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President Mary McAleese

Archive for 2025

Art and Impact: Personal, Social, Political

We were delighted to have a full house at our lunchtime panel discussion on Thursday 26th September 2024 which touched on themes of the right to art and the transformative power of the arts. This event was in celebration of the close of our Create Your Rights IHREC project and we were thrilled to share the beautiful creative work of our participants which was on display in the form of a booklet of images and text, t-shirts and badges with the logo developed during the project “Let’s Talk about Rights”. We also took the opportunity to celebrate 20 years of RADE and to acknowledge the phenomenal role of Mick Egan in bringing RADE from its foundations to the thriving service that it is today.

RADE and IHREQ- Create Your Rights booklet Published September 2024

We hope you enjoy this collection of our photos from the day. Photos by Emma Loughran.

Panellists L to R Robbie O’Connor, Marie Fleming, Brian Maguire, John O’Donnell

Let’s Talk About Rights Logo – by RADE participant, Bill Prime

Socially Engaged Artist Opportunity

Are you a professional artist who wants to grow their community and socially engaged arts practice? RADE is seeking to collaborate with socially engaged artists particularly if you are practicing in the disciplines of theatre, dance, visual arts, music or poetry.

If your practice would benefit from aligning with a small community organisation, whose principles are based on the transformative power of the arts, and you would like to explore the opportunity to work with us we would love to hear from you.

Contact RADE Project Director Gill McCaw on gill@rade.ie or call 01 454 8733

Previous socially engaged arts projects at RADE include Ó Liath Go Glas with Artist Louis Haugh and the Project Arts Centre in July 2023.

Click here to see short film of Ó Liath go Glas