20/03/2019
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Mayor to launch South Dublin EPIC 2 – a journey through speculative fiction curated by Colm Keegan.
This is South Dublin as you’ve not seen it before.
The Mayor of South Dublin County Council, Cllr Mark Ward will launch South Dublin EPIC 2 – the second iteration of an online collaborative and interactive work on Thursday 28 March in Rua Red, South Dublin County Arts Centre, Tallaght.
South Dublin EPIC 2 combines story and art and is curated by Colm Keegan, with artwork by Bob Byrne. It is South Dublin County re-imagined and built from stories of the young writers of South Dublin. It is South Dublin as you’ve not seen it before.
South Dublin County Council Libraries & Arts commissioned writer Colm Keegan to develop and deliver a series of creative writing workshops with young people. Colm took the brief and delivered on it on a truly EPIC scale. Schools and youth organisations across the county were invited to participate in what Colm described as a ‘journey through speculative fiction’. *
Participants in the EPIC project were encouraged to look on South Dublin County, its history, its geography and their own experience in it, as source material from which whole new worlds could be built. They could use this creative process a means to explore their lives in a unique and liberating way.
“South Dublin Epic is first and foremost about writing, but it's also about much more than that. In exploring where their story should go, they also explore what type of people they want to be. It's great to see teenagers speculating on a myriad of possible lives for themselves, coping with climate disaster, zombie apocalypse, marauding invaders or draconian dictatorships - giving themselves superpowers, dilemmas, flaws and wild futures, stepping up to be writers and leaders at the same time.” Colm Keegan explains.
Credit is due to the young people and staff of the following schools and groups who took part in the process:
Youthreach Priory
The King’s Hospital, Palmerstown
Coláiste Éanna, Rathfarnham
Firhouse Community College, Tallaght
Kingswood Community College
Mount Seskin Community College, Tallaght
Killinarden Community School
Moyle Park College, Clondalkin
The South Dublin EPIC 2 website and exhibition will be launched on Thursday 28 March, 2019 at Rua Red, South Dublin County Arts Centre, Tallaght. The website will be accessed through https://epicdublin.com/
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For more information, contact South Dublin County Council Communications Unit at communications@sdublincoco.ie
IMAGE 1 – Clankland. Artwork by Bob Byrne
IMAGE 2 – Hinterland. Artwork by Bob Byrne
IMAGE 3 - The Authority. Artwork by Bob Byrne
For the Editor,
*Speculative fiction is narrative fiction with supernatural or futuristic elements, encompassing science fiction, fantasy, superhero fiction, science fantasy, horror and supernatural fiction, as well as their combinations.
About South Dublin County Council
South Dublin County Council is one of four local authority areas in the Dublin region.
The Council provides and funds a broad range of services including housing, roads, walking and cycling routes, parks and playgrounds, libraries, sports facilities, litter control, arts centres, enterprise units, fire services, community infrastructure and financial support. It also serves as a platform for local democracy with 40 councillors spread across six electoral areas.
Bounded by the River Liffey to the North and the Dublin Mountains to the South, the County lies 16 kilometres south-west of Dublin city centre and has an administrative footprint of 223sq. kilometres. The County has nine main villages Clondalkin, Lucan, Palmerstown, Rathfarnham, Tallaght, Templeogue, Saggart, Rathcoole and Newcastle and is bounded by adjoining counties of Wicklow, Kildare, Dublin City, Fingal and Dún Laoghaire.
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IMAGE 3 - The Authority