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Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality. Promoting human rights, equality and diversity through the arts. Dublin, Ireland. RCN: 20033927 https://smashingtimes.ie
#ST10WeAdmire Karolina Balcer (born 1992) is a Polish artist whose work combines personal narrative, mental health advocacy, and a distinct visual language grounded in textiles and installation.
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November 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#ST10WeAdmire Karolina Balcer (born 1992) is a Polish artist whose work combines personal narrative, mental health advocacy, and a distinct visual language grounded in textiles and installation.
See more like this in our monthly #STNewsletter: smashingtimes.ie/media/newsle...
See more like this in our monthly #STNewsletter: smashingtimes.ie/media/newsle...
Great day delivering the #ActingForTheFuture programme for 5th and 6th year students at Ard Scoil na nDéise and CBS Dungarvan in Co Waterford. Thanks to Samaritans Waterford and South East Rory, John and Graham, counsellor Eimear Burke and actor Ben Waddell. #TheArts #TheSamaritans #MentalHealth
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Great day delivering the #ActingForTheFuture programme for 5th and 6th year students at Ard Scoil na nDéise and CBS Dungarvan in Co Waterford. Thanks to Samaritans Waterford and South East Rory, John and Graham, counsellor Eimear Burke and actor Ben Waddell. #TheArts #TheSamaritans #MentalHealth
#ST10WeAdmire American musician Xenia Rubinos crafts sonic landscapes with both political and emotional urgency. Her music is a vibrant mix of R&B, punk, jazz, that examines themes of bodily autonomy, mental health, and resilience
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November 19, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#ST10WeAdmire American musician Xenia Rubinos crafts sonic landscapes with both political and emotional urgency. Her music is a vibrant mix of R&B, punk, jazz, that examines themes of bodily autonomy, mental health, and resilience
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Don't miss the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show - today at 6pm on Dublin South FM. Enjoy an engaging hour of in-depth discussions focused on all things arts, culture and human rights. Hosted by Mary Moynihan & Freda Manweiler #SmashingTimes #podcast #radioshow
November 19, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Don't miss the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show - today at 6pm on Dublin South FM. Enjoy an engaging hour of in-depth discussions focused on all things arts, culture and human rights. Hosted by Mary Moynihan & Freda Manweiler #SmashingTimes #podcast #radioshow
⚡ Want to get published in the next issue of #Tintreach? Join the likes of poets Jessica Traynor and Fady Joudah; Senator Lynn Ruane; 2023 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Narges Mohammadi; rapper-singer Saint Levant, and more!
🟥 Submissions open now: smashingtimes.ie/tintreach/su...
🟥 Submissions open now: smashingtimes.ie/tintreach/su...
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
⚡ Want to get published in the next issue of #Tintreach? Join the likes of poets Jessica Traynor and Fady Joudah; Senator Lynn Ruane; 2023 Nobel Peace Prize-winner Narges Mohammadi; rapper-singer Saint Levant, and more!
🟥 Submissions open now: smashingtimes.ie/tintreach/su...
🟥 Submissions open now: smashingtimes.ie/tintreach/su...
‘Art holds the power to ignite the flame in our hearts and transform our minds. Art reveals the beauty as well as the horror of the human condition. Through art we are given the key to connect to a higher purpose.' – Renée Phillips
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November 18, 2025 at 3:29 PM
‘Art holds the power to ignite the flame in our hearts and transform our minds. Art reveals the beauty as well as the horror of the human condition. Through art we are given the key to connect to a higher purpose.' – Renée Phillips
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From the #STNewsletter now: smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/u...
Join us for the #TREESProject Final Online Conference on 19 November 🌳 🌳 🌳
Register now to explore how performative arts can address climate change, environmental awareness, and our relationship with nature: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register now to explore how performative arts can address climate change, environmental awareness, and our relationship with nature: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
November 18, 2025 at 10:29 AM
Join us for the #TREESProject Final Online Conference on 19 November 🌳 🌳 🌳
Register now to explore how performative arts can address climate change, environmental awareness, and our relationship with nature: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Register now to explore how performative arts can address climate change, environmental awareness, and our relationship with nature: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
#ST10WeAdmire Áine O’Hara is an Irish interdisciplinary artist whose work critiques healthcare and advocates for accessibility. Identifying as disabled and queer, O’Hara’s practice interrogates the absurdity, violence, and bureaucracy embedded within Ireland’s public health system.
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November 18, 2025 at 10:22 AM
#ST10WeAdmire Áine O’Hara is an Irish interdisciplinary artist whose work critiques healthcare and advocates for accessibility. Identifying as disabled and queer, O’Hara’s practice interrogates the absurdity, violence, and bureaucracy embedded within Ireland’s public health system.
