IWD 2021
Events will all be online and some require registration through individual organisations’ websites.
Art Activist Workshop with IMELDAs, Ann Rossiter and Helena Walsh
THIS EVENT HAS TO BE RESCHEDULED DUE TO ONE FACILITATOR AT RISK WHO CAN NO LONGER TRAVEL
This participatory workshop is aimed at sharing knowledge and developing new activist strategies. It is facilitated by Ann Rossiter and Helena Walsh, activists, creative agitators and mischief makers, who collaborated as members of the direct action feminist performance group Speaking of IMELDA. Rossiter, a historian, was also a member of Irish Women's Abortion Support Group. Walsh is a practicing live artist. Drawing on their experience of feminist activism they will share their activist toolkit. Through discussion and activities workshop participants will be supported in devising new activist strategies.
20 places available, food provided tickets £5-10
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The event is organised by The Strand Arts Centre, Array Studios and Northern Ireland Screen Digital Film Archive, with funding from Film Hub NI and Alliance for Choice
Cuerpos Gramaticales - The Sowing Of Life Beyond SKIN
Cuerpos Gramaticales - The Sowing of Life, is inspired by a Agroarte Colombia project that began in Comuna 13, Medellin, which uses the arts, body, memory and the land to contribute to reconciliation, dialogue, healing, sharing experiences and stories, meeting new people while being creative and celebrating diversity. The project migrated to Barcelona with the Colombian diaspora and will now take place in Mid Ulster area Northern Ireland 2020. A series of preparation workshops will take place March - May 2020.
This project will be a process of creative workshop and encounters with different women, and migrants groups, Agroarte young people from different diasporas and will end with a final 'public performance' during which the project's participants are collectively "planting" themselves with flowers into the ground in a public place to create catharsis. See videos below.
There is a depth to the project around Truth & Memory which will be facilitated by professionals. Participants who will get involved will design the whole process and decide their own reasons for taking part in the planting: healing, protest, a symbol of planting new family roots in the area, connecting with the land, letting go, starting a new life, forgiveness, celebrate their migration process, etc.
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Development plans started on International Women's Day 8th March 2019.
Participant activities scheduled to begin 8th March 2020. Please email beyondskinoffice@gmail.com to be included in updates.
Now For The North: The Unfinished Revolution
Now for The North: The Unfinished Revolution is the third and final instalment of site specific, immersive “choice” theatre from Three’s Theatre Company. With separate journeys around the MAC, the production explores reproductive rights in Northern Ireland.
Three’s Theatre Company first created this production for the anniversary of the Repeal in May 2019, which was performed at The Lyric. Following its success and a sold out run, a new version exploring more stories came to the MAC in September for The Rally For a Choice and International Safe Abortion Day.
Three's Theatre Company have updated the scripts and logistics, and added a few new scenes to this final instalment of Now For The North, with the aim of reducing the stigma surrounding abortion.
Whether you missed it the first and second time, or you caught it and found it an important experience - this will be your last chance to see Now For The North.
10% of all ticket income will be donated to Alliance for Choice
Four Female Painters
4 painters exhibit in QSS Studios
Opening reception: Thursday 5th March 2020, 18:00 – 20:30
Exhibition dates: 6th – 27th March 2020
Opening times: Tuesday-Thursday, 10:00 – 17:00...
Alana Barton
Amy Higgins
Rachel Lawell
Sonia Wynn
A Woman'sWork
Three very different artists explore this theme “A Women’s Work”. Clare creates life from stone: Zoe breathes life into inanimate objects: Gemma captures life itself. Its all Women’s Work!