Trish McAdam - Film Maker and Visual Artist
trish.mcadam@gmail.com
  • CONFINEMENT
  • THE END OF ROMANCE
  • STRANGERS OF KINDNESS
    • The Process
    • Meghan Healy - Actor
    • Vyvienne Long - Composer
    • Marc Sherwin - Motion Graphics
    • SCREENINGS >
      • AESTHETICA 2015
      • CHICAGO IRISH FILM 2016
  • WHISTLE - BLOWER
  • Butler
  • ROUGHTIME
    • RoughtTme Script
    • RoughTime - script images
    • Homelessness links
  • NO ENEMIES - LIU XIAOBO
    • Liu Xiaobo Statement
    • Liu Xiaobo links
  • A Poem To Liu Xia
    • The Poem
    • Liu Xia Photo Exhibition
    • Letter
    • Liu Xia Links
  • CONTACT
  • CV / FILMOGRAPHY
  • WHAT AM I DOING HERE?
  • SNAKES AND LADDERS
  • HOODWINKED
  • CAGED BIRD - CHEN
  • AI WEIWEI PETITION ANIMATION
  • BLACKBIRD FLY
  • AN ORIGINAL
  • NEW YORK SLIDE SHOW 1980'S
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A Poem to Liu Xia is screening as part of the
Trish McAdam
Strangers: Film
              and Drawing

A solo exhibition at the Butler Gallery, Kilkenny from 5th March to April 24th 2016 

​http://www.butlergallery.com/current/

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A Poem to Liu Xia.

Made on International Women's Day 2015 in collaboration with Zeng Jinyan (writer, Hong Kong) and Liao Yiwu (Composer/Performer,Berlin) for Chinese Artist Liu Xia, wife of Liu Xiaobo, under house arrest in Beijing without charge since her husband, poet Liu Xiaobo was awarded the Nobel Peace prize in 2010, This video was made to remind her that her art may be forbidden in China but she is not is not forgotten.

Made on international Women's day 2015 
From a poem by Zeng Jinyan
Performed by Liao Yiwu
Directed by Trish McAdam 
Read in English by Mark Kilroy A Poem to Liu Xia  

.https://youtu.be/oL9lQegwxE4 - ENGLISH

https://youtu.be/E8w0YtQ4yX8 - CHINESE

Other links
DOX - Centre for Contemporary Arts

http://www.dox.cz/en/exhibitions/the-silent-strength-of-liu-xiahttp://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/liu-xia-04012014155633.html

More information
AMNESTY International -  _ http://www.amnesty.org.uk/china-liu-xia-xiaobo-house-arrest#.VP1h1L5TOMA

Front Line Defenders

http://www.lighthonestyhrd.org/lxb/

Wall Street Journal

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/15/liu-xiaobo-wife-secretly-filmed-video-china-poem

Radio Free Asia
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