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Don't miss the Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary Installation, running at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights, Sandycove, until 30 November! smashingtimes.ie/event/irish-...
November 17, 2025 at 12:30 PM
Don't miss the Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary Installation, running at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery and Centre for the Arts and Human Rights, Sandycove, until 30 November! smashingtimes.ie/event/irish-...
Don't miss the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show - today at 6pm on Dublin South FM. Enjoy an engaging hour of in-depth discussions focused on all things arts, culture and human rights #SmashingTimes #radioshow
🟥 Tune in to Dublin South FM 93.9, or listen online at www.dublinsouthfm.ie
🟥 Tune in to Dublin South FM 93.9, or listen online at www.dublinsouthfm.ie
November 12, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Don't miss the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio Show - today at 6pm on Dublin South FM. Enjoy an engaging hour of in-depth discussions focused on all things arts, culture and human rights #SmashingTimes #radioshow
🟥 Tune in to Dublin South FM 93.9, or listen online at www.dublinsouthfm.ie
🟥 Tune in to Dublin South FM 93.9, or listen online at www.dublinsouthfm.ie
Have a read of the November 2025 edition of the Smashing Times Newsletter #STNewsletter, featuring Grants and Opportunities, information on the latest Tintreach submissions call, Spotsolas: Smashing Times News, and more!
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November 12, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Have a read of the November 2025 edition of the Smashing Times Newsletter #STNewsletter, featuring Grants and Opportunities, information on the latest Tintreach submissions call, Spotsolas: Smashing Times News, and more!
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Out now! The November edition of the #STNewsletter – themed The Art of Health – is out now. Have a read of it in full here: smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/u...
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November 10, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Out now! The November edition of the #STNewsletter – themed The Art of Health – is out now. Have a read of it in full here: smashingtimes.ie/wp-content/u...
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Catch up on all episodes of the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio as a #podcast! The show is hosted by Mary Moynihan, Artistic Director, Smashing Times along with co-host Freda Manweiler, Producer, Smashing Times.
Get listening now: open.spotify.com/show/0d8wGvc...
Get listening now: open.spotify.com/show/0d8wGvc...
November 6, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Catch up on all episodes of the Smashing Times Arts and Human Rights Radio as a #podcast! The show is hosted by Mary Moynihan, Artistic Director, Smashing Times along with co-host Freda Manweiler, Producer, Smashing Times.
Get listening now: open.spotify.com/show/0d8wGvc...
Get listening now: open.spotify.com/show/0d8wGvc...
Check out this fantastic new art exhibition in Dún Laoghaire presented by ArtNetdlr – “Glimpse”, a vibrant group exhibition featuring work by artists from across the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown area. Opening at Walters bar on Tuesday 11 November 2025
More information: Artnetdlr.ie
More information: Artnetdlr.ie
November 6, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Check out this fantastic new art exhibition in Dún Laoghaire presented by ArtNetdlr – “Glimpse”, a vibrant group exhibition featuring work by artists from across the Dún Laoghaire–Rathdown area. Opening at Walters bar on Tuesday 11 November 2025
More information: Artnetdlr.ie
More information: Artnetdlr.ie
Closing this Sunday! Open Call for Artists for the Smashing Times Winter Exhibition. Solstice Light: Art in Winter – smashingtimes.ie/open-call-fo...
November 4, 2025 at 12:15 PM
Closing this Sunday! Open Call for Artists for the Smashing Times Winter Exhibition. Solstice Light: Art in Winter – smashingtimes.ie/open-call-fo...
#SmashingTimes members Freda Manweiler and William Caughey attended a meeting this week of the #CrEDo project in Pinerolo, Italy 🇮🇹 The project aims to improve the skills and competences of educators working with displaced learners #ErasmusPlus
Learn more here: smashingtimes.ie/projects/cre...
Learn more here: smashingtimes.ie/projects/cre...
November 3, 2025 at 3:29 PM
#SmashingTimes members Freda Manweiler and William Caughey attended a meeting this week of the #CrEDo project in Pinerolo, Italy 🇮🇹 The project aims to improve the skills and competences of educators working with displaced learners #ErasmusPlus
Learn more here: smashingtimes.ie/projects/cre...
Learn more here: smashingtimes.ie/projects/cre...
Don't miss Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary Exhibition – Runs until Sunday 30 November 2025, Wednesday to Friday 1-6pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm, at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery
Find out more here: smashingtimes.ie/event/irish-...
Find out more here: smashingtimes.ie/event/irish-...
October 30, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Don't miss Irish in Resistance During World War II Multidisciplinary Exhibition – Runs until Sunday 30 November 2025, Wednesday to Friday 1-6pm, Saturday and Sunday 10am-6pm, at the Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery
Find out more here: smashingtimes.ie/event/irish-...
