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SUMMARY:Belonging: A Smashing Times Poetry Day Ireland Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography \n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times are delighted to present Belonging\, an open poetry session and artist talk taking place on Thursday 28 May\, 12am-2pm\, at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, as part of the Poetry Day Ireland celebrations.   Belonging features poetry readings by writer and poet Mary Moynihan and invited guest artists\, on themes of home\, nature and belonging\, and a curated artist talk by Mary Moynihan on the poems that inspired the artworks in her powerful multidisciplinary exhibition From the Forest to the Ocean\, currently on display at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery. Bringing together photography\, poetry\, and film\, this multidisciplinary exhibition draws inspiration from the physical landscapes of nature and the deep interconnectedness of life — from forests to the ocean.  \n\n\n\nBelonging is a session of poetry\, fun and chat taking place onsite at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery. All welcome. If you wish to read a poem on the day\, please get in touch with Ciara at admin@smashingtimes.ie. Poetry Day Ireland is an annual island-wide celebration of poetry organised by Poetry Ireland\, taking place on Thursday 28 May 28 2026\, with the theme ‘Home’.  Presented as part of the European project WE AREurope\, exploring shared European values of human dignity\, freedom\, democracy\, equality\, diversity\, human rights\, gender equality\, and peace. Supported by Erasmus+. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to writing and creating art and photography. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nMary is an interdisciplinary artist and  regularly creates artworks that fuse photographic imagery\, poetical texts and film\, many of which are inspired by landscapes and seascapes especially of the seas and oceans around Ireland. In her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \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/belonging-a-smashing-times-poetry-day-ireland-celebration/
LOCATION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:Belonging: Three-Day Creative Arts Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSmashing Times never want ticket price to be a barrier to participation. Email admin@smashingtimes.ie to book a free place. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nEnjoy a three-day Creative Arts Workshop to meet with other women; to explore themes of nature\, belonging and a shared European identity and to take part in an open ‘Poetry Day’ at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery to celebrate Poetry Day Ireland. The workshop runs on Tuesday 26 May\, 9.30-12.30\, Wednesday 27 May 11-2pm and Thursday 28 May 11-2pm (3 hours per day)\, with the third day presented as an Open Poetry Session and Artist talk titled Belonging and open to the public.  \n\n\n\nGuided by methods and artworks on display from Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland and Théâtre & Réconciliation\, Brussels\, Belgium\, participants share reflections on identity\, migration and belonging\, engage in poetical expression in celebration of Poetry Day Ireland\, and create a space for shared experiences and diverse voices to connect. On days one and two\, the workshop involves drama games and exercises\, discussion and chat. Wear practical clothing for active participation. No experience necessary.  On the third and final day\, we present Belonging\, an open session of poetry readings and artist talk by Mary Moynihan\, for the Poetry Day Ireland celebrations.   Workshop participants attend the open poetry event and can become involved as a ‘Welcome Guide’ inviting people into the space or can read a poem (to be confirmed as part of the workshop process) or simply attend and enjoy the celebrations. See further details on the public event below. \n\n\n\nAs part of the workshop participants have the opportunity to meet with international theatre and arts practitioner Frédérique Lecomte\, founder\, CEO and artistic director of Théâtre et Réconciliation located in Brussels\, Belgium. Frédérique is an award-winning internationally recognised artist and creator who has developed her own theatrical techniques for over 40 years. She has worked with vulnerable populations both in conflict zones (the Great Lakes region of Africa) and in Belgium. Her Théâtre et Réconciliation method\, named after the theatre company\, she founded\, brings together creative and methodological tools for developing theatrical productions quickly\, enabling her to achieve results in a short space of time\, thanks in particular to her unique technique of live staging. For her work\, she received the 2018 Woman of Peace Award in Belgium. Frédérique Lecomte has given numerous training courses\, masterclasses and lectures at universities across Europe and around the world. \n\n\n\nThe three-day workshop is facilitated by artist Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet and creator of art and photography. Mary is a professional artist and Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Artistic Curator for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nPresented as part of the European project WE AREurope\, exploring shared European values of human dignity\, freedom\, democracy\, equality\, diversity\, human rights\, gender equality\, and peace. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to writing and creating art and photography. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nMary is an interdisciplinary artist and  regularly creates artworks that fuse photographic imagery\, poetical texts and film\, many of which are inspired by landscapes and seascapes especially of the seas and oceans around Ireland. In her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nWE AREurope: Theatre\, Identity and European Values\n\n\n\nThe WE AREurope – Women Empowering\, Allying\, and Reinventing Europe on Stage project – funded by Erasmus+\, is a collaborative initiative between Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland and Théâtre & Réconciliation\, Brussels\, Belgium that uses theatre and creative arts to support the inclusion and empowerment of women from migrant communities across Europe. The project raises awareness of shared European values\, identifies recommendations and modes of action to facilitate the inclusion of women from migrant and ethnic minority communities in Europe\, and promotes learning opportunities for all citizens and generations through creativity\, the arts and culture. Read more about the project here. \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/belonging-three-day-creative-arts-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:CAS – Festival Musical Finale
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nCAS – Sebastian Luthers\, Carol Scott\, and Andy McMenamin \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nJoin us for the grand closing celebration of the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival with an unforgettable evening of music\, conversation and refreshments.  Enjoy a fantastic and vibrant evening of music with CAS – the acclaimed trio of Sebastian Luthers\, Carol Scott\, and Peter Gallagher. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes ranging from Connaught to Auvergne\, CAS weaves intricate melodies and spirited rhythms into their music\, creating a unique sound with a blend of original and traditional Irish music that is both authentic and fresh. Catch CAS – Sebastian on fiddle and Carol on flute – live in studio on the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show (broadcast 19 & 25 February 2025) here  \n\n\n\nDrawing inspiration from the landscapes and legends ranging from Connaught to Auvergne\, CAS weaves intricate melodies and spirited rhythms into our music\, creating a sound that is both authentic and fresh. Whether performing in intimate venues or on grand stages\, our dynamic performances never fail to enrapture audiences and leave them wanting more. Join us on a musical journey through Celtic and Medieval soundscapes and share our unique blend of original compositions and traditional airs. \n\n\n\nFollow CAS on Facebook here \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFormed in 2023 at the Joe Mooney Festival in Drumshanbo\, Co. Leitrim\, CAS brings together the artistry of Sebastian Luthers\, Carol Scott\, and Peter Gallagher. In just two years\, they’ve become a standout trio on the Irish and international music scene. Drawing inspiration from the landscapes ranging from Connaught to Auvergne\, CAS weaves intricate melodies and spirited rhythms into their music\, creating a unique sound with a blend of original and traditional Irish music that is both authentic and fresh. In 2025\, Sebastian Luthers released his acclaimed new album The Lost Violin\, featuring original compositions recorded with CAS members Carol Scott and Andy McMenamin and with collaborator Nico Contamine. \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\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:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan\, live performances at The Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham and the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Sandycove
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nWhat Audiences Say about The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan: ‘’Incredible show\, wonderful performers”\, “An immersive experience that brought the history of Ireland alive”\, “Wonderful performers\, beautiful movement and storytelling”. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nAoife Kavanagh\, Actor \n\n\n\nAnna Fitzgerald\, Actor \n\n\n\nElizabeth Moynihan\, Director \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n“Incredible show\, wonderful performers” \n\n\n\n“An immersive experience that brought the history of Ireland alive”“Wonderful performers\, beautiful movement and storytelling” \n\n\n\nThe Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan\, is a live\, immersive\, multidisciplinary performance blending theatre\, poetry and movement\, to celebrate the beauty of trees and forests\, the importance of biodiversity\, and our connections to nature. It beautifully intertwines performance art with environmental themes and Celtic traditions. The Art of Trees invites us to walk in nature\, to leave behind a world filled with straight lines\, computer screens\, concrete blocks\, and clock time\, to explore why tree cover in Ireland has fallen so low\, and to reflect on the role trees play in our ecosystem. Audiences are invited to join us as we walk through history and nature and rediscover the magic of woodlands. \n\n\n\nFollowing an international tour to Athens\, Greece; Frankfurt\, Germany and Saville\, Spain\, The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan returns to Dublin due to popular demand  for nine performances only. Seven outdoors performances take place at The Pearse Museum and Saint Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5 from 15 to 18 October 2025 – on Wednesday 15 October 10am and 12pm; Thursday 16 October 10am and 12pm; Friday 17 October 10am and 12pm; and Saturday 18 October 1pm. The Meeting Point is outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nTwo indoor performances take place at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1 on Saturday 18 October\, 7.30pm and Sunday 19 October\, 2pm. Tickets €15/10. \n\n\n\nNature is in trouble. Ireland has declared a climate and a biodiversity emergency. As President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins said if we were coal miners we would be up to our knees in dead canaries. Despite our green image we need to do more. Ireland has lost many of its native woods. It is estimated that only eleven per cent of Ireland is currently under forest cover\, much lower than most European countries. Finland for example has over 70 percent forest cover while Spain has over 35 percent. How can we celebrate the life of woodlands and connect more with nature\, to support the planet that gives us life and sustains us? What can we do to stop the felling and destruction of trees? \n\n\n\nIn the performance\, Brigid of Kildare\, patron saint of Ireland has returned from the past. She invites us to join her in the forest and enter the world of trees.  Brigid takes us on a journey through the history of trees from the Ice Age to present times\, exploring how forests have changed over thousands of years. Listen to stories about the ancient\, sacred trees of Ireland such as oak\, ash\, birch\, hazel and hawthorn and explore the wonders of a Celtic tradition of trees and forests where magic can happen. \n\n\n\nThe show is a theatrically staged fusion of theatre\, poetry\, story\, dance and music and is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for all ages that is fun\, magical and sparking\, exploring what can be done to save our sacred trees and ancient woods. \n\n\n\nThe Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan is part of The Trees Project: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Performing Arts\, a project led by Dah Theatre\, Serbia and supported by Creative Europe. www.performtrees.eu \n  \n\n\n\nL to R: Carmen Ortiz Victorino\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, and Carla Ryan in The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan\, in Athens\, Greece at the Fallen Trees Festival 2025\n\n\n\nThe Trees Project \n\n\n\nThe Trees project supported by Creative Europe is led by Dah Teatar\, Belgrade\, Serbia. The partners are Action Synergy SA\, Greece; Theatro Aeroploio – Ena Theatro Giapaidia\, Greece; Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Grenland Friteater AS\, Norway; Centro de Arte Producciones Teatrales SL\, Spain; Protagon – Freunde Und Foerderer Freier Theateraktion\, Germany and Stichting Zid\, Netherlands. \n\n\n\nAs part of the Trees project\, Smashing Times and partners are using creative processes and the performing arts to connect with citizens through a multi-disciplinary approach\, raising awareness of the importance of nature in our world today with a focus on bio-diversity and our connections to trees\, seas\, skies\, mountains and land.  As part of the Trees project artists from Smashing Times attended a Euroeso Conference on the 22 April 2024 in Belgrade\, Serbia and a Trees conference and training programme in Belgrade Serbia  from 23-28 April\, 2024. Two outreach community workshops on trees and environmental sustainability were conducted by artist Carmen Ortiz Victorino with local community participants in Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan was commissioned for The Trees project. The play creates an extraordinary atmosphere in nature’s setting as we reflect on the role of trees in our ecosystem\, the importance of nature in our lives today and themes of biodiversity\, climate preservation and climate change. Join us as we enjoy nature and explore how to be proactive in the face of climate change and making Europe climate friendly with a focus on biodiversity and the interconnectedness of the world around us. This project is open to all citizens\, communities and artists\, and to key stakeholders in the fields of theatre\, arts\, science\, environment\, education\, business and human rights.  \n\n\n\nIRISH AND EUROPEAN TOUR DATES: The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan enjoyed a successful run at The Pearse Museum\, St. Enda’s Park\, in October 2024\, as part of the annual Arts and Human Rights festival prior to bringing its powerful message to audiences across Europe as part of an international tour in 2025 to Athens\, Greece (July); Frankfurt\, Germany (August) and Saville\, Spain (October).  \n\n\n\nSmashing Times were delighted to perform The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan at the Fallen Trees festival in Veikou Park\, Athens\, Greece\, on 20 July 2025\, and at the Sommerwerft Festival at Weselerwerft\, Frankfurt\, Germany on 2 August 2025. Performers and artists on tour included Carmen Ortiz Victorino\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Carla Ryan\, Martin Shannon\, Hina Khan and Ciara Hayes. The performances took place outdoors enabling unique connection between the audiences and the theme of the importance of nature and biodiversity. The audience reception at both performances was fantastic\, with full house at each performance. Audience members enjoyed taking part in our ‘living artwork’ which is a piece of interactive visual art created by visual artist Hina Khan.   A partial image of a tree has been drawn on a large piece of paper which lays on the ground beside the performance.  Audiences are invited to add to the art work at the end of each performance. In this way\, the image grows at every show\, with input from people across Europe and Ireland. The show will tour to Seville\, Spain on the 9 October 2025 as part of the TREES Creative Europe project. \n\n\n\nFollowing the international tour to Athens\, Greece; Frankfurt\, Germany and Saville\, Spain\, The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan returns due to popular demand to The Pearse Museum and Saint Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5 for seven performances only from 15 to 18 October 2025 and to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, Sandycove\, for two performances only on Saturday 18 October\, 7.30pm and Sunday 19 October\, 2pm. Tickets €15/10 \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park was where Patrick Pearse lived and ran his innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna\, between 1910 to 1916. The Pearse Museum houses a fascinating exhibition on the life of Patrick and William Pearse who were both executed for their part in the 1916 Rising in Ireland. The museum showcases the historic house where Pearse\, his family and students once lived and worked. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Museum is situated within St Enda’s Park which covers nearly twenty hectares of attractive parkland in Rathfarnham\, Dublin. The park contains a wild river called Whitechurch Stream which joins the Owendoher river which flows into the river Dodder\, as well as forested areas with an abundance of trees including oak and hawthorn and a series of enchanting eighteenth and nineteenth century follies. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park is situated in Rathfarnham and is a designated National Historic Park run and maintained by the OPW. The park has many wonderful trees and they line the walls of the park and the avenues. One of the most common trees in the park is the Monterey Cypress which was planted along the avenues of the grounds. There are also Horse chestnut\, Sycamore\, Willow\, Larch\, Pine trees and Beech trees. Native Trees in the park include Yew\, Oak\, Ash\, Birch and Alder. Shrubs that are common in the park are Hawthorn which is important for birds nesting\, Holly and Laurel. \nShare your favourite Tree \nTell us about your favourite tree? Take a picture and send it in with ideally the name of the tree\, it’s location and a photograph. Even if you only have a photograph send it on and tell us what you enjoy about the tree.  Send it to admin@smashingtimes.ie \nThere are many famous trees in Ireland. We have hanging trees\, trees at holy wells\, trees associated with historic events and trees that are important to communities.  There is the ‘Hungry’ Tree at King’s Inns\, Dublin\, the tree appears to be eating or swallowing  a bench!  We have Lady Gregory’s famous ‘Autograph’ Tree at Coole Park in Galway. It is a copper beech signed by the writer W. B. Yeats and his brother the painter Jack\, and by writers such as George Bernard Shaw\, Sean O’Casey and other famous people. \nEnjoy the wide variety of wonderful trees at St Enda’s Park in Rathfarnham\, Dublin\,  including Monterey Cypress\, Horse chestnut\, Sycamore\, Willow\, Larch\, Pine trees and Beech and our native trees including Yew\, Oak\, Ash\, Birch and Alder. \nThe Social Life of Trees \n“A forest is much more than what you see\,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk\, often and over vast distances. Watch Suzanne’s Tedex talk to learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes. \n \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Fitzgerald is a creative writer\, performer\, drama teacher and accountant! She attended the Audrey Meredith School of Drama and completed the Irish Board of Speech and Drama Grade Exams\, Associate and the Licentiate Teaching Diplomas. In 2023\, she founded ‘Drama at the Harold’ and ‘Drama at Glasthule’. She is a member of Shifting Stages\, a newly founded collective of mothers and theatre makers\, dedicated to supporting each other’s practices. The collective evolved from ‘Waking the Feminists’ (WTF) movement in 2015 where artists questioned the role of women in Theatre in Ireland and ‘Mother Artist Makers’ (MAM) a collective of mothers in Irish theatre who advocate for career supports for creative practitioners with caring responsibilities and to promote family friendly arts practices.  