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“Celebrating International Women’s Day 2022 at The ICC ” - Two of Ireland's greatest young Poets & Spoken Word Artists are coming to the ICC. Sasha Terfous and Natalya O’Flaherty.
Also appearing is singer songwriter and vocal artist Ruby Kearney accompanied by Aka Patricius and singer songwriter Jeanette Murphy.
Sasha Terfous
Recently announced as the Poet Laureate for County 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 Female Tribes project, speaking at the launch of the Centre for Environmental Justice alongside Ireland’s former president Mary Robinson, performing for the online edition of Bloomsday with Aidan Gillen, David Norris and Glen Hansard and collaborating with the Adrian Brinkerhoff Poetry Foundation in New York.
Natalya O’Flaherty.
Having found her voice through the performance of her poetry, Natalya O’Flaherty has taken her spoken word to some of Ireland's's most prestigious cultural events. Her words carry hard hitting notions and criticisms of modern Ireland, reflecting issues affecting young people across the country. Performing on the Late Late Show 3 times, her message has reached a wide audience and made a striking impact. She has appeared at countless festival including Electric Picnic and Other Voices; at Culture Night; on RTE’s A Woman’s World and Shine A Light and she's been an Ombudsman for Children, Body & Soul - and Proctor & Gamble’s Irish Tampax campaign; and an interpretation of Sinead O’Connor’s ‘Three Babies’ for An Post’s Glastonbury special edition launch.
Ruby Kearney
Ruby is a 2nd Gen Irish/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 ICC. Ruby is developing her own creative process influenced by her Irish heritage, sound art and poetry. She will be accompanied by sound artist AKA PATRICIUS.
Jeanette Murphy
Jeanette Murphy is an awesome singer songwriter and musician who stems from Nigerian-Irish heritage. Possessing a hauntingly beautiful voice, Jeanette has a wealth of experience as a live performer’; she is known for effortlessly combining her intricate acoustic guitar playing, with her stunning vocals and thought-provoking lyrics, in her very own unique style. Jeanette has so far released three albums. Having an eclectic taste in music, she performs jazz, folk, blues and Irish and she regularly plays and sings at Irish traditional music sessions across London – including the Friday night session here at in Hammersmith, at the ICC. Jeanette says she loves the ambience of the Irish trad session and she also loves traveling to Ireland to play at the annual Fleadh Cheoil Festivals, whenever she can. Recently Jeanette performed a stunning Lockdown Concert at the ICC which was directed by Sé Merry Doyle. You can view it on ICC Digital
More Artists to be announced.