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State O’Chassis: Irish Poetry, Film, Storytelling & Music
October 27, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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Please join us on Friday the 27th of October at The Feminist Library for a night of film, poetry readings, music and storytelling from Ireland.
At this special Halloween event, there will be a preview of Corie McGowan’s newest film work, State O’Chassis. There will be poetry readings by Cherry Smyth, storytelling & music by Deirbhile Ní Bhranáin and a talk by Maev McDaid, an Alliance For Choice activist of 20 years and expert on Irish Diaspora.
Particularly at The Feminist Library, we will be acknowledging the invisible journeys of people who have had to travel across the Irish Sea to receive abortions and a memorial to those we have lost due to unsafe conditions. Sharing knowledge from a decolonial feminist perspective and overcoming trauma and violence due to colonial oppression in the context of Ireland. Thinking of this idea of home as a swirling turmoil of chaos with a conflicted past, we grieve generations of the past and lost futures. Folding back to the tragedy of the famine, displacement, and Irish Diaspora in Britain. Looking towards song and poetry as a method of resistance, articulation, and a political driving force in times of despair.