The Glucksman is hosting a number of public events during the month of
August to complement the gallery's summer exhibition entitled Work,
which, through the practice of more than 30 international contemporary
artists, examines different aspects of work such as globalization,
migration, industrial action and working conditions. This month, the
Glucksman continues to collaborate with Irish aid agency Trocaire, a
collaboration which began in June this year when Trocaire and the
Glucksman jointly hosted an open day for schools to mark World Day
Against Child Labour. This year's Trocaire Lenten Campaign was a
particularly high-profile one. On Thursday, 10 August at 7pm, Seán
Farrell, Co-ordinator of the Lenten Campaign, will discuss its impact
with Tom Crowley, Centre for Sustainable Livelihoods, UCC and consider
the ingredients to a successful campaign, in terms of fund-raising and
conveying an accurate message.
On the following Thursday, 17 August, Brendan Archibold, union
representative of the Dunnes Stores strikers, outlines the history and
effect of the two and a half year strike of the mid-1980s, when 12
Dunnes Stores workers refused to handle South African goods because
their union was opposed to the apartheid system. The strike lasted
until the Irish government imposed a ban on the importation of South
African goods. The contribution of the strikers to the apartheid
movement was acknowledged by Bishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela and
various international human rights groups.
On Sunday, 13 August, the Glucksman will celebrate Café Glucksman's
conversion to fair trade coffee. Volunteers from the Cork Fairtrade
Group will be on hand to provide information about the benefits of
global fair trade and to raise awareness of available fair trade
products in Ireland. Café Glucksman will offer a free cup of fair trade
coffee with every dessert purchased. Designated a Fair Trade City in
October 2005, this is an opportunity to support Cork's fair-trade
movement.
The exhibition, Work, will culminate on Sunday, 20 August with a free
screening of The Berwick Street Film Collective's Nightcleaners, in the
Kino cinema on Washington Street at noon. The Berwick Street Film
Collective, London, was established in 1970. The best known of its
productions is The Nightcleaners Part 1 (1975), conceived originally as
a campaign film about attempts to unionise women working at night as
contract cleaners in large office blocks. The film is a landmark work
of British political cinema.
The Glucksman will close on Sunday, 20 August at 5pm and re-open on
Thursday, 31 August with two new exhibitions, which will focus on
issues of gender and feminism.
For more information on the above events please contact Nora Hickey, 021-4901821.
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