She is working on her Irish Goddess collection of stories since developing the concept for her professional diploma in Innovation\, Creativity and Leadership in UCD in 2019. She performed original pieces from the Goddess Series during Culture Night 2023 and 2025 in the DLR Mill Theatre and the Lab\, Dublin City Arts Offices\, Foley Street.  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife Kavanagh is an actor based in Dublin and Kildare working throughout film and theatre. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2025 which a First Class Honours Degree in Drama and Theatre. Her love for performance has developed over many years\, from starting speech and drama classes at six years old\, as well as training in ballet and various other forms of dance. Her performance credits include Better Out Than In Campaign (Belong To Youth Services\, 2025)\, Evoe (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2025)\, CHAOS (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024)\, Pinstripe (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024)\, Until Death (Virgin Media\, 2022) and Hall of Healing (Kill Musical & Dramatic Society\, 2022). Aoife also has experience in stage management and costume design. Her costume credits include costume designer of No Exit (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2025)\, The Contest (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024) and assistant costume on Uncanny Valley (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2023). Her stage management credits include Sell By Date (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2025)\, Anna (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024) and This Too Shall Pass (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2023). \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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: Architecture and Activism. A guided tour and public talk at the Smashing Times Centre for the Arts and Human Rights at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are transforming a space at 30 Sandycove Road into the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a visual arts space and a Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights centre. The centre is open to citizens and communities and uses the arts to promote and advance equality\, human rights and diversity.   The talk will include an overview of how we have transformed the building into a cultural hub and what energy efficient designs were used. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission\, book here \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nAlan Farrelly\, Architect \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nCivic architecture refers to buildings and public spaces that serve the collective needs and values of a society. These structures are designed not just for function\, but to embody shared identity\, culture\, and democratic ideals.  Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are transforming a space at 30 Sandycove Road into the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality with a visual arts space and a Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights centre. The centre is open to citizens and communities and uses the arts to promote and advance equality\, human rights and diversity.   The new Smashing Times Centre which is devoted to the arts and human rights is a living example of civic architecture. It has a gallery and performance space and in the building we are creating a safe space for dialogue and expression\, offering a platform for diverse voices and promoting the space itself as a catalyst for change.  \n\n\n\nIn terms of  ‘future heritage’ we are transforming an existing space into an arts and human rights centre\, giving new life to the building. It is important to explore how buildings evolve while maintaining cultural value and what does future heritage mean today. \n\n\n\nIn partnership with  Open House 2025 we offer a guided tour and talk in the Smashing Times space.  We are inviting people into the space\, to look at the artworks and to listen to a talk on “Architecture and Activism: What values do we embed into the spaces we leave behind?”.  The talk explores how we are making innovative use of an intimate space in an inclusive\, accessible way and explores what future heritage looks like when it embeds a human rights approach reflecting on justice for all. The talk will include an overview of how we have transformed the building into a cultural hub and what energy efficient designs were used. \n\n\n\nThe building is located in Sandycove which is rich with a literary and historical legacy from James Joyce and the Martello Tower to coastal heritage. By embedding a contemporary\, purpose-driven centre into that landscape\, we are contributing to a layered cultural narrative of the area creating a dialogue between past stories of culture and rights link to actions for human rights today within the physical fabric of Dublin. \n\n\n\nThe tour and talk is open to people of all ages. \n\n\n\nOpen House Dublin\n\n\n\nThis event is presented as part of Open House Dublin\, a free festival of architecture taking place across the city and county from 11-19 October 2025. The festival offers a diverse and exciting range of building tours\, talks\, lectures\, workshops\, and a dedicated weekend for children and young people\, Open House Junior. Open House is intended to welcome people into buildings and spaces\, making architecture accessible and encouraging conversation and curiosity about the city and the built environment. This year\, as we celebrate the 20th edition of Open House Dublin\, our focus is on the theme of Future Heritage. This theme is shared by our Open House Europe colleagues in 2025. \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\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:The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan\, live performances at The Pearse Museum\, Rathfarnham and the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Sandycove
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\n What Audiences Say about The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan: ‘’Incredible show\, wonderful performers”\, “An immersive experience that brought the history of Ireland alive”\, “Wonderful performers\, beautiful movement and storytelling”. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nAoife Kavanagh\, Actor \n\n\n\nAnna Fitzgerald\, Actor \n\n\n\nElizabeth Moynihan\, Director \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n“Incredible show\, wonderful performers” \n\n\n\n“An immersive experience that brought the history of Ireland alive”“Wonderful performers\, beautiful movement and storytelling” \n\n\n\nThe Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan\, is a live\, immersive\, multidisciplinary performance blending theatre\, poetry and movement\, to celebrate the beauty of trees and forests\, the importance of biodiversity\, and our connections to nature. It beautifully intertwines performance art with environmental themes and Celtic traditions. The Art of Trees invites us to walk in nature\, to leave behind a world filled with straight lines\, computer screens\, concrete blocks\, and clock time\, to explore why tree cover in Ireland has fallen so low\, and to reflect on the role trees play in our ecosystem. Audiences are invited to join us as we walk through history and nature and rediscover the magic of woodlands. \n\n\n\nFollowing an international tour to Athens\, Greece; Frankfurt\, Germany and Saville\, Spain\, The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan returns to Dublin due to popular demand  for nine performances only. Seven outdoors performances take place at The Pearse Museum and Saint Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5 from 15 to 18 October 2025 – on Wednesday 15 October 10am and 12pm; Thursday 16 October 10am and 12pm; Friday 17 October 10am and 12pm; and Saturday 18 October 1pm. The Meeting Point is outside the entrance to Pearse Museum Reception. \n\n\n\nTwo indoor performances take place at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1 on Saturday 18 October\, 7.30pm and Sunday 19 October\, 2pm. Tickets €15/10. \n\n\n\nNature is in trouble. Ireland has declared a climate and a biodiversity emergency. As President of Ireland Michael D. Higgins said if we were coal miners we would be up to our knees in dead canaries. Despite our green image we need to do more. Ireland has lost many of its native woods. It is estimated that only eleven per cent of Ireland is currently under forest cover\, much lower than most European countries. Finland for example has over 70 percent forest cover while Spain has over 35 percent. How can we celebrate the life of woodlands and connect more with nature\, to support the planet that gives us life and sustains us? What can we do to stop the felling and destruction of trees? \n\n\n\nIn the performance\, Brigid of Kildare\, patron saint of Ireland has returned from the past. She invites us to join her in the forest and enter the world of trees.  Brigid takes us on a journey through the history of trees from the Ice Age to present times\, exploring how forests have changed over thousands of years. Listen to stories about the ancient\, sacred trees of Ireland such as oak\, ash\, birch\, hazel and hawthorn and explore the wonders of a Celtic tradition of trees and forests where magic can happen. \n\n\n\nThe show is a theatrically staged fusion of theatre\, poetry\, story\, dance and music and is a dazzling storytelling performance suitable for all ages that is fun\, magical and sparking\, exploring what can be done to save our sacred trees and ancient woods. \n\n\n\nThe Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan is part of The Trees Project: Raising Environmental Awareness Through Performing Arts\, a project led by Dah Theatre\, Serbia and supported by Creative Europe. www.performtrees.eu \n  \n\n\n\nL to R: Carmen Ortiz Victorino\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, and Carla Ryan in The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan\, in Athens\, Greece at the Fallen Trees Festival 2025\n\n\n\nThe Trees Project \n\n\n\nThe Trees project supported by Creative Europe is led by Dah Teatar\, Belgrade\, Serbia. The partners are Action Synergy SA\, Greece; Theatro Aeroploio – Ena Theatro Giapaidia\, Greece; Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Ireland; Grenland Friteater AS\, Norway; Centro de Arte Producciones Teatrales SL\, Spain; Protagon – Freunde Und Foerderer Freier Theateraktion\, Germany and Stichting Zid\, Netherlands. \n\n\n\nAs part of the Trees project\, Smashing Times and partners are using creative processes and the performing arts to connect with citizens through a multi-disciplinary approach\, raising awareness of the importance of nature in our world today with a focus on bio-diversity and our connections to trees\, seas\, skies\, mountains and land.  As part of the Trees project artists from Smashing Times attended a Euroeso Conference on the 22 April 2024 in Belgrade\, Serbia and a Trees conference and training programme in Belgrade Serbia  from 23-28 April\, 2024. Two outreach community workshops on trees and environmental sustainability were conducted by artist Carmen Ortiz Victorino with local community participants in Dublin\, Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan was commissioned for The Trees project. The play creates an extraordinary atmosphere in nature’s setting as we reflect on the role of trees in our ecosystem\, the importance of nature in our lives today and themes of biodiversity\, climate preservation and climate change. Join us as we enjoy nature and explore how to be proactive in the face of climate change and making Europe climate friendly with a focus on biodiversity and the interconnectedness of the world around us. This project is open to all citizens\, communities and artists\, and to key stakeholders in the fields of theatre\, arts\, science\, environment\, education\, business and human rights.  \n\n\n\nIRISH AND EUROPEAN TOUR DATES: The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan enjoyed a successful run at The Pearse Museum\, St. Enda’s Park\, in October 2024\, as part of the annual Arts and Human Rights festival prior to bringing its powerful message to audiences across Europe as part of an international tour in 2025 to Athens\, Greece (July); Frankfurt\, Germany (August) and Saville\, Spain (October).  \n\n\n\nSmashing Times were delighted to perform The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan at the Fallen Trees festival in Veikou Park\, Athens\, Greece\, on 20 July 2025\, and at the Sommerwerft Festival at Weselerwerft\, Frankfurt\, Germany on 2 August 2025. Performers and artists on tour included Carmen Ortiz Victorino\, Fiona Bawn-Thompson\, Carla Ryan\, Martin Shannon\, Hina Khan and Ciara Hayes. The performances took place outdoors enabling unique connection between the audiences and the theme of the importance of nature and biodiversity. The audience reception at both performances was fantastic\, with full house at each performance. Audience members enjoyed taking part in our ‘living artwork’ which is a piece of interactive visual art created by visual artist Hina Khan.   A partial image of a tree has been drawn on a large piece of paper which lays on the ground beside the performance.  Audiences are invited to add to the art work at the end of each performance. In this way\, the image grows at every show\, with input from people across Europe and Ireland. The show will tour to Seville\, Spain on the 9 October 2025 as part of the TREES Creative Europe project. \n\n\n\nFollowing the international tour to Athens\, Greece; Frankfurt\, Germany and Saville\, Spain\, The Art of Trees by Mary Moynihan returns due to popular demand to The Pearse Museum and Saint Enda’s Park\, Grange Road\, Rathfarnham\, Dublin 16\, D16 Y7Y5 for seven performances only from 15 to 18 October 2025 and to the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, Sandycove\, for two performances only on Saturday 18 October\, 7.30pm and Sunday 19 October\, 2pm. Tickets €15/10 \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park was where Patrick Pearse lived and ran his innovative Irish-speaking school\, Scoil Éanna\, between 1910 to 1916. The Pearse Museum houses a fascinating exhibition on the life of Patrick and William Pearse who were both executed for their part in the 1916 Rising in Ireland. The museum showcases the historic house where Pearse\, his family and students once lived and worked. \n\n\n\nThe Pearse Museum is situated within St Enda’s Park which covers nearly twenty hectares of attractive parkland in Rathfarnham\, Dublin. The park contains a wild river called Whitechurch Stream which joins the Owendoher river which flows into the river Dodder\, as well as forested areas with an abundance of trees including oak and hawthorn and a series of enchanting eighteenth and nineteenth century follies. \n\n\n\nSt Enda’s Park is situated in Rathfarnham and is a designated National Historic Park run and maintained by the OPW. The park has many wonderful trees and they line the walls of the park and the avenues. One of the most common trees in the park is the Monterey Cypress which was planted along the avenues of the grounds. There are also Horse chestnut\, Sycamore\, Willow\, Larch\, Pine trees and Beech trees. Native Trees in the park include Yew\, Oak\, Ash\, Birch and Alder. Shrubs that are common in the park are Hawthorn which is important for birds nesting\, Holly and Laurel. \nShare your favourite Tree \nTell us about your favourite tree? Take a picture and send it in with ideally the name of the tree\, it’s location and a photograph. Even if you only have a photograph send it on and tell us what you enjoy about the tree.  Send it to admin@smashingtimes.ie \nThere are many famous trees in Ireland. We have hanging trees\, trees at holy wells\, trees associated with historic events and trees that are important to communities.  There is the ‘Hungry’ Tree at King’s Inns\, Dublin\, the tree appears to be eating or swallowing  a bench!  We have Lady Gregory’s famous ‘Autograph’ Tree at Coole Park in Galway. It is a copper beech signed by the writer W. B. Yeats and his brother the painter Jack\, and by writers such as George Bernard Shaw\, Sean O’Casey and other famous people. \nEnjoy the wide variety of wonderful trees at St Enda’s Park in Rathfarnham\, Dublin\,  including Monterey Cypress\, Horse chestnut\, Sycamore\, Willow\, Larch\, Pine trees and Beech and our native trees including Yew\, Oak\, Ash\, Birch and Alder. \nThe Social Life of Trees \n“A forest is much more than what you see\,” says ecologist Suzanne Simard. Her 30 years of research in Canadian forests have led to an astounding discovery — trees talk\, often and over vast distances. Watch Suzanne’s Tedex talk to learn more about the harmonious yet complicated social lives of trees and prepare to see the natural world with new eyes. \n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnna Fitzgerald is a creative writer\, performer\, drama teacher and accountant! She attended the Audrey Meredith School of Drama and completed the Irish Board of Speech and Drama Grade Exams\, Associate and the Licentiate Teaching Diplomas. In 2023\, she founded ‘Drama at the Harold’ and ‘Drama at Glasthule’. She is a member of Shifting Stages\, a newly founded collective of mothers and theatre makers\, dedicated to supporting each other’s practices. The collective evolved from ‘Waking the Feminists’ (WTF) movement in 2015 where artists questioned the role of women in Theatre in Ireland and ‘Mother Artist Makers’ (MAM) a collective of mothers in Irish theatre who advocate for career supports for creative practitioners with caring responsibilities and to promote family friendly arts practices.  She is working on her Irish Goddess collection of stories since developing the concept for her professional diploma in Innovation\, Creativity and Leadership in UCD in 2019. She performed original pieces from the Goddess Series during Culture Night 2023 and 2025 in the DLR Mill Theatre and the Lab\, Dublin City Arts Offices\, Foley Street.  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAoife Kavanagh is an actor based in Dublin and Kildare working throughout film and theatre. She graduated from Trinity College Dublin in 2025 which a First Class Honours Degree in Drama and Theatre. Her love for performance has developed over many years\, from starting speech and drama classes at six years old\, as well as training in ballet and various other forms of dance. Her performance credits include Better Out Than In Campaign (Belong To Youth Services\, 2025)\, Evoe (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2025)\, CHAOS (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024)\, Pinstripe (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024)\, Until Death (Virgin Media\, 2022) and Hall of Healing (Kill Musical & Dramatic Society\, 2022). Aoife also has experience in stage management and costume design. Her costume credits include costume designer of No Exit (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2025)\, The Contest (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024) and assistant costume on Uncanny Valley (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2023). Her stage management credits include Sell By Date (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2025)\, Anna (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2024) and This Too Shall Pass (Samuel Beckett Theatre\, 2023). \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:The Journey – live performance presented by Clondalkin Tower Drama Group
