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Visual Arts Shows
Denis Buckley- Mind Less This Man Pass - Live Performance
Thursday 16 June @ 3 – 5pm Live performance on streets of Bray This performance forms part of Denis Buckley's "Searching for the Unimagined Conscience of my Race" residency at Mermaid Arts Centre A five-week investigation into perceptions of national identity with DENIS BUCKLEY (click to read more)
Rocky Road to Dublin
Exhibition Opening at 6pm marking the start of Denis Buckley five-week long engagement investigating perceptions of national identity in Ireland following the loss, last year, of fiscal sovereignty. Followed by a Free Film Screening of Rocky Road to Dublin at 7pm and artist in conversion with Antony Farrell founder of The Lilliput Press. ROCKY ROAD TO DUBLIN is a provocative ... (click to read more)
Men of Arlington
Film Screening Men of Arlington Arlington House in Camden Town was built by Lord Rowton as a boarding house for working men. In the hundred years since then, it has been home to more Irish men than any other building in the world. Many of the long-term residents of Arlington House came to Britain to seek a better life, but lost themselves along the way. Men of Arlington tells their ... (click to read more)
Bohola Men- Live Performance
Thursday 7 July - 8pm It is estimated that between 1939-1969 some £2.2 billion was sent back to Ireland from men and women working in the UK. That money kept the Irish economy on its knees if not on its feet during the lean years of the infant Free State. That generation who gave back are now disappearing and with it Irish London. Mixing film and audio archive, personal testimony ... (click to read more)
Searching for the Unimagined Conscience of My Race- Completed Screening
For almost five weeks now Live-Artist Denis Buckley has been engaging audiences and investigating perceptions of national identity in his project titled 'SEARCHING FOR THE UNIMAGINED CONSCIENCE OF MY RACE'. Through an exhibition, screenings, discussions and performances, audiences were invited to contribute their feelings of belonging to the engagement. Throughout he has filmed and edited ... (click to read more)
Documenting Your Work with Tim Durham
In association with Visual Artists Ireland This is an introductory course for artists to photographing paintings, drawings, textiles and prints, for use in portfolios, e-mails, press releases and on websites. Participants will be guided through a step by step methodical process to obtaining the best possible results with a digital compact camera or digital SLR. The course will cover, ... (click to read more)
Infra in Context
Accompanying the exhibition of photographs by Richard Mosse from his Infra series, Mermaid hosts an evening of conversations to contextualise Mosse’s photographic project made in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Speakers include Nora Hickey (Mermaid’s Artistic Director) Brendan Culleton and Irina Mal (Directors of Congo – An Irish Affair), Alfred M’Sichili ... (click to read more)
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