Workshops with St Brendan’s Community School, outdoor exhibition with AR, book launch and panel discussion. Empty Columns Are a Place to Dream -How to use monuments for Good and Evil Birr Theatre & Arts Centre 7pm March 25th From Birr to Knoxville USA and back to Birr . Book launch, panel discussion and Exhibition Launch. The exhibition Empty Columns are a Place to Dream, shown during Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival 2021, has continued to make waves. This event celebrates the further developments from the original International Collage Exhibition, curated by Ric Kasini Kadour in which 18 artists responded to the empty column in the centre of Birr and examined the meaning of monuments, reimagining them as sites of truth and reconciliation. The exhibition has since been shown at the Knoxville Museum of Art, has inspired a book, and led to a further exhibition created by 6th year students at St Brendan’s Community School. The Irish launch event for the book Empty Columns are a Place to Dream by Ric Kasini Kadour, Starting with the empty column in Emmet Square Birr, Kadour’s book takes a tour from the Megalithic Temples of Malta to the Confederate monuments of Obion County, Tennessee and asks us to consider monuments as sites of collective memory and as places to reflect upon history, even when that history is false or misleading. Working with Dublin Collage artist Una Gildea, the 6th year art students of St Brendan’s Community School created their own response to the empty column. The exhibition was displayed on the streets of Birr, with further layers of viewable through an AR app