The show publication is available free at the venue
I am delighted to announce that Beyond Leaving continues at the Gallery of the National Photographic Archive, Meeting House Square until March 26th 2017.
Having been party to a two year research programme there is one message I took away from the experience. That is, that a major point of engagement with visual culture is to bring work to action by creating a dialogue around the areas of concern that have been identified by that research process.
After six weeks at exhibition we start the new year with an exciting programme of panels, presentations and discussions on various subjects in and around the theme of migration. These events have been organised in conjunction with the National Library of Ireland's Education Department, IADT Dun Laoghaire, History Ireland and First Fortnight Mental Health Arts Festival. They will run over the remaining weeks of the exhibition finishing with a day long conference at the National Library, Kildare Street, entitled Picturing Migration. (March 3rd 2017)
The first of the events happens on Wednesday the 11th of January at 19.00 under the umbrella of the First Fortnight Festival 2017 and takes place at the venue Temple Bar.
As a young boy I had the realisation that my own mother was seriously effected by the loss of her entire family through emigration and this played a large part in the sadness and melancholic aura that I sensed from her as a child. This realisations is probably at the heart of my desire to humanise the experience of the current, now seemingly parked statistic of recent Irish net emigration. I am so delighted to be a part of a discussion about migration and mental health and look forward to audience participation with the panel including myself, Steve Cummins (journalist), Sarah Griffin (author and project participant), Mari-Claire McAlleer (National Youth Council researcher and advocate) and Brian O'Neill (multiple time emigrant and project participant).
Tickets for this free event can be booked at their website - just click this link https://firstfortnight.ticketsolve.com/#/shows/873567669 this event is taking place next Wednesday 11th January 2017 at 19.00
Keep an eye out for the next update here where I will give details of all other events in the upcoming schedule.
