RADE was fortunate to be invited to be part of the CityScapes Community TV series in Dublin in the Autumn on 2023.

CityScapes is a twelve part Coimisiún na Meán, Sound and Vision funded media literacy training and video production project, harnessing mobile phone and online streaming technology, to produce a living document on the different organisations that make up Dublin City’s Public Participation Network (PPN), capturing the vibrant and effervescent landscape of the capital. The PPN is the collective voice of community/voluntary, environmental and social inclusion organisations around the country. CityScapes is a pilot project and there are plans to roll it out to the entire PPN network operating across Ireland.

The project at RADE was approached as a two-phase production cycle, with the training course/workshops being completed first.   Through these series of workshops, RADE participants were taught mobile video production skills which equipped them to then go on to produce segments that went towards an educational, engaging and entertaining magazine show exploring the three pillars under which the PPN operates. These are:

• Community & Voluntary
• Social Inclusion
• and Environmental

Each pillar will had a total of four episodes allotted to it and RADE came under the Social Inclusion pillar. The magazine show was then broadcast on Dublin Community Television, Virgin Media channel, 802.

CityScapes represents the opportunity to throw a spotlight on grassroots initiatives, giving a voice to communities on the ground around the country. The project also allowed RADE participants to gain practical/marketable experience on a working set. It also equipped them with the skills necessary to produce their own content on an ongoing basis, with opportunities to have it broadcast on Dublin Community Television. This has promoted empowerment and employment potential.

The aforementioned production process meant RADE members were both in front of and behind the camera. They also had editorial control in committing the finished pieces to the screen, meaning all content was pre-approved by RADE members and staff before broadcast. Reports from RADE about the experience have been positive and participants have been able to put the skills acquired through CityScapes to use in another collaboration with DCTV.  

Susan Jackson, Producer and Co- Director of CityScapes

Click here to watch a clip from the final RADE segment. Participants and staff talk about history of RADE and what it means to them.

If you haven’t caught RADE’s 2020 film “The Tapper’s Opera” we are delighted to launch it now on our website.  Click here to see the full film ->

Fun time during Challenging period of COVID-19

RADE participants are currently working with Trevor Knight-Musician and Composer. Trevor Knight was elected to Aosdána, Ireland’s state-sponsored academy of creative artists, in 2007.

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If you haven’t caught RADE’s hilarious film from 2018 (last year)“Spare Change” on the big screen, we are delighted to launch it now on our website.  Click here to see the full film ->

You can still catch RADE’s 2 new films from 2019 “The Man In the Chair”  and “The Girl In The Window” on the big screen in RADE’s studio space at the OLV Building, every Wednesday at 2:00 pm. (These 2 new films will not go online till November 2020.

“Irish Light Vs Tony” is now available to watch on RADE’s  Playback Year 2017.

RADE will be screening our new film in the main cinema IFI in Temple Bar at 12.00pm on Wednesday 13th June. This screening is for Service Users and we welcome all the other projects to join us for another ‘cracker’ from the RADE team, probably their funniest offering yet. A great opportunity for the service users to meet up and a powerful demonstration of the social contribution, that can be made by people in recovery. Please contact RADE by email info@rade.ie or 014548733 and let us know how many people you wish to bring. Book early there are only 258 seats and they’re being snapped up fast.

This short film is an absurd comedy about the desperate state of Ireland’s housing crisis. From unscrupulous landlords to the ‘invisible homeless’ and politicians reverting to Victorian attitudes, there’s never been a worse time to be without a roof over your head.

‘Spare Change’ was developed from the true-life tales of the RADE participants and their first-hand accounts of the current housing crisis.

 

RADE will also screen their highly acclaimed hilarious film from 2017 “Irish Light V’s Tony”

RADE will be screening our new film the second time in the main cinema IFI in Temple Bar at 12.00pm on Wednesday 23rd May. This screening is for Service Users and we welcome all the other projects to join us for another ‘cracker’ from the RADE team, probably their funniest offering yet. A great opportunity for the service users to meet up and a powerful demonstration of the social contribution, that can be made by people in recovery. Please contact RADE by email info@rade.ie or 014548733 and let us know how many people you wish to bring. Book early there are only 258 seats and they’re being snapped up fast.

