Osaro Azams: live performance and screening

We invite you to join us for a live performance by Osaro Azams and screening of her work Things Are Tough - Things Are Glorious. Things Are Tough - Things Are Glorious is a Super 8 film that carries a sense of reconnection by depicting scenes of Osaro's family, held in frame until they blur out.

This event is programmed by Ruairí McCann, as part of How We Get Free: A Black Feminist Performance Art Programme, curated by Clodagh Assata Boyce. The programme invites global majority artists from the Island of Ireland and beyond to engage with and unpack ideas around refusal and marginalisation posed by Black, queer, feminist artists in the late 20th century.

About Osaro Azams

Osaro Azams is an award-winning Voice Artist who fuses her visual images with guttural sounds as she commits to make sense of early grief, sensuality and prophetic dreams in her body of work. As the winner of the Romily Walton Masters Performance residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, she visited Limerick to create an intimate storytelling moment with Feile Na Greine Festival (2025)

About Ruairí McCann

Ruairí McCann is a film critic, programmer, illustrator and musician from County Sligo and Belfast. He’s the co-editor of the film journal and virtual cinemathequeUltra Dogmeand his writing can be found onaemi online,BOMB, Defector, Documentary Magazine, photogénie, Screen Slate, Senses of Cinema andSight & Sound, among other publications. His current projects include a longform oral history on the ‘First Wave’ of independent Irish Cinema of the 60s, 70s and 80s.

How We Get Free is funded by Esmé Mitchell Trust. Commissions by Outburst Arts through the Paul Hamlyn Foundation Art Fund.

PS² is supported by The National Lottery through Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Belfast City Council’s Artists’ Studio and Makerspace Organisational Grant, and Arts & Business NI’s Blueprint Investment Grant.