South Tipperary Arts Centre will also host an accompanying one day symposium. The symposium, The Age of Reason/Unreason will be live streamed from STAC on Saturday, May 29th and will include guest speaker, Rose Ann Kenny, Professor of Medical Gerontology at Trinity College. Na Cailleacha members will present a series of workshops around their practices. They hope to interrogate Gloria Steinem’s idea that women become more radical with age and to open their experiences to a wider cohort, to people who are interested in creativity, to its impact on health and to those who wonder where the feminist activists of the 1970s, 80s and 90s stand now, to the places of witches and wise women in contemporary society and to the way collectives help to forge friendships and to make art.

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11:15  Welcome and Introduction - Helena Tobin, Artistic Director, South Tipperary Arts Centre. ‍

11.30 - 11.40 Catherine Marshall will introduce speakers, Professor Rose Ann Kenny and Grace Wells. 

11.40 - 12.15 Professor Rose Ann Kenny on Healthy Aging.

12.15 - 12.35 Grace Wells - Representations of older women/witches/hags in literature and myth.

12.35 - 12.50 Discussion from the live audience moderated by Helena Tobin with members of Na Cailleacha 

1.00 - 2.00  Break for lunch

2.00 - 2.45  Screening of Dawn to Dusk, a new documentary film about Na Cailleacha, Director - Therry Rudin. (45min)

2.45 - 3.45  Panel discussion with members of Na Cailleacha - Chaired by Medb Lambert, theatre producer, director, Equinox Theatre Company, who will also offer a younger woman's response to Na Cailleacha.

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The Age of Reason/Unreason symposium will be live streamed via our website and YouTube channel – no booking required.

Please note that the gallery will be closed to the public on this date.

South Tipperary Arts Centre is kindly supported by the Arts Council of Ireland and Tipperary County Council.

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