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SoloSIRENs symposium 2022

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'Today When I Listen, This is What I Hear'

13th October 2022 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival

SoloSIRENs symposium 2022

SoloSIRENs symposium 2022 SoloSIRENs symposium 2022 SoloSIRENs symposium 2022

'Today When I Listen, This is What I Hear'

13th October 2022 as part of Dublin Theatre Festival

SoloSIRENS Symposium 2022

Today When I Listen, This Is What I Hear

Trinity College , Dublin - Long Room Hub

13th October, 11am - 3:30pm


We are delighted to announce that our 2022 Symposium 'Today When I Listen, This Is What I Hear' in collaboration with Tallaght Community Arts, will be presented as part of Dublin Theatre Festival, 2022.


The symposium will reflect upon our learnings in the process of making and presenting “Cessair”, a performance/sound installation at the Civic, Tallaght in 2021. It will also link our experiences with those of other individuals and organisations involved in participatory arts practice. 


The event features an academic response to “Cessair” by Dr. Courtney Helen Grile, as well as a mix of discussions, performance, stories, and play.


Here is a link to our event, if you are in Ireland and can attend we would love to welcome you. 


https://dublintheatrefestival.ie/programme/festival-plus/today-when-i-listen-this-is-what-i-hear-solosirens-symposium-2022


Tickets for our symposium will go on general sale on 10th August, if you are a DTF member you can book now by contacting DTF box office @ info@dublintheatrefestival.com / ph: +353 1 677 8439. 


Tickets are free but must be booked in advance:


With best wishes,


SoloSIRENs Team


 A SoloSIRENs/TCA production kindly supported by South Dublin County Arts Office, The Civic, Trinity Long Room Hub and the Arts Coun​cil of Ireland 

About Us:


SoloSIRENs is a theatremaking and producing collective based in Tallaght and in residence at the Civic. Its core team is director Jenny Macdonald, producer Jennifer Webster and theatre artist Martha Knight. 


SoloSIRENs amplifies female identifying voices onstage and beyond. We collaborate with other theatre artists and with a local, intercultural and intergenerational community collective. We also collaborate with local arts organisations including the Civic Theatre, Rua Red - South Dublin Arts Centre, and Tallaght Community Arts. 


We received an Abbey Theatre 5 x 5 residency in 2019 and used it to devise a performance with our community collective. We were then invited by the Abbey to create a film for Dear Ireland III in 2020. In 2019, we produced the first SoloSIRENs Festival at the Civic. The festival presented three professional, solo shows, as well as the work of the community collective. The festival happened over six weeks, allowing an audience dialogue to grow and us to explore facilitated discussions and other audience engagement strategies. 


We approach our audiences as our extended community, engaging them in regular dialogue through our newsletter, our social media platforms and our symposia. Our online symposium in 2020 placed our work in conversation with academics from Trinity College Dublin, members of the Irish theatre/arts community (Abbey Theatre, Dublin Theatre Festival, Irish Theatre Institute and CREATE) and our audiences. 


We are committed to widening access to the arts for all people in our society and to addressing the systemic discriminations that intersect with gender inequality. Our work is feminist, anti-racist and non-hierarchal. We have a universal design officer who ensures that all our productions incorporate accessibility for all people from their inception. In June/July, 2021 we produced 'Cessair', a performance and sonic installation sharing one hundred audio stories collected during online workshops with women from South Dublin County, around Ireland and internationally. 


We have just finished a project exploring grief and loss with the Irish Hospice Foundation and are now creating work with Liz Roche Company as part of their Creative Audiences programme. In February, 2022 we toured two shows from our 2019 festival to venues in the west of Ireland. We are mentoring members of our collective to develop as facilitators in collaboration with the Abbey Theatre. And we are leading a new collaboration between the Civic and Tallaght Hospital using theatre to explore stories of healthcare workers. 


Liz Roche Company's Creative Audiences programme

SoloSIRENs Collective are delighted to be one of the participating groups in Liz Roche Company's Creative Audiences programme (https://lizrochecompany.com/creative-audiences/). 


Creative Audiences is facilitated by Liz Roche and Jenny Macdonald. 


The programme creates opportunities for individuals and communities to engage with the work of Liz Roche company and to participate in contemporary dance and movement workshops.

Compassionate Culture network Workshops with SoloSIRENs

November 2021 - February 2022


SoloSIRENs are delighted to have partnered with our host venue 'The Civic' - Tallaght, as part of Compassionate Culture Network workshops.


SoloSIRENs CCN workshops take place every Tuesday evening in The Civic. We are the only Dublin venue in support of this worthy national initiative led by The Irish Hospice Foundation’s aspiration to answer the question:


How do we build a Republic of Care? 


The Irish Hospice Foundation are developing a Compassionate Culture Network across Ireland. In this first phase, 7 artist-facilitators and support workers are working in 7 venues around the country inviting local communities to explore “loss” as un-lockdown happens.  The aim is to explore how creativity helps  establish places where people can talk openly about loss.   


All 7 groups work as connected peers, learning from each other, with IHF bringing awareness, training, and support. The programme began with online training and information exchange in September. Group work began in October and runs until February 2022. 


We look forward to sharing the findings of our grief workshops in the near future.


To find out more about Compassionate Culture Network please visit:

https://hospicefoundation.ie/our-supports-services/ihf-in-the-community/arts-and-creativity/compassionate-culture-network/

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SoloSIRens - Dear Ireland III

 We would like to share a piece of work created by SoloSIRENs for the Abbey Theatre’s ‘Dear Ireland III’ project in December 2020. This piece is a response to the prompt, ‘what does it feel like to be you, right now, in Ireland?’. It features words written by our team and our collective. 

   SoloSIRENs is a platform dedicated to women theatre artists who are writing and performing their own work.  


Curated, directed and staffed entirely by a female team, we collectively share and express the challenges facing women in the arts and society today. 

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