Events archive
- 20October2025
Photo credit: EL Putnam and Mike McCormack, Under the Feet of Shadows, 2024, Video Still. The Creative Practice and Embodied Knowledges Research Strength at MUAHI will be presenting a showcase of practice at Maynooth on Monday 20 Oct, from 2 to 4 pm in Iontas 1.33 (MUAHI Seminar Room). Presentations will be as follows: Oona Frawley:... - 04October2025You are warmly invited to join us for a special event celebrating FARM DISPATCHES, a dance and arts project led by choreographer Philippa Donnellan and poet Catherine Gander. Follow this link at eventbright to get your free tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/farm-dispatches-tickets-1688414325699 The afternoon will open with a participatory workshop where you are welcome to dance, move, and share creative responses to...
- 05September2025In the year marking the official 100th anniversary of Cathy Berberian’s birth, a one-day symposium will celebrate the work of the American mezzo-soprano known as “the Callas of the Avant-Garde”. With a view to exploring the particular crosscurrents between the performative languages that forged New Music Theatre in post-World War II Europe, we situate Berberian...
- 29March2025
Dr. EL Putnam is presenting the new moving image work The Whisperers as part of “States of Emergence” with the Boston-based Mobius Artists Group. Like many fellow Americans, it is not the first time that Mobius Artists Group has felt the weight of political anxieties and emerging culture wars that aim to target the diverse,... - 05March2025
The performing arts serve as a powerful medium for participation and engagement, and play an important role in social and everyday life, despite the challenges facing them. This conference brings together contributions – theoretical and practical, historical and current, in the performing arts (dance, theatre, music) and in related fields – in an interdisciplinary dialogue broadly themed around participatory practices in the performing arts, spectatorship and audience, and the dynamics of ‘engagement’ with communities, in education and in various civic and social spaces. Additionally, the conference explores the challenges and opportunities that arise when various sectors of the performing arts meet in collaborative processes.