International Women's Day Celebration

Sasha Terfous and Natalya O’Flaherty:  Two of Ireland's great young Poets will be coming to the ICC to headline and evening to mark International Women's Day 2022!

Sasha Terfous. 

Recently announced as the Poet Laureate for Wexford, Sasha Terfous is one of the most important figures in Ireland’s spoken word community. With her knowledge, eloquence and passion, she aims to narrate life’s experiences and encourage her audience to reflect upon themselves and their decisions. Using her work as a form of activism, her poetry draws attention to the voices that should be heard and issues that need to be addressed – be it the racism and homophobia of her youth in a small rural town or larger issues such as climate change and the Black Lives Matter movement.

The past two years have found her undertaking commissions for the likes of NUI Galway and the Female Tribes project, speaking at the launch of the Centre for Environmental Justice alongside Mary Robinson, performing for the online edition of Bloomsday with Aidan Gillen, David Norris and Glen Hansard, appearing as part of Word Up Collective’s curations for Music Town and Dublin Quays Festival, touring with Wooden Elephant on their German performances of Beyoncé’s Lemonade album and collaborating with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation in New York and Poetry Ireland on a video interpretation of her piece ‘Identity’ - the audio of which was made a track of the week on RTE 2FM.

“The one thing I have also promised myself, however, is that I will never overshadow someone else’s voice with my own.” - SASHA TERFOUS, Portrait of an Artist by Derek Flynn.

Natalya O’Flaherty.

Having found her voice through the performance of her poetry, Natalya O’Flaherty has taken her spoken word to some of the country's most prestigious cultural events and venues alongside high-profile media appearances. Her words carry hard hitting notions and criticisms of modern Ireland, reflecting issues affecting young people across the country as they face the realities of the nation in the twenty first century. Performing on the Late Late Show three times, her message has reached a wide audience and made a striking impact.

Her achievements to date have been myriad – a UK debut at the London Irish Centre; a multi-media headline show More Than Words as part of Music Town; countless festival appearances including Electric Picnic and Other Voices; reading the Democratic Programme at the Mansion House in Dublin as part of the 100th anniversary celebrations of the Dáil's first sitting; an appearance at Culture Night in Collins Barracks (at the request of Laureate na nÓg Sarah Crossan); commissions for the likes of RTE’s A Woman’s World and Shine A Light projects, the Ombudsman for Children, Body & Soul and Proctor & Gamble’s Irish Tampax campaign; an acclaimed workshop programme for young people and an interpretation of Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Three Babies’ for An Post’s Glastonbury special edition launch.

Ruby Kearney. 

Ruby is an East London born and bred visual and vocal artist, writer and performer. Her work along with the sound artist AKA PATRICIUS focuses on collaboration and unification of sound, movement and visual language to communicate stories and stimulate atmospheric experiences. She works as creative events producer and assistant, both in the music industry and the Irish Cultural Centre, and as a vocal artist. Alongside this, Ruby is working on developing her own creative process influenced by her Irish heritage, sound art and poetry.

Patrick Hemington

Originally from Warrington, England, Patrick Hemington is a multidisciplinary performance and sound artist, AKA PATRICIUS. He utilises various techniques to create inter-medial works exploring both the sonic, and visual realms as well as how art can inhibit the space inbetween. He works across a range of disciplines as a music producer for various artists, as well as workshop facilitator and he does practical research and performance projects. 

More Artists to be announced.