Press Release Creative Time Summit 2018 - Dublin screening & panel discussion
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Tuesday, 30th October 2018
NCAD to host Dublin screening of international art and social change conference
The National College of Art and Design (NCAD) in partnership with Create, the national development agency for collaborative arts, and Fire Station Artists’ Studios (FSAS) will host a live-streaming and panel discussion to mark the Creative Time Summit 2018, the world’s largest annual presentation of leading socially engaged artists and activists.
The event will take place in the NCAD Harry Clarke Lecture Theatre, Thomas Street, Dublin 8, at 3pm on Friday, 2nd November and will run until 11pm.
On the day, a number of presentations and critical conversations will be live-streamed from the Creative Time Summit in Miami, Florida. Drawing connections between the thematic of this year’s Summit and the Irish context, NCAD, Create and FSAS have convened a live panel discussion on ‘resisting displacement and violence’, which will take place at 6pm. Chaired by community worker and housing activist, John Bissett, the panel will comprise: Artist and co-founder of A4 Sound Studios, Lisa Crowne; Assistant Professor at the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy, UCD, Orla Hegarty; activist for migrant communities, Lucky Khambule; and artist and educator Fiona Woods.
Speaking ahead of Friday’s event, Joint Coordinator of the MA in Socially Engaged Art at NCAD, Fiona Whelan commented: “As a designated official off-site host, NCAD has worked with its partners to screen the Creative Time Summit in Dublin since 2013. The conference aims to examine strategies for social change in local and global contexts, and our panel will use this platform to discuss perspectives on how to engage with Ireland’s housing crisis – particularly in light of growing resistance to the stark efforts of inadequate policies for social and affordable housing and lack of equitable development in Dublin and other urban centres in Ireland.”
This year’s Summit is titled ‘On Archipelagos and Other Imaginaries: Collective Strategies to Inhabit the World’, and encourages people to consider how resistance against the tide of urban development must also confront existing class inequality, structural violence and racial prejudice. The conference will be based on four thematic sections: boundaries and a borderless future; facing climate realities – reimagining a green future; towards an intersectional justice; and resisting displacement and violence.
The screening and panel discussion are free to attend but registration is required at:
An optional dinner is available from Luncheonette at NCAD (€10 – registration required; payment in cash on the night).
For further information on the programme of events for the day visit: https://bit.ly/2CGsmu6.
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Contact: Sebastian Enke, DHR Communications, Tel: 01-4200580 / 087-3239496
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About NCAD
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