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nBeyond the stage\, The Journey serves as a powerful tool for raising public awareness about the lived realities of displaced people in Ireland. By dramatizing the emotional and systemic challenges faced by asylum seekers — from navigating the Direct Provision system (now IPAS) to enduring isolation\, unstable relationships\, and institutional neglect — the play bridges the gap between policy and personal experience. It puts a human face to headlines\, transforming statistics into stories that resonate deeply with audiences. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nOladipupo Salem\, actor \n\n\n\nMariam Fasipe\, actor \n\n\n\nAfolabi Fasipe\, actor \n\n\n\nAbosede Ogunsola\, actor \n\n\n\nVuvu Mateus Artur\, actor \n\n\n\nArinze Michael Ogbu\, actor \n\n\n\nEbenezer Omole\, actor \n\n\n\nDaniel Appoh\, actor \n\n\n\nJoy Sylvester\, actor \n\n\n\nUche Paul Chukwukem\, actor \n\n\n\nAbiodun Sanni\, actor \n\n\n\nMohammed Shadji\, actor \n\n\n\nUwague Sylvester\, stagehand \n\n\n\nSmart Osazua\, stagehand \n\n\n\nOsakpolor Aigbe\, stagehand \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThe Journey is a powerful and emotionally charged play exploring themes of migration\, survival\, betrayal\, and resilience. It follows Michael and Joyce\, a couple whose lives are turned upside down after Michael is kidnapped during a risky business trip. After paying a ransom\, the couple is forced to flee their home country and seek asylum in Ireland. \n\n\n\nOnce in Ireland\, the challenges continue — from adjusting to life in IPAS accommodation to the unravelling of their relationship. Michael becomes entangled in a secret affair with Isabella\, leading to emotional abuse\, neglect\, and a deep sense of isolation for Joyce\, who is pregnant and vulnerable. \n\n\n\nThe play weaves in the stories of other migrants and asylum seekers\, like Isabella\, Smart\, Bob\, and Steve\, highlighting a range of personal and social struggles — from romantic betrayal to domestic abuse and systemic hardship. It culminates in a dramatic confrontation revealing Michael’s double life and the emotional toll of displacement on individuals and families. \n\n\n\nThrough intense dialogue\, raw emotion\, and layered storytelling\, The Journey sheds light on the lived experiences of migrants navigating uncertainty\, trauma\, and hope in their search for safety and belonging. \n\n\n\nBeyond the stage\, The Journey serves as a powerful tool for raising public awareness about the lived realities of displaced people in Ireland. By dramatizing the emotional and systemic challenges faced by asylum seekers — from navigating the Direct Provision system (now IPAS) to enduring isolation\, unstable relationships\, and institutional neglect — the play bridges the gap between policy and personal experience. It puts a human face to headlines\, transforming statistics into stories that resonate deeply with audiences. \n\n\n\nThis storytelling fosters understanding and empathy among Irish communities\, many of whom may have limited direct contact with asylum seekers. By engaging viewers emotionally\, it challenges harmful stereotypes and misconceptions\, making visible the everyday struggles and resilience of displaced people. The play also opens up critical conversations around issues such as access to mental health support\, domestic abuse in asylum settings\, and the long-term impact of displacement on families. \n\n\n\nIn community talkbacks\, educational settings\, and public discourse\, The Journey becomes more than entertainment — it becomes activism. It invites policymakers\, service providers\, and the public to reflect on the urgent need for systemic reform and to support more compassionate\, rights-based approaches to asylum and integration in Ireland. \n\n\n\nThe purpose of the company (The Clondalkin Towers Drama group) is to promote\, produce\, and perform theatrical and dramatic works in Clondalkin and surrounding areas\, to encourage participation in and appreciation of the performing arts by the local community\, and to support the integration of International Protection applicants by fostering inclusion\, cultural exchange\, and engagement through drama and community theatre. \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Seo Chugainn na Mná - Live Stage Performances in Irish of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of World War II translated by Áine Ní Ghlinn
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nSeo Chugainn na Mná is a creative reimagining of moments from the lives of women during WWII recalling stories of bravery\, sacrifice and love amidst the horror of war\, as women stood up against fascism and totalitarianism and refused to accept oppression. \n\n\n\nThe show is produced by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and supported by Foras na Gaeilge for the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. Two performances in Irish take place on Thursday 16 and Friday 17 October 2025\, nightly at 7pm\, at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality space\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1. \n  \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, translator \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, director \n\n\n\nBláthnaid Daly\, actor \n\n\n\nEvanne Kilgallon\, actor \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Producer and Company Manager\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTá áthas ar Lárionad Idirnáisiúnta na nEalaíon agus an Chomhionannais Smashing Times an scríbhneoir mór le rá Áine Ní Ghlinn a choimisiúnú chun an script stáitse bunaidh\, thar a bheith rathúil The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of World War II a aistriú go Gaeilge. Mar chuid den léiriú\, cuirfear ar stáitse filíocht nua Gaeilge de chuid Áine Ní Ghlinn agus aistriú Áine ar At Summer’s End le Féilim James (faoin teideal Deireadh an tSamhraidh). Is athshamhlú cruthaitheach é Seo Chugainn na Mná ar thráthanna ó shaol na mban le linn an Dara Cogadh Domhanda\, ag meabhrú scéalta faoi chrógacht\, íobairt\, agus grá i measc uafáis an chogaidh\, agus mná ag seasamh i gcoinne an fhaisisteachais agus an ollsmachtachais agus ag diúltú glacadh le cos ar bolg. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to commission award-winning writer Áine Ní Ghlinn to translate into Irish the original highly successful stage script The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of World War II\, featuring At Summer’s End by Féilim James\, a writer and poet. The Irish language translation includes new poetry by writer Áine Ní Ghlinn. \n\n\n\nSeo Chugainn na Mná is a creative reimagining of moments from the lives of women during WWII recalling stories of bravery\, sacrifice and love amidst the horror of war\, as women stood up against Fascism and totalitarianism and refused to accept oppression. \n\n\n\nThe show is produced by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and supported by Foras na Gaeilge for the annual international Irish  Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. Two performances in Irish take place on Thursday 16 and Friday 17  October 2025\, nightly at 7pm\, at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality space\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1.  \n\n\n\nWomen’s stories that have inspired the performance are: \n\n\n\nMary Elmes (1908-2002) from Cork\, 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. Mary recalls her work with refugees\, firstly in Almería in Spain\, during the Spanish Civil War\, and then in France during WWII\, assisting Spanish refugees and then Jewish people interned in Rivesaltes Internment camp when France falls to the Nazis. \nEttie Steinberg  (1914-42)\,  a Jewish Irish citizen known to have been murdered in Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination camp built and operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland during World War II. Ettie was murdered along with her husband Vogtieck and young son Leon. \n\n\n\nSince the Irish language was recognised as a fully official and working language at European level in late 2021\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality  have been incorporating the Irish language into performances to create bi-lingual shows promoting human rights and equality across Ireland and Europe. The company is embracing this opportunity to deliver our renowned show\, Mná i Láthair\, as our second performance delivered fully through Irish. \n\n\n\nIrish Language Productions \n\n\n\nAs part of its focus on the Irish Language\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have produced events in Irish since 2022. \n\n\n\nAr Snámh by the award-winning Irish language writer Seán Mac Dhonnagáin\, was performed by Bláthnaid Daly\, directed by Hilary Bowen-Walsh and produced by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in 2024. The creative consultant was Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Translations were by Seán MacDhonnagáin. The show was presented as part of the Aisling programme supporting emerging and established artists working in the Irish language with a focus on the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nIs dráma é Ar Snámh a leanann Jane\, bean óg a d’fhág Baile Átha Cliath agus í ina páiste\, agus í anois ag filleadh ar a cathair dúchais tríd taisteal suas an Life i ndingí ó Lidl. Ar an mbealach\, déanann Jane macnamh ar na heachtraí a chuir ar an mbóthar seo í\, ó bhás a hathar agus í óg go dtí an caidreamh nua atá ag fás idir í féin agus buachaill áitiúil\, Stiofán. Ar an turas seo\, labhrann Jane isteach i dtéipthaifeadán a d’fhág a hathair aici\, í ag insint dó faoin saol atá aici agus na deacrachtaí atá aici mar dhuine óg i mbaile beag. Tosaíonn sí ag dul siar ar chomhráite le daoine éagsúla ina saol\, go háirithe ar eachtraí a bhain lena cairde agus lena teaghlach. Foghlaimíd faoi scéal Jane agus í ag oirbriú amach cad atá i ndán di sa chéad chaibidil eile dá saol. \n\n\n\nTwo performances  of Ar Snámh in Irish took place in The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 K037 on Friday 18 October and Saturday 19 October\, nightly at 7.30pm. Each performance was followed by a post-show panel discussion with the artists and guest speakers on the theme of ‘The Irish Language and the Arts: Unique forms of expression to promote equality\, human rights and diversity’. The chair was Seán MacDhonnagáin and the speakers each night were the director Hilary Bowen-Walsh and actor Bláthnaid Daly. \n\n\n\nIs dráma é Ar Snámh a leanann Jane\, bean óg a d’fhág Baile Átha Cliath agus í ina páiste\, agus í anois ag filleadh ar a cathair dúchais tríd taisteal suas an Life i ndingí ó Lidl. Ar an mbealach\, déanann Jane macnamh ar na heachtraí a chuir ar an mbóthar seo í\, ó bhás a hathar agus í óg go dtí an caidreamh nua atá ag fás idir í féin agus buachaill áitiúil\, Stiofán. Ar an turas seo\, labhrann Jane isteach i dtéipthaifeadán a d’fhág a hathair aici\, í ag insint dó faoin saol atá aici agus na deacrachtaí atá aici mar dhuine óg i mbaile beag. Tosaíonn sí ag dul siar ar chomhráite le daoine éagsúla ina saol\, go háirithe ar eachtraí a bhain lena cairde agus lena teaghlach. Foghlaimíd faoi scéal Jane agus í ag oirbriú amach cad atá i ndán di sa chéad chaibidil eile dá saol. \n\n\n\nAr Snámh won Best One-Act Play in the literary competition at Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2018.  Ar Snámh follows Jane\, a young woman who moved away from Dublin as a child\, as she returns to her home county by travelling up the Liffey in a dinghy she bought in Lidl. Along the way\, Jane considers the moments that have led her to this journey\, from the death of her father when she was a child to the budding relationship she is developing with a local lad\, Stephen. Along her journey\, Jane recalls conversations with various people in her life\, playing the parts of friends and family members as she gives us a view of her past and tries to work out her future as well as reflecting on the housing crisis that is impacting on the lives of people today. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality were delighted to work with Irish language author Seán MacDhonnagáin to present Ar Snámh and to support the Irish language. Special thanks to Theatre in Palm\, Creative Europe and the Scéim na gCompántas Drámaíochta Proifisiúnta agus Amaitéarach 2024/Professional and Amateur Drama Companies’ Scheme 2024 supported by Foras na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are dedicated to promoting artistic and creative work in the Irish language with a focus on original material that addresses issues and concerns impacting on communities today with a focus on equality\, human rights and diversity. The company is dedicated to supporting the professional development of artists and the professional presentation of their artistic creations in the Irish language to as wide an audience as possible.  All Irish language productions and everts are presented as part of the Smashing Times Aisling Programme celebrating the Irish language and the power of the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Programme \n\n\n\nCelebrating Irish language and the power of the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Programme supports emerging and established artists working in the Irish language with a focus on the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features workshops\, performances\, poetry\, literature\, music and creative conversations in both Irish and English\, alongside the commissioning and presentation of original artworks in Irish\, celebrating the Irish language and the power of the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity for all across the island of Ireland. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times support the Irish language as our national language and believe a commitment to Irish as the official language of the Republic of Ireland is a key element for the development of the company. The Aisling Programme is a Creative Arts Programme for Equality\, Human Rights and Diversity with workshops\, performances and creative conversations in both Irish and English\, using the arts to promote and celebrate the Irish language and the arts linked to equality\, human rights\, diversity\, health and well-being\,  leadership training\, inclusion and peace. \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Project fosters and promotes the Irish language and the arts through Irish as well as bilingually as an integral part of the company\, network and festival programme and provides a stage for the Irish language community linked  to the arts sector. Smashing Times are delighted to partner and work with artists who work in the Irish language and who are interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nForas na Gaeilge \n\n\n\nOur Irish language events are supported by Foras na Gaeilge\, a public body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland\, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Foras na Gaeilge supports the community through the areas of community\, private business sector\, the arts\, the public sector\, education\, youth and the media. The organisation plays a role in advising governments\, north and south\, and public bodies and other groups in the private and voluntary sectors in all matters relating to the Irish language. www.forasnagaeilge.ie \n\n\n\nOpen Call to Artists \n\n\n\nArts and Human Rights Network available through Irish \n\n\n\nWe want You \n\n\n\nSmashing Times wish to support the Irish language as our national language and believe a commitment to Irish as the official language of the Republic of Ireland is a key element for the development of the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. We are inviting you to join with us and to take part in Aisling: A programme of the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality celebrating the Irish language and the arts linked to equality\, human rights\, diversity\, inclusion and peace. As part of this work we are looking for key artists who speak Irish  to become involved in the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network and we are now developing an Irish language section as part of the network. We invite you to take part in this unique network for artists\, individuals and communities interested in linking the Irish language and the arts for the promotion of  human rights\, equality and diversity. \n\n\n\nJoin the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Irish Language network as Gaeilge across Ireland\, linking with artists\, activists and individuals who are interested in using the arts to promote human rights\, equality and diversity through the Irish language. \n\n\n\nA core strategic aim is to ensure a strand of the Smashing Times International Cenre for the Arts and Equality is conducted through and promotes the Irish language. The centre is situated at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, Ireland and operates across Ireland with a European and international reach\, and we believe that as Irish is our national language and a recognised language within the EU it is essential that the centre incorporates the Irish language as an integral and core part of the overall work.  The aim is to provide a community-orientated Irish language arts and human rights service to the Irish speaking community of Dublin and across Ireland\, Northern Ireland and internationally on a non-profit basis. \n\n\n\nIf you are an artist\, community group member or a member of the general public and are interested in using the Irish language through the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity\,  and would like to join the Arts and Human  Right network\, do get in touch. All welcome. \n\n\n\nAs a member\, you will \n\n\n\n\nReceive exclusive invitations to online and onsite networking events.\n\n\n\nMeet like-minded artists and people who believe in the power of the arts to promote human rights issues.\n\n\n\nReceive invitations to Smashing Times events across Ireland.\n\n\n\nBe contacted with opportunities to share your work or perform at Smashing Times events across Ireland.\n\n\n\nConnect through a monthly newsletter\, weekly bulletin; and through attendance at bi-monthly online or onsite meetings\n\n\n\n\nResource and Advice service available through Irish promoting the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity \n\n\n\nThis entails the translation of existing information into the Irish language and providing up-to-date information on resources\, grants and opportunities through Irish for artists and communities using the Irish language and creative processes to promote equality\, human rights and diversity for all. \n\n\n\nDream of Freedom / Aisling na Saoirse \n\n\n\nA Dream of Equality / Aisling an Chomhionannais \n\n\n\nIn Irish we say \n\n\n\nFáilte for Welcome \n\n\n\nAisling for Dream or Vision \n\n\n\nSaoirse for Freedom \n\n\n\nComhionannas for Equality \n\n\n\nCruthaitheach for Creative \n\n\n\nSuaimhneas for Peace \n\n\n\nAmhrán for Song \n\n\n\nCroí for heart \n\n\n\nGrá for Love \n\n\n\nMacnas for playfulness \n\n\n\nDraíocht for Magic \n\n\n\nAbhainn for River \n\n\n\nÓiche for night \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBláthnaid Daly is an actor and writer from Co.Westmeath. In 2021\, she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting. She frequently works as a voiceover artist\, dubbing cartoons in the Irish language.Recent theatre credits include her own one woman\, bilingual English/Irishcomedy Connemarvellous\, (Scene + Heard)\, Heartstring (Scatterdream Theatre Company)\, An Triail (Fíbín)\, Fionn agus an Bradán Feasa (Fíbín)\, Prawn Cocktail (Colour & Ducks Theatre Company)\, In the Midst of Plenty (Enchanted Croí Theatre)\, Space Deli The Musical (Pay Attention! Collective) and Catastrophe Bay (National Youth Music Theatre)\, Ar Snámh (Smashing Times)\, Seachtopus (High Rock Productions) and Mountain River (Gerard Humphreys).Screen credits include Homofónia (Alana Daly Mulligan and Luke Murphy). \n\n\n\nIs aisteoir agus scríbhneoir  as Contae na hIarmhí í Bláthnaid Daly. Sa bhliain 2021\, chríochnaigh sí an cúrsa Lánaimseartha sa Gaiety School of Acting. Tá an suim aici obair trí Ghaeilge\, chomh maith le obair dátheangach\, a dhéanamh. \nOibríonn Bláthnaid go minic mar aisteoir gutha freisin\, ag dubáil cartúin i nGaeilge le Macalla Teoranta. \nSa bhliain 2021\, fuair sí Agility Award ón gComhairle Ealaíon chun a dráma aonair\, dátheangach Béarla/Gaeilge Connemarvellous a fhorbairt faoi mheantóireacht Clare Monnelly. Rinneadh an chéad léiriú i mí Feabhra 2022\, mar chuid den féile Scene and Heard\, faoi stiúir Gene Rooney. \nAr na saothair amharclainne a luaitear lena hainm tá Heartstring (Scatterdream Theatre Company)\, An Triail (Fíbín)\, Fionn agus an Bradán Feasa (Fíbín)\, Prawn Cocktail (Colour & Ducks Theatre Company)\, In the Midst of Plenty (Enchanted Croí Theatre) Space Deli The Musical (Pay Attention! Collective)\, Catastrophe Bay (National Youth Music Theatre)\, Ar Snámh (Smashing Times)\, Seachtopus (High Rock Productions) agus Mountain River (Gerard Humphreys). \nAr na saothair scannáin a luaitear lena hainm tá The Wake (Megan K. Fox Films) agus Homofónia (Alana Daly Mulligan and Luke Murphy) a bhuaigh ‘Best Irish Language Short Film’ ag an Fastnet Film Festival i 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvanne Kilgallon is an Actor and Writer from the West of Ireland. Evanne plays Shelly in Chris O’Dowd’s highly anticipated ‘Small Town Big Story’ for Sky Tv and Now Tv\, released February 2025. Other screen credits include the lead role of Meabh in ‘Poitín’ (BlocTG4) and series regular Kate in ‘Obituary’ for RTÉ/Netflix/HULU. \n\n\n\nIs aisteoir agus scríbhneoir í Evanne Kilgallon ó chontae Shligigh. Le déanaí\, ghlac sí pairt Shelly sa sraith teilifíse Small Town\, Big Story (Sky Studios\, cruthaithe ag Chris O’Dowd). I measc na gcreidiúintí scáileáin eile tá Meabh i Poitín (BlocTG4) agus Kate sa sraith Obituary (RTÉ/Netflix/Hulu). Ar an stáitse tá seóanna éagsúla déanta aici\, mar shampla The Twenty Club (Bewley’s Theatre)\, Circle of Friends (The Gaiety Theatre)\, Talk To Me (Glass Mask Theatre)\, Bench Tales (Barnstorm Theatre Co) agus eile.Mar dhéantóir amharclainne\, scríobh agus léirigh Evanne a céad dráma AN LÁR (GlassMask Theatre)\, a fuair moladh ó na léirmheastóirí agus ón lucht féachana araon. Lean sí seo le seó-aon-mhná Jester’s Privilege\, a léiríodh ag Scene + Heard agus ar thuras geimhreadh. Le linn an tsamhraidh\, chuir sí a seó nua TECHNOPOETICA ar súil ag Electric Picnic agus bhí a céad dráma raidió Have Ye No Homes To Go To? cuartha ar ghearrliosta ar RTÉ Drama on One.D’fhreastail Evanne ar Ghaelscoil Cnoc na Ré i Shligigh agus thit sí i ngrá leis an Ghaeilge. Is minic a scrúdaíonn a cuid scríbhneoireachta feimineachas\, miotaseolaíocht na hÉireann\, dátheangachas\, agus úsáid greann dorcha chun ábhair dheacra a réiteach. \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\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:Seo Chugainn na Mná – Live Stage Performances in Irish of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of World War II translated by Áine Ní Ghlinn
