Focus Ireland Festival of Home at IMMA on Nov 22nd and 23rd

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Focus Ireland Festival of Home at IMMA on Nov 22nd and 23rd

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*Tuesday November 14, 2006

11:29 by Roughan Mac Namara - Focus Ireland *

Focus Ireland is holding an event in IMMA called the Festival of Home on Nov 22nd and 23rd which will seek to stimulate a debate on the meaning of housing and home in Irish society and the implic

The first day will feature an event called Show Home which will explore our understanding of home through art, drama, film and writing.

This day on Nov 22nd is free to attend. All are welcome and the event will feature a range of work that has been produced by Focus Ireland service users and tenants in workshops held by the Dublin City Arts Squad and Create Arts group, writer Yvonne Cullen and photographer Annika Johansson.

Show Home will also feature people from the arts world exploring the concept of home through their own work including film, drama, readings and discussions. Artists featured include award-winning writer John Healy, Perry Ogden, Director and Co-writer the critically acclaimed film Pavee Lackeen and theatre company Arambe Productions.

The second day will feature the conference “Building Housing or Creating Homes?â€

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IMMA is housed in the Kilmainham Hospital, they are one in the same thing.

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IMMA is housed in the Kilmainham Hospital, they are one in the same thing.

Ah.

It’s just when you run a search for IMMA - you get the “Irish Museum of Modern Art”!