Find out more here: smashingtimes.ie/event/irish-...
Special guest speakers included Mary Moynihan, Writer, Poet and Creator of Art and Photography; Alan Glasgow, Executive Director, Front Line Defenders; and Senator Barry Ward, with artworks on display from Hina Khan, Visual Artist, Féilim James, Writer and Poet, and Amna Walayat, Visual Artist.
October 29, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Special guest speakers included Mary Moynihan, Writer, Poet and Creator of Art and Photography; Alan Glasgow, Executive Director, Front Line Defenders; and Senator Barry Ward, with artworks on display from Hina Khan, Visual Artist, Féilim James, Writer and Poet, and Amna Walayat, Visual Artist.
Attendees enjoyed chat and refreshments, artist talks, guest speakers, and the world premiere of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II, performed on the night by Josephine Patane and Bronagh Donaghey.
October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Attendees enjoyed chat and refreshments, artist talks, guest speakers, and the world premiere of Memorial Monologues: The Path of Memory Part II, performed on the night by Josephine Patane and Bronagh Donaghey.
📸 Photos!🧵 Here are some more photos of our wonderful Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery in Sandycove, during the recent Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival.
📸 All photos by Declan Brennan #IAHRFestival #SmashingTimes
📸 All photos by Declan Brennan #IAHRFestival #SmashingTimes
October 29, 2025 at 12:54 PM
📸 Photos!🧵 Here are some more photos of our wonderful Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery in Sandycove, during the recent Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival.
📸 All photos by Declan Brennan #IAHRFestival #SmashingTimes
📸 All photos by Declan Brennan #IAHRFestival #SmashingTimes
From The Forest to The Ocean Multidisciplinary Exhibition – Runs at Rathfarmham Castle, Dublin D14K3T6 from Tuesday 16 September to Sunday 2 November 2025, Wednesday – Sunday 10.30am – 5pm. Free Admission.
smashingtimes.ie/event/from-t...
smashingtimes.ie/event/from-t...
October 28, 2025 at 6:45 PM
From The Forest to The Ocean Multidisciplinary Exhibition – Runs at Rathfarmham Castle, Dublin D14K3T6 from Tuesday 16 September to Sunday 2 November 2025, Wednesday – Sunday 10.30am – 5pm. Free Admission.
smashingtimes.ie/event/from-t...
smashingtimes.ie/event/from-t...
Open Call for Artists for the Smashing Times Winter Exhibition. Solstice Light: Art in Winter
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 3 Dec 2025 – Sunday 26 Jan 2026
🎉 Launch Event: Wednesday 10 Dec, 7pm.
🗺️ Venue: Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery
🗣️ Call Opens: 3 Oct-9 Nov 6pm.
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 3 Dec 2025 – Sunday 26 Jan 2026
🎉 Launch Event: Wednesday 10 Dec, 7pm.
🗺️ Venue: Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery
🗣️ Call Opens: 3 Oct-9 Nov 6pm.
October 28, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Open Call for Artists for the Smashing Times Winter Exhibition. Solstice Light: Art in Winter
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 3 Dec 2025 – Sunday 26 Jan 2026
🎉 Launch Event: Wednesday 10 Dec, 7pm.
🗺️ Venue: Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery
🗣️ Call Opens: 3 Oct-9 Nov 6pm.
🗓️ Exhibition Dates: Wednesday 3 Dec 2025 – Sunday 26 Jan 2026
🎉 Launch Event: Wednesday 10 Dec, 7pm.
🗺️ Venue: Smashing Times Visual Art Gallery
🗣️ Call Opens: 3 Oct-9 Nov 6pm.
#Tintreach is the Irish word for lightning, which symbolises the spark that animates art, making it striking and engaging ⚡ View all editions of Tintreach on our website now, and sign-up to receive it, free, to your inbox: smashingtimes.ie/tintreach
October 23, 2025 at 2:29 PM
#Tintreach is the Irish word for lightning, which symbolises the spark that animates art, making it striking and engaging ⚡ View all editions of Tintreach on our website now, and sign-up to receive it, free, to your inbox: smashingtimes.ie/tintreach
🟥 #IAHRFestival What a memorable Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival that was! We would like to extend our immense gratitude to all our festival partners, supporters and artists, and a huge thank you to all who came to all the events. #IAHRFestival
October 23, 2025 at 12:00 PM
🟥 #IAHRFestival What a memorable Irish Arts and Human Rights Festival that was! We would like to extend our immense gratitude to all our festival partners, supporters and artists, and a huge thank you to all who came to all the events. #IAHRFestival