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nSeo Chugainn na Mná is a creative reimagining of moments from the lives of women during WWII recalling stories of bravery\, sacrifice and love amidst the horror of war\, as women stood up against fascism and totalitarianism and refused to accept oppression. \n\n\n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nÁine Ní Ghlinn\, translator \n\n\n\nRob Harrington\, director \n\n\n\nBláthnaid Daly\, actor \n\n\n\nEvanne Kilgallon\, actor \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, writer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Producer and Company Manager\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTá áthas ar Lárionad Idirnáisiúnta na nEalaíon agus an Chomhionannais Smashing Times an scríbhneoir mór le rá Áine Ní Ghlinn a choimisiúnú chun an script stáitse bunaidh\, thar a bheith rathúil The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of World War II a aistriú go Gaeilge. Mar chuid den léiriú\, cuirfear ar stáitse filíocht nua Gaeilge de chuid Áine Ní Ghlinn agus aistriú Áine ar At Summer’s End le Féilim James (faoin teideal Deireadh an tSamhraidh). Is athshamhlú cruthaitheach é Seo Chugainn na Mná ar thráthanna ó shaol na mban le linn an Dara Cogadh Domhanda\, ag meabhrú scéalta faoi chrógacht\, íobairt\, agus grá i measc uafáis an chogaidh\, agus mná ag seasamh i gcoinne an fhaisisteachais agus an ollsmachtachais agus ag diúltú glacadh le cos ar bolg. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to commission award-winning writer Áine Ní Ghlinn to translate into Irish the original highly successful stage script The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of World War II\, featuring At Summer’s End by writer Féilim James. The Irish language translation includes new poetry by writer Áine Ní Ghlinn. \n\n\n\nSeo Chugainn na Mná is a creative reimagining of moments from the lives of women during WWII recalling stories of bravery\, sacrifice and love amidst the horror of war\, as women stood up against Fascism and totalitarianism and refused to accept oppression. \n\n\n\nThe show is produced by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and supported by Foras na Gaeilge for the annual international Irish  Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. Two performances in Irish take place on Thursday 16 and Friday 17  October 2025\, nightly at 7pm\, at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality space\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1.  \n\n\n\nWomen’s stories that have inspired the performance are: \n\n\n\nMary Elmes (1908-2002) from Cork\, 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. Mary recalls her work with refugees\, firstly in Almería in Spain\, during the Spanish Civil War\, and then in France during WWII\, assisting Spanish refugees and then Jewish people interned in Rivesaltes Internment camp when France falls to the Nazis. \n\n\n\nEttie Steinberg  (1914-42)\,  a Jewish Irish citizen known to have been murdered in Auschwitz Concentration and Extermination camp built and operated by the Nazis in occupied Poland during World War II. Ettie was murdered along with her husband Vogtieck and young son Leon. \n\n\n\nSince the Irish language was recognised as a fully official and working language at European level in late 2021\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality  have been incorporating the Irish language into performances to create bi-lingual shows promoting human rights and equality across Ireland and Europe. The company is embracing this opportunity to deliver our renowned show\, Mná i Láthair\, as our second performance delivered fully through Irish. \n\n\n\nIrish Language Productions \n\n\n\nAs part of its focus on the Irish Language\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have produced events in Irish since 2022. \n\n\n\nAr Snámh by the award-winning Irish language writer Seán Mac Dhonnagáin\, was performed by Bláthnaid Daly\, directed by Hilary Bowen-Walsh and produced by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality for the Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival in 2024. The creative consultant was Mary Moynihan\, writer\, theatre and filmmaker\, Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Translations were by Seán MacDhonnagáin. The show was presented as part of the Aisling programme supporting emerging and established artists working in the Irish language with a focus on the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nIs dráma é Ar Snámh a leanann Jane\, bean óg a d’fhág Baile Átha Cliath agus í ina páiste\, agus í anois ag filleadh ar a cathair dúchais tríd taisteal suas an Life i ndingí ó Lidl. Ar an mbealach\, déanann Jane macnamh ar na heachtraí a chuir ar an mbóthar seo í\, ó bhás a hathar agus í óg go dtí an caidreamh nua atá ag fás idir í féin agus buachaill áitiúil\, Stiofán. Ar an turas seo\, labhrann Jane isteach i dtéipthaifeadán a d’fhág a hathair aici\, í ag insint dó faoin saol atá aici agus na deacrachtaí atá aici mar dhuine óg i mbaile beag. Tosaíonn sí ag dul siar ar chomhráite le daoine éagsúla ina saol\, go háirithe ar eachtraí a bhain lena cairde agus lena teaghlach. Foghlaimíd faoi scéal Jane agus í ag oirbriú amach cad atá i ndán di sa chéad chaibidil eile dá saol. \n\n\n\nTwo performances  of Ar Snámh in Irish took place in The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, D02 K037 on Friday 18 October and Saturday 19 October\, nightly at 7.30pm. Each performance was followed by a post-show panel discussion with the artists and guest speakers on the theme of ‘The Irish Language and the Arts: Unique forms of expression to promote equality\, human rights and diversity’. The chair was Seán MacDhonnagáin and the speakers each night were the director Hilary Bowen-Walsh and actor Bláthnaid Daly. \n\n\n\nIs dráma é Ar Snámh a leanann Jane\, bean óg a d’fhág Baile Átha Cliath agus í ina páiste\, agus í anois ag filleadh ar a cathair dúchais tríd taisteal suas an Life i ndingí ó Lidl. Ar an mbealach\, déanann Jane macnamh ar na heachtraí a chuir ar an mbóthar seo í\, ó bhás a hathar agus í óg go dtí an caidreamh nua atá ag fás idir í féin agus buachaill áitiúil\, Stiofán. Ar an turas seo\, labhrann Jane isteach i dtéipthaifeadán a d’fhág a hathair aici\, í ag insint dó faoin saol atá aici agus na deacrachtaí atá aici mar dhuine óg i mbaile beag. Tosaíonn sí ag dul siar ar chomhráite le daoine éagsúla ina saol\, go háirithe ar eachtraí a bhain lena cairde agus lena teaghlach. Foghlaimíd faoi scéal Jane agus í ag oirbriú amach cad atá i ndán di sa chéad chaibidil eile dá saol. \n\n\n\nAr Snámh won Best One-Act Play in the literary competition at Oireachtas na Gaeilge 2018.  Ar Snámh follows Jane\, a young woman who moved away from Dublin as a child\, as she returns to her home county by travelling up the Liffey in a dinghy she bought in Lidl. Along the way\, Jane considers the moments that have led her to this journey\, from the death of her father when she was a child to the budding relationship she is developing with a local lad\, Stephen. Along her journey\, Jane recalls conversations with various people in her life\, playing the parts of friends and family members as she gives us a view of her past and tries to work out her future as well as reflecting on the housing crisis that is impacting on the lives of people today. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality were delighted to work with Irish language author Seán MacDhonnagáin to present Ar Snámh and to support the Irish language. Special thanks to Theatre in Palm\, Creative Europe and the Scéim na gCompántas Drámaíochta Proifisiúnta agus Amaitéarach 2024/Professional and Amateur Drama Companies’ Scheme 2024 supported by Foras na Gaeilge. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times are dedicated to promoting artistic and creative work in the Irish language with a focus on original material that addresses issues and concerns impacting on communities today with a focus on equality\, human rights and diversity. The company is dedicated to supporting the professional development of artists and the professional presentation of their artistic creations in the Irish language to as wide an audience as possible.  All Irish language productions and everts are presented as part of the Smashing Times Aisling Programme celebrating the Irish language and the power of the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Programme \n\n\n\nCelebrating Irish language and the power of the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Programme supports emerging and established artists working in the Irish language with a focus on the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity. The programme features workshops\, performances\, poetry\, literature\, music and creative conversations in both Irish and English\, alongside the commissioning and presentation of original artworks in Irish\, celebrating the Irish language and the power of the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity for all across the island of Ireland. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times support the Irish language as our national language and believe a commitment to Irish as the official language of the Republic of Ireland is a key element for the development of the company. The Aisling Programme is a Creative Arts Programme for Equality\, Human Rights and Diversity with workshops\, performances and creative conversations in both Irish and English\, using the arts to promote and celebrate the Irish language and the arts linked to equality\, human rights\, diversity\, health and well-being\,  leadership training\, inclusion and peace. \n\n\n\nThe Aisling Project fosters and promotes the Irish language and the arts through Irish as well as bilingually as an integral part of the company\, network and festival programme and provides a stage for the Irish language community linked  to the arts sector. Smashing Times are delighted to partner and work with artists who work in the Irish language and who are interested in using the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nForas na Gaeilge \n\n\n\nOur Irish language events are supported by Foras na Gaeilge\, a public body responsible for the promotion of the Irish language throughout the island of Ireland\, including both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. Foras na Gaeilge supports the community through the areas of community\, private business sector\, the arts\, the public sector\, education\, youth and the media. The organisation plays a role in advising governments\, north and south\, and public bodies and other groups in the private and voluntary sectors in all matters relating to the Irish language. www.forasnagaeilge.ie \n\n\n\nOpen Call to Artists \n\n\n\nArts and Human Rights Network available through Irish \n\n\n\nWe want You \n\n\n\nSmashing Times wish to support the Irish language as our national language and believe a commitment to Irish as the official language of the Republic of Ireland is a key element for the development of the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. We are inviting you to join with us and to take part in Aisling: A programme of the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality celebrating the Irish language and the arts linked to equality\, human rights\, diversity\, inclusion and peace. As part of this work we are looking for key artists who speak Irish  to become involved in the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights network and we are now developing an Irish language section as part of the network. We invite you to take part in this unique network for artists\, individuals and communities interested in linking the Irish language and the arts for the promotion of  human rights\, equality and diversity. \n\n\n\nJoin the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Irish Language network as Gaeilge across Ireland\, linking with artists\, activists and individuals who are interested in using the arts to promote human rights\, equality and diversity through the Irish language. \n\n\n\nA core strategic aim is to ensure a strand of the Smashing Times International Cenre for the Arts and Equality is conducted through and promotes the Irish language. The centre is situated at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, Ireland and operates across Ireland with a European and international reach\, and we believe that as Irish is our national language and a recognised language within the EU it is essential that the centre incorporates the Irish language as an integral and core part of the overall work.  The aim is to provide a community-orientated Irish language arts and human rights service to the Irish speaking community of Dublin and across Ireland\, Northern Ireland and internationally on a non-profit basis. \n\n\n\nIf you are an artist\, community group member or a member of the general public and are interested in using the Irish language through the arts to promote equality\, human rights and diversity\,  and would like to join the Arts and Human  Right network\, do get in touch. All welcome. \n\n\n\nAs a member\, you will \n\n\n\n\nReceive exclusive invitations to online and onsite networking events.\n\n\n\nMeet like-minded artists and people who believe in the power of the arts to promote human rights issues.\n\n\n\nReceive invitations to Smashing Times events across Ireland.\n\n\n\nBe contacted with opportunities to share your work or perform at Smashing Times events across Ireland.\n\n\n\nConnect through a monthly newsletter\, weekly bulletin; and through attendance at bi-monthly online or onsite meetings\n\n\n\n\nResource and Advice service available through Irish promoting the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity \n\n\n\nThis entails the translation of existing information into the Irish language and providing up-to-date information on resources\, grants and opportunities through Irish for artists and communities using the Irish language and creative processes to promote equality\, human rights and diversity for all. \n\n\n\nDream of Freedom / Aisling na Saoirse \n\n\n\nA Dream of Equality / Aisling an Chomhionannais \n\n\n\nIn Irish we say \n\n\n\nFáilte for Welcome \n\n\n\nAisling for Dream or Vision \n\n\n\nSaoirse for Freedom \n\n\n\nComhionannas for Equality \n\n\n\nCruthaitheach for Creative \n\n\n\nSuaimhneas for Peace \n\n\n\nAmhrán for Song \n\n\n\nCroí for heart \n\n\n\nGrá for Love \n\n\n\nMacnas for playfulness \n\n\n\nDraíocht for Magic \n\n\n\nAbhainn for River \n\n\n\nÓiche for night \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRob has enjoyed both national and international tours over the past 19 years of his acting career. He has most recently performed Tales from an Afterworld (WB Yeats)\, written by Féilim James and directed by Geraldine McAlinden in Áras an Uachtaráin for President Michael D Higgins. Some of his favourite theatre productions include The Shadow of a Gunman (The New Theatre\, directed by Ronan Wilmot)\, Pinter x 4 (Pearse Centre\, directed by Peter Reid)\, Scabs (Theatre Upstairs directed by Liam Halligan) In Arabia We’d all be Kings (Beckett Theatre\, directed by Liam Hallihan)\, Mary Stuart (The Grand Lodge\, Liam Halligan) and La Locandiera (Edinburgh Fringe festival\, directed Alice Coghlan). His screen work includes ‘A date for Mad Mary’\, ‘Vaudevillians’\, ‘The Comeback’\, ‘Twitchy’\, ‘The saviour of Dublin City’\, ‘Ctrl’\, ‘The Guarantee’\, ‘The Enchanted Island’\, ‘Two Margaritas and one Daiquiri’ amongst other independent films. Rob is also a seasoned theatre and screen workshop facilitator. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBláthnaid Daly is an actor and writer from Co.Westmeath. In 2021\, she graduated from the Gaiety School of Acting. She frequently works as a voiceover artist\, dubbing cartoons in the Irish language.Recent theatre credits include her own one woman\, bilingual English/Irishcomedy Connemarvellous\, (Scene + Heard)\, Heartstring (Scatterdream Theatre Company)\, An Triail (Fíbín)\, Fionn agus an Bradán Feasa (Fíbín)\, Prawn Cocktail (Colour & Ducks Theatre Company)\, In the Midst of Plenty (Enchanted Croí Theatre)\, Space Deli The Musical (Pay Attention! Collective) and Catastrophe Bay (National Youth Music Theatre)\, Ar Snámh (Smashing Times)\, Seachtopus (High Rock Productions) and Mountain River (Gerard Humphreys).Screen credits include Homofónia (Alana Daly Mulligan and Luke Murphy). \n\n\n\nIs aisteoir agus scríbhneoir  as Contae na hIarmhí í Bláthnaid Daly. Sa bhliain 2021\, chríochnaigh sí an cúrsa Lánaimseartha sa Gaiety School of Acting. Tá an suim aici obair trí Ghaeilge\, chomh maith le obair dátheangach\, a dhéanamh. \nOibríonn Bláthnaid go minic mar aisteoir gutha freisin\, ag dubáil cartúin i nGaeilge le Macalla Teoranta. \nSa bhliain 2021\, fuair sí Agility Award ón gComhairle Ealaíon chun a dráma aonair\, dátheangach Béarla/Gaeilge Connemarvellous a fhorbairt faoi mheantóireacht Clare Monnelly. Rinneadh an chéad léiriú i mí Feabhra 2022\, mar chuid den féile Scene and Heard\, faoi stiúir Gene Rooney. \nAr na saothair amharclainne a luaitear lena hainm tá Heartstring (Scatterdream Theatre Company)\, An Triail (Fíbín)\, Fionn agus an Bradán Feasa (Fíbín)\, Prawn Cocktail (Colour & Ducks Theatre Company)\, In the Midst of Plenty (Enchanted Croí Theatre) Space Deli The Musical (Pay Attention! Collective)\, Catastrophe Bay (National Youth Music Theatre)\, Ar Snámh (Smashing Times)\, Seachtopus (High Rock Productions) agus Mountain River (Gerard Humphreys). \nAr na saothair scannáin a luaitear lena hainm tá The Wake (Megan K. Fox Films) agus Homofónia (Alana Daly Mulligan and Luke Murphy) a bhuaigh ‘Best Irish Language Short Film’ ag an Fastnet Film Festival i 2024. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvanne Kilgallon is an Actor and Writer from the West of Ireland. Evanne plays Shelly in Chris O’Dowd’s highly anticipated ‘Small Town Big Story’ for Sky Tv and Now Tv\, released February 2025. Other screen credits include the lead role of Meabh in ‘Poitín’ (BlocTG4) and series regular Kate in ‘Obituary’ for RTÉ/Netflix/HULU. \n\n\n\nIs aisteoir agus scríbhneoir í Evanne Kilgallon ó chontae Shligigh. Le déanaí\, ghlac sí pairt Shelly sa sraith teilifíse Small Town\, Big Story (Sky Studios\, cruthaithe ag Chris O’Dowd). I measc na gcreidiúintí scáileáin eile tá Meabh i Poitín (BlocTG4) agus Kate sa sraith Obituary (RTÉ/Netflix/Hulu). Ar an stáitse tá seóanna éagsúla déanta aici\, mar shampla The Twenty Club (Bewley’s Theatre)\, Circle of Friends (The Gaiety Theatre)\, Talk To Me (Glass Mask Theatre)\, Bench Tales (Barnstorm Theatre Co) agus eile.Mar dhéantóir amharclainne\, scríobh agus léirigh Evanne a céad dráma AN LÁR (GlassMask Theatre)\, a fuair moladh ó na léirmheastóirí agus ón lucht féachana araon. Lean sí seo le seó-aon-mhná Jester’s Privilege\, a léiríodh ag Scene + Heard agus ar thuras geimhreadh. Le linn an tsamhraidh\, chuir sí a seó nua TECHNOPOETICA ar súil ag Electric Picnic agus bhí a céad dráma raidió Have Ye No Homes To Go To? cuartha ar ghearrliosta ar RTÉ Drama on One.D’fhreastail Evanne ar Ghaelscoil Cnoc na Ré i Shligigh agus thit sí i ngrá leis an Ghaeilge. Is minic a scrúdaíonn a cuid scríbhneoireachta feimineachas\, miotaseolaíocht na hÉireann\, dátheangachas\, agus úsáid greann dorcha chun ábhair dheacra a réiteach. \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\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:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:Queen Dragon
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDeirdre Murphy\, multidisciplinary artist \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nQueen Dragon lands you somewhere between performance and ceremony space. She will create a journey and cast a spell with every song\, different flavours of spells through the night\, as though you were in the theatre\, the witching camp\, the cave. The rave. Very gentle and very strong\, drink from her cup\, fierce and delicate\, simmering. Another way of feeling\, another way of being – tapped in\, witnessed\, personal\, psychedelic. Wild.  \n\n\n\nEvent image by Fabio Grassi. \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\nPhoto by Fabio Grassi\n\n\n\n\n\nDeirdre Murphy is Queen Dragon\, creator of gig theatre\, creator of Capitalism: The Musical. Her work focuses an intensity of love\, of transformative change\, of the deep imagining through which all new ideas are manifested into life. Her vocally driven performances explore multiple soundscapes\, with complex lyrics\, rap\, spoken word\, and physical theatre integrating seamlessly to create a unique and electric individual style. \n\n\n\nRaised in Alaska\, Deirdre has been making work for theatre\, dance\, and music in Ireland for a number of years now. She released her first album Matriotism in 2024. Her seminal work of circus theatre\, Capitalism: The Musical\, performed to great success at the Electric Picnic 2025 and on Culture Night. She is currently in residency in Axis Ballymun as part of the Assemble program\, through which she is starting to record her extensive library of unreleased music and enjoying mentorship. She is delighted to be part of the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Festival. \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:25 Glasses of Wine and Not Only One - Women’s Voices from Europe. Two International Live Performances from Serbia and The Netherlands
