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SUMMARY:Samhlú - Seeing Things: reimagining small Irish towns
DESCRIPTION:Samhlú – Seeing Things\, an event  jointly hosted by Westport Civic Trust and UCD Centre for Irish Towns\, is a day of talks\, walks & workshops reimagining the past\, present & future of Small Irish Towns with key note speaker\, Sile de Cléir.  \nDe Cléir\, who has a background in fashion and textiles\, is a leading researcher in folklore and ethnology\, with a particular focus on the intersections of textiles\, popular religion and identity. This range of research activity has given her a unique insight into the challenges facing small towns\, and a way in to understanding their past. \n“Samhlú is the act of imagining or creating something new. We ask can the material culture of towns inform more liveable\, imaginative futures for everybody?” said John Mulloy\, one of the event organisers. \n“Across Ireland\, small towns are alive with traces of the past — their streets\, open spaces\, even shopfronts and street furniture hold stories that continue to shape how we live today\,” adds Orla Murphy of the UCD Centre for Irish Towns. \n“Yet many of them face new challenges such as vacancy\, dereliction\, degraded public space and the impacts of climate change. These\, along with a loss of ritual and disappearing material practices all raise questions about how to sustain and nourish towns as socially inclusive places.” \nThe event brings together leading voices from architecture\, heritage\, cultural geography and the arts to ask: what would our small towns look like if we truly connected to their material reality? \nSpeakers will include: Síle de Cléir (UL)\, Nessa Cronin (NUIG)\, Fiona White (ATU)\, Karen Keaveney (UCD)\, Philip Crowe (UCD)\, Laura Earley\, Stephen Wall (UCD)\,  the Mayo Traveller Movement\, Victoria Durrer (UCD) and more. \nThemes will include connection to rural identity\, colonialism\, morphology\, ritual\, adaptive capacity\, mapping the future\, inclusion\, climate change and beauty. \nIn addition to the talks\, there will be two workshops: a visual art session led by local artist Tom Brawn (currently a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art in London) and a creative writing workshop by poet and artist Alice Lyons on Words & Places. There will also be tours of the town\, led by Orla Murphy and John Mulloy. \nBooking for the event will be open in January  on www.westportcivictrust.org  Tickets cost €25 and €15 for students/concessions and Westport Civic Trust members. \nPoster designed by Orla Murphy
URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/2908/
LOCATION:Private: J P BREHENY & SONS/OLD DUNNES STORES\, Castlebar Street\, Westport\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Knowledge and Inquiry in Community Movements
DESCRIPTION:Knowledge and Inquiry in Community Movements is an afternoon of participatory workshops for local residents\, community activists and researchers\, hosted at St. Andrew’s Community Centre in Rialto on Friday April 24th (2-7pm). Supported by UCD’s newly launched Winifred Carney Centre for Organising & Labour Research and the Thresholds of Knowledge research strand\, these workshops are a chance to come together to collectively discuss shared methods of research and communication. Drawing on experiences from across Ireland and Italy\, and from London to Berlin\, each workshop will introduce a set of ideas and resources\, as as we discuss the role of local & activist media in growing social movements\, and think through how solidarity is built across cities & towns\, in both rural and urban contexts. Dr Neil Gray will join us as keynote speaker\, where he will introduce his forthcoming book\, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy (Common Notions)\, the first systematic study of radical urban politics and transformation in Italy’s rebellious 1970s. \n​What role does research play in community activism?  \n​How are we building solidarity across our towns\, cities and workplaces?  \n​What resources and tools do we have to create solidarity across our communities?  \n​The four workshops of this event\, hosted at St. Andrew’s Community Centre\, are an open space for activists\, researchers and local residents to discuss how different forms of research and investigation can shape organising around work and housing. \n​All are welcome to attend — join us for the whole afternoon\, or drop in at anytime for a session! Food & snacks will be provided throughout! Full details and registration: https://luma.com/41nupqhc  \n​Drawing on experiences across Ireland and Italy\, and from London to Berlin\, each workshop will introduce a set of ideas and resources\, with space for a shared discussion on different methods and examples of organising. \n​We are very excited that our final session will be a discussion with Neil Gray about his forthcoming book\, Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy (Common