We were not surprised that Therry’s documentary film, Dawn to Dusk, took on a life of its own after showing in Ireland. It was shortlisted for best documentary prize at the 2021 Toronto Women Short Film Festival November 2021 and shortlisted again for the Toronto Film Festival Magazine. It was shown at the Hackney Short Film Offline Festival (October 2021) and is under consideration for the Washington Film Award Festival, January 2022, for best documentary and best original score. She managed all of this effortlessly while at the same time curating the annual Homeland Film Festival in Ireland and Spain. Helen had a very successful solo show during the Kilkenny Arts Festival, and Carole and her group are back to playing real gigs in public spaces and winning public art commissions (Carole insert details) and Patricia’s work is showing as part of the collection exhibition, The Narrow Gate of the-Here-and-Now at IMMA. Gerda and Carole brought drawing and music together to present a dramatic new collaborative drawing incorporating layers of drawings by each of the individual Cailleachs and Barbara, having completed her short film about ageing and the group has begun to work on a new film, this time in collaboration with Carole. Catherine’s seven year curation of the Engagement Project involving fourteen studio artists from KCAT and Twelve guest artists came to an end with the final exhibition, in Callan, in July and curated the visual arts programme for the Cashel Arts Festival in September. Na Cailleacha are still determined to embody the importance of play, imagination and creativity irrespective of age and circumstances and still determined to show, through our practices, that we will not live down to cultural expectations about loss of creativity or commitment in older people. We have far more ambitious goals which will take us to Waterford, Kenmare, Roscrea and other venues in 2022. We would like to thank everyone who worked with us in 2021, especially Catherine Bowe, Tara Byrne, Nuala Clarke, Una Forde, Katriona Gillespie, Grainne Humphreys, Frida Kahlo of the Guerrilla Girls, Jean Kearney, Dr. Rose Ann Kenny, Eimear King, Medb Lambert, Cormac Larkin, Olivia O’Leary, Suzannah Mullaney-O’Reilly, Nigel Reape, Aoife O’Toole, Helena Tobin, Austin Vaughan, Grace Wells, Elizabeth Whyte. Happy Christmas to all of you. The images here are from a Na Cailleacha funded Wexford Arts project with Wexford Loretto girls. Inspired by Na Cailleacha's Guerilla Girl homage poster -The Advantages of Being a Cailleach Artist- the girls designed their own versions of the advantages of being young women.
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