Centre Culturel Irlandais presents a series of online events from contemporary Irish voices.
Four evenings of impassioned speeches from contemporary Irish voices taking place Jan 20/21 and 27/28 7pm GMT (8pm French Time).
To mark the beginning of a New Year and look forward to an era post-COVID-19, the Centre Culturel Irlandais has commissioned 40 artists to address the world with their reflections on the times in which we live: choreographers, theatre makers, writers, musicians, visual artists and filmmakers convey their values, their preoccupations, their anger and frustrations as well as messages of courage, joy, gratitude, desire and aspiration in this month of January.
Each individual address will last three minutes and every evening will offer ten contemporary Irish voices. The full programme is outlined below.
Free to attend. To receive a link for each evening, register here or simply visit each evening on the website home page.
WEDNESDAY 20 JANUARY – 7pm GMT (8pm French Time)
Dylan Quinn, dancer, choreographer/ Jennifer Walshe, composer, performer/ Annemarie Ni Chuirreain, poet/ Rita Duffy, visual artist/ Paul Rowley, film maker/ Alice McCullough, performance poet/ Zoe Ní Riordáin, theatre, film and music maker/ John Connors, actor, writer, director/ Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi, writer and performer/ Janet Moran, theatre maker
THURSDAY 21 JANUARY – 7pm GMT (8pm French Time)
Dylan Tighe, actor, director, writer and musician/ Gail McConnell, poet/ Kit de Waal, novelist and screenwriter/ Eimear Noone, composer, conductor/ Aideen Barry, visual artist/ Amanda Coogan, performance artist/ Tom Creed, theatre and opera director/ Dragana Jurišić, visual artist/ Mia Gallagher, writer/ Deirdre Kinahan, playwright
WEDNESDAY 27 JANUARY – 7pm GMT (8pm French Time)
Wayne Jordan, theatre artist/ Phillip McMahon, theatre artist/ Mark Clare, visual artist/ Joy Gerrard, visual artist/ Mary Dorcey, poet, author/ Jan Carson, writer/ Audrey O’Reilly, screen writer and director/ Kelly Rivière, actress and translator/ Caroline Byrne, theatre director/ Fearghus Ó Conchúir, choreographer and dance artist
THURSDAY 28 JANUARY – 7pm GMT (8pm French Time)
Clara Simpson, actor/ Stephen James Smith, poet/ Gina Moxley, writer, actor, director/ John Scott, choreographer and dancer/ Brokentalkers/ Written by Feidlim Cannon et Gary Keegan, read by par Abigail Ramaabya, theatre makers/ Fionnuala Gygax, theatre maker/ Cathal Cleary, theatre director/ Jo Mangan, artistic director/ Alison McKenna, visual artist, actress, producer/ Siobhán McSweeney, actor
More information here: www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/agenda/addressing-the-nations
