UPCOMING Event
Rushes | Luachair Workshop
DATE
January 31st, 2026
Sarah Arnold and Carolann Madden work together on projects engaged with amateur filmmaking and the development of metadata schemas and archival practices that foregrounds women’s contribution to amateur filmmaking. They led a filmmaking workshop – Super 8 and 16mm – at Kerry Writers’ Museum during Heritage Week 2024, where they met Lisa Fingleton, Laura Fitzgerald and Lorraine Neeson. That sparked the idea of an event that became the Rushes | Luachair project.
Given the Imbolc | Féile Bríde timing/framing, the workshop is modelled on a traditional meitheal of women filmmakers and will be a hands-on exploration of the work in the exhibition, community filmmaking and the management of analogue and digital media heritage assets – old, new and liminal.
As such, the symposium constitutes the terminus for a two year R&D journey at Kerry Writers’ Museum, funded by the Heritage Council. That journey will continue. The conversations that happen during the meitheal | workshop will be summarised in a manifesto inspired by and engaged with the work on show.
In a nod to old fashioned modernism, the Rushes | Luachair Manifesto will rally practitioners and researchers active in the rapidly growing field of legacy media practice, community filmmaking and analogue/digital assets management in the arts and heritage sectors.
The workshop takes place on Saturday, 31st January 2026 from 10 am as part of a day long programme of presentations & round table discussions by practitioners and researchers active in the rapidly growing field of legacy media practice, community filmmaking and analogue/digital assets management in the arts and heritage sectors.
This free event is funded by Research Ireland and the New Foundations Scheme under grant number NF/2024/11760.