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nEnjoy ‘25 GLASSES OF WINE’ a live lecture-performance  written and performed by Dijana Milošević from Dah Theatre\, Belgrade\, Serbia\, based on autobiographical texts in which Dijana discusses the trials and adventures of a theatre troupe working in the historical-political context of ‘a country which no longer exists.’ The theatre troupe itself reflects the history of Serbia \, as well as the global moment in which we live. This is followed by ‘Not Only One’ a stunning solo performance by Nivin Baranbo from ZID Theatre\, Amsterdam\, The Netherlands\, revealing a powerful\, personal journey of growing up and working as a journalist in Syria\, a country which she was forced to leave. “Not Only One” is about breaking taboos\, questioning women’s rights\, and making personal choices. Baranbo employs a colorful performance style that blends text\, dance\, and beautiful imagery in an act of solidarity with all women\, wherever they may be. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nDijana Milošević\, Artistic Director\, Dah Theatre\, Belgrade\, Serbia \n\n\n\nNivin Baranbo\, actor\, Zid Theatre\, Amsterdam\, the Netherlands \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\n25 Glasses of Wine – Serbia\n\n\n\nThis lecture-performance was developed in the context of DAH Theater\, from Belgrade\, Serbia\,  beginning its fourth decade of action. Written and performed by director Dijana Milošević\, 25 Glasses of Wine is based on autobiographical texts in which she discusses the trials and adventures of a theater troupe working in the historical-political context of ‘a country which no longer exists.’ The existence and development of the theater troupe itself reflects the history of Serbia \, as well as the global moment in which we live. \n\n\n\n25 Glasses of Wine unites its audience with Dah Theatre director\, Dijana Milošević\, as she curates stories from her group’s 25 year history. Her memories range from the present\, back to a time when her society lacked the vocabulary to resist bigotry and nationalism. Dah’s theatre of the personal became political by confronting the official reorganisation of life according to narratives of fear and hatred. Their accomplishment is to create community around a vocabulary of lived resistance. Milošević’s shared experiences – embodied\, keenly observant\, and compassionate – emphasise humanity\, and illuminate the senselessness of the past and today. \n\n\n\nThe work explores issues faced by theatre makers in global contexts\, with particular focus on storytelling and narrative as a healing medium for past trauma. This lecture/performance aims to uncover and articulate how theatre and drama may be used as an instrument of social and political change and make connections between art workers and other actors in peacebuilding processes. \n\n\n\nThe performative lecture “25 glasses of wine” premiered at the DAH theater festival Being/Becoming\, 2nd July 2016 at Dah Theatre\, which was organized on the occasion of celebrating a quarter of a century of DAH Theatre. \n\n\n\nFestivals and guest appearances:   \n\n\n\nBitef festival\, Belgrade\, Serbia (2016); Essex University in the UK (2017); The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama\, London\, UK (2017); Infant festival\, Novi Sad\, Serbia (2018); Georgetown University in the USA (2018); Tbilisi\, Georgia (2018); Ipanema Theater in Rio de Janeiro in Brazil (2019)\, Vrnjačka Banja\, Serbia (2018 and 2023)\, House of Culture Gušterica\, Kosovo (2022); Festival Parobrod\, Belgrad\, Serbia (2022); Ex Theater festival Pančevo\, Serbia (2023); Explorez Festival in Amsterdam\, Nederland (2023); Sommerwerft Festival Frankfurt\, Germany (2023); Heraclion\, Grees (2024); many times in Belgrade in different venues… \n\n\n\nDah Theatre \n\n\n\nDijana Milošević  is Artistic Director and co-founder of DAH Theatre Research Centre for Cultural and Social Change. Dah Theatre is a professional arts and research organisation using contemporary theatre techniques to create engaging art and to initiate positive social change\, locally and globally. Dah Theatre host an annual  Arts and Human Rights festival  which takes place over four days in Belgrade Serbia each year. The theme for the 2025 festival was ‘Thinking Peace’ and the festival was described as opening doors to art that speak up\, move and connect.    The festival brought together creators from all over the world to promote and share common goals of  freedom\, dignity and human rights for all. Artist came from Serbia\, Israel\, Palestine\, Syria\, Russia\, the USA\, Brazil and many more countries.  The festival theme was how to think about peace in times of conflict. \n\n\n\nWebsite: http://en.dahteatarcentar.com/performances/25-glasses/ \n\n\n\nNot Only One – Syria and the Netherlands\n\n\n\nNot Only One’ – A stunning solo performance by Nivin Baranbo reveals a powerful personal journey!In her solo performance “Not Only One\,” Nivin Baranbo shares her poignant story of growing up as a girl\, constantly confronted with the expectations of her family and society. Her struggle with norms\, values\, and expectations constantly forces her to make her own choices. How do you make your own choices in an environment that has clear expectations of you? And what are the consequences?During the performance\, the audience is transported into Baranbo’s intimate world\, almost like a ‘guest’ in her own TV studio. This environment is no stranger to her\, given her background as a journalist in Syria\, a country from which she was forced to leave. “A flood of emotions and feelings came over me when I heard about the assassination of Mahsa Amini in Iran last year. In my native Syria\, in that patriarchal society\, I experienced similar problems\,” she says. \n\n\n\n“Not Only One” is about breaking taboos\, questioning women’s rights\, and making personal choices. Baranbo employs a colorful performance style that blends text\, dance\, and beautiful imagery. She takes the audience on a journey that is both personal and universal. This performance invites reflection and powerfully illuminates themes that resonate with many. She sees her performance as an act of solidarity with all women\, wherever they may be. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDijana MiloševićDirector at the DAH Theater Research CenterProfessor at the Institute for Artistic Dance\, Belgrade \n\n\n\nDijana Milošević is an award-winning theater director\, writer and lecturer. She co-founded the DAH Theater Research Center in Belgrade\, and has been its lead director for over 25 years. Dijiana is a recipient of the Helena Vaz da Silva European Award ‘s Special Recognition in 2022. Dijana has served as the artistic director of theater festivals\, the president of the Association of Independent Theaters\, the president of the board of BITEF Theater\, and a member of the board of directors of the national International Theater Institute (ITI). She has been involved with several peacebuilding initiatives and collaborates with feminist-activist groups. \n\n\n\nDAH Theater has performed nationally and internationally under Dijana’s directing. She has also directed plays by other theater companies around the world. She is a well-known lecturer\, who has taught at world-famous universities. She writes articles and essays about theater as well as society. She has won prestigious scholarships such as Fulbright and Arts Link. She is a professor at the Institute for Artistic Play in Belgrade. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNivin Baranbo \n\n\n\nJournalist and Artist \n\n\n\nSyria and the Netherlands \n\n\n\nNivin Baranbo was a journalist in Syria and worked as a producer\, news anchor\, and presenter at the national Arabesque radio station in Damascus until 2016. After arriving in the Netherlands\, she participated in the talent development program FATE #1 (2020-2022) at ZID Theater\, after which she appeared in various performances and films. Baranbo is currently one of the core artistic team member of ZID Theater. \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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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LOCATION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:Irish in Resistance During World War II – Storytelling\, Poetry and Chat
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nArtists and guest speakers come together to present on themes of peace\, remembrance\, equality and human rights\, exploring how stories can inspire artistic creation and resonate in today’s climate of war and genocide and a search for peace. Speakers include Mary Moynihan\, writer\, director\, creator of art and photography\, Féilim James\, writer\, Amna Walayat\, visual artist. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Creator of Art and Photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival\, and exhibition curator \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, Writer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIrish in Resistance During World War II – Storytelling\, Poetry and Chat\n\n\n\nWe are delighted to present an Irish in Resistance during World War II Storytelling\, Poetry and Chat. Join us for an afternoon artist talk\, with poetry readings\, storytelling and audience chat as we explore the stories that feature in the Irish in Resistance During World War II exhibition. These are stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and spoke out for the rights of others.  Artists and guest speakers come together to present on themes of peace\, remembrance\, equality and human rights\, exploring how  stories can inspire artistic creation and resonate in today’s climate of war and genocide and a search for peace. The event takes place on Monday 13 October\, from 7-8pm\, at the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin A96V9P1.   \n\n\n\nIrish in Resistance during World War II is a multidisciplinary installation on display at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality new centre\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. The installation runs from Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. The installation features visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling and reflects on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and spoke out for the rights of others.  The  installation features work by Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer and poet; and Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography.   \n\n\n\nDuring the current climate of war in Ukraine\, Gaza and a range of countries and regions around the world\, Smashing Times look to the past history of World War II to share stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things to stand up against oppression and fascism. Irish in Resistance During World War II focuses on a diversity of citizen peaceful resistance stories\, exploring voices of resistance from ordinary Irish people who stood up against fascism and  totalitarianism. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage\, and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within Nazi concentration camps and in wider society during World War II. This installation and evening’s event  highlights how Irish people risked their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equally\, where democracy\, equality\, and peace prevail. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, from Dublin\, Ireland\, is an author of fiction\, poetry\, and plays. His fiction\, non-fiction\, and poetry\, through both English and Irish\, have earned a number of awards and publications. In 2024\, his poem ‘Dream of an Atrocity’ was shortlisted for the New Irish Writing: Best Poetry category at the Irish Book Awards. He has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland on three occasions\, including for his novel\, Flower of Ash. Dublin City Arts Office granted him an Arts Bursary in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s work has appeared in the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing\, Acumen\, Abridged\, The High Window\, The Fiction Pool\, Icarus\, TOWER\, The Galway Review\, A New Ulster\, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation\, Pendemic\, Rant and Rave\, Vox Galvia\, the Smashing Times Newsletter\, and Tales From the Forest. He has had four plays and two short films produced. Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have performed\, published\, or exhibited at least 20 of Féilim’s poems\, in locations such as Dublin Castle\, the Mill Theatre Dundrum\, on their website\, and in their newsletter. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul (2023)\, about the relationship between James and Lucia Joyce\, had its premiere run in the Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, in October 2023\, as part of Smashing Times’ Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Its director was Patrick Joseph Byrnes\, who again directed when it had its second run\, this time in The New Theatre\, Dublin in June 2024\, as part of Bloomsday Festival. His play At Summer’s End (2019)\, about Ettie Steinberg\, a real-life Jewish-Irish woman facing the horrors of the Holocaust\, has been toured by Smashing Times to places such as Paris\, Northern Ireland\, and Áras an Uachtaráin\, the residency of the President of Ireland. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s Irish language writing\, under the surname Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards\, including one for a collection of poetry. These awards are the most prestigious in Irish language literature. His work through Irish has appeared in Comhar\, Feasta\, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation\, Comhar Óg\, Tuathal\, and An Scríbhneoir Óg. Additionally\, he has twice been selected for Fóras na Gaeilge’s Tutor Scheme. \n\n\n\nFéilim graduated from the BA in English Literature and Psychology in Trinity College\, Dublin in 2017. In 2020\, he completed the MA in Writing in NUI Galway\, studying under the likes of Mike McCormack and Arnold Thomas Fanning\, and receiving a first-class honour. He is currently seeking literary representation and publishers for his books. Visit his website here. \n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:Cultural Resistance: A GOAL NextGen & The Freedom Theatre Collaboration
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe Freedom Theatre is a theatre production company based in Jenin Refugee Camp\, Palestine. Known for its bold and thought-provoking productions\, The Freedom Theatre uses performance to reflect\, challenge\, and comment on the realities of contemporary society.  \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nSorcha Fox\, spoken word writer and actor \n\n\n\nGráinnemir Amir Abualrob\, actor\, trainer and facilitator \n\n\n\nRanin Odeh\, director of the Youth Programme at The Freedom Theatre Jenin \n\n\n\nMarcela Parducci\, producer \n\n\n\nVictoria Walshe\, Global Citizenship Manager at GOAL Global \n\n\n\nSarah Carr\, Youth and Public Engagement Coordinator within GOAL Global’s Global Citizenship department \n\n\n\nJeanne Hurteloup\, Global Citizenship Officer at GOAL Global \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nGOAL NextGen is proud to collaborate with The Friends of the Freedom Theatre (TFT) to present a compelling performance centred on the theme of Belonging. Known for its powerful and socially engaged productions\, The Freedom Theatre uses performance as a tool for reflection\, cultural resistance\, and dialogue. This partnership brings together artists\, activists and performers in Ireland to explore themes of Global Solidarity through a vibrant and inclusive celebration of belonging\, exploring connections that unite individuals and communities in Ireland and beyond.  \n\n\n\nThrough a curated art exhibition featuring visual arts\, music\, poetry\, and spoken word\, attendees will experience diverse perspectives on identity\, culture\, and inclusion and how these themes interest with human rights advocacy. This event aims to foster a more profound sense of connection and shared understanding by bringing together artists\, community leaders\, and the public\, reinforcing that belonging is a personal journey and a collective experience. \n\n\n\nThis event empowers youth to reflect on and communicate themes of identity\, permanence\, and resistance\, core elements of the human rights discourse. By amplifying voices often excluded from mainstream narratives\, the performance fosters empathy\, awareness\, and critical dialogue around the rights to freedom of expression\, cultural participation\, and equality.  Ultimately\, this performance serves as a dynamic and inclusive space for education\, reflection\, and advocacy\, encouraging audiences to engage with human rights not just as abstract principles\, but as lived experiences that demand attention\, solidarity\, and action. \n\n\n\nSpecial thanks to Goal and GoalNextGen; Friends of the Freedom Theatre\, Ireland; the Freedom Theatre Youth Programme\, Jennin\, and Irish aid. \n\n\n\nGOAL NextGen\, supported by Irish Aid\, is a dynamic global citizenship initiative that empowers young people around the globe to become informed\, active changemakers. Through creative exchange\, education\, and youth engagement\, the programme equips the next generation with the knowledge\, skills\, and platforms needed to address global challenges and contribute to a more sustainable and inclusive world. As part of GOAL Global’s wider Global Citizenship Programme\, GOAL NextGen encourages young people to critically reflect on the interconnected nature of our world. Through participatory education\, meaningful engagement\, and practical skills development\, the programme fosters a belief in the possibility of a fairer\, more equal\, and sustainable future. By nurturing global awareness and civic responsibility\, GOAL NextGen helps build a generation of empowered global citizens ready to take action for positive change. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\nSorcha Fox is a spoken word writer and actor. Sorcha was the recipient of an Arts Council Bursary award\, she was also Theatre artist in Residence in The Dock arts centre in 2016. Sorcha received the UNESCO New Work Award and wrote Remember for Lingo: A Spoken Word Festival. Sorcha will be co-leading on the production of this theatre piece alongside Gráinnemir and the GOAL team. \n\n\n\nGráinnemir Amir Abualrob (they/them) is a Palestinian actor\, trainer and facilitator based in Dublin. In 2017\, they completed a 3 years programme at The Freedom Theatre TFT\, Jenin Refugee Camp\, Palestine\, that Focused on Theatre studies and cultural resistance. Working Within the Local Community In Palestine\, by listening to their stories and amplifying their Voices Through our shows. These shows have toured nationally and internationally. Amir’s work currently focuses on Using physical Theatre\, storytelling and Cultural resistance to confront oppression In all Forms of it. Gráinnemir will be co-leading on the production of this theatre piece alongside Sorcha and the GOAL team. \n\n\n\nRanin Odeh is Director of the Youth Programme at The Freedom Theatre Jenin. \n\n\n\nMarcela Parducci is a Brazilian producer and professional making a remarkable impact as the Five Lamps Arts Festival’s Project Manager in the heart of Dublin’s North Inner City. With a passion for community development and the arts\, Marcela leads the way as the driving force behind a captivating community arts festival. Hailing from the vibrant streets of Brazil\, Marcela brings a dynamic blend of cultural influences\, creativity\, and a keen eye for detail to her role. Her expertise in project management ensures that every aspect of the festival\, from planning to execution\, is flawlessly orchestrated.Victoria Walsh is the Global Citizenship Manager at GOAL Global. She leads the strategic direction and delivery of GOAL’s Global Citizenship programmes\, overseeing advocacy\, education\, public engagement\, and youth initiatives within the department.Sarah Carr is the Youth and Public Engagement Coordinator within GOAL Global’s Global Citizenship department. She oversees all youth engagement activities under the GOAL NextGen Youth Programme\, including coordination of public events and outreach. Sarah also oversees the planning and rollout of GOAL’s public engagement initiatives and will be leading the youth engagement of GOAL’s NextGen youth programme involvement in this production.Jeanne Hurteloup is the Global Citizenship Officer at GOAL Global. She supports the department’s various branches\, with a particular focus on youth and public engagement\, contributing to the development and delivery of impactful programming. Jeanne will be supporting on the coordination and support of this production and the NextGen youth programme participant involvement. \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/exploring-cultural-resistance-through-theatre-a-collaboration-between-goal-nextgen-the-friends-of-the-freedom-theatre-youth-programme-jenin-palestine/
