St. Patrick's Festival

Gráinnemir Abualrob is a Palestinian performer and theatre-maker based in Ireland. In 2013, they joined The Freedom Theatre in Jenin refugee camp, Palestine, where they completed four years of Theatre and Cultural Resistance study. Gráinnemir's performances often reflect their experiences as queer Palestinian navigating both their heritage and their identity in Ireland, creating thought-provoking theatre that connects diverse cultural contexts and highlights struggles of oppression and resistance.

Together with Grainnemir, they form a dynamic artistic duo whose collaborative work bridges Irish and Palestinian cultures through theatre, storytelling, and cultural resistance.

In 2021, they launched the "One of Many" workshop, an intensive program combining physical theatre techniques, storytelling, writing, and cultural resistance. The workshop explores the importance of artistic resistance in Palestine and its applications in Ireland, delving into the movement’s mechanics, dynamics, and dramatics within limited spaces.

In March 2024, they presented "Saibhreas," a new theatre piece inspired by the connections between Irish and Palestinian communities. The piece explored themes of land, colonisation, and the power of art as resistance. The performance featured live musicians and was delivered in Irish, Arabic, and English.
Through their collaborative projects, Sorcha and Amir continue creating impactful art that fosters cross-cultural understanding and highlights their communities’ shared histories and struggles

They are an independent curator, writer, and transdisciplinary artist primarily interested in curating and producing socially engaged art. Their guiding principle, across all strands of their practice, is working collaboratively and responsively.

They are most interested in answering questions of political subjecthood with critical frameworks like Black feminist and anti-imperialist thought. Bamimeke's writing has been published by VISUAL Carlow, Visual Artists Ireland News Sheet, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Technological University Dublin, Paper Visual Art and frieze.

Born in Palestine, Tuqa Al Sarra is a contemporary visual artist and filmmaker based at Flux Studios in Dublin. She studied Fine Art media at the National College of Art and Design (2021) and contemporary art at the International Academy of Art Palestine (IAAP), Ramallah (2017). Tuqa has exhibited in group exhibitions in various international cities, including Oslo, London, Ramallah, Creil, Dublin, Limerick, and Sligo.

Her practice includes mixed-media, found objects, collage, photography, video, performance, and installation. Sarraj navigates themes of memory, loss, and exile through social dialogues and personal conversations. She is a member of the Pathe lArt collective in London and Angelica Network in Ireland.

Roxana Manouchehri is a professional visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland. She earned her MFA in Fine Art from the Tehran University of Art and has taught art since 1995 at various universities in Tehran, Seoul, and Dublin, including Trinity College and the Chester Beatty collection. Roxana has participated in over 50 group exhibitions internationally. She has held 17 solo exhibitions in cities such as Tehran, Seoul, Dubai, Madrid, Munich, London, Brussels, Rauma, and Dublin, including the RHA and the Kevin Kavanagh Gallery. Her works are part of significant private and public collections. Her main interest is drawing on paper, focusing on geometrical patterns, reverse painting on glass and mirrors, and Islamic patterns. She researches European medieval and Persian manuscripts, exploring the conflict between contemporary life and lost truths and confronting fears, dreams, and fantasies.

Tara is a singer, sound, and visual artist who likes to look at ecosystems and their transcendence through different forms- including human experience, communication, and interaction regarding personal and immediate environments. Tara works through textiles, field recordings, drawing, and video as ways into these messy human/non-human relationships.

Tara often returns to the idea of garments as cladding, between shelter and situation, or being situated with humans. Through clothing, we forge personal systems of identity constructed with deliberation and care. Seeing the external cladding as integral to people’s ecosystems – their environments, prompts emotional durability, communication, and holding shelters.

Tara tries to unearth some of the stories that lie embedded in the world that surrounds us—listening to things and looking at things.
So now, Tara doesn’t design garments that already exist. Tara is more interested in looking at the hidden stories of our lives- often through our clothing and textiles- and bringing them to the surface, teasing out their deeper meanings.

Myrna al Tajuri (she/her) is a writer based in Dublin. Her work often explores themes of belonging, the threads that connect us to ourselves and each other and the natural world. Her poetry has been published in t'ART Magazine, Sonder Magazine, the Selkie and elsewhere.

GOVERNESS has been blowing up Ireland's club scene for a decade.
Starting as a vinyl DJ and swiftly transitioning to USBs in 2021, she has respectfully taken the art form by storm. If given the chance, she plays all four decks.

She has played in many of the country’s finest venues and festivals. She has a residency in The Big Romance & Fidelity and has a monthly radio show on Dublin Digital Radio called GOVERNESS GOODIES.