical officer to the Irish Citizen Army (ICA) during the Rising\, for which she was imprisoned; a campaigner for equal rights for women; and the co-founder with her lifelong partner\, the equally fearless Madeleine ffrench-Mullen (and a budget of €70) of St Ultan’s Hospital for Infants.\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/smashing-times-birthday-party-open-mic/
LOCATION:Chocolate Factory\, 26 King's Inn Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 P2W7\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Exhibition,Music,Performance,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Art Connects: Mental Health - A Time to Breathe
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nArt Connects Mental Health: A Time to Breathe is a two-year European wide transnational partnership project that provides education\, training and awareness-raising at national and European levels using creative processes to promote positive mental health and emotional wellbeing with youth. \n\n\n\nSix partner organisations come together to create a Europe-wide Creative Arts for Health and WellBeing hub\, a new online\, interactive\, learning resource centre that supports the role of the arts to promote physical and emotional positive mental health and well-being for all. \n\n\n\nA challenging event like the COVID-19 (coronavirus) pandemic can affect everyone’s mental health. Each of us is doing our best to look after ourselves however young people may need extra attention and support. Building synergies between the arts\, youth education\, and health and well-being\, this project supports the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and emotional well-being\, to overcome stress and anxiety and to build resilience across Europe\, strengthening links across Europe in relation to the arts\, education and positive mental health and well-being with and by young people. \n\n\n\nA Time to Breathe is supported by Erasmus+. The partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead partner); Ente acli istruzione professionale piemonte\, (ENTE) Torino\, Italy; Euroreso\, Naples\, Italy; European Centre in Training for Employment\, Rethymno\, Greece; Fundacion Intras\, Valladolid\, Spain and Youth Peace Group Danube\, Vukovar\, Croatia. \n\n\n\nRepresentatives from each other partner organisations will be in attendance\, with Veronica Leaney attending on behalf of Smashing Times. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/art-connects-mental-health-a-time-to-breathe/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Partner Exchange
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/arts-climate-justice-and-human-rights-workshop-programme/2022-10-20/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
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SUMMARY:Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened - Stories from Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nBook Here \n\n\n\nSpeakers\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina\, writer \n\n\n\nLia Mills\, moderator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nUkrainian novelist\, essayist and human rights activist Victoria Amelina will speak and read from her work on Thursday\, 20 October at 7pm at Smock Alley Theatre Dublin. The Ukranian writer and human rights activist will discuss the current situation for writers and artists in Ukraine\, her non-fiction project: War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War\, and her own literary work. \n\n\n\nThis event will be a moving\, thought provoking presentation of the role of writers and artists who chose to remain in Ukraine following the full-scale invasion by Russia on 24 February this year. There will be discussion of an ongoing project documenting the work of journalists\, human rights defenders\, lawyers and volunteers who record war crimes in Ukraine. Victoria Amelina will also read from her own work and explain why it is important to all of us that Ukrainian literature and culture is preserved. \n\n\n\nThis event is presented by Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann as part of the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival and is supported by Dublin UNESCO City of Literature. \n\n\n\nIrish Pen and Dublin UNESCO City of Literature are core and creative partners in the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Festival organisers include Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. \n\n\n\nIrish PEN \n\n\n\nIn November 2020 Irish PEN was relaunched as Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann. This followed the amalgamation of the original organisation and the Freedom to Write Campaign. \n\n\n\nThe aims of Irish PEN/PEN na hÉireann are: \n\n\n\nto promote literature in and about Ireland both nationally and internationallyto defend worldwide the right of writers to responsible freedom of expression as defined in the PEN Charterto foster international understanding through the appreciation of literature\n\n\n\nVisit www.irishpen.com for more info and to become a member. \n\n\n\nDublin UNESCO City of Literature \n\n\n\nDublin is the fourth UNESCO City of Literature\, one of 39 UNESCO Cities of Literature worldwide. \n\n\n\nWith four Nobel prize winners (Yeats\, Beckett\, Shaw and Heaney)\, a brace of universities of global distinction in Trinity and UCD\, over half a dozen books festivals\, the internationally prestigious Dublin Literary Award and a world class new city library in the planning\, it is without doubt that Ireland’s capital has literature in its blood. \n\n\n\nThe Literature designation is one of seven designations within the Creative Cities Network. \n\n\n\nThe Office is advised by a Management Group 2021 and a wider Steering Group and is part of Dublin City Libraries. The work of the office is guided by a Strategic Plan 2020-2022 \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina\n\n\n\n\n\nVictoria Amelina is a Ukrainian novelist\, essayist\, and human rights activist based in Kyiv. She is a winner of the Joseph Conrad Literature Prize for her prose works\, including the novels Dom’s Dream Kingdom and Fall Syndrome\, and a finalist of the European Union Prize for Literature. She is a founder of the New York Literature Festival\, which takes place in a small town called New York in the Donetsk region. Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of 2022\, instead of the festival\, the team launched the “Fight Them with Poetry” initiative to help supply the Ukrainian Army units defending the region. \n\n\n\nSince 2022 Victoria Amelina has been collaborating with Ukrainian teams to document Russian war crimes and advocate for accountability for the international crimes committed by the Russian Federation and its troops on the territory of Ukraine and other countries. She is now working on a non-fiction project: War and Justice Diary: Looking at Women Looking at War. \n\n\n\nHer prose\, poems\, and essays have been translated into many languages\, including English\, Polish\, Italian\, German\, Croatian\, Dutch\, Chezh\, and Hungarian. She teaches a special Creative Writing course\, Crafting the Future\, at the International Writing Program of the University of Iowa. \n\n\n\nEssays in English: \n\n\n\n“Nothing Bad Has Ever Happened” was recently reprinted in the online edition of the Irish Times. “Homo Oblivious” was recently published in The Dublin Review of Books. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/nothing-bad-has-ever-happened-stories-from-ukraine/
LOCATION:Smock Alley Theatre\, 6-7 Exchange Street Lower\, Temple Bar\, Dublin 8\, D08 EH67\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Aisling na Saoirse - Dreams of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, performer \n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\, performer \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality work to promote equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts.  The company are delighted to present a programme of artistic performances\, workshops\, training and talks taking place in a range of venues using the arts to promote equality and rights with a focus on promoting the Irish language and Irish culture and heritage. \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Programme in South Kerry – 2022 Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThree public performances and post-show discussions take place in South Kerry – in The Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, on Thursday\, 20 October 2022\, 7.30pm; in St John the Baptist Church\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, on  Friday 21 October 2022\, 7.30pm and in  10 Bridge Street\, Killorglin\, on  Saturday 22 October 2022\, 7.30pm.  The show Aisling na Saoirse consists of: \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe by Mary Moynihan performed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nTales from an Afterworld by Féilim James performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nAt Summer’s End by Féilim James performed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nNá déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nThe performance venues\, dates and times are: \n\n\n\n\nThe Monsignor Flaherty Room\, Barracks Heritage Centre\, Cahersiveen\, County Kerry. Thursday\, 20 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\nSt John the Baptist Church\, Knightstown\, Valentia Island\, County Kerry. Friday 21 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\n10 Bridge Street\, Killorglin\, County Kerry\, Saturday 22 October 2022\, 7.30pm.\n\n\n\n\nThe show is a bespoke combination of three monologue performances and a poem. Our first performance is Grace and Joe written and directed by Mary Moynihan inspired by Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) and the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising. Next is Tales From an Afterworld by Féilim James based on the life and work of William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). \n\n\n\nThe final performance is At Summer’s End by Feilim James\, a dramatic monologue told from the perspective of a Jewish-Irish citizen murdered in the Holocaust. Her name was Ettie Steinberg (1914-42). We learn how at a young age her family left Eastern Europe for Dublin\, before love led her away to the European mainland. This by turns tender and harrowing portrait of love\, loss\, and the brutality of war tells one ordinary woman’s extraordinary\, and often forgotten\, story. The show culminates with a poem Ná déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn. \n\n\n\nThe award-winning work of Smashing Times has been acclaimed for its extraordinary story-telling inspired by historical memory and stories of citizens and artists from across the ages. In this\, our 30th anniversary year\, enjoy a gathering of performance and song presenting re-imagined moments from the lives of citizens and artists caught up in extraordinary times\, showcasing stories of Irish people from the 20th century. \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe \n\n\n\nWritten and directed by Mary Moynihan \n\n\n\nBased on on writings and witness statements from Joseph Mary Plunkett and Grace Gifford \n\n\n\nPerformed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nGrace and Joe sees Grace Evelyn Gifford (1888-1955) tell the story of her time with Joseph Mary Plunkett\, one of the leaders executed after the 1916 Easter Rising and the youngest signatory to the Irish proclamation. It relates how they were married in Kilmainham Gaol chapel seven hours before his execution. Grace was a cartoonist and Republican and studied at the Metropolitan School Art. \n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld \n\n\n\nWritten by Féilim James \n\n\n\nDirected by Geraldine McAlinden \n\n\n\nPerformed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nTales From an Afterworld is a reflection on the life and work of writer William Butler Yeats (1865-1939). Born in Dublin in 1865\, William Butler Yeats was the son of a well-known Irish painter\, John Butler Yeats. He spent his childhood in County Sligo\, where his parents were raised\, and in London. He returned to Dublin at fifteen to continue his education and study painting\, but quickly discovered he preferred poetry. Born into the Anglo-Irish landowning class\, Yeats became involved with the Celtic Revival\, a movement against the cultural influences of English rule in Ireland during the Victorian period\, which sought to promote the spirit of Ireland’s native heritage. Yeats was deeply involved in politics in Ireland. He also had a life-long interest in mysticism and the occult\, and his work drew extensively from sources in Irish mythology and folklore. Lady Gregory and Yeats founded the Abbey Theatre in 1904. Yeats was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1923 and died in 1939 age seventy-three. \n\n\n\nAt Summer’s End \n\n\n\nWritten by Féilim James \n\n\n\nDirected by Eric Weitz \n\n\n\nPerformed by Carla Ryan \n\n\n\nThis dramatic monologue is told from the perspective of a Jewish-Irish citizen murdered in the Holocaust. Her name was Ettie Steinberg (1914-42). We learn how at a young age her family left Eastern Europe for Dublin\, before love led her away to the European mainland. This by turns tender and harrowing portrait of love\, loss\, and the brutality of war tells one ordinary woman’s extraordinary\, and often forgotten\, story. \n\n\n\nPoem: Ná déanaimis dearmad/Let Us Not Forget by Áine Ní Ghlinn performed by Rob Harrington \n\n\n\nArtist Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan\n\n\n\n\n\nCarla Ryan is an actor\, singer and songwriter from Meath. She trained in TU Dublin’s Conservatory of Music and Drama and Columbia College Chicago studying Drama (Performance). She has been working with Smashing Times as an actor since 2016. Professional acting credits include Ettie in At Summers End\, Nadine in Shadow of My Soul and Grace Gifford in Grace and Joe. Her performance of Grace and Joe for Constance and Her Friends by Mary Moynihan was hand selected by President Michael D. Higgins to be shown at Áras an Uachtarain for Culture Night 2016. \n\n\n\nCarla is one half of the alt-pop duo ELKIN. Carla and best friend\, Ellen were writing and singing together from the age of 15 before taking their music to a new level as ELKIN. Drawing inspiration from the likes of Joni Mitchell the duo began writing and performing folk-pop\, but it wasn’t until they began working with producer lullahush that ELKIN blended their love of thought-provoking folk lyrics with fierce alt-pop production. ELKIN have played at venues and festivals across Ireland including Longitude and Electric Picnic.  Following the release of debut single Paro\, ELKIN were named as one of State.ie’s Faces of 2018.  Their debut EP\, Bad Habits\, was released in May 2018. In February 2019\, ELKIN released a new single Green Eyes\, a collaboration with Æ MAK producer lullahush. In 2020 the duo were awarded funding from The First Music Contact Recording Stimulus Grant to record their debut EP Instant Hit\, set for release early 2022. \n\n\n\nELKIN draw influence from the R’n’B\, pop\, indie and folk worlds. With bassist Peter and guitarist Conor of Hatchlings\, plus drummer Rob\, “the band display an eclectic mix of R&B\, pop and hip-hop beats\, bolstered by alternating female vocals and smooth guitars.” Stephen Porzio\, Hot Press. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob Harrington\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\n\n\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler is Company Manager and a Producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Freda has worked with Smashing Times since 1999. She is highly skilled in project management\, coordination and implementation. She has extensive experience working at a European level developing and delivering a range of European Initiatives\, collaborating with over 50 cultural\, educational and civil society organisations from over 22 European Countries. Promoting European Values through working on activities and projects that promote human rights\, gender equality\, positive mental health\, remembrance and civic engagement. \n\n\n\nShe has worked developing and coordinating accredited training programmes\,  professional productions\, and community exchanges using creative methods to  promote peace building and reconciliation on the island of Ireland.  Working particularly with hard to reach communities in Northern Ireland and the Border Counties building strong community relations. Freda has been instrumental in bringing the learning gained from the Northern Ireland Peace Process to communities experiencing conflict in other European states. She has produced and toured a number of professional performances in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is coordinator of the award winning\, Acting For The Future programme that uses drama and theatre to promote positive mental health and suicide prevention\, which was developed and run in association with the Samaritans and the Irish Association of Suicidology throughout the island of Ireland. As part of her work for Smashing Times she is responsible for all aspects of management and project development and is also involved in teaching practice. \n\n\n\nShe has extensive experience in team management through her work with Smashing Times as a manager and as a manager and Employment Assessment Coordinator for a Working Skills Centre in Toronto\, Canada. Her experience in Canada focused mainly on refugee resettlement\, managing initiatives funded through the federal government of Canada. Her education includes a Bachelor in Social Work (2007) from the Open University and in 2012 she completed an MEd from the National University of Ireland/UCD. