NWCI’s Still, We Work exhibition arrives to Kilkenny for the 2015 Abhainn Rí Festival
Friday, June 26, 2015
NWCI is delighted to announce the second leg of our ‘STILL, WE WORK’ exhibition in Kilkenny during the Abhainn Rí Festival. Curated by Hollie Kearns, Rosie Lynch and Monica Flynn, it will open in the Callan Workhouse Union at 6pm on Friday, 26 June 2015 and run until Sunday, 5 July 2015.
The exhibition features work by artists Sarah Browne, Miriam O’Connor, Anne Tallentire and Vagabond Reviews and explores contemporary representations of women and work. The exhibition, commissioned by the National Women’s Council of Ireland (NWCI), started its tour of three locations across Ireland at the Regional Cultural Centre in Letterkenny on 8 May. After Kilkenny, the exhibition will move to its final leg in Limerick in the autumn.
ACCOMPANYING PROGRAMME OF EVENTS:
Monday, 22 June at 7.30 pm: Screening of Michelle Deignan's Film - Breaking Ground: The Story of the London Irish Women's Centre
Cleere’s Theatre, Parliament St, Kilkenny
Audience invited to bring a small dish to share following the Q&A.
Breaking Ground captures the evolution of the centre's dual role as a place for practical support and as a hub for political activism. Made entirely by women, Breaking Ground combines unique archive material from London in the 80's and 90's with a broad range of interviews with women involved in the organisation over its 29 year history. The film will be followed by Skype Q&A with the film-maker and Eilís Ní Chaithnía, Membership Development Officer, NWCI.
Friday, 26 June at 6pm: STILL, WE WORK Kilkenny launch with Sarah Browne & Jesse Jones
Callan Workhouse Union
Reception with elderflower cordial and shortbread provided by Ruth Lydon, with a whiskey option. Opening words by Alice-Mary Higgins, Campaign and Policy Officer, NWCI.
Burn in Flames: post-patriarchal archive in circulation
How do we remember and transmit what has gone before, even the oppression, from the large, monumental recording of history to the ephemera of the everyday?
How can this act of remembering exist in the future and serve to think us through the crises of the present? Sarah Browne and Jesse Jones will present an extract from their current collaborative project, a co-commission for Create (Ireland) and Artangel (UK) titled In the Shadow of the State.
This event will focus on the development of a post-patriarchal archive. This active archive does not deal with the objects of the past, it anticipates future, ideologically obsolete material. We select and process items from everyday experience, naming them as evidence of the current, late-capitalist oppression of women. Objects are identified, stamped, and placed back in circulation. The archive is an active critique.
Audience and participants are welcome to bring materials to be stamped. (Current artefacts include objects such as 'feminine hygiene spray' and printed materials such as posters, legal documents and contemporary fashion magazines.)
Saturday, 27 June, at 11am-1pm: Labours of Love – a workshop exploring ‘women’s work’
Callan Workhouse Union
Talk followed by potluck lunch.
A movement workshop with Ita Morrissey.
Even today there are expected or presumed duties of women. This work is often unseen, unrecognized and its effects intangible. As women we need to acknowledge them before we can expect society to. This workshop will begin that conversation by exploring the daily labours of love by women.
Wear comfortable clothing as some physical activity will be involved.
LUNCH-TIME HERITAGE TALKS:
Wednesday, 1 July at 1pm: “The Kilkenny Design Workshops and their Legacy”
Callan Workhouse Union
Talk accompanied by tea & coffee and shortbread.
Discussion on the legacy and influence of the Kilkenny Design Workshops on female design practices in Kilkenny.
Thursday, 2 July at 1pm: In conversation with Elaine Bradshaw… “Mayor of Kilkenny, Margaret Tynan and her Legacy”
Callan Workhouse UnionTalk accompanied by tea & coffee and shortbread.
Elaine Bradshaw will discuss Margaret Tynan's contribution to civic life in Kilkenny. Margaret was Elaine’s partner and the first woman mayor of Kilkenny. Elaine gifted Margaret’s personal papers to Kilkenny Archive.
Other offerings
Accompanying the exhibition will be the Callan, Workhouse Union Library which will include books and archival material from various sources relating to our research as curators including: Kilkenny Design Workshops; Margaret Tynan Papers and more.
Full details of these events are available at:
http://www.nwcilegacyproject.com
https://www.facebook.com/NWCILegacyProject
http://workhouseassembly.com/about/
E: stillwework@gmail.com
T: @stillwework
Starts: 26 June 2015 18:00
Ends: 5 July 2015 19:00
Location: Callan Workhouse Union,
Callan,
Co. Kilkenny