The Universal Declaration of Human Rights

This is a landmark document in the history of human rights. Ratified on December 10th 1948, the declaration affirms a common standard of achievements for all peoples and all nations. It aims to universally protect fundamental human rights and has been translated into 500 languages worldwide.

SUBSOUNDS is a music collective open to young people aged 14 - 18yrs with a passion for song writing, music composition and/or music performance. It is developed and managed by a partnership made up of Alternative Entertainments, Music Generation South Dublin and CONTACT Studio (a south Dublin County Council initiative) and runs annually from October to April. The participants work with professional musicians, host their own gigs, record and release an album, and take part in a variety of performances. Writing sessions, workshops, rehearsals and demo recording take place every Wednesday evening & participants are chosen on the basis of application.

The course explores the following areas:

Songwriting, crafting an idea into a song lyric, Song structure and form, Song arrangements, Music Production/Post Production, Sequencing a song arrangement, Studio Recording Techniques, Studio Performance Techniques, Post Production Processes i.e. Mixing, E.Q., Compression, FX, Composing Music for Film and Other Media, Live Sound Performance techniques, Music Tuition, Instrumental and Vocal Workshops, Basic notation and score, Singing Techniques, Study and Career Paths in Music and Related Fields

Participants work on individual and group projects over the six-month period. They record demos all year in CONTACT Studio in RUA RED Arts Centre, and in February record each year’s Project Album in the world-famous Windmill Studios. The album is launched at an end of year performance in The Grand Social, a city centre venue, where all participants perform a selection of songs composed that year. A team of mentors, made up of experienced musicians and music industry professionals, deliver the main body of the course. Various supplementary talks and workshops are given by industry-professionals in some of the areas listed above. Each participant finishes the year having created, recorded and performed new work.

Tallaght Community Arts creates opportunities for artists and the people of South Dublin County to explore together the transformative and celebratory power of the arts for the wellbeing of all. Our work focuses on participatory arts, encouraging and supporting people of all ages to be involved in the making of art. We make work in the heart of the community; in schools, community gardens, football stadiums and individual people’s homes – as well as in designated arts spaces.

We have a number of core programmes: Double TAKE STUDIO & Doors to Elsewhere working with people living with a disability, Street Arts Academy, a cultural leadership project rooted in Hip Hop culture, Creative Campus partnering 2ndLevel students with graduates from NCAD with an Artist curator to create visual arts work beyond a gallery setting and our annual ActUP Theatre Festival with secondary schools.

We are part of the artist team producing South County Dublin’s annual winter festival Unwrapped

Tochi Ugochukwu

Tochi is currently in her second year studying Creative Digital Media in TU Dublin Blanchardstown. Tochi is a crew member in the Street Arts Academy dance group based in Tallaght, a group which she joined over 6 years ago.

Tochi has participated with Tallaght Community Arts during the annual Unwrapped Festival held each Christmas period as well as the annual Culture Night held in the Pearse Museum and in the Great Rope of Tallaght with Tallaght Community Arts.

Tochi also participated in the Noise Moves Youth Dance Festivals 2017-19 in the Civic Theater in Tallaght,

Many changes, through many challenges have occurred since the time of the first publication of The Declaration of Human Rights. People often forget their rights, while others abuse the same rights to their own advantage. The Declare and Protest is a reminder for the many rights people may have forgotten, reminding people of the power behind it.

Ashley Makombe

With a strong background in the arts, Ashley has worked with Tallaght Community Arts - Aeridheacht 2016, The Gaza Monologues 2018, Culture Night ‘17,’18 &’19.

She attended Carousel Theatre School & Happy Days School of Performing Arts.

Ashley participated in Eurobug Lithuania, Eurobug Youthchat Ireland, Tallaght Young Filmmakers, Rua Red Youth Arts Council, NOISE Flicks film festival and Her International Film Festival 2020.

She is a Co-Founder of The GALPAL Collective, an online Arts &Media organisation for Women, People of Colour and Non-Binary Folk.

Ashley is currently a 2nd year Journalism student at Technological University Dublin.

Ugonna Ugochukwu

Ugonna is a 5th year student in Kishoge Community College, Lucan, Co. Dublin.

Ugonna is a crew member in the Street Arts Academy dance group based in Tallaght, a group which he joined over 6 years ago. Ugonna has participated in Tallaght Community Arts during the annual Unwrapped festival held each Christmas period as well as the annual Culture Nights held in the Pearse Museum.

Ugonna also participated in the Noise Moves Youth Dance Festival 2017-19 in the Civic Theater in Tallaght.

The Human Rights has impacted many people's lives and this Declare and Protest Campaign will revive these Rights to show the united power behind these important words.

SuMaira Chady

SuMaira Chady was born in Mauritius and came to live in Ireland with my family when I was twelve. She completed her Leaving Certificate in 2019 and is studying fashion design in Colaiste Dhulaigh.

SuMaira loves to dance and perform. She performed in Falling with the SoloSIRENS Collective as part of the SoloSIRENS Festival at Civic Theatre in October 2019. She is currently working on a new work being developed for Tallaght Community Arts by SoloSIRENS collective directed by Jenny Macdonald & produced byJennifer Webster

Being part of the Declare & Protest project was an amazing experience. It delivers a very important message and I hope it reaches people out there.

The Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park was where Patrick Pearse lived and ran his innovative Irish-speaking school, Scoil Éanna, between 1910-16. Set in nearly fifty acres of beautiful parkland, the museum tells the story of Patrick Pearse and his brother William, both of whom were executed for their part in the 1916 Rising. The Pearse Museum and St Enda’s Park are operated and managed by the Office of Public Works.

Pearse became interested in education, through his work as an Irish language activist and founded Scoil Éanna in 1908 to provide ‘distinctly Irish in complexion, bilingual in method, and of a high modern type generally’. However, from the very beginning, his vision for education was about more than just the Irish language. Pearse believed it was about nurturing and inspiring young people and recognising their individuality and unique gifts.

As a teacher, Pearse felt his role was to help and inspire each child ‘to be his own true and best self.’ With that in mind, Pearse encouraged and nurtured his pupils’ creativity and talents, regardless of whether those talents lay in academic pursuits, sport, art, music, writing or theatre.

The Museum’s ongoing association with Tallaght Community Arts(TCA) which began back in 2014, is thus a continuation and a reimagining of Pearse’s legacy. Pearse moved the school to Rathfarnham in 1910 because he believed its historic associations and natural beauty would provide an environment which would inspire and nurture the talents of his pupils. The amazing work created by the young people involved in TCA’s various projects here over the years is a vindication of that belief.

Just months before the 1916 Rising, Pearse laid out his vision for Irish education in a pamphlet entitled ‘The Murder Machine’. For Pearse, real education rested on two principles, ‘first, freedom for the individual, and secondly, an adequate inspiration.

DECLARE AND PROTEST, the latest TCA Culture Night project to be nurtured and developed in the surroundings of St. Enda’s, takes its inspiration from The Universal Declaration of Human Rights, a document which has at its heart a belief in in the importance and unique value of every human being, and the inalienable right to human dignity and freedom.

It also echoes much of Pearse’s vision for his society and the type of education which he attempted to realise in St. Enda’s over a century ago. In one of the most striking passages of ‘The Murder Machine’, Pearse wrote:

‘I plead for freedom within the law, for liberty, not licence, for that true freedom which can exist only where there is discipline, which exists in fact because each, valuing his own freedom, respects also the freedom of others’

Megan McGarry

I’m Megan, I’ve been in SubSounds the past 4 years, I also met my band that I’m with now Groove Killer through SubsSounds.

I really enjoyed working on this project because I thought it was a great idea to create a sort of soundtrack that people could listen to in order to get into that state of mind that change needs to happen and that we’re prepared to protest in order to get it.

Megan wrote the song Snakepit

TRACKLIST

1. Bella Ciao – Megan McGarry (Traditional. Arrangement by Marc Ribot & Tom Waits)

2. Nina Cried Power – Molly Byrne (Written by Andrew Hozier-Byrne)

3. Blowing in the Wind – Josh Barrett (Written by Bob Dylan)

4. Not Everything That Counts Can Be Counted – Megan McGarry (Written by Billy Bragg)

5. Big Yellow Taxi – Louise Sharkey (Written by Joni Mitchell)

6. Just a Girl – Eimear O’Neill, Kara Doyle & Megan McGarry (Written by Gwen Stefani & Tom Dumont)

7. Working Class Hero – Kara Doyle (Written by John Lennon)

8. Everywhere – Megan McGarry (Written by Greg Trooper & Sid Griffin)

9. The Island – Jamie Tobin (Written by Paul Brady)

10. Snakepit – Megan McGarry (Written by Megan McGarry)

Snakepit Song Lyrics

Hi there, can I speak to you just for a second

Cause every minute of your time is precious

It’s running low

Right now someone’s mother or brother was taken

Because a man in a suit needed space so

They had to go

Tell me how we spend all our money so wisely

On a faulty printer or some coffee

I wanna know

But when we question what they are doing about refugees

Or how there’s people dying waiting in A and E

They don’t wanna know

If you don’t have money you don’t have fame

You’re already losing get out of the race

Nobody questions, nobody cares

If you don’t make a sound you won’t know that you’re there

Hi there, can I speak to you just for a second

Cause every minute of your time is precious

It’s running low

Right now someone’s mother or brother was taken

Because a man in a suit needed space so

They had to go

Tell me how we spend all out money so wisely

On a faulty printer or some coffee

I wanna know

But when we question what they are doing about refugees

Or how there’s people dying waiting in A and E

They don’t wanna know

If you don’t have money you don’t have fame

You’re already losing get out of the race

Nobody questions, nobody cares

If you don’t make a sound you won’t know that you’re there

Ideally, working class people have no say in our economy

They build a chamber we sit with no autonomy

It’s grim I know

Secrets behind closed doors in the Dáil, it’s a snakepit

Egos, agendas, power, it’s all sacred

No one can know

If you don’t have money you don’t have fame

You’re already losing get out of the race

Nobody questions, nobody cares

If you don’t make a sound you won’t know that you’re there

If you don’t have money you don’t have fame

You’re already losing get out of the race

Nobody questions, nobody cares

If you don’t make a sound you won’t know that you’re there