RADE’s work featured in three public settings on Monday 1st September 2025. We are so proud of our participants who made the work that was showcased on the three different creative platforms of theatre, film and tv on this momentous day.

RADE at the Gate

Our first event of the day was a visit to the Gate Theatre for The Next Chapter – a series of staged readings of short plays written by community groups across the city. This project is a collaboration between Fighting Words and the Gate Theatre and was funded by Adult Literacy for Life and Solas Learning Works and was co-ordinated by Colm Quearney and John Taite. Fighting Words’ mission is to promote creativity and writing as a fun and powerful means of self-expression and we have been working with them during 2024 and 2025 to develop our play “Lonely Man’s Road”.

We were privileged to have writer Hilary Fannin as lead facilitator supported by Mary Jennings. Together they crafted the script with RADE participants, preparing it for this staged reading at the Gate theatre where we were warmly welcomed. There was great pride in watching the professional actors Janet Moran, Lloyd Cooney, Eric O’Brien and Roxanna Nic Liam bringing the RADE work to life on such a famous Dublin stage.

We were so pleased to be seated alongside other communities in Dublin including SAOL community project, WAS group Ballyogan, Coolmine, Daughters of Charity Writing Group, Exchange House Ireland, the Foundations Project, Shaping Futures Project at INOU and Jane’s Place Merchant’s Quay. The plays all worked well together, like a collection of short stories. They were hard-hitting, emotional and deftly representative of the difficult situations that many of the characters found themselves in.

RADE film featured at Citywide Event

Citywide marked their 30th anniversary at the Fergus McCabe Memorial Summer School at TUI Grangegorman on 1st September 2025 also. RADE had been asked to make a short film for inclusion in the afternoon session Implementing Drug Policy – A Community Development Approach. With the help of Brian Greene and Dublin Community Television, RADE participants made a short film during our weekly workshops, platforming the views of individual participants on the role of RADE in the community. You can watch this short film by clicking the link below. It was an honour to see the first screening of this film how RADE is made at this event which was well attended by people working in addiction services across the city. We were proud to hear Anna Quigley speak of our work as part of her introduction to this session.

Click Here to watch how RADE is made

RADE on TV

RADE’s final public outing of the day was on Dublin Community Television which is broadcast on Virgin Media Channel 802. We were featured in the Cityscapes TV series which ran nightly from 28th August to 5th September 2025. This series, produced by Susan Jackson of UR Media Ireland showcased the different communities that make up the Dublin City Public Participation Network. We were very grateful to be included in this eye-opening series.