20 to 22 October 2017
‘Invisible Stories’ is an investigation of folklore and landscape which will take place in the village of Allenwood, Co. Kildare.
The starting point for the project was the National Folklore Collection, University College Dublin, where a large body of ethnological material collected from school children in the 1930s is housed. Last year, as part of Curator Lab at Konstfack University an earlier version of this project was exhibited in Stockholm, Sweden. However, this iteration returns the stories to Allenwood, as local engagement is a vital component of the project.
Using various sites in the locality, the project will include an exhibition with artists Vanessa Daws, Pamela de Brí and Sheena Malone, music with Ken O’Brien and local trad musicians, a bus tour of local sites, a series of talks on folklore, local history and the environment, a film screening, and a primary school folklore project which will be displayed to the public.
This project has been generously funded by Kildare County Council.
All events are free and open to all.
More information can be found on invisiblestories.org
Or by contacting Sheena Malone: sheenamalone@hotmail.com