Care Share Express – Performances & Workshops

Live Art Ireland and the artists and mentors would like to invite you to workshops on Saturday the 25th of May and a magical evening of performance art on Thursday the 30th of May.

Natalie Rise works with sound and somatic movement: a dancing moving meditation.
Her performance is Entities of Unspoken Atrocities – Voice Creatures
For if they remain unexpressed + silenced they do not die, but circulate + percolate awaiting
presence.
A sound journey + witnessing of the marginalised, repressed and oppressed.

Ray VM is a poet, performer, knee shaker and shouter of words based in Birmingham. His performance is
Spit Spat: A demonstration
A performance art piece prompted by being spat at on multiple occasions publicly. An act of violence or a poor attempt at flirting? It will explore spit as a material, a universal language
and its duality as a product of desire and distaste. (Splash zone included.)

Thaís Muniz is a visual artist interested in exploring the connections between inherited and acquired identities, memory, and inward love.
In her durational performance, Rite Read to Rest; she invites others to a restful ritual of
reading books as a care-sharing practice. She will read for herself, for others, have others read for her, read for the ivies and plants in the garden, the insects, the trees, the birds, andfor people in other worlds.

Yves Lorrhan is a dance artist with professional experience of 26 years, his extensive
journey comes through: Ballroom, Ballet, Contemporary and Afro Dance.
His performance asks “How I am? What can happen when you decide to take off all the masks that protect you and you discover your true self?”

Diana Bamimeke is an art writer and independent curator based in Dublin.
Their performance piece asks what it means to erode boundaries: between public and
private, between subjection and abjection, and between yourself and the natural world.

Workshops

Info for Thaís’s workshop: “If you like headwraps & textiles, join us for a tutorial session with artist Thaís Muniz. This workshop goes beyond practical tutorials to share the rich and complex history of turbans and headwraps in Afro-Atlantic cultures. Spanning ancient to contemporary times, delve into characters, traditions, new meanings, and the non-verbal communication implied through the head. You will learn how to use the same scarf for headwraps & clothing styles. More than teaching you how to tie, she wants to tell you why.”

Info for Yves’s workshop: “The purpose of this class is to provide everyone with the freedom to move without the need for predetermined steps or choreography. The goal is to help participants discover the inherent dance within each individual. To achieve this, various exercises of free body experimentation will be employed, allowing us to learn from one another and build an authentic dance without the imposition of patterns deemed right or wrong. I believe that everyone has the capacity to dance, and the challenge is to overcome mental barriers that hinder this natural movement. Our bodies are inherently designed for movement, so the focus of the class is to access the dance that already exists within each person.”

Info for Diana’s workshop: “Join Nigerian artist, writer and facilitator Diana Bamimeke for a talking circle at Borrisokane community centre. This circle invites reception centre residents to talk freely about themselves and their experiences in a casual and pressure-free environment. Tea, coffee and other refreshments will be provided, as well as face masks and hand sanitizer. PLEASE NOTE: this event is for Borrisokane reception centre residents only.”