A Talk by Robert Allen

dublin | arts and media | event notice Wednesday May 05, 2004 15:52 by deirdre - ncadsu ncadsu at hotmail dot com

Art and the Struggle to be Creative in a Modern World

A discussion on the implications for creative artists of tackling themes that are not part of the mainstream. Robert Allen will also speak about his latest book, 'No Global'.

National College of Art and Design,

4.30pm

Room H003, Had Com

All Welcome

Robert Allen is a Belfast-born author, journalist, researcher, publisher and media-activist. His books include Billy, Penguin, 1986; Guests of the Nation Earthscan, 1990; Waste Not Want Not, Earthscan, 1992; No Global, Pluto, 2004;The Dioxin War, Pluto, 2004; (and forthcoming), Ricochet (shortfiction),2004;Rendezvous with Rousseau (novel), 2005; Ireland Unbound [with Éanna Dowling],2005 and From Byzantium to Beal Atha na Sluaighe, 2005. He has also written several specialist reports, including Water Pollution and Sea Dump Operations in Cork Harbour: a preliminary report, Greenpeace, 1988; Air Pollution in Ireland, An Talamh Glas, 1992; Stop Legal Pollution, Greenpeace, 1993; Air Pollution: An Overview, ATG 1996; Untitled report on the environmental and social consequences of a chemical factory explosion in England, TC Publications, 1996; and Respiratory Illness and Air Pollution, ATG, 1997. He was the co-publisher and co-editor of Pobal an Dulra, a weekly newsletter specialising in eco-social empowerment, in the mid-1990s. He works as a sub-editor with the Sunday Times in London; as a co-editor of Bluegreenearth; as a media activist with An Talamh Glas, an autonomous collective based in several countries; and as a director with Seanchai Media, an information resource, publisher and agency for authors specialising in radical eco-social and social paradigms.