Pantisocracy - what makes an open society?

In the latest essential episode of cabaret of conversations Pantisocracy, entitled Room at the Table, Panti Bliss’s guests are architect Grainne Hassett, singers Susie Q and Síomha, actor/writer Stephen Jones, and visual artist Vukasin Nedeljković.

Room at the Table guests: Síomha, Vukasin Nedeljković, Grainne Hassett, Host Panti Bliss,
Stephen Jones and Susie Q. Pic: John Howard/Athena Media

In this show, Panti hosts a conversation around what makes a more open society. Vukasin Nedeljković shares his journey, from war in the Balkans to making a life here by turning his experience as an asylum seeker in Direct Provision into art, via his exhibition Asylum Archive.

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Meditation coach Susie Q performs her song Home, inspired by images of children escaping conflict, and architect Grainne Hassett talks of how similar stories of refugees fleeing war prompted her to go and work in the refugee camps in Calais.

Writer and actor Stephen Jones shares the story of his play From Eden and talks about making the film Dublin Oldschool with fellow Tallaght native Emmet Kirwan.

Síomha, who comes from County Clare, the heartland of traditional Irish music, performs her songs Spéir Rua an Iúil and Why Did We Fall in Love? and explains why the Marriage Equality Referendum made her decision to move home from Canada all that bit easier.

Pantisocracy, RTÉ Radio 1, 14th August at 10pm - listen back to previous episodes here.

Pantisocracy - what makes an open society?

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