Notions)\, the first systematic study of radical urban politics and transformation across Italy’s rebellious 1970s. \n​Afternoon Schedule: \n​2 – 3pm: Print Politics as Community Politics (Dante Philp) \n​A hands-on workshop engaging a wide archive of printed materials produced within worker and community campaigns. We will explore how different forms of media present challenges to contemporary researchers\, and collectively consider the status of ‘print politics’ in localised disputes and movements today. Bring your leaflets\, zines and ephemera! \n​3.15-4.15pm: Social Investigation for Rural Worker and Tenant Power (Jack Edmunds-Bergin) \n​This workshop will draw on experiences of organising with Community Action Tenants’ Union South Wicklow-Wexford branch to consider how knowledge is produced outside the academy in social campaigns and community development work\, particularly in rural areas\, and highlight the media and spatial infrastructures which underpin the production of this knowledge. \n​4.30 – 5.30pm: Spatial Composition in Communities of Solidarity (Emma Petersen) \n​This workshop will explore social reproduction theory and delve into the spatial organisation of communities and solidarity structures. We will look into different forms of community organising and solidarity structures and engage with the concept of labour in spaces other than the formal work place. Through this workshop we will collectively debate what constitutes labour and how people navigate their everyday responsibilities within communities of solidarity. \n​5.45 – 7pm: ‘Take Over The City’ with Neil Gray \n​Neil will be joining us for a presentation and Q&A\, drawing on his forthcoming book Take Over the City: Spatial Composition in Italian Autonomy. Neil will introduce a set of ideas which animated the radical Italian currents of the 1970s\, including ‘spatial composition’ and the ‘social factory’\, as we think through the lessons and provocations this era of radical politics provides for our present challenges. \n​
URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/knowledge-and-inquiry-in-community-movements/
LOCATION:​​St. Andrew’s Community Centre\, Studio 468\, 468 South Circular Road\, Dublin\, Dublin\, D08 H51F\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Shaping a feminist art resource centre
DESCRIPTION:IMMA & NCAD present a Symposium\, entitled How shall we do this?\, that brings together a diverse range of feminist-led practices and voices\, to think through the imperatives for a feminist-led art resource centre on the island of Ireland. Contributors include Alex Martinis Roe\, Beulah Ezeugo & Joselle Ntumba\, Matylda Taszycka\, Adele Patrick\, Allison Elliott\, Êvar Huseynî and Alessia Cargnelli. \nForegrounding new research to shape an all-island feminist led art resource centre \nUnlike other settings in the Global North\, the island of Ireland still lacks an all-island focused\, community-led resource centre dedicated to feminist-informed artistic practices. This is remarkable given the central importance of Irish women’s role both as artists and as activists on the island and beyond\, from second wave feminism in 80s/90s\, till today. Although some aspects of feminist-led and artist-led scholarship are currently available in public collections across the island\, there are many more informal and overlooked archives. These materials exist in an ephemeral\, delicate state\, and it is a political act to take care of them and make them available for future research and education. \nUnderstanding archives as a site of radical imagination and learning\, How shall we do this? investigates the potential of inclusive feminist-informed methodologies for archiving underrepresented her/stories connected with the island of Ireland. Learning from international practices of feminist leadership and community-led\, anti-hierarchical approaches from the UK\, the US\, Europe\, and Australia; participants – along with the invited speakers – will initiate discussions around what a viable and long-term sustainable structure could look like in the context of the island of Ireland; as well as what feminist-informed methods of access and preservation are needed. \nInvited contributors include:\nAlex Martinis Roe: Artist and Researcher\, Melbourne\nÉireann and I Archive: Beulah Ezeugo & Joselle Ntumba\nGlasgow Women’s Library (GWL): Adele Patrick\nThe Feminist Institute NYC: Allison Elliott\nAWARE Paris Archives of Women Artists\, Research and Exhibitions: Matylda Taszycka\nThe West Asian and North African Women’s Art Library (WANAWAL): Êvar Huseynî \nThe programme concludes with a participatory-led workshop\, where attendees will collectively generate a series of proposition on feminist-informed archiving practices of donation\, conservation\, outreach\, and public engagement. The workshop will be practice-driven\, focusing on selected materials from the archive of Irish visual artist Patricia Hurl\, held in the IMMA Collection.
URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/symposium-shaping-a-feminist-art-resource-centre/
LOCATION:Irish Museum of Modern Art\, Royal Hospital Kilmainham\, Military Rd\, Kilmainham\, Dublin\, D08 FW31\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:Housing redevelopment in Derry and Belfast\, 1960-1980: placemaking in a time of crisis
DESCRIPTION:Dr Adrian Grant\nLecturer in History\nINCORE / School of Arts and Humanities\, Ulster University\n\nPart of the monthly seminars for INCORE (International Conflict Research Institute) that Ulster University will be hosting throughout 2026.\nLocation: MD008 and online at:  https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/36371312362171?p=YzhAVpWkOiB5DX4vbx \nMeeting ID: 363 713 123 621 71 \nPasscode: WZ6JA3HU \nABSTRACT: \nIn the aftermath of the Second World War\, Northern Ireland’s cities faced a housing crisis driven not only by wartime damage\, but as a result of decades of neglect and government inaction in public house building. Major UK policy shifts forced the NI government to engage in a comprehensive public housebuilding programme from the late 1940s onwards. New build estates were constructed on greenfield sites\, dealing rapidly with the sharper edges of housing shortage. Housing in inner-city areas had also deteriorated massively\, requiring state intervention to tackle problems of overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. In the early 1960s the NI government tasked local authorities and the Northern Ireland Housing Trust with the large-scale clearance and redevelopment of the inner-city housing identified as being beyond repair. Victorian terraced streets were replaced with a modernist mixture of high-rise and low-rise apartment complexes and lower density traditional housing. The permeable gridiron of terraced streets was replaced with a mixture of culs-de-sac and courtyard developments that separated pedestrians and vehicles\, but also created more closed-off and insular micro-communities. The construction of new roads and urban motorways added to the comprehensive nature of the changes to the urban fabric. \nThis seminar paper outlines the history of this process and its immediate and long-term impacts on urban communities in NI. Histories of this period have an understandable focus on the beginning of the ‘Troubles’ and the issues that acted as a catalyst for the activism and later violence of the conflict. Fair housing allocation was of course central to the demands of the civil rights movement\, and has been researched in some detail. However\, housing has the potential to be used as a prism through which to view the multi-layered issues affecting NI society in this period and after. This frame allows us to identify the common experiences of urban communities globally in the post-war period\, but also the particularities of the NI experience. The paper finishes with an outline of the ‘Home in Troubled Times’ project\, which will utilise this history to engage younger people and migrant communities with the historical debates and legacy contemporary urban issues that continue to impact neighbourhoods today. \nDr Adrian Grant is a Lecturer in History at Ulster University and a member of INCORE. He has written widely on the conflicted history of twentieth century Ireland\, and more recently with a focus on urban change in time of conflict. He was PI on the AHRC funded ‘Divided Pasts – Design Futures’ project that explored the history of urban redevelopment in Derry. He was also CAIN Transformation Project Lead\, securing design upgrades and new funding for the CAIN website.
URL:https://culturalpolicyireland.org/event/housing-redevelopment-in-derry-and-belfast-1960-1980-placemaking-in-a-time-of-crisis/
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