This short film is an absurd comedy about the desperate state of Ireland’s housing crisis. From unscrupulous landlords to the ‘invisible homeless’ and politicians reverting to Victorian attitudes, there’s never been a worse time to be without a roof over your head.

‘Spare Change’ was developed from the true-life tales of the RADE participants and their first-hand accounts of the current housing crisis.

RADE will also screen their highly acclaimed hilarious film from 2017 “Irish Light V’s Tony”

Spare change is another satirical take by RADE, this time on the housing crises in Dublin and it packs as strong a punch as ever!
Once again the cast is made up of the current RADE participants who deliver sterling performances all around.

Please join us for the Second Cinema screening of the Film.

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Book your seat as soon as possible!

RSVP is essential.   info@rade.ie

Comments from the Director Rodney Lee

‘Spare Change’ was developed from the true-life tales of the RADE participants and their first-hand accounts of the current housing crisis. The goal was to capture their experiences and shape them into an engaging narrative. Working on this film with the truly committed RADE staff and talented participants has been an exciting journey – not without its challenges – but ultimately hugely rewarding. Working with the participants to bring out their experiences and focus on the issues that really affected them, then developing a script which would encompass these issues was an inspiring and humbling experience. Improvised workshops based on the script brought humor and jokes funnier than anything I could ever write. And finally shooting the film and seeing the dedication and passion of everyone involved, many of them stepping well outside their comfort zone, proved to be one of the most creatively satisfying experiences I’ve ever been involved with. Rodney Lee, Director.

‘Spare Change’ is a comedy about people faced with the most impossible, desperate struggle known to modern man; navigating the rental market in Ireland today… Ed gets a shock when his landlord raises his rent without warning. Already stretched to the limit and only just making ends meet, things look grim until Ed decides to sublet his flat to the multitude of homeless people looking for somewhere to stay. As long as the landlord doesn’t find out, everything will be fine… but Ed doesn’t count on the crazy tenant who claims to have stolen the housing list, suspicious neighbours and an unexpected visit from the Minister for Housing… This short film is an absurd comedy about the desperate state of Ireland’s housing crisis. From unscrupulous landlords to the ‘invisible homeless’ and politicians reverting to Victorian attitudes, there’s never been a worse time to be without a roof over your head. What can be done?

A great chance to see RADE’s hilarious hit film Irish Light V’s Tony on the big screen: The Five Lamps Festival!
Friday 9 March at 4.45pm

One man’s struggle through a bureaucratic nightmare as he fights for his right to natural light. Tony is being charged by a new semi-state body, ‘Irish Light’, for access to the sun. When he refuses to pay, workmen board up his windows. But Tony won’t take this lying down. He marches to the headquarters and navigates his way through a madhouse of delusional propaganda, rampant capitalism and sheer insanity to get an exemption.

RADE participants will perform the play ‘Everybody Get Stoned’ written by Michael Egan, as part of the Stop The Stigma Campain on 27th February 2018 at 11.30am in Green Street Dublin 7.
The event will include testimony on experiences of drug-related stigma from the SAOL Project and from John Devoy of UISCE; an extract from the play Love in the Wild by Lisa Walsh, directed by Peter Sheridan and a performance by RADE (Recovery through Arts and Drama Education); Charlie Lloyd, University of York, will give an overview of the international research into the impact of stigma on people who use drugs and the implications for policy.

Breaking News!

Rade in collaboration with writer Rodney Lee was awarded a grant from CREATE.  The Artist in the Community Grant gives Rodney the opportunity to write another script and work with RADE participants to produce a film next year. This follows on the huge success of  “Irish Light vs Tony”   that was produced in 2017.  Acting workshops are to begin in November 2017 and shooting will be in January. Very exciting times for RADE.

Quotes about “Irish Light vs Tony”

It is fabulously written. Clever, incisive, political, it is on the money. It reminded me of Monty Python with its wonderful attack on bureaucracy and capitalism. The concept of paying for the light is superb……. Brilliant………. And it works because it takes it seriously and never descends into silliness.  The production is excellent and all aspects of film making are there, realised at the highest level.   