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\n\n\n\n\n\nCiara Hayes a producer with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and the coordinator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Ciara Hayes is a graduate of UCC with an MA in Arts Management and Creative Producing. She also holds a teaching diploma from the London College of Music in Drama and Communication\, and a BA Joint Hons in Drama and Theatre Studies with German. She has a background in theatre and worked for several years as a drama teacher\, later becoming a teacher of social skills for children on the autism spectrum.  \n\n\n\nIn 2016 Ciara branched into arts administration while working with Cyclone Rep; a Cork-based Shakespearean Theatre-in-Education company. In 2017 she took on the role of stage school coordinator at Konfident Kidz\, where she was responsible for the day to day running of the stage school reporting directly to the company’s director. During this time\, she assisted in the organisation of Ireland’s first ever all-autistic conference; AUsome Conference. \n\n\n\nSince completing her Masters in 2020\, Ciara has worked as a producer and festival administrator for Half Moon Festival (Cork\, 2020) and Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival (Dublin\, 2020). She works as Communications Officer at Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and as producer for Gaitkrash Theatre Company. \n\n\n\nArts Administration experience includes: Konfident Kidz\, teacher and Stage School Manager (2014-2017); Cyclone Rep Theatre-in-Education Company\, administrator (2016)\, Smashing Times\, Communications Officer (2020-present). \n\n\n\nProducing credits include: Half Moon Festival – multidisciplinary\, online arts festival (July 2020). Earthangel – online production of aural recording\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (November 2020). playing ‘The Maids’ – online sharing of recorded theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company (December 2020). Love and Information\, online showing of filmed theatre performance\, MTU BA Theatre and Drama Studies (February 2021). Prometheus Now\, online theatre performance\, Gaitkrash Theatre Company as part of Cork Midsummer Festival (June 2021). \n\n\n\nActing credits include: Liverpool\, Mint Productions (2019); Little Gem\, Dramat (2016)\, awarded Best Actress; The Circle Game\, BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2016); The Importance of Being Ernest\, Dramat (2015); Trojan Woman: A Love Story¸ BA Drama and Theatre Studies (2014). \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFeilim James\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz\n\n\n\n\n\nEric Weitz is Associate Director of the Gaiety School of Acting: The National Theatre School of Ireland and Adjunct Associate Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Trinity College Dublin\, having previously served in the TCD Drama Department as Convenor for the Bachelor in Acting Studies and Head of Drama. \n\n\n\nEric is currently Book Review Editor for Humor\, the scholarly journal for the International Society for Humor Studies; he sits on the International Advisory Board for the European Journal of Humour Research and the Hungarian Journal for English and American Studies. He is series co-editor of the recently published Bloomsbury Cultural History of Comedy (Methuen\, 2020) and contributor of the Vol. 6 chapter\, ‘Laughter in the Modern Age’; he is co-editor and contributor for the Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Irish Theatre & Performance (2018). His single-author works include Theatre & Laughter (2016) and the Cambridge Introduction to Comedy (2009)\, plus widely cited articles in books and journals. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\n\n\n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn is a lecturer\, journalist and writer. She has a BA (Irish and English) and a HDip in Education from University College\, Dublin\, a Diploma in Journalism from the London School of Journalism\, and an MA in Creative Writing from Lancaster University. She has written over thirty books – including four collections of poetry and an array of books for teenagers and young people. \n\n\n\nShe spent some years as a secondary-school teacher but resigned her position to become a journalist at RTÉ and Raidió na Gaeltachta. She worked on both current affairs and magazine programmes and the two she enjoyed most of all were the arts programmes\, Leabhragán and Ar an Ardán\, on Raidió na Gaeltachta. She also spent some time as a freelance journalist in London and in Ireland and she was frequently heard on It Says in the Papers on RTÉ Radio and on Raidió na Gaeltachta. \n\n\n\nShe left RTÉ to spent a few years lecturing at FIONTAR in Dublin City University. However\, she wanted to spend more time writing and later became a full-time writer; writing children’s books and scripts for Ros na Rún\, TG4. At present\, she shares her time between writing and lecturing at the Church of Ireland College of Education in Dublin and writing workshops in Irish-language secondary schools. \n\n\n\nShe has won many awards for her work. Céard tá sa bhosca? (An Gúm\, 2002) won the Gradam Chlann Lir in 2003. She won the Irish-language prize at the Strokestown poetry festival in 2003\, the Irish-language prize at the Dun Laoghaire / Rathdown poetry competition in 2003\, as well as the Foras na Gaeilge Award at Seachtain na Scríbhneoirí in Listowel in 2002. She was awarded an Oireachtas prizes for her books Fuadach (Cois Life\, 2005) Tromluí (Cois Life\, 2009) and Úbalonga (An Gúm\, 2009). Brionglóidí & aistir eile (Cló Mhaigh Eo\, 2008) was shortlisted for the Bisto prize and she won an IBBY award in 2010. In 2012\, she won an Oireachtas prize for her plays for children and her novel for teenagers\, Daideo (Cois Life\, 2014) was also awarded an Oireachtas prize in 2013. The same book was named Book of the Year for young people\, 2014\, Gradam Réics Carló. She was awarded Gradam Réics Carló again a couple of years later for her novel Hata zú Mhamó (Cois Life\, 2016). \n\n\n\nHer story ‘Boscadán’ was awarded top prize for children’s stories at Comórtais Liteartha an Oireachtais 2017\, and Cois Life published the subsequent book in 2019: Boscadán. LeabhairCOMHAR published in 2018 a collection (Fadó Riamh… Ag an Tús) which brings together stories from diverse cultures representing the rich tradition of mythology surrounding the creation of the world. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett\n\n\n\n\n\nEadaoin Barrett is a graduate from TU Dublin in Creative Industries and Visual Culture and The Gaiety School of Acting’s full time professional actor training. She has worked in theatre in Ireland as an actor\, director\, and producer. Eadaoin joined Smashing Times in July as their administration and communication officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights Workshop Programme
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\, actor\, choreographer and facilitator with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland \n\n\n\nVanessa Ogida\, Creative Entrepreneur \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times artists and facilitators Michael McCabe and  Vanessa Ogida facilitate energetic arts-based workshops with secondary school students from across Dublin on the themes of the arts\, climate justice and human rights.. The workshops have been designed by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality artists Michael McCabe\, Mary Moynihan\, Ciara Hayes and Vanessa Oggida and use theatre and drama techniques to explore climate change\, climate justice and biodiversity. The workshops are supported by Concern and WorldWise Global Schools. The workshops are conducted as part of a year-long programme called Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – see further information below. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights – A Creative approach to Climate Action\n\n\n\n“There is a magic machine that sucks carbon out of the air\, costs very little\, and builds itself. It’s called a tree.” \n\n\n\nGeorge Monbiot\, Author \n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights \, led by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and film-maker\, uses the arts\, social media and new digital technologies to promote intersections between human rights\, arts\, technology\, climate justice  and global citizenship education. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with Irish Aid World Wise Global Schools\, Concern\, Front Line Defenders and partners from across Europe supported by Erasmus+. The project is implemented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Concern with schools and the general public and results in the collaborative design and creation of an online ‘Creative Eco-Centre’. The project involves a collaboration between artists\, young people and the general public. \n\n\n\nThe aim is to create a vision and design for\, and to bring to life in virtual format\, a  unique Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights. A series of artworks are developed as artists and partner organisations work with young people in order to create a national Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights.  \n\n\n\nWhat would such a centre look like\, where would it live and what will it achieve? All questions to be answered by young people working with artists and partner organisations\, coming together to create a collective vision for a Creative Eco-Centre for the Arts\, Climate Justice and Human Rights to be presented for the 2022 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is  housed  online as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Centre funded by the Arts Council.  This  is an online 3-D gallery space dedicated to the arts and human rights.  The online centre has a series of ‘virtual’ galleries or exhibition sites such as the Arts and Human Rights gallery; the Arts and Peace Gallery and the Creative Eco-Centre. \n\n\n\nThe Creative Eco-Centre is an innovative\, online space with an online exhibition  and associated information created by students working with  artists and facilitators to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  The centre has an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. \n\n\n\nThe virtual centre contains a gallery space with artworks and images from artists and young people; an information and Education hub with content from Smashing Times\, Concern and from students on global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights and access to online training; and a social media space for youth. The Creative Eco-Centre will feature an online exhibition  created by the students working with theatre practitioner and facilitator Michael McCabe to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights.  \n\n\n\nA real site for Smashing Times and the centre is an aim to be worked on throughout 2022.  