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Mountshannon Arts Festival 2020
Féile Ealaíon Bhaile Uí Bheoláin 2020
Identity
Féiniúlacht
“We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better.” Chuck Palahniuk
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Culture Night Friday 18th September
Mountshannon Miscellany
Available to watch on https://www.facebook.com/mountshannonartsfestival/ or here
Music and spoken word from the heart of Mountshannon
The theme we chose for this year is ‘Identity’, and our Culture Night event this year explores that theme in words and music.
Two of the artists taking part, have personal experience of Irelands inhumane Direct Provision system, and contributed to the wonderful ‘ Correspondences’ book, edited by Jessica Traynor and Stephen Rea.
Direct Provision is an appalling system that needs urgent change.
In her piece in "Correspondences", Emilie Pine compares Direct Provision with the Magdelene Laundries, and asks how it is possible, that we continue to make the same mistakes, and continue to allow our government to commit such shocking abuse to our fellow men, women and children, in our name.
We call on the government to take immediate steps to change the system and show the world the true compassion of the Irish people.
We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity. – Kofi Annan
The theme we chose for this year is ‘Identity’, and our Culture Night event this year explores that theme in words and music.
Two of the artists taking part, have personal experience of Irelands inhumane Direct Provision system, and contributed to the wonderful ‘ Correspondences’ book, edited by Jessica Traynor and Stephen Rea.
Direct Provision is an appalling system that needs urgent change.
In her piece in "Correspondences", Emilie Pine compares Direct Provision with the Magdelene Laundries, and asks how it is possible, that we continue to make the same mistakes, and continue to allow our government to commit such shocking abuse to our fellow men, women and children, in our name.
We call on the government to take immediate steps to change the system and show the world the true compassion of the Irish people.
We need to promote greater tolerance and understanding among the peoples of the world. Nothing can be more dangerous to our efforts to build peace and development than a world divided along religious, ethnic or cultural lines. In each nation, and among all nations, we must work to promote unity based on our shared humanity. – Kofi Annan
We intended to have a live stream event for Culture Night, but unfortunately, we had technical difficulties, and although the artists all performed their pieces on the night, we were not able to successfully share the wonderful evening.
We were determined however, not to lose the energy and beauty of the evening, and nearly all of the artists generously gave their time, so that we were able to record them again, and produce this video. Sadly, Ruth and Fergal were unable to join us.
We wish to sincerely thank Imelda and all in the Clare Arts office, for their generous support, without which, this event could not have happened.
We would also like to thank Peggy and all in ‘Under the Oak’, for allowing us to use the cafe.
Thanks also to Klaus and Gudrun and Paschal for all of their work on the technology side of things.
And of course a huge thank you to all of the artists who took part, including Ruth and Fergal, who we would love to work with again in the not too distant future.
We were determined however, not to lose the energy and beauty of the evening, and nearly all of the artists generously gave their time, so that we were able to record them again, and produce this video. Sadly, Ruth and Fergal were unable to join us.
We wish to sincerely thank Imelda and all in the Clare Arts office, for their generous support, without which, this event could not have happened.
We would also like to thank Peggy and all in ‘Under the Oak’, for allowing us to use the cafe.
Thanks also to Klaus and Gudrun and Paschal for all of their work on the technology side of things.
And of course a huge thank you to all of the artists who took part, including Ruth and Fergal, who we would love to work with again in the not too distant future.
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