Rushes
An Seanchaí -Listowel Writer’s Museum joins Maynooth University and the Heritage Council for a specially commissioned celebration of Imbolc | Féile Bríde in 2026. Rushes | Luachair celebrates women’s moving image art practice and features selected work by Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald (project curator), Bláithín Mac Donnell, Lorraine Neeson, and Mieke Vanmechelen. More.
Luachair
Choimisiúnaigh An Seanchaí/Listowel Writers’ Museum agus Ollscoil Mhá Nuad i bpáirt leis an gComhairle Oidhreachta ceiliúradh speisialta d’Imbolc | Féile Bhríde don bhliain seo chugainn, 2026. Ceiliúrann Rushes | Luachair cleachtadh ealaín íomhánna gluaisteacha na mban agus léirítear ann saothair roghnaithe ó Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald (léiritheoir tionscadail), Bláithín Mac Donnell, Lorraine Neeson, agus Mieke Vanmechelen. A thuilleadh.
Rushes | Luachair opens on Friday, 30 January 2026 at 6pm with an outdoor screening by Lisa Fingleton, performances by Bláithín Mac Donnell and Cormac Mac Gearailt, and a reading by Laura Fitzgerald. The workshop follows on Saturday, 31 January.
Osclófar Rushes | Luachair ar an Aoine, 30 Eanáir 2026 ag 6.00 p.m., tráth a mbeidh scáileánú faoin aer le Lisa Fingleton, léamh le Laura Fitzgerald agus taibhiúanna le Bláithín Mac Donnell agus Cormac Mac Gearailt. Beidh an cheardlann | meitheal ar an Satharn, 31 Eanáir.
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Lisa Fingleton
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Laura Fitzgerald
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Bláithín Mac Donnell
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Lorraine Neeson
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Mieke Vanmechelen
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Lisa Fingleton
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Laura Fitzgerald
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Bláithín Mac Donnell
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Lorraine Neeson
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Mieke Vanmechelen
Rushes | Luachair
Meithleacha | Workshops
Sarah Arnold and Carolann Madden work together on projects engaged with amateur filmmaking and the development of metadata schemas and archival practices that foregrounds women’s contribution to amateur filmmaking. They led a filmmaking workshop – Super 8 and 16mm – at Kerry Writers’ Museum during Heritage Week 2024, where they met Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald and Lorraine Neeson. That sparked the idea of an event that became the Rushes | Luachair project.
Given the Imbolc | Féile Bríde timing/framing, the workshop is modelled on a traditional meitheal of women filmmakers and will be a hands-on exploration of the work in the exhibition, community filmmaking and the management of analogue and digital media heritage assets – old, new and liminal.
As such, the symposium constitutes the terminus for a two-year R&D journey at Kerry Writers’ Museum, which the Heritage Council funded. That journey will continue. The conversations that happen during the meitheal | workshop will be summarised in a manifesto inspired by and engaged with the work on show.
In a nod to old fashioned modernism, the Rushes | Luachair manifesto will rally practitioners and researchers active in the rapidly growing field of legacy media practice, community filmmaking and analogue/digital assets management in the arts and heritage sectors.
This event is supported by Research Ireland and the New Foundations scheme under grant number NF/2024/11760.