Young people work with artists and facilitators on the overall design of the online Creative Eco-Centre with content provided by the young people with support from the artists and partner organisations. The aim is to create an online Creative Eco-Centre with a visual art and poetry exhibition using the arts to promote climate justice with input from young people in terms of design and content and to raise awareness of the Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival with young people\, encouraging students to engage in creative arts practice exploring links between social activism\, climate justice\, development education and human rights on a local and global scale. \n\n\n\nCreative Workshop Programme \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are working with schools in Ireland and schools in an African Nation using creative processes\, new digital technologies and social media activism to engage the students in the collaborative design of a ‘Creative Eco-Centre’ exploring global citizenship education and Climate Justice linked to Human Rights to be housed on the new online Smashing Times virtual arts space. Our aim is to work with students from  January to December  2022\, supporting the students to firstly create  visual designs and ideas for what they want the new Creative Eco-Centre to look like and secondly to create content for the Creative Eco-Centre\, an online exhibition  created by the students working with an artist and facilitator to highlight global citizenship\, climate justice and human rights. \n\n\n\nCreative Eco-Performance \n\n\n\nGathering on the Pond is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for families that is fun\, magical and sparking. A theatricality staged fusion of story\, colourful costumes and fun moments intersected with dialogue\, and song on science\, community connections and the environment\, and a love of dreams! \n\n\n\nProfessor Magpie Lovelace arrives in a panic. She is a scientist who loves birds and music. It’s her first day in her new role as Choir Director and she’s late. Well\, she travelled there on the infamous number 46a  bus\, so say no more. Her choir\, The Rockin’ Robins\, have been singing the same old tired tunes for years now and with the Dawn Chorus Competition fast approaching Professor Magpie\, our Professor of Ornithology\, wants to try something new. She loves birds\, they speak to her and she understands their harmonies and melodies which are full of passion. But their future is bleak and under threat! Professor Magpie wishes to create\, with the help of her choir\, a song that will teach future generations to respect our feathered friends and keep their future safe.  A young scientist\, a bus conductor\, the dawn chorus and big dreams!  And especially . . .  the right to dream of a better world! What will happen next?  The play provides information on  climate change linked to concepts of justice\, equality\, diversity and human rights and raises awareness of  social activism amongst young people\, all displayed in a fun and entertaining way. \n\n\n\nThis theatre performance for all ages highlights our local Irish wildlife\, along with simple steps that we can all take to protect it. Based on themes of sustainability and promoting women in STEM\, ‘Gathering on the Pond’ uses music\, songs and lots of sparkle to engage with younger audiences.  Written by Aoife Reilly\, Mary Moynihan and Michael McCabe\, and based on an original scenario by Mary Moynihan\, Gathering on the Pond makes complex themes accessible to audiences of all ages\, and use creative processes of music\, song and dance for a fun and engaging theatre experience.  \n\n\n\nSpeaker and Artist Biographies\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe\n\n\n\n\n\nMichael McCabe is a performer\, theatre director\, movement choreographer\, facilitator and arts therapist. He is a graduate of the prestigious Ecole Internationale de Theatre Jacques Lecoq\, Paris\, France\, and The Gaiety School of Acting\, Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nHis theatre appearances include The Drowning Room (Project Arts Centre)\, Borstal Boy\, The Risen People (The Gaiety Theatre)\, A Christmas Carol\, The Ginger Ale Boy (Corcadorca Theatre Company)\, Lives Worth Living (Graffiti Theatre Company)\, Good Evening Mr Joyce (Samuel Beckett Centre)\, Diarmuid agus Grainne\, An Bradan Feasa\, The Libertine\, New World Order (Iomha Illdanach Theatre Company)\, Promises\, Promises  (Project Arts Centre)\, A Day With Daghdha (Daghdha Dance Company)\, Macbeth\, Six Characters in Search for an Author\, St. Joan\, Ariel (all at the Abbey Theatre)\, Wheel\, Jeckyll and Hyde (Dublin and Prague Fringe Festivals)\, Resist /Surrender (Dublin Dance Festival)\, and Where The Shoe Pinches (The Pavilion Theatre). He was clown co-ordinator for 35 clowns and appeared in Barabbas Theatre Company’s production\, City of Clowns\, at the Dunamaise\, Junction and Eargail Arts Festivals\, and The Complex\, Smithfield and appeared in Pagliacci at The Everyman Place Theatre\, as part of Cork Midsummer Festival. \n\n\n\nHis television and film appearances include Aristocrats (BBC)\, Ireland:1848\, (RTE)\, Window (IFI)\, All God’s Children (RTE/IFI)\, Nationwide (RTE). In 2021\, Michael will appear in Bean Sidhe\, Sweetcake\, and Sodium Party\, a new feature film directed by Michael McCudden. \n\n\n\nDirecting credits include: The Dead Woman’s Son (Smock Alley Theatre)\, A Wonderful Life\, Peter Pan’s Cirque D’Imaginaire (TU Dublin Theatre)\, Showcases 2017-2019 (The New Theatre) and in 2020\, The Grimm Tales (Smock Alley Theatre). Recent appearances include Footfalls\, The Journey Home\, and in Mermaid Arts Centre for Culture night on a work-in-progress\, His Left\, Her Right\, supported by Mermaid and Wicklow Arts Office. \n\n\n\nMichael has an M.A. (Honours) in Dramatherapy from the National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, an M.A. in Modern Drama Studies from University College Dublin\, and a B.A. (Honours) in Communication Studies from Dublin City University. He has directed theatre work in the HSE\, the Dyspraxia Association of Ireland\, Trinity College Dublin\, St. Michael’s house\, and with other special needs organisations and schools with a focus on developing the potential of theatre for working with diverse groups. \n\n\n\nMichael has been working as a Movement Director\, teaching extensive movement classes for actors at the Conservatory of Music and Drama\, TU Dublin\, the National Association of Youth Drama\, Ringsend Institute\, the Department of Performing Arts\, Bray Institute of Further Education\, and The Gaiety School of Acting (full time course). \n\n\n\nMichael is a resident artist with Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works with Smashing Times as a performer\, director and arts facilitator on a range of projects from Acting for the Future to Legends of the Great Birth to State of the Art.  