Peter Sheridan

Irish Light vs. Tony; all the actors in it are from the programme.  It’s a parody and comical satire on the government’s Irish Water fiasco, and on modern-day bureaucracy, that endless torture of form-filling and departments and managers, and overseers, and the wrong office, and the wrong building.

Karl Parkenson

‘Irish Light Vs Tony’ written and directed by Rodney Lee

All  participants took part in the production both infront and behind the camera.  The film was shot over 5 days mainly in RADE’s own premises.  Eoghan, Ray and Stephen crafted the sets while Mick, Síne and Derek worked behind the scenes preparing participants for their performances in drama workshops. Special thank you to Rodney, Tomas Donaghy, Gary Boyd, Derek Dunleavy, Jody Jones, Ray Doyle, Stephen Comerford and all the cast for making this a successful production.

Save the Date!  Film Launch scheduled

Date:                           Friday 12th May

Time:                          1pm

Location:                  IFI Cinema, Temple Bar, Dublin 2

Minister of State for Communities and the National Drugs Strategy, Catherine Byrne TD will be guest speaker

Further details to follow closer to event

following a productive 2016 we are ready to start some new projects

To begin writer and film editor Rodney Lee has developed a short film script with the working title No. Readings and rehearsals will commence 17th January with the film shoot scheduled for Spring. Mick Egan and Síne Lynch will continue running weekly workshops in drama and facilitate the direction and coordination of the film production.  Derek Dunleavy will co-facilitate drama workshop.  Eoghan O’Neill is back working with the groups artistically to develop a new collection of art work to be exhibited in the summer.  Averyl Swords and her team will continue developing the rehab and training programme within  RADE.  Monika is back after a short break to facilitate weekly yoga and acupressure.

Birthday  ends the ‘Day Trilogy’ of films

http://vimeo.com/51586215

Somewhere in the Wild West – or is it a Dublin suburb? – a family gather, dressed in their best cowboy/girl gear, for a surprise party. Eldest sister Margo is up to ninety, husband John-Wayne is no help and seems distracted, other sister Eliza is upset, and why won’t little sister Sadie say who the father of her unborn baby is? Seen from the point of view of the yet-to-be-born baby, Birthday is a funny, gritty and spiritually uplifting story.

This was Pom Boyd’s final short film with RADE. The film was shot over five days in The Lodge, Coolmine Therapeutic Community, with tents and benches borrowed from the Merchants Quay Scouts. Coolmine residences, staff and especially the kitchen took wonderful care of us all week.

Birthday was launched by President Michael D. Higgins on Tuesday 11th October in the Irish Film Institute Cinema, Temple Bar.

 

Hard Day is the second film of the ‘Day’ Trilogy and was created by the RADE participants in 2010

http://vimeo.com/34653567

The world premiere screening of Hard Day took place on Thursday 1st July 2010 in the Irish Film Institute, Temple Bar, and was written and directed by Pom Boyd. The film was shot over five days in and around Temple Bar and Killiney beach.

Hard Day tells the story of Billy, who tries desperately to make some money busking. His girlfriend is running out of patience with him. When intimidating street criminal Lazer stops to watch him busking, Billy is reminded of an old injustice and decides for once to stand up for himself and put an old wrong to right…

Minister Pat Carey, TD, officially launched the film, and on the same evening he launched RADE’s A Creative Response to Drugs: Strategic Plan 2011–2014 too.

The first of the ‘Day’ Trilogy of films

http://vimeo.com/21999727

 This was RADE’s first year in the movies with the making of the short fiction film Today. Written and directed by Pom Boyd, the film was shot over five days throughout Dublin 8. RADErs worked with a professional crew while they all performed in the film.

Today tells the story of Patrick who is sent by his eccentric doctor to find an arts project in Dublin’s inner city.  Patrick perceivers with his journey through the streets overcoming the various impediments that happen on his way.   An engaging, funny and moving short film that introduces both Patrick and the audience to the colourful characters that have found a home in the ‘Art Row Workshop”:….But Patrick arrives on the day the programmes funders are visiting….  The funders are not impressed