How Far Can Your Voice Carry?

Project Overview:

This year’s festival theme The Law is a White Dog reflects on the implications of past and current legal systems and how they influence our thinking and attitude. In particular it looks at how work made by artists responds to categorisation and labelling in society and how this work can challenge us to reconsider any assumptions we made or things we may have accepted without questioning. The work invites us to begin conversations that can often make us feel uncomfortable. Societal issues concerning equality, status, power, hierarchy, accessibility, and climate change feature throughout the work in this year’s festival. The underpinning theme relating to climate change will provide the stimulus for this project.

The title of this County Schools Project is How Far Can Your Voice Carry? Writer, poet and dramatist Pete Mullineaux will work with a group of Transition Year students and their teacher Alan Caden of Calasanctius College, Oranmore, Co. Galway. Pete will facilitate these poetry workshops remotely using Microsoft Teams. The stimulus for the workshops will come from the video The Undercurrent by Rory Pilgrim, one of this year’s TULCA festival contributors. Students’ poems written in response to this work will be recorded digitally using a school device to add a performative element to the work created. The written and spoken elements will be shared by TULCA through their website and social media platforms.