His theatre company\, Ruaille Buaille\, is building a physical theatre ensemble style based on the techniques of Jacques Lecoq\, Anne Bogart\, and Arianne Mouchkine. Michael was movement director on The Merchant of Venice\, at Mermaid Arts Centre\, and on the world premiere of Guerilla Days in Ireland World premier in Cork last year\, due to open in The Olympia Theatre\, Dublin on September 3rd. \n\n\n\nMichael is a graduate of National University of Ireland\, Maynooth\, (M.A. Dramatherapy\, 2.1 Honours)\, and was awarded a scholarship to train with internationally renowned theatre director Anne Bogart in New York. Bursary awards include South Dublin County Council\, Irish Actors Equity\, and The Arts Council.      \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, (she/her)\, MA\, is an award-winning writer\, director\, theatre and film-maker\, an interdisciplinary artist and one of Ireland’s most innovative arts and human rights artists creating work to promote the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality\, diversity and peace.  \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and works  collaboratively with artists and over 50 organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all.   Company patrons of Smashing Times are Sabina Coyne Higgins\, Senator Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House\, Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards including the Allianz Business to Arts Awards\, a GSK Ireland Impact Award\, a Dublin Bus Community Spirit Award\, a National Lottery Good Cause Award\, the international #ArtsAgainstCovid award\, an Arts Council Project Award and an Arts Council Agility Award. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders in partnership with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\,  NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire and Poetry Ireland\, funded by The Arts Council. The aim of the festival is to showcase and highlight the extraordinary work of human rights defenders in Ireland and around the world\, past and present\, and the role of the arts and artists in promoting human rights today. \n\n\n\nMary’s artistic practice encompasses theatre\, film\, literature\, poetry\, and curatorship. Mary’s work focuses on primal\, visceral and intuitive responses to vulnerability and conflict and an exploration of self and the other. Her work explores an interconnectedness of the body\, voice and imagination\, revealing the inner life through physical and spiritual energies and intuitive engagements. Mary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks across a range of mediums\, remembering stories of ordinary yet powerful women and men from history and today who stood up for the rights of others. \n\n\n\nAs a playwright\, Mary’s work includes the highly acclaimed The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII co-written with Paul Kennedy\, Fiona Thompson and Féilim James;  A Beauty that will Pass; Constance and Her Friends – selected by President Michael D. Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin for Culture Night 2016;  In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); and Shadow of My Soul\, May Our Faces Haunt You and Silent Screams.  \n\n\n\nMary’s film work includes the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows\, the short film Tell Them Our Names\, inspired by women’s stories of WWII and selected for the London Eye International Film Festival and Kerry Film Festival\, the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe and the short film Courageous Women inspired by powerful women’s stories from the 1916 to 1923 decade of commemorations period in Irish history.   \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/arts-climate-justice-and-human-rights-workshop-programme/2022-10-21/
LOCATION:dlr Lexicon Black Box Studio\, Queen’s Road\, Dun Laoghaire\, Queen's Road Dun Laoghaire\, Dublin
CATEGORIES:Workshop,Youth Event
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SUMMARY:Ecopoetry and Ecojustice: A Holistic Human Rights Consciousness
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDeclan Owens\, CEO of Ecojustice Ireland and Ecojustice Legal Action Centre\, Facilitator \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nPoets throughout history and in various cultures have advanced our understanding of what it means to be human through using Nature as a poetic device.  Under the Anthropocene and the so-called Enlightenment\, there has been a separation between humanity and Nature where the environment has been objectified and considered as an externality for capitalist extraction.  The concept of the Rights of Nature and the links within this framework to the human right to a safe\, clean\, healthy and sustainable environment becomes more evident through a poetic framework. Declan will explore the themes that can lead to an awakening of human consciousness of our place and role on the planet.   \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDeclan Owens is CEO of Ecojustice Ireland and Ecojustice Legal Action Centre after previously working as a strategic campaigning lawyer in the Trade Union Law Group of Thompsons Solicitors\, the UK’s foremost social justice firm working in the field of workers’ rights and trade union law.  He formerly worked for the International Centre for Trade Union Rights\, the legal department of the International Trade Union Confederation (observing the early work of the Just Transition Centre) and the Bureau for Workers’ Activities of the International Labour Organisation (developing a trade union strategy for the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals).  