Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Thursday, 15 January 2015

Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement

Cross-Border Theatre Projects: Smashing Times Theatre Company

10:10 am

Ms Mary Moynihan:

What is particularly interesting about our company is that we like to work in partnership with other organisations. For example, we are artists and we like to work in parishes with people who work in reconciliation or in dealing with racism or, for example, with people who are experts in the area of suicide. Part of their role would be to look at the State structures with regard to racism or sectarianism. One is bringing together people working to combat racism and sectarianism to work with artists. The role of the artist is not to tell people what to do but to engage people in a discussion on what is happening in society and to encourage critical thinking so that people can question what is happening in their society. Part of that questioning with young people would be to question institutional structures if they are going against equality. We are very much on the side of promoting peace and equality of opportunity. Our role is to go in and maybe raise awareness of those issues and then encourage young people to question what is happening in society. In that way one is getting solutions from people on the ground, which is important.

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