LOCATION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:Voices of Peace Artists — Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality present an Evening of Artist Talks\, Poetry and Short Story readings and a display of Artworks
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nThe evening is facilitated by producer Ciara Hayes and writer and poet Mary Moynihan who presents on her work with a poetry reading and talk about the origins of the Voices of Peace programme. Four Voices of Peace Artists were selected through an open call to have their work featured in the July edition of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal  and to become Voices of Peace Artists at the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. The Voices of Peace Artists are Shreya Gupta\, a poet\, short story writer\, and neurodivergent woman; Jessica Rodrigues\, a multidisciplinary artist; Rowan Tate\, a Romanian poet and essayist and Noah Sex\, a visual artist. A final poetry presentation on the evening is by Féilim James\, writer and poet and editor of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal. Voices of Peace Artists are creators whose work highlights or touches on themes of peace\, equality or human rights through powerful artistic expression\, sparking dialogue and new visions for the future.   \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nShreya Gupta – Poet\, short story writer\, and neurodivergent woman  \n\n\n\nJessica Rodrigues – Multidisciplinary artist  \n\n\n\nNoah Sex – Visual Artist  \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Creator of Art and Photography\,  \n\n\n\nFeilim James\, Write and Poet\, Editor of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nVoices of Peace Artists — Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality present an Evening of Artist Talks\, Poetry and Short Story readings and a display of Artworks\n\n\n\nJoin us for Voices of Peace – an evening of artist talks\, poetry and short story readings\, and a display of artworks. The evening features presentations by Voices of Peace Artists as they reflect on  their creative journeys\, the inspirations behind their work\, and the theme of Voices of Peace\, exploring the role of the arts in promoting equality\, human rights\, and diversity worldwide.  The evening is facilitated by producer Ciara Hayes and writer and poet Mary Moynihan who presents on her work with a poetry reading and talk about the origins of the Voices of Peace programme. Four Voices of Peace Artists were selected through an open call to have their work featured in the July edition of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal  and to become Voices of Peace Artists at the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. The Voices of Peace Artists are Shreya Gupta\, a poet\, short story writer\, and neurodivergent woman; Jessica Rodrigues\, a multidisciplinary artist; Rowan Tate\, a Romanian poet and essayist and Noah Sex\, a visual artist. A final poetry presentation on the evening is by Féilim James\, writer and poet and editor of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal. Voices of Peace Artists are creators whose work highlights or touches on themes of peace\, equality or human rights through powerful artistic expression\, sparking dialogue and new visions for the future.   \n\n\n\nVoices of Peace Artists \n\n\n\nIn 2025\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and the Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival issued an open call for submissions to Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal. This edition was themed Voices of Peace. \n\n\n\nFrom this open call\, four artists were selected to have their work featured in the July edition of Tintreach and to become Voices of Peace Artists at the annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025. \n\n\n\nTintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal is an arts and human rights journal that publishes creative work from across the artistic spectrum.  The journal is edited by Féilim James\, a writer and poet\, and produced by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. \n\n\n\nThe Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival runs for ten days\, 10–19 October 2025\, with the Voices of Peace Artists invited to the festival launch on 10 October and interviewed about their work on the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show on Dublin South FM. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nShreya Gupta\, a Dubliner\, is a poet\, short story writer\, and neurodivergent woman. Originally from India\, she has called Ireland home for five years now. She works in the tech industry by day and stretches her evenings finishing her second year of Oxford’s cross-genre creative writing diploma\, specialising in poetry and autofiction. She is interested in contextualising human lives and connections within their sociopolitical systems\, technological advancements\, and psychological mindscapes. Inspired by women writers who challenge the status quo\, her work aims to spark dialogues on under-represented concerns and human relationships with the worlds we inhabit. Visit her Instagram profile here. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Rodrigues is a multidisciplinary artist exploring dreamscapes\, inner worlds\, and symbolic imagery through fine art and custom tattoos. Her work blends tactile intimacy with public-facing art\, translating personal iconography into evocative visual narratives. Click here for her Instagram profile and here for her website. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRowan Tate is a Romanian poet and essayist whose work probes identity\, memory\, and the ways we construct reality. Inspired by the rawness of history and the narratives often left unheard\, her poetry examines the fragile intersections of truth and storytelling\, with her writing appearing in The Stinging Fly\, The Shore\, Josephine Quarterly\, Meniscus\, and elsewhere. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNoah Sex is a third-level student from Dublin\, studying Fine Art in the National College of Art and Design (NCAD). His achievements include the Royal Hibernian Academy Access Grant 2025 and the Sights of Polykites Exhibition\, NCAD Gallery\, 2024. Visit his Instagram profile here. \n\n\n\n\n\nTintreach Edition Three\n\n\n\nThe third edition of Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal is out now\, showcasing the works of Featured Artist Shreya Gupta\, in addition to Jessica Rodrigues\, Rowan Tate\, and Noah Sex. \n\n\n\nThe theme is Voices of Peace. The introduction by editor Féilim James lists a number of actions the Irish government could take to put pressure on Israel to stop the genocide in Gaza\, before giving his thoughts on the role of artists in responding to atrocities. Following this are three poems by Featured Artist Shreya Gupta\, which address the intersection of war\, economic hardship\, religious and ethnic conflict\, and the struggle for peace. Shreya also gives an in-depth Featured Artist Interview where she outlines her creative process with regard to the three poems\, her influences\, what peace means to her\, and more. This is followed by two colourful and striking paintings by Jessica Rodrigues\, which frame peace not just as an absence of conflict\, but as resilience transformed. Two poems by Rowan Tate then explore how political violence is processed by those who bear its brunt. Finally\, two paintings by Noah Sex grapple with the psychology of war and the compassion it prevents us from accessing until it is too late. Click here to read Tintreach Edition Three \n  \n\n\n\nSmashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio show broadcast on Wednesday 3 September and Wednesday 10 September 6-7pm (and available as a podcast)\, features lively chat and debate by co-hosts Mary Moynihan and Freda Manweiler on the opening of the new Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. The new venue features a visual art gallery and event space and the inaugural exhibition is Landscapes of the Soul which runs from Friday 5 September to Sunday 28 September 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. Landscapes of the Soul is a stunning multi-disciplinary exhibition by artist Mary Moynihan featuring beautiful visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul\, reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.      \n\n\n\nOur feature artist interview on the radio show is with Jessica Rodrigues\, a multidisciplinary artist exploring dreamscapes\, inner worlds\, and symbolic imagery through fine art and custom tattoos. Jessica’s work blends tactile intimacy with public-facing art\, translating personal iconography into evocative visual narratives. Enjoy a fascinating interview with Jessica as she talks about her work as a multidisciplinary artist in the areas of fine art and custom tatoos and how the ‘magic happens’\, discussing her creative approaches to Glitter tatoos\, studio Ghibli tatoos and Capybara. Two of Jesscia’s artworks were selected through an open call and are showcased in the July edition of  Tintreach: The Smashing Times Arts and Literary Journal\, edited by Féilim James\, poet and writer\, out now at \n\n\n\n\nhttps://smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/OFFICIAL-Tintreach-Edition-Three-July-2025.pdf\n\n\n\n\nThe Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio show is broadcast every Wednesday 6-7pm with Dublin South FM with each episode available as a podcast. The show is hosted by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photography and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times along with co-host Freda Manweiler\, Producer\, Smashing Times.  Enjoy an engaging hour of in-depth discussions focused on all things arts\, culture and human rights.    Tune in to Dublin South FM 93.9\, or listen online at www.dublinsouthfm.ie. \n\n\n\n Listen to past shows here \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing\, poetry and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual international Arts and Human Rights festival. \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler 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\nIrish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025 \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Front Line Defenders\, and a range of partners present the seventh annual\, international Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival from 10–19 October 2025. The festival features exciting and innovative events that promote equality\, human rights\, and diversity throughout the country. 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\nThe artistic curator for the festival is Mary Moynihan\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times; and the human rights curator is Laura O’Leary\, International Events and Promotions Coordinator\, Front Line Defenders. The festival is a hybrid programme delivered over 10 days\, hosting an exciting blend of events happening in person and online\, featuring Irish and international artists and guest speakers\, reaching audiences locally\, nationally\, and internationally. \n\n\n\nThe festival promotes human rights and justice for all\, and the vision of a world where all people are treated equally\, with dignity\, and respect – linking the arts to civil society\, active citizenship\, and politics\, aiming to celebrate and unite community connections\, artists\, human rights organisations\, and human rights defenders. The festival showcases world-class and diverse acts\, artists\, and speakers\, including up-and-coming performers. It brings arts and human rights together through interdisciplinary events which include workshops\, theatre performances\, musical performances\, visual arts\, exhibitions\, film screenings\, panel discussions\, poetry and literature events\, historical memory performances\, live art\, and more. \n  \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Bridging Worlds – Live interactive art installation
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Dillon\, Humanitarian\, Applied Ethnomusicologist and Art Activist \n\n\n\nBerta Tuahuku\, Social Justice Advocate \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nBridging Worlds is an interactive art installation that invites participants to perform in a piece of self-reflective theatre\, imagining what it might feel like to suddenly flee their home due to a threat to their safety. In an age where social media and news channels broadcast harrowing images of genocide\, war\, and famine around the clock\, we risk becoming desensitised—losing sight of the human stories behind these atrocities which are causing people to become displaced. \n\n\n\nThe piece consists of a long chain of several different textiles and coloured materials\, linking one ‘place’ to another. On this chain\, objects which symbolise travel are placed along it e.g. rucksacks\, travel tags\, tickets etc. Photos with descriptions are also attached\, which tell the stories of different people who have been forcibly displaced throughout the world. \n\n\n\nParticipants are asked\, ‘What would you take with you?’\, and after they transit through\, they are invited to share their own thoughts and add it to the chain. Materials will be available at a workstation for those who wish to spend time writing or creating something to add to the chain. The setting becomes a metaphor for bridging different worlds and transitioning from one place to another. \n\n\n\nThis piece seeks to cut through the desensitisation around forced migration and refocus attention on the individuals whose lives are turned upside down when they are forced to leave behind everything they know. It does not dwell on statistics or specific geopolitical contexts. Instead\, it simply invites participants to engage with personal stories and consider what it might be like to find themselves in a similar situation. \n\n\n\nThis piece was created as an awareness raising project as part of the Creativity and Change course in Munster Technological University\, 2024. The artists are Mary Dillon and Berta Tuahuku and are joined by Tetiana Vysotska\, Noreen Scully and Margaret Cotter. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\nMary Dillon is a humanitarian\, applied ethnomusicologist and art activist. Driven by a passion for culture and social impact\, she has worked with humanitarian organisations in Greece and Ireland\, collaborating with people from displaced communities through creativity\, education and research. Through community music and interactive art projects\, she helps to share and highlight messages of social justice. \n\n\n\nBerta Tuahuku (she/her) is a passionate social justice advocate based in Dublin\, Ireland\, with over five years of experience working and volunteering with displaced communities. She works in communications and advocacy for a non-profit organisation focused on social integration through sport. Berta is also part of an organisation called Europe Must Act\, where she coordinates communications. Deeply committed to equality\, integration\, and collective action\, Berta is active in grassroots initiatives aimed at building more inclusive and connected societies. \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\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/bridging-worlds-live-interactive-art-installation-2/
LOCATION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1
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SUMMARY:Opening Reception and launch of the Seventh Annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival 2025 with Guest Speakers\, Artist Talks\, Exhibition\, Live performance and Refreshments 
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe evening features guest speakers\, artist talks\, the launch of the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition\, and the world premiere of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan\, followed by chat and refreshments. Special guest talks with Mary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet and Creator of Art and Photography; Alan Glasgow\, Executive Director\, Front Line Defenders; and Barry Ward TD Dunlaoghaire-Rathdown. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet and Creator of Art and Photography; Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality; Arts Curator\, Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival \n\n\n\nAlan Glasgow\, Executive Director\, Front Line Defenders \n\n\n\nBarry Ward\, TD\, Dunlaoghaire – Rathdown \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, Write and Poet \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual Artist  \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, MC and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Front Line Defenders and partners are delighted to host and invite you to the opening reception and launch of the seventh annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival taking place on Friday 10 October\, 6.30 to 9pm\, at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. The opening reception and launch features guest speakers\, artist talks\, and the opportunity to attend the launch of and view the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition\, funded by The Arts Council. The reception and launch culminates in a live performance of a new world premiere\, Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan\, presented by Smashing times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Front Line Defenders. The play is adapted from the words 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\nOur guest speakers are Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet and creator of art and photography\, and Artistic Director\, Smashing Times; Alan Glasgow\, Executive Director of Front Line Defenders; and Barry Ward TD\, Dunlaoghaire-Rathdown. \n\n\n\nThe annual international Irish Arts and Human Rights festival is presented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders\, and a range of partners\, from 10 to 19 October 2025\, with over sixty events promoting equality\, human rights and diversity through the arts\, in counties including Dublin\, Limerick\, Mayo\, Wexford\, Cavan\, Galway and online. The festival showcases 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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMultidisciplinary Exhibition  \n\n\n\nAs part of the launch\, audiences have the opportunity to view the Irish in Resistance during World War II multidisciplinary exhibition. This is a multidisciplinary exhibition featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling\, reflecting on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and who spoke out for the rights of others.  A series of powerful  artworks are on display\, created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism. The commissioned artists are Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer; and Smashing Times Artistic Director Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography.  \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is curated by Mary Moynihan\, and was originally funded by The Arts Council Commissions Award under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, and is presented as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The exhibition runs at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\, from Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. \n\n\n\nLive Performance \n\n\n\nThe launch culminates with a live performance of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II by Mary Moynihan. The play is adapted from the words 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\nThe five human rights defenders whose stories feature in the performance are: FannyAnn Eddy (1974-2004)\, LGBTIQ+ activist\, Sierra Leone; Daphne Caruana\, (1964-2017)\,  journalist\, columnist and blogger\, Malta; Rosemary Nelson\, (1958-1999)\, human rights lawyer\, Northern Ireland; Marielle Franco (1979-2018)\, human rights activist and elected council woman\, Brazil and Teresa Magueyal (1958 – 2023)\, woman searcher of disappeared people and a human rights defender\, Mexico.  \n\n\n\nThe play is presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and Frontline Defenders\, and written by Mary Moynihan. This is a new play and is a follow-up to Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part I which was presented at the 2023 and 2024 festivals. Part one in 2024 featured the stories of Lasantha Wickramatunga\, journalist\, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova\, journalist and human rights defender\, Chechnya; Raed Fares\, journalist and activist\, Syria and Bety Cariño\, activist and women’s rights defender\, Mexico.    \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina Khan was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAlan Glasgow has worked for 25 years in development\, humanitarian\, and human rights contexts. He joined as Executive Director of Front Line Defenders in May 2024\, from the position of Regional Director for Asia and Europe with the Washington based Aid Agency\, Mercy Corps. Prior to this he served as Mercy Corps’ European Migration Director. \n\n\n\nAlan has also worked with the International Rescue Committee in New York and as Country Director in Sierra Leone\, and with GOAL as Country Director in Kenya\, South Sudan and Sudan\, and Director of Global Business Development. \n\n\n\nAlan’s leadership experience has focused on work at the frontlines of the world’s most challenging human rights environments\, including Afghanistan\, Gaza\, Liberia\, Myanmar\, Sierra Leone\, South Sudan\, Sudan\, Syria\, Ukraine and Yemen. His career has demonstrated a profound commitment to the rights of the marginalized and his work has been underpinned by a belief in the principles of human rights. \n\n\n\nAlan holds a Master’s Degree from UCD in addition to professional training with Columbia and Harvard Universities. He lives in Dublin. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James is an award-winning writer from Dublin\, Ireland. In 2020\, the Arts of Council of Ireland awarded Féilim a Literature Bursary Award to finish his debut novel\, Flower of Ash\, as well as a Professional Development Award. He received an Arts Bursary from Dublin City Arts Office in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. His short fiction and poetry have appeared in numerous journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, and Icarus. His work through Irish\, under Féilim Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards. His short fiction and poetry\, through English and Irish\, have appeared in a number of journals\, including The Fiction Pool\, The Galway Review\, Icarus\, and Comhar. A short film Féilim wrote\, titled The Big No\, produced by Smashing Times\, was shortlisted by the IndieX Film Festival\, and his play At Summer’s End has toured Ireland. \n\n\n\nIn The Big No\, a young man tells the story of his psychological unravelling and subsequent mental health crisis. Told in the form of a voiceover monologue accompanied by compelling imagery\, this poetic short film takes us on a journey of despair\, introspection\, and hope. As he battles against panic attacks and suicidal thoughts\, he is forced to face the ‘why’ of his problems head on\, learning some essential truths about himself and the world. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play At Summer’s End has been on tour with Smashing Times as part of The Woman is Present: Women’s Stories of WWII.  At Summer’s End is based on the life-story of Ettie Steinberg\, an Irish woman who was murdered\, along with her family\, at Auschwitz. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s themes are wide-ranging\, and include identity\, mental illness\, guilt\, human animalism\, death\, and humankind’s relationship with nature. He is committed to maintaining an ever evolving and progressive approach to his work\, with each book both building on the last and differing in a vital way. In other words\, the aforementioned themes will change as time passes\, as will their stylistic rendering. ‘My inspirations are many and wide-ranging. To the fore are James Joyce\, Sylvia Plath\, John Banville\, Marilynne Robinson\, Ted Hughes\, TS Eliot\, Seán Ó Ríordáin\, and Radiohead’. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n\n\n\n  \n\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\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary Installation
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\n \n\n\n\nThe installation features original artworks by Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer and poet; and Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, creator of art and photograph\, created in response to stories of people who stood up for the rights of others. Alongside these artworks we have original artworks by Noah Sex\, visual artist\, and Jessica Rodrigues\, visual artist\, whose work highlights themes of peace\, equality or human rights through powerful artistic expression\, sparking dialogue and new visions for the future. The Irish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary installation runs Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily at the Smashing Times International Visual Art Gallery\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. \n\n\n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nFree admission \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Creator of Art and Photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival.  Mary is a Curator and Artist on the Irish in Resistance during World War II Installation \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat\, Visual Artist \n\n\n\nFéilim James\, Writer \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nIrish in Resistance during World War II is a multidisciplinary installation featuring visual art\, photography\, film\, poetry\, and storytelling. The installation reflects on stories of Irish people in resistance during the Holocaust and World War II who stood up against fascism and totalitarianism\, and spoke out for the rights of others.  The  installation features work by Hina Khan\, visual artist; Amna Walayat\, visual artist; Féilim James\, writer and poet; and Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography.  \n\n\n\nDuring the current climate of war in Ukraine\, Gaza and a range of countries and regions around the world\, Smashing Times look to the past history of World War II to share stories of ordinary people who did extraordinary things to stand up against oppression and fascism. Irish in Resistance During World War II focuses on a diversity of citizen peaceful resistance stories\, exploring voices of resistance from ordinary Irish people who stood up against fascism and  totalitarianism. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage\, and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within Nazi concentration camps and in wider society during World War II. This installation highlights how Irish people risked their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equally\, where democracy\, equality\, and peace prevail. \n\n\n\nThe Irish in Resistance during World War II Multidisciplinary installation runs Friday 10 October to Sunday 30 November 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily at the Smashing Times International Visual Art Gallery\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Sandycove\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. The exhibition will be closed on Thurs 16\, Sat 18 and Sun 19 October while festival events take place in the space. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is launched as part of the public reception for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival taking place on Friday 10 October 2025 at the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. \n\n\n\nThe four artists from the Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary installation will feature in \n\n\n\na public event titled Voices of Peace Artists taking place on Saturday 11 October 2025 at 7pm at the \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. \n\n\n\nMembers of the public\, schools\, and youth and community groups are invited to attend the installation\, engage with the artworks\, and meet the artists through talks and workshops\, bringing people together to raise awareness about the power of solidarity\, kindness\, and the values of equality\, human rights\, diversity\, democracy\, peace\, and gender equality today. \n\n\n\nThe installation features 12 storyboard artworks showcasing the stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II with each story accompanied by a headshot and photographic artwork inspired by Irish  and European landscapes. A series of artworks inspired by the stories are on display. These include visual artworks by Hina Khan\, visual artist and Amna Walayat\, visual artist\, a series of poems by Féilim James\, writer and poet\, and poetry and film installations by Mary Moynihan\, writer\, poet and creator of art and photography. Artist Mary Moynihan initially compiled the stories of 12 Irish people involved in the resistance during World War II\, with the stories acting as a catalyst for the collaborative creation of the new artworks. A special thanks to John Morgan for research on the stories. \n\n\n\nOrigins of the Exhibition \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality received funding from The Arts Council Commissions Award in 2024 under visual art\, literature\, and festivals\, to create an Irish in Resistance exhibition curated by Mary Moynihan\, a writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography.  \n\n\n\nA series of original\, ambitious new artworks were commissioned and created by artists Mary Moynihan\, Féiliim James\, Hina Khan and Amna Walayat as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The artworks were created in response to the theme of ‘Irish in Resistance\,’ reflecting on stories of Irish people who promoted democracy and peace\, and stood up against authoritarianism to protect the rights of others during World War II. Four artists were originally commissioned and twelve stories of Irish in Resistance were researched and presented as storyboard artworks alongside a range of artworks created by the four artists in response to the stories gathered. The exhibition was presented on-site at The Ireland Institute\, 27 Pearse Street\, Dublin 2\, from 11–31 October 2024\, Monday to Sunday\, 10am-7pm as a flagship event for the sixth annual Dublin International Arts and Human Rights festival in 2024.  \n\n\n\nA selection of the  exhibition was also  available to view online in digital format as part of the Smashing Times Virtual Arts Gallery\, increasing access for those unable to attend the physical exhibition\, as well as highlighting the work of the artists on an international scale.  The exhibition promoted a collaboration between two visual artists\, one writer\, and one writer-poet-photographer-filmmaker\, creating work collaboratively to promote equality\, human rights\, and diversity. The four artists created their artworks in collaboration with each other so that there is a genuine integration of visual art\, photography\, poetry\, and film. \n\n\n\nArtistic Process: Hope\, Courage\, Resilience \n\n\n\nIn 2024\, research was conducted by Mary Moynihan on 12 stories of Irish peope in resistance during World War II. This was then presented to the artists as part of the Smashing Times Artist Development Programme. The stories gathered act as inspiration for the collective of artists made up of visual artist Amna Walayat\, visual artist Hina Khan\, writer Féilim James\, and writer\, poet\, and creator of art and photography Mary Moynihan. \n\n\n\nThe exhibition is inspired by themes of resistance\, courage\, oppression\, and freedom\, as told through the stories of Irish people in resistance during World War II. The exhibition reflects on the insidious nature and impact of fascism\, totalitarianism\, and dictatorship\, and the power of the human struggle against a tendency to control and destroy. The stories are of people who resist through violent resistance\, non-violent resistance\, and by continuing to be human\, to hold on to their humanity\, and to be kind. What is important are values in life. A key question to explore is how someone who believes in non-violent resistance should act when faced with a military and political behemoth such as Nazism. \n\n\n\nThe curator and artist Mary Moynihan has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women and men who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history from 1916 to 1923. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nHina was born in born in Pakistan in 1980 and completed an MFA\, majoring in Miniature Painting from Pakistan. Hina’s work uses a mixture of traditional and innovative techniques in miniatures. She portrays social issues\, immigration\, humanitarian crises like prostitution\, gender discrimination\, gender restrictions\, trauma\, child abuse and killing  in her work. \n\n\n\nHina uses  miniature in her work as the  intricacy and delicacy of the brush work has a unique identity. Hina’s work began as a mixture of traditional and contemporary miniature and her practice has now expanded to include small and large-scale installation\, videos and 3D. \n\n\n\nAccording to Hina ‘My work is a constant search for the best way to interpret ideas and to express my own ideologies through symbolism.  I am creating a dialogue through my art. My art is a reflection of inner connection\, and how immigrants and nomadic artists are a part of this land. Migration is deeply rooted in my blood. I have carried two cultures\, one from where I was born and the other is this culture where I am trying to re-root myself. Sometimes a situation is not in our control\, but life always takes us on different voyages. This journey has built up a constant transition in my art\, personality\, and in terms of experimentation\, enabling me to evolve my artistic practice.’ \n\n\n\nHina has participated in a number of groups shows in Pakistan from 2002 to 2011. Hina came to Ireland in 2015 and participated in a number of exhibitions in Dublin\, Laois\, Mayo\, and Cork. Hina was awarded several residencies with Fire Station Arts Center\, Create Ireland\, West Cork Art Center and Cow House Studio and has displayed solo exhibitions at Ballina Art Center\, Mayo\, and Stradbally Art house\, Laois. \n\n\n\nHina’s art pieces are held in the permanent collection of The Arts Council of Ireland. She is the recipient of several awards from The Arts Council of Ireland\, Create Ireland\, and from different counties. She is the recipient of an R&D award from Create Ireland in collaboration with Tomasz Madajezak under the mentorship of Jesse Jones and is also collaborating with filmmaker David Bickley. Currently she is preparing artworks for State of the Art: The Nation State as both Violator and Protector of Human Rights presented by Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\,  funded by The Arts Council and is working on a  solo show which will be displayed in the LHQ gallery in 2022. \n\n\n\nHina says that ‘as an artist\,  I am inspired by Sadequain\, Michelangelo\, Picasso\, Frida Kahlo\, Shahzia Sikander and Anselm Kiefer.’ \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAmna Walayat has an M.A. in Modern and Contemporary Art\, History\, Theory and Criticism from University College Cork (2015) and M.A. in Fine Arts from University of the Punjab\, Lahore in Pakistan (2002). She has worked as a Program Organizer with the Pakistan National Council of the Arts; Curator with Alhamra Arts Council and PhD studio-based researcher with PURAF\, University of the Punjab. Her interest lies in British India\, colonialism\, orientalism\, migration\, and gender with the current focus on feminism. \n\n\n\nHer recent shows include Maternal Gaze online\, IMMA\, 2021. Constellation\, a two-person e-show\, LHQ Gallery\, Cork County Council. Imagine online Christ Church\, Dublin\, 2020. Transhumance\, The Space\, Dublin7\, 2020. \n\n\n\nShe recently initiated the Ireland-Pakistan Arts Exchange (IPAE) to bring both art communities together through creating opportunities for networking and exchange. She has curated an e-exhibition\, Re-Root with the Pakistani Artists Community in Ireland in collaboration with the Embassy of Pakistan\, Dublin (August 2020) and organised Opportunities in Pakistan\, a Visual Artists online Café in collaboration with VAI\, December 2020. \n\n\n\nAmna Walayat resided in the UK and France before settling in Cork\, Ireland. She is a recipient of Arts Council Ireland Visual Artist Bursary Award\, 2020 and Recipient of Glucksman Art Gallery Cork\, Curatorial Mentoring Support under a Professional Development Award 2021 and the Dilkusha Award 2021.  Currently she is Member of Art Nomads\, Smashing Times Dublin\, Sample Studios Cork\, Angelica Network\, Visual Artists Ireland\, Lavit Gallery Cork\, Cork Print Makers under the Dilkusha Award. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFéilim James\, from Dublin\, Ireland\, is an author of fiction\, poetry\, and plays. His fiction\, non-fiction\, and poetry\, through both English and Irish\, have earned a number of awards and publications. In 2024\, his poem ‘Dream of an Atrocity’ was shortlisted for the New Irish Writing: Best Poetry category at the Irish Book Awards. He has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland on three occasions\, including for his novel\, Flower of Ash. Dublin City Arts Office granted him an Arts Bursary in 2021 to finish his first poetry collection\, I was a river\, lost. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s work has appeared in the Irish Independent’s New Irish Writing\, Acumen\, Abridged\, The High Window\, The Fiction Pool\, Icarus\, TOWER\, The Galway Review\, A New Ulster\, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation\, Pendemic\, Rant and Rave\, Vox Galvia\, the Smashing Times Newsletter\, and Tales From the Forest. He has had four plays and two short films produced. Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality have performed\, published\, or exhibited at least 20 of Féilim’s poems\, in locations such as Dublin Castle\, the Mill Theatre Dundrum\, on their website\, and in their newsletter. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s play Sole Flower\, Spidered Soul (2023)\, about the relationship between James and Lucia Joyce\, had its premiere run in the Pumphouse\, Dublin Port\, in October 2023\, as part of Smashing Times’ Dublin Arts and Human Rights Festival. Its director was Patrick Joseph Byrnes\, who again directed when it had its second run\, this time in The New Theatre\, Dublin in June 2024\, as part of Bloomsday Festival. His play At Summer’s End (2019)\, about Ettie Steinberg\, a real-life Jewish-Irish woman facing the horrors of the Holocaust\, has been toured by Smashing Times to places such as Paris\, Northern Ireland\, and Áras an Uachtaráin\, the residency of the President of Ireland. \n\n\n\nFéilim’s Irish language writing\, under the surname Ó Brádaigh\, has won seven Oireachtas na Gaeilge literary awards\, including one for a collection of poetry. These awards are the most prestigious in Irish language literature. His work through Irish has appeared in Comhar\, Feasta\, Trinity Journal of Literary Translation\, Comhar Óg\, Tuathal\, and An Scríbhneoir Óg. Additionally\, he has twice been selected for Fóras na Gaeilge’s Tutor Scheme. \n\n\n\nFéilim graduated from the BA in English Literature and Psychology in Trinity College\, Dublin in 2017. In 2020\, he completed the MA in Writing in NUI Galway\, studying under the likes of Mike McCormack and Arnold Thomas Fanning\, and receiving a first-class honour. He is currently seeking literary representation and publishers for his books. Visit his website here. \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\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:Landscapes of the Soul Multidisciplinary Exhibition with artist Mary Moynihan – Inaugural exhibition for the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality
