A live outdoor storytelling performance based on the lives and work of courageous human rights defenders who lost their lives. Compiled by Mary Moynihan, the show is adapted from the words of four brave human rights defenders from around the world who were murdered because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others.
Created as a promenade, ‘walk-in-the-park’ show with theatre, poetry and music, the performance features four of the stories of human rights defenders who are commemorated at the Memorial to Human Rights Defenders in the Iveagh Gardens. They are Lasantha Wickrematunge, journalist, Sri Lanka; Natalya Estemirova, journalist and human rights defender, Chechnya; Raed Fares, journalist and activist, Syria and Bety Cariño, activist and women’s rights defender, Mexico.
This unique event leads viewers around the Iveagh gardens arriving at the human rights memorial monument located in the gardens. The memorial provides a physical space in the heart of Dublin city to recognise and commemorate the lives of the many brave and inspirational human rights defenders around the world who have been silence and killed because of their peaceful work defending the rights of others. The names and words of the four human rights defenders whose stories are told in the live performance, are carved on the plaques in the memorial situated in the Iveagh Gardens.
Iveagh Gardens @ 1.00pm | Free