This workshop will be held in a supportive space where you can unleash your love of poetry and is especially tailored to blind and partially sighted people. You’ll awaken your imagination as we encounter different creative prompts together and discuss techniques to kick-start new poems. You’ll also have the opportunity to explore the technique of collage poetry using 3D printed fragments of Braille and provide feedback on its potential use in transcribing future poems.

Bebe Ashley lives in Belfast. Her work is most recently published in bath magg, Poetry Ireland Review, and Modern Poetry in Translation. Her debut collection Gold Light Shining was published by Banshee Press.
In 2021, Bebe was longlisted for the Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment and awarded a Chair of Ireland Poetry Trust Award. Most recently, Bebe was selected as one of nine artists to receive a Digital Evolution Award in support of a project Confetti that explores the poetic potential of Braille and 3D printing.

For more information about Bebe and her work visit; bebe-ashley.com

To book access for this event email: communications@crescentarts.org

Warriors of the Dystotheque presents Anthropause The House and Techno session Ft Reverse Jazz & Micky O’Brien 

Warriors of the Dystotheque have spent the past 20 years DJ’n across the globe and have just returned from DJ’n in Ibiza so you are defo in for a treat of what’s hot on the dance floor right now in true Warriors style. 

Reverse Jazz is a native of Derry and a huge fan of electronic music from his teens, he brings a wealth of knowledge to his music and hopes to take people on a journey through different genres and the odd hidden gem.

Micky O’Brien is a Belfast born Electronic artist who’s been around since the start of the scene and delivers music of the highest quality across many electronic genres.

Liminal is a new performance artwork by artist Hugh O’Donnell is part of Bounce Arts Festival 2022 and is live only once, not to be missed!

Liminal explores in between things,  may it be a doorway or a slight breeze passing through, in between not knowing what will happen in sleep or awakening. What will happen if I don’t see the crossing of the road or the human traffic mark in a field? The space between knowing and feeling isolated,feeling of being left in between and trying to communicate or pass onto the bus, train to get somewhere or just to be left Liminal. Floating with materials that create a visual poetic happening. Can you tell me what it means? And are we really in between something?

Hugh O’Donnell originally from Dublin now lives and works in Belfast

Hugh has exhibited his work nationally and internationally alongside facilitating visual art and performance art workshops and artist talks. His work is of an auto-personal nature.  Through performance art, sculpture, installation, drawing and found objects his research and art investigations pivot around subjects relating to sexuality, gender, disability and the absurd. Hugh is a studio member with Flax Art Studios’ Belfast and is a board member of PS2, Belfast

The division of the country of Cyprus appears to me to have more serious implications than the current divisions still existing in Belfast, Northern Ireland, where I live. Political conflict in Cyprus has divided the country into a Southern Greek region and a Northern Turkish region. The border of the Buffer Zone is known as the “Green Line”, which is under the control of the United Nations.
 
The division of the country has created logistical restrictions requiring travellers to physically pass through a border from one area to the other. After the division of Cyprus in 1974, many donkeys which belonged to farmers were abandoned left to roam wild. Since then, the number of wild donkeys has multiplied.  The wild donkeys are protected by the common law from both sides of Cyprus with a lot of wild donkeys living in no man’s land in Northern Cyprus. I am interested in the fact that while the political conflict has resulted in a loss of freedom for the people of Cyprus, Cypriot donkeys have acquired more freedom and have become a symbol of anarchy in the country.

After checking the Crossing Points – Green Line Regulations, I discovered that exceptions occur for the transportation of goods, such as vegetables, firewood and one bouquet of cut flowers: I was allowed to transport these through the border. So, crossing the border of the country with carrots, firewood and one bouquet of cut flowers from Southern Cyprus, I travelled to Northern Cyprus. Once there, I met some of the wild donkeys and gave them the presents that I had brought and tried to feed them.  This site specific intervention was my response to the political division of the country.

Shiro Masuyama

Location of video: Cyprus
Date: July 2022
Artform: Video
Duration: 14 mins (looped)
Further information visit – http://shiromasuyama.net