About this Event
Doors: 19:00
Screening: 19:30
RUNNING TIME 90 minutes
We are very excited and honoured for this super special screening of H3. Set in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in the north of Ireland and co-written by the late Brian Campbell (1960-2005) and his friend Laurence McKeown who spent 70 days on hunger strike in 1981. H3 charts the period up until Bobby Sands’ death on 5th May 1981. Through the eyes of fictional characters, the hunger strikers’ survival is charted with dignity, comradeship and a sense of humour.
We are also extremely lucky to have a discussion after the screening between co-writer and former hunger striker, Laurence McKeown, and director of the Fire Station Artist' Studios, Sara Greavu.
Laurence McKeown Bio
Dr Laurence McKeown is an author, playwright, and filmmaker though sees those roles within the broader context of political activism, academia, and the role that the arts can play in both.
His involvement in creative works, political education, and academia began during his period of incarceration as a political prisoner (1976-1992). Following his release from Pr*son Laurence completed a doctoral thesis at Queen’s University, Belfast.
In 1995 Laurence founded the West Belfast Film Festival which, in 2000, extended city-wide to become the Belfast Film Festival.
Laurence has recently published two Pr*son memoirs; Time Shadows (Dec 2021) which takes in the years 1976 - 1981, and And Flowers Grew Up Through The Concrete (Dec 2025), which looks at the political and educational developments among the Republican prisoners within the Pr*son in the years post-hunger strike, 1981 – 1992.
Sara Greavu (Q&A host) Bio -Sara Greavu (Director of Fire Station Artists' Studios) is a curator, independent researcher, writer and organiser. Previously she has worked at Project Arts Centre, Dublin; Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry; and Outburst Arts, Belfast as well as working on independent projects with various grassroots cultural groups.
She was the curator, alongside Project Arts Centre, of the Irish Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2024) with the artist Eimear Walshe.Independent projects include We realised the power of it, a research exhibition produced with artist Ciara Phillips and former members of the Derry Film and Video Workshop, which dealt with intertwined political and cultural initiatives in Derry in the 1980s. Originally commissioned for the 39th EVA International, an iteration of this show will be in the OFF Biennale in Budapest in 2025. She has a PhD from Ulster University and an MA in Curatorial Practice from the University of Bergen.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Kirkos, Little Green Street, Dublin 7, Ireland
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