In this workshop, facilitated by Éireann and I, we invite you to share and celebrate your cultural food practices. Our food practices can be a ritual, an act of celebration, and a way to document our family histories. Participants will prepare and bring a dish and a corresponding food story. Using various artistic mediums we […]
You’re invited to join us in examining what makes a family archive. Letters, photographs, diary entries, postcards, trinkets. The objects we inherit often reflect our own history and share the same narratives of movement and displacement as we do. How do the items we hold dear to us connect us to our lineage? What do […]
Layers of Making is a workshop by artist David Lunney exploring his string wrapping processes. In Lunney’s practice, all surfaces are decorated and adorned, often with neat rows of colourful strings, wools, ribbons and beads. Through the act of making Lunney will guide the participants through these processes and, in doing so elucidate some of […]
The Douglas Hyde, in collaboration with students from our TY Work Experience Project, is offering a one day workshop for TY students across the country. This workshop will give participants the opportunity to engage in creative thinking through a printing and zine (mini publication) making workshop.
In this movement- and sound-based workshop, writer, composer and choreographer Deirdre Murphy will explore one of the key systems of our species: community. It will be a radical look at the contexts in which we have meaningful interaction. Participants will tune in with their bodies, voices and the room through a series of task-based exercises. There will be humming and […]
Choreographer and artist Ruairí Ó’Donnabháin (Oileán Chléire, Co. Chorcaí) will facilitate a workshop in dialogue with artist Jumana Manna’s (Palestine) exhibition Wild Relatives. The workshop will focus on listening as an aesthetic practice of care and pose the question: how can we have an embodied response through movement and choreographic protocols to Manna’s work, taking the […]
