Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality, in conjunction with the Imagine Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics are delighted to present an online panel discussion on the role of the arts to promote human rights, to support the telling of...
Smashing Times Long-listed for the Award for Civic Arts Organisations
Smashing Times are delighted and honoured to be long-listed for The Award for Civic Arts Organisations by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation (UK Branch), in partnership with King’s College London. Artistic Director, Mary Moynihan said that to be long-listed is, "great...
Creative Connections Workshops Online
Smashing Times are delighted to implement the Creative Connections programme in Northern Ireland, supported by the Northern Ireland Executive’s T:BUC Strategy through the Central Good Relations Fund. Creative Connections is a cultural, arts-based project using...
The Arts and Social Justice by Mary Moynihan
Social justice is to do with equality and human rights. The world has experienced a significant rise in wealth inequality in the distribution of income among people. According to the United Nations report, “Income-related inequalities, notably in the ownership of...
Mary Moynihan to speak Community Relations Resource Fair
Artistic Director, Mary Moynihan, is delighted to speak at the Community Relations Resource Fair marking the 2021 Centenary, taking place on Wednesday 24 February. The Decade of Centenaries: 1912-1922, included a series of significant events in Ireland that changed...
Mary Moynihan to speak at Citizens for Europe: Success Stories event
Artistic Director, Mary Moynihan, has been invited to speak about Smashing Times’ Comet Lines: Freedom Trails of Europe project at the Citizens for Europe: Success Stories event, Wednesday 3 February 2021. For 7 years, the EU Programme ‘Europe for Citizens’ has...
Acting for the Future – Using the Arts to Promote Intercultural Health with Refugees in Ireland
Fun Theatre-based Workshops on Health and Well-Being Are you looking for a fun workshop where you can learn new skills? Then this is the space for you. Join us for a fun process of easy-to-use drama and theatre games and exercises where you can work with the group to...
Smashing Times and Dublin Castle present Equality Workshop
It’s been 99 years since the handover of Dublin Castle… Where are we now? 99 years have lapsed since that loaded moment on 16 January 1922, when the new state was ceremonially born in the all too familiar courtyard of Dublin Castle. Smashing Times International Centre...
The Art of Letting Go
A personal reflection by Mary Moynihan, award-winning writer, theatre and film-maker and Artistic Director, Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality On Saturday, Mach 28, 2020, I tested positive for Covid-19, twelve days after becoming ill. I...
Smashing Times Artistic Programme for 2021
Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality are delighted to announce our plans for 2021 which include a range of arts-based projects taking place in Ireland, Northern Ireland and across Europe and the implementation of two unique festivals – the...