An honorary benefit evening for The Pecker Dunne NOT TO BE MISSED
Pecker Dunne through his lyrics and his music which describe injustices and prejudice brought the issue of classicism, inequality and ethnicity to the forefront of Irish society.
All revenues from this honorary concert will go directly to the care and well-being of Mr Dunne. This concert will feature members of the Dunne family and renowned special guests.
Singers and musicians include, the Dunne family (Stephen, Sarah, Paddy) Josie Doherty, Patrick Cassidy, Tommy Doran, Selina O Leary, Jinx Lennon, Steve Cooney and many more. Many surprise artists will play at this event. Only 150 tickets are available . Buy your tickets here http://entertainment.ie/event/Festival/City-Hall,-Dublin/A-Gala-Benefit-for-The-Pecker-Dunne/2611028.htm
or email farcryproductionsltd@gmail.com.
A special CD REAL has been produced for the event all monies of which will go directly to Madeline Dunne.
Cllr Mannix Flynn will be hosting this event.
This event has been sponsored and organised by the Temple Bar Tradfest http://www.templebartrad.com/
All photos of the Pecker by Pat Crowe http://www.patcrowephotography.com/#
James X - New York - FINISHED 2011
THANK YOU TO ALL THOSE WHO ATTENDED THE NEW YORK SHOWS AND PARTICIPATED IN THE TALKS. IT WAS A VERY MEMORABLE TWO WEEKS AND WE WILL BE BACK!
Dec 6th-18th
The work includes 14 performances of James X, a number of public talks around the issues that the play raises. There will also be a visual art exhibition work 'Impact' that will coincide with the run of the play at 45 Beeker Street.
James X is directed by Gabriel Byrne and produced by Gabriel Byrne, Liam Neeson and Farcry Productions in association with Culture Project, Bleeker Street and supported by Culture Ireland.
This work is written and performed by Mannix Flynn.
Link to Talk at New York Ethical Cultural Centre: The Case against the Pope December 13th 2011 http://politube.org/show/3338
Dec 15th Radio interview with Leonard Lopate
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/lopate/2011/dec/15/james-x/
Link to Post Show Talk: Sunday 11th December
http://fora.tv/2011/12/11/James_X_Talkback_with_Mannix_Flynn_and_Gabriel_Byrne
REVIEW: http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/e5d33c6b0a5a4de29290bfa556305ffe/US--Theater-Review-James-X/
December 6th-18th
Ticket Sales for this event are available through Culture Project website
www.cultureproject. http://www.cultureproject.org or call 866-811-4111
Loss
Dialogue, 43A Vyner St., London E29DQ November 2011
Will re-open on December.
Please ring 0208 9805809 if you wish to view the work privately or with a group.
Or email farcryproductionsltd@gmail.com
Link to Podcast
Mannix Flynn talks about his work 'Padded Cell and other stories' http://www.rte.ie/podcasts/2010/pc/pod-v-150210-26m19s-artstonight.mp
Art Review Link Below:
http://www.artreview.com/photo/albums/loss-by-gerard-mannix-flynn
Opening: Friday 26th November 2010
Loss, will be officially opened by Fergal Keane, writer and BBC correspondent at 7pm on Friday 26th November. All Welcome.
Please RSVP farcryproductionsltd@gmail.com
Artists Talk - 4pm 16th October
'The politics and culture of the performance of inclusion'
Gerard Mannix Flynn will give a talk on his work on Saturday 16th October at 4pm at Dialogue Art Space
The new show by Gerard Mannix Flynn and Farcry Productions will be opened officially in October 2010
The space will be open from 16th Sept onwards to view Padded Cell and Other Stories
Live Performances
James X - a live performance
There will be a performance of James X in April the date has yet to be confirmed at Dialogue at 43A Vyner Street, E2
Email farcryproductionsltd@gmail.com to book
This is a limited seating event.
Wheelchair accessible venue
Dates for London Shows will be posted soon
Farcry Productions would like to thank all those who came to see the work James X over the past week and all those who have supported and worked with the company to make our work possible. Also a special thanks to artist/performer Amanda Coogan for a wonderful signing of the work on Sunday at the Holiday Inn.
James X
Written, Directed, Performed by Gerard Mannix Flynn will be opening in London in the coming month.
