Here's my piece on structural racism in Irish music and the arts, along with some proposals on how to embrace ethnic minorities for all Irish arts organisations and @artscouncil_ie.
Do give it a read, and if you feel like sharing that'd be great too:
https://medium.com/@robfarhat/structural-racism-and-how-to-embrace-minorities-in-irish-music-and-the-arts-e0192e3f6413
I hear and believe and stand with all you sharing your stories on twitter + insta right now. I have been sexually assaulted in the trad world, and in the overlapping rest of the world. #miseFosta #meToo #iBelieveHer 1/4
As an organisation we are here to amplify women’s voices & have worked to address systemic inequality within the Arts. We have always been aware of gender based violence, abuse and harassment within our sector and we hear the voices of those currently telling their stories. 1/4
This is so useful right now but also in the long term this is the approach that we *need* to study the intensifying uncertainties of life and and life-making. #ethnography https://twitter.com/YasminGun/status/1270608861695750145
‘By patchwork ethnography, we refer to ethnographic processes and protocols designed around short-term field visits, using fragmentary yet rigorous data, and other innovations that resist the fixity, holism, and certainty’
https://culanth.org/fieldsights/a-manifesto-for-patchwork-ethnography
New! Installation: Sound Experiment with Ita Monaghan
Úna’s New Album: “For” : released 26th January 2018
Úna Monaghan is an Irish harper, composer, researcher and sound engineer.
Úna works with experimental music, improvised music, and with live electronics, from a background in Irish traditional music.