DESCRIPTION:Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \n\n\nThe exhibition runs from Friday 5 September to  Sunday 5 October 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. Landscapes of the Soul is the inaugural exhibition for the new Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1. An opening reception\, public launch and artist talk  takes place on Friday 5 September 2025\, 7-9pm. \n\n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nNo Booking Necessary \n\n\n\nArtists\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, Writer\, Poet\, Creator of Art and Photography\, Artistic Director\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Arts Curator for the annual International Irish Arts and Human Rights festival \n\n\n\nHina Khan\, visual artist \n\n\n\nFreda Manweiler\, Company Manager and Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nCiara Hayes\, Producer\, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan and Hina Khan\, Co-Curators \n\n\n\nBarry Ward\, TD\, Dúnlaoighre – Fine Gael \n\n\n\nCllr Justin Moylan\, Dúnlaoighre – Fianna Fáil \n\n\n\nBlathnaid Daly\, Singer and Performer \n  \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLandscapes of the Soul is a stunning multi-disciplinary exhibition by artist Mary Moynihan featuring beautiful visual art\, photography\, poetry and film mapping physical landscapes of nature to landscapes of the soul\, reflecting on ways to hold on to the courage to be who we truly are and to let ourselves shine.   In homage to the human spirit\, the exhibition brings together visual imagery\, poetry and film to reflect on meaning-making and pathways of expression\, mapping physical landscapes and seascapes to human emotions from grief and longing to inner peace\, spirituality and love.   The exhibition is a journey of exploration inspired by an engagement with landscapes and seascapes and is a gentle provocation to all of us to reimagine the landscapes of our natural environment\, the vast lands and oceans we call our home\, linked to the landscapes of our internal well-being.  \n\n\n\nThis unique exhibition premiered in 2024 at Rathfarnham Castle Dublin to great acclaim and is now on show at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery\, 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin A96V9P1. The exhibition runs from Friday 5 September to Sunday 5 October 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. Landscapes of the Soul is the inaugural exhibition to launch the new Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality Visual Art Gallery and Arts Centre at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1.  \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan (she/her) is an award-winning writer\, poet\, theatre and filmmaker and  a creator of art and photography. Mary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, and Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival supported by The Arts Council.  \n\n\n\nKey note Speaker: Barry Ward\, Teachta Dála (TD) for Dún Laoghaire. Fine Gael. \n\n\n\nBarry was elected as a member of Dáil Éireann in November\, 2024. Prior to that\, Barry served as a Senator\, and was Seanad spokesperson on Justice. A practicing barrister\, Barry is originally from Deansgrange. He was first elected to Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council in 2009\, representing the Blackrock Ward\, which also includes Booterstown\, Deansgrange\, Foxrock\, Monkstown and Stillorgan. Barry also served as Leader of the Fine Gael group on the Council. In 2020\, he was elected to the Industrial and Commercial Panel of the Seanad\, having stood in that year’s general election in the Dún Laoghaire constituency. \n\n\n\nOn the Council\, Barry worked tirelessly on various local issues including parks\, recycling\, public transport and cycling infrastructure\, climate action\, coastal issues and supporting local businesses. In the Seanad\, he has championed criminal justice reform\, and has a particular interest in education\, foreign affairs\, the environment and promoting the Irish language – ár dteanga náisiúnta. \n\n\n\nA sailor\, Barry has been vocal in his support for the Irish Coast Guard and the RNLI\, and speaks frequently about water safety and the need for the improvement of water quality in Dublin Bay. He is a member of the Oireachtas committees on Justice\, An Ghaeilge\, and Members’ Interests\, and is also an Irish Co-Chair of the Inter-Parliamentary Alliance on China (IPAC). \n\n\n\nBarry has fought hard for gender and marriage equality and is a strong advocate for change. He is a leading voice in local campaigns\, such as the Sutton to Sandycove (S2S) Coastal Promenade and locating a new permanent home for Gaelscoil Laighean in Blackrock as well as providing strong contributions to discussions on ongoing international events in occupied Palestine\, Taiwan\, Hong Kong and Belarus\, even adopting a Belarusian political prisoner. \n\n\n\nIn his spare time\, Barry enjoys walks with his cocker spaniel\, Ruby\, on Dún Laoghaire Pier\, on Killiney Hill and in Cabinteely Park. He speaks Irish and French\, and hosts the Irish Legislation Podcast. \n\n\n\nAbout the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery and Arts and Human Rights Centre \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality is an award-winning international organisation and arts space dedicated to the promotion\, study and practice of the arts for equality\, human rights and diversity. The mission of the centre is to lead the development of the arts to promote and advance equality and human rights and to connect citizens to the arts\, human rights\, climate justice\, gender equality and peace\, working with artists and local communities and communities of interest to create collaborative art practice in local\, national\, European and international settings. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to open a new\, intimate multifunctional arts space at 30 Sandycove Road\, Dublin\, A96V9P1.  The centre operates as a world class arts space and digital hub for artists\, citizens\, communities and the general public across Ireland\, Northern Ireland and internationally. The centre is the first of its kind in Ireland and serves as a unique venue in Dublin\, delivering high-impact cultural programming rooted in social justice\, inclusivity\, and creative expression. \n\n\n\nThe centre is a dual-purpose art space (approximately 100 to 120 square metres) serving as both a visual art gallery and a space for live events. This new arts and human rights centre is dedicated to professional arts practice\, community engagement and inspired by the arts for equality human rights\, diversity\, democracy and peace. The centre’s inaugural show is a powerful exhibition Landscapes of the Soul\, featuring artworks by artist Mary Moynihan.  The exhibition runs from Friday 5 September to Sunday 28 September 2025\, Wednesday to Sunday 1-6pm daily. \n\n\n\nThe centre fosters a connected atmosphere\, encouraging engagement between artists and audiences.  The centre’s hybrid nature – visual art gallery and space for live events – makes it ideal for artists working across disciplines and for organisations seeking to integrate different art forms under one roof. This adaptable setup supports a wide range of practices: from visual and installation art to live performance and events\, to spoken word\, to professional art workshops\, a Youth Arts programme and a range of training and public engagement workshops. \n\n\n\nDuring gallery hours\, the space operates as a contemporary exhibition area\, with white walls that provide a clean backdrop for visual artworks. Works are hung or installed with care to preserve openness in the space for exhibitions and installations comprising visual art\, photography\, sculpture and film installations. \n\n\n\nAt scheduled times\, the gallery transforms into a venue for performances\, music\, readings\, panel discussions or talks as well as community events and workshops of all kinds. \n\n\n\nThe space features a flat floor with no raised seating\, allowing for flexible arrangement of chairs or floor seating depending on the event. Lighting is minimal and incudes fixed overhead fixtures and portable lights designed for medium scale performances\, events\, readings or rehearsals. Black curtains throughout transform the space from a gallery into a live performance venue. The flooring is a durable laminate\, light grey surface. Acoustics rely on natural sound of the space with a PA system for amplification. \n\n\n\nLocated in Dublin\, Ireland\, the Smashing Times space offers a flexible\, low-tech environment that accommodates up to 70 people. This versatile space fosters a close-knit\, immersive atmosphere\, ideal for professional arts programming\, multidisciplinary work and community engagement. \n\n\n\nNice to Know – Connections to Nature: The Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality at 30 Sandycove Road is situated in Sandycove\, County Dublin\, Ireland. It lies approximately 300 to 400 metres from the beautiful Sandycove Pier and the adjacent iconic Forty Foot swimming area. This equates to a brief 3 to 5-minute walk to the sea\, depending on your pace. The route is straightforward and pedestrian-friendly\, making it convenient for regular visits to the seafront. With the sea only minutes away\, the space is both physically and creatively inspired by our surrounding environment. \n\n\n\nUp the road\, approximately a 10 to 15 minute walk from 30 Sandycove Road is the People’s Park in Dún Laoghaire\, a landscaped Victorian park that features formal gardens\, a bandstand\, a playground\, and a popular Sunday market offering local produce and crafts. \n\n\n\nThere are several wooded areas within a short drive including Killiney Hill Park. This park is located about 3 km south of Sandycove and offers wooded trails and panoramic views of Dublin Bay. Cabinteely Park is approximately 5 km west of Sandycove\, and this expansive park features woodlands\, a large pond\, and open spaces. \n\n\n\nFrom 30 Sandycove Road\, the scenic Carrickgollogan Wood is about 12 kilometers (7.5 miles)  located to the southwest in Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown\, Ireland. The drive typically takes around 20 to 25 minutes\, depending on traffic conditions. Carrickgollogan Wood features a variety of walking trails\, including the Lead Mines Way\, a 2.3 km loop offering impressive views over Dublin Bay\, the city\, and the coast. The viewing rock at Carrickgollogan Hill is approximately 276 meters high\, offering panoramic views of south Dublin and north Wicklow. The area is also home to the historic Ballycorus lead mines chimney\, a remnant of 19th-century lead mining operations. \n  \n\n\n\nSpeaker Biographies:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMary Moynihan MA \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films\, Plays \n\n\n\nCreator of Art and Photography \n\n\n\nCreative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Equality\, Leadership and Self-Esteem \n\n\n\nMary Moynihan\, MA\, she/her\, is an award-winning author of novels\, poetry\, films and plays\, and a creator of art and photography. Mary is from Dublin\, Ireland. Mary embarked upon her award-winning career as a writer in theatre and film and has garnered much acclaim for her plays\, poetry and short film scripts\, and for creating interdisciplinary artworks combining writing and photography presented in galleries and online. She established and became Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality and is Artistic Curator for the annual Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival. Mary has an honours BA in Drama and Theatre Studies from Trinity College Dublin and an honours Masters in Film Production from TU Dublin. \n\n\n\nAfter raising four children\, now adults\, Mary dedicated her time to becoming a writer. She writes fiction for young people and adults featuring stories of courage\, laughter\, tragedy\, happiness\, love\, death and action-packed adventures. Mary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. In her adult fiction\, Mary’s characters are clever\, fearless\, vulnerable\, crazy\, strong\, and dangerous\, looking for love\, fun\, success and happiness. Her work promises enthralling plots\, dramatic lives\, lots of laughs\, serious flirting and sexual intrigue and insights into love\, happiness\, creativity and meaning in life. \n\n\n\nMary pens a series of articles titled Creative Reflections on Arts\, Creativity\, Leadership and Self-Esteem which appear in the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality newsletter and on Mary’s website marymoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nIn her free time Mary loves to spend time with her four adult children and hang out with friends.  She swims in the sea all year round. She loves the ocean\, sky and moon and has a spiritual connection to the Atlantic Ocean and Irish Sea\, to the environs of Dublin bay and to the mystical landscapes of Valentia Island and the surrounding Iveragh peninsula in County Kerry\, her spiritual home. She is a big fan of the Dublin Gaelic football and hurling teams. \n\n\n\nSmashing Times \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Director of Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality working collaboratively with artists and over fifty organisations across Ireland\, Northern Ireland\, Europe and internationally\, using the arts to promote rights and values for all. Company patrons are Sabina Higgins; Joan Freeman\, founder of Pieta House; Ger Ryan\, actor and Tim Pat Coogan\, writer and historian. Founding patrons were writers Maeve Binchy and Brian Friel. \n\n\n\nMary is Artistic Curator for the annual\, international Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival implemented by Smashing Times and Front Line Defenders with Amnesty International\, Fighting Words\, ICCL\, NWCI\, Irish Modern Dance Theatre\, Trócaire\, Poetry Ireland and Irish Pen\, and funded by The Arts Council. The festival highlights 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\nAwards \n\n\n\nMary’s work has won a number of awards\, including the Allianz Business to Arts Special Judges DAA Arts Award at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre\, the international and prestigious #ArtsAgainstCovid award from the Arts in Health International Foundation and an Arts Council Agility Award. Mary was awarded a Project Award from The Arts Council to write a new work with a range of collaborators titled The Feeling Soul\, inspired by stories of women poets from ancient and modern Ireland.    \n\n\n\nWriter of Novels\, Poetry\, Films and Plays \n\n\n\nMary is the author of the epic spoken word poem  ‘Ode to a Coolock Queen’’\, written from a female perspective and exploring identity\, gender\, violence\, passion\, self-destruction and possible redemption. An attempt as Sylvia Plath says  ‘to be true to my own weirdnesses’. It is an oral storytelling narrative that is about a broader reflection on what it is to be born out of a working class environment.  This poem is in homage to all people from working-class communities who find their strength and become their own kings and queens like warriors from an ancient past. \n\n\n\nMary is the author of a young adult fantasy novel Amergin and the Warriors of Zen. As 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; Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory; Tales of Love and Loss featuring two monologues selected by President Michael D Higgins for performance at Áras an Uachtaráin\, Constance and Her Friends and Grace and Joe for performance in 2023; In One Breath from the award-winning Testimonies(co-written with Paul Kennedy); Shadow of My Soul and May Our Faces Haunt You. \n\n\n\nPlays for children and young people include Gathering on the Pond\, a comedy play on the environment by Mary Moynihan and Aoife Reilly;  Love the Earth by Mary Moynihan – A Change-Makers Storytelling session for ages 5 to 12 years adapted from three stories – The Water Princess\, The Hummingbird\, and The Salmon of Knowledge – from Goal’s Global Citizenship Education Resource; and Four Great Plays for Young Children\, a series of short plays suitable for performance by children ages 5 to 12 years – The Children of Lir\, The Three Bears\, The Princess Play and Legend of the Dragon Kings \n\n\n\nMary has a focus on using historical memory in her artistic practice as inspiration for the creation of original artworks. A number of her writings highlight stories of ordinary yet extraordinary women who stood up for the rights of others with a focus on the Holocaust\, WWII and the revolutionary period in Irish history. \n\n\n\nMary’s documentary film work includes The Shoah: A Survivor’s Memory – The World’s Legacy\, adapted from the writings of French woman Simone Veil (1927-2017)\, a French lawyer\, politician and feminist\, Holocaust survivor and first female President of the European Parliament; the creative documentary Women in an Equal Europe; the short film Letter to a Human Rights Defender based on words by Mary Lawlor\, a Human Rights Defender\, founder of Front Line Defenders and UN Ambassador on Human Rights Defenders; the hour-long documentary Stories from the Shadows reflecting on the arts in peacebuilding in Northern Ireland (co-directed with Mark Quinn);  You Matter\, a filmed interview with social justice campaigner Dil Wickremasinhge and the short documentary Acting for the Future on the role of the arts to promote positive mental health and well-being and suicide prevention for Travellers in Ireland. \n\n\n\nKeep in touch with Mary on: \n\n\n\nTel: + 00 353 (0) 87 7438722 \n\n\n\nEmail: marymoynihanarts@gmail.com \n\n\n\nWebsite: MaryMoynihan.ie \n\n\n\nFollow Mary on Facebook\, Instagram and LinkedIn \n  \n\n\n\n\n\nReflections on an Artistic Home\n\n\n\nBy Mary Moynihan \n\n\n\nMany of today’s artists live ‘nomadic’ lives and work in ‘nomadic’ practices.  Nomadic means to roam or travel from place to place.  Artists survive on adaptable practices travelling from one grant to another\, one contract to another\, one venue to another\, from a residency to a gallery\, to a theatre\, to a community centre\, and from the local to the global. Artists move from space to space creating excellent work available to the public. Many artists however do not have access to a permanent building to call their artistic home. The artist is ‘homeless’\, moving from building to building they have no  ownership or say in. \n\n\n\nThis may be a choice but often it is not. We continue to see an unequal distribution of funding and unequal access to power making structures within the arts. It is a world of visible and invisible exclusions\, where freedom is supposedly encouraged yet continuously contained and increasingly ‘managed’ by everyone except the artists themselves.   \n\n\n\nPower can be expressed through architectural design. Large building complexes can convey wealth and authority through scale. Wealth often demonstrates its own excesses by putting up even bigger buildings\, immense ‘towers of babel’. In the past massive cathedrals were built to showcase power. Research today demonstrates a link between building super-tall skyscrapers and wealth inequality especially when the buildings house super-wealthy owners or large corporations. \n\n\n\nWhat building work is taking place in Ireland today to create small to medium scale people-friendly accessible art and community buildings? Where are the spaces that artists and arts organisations can run themselves and even own\, buildings for people of all ages to come together to make and view art\, to hang out and connect. Where we do have large buildings that currently house art centres\, it is always a pleasure when that space becomes a ‘home’ to the artists and communities who animate and use the space. I believe cultural spaces feel more meaningful when they’re genuinely owned and shaped by the artists and communities themselves\, rather than just being “for” them in name only. \n\n\n\nWhat is an artistic home? How can artists and art collectives afford beautiful buildings in the centres of cities and towns where they can work and connect with audiences? Can we remain nomadic\, travelling out to various sites\, with the option to return to a permanent base?  Without affordable spaces to make art in\, and proper funding to work with\, arts communities disappear. It is important to have full transparency around the allocation of public buildings to artists and communities. Unfortunately in Ireland today artists continue to experience difficulties in trying to find space to work in that is accessible and affordable.  \n\n\n\nArt was initially done in traditional buildings with a purpose built theatre or gallery but now art can happen anywhere.  Art galleries often had a permanent physical location within a specific building and the design of the gallery itself is consider an important aesthetic consideration. We now have a more fluid approach to art with online gallery spaces and pop-up galleries.  Smashing Times\, with funding from the Arts Council\, have created an online gallery designed by digital artist Paul Marshall to showcase high quality artworks that reflect on equality\, rights and diversity. \n\n\n\nHaving a permanent home does not mean that successful existing partnerships between arts organisations and art spaces stop.   Smashing Times work with a range of venues such as The Barracks in Cahersiveen. We have used a top floor of this building as a temporary art gallery and are working towards the creation of a permanent mixed-use room for showcasing artworks\, workshops and talks. This building is situated on an  elevated site close to the bridge over the River Fertha in Cahersiveen and was constructed between 1870 and 1875 as a police station for the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC). Following the Fenian Rising of 1867\, the authorities wanted to protect the transatlantic telegraph cable\, a valuable piece of infrastructure\, which terminated at Valentia Island nearby. This resulted in the design of a large\, military-style building and its construction on a site that commanded views over the bay and Valentia Island. \n\n\n\nWe work in beautiful buildings such as Rathfarnham Castle\, the Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park\, presenting multidisciplinary exhibitions and walk-about shows.  This type of artistic collaboration benefits the building\, artists and surrounding communities. \n\n\n\nOur dream is a building for the Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Human Rights\, a space where artists\, citizens and communities come together to make and share art to promote equality\, human rights and diversity.  This is an arts\, community\, youth and ‘all-ages’ space\, with a gallery-performance venue\,  workshop and rehearsal space.   It is a place for innovation\, excitement and experimentation\, where digital technologies exist side by side with the ancient art of bringing people together\, a space animated by artists\, communities\, citizens\, human rights defenders\, and by you and I. A space where we celebrate our shared humanity and create new visions for a peaceful and equal future for all.    \n  \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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