"What Flynn gives us is a record of our collective cruelties and we are forced to take possession of a catalogue of crimes carried out in our name.
James X is like nothing we have seen before."
F. O Toole
Padded Cell and other stories Autumn 2010
'Remnants of Our Past' now showing in London at Farcry’s Dialogue space celebrates the distance from the violent events of our past. It brings the issues to an integrated global community with particular reference to the Islamic community in the UK.
‘Padded Cell and Other Stories’ combined with the ‘Culture of Child Abuse’ site at Exchange Street gives the public access and right of way to come to an understanding of the phenomena of child abuse with particular reference to Church/State collusion. This work seeks to be open and transparent and holistic. It is not about closure, it is about a shared exploration.
Finally ‘A Different Kettle of Fish Altogether’ is a building a temporary art and Culture space, which we hope will further allow the public to engage at a level of their choosing.
Current show now extended until mid March 2010
Monday - Friday 12pm-5pm
18 Ormond Quay Upper, Dublin 7
farcryproductionsltd@gmail.com
'Padded Cell and other stories'
'Strait-talk' Taipei, Taiwan 2008
Filmed in Chinese with English subtitles
'Letting go of that which you most ardently desire'
Dublin International Theatre Festival 2006
When Wolfe Tone arrived in Paris he was asked by the revolutionaries what was it that he most ardently desired? He replied, 'a large army armed for Ireland'.
Today that desire has gone.
'The Culture of Child Abuse' Temple Bar 2009
At present both the Ryan and Murphy reports are displayed at this public site. Essex Street West/Exchange Street
The Ryan Report details a catalogue of systematic, recurrent and widespread sexual abuse of children and teenagers.
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Kevin Kavanagh Supports Mannix Flynn's Decision to Cancel Padded Cell and Other Stories
I support the decision of Mannix Flynn to cancel his exhibition, Padded Cell and other stories, which was to open at the Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, on Friday 10th of July.
Mannix Flynn is an important Irish Artist whose work is both challenging and relevant to the times we live in. His installation Safe House, Safe Place at Liberty Hall, Dublin in 2005 was arguably the most impressive exhibition that I have ever seen that deals in a sensitive and intelligent way the horror of Child Abuse. Mannix Flynn is an elected member of Aosdana and also a founder member of Far Cry Productions. He most recently served on the board of the Irish Museum of Modern Art for five years.
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In response to a statement from the director of The Dunamaise Arts Centre regarding the cancellation of ‘ Padded Cell and Other Stories” by Gerard Mannix Flynn which was due open to the public on Friday 10th July 2009.
According to the Director of Dunamaise Arts Centre, Louise Donlon, the Padded Cell show was pulled because Farcry demanded that certain pieces of art be displayed in the Foyer, an area of the building which has the highest footfall, and which Director Louise Donlon maintains was inappropriate since the arts centre had a duty in terms of child protection to insist that the work be moved elsewhere.
In response to Ms Donlon’s claims, Mannix Flynn and Farcry productions would like to state that at the time the exhibition was being discussed it was agreed that the building in its entirety was to be used for exhibition of the work.
The technical team in the Dunamaise Arts centre sent Farcry measurements of all the walls we intended to use and our own technical team made several visits to the centre to plan the layout of the work. Ms Donlon has been in possession of the pieces to go on display for almost 3 months and during this time could have raised with Farcry Productions any issues she had regarding the appropriateness of, or location of whatever material was to be exhibited. No issues were raised.
If they had been, a dialogue surely would have happened before the 8th of July, two days before the exhibition was to open. Even at the late stage at which Ms Donlon did raise concerns, Farcry tried to accommodate her, but in terms of the design of the work this simply wasn’t possible.
All this apart, a defining characteristic of Farcry Productions is that, given the shameful and shaming nature of some of the subjects dealt with by the company, public display is a key part of the artistic process. Given this, and given that the Arts Centre was in possession of the work for almost 3 months in advance of the exhibition, it is difficult for us to understand how Ms Donlon was unaware of the nature of the work she was agreeing to host. The decision by Dunamaise Arts Centre to cite child protection issues in their press statement seems to us to be extremely manipulative as in the course of our discussion with Ms Donlon, the issue of child protection never arose. As Ms Donlon says in her press release Mannix Flynn has indeed got a record of standing up for the rights of children but child protection is about protecting children from harm not from truth. Clear warnings about the content of the work would have facilitated parents in making the decision they felt was appropriate for their children - it is not up to Ms Donlon or the Dunamaise Arts Centre to make this decision on their behalf. No children will be harmed by an exhibition of words. If they can read it, and if they can understand it then it can be discussed with them, openly and honestly– and that’s true child protection.