He is Co-chair of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in the UK\, articulating the need for system change for climate justice to its membership. \n\n\n\n Declan represented some of the largest unions in the UK\, including Unite\, Unison\, the National Union of Journalists and the Public & Commercial Services Union (the largest civil service union in the UK).  He has developed a climate justice strategy premised on using the latent power of the union movement to lead a ‘Just Transition’.  To this end\, Declan is a leading campaigner in the Campaign Against Climate Change Trade Union Group\, and is the Irish coordinator of the Climate Justice Coalition. He is the Haldane Society’s Bureau member for the International Association of Democratic Lawyers and is the Irish expert adviser to the UN’s Harmony with Nature Agency. Declan is on the Steering Group of the Greener Jobs Alliance\, the Climate Justice group of the Law Society of Northern Ireland\, and the Environmental Task Force of Unite the Union.   \n\n\n\n Declan is embedded in his community of Dundrum\, County Down\, working with the Environmental Justice Network Ireland on a range of issues and has also recently qualified as a mediator with Mediation NI. He is active in the Dolmens Climate Action Network in County Down\, which is part of Climate Action Network International. He works with the European Lawyers for Workers Network and the European Lawyers for Democracy and Human Rights. Declan has recently set up a Climate Justice branch for Unite the Union’s Community membership to link communities and workers to explore the need for a Just Transition.  Declan is also a director of the social enterprise\, Climate Craic CIC\, which uses fun and festivals to convey a positive and inclusive approach to ecojustice.   \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/ecopoetry-and-ecojustice-a-holistic-human-rights-consciousness/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Workshop
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SUMMARY:Writing a Protest Song!
DESCRIPTION:Culture Night 2025 – Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMemorial Monologues: The Path of Memory\, Part 2 by Mary Moynihan is scripted from the words and stories of five brave and inspirational human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nTickets are free\, register here \n\n\n\nFacilitator\n\n\n\nColm Quearney \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSongs and music have played a powerful role in human rights movements\, giving a universal voice\, crossing barriers and promoting unity and equality. \n\n\n\nAt this workshop\, we will look at the history of these protest songs\, and draw on their key themes to create our own songs relevant to today’s (your) generation. \n\n\n\nNo previous songwriting experience is required. However\, feel free to bring along any instruments or lyrical ideas you might have!  This workshop is for young people ages 13 to 17 years. All welcome to attend. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFighting Words\n\n\n\n \nThe workshop is hosted by Fighting Words\, a partner in the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Fighting Words offer a wide range of workshops\, all of which are designed to promote creativity and writing as a fun and powerful means of self-expression. \n  \nFighting Words is a creative writing organisation and registered charity that provides free workshops and other programmes for young people aged 6-17\, as well as for adults with additional needs.  \n  \nOur programmes are designed and run by our staff and team of writing mentors\, including experienced practitioners in all areas of creative writing – from prose to poetry\, from songwriting to playwriting and everything in between. Workshops are interactive and fun with an emphasis on providing individual support and encouragement as young writers explore their imaginations. \nAll  workshops at Fighting Words are run by teams of volunteer writing mentors\, supervised by Fighting Words staff using our fun and interactive formats. Specialist workshops are delivered by experienced practitioners in a variety of fields\, such as playwriting\, graphic fiction\, short stories and more.All programming is focused on supporting children and young people to tell their own stories in their own voice and at their own pace. There is never a focus on spelling or grammar. The content is decided by the participants\, with advice and guidance from the Fighting Words team. \nThe ’Writing a Protest Song workshop is facilitated by Colm Quearney\, Development and Outreach Officer at Fighting Words.  Colm is a professional musician\, music producer\, song writer and workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nColm Quearney\n\n\n\n\n\nColm has worked as a professional songwriter and musician since the age of 17. Colm has toured the world with various bands and has had international record deals. Since his early twenties he has worked with a variety of youth services setting up and delivering music programs that have culminated in music composition\, performances and recording sessions. Between 2011 and 2018 Colm worked as head of the songwriting department at BIMM Dublin (British & Irish Modern Music Institute). Colm has been a volunteer with Fighting Words since 2010 where his key role was to develop free songwriting programs for groups of all ages. Colm now works for Fighting Words as Development and Outreach Officer. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/writing-a-protest-song-2/
LOCATION:Fighting Words\, Behan Square\, 12-16 Russell Street\, Dublin 1\, D01 WD53
CATEGORIES:Music,Workshop
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