Finally, why would Farcry Productions spend time, money and energy trying to mount an exhibition if they had any inkling that the gallery which was going to host it had issues with the content going on display? Ms Donlon maintains in her press statement that she has conflicting responsibilities towards supporting artists and protecting young children, this is a conflict of Ms Donlon’s own making. Had she attended more carefully to the work she was agreeing to host, this conflict would never have arisen. It is easier now to blame the artist for being uncompromising than to take responsibility for her own negligence.
Contact Mannix Flynn: 087 4139419
farcryproductionsltd@gmail.com
Padded Cell July - 2009
Farcry - Jan to Sep 2008
Farcry East - Nov 2008
24th-30th November 2008
7 Beipeing East Road, Taipei, Taiwan
10am-7pm
Farcry Productions Presents
“Home Truths” a programme relating to contemporary political and social issues.
Through contemporary arts practice Farcry Productions will deliver a reflective process on identity and militarization, migration and deportation and the global issue of the consequences of child abuse. The work is a reflective process on emerging issues on the island of Taiwan. Problems are what link us and divide us and once solved they form the basis for strong confident mature identities.
Home Truth:
noun: A key or basic truth, especially one that is discomforting to acknowledge
News - 14th Sep 07
MANNIX FLYNN TO SUE THE DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL
Acclaimed author, actor, artist and playwright Gerard Mannix Flynn is to sue the Dublin Theatre Festival for breach of contract.
Flynn and his company, Far Cry Productions, claim that the Dublin Theatre Festival reneged on an agreement made between the two parties in June 2006, partly in writing.
The agreement was that on condition that Flynn and Far Cry Productions produced, funded and staged a production called Letting Go of That Which You So Ardently Desire in the 2006 Festival, they would be given the opportunity to present another production the following year. According to Flynn's claim, the 2007 production was to receive financial and practical assistance from the Festival, and Flynn was promised a financial advance (estimated at €40,000) based on the play's projected box-office takings.
Far Cry Productions kept their part of the bargain in staging the 2006 production, claims Flynn, which cost the company an estimated €60,000. Further expenditure went on the early stages of preparation for the 2007 feature, entitled Cunning, Baffling, Powerful, which he believed would be staged this year at the prestigious 50th anniversary Dublin Theatre Festival.
Despite numerous requests from Flynn and his company, the production was not included on the 2007 schedule.
Far Cry Productions filed a civil action with Dublin's Circuit Court today, Friday 14th September. For further information, contact Gerard Mannix Flynn 087 4139419
News - 19th Oct 2006
How do we acknowledge significant past events. Events that have affected our lives, 9/11, the Tsunami, Chernobyl, 1916, the World Wars, Rwanda, and the thirty years of conflict in the North of Ireland. After the dust has settled, the rubble has been removed and peace has descended, what marker, plinth, monument or plaque can encompass our grief, our memory and our loss. This is a question that has interested Gerard Mannix Flynn and Farcry Productions since the company's inception. Prior to the current 1916 commemoration on Parliament Street, Far cry had a "extallation" on Lesson Street commemorating the women of the Magdalene Laundries which was described as follows by James Smith, Boston College.
"The challenge, identified by the artist, Gerard Mannix Flynn, seems to be how to commemorate without closure, how to effect a monument without felicitation, how to represent artistically without aestheticization. . . . Flynn's act of commemoration is orientated not towards the past but towards the future." (Notre Dame University Press) To further tease out the issue of meaningful commemoration, Farcry Productions has organized a talk on the The Consensus of Memory: The Politics and Aesthetics of Contemporary Memorial Design at the Morrison Hotel, The Printworks, July 21 at 3pm. The speaker is Joel McKim, (Goldsmiths College) and admission is free. RSVP farcryproductionsltd@gmail.com or at 086 8910574
