Edwina Guckian with special guest Caitlín Nic GabhannSunday 3rd October 2021 – 2pm Growing up in a musical family and a cultural rich community in Leitrim, Dancer Edwina Guckian will share some of the folk traditions and customs she was raised with in music and dance. She will be… Read More »National Concert Hall: Tradition Now
Edwina Guckian dances to the ‘Swallow’s Tail’ accompanied by John Carty on fiddle at the Alison Pilkington exhibition ‘I Bring My Own Island’ at The Model Sligo. As part of RTE’s celebration for Culture Night, Edwina and four other artists were commissioned to create original… Read More »Culture Night on RTÉ
a Leitrim County Council Heritage Project supported by Creative Ireland launched 1st September 2021 Inspired by the recording of the famous RTÉ Hands series of the 1970’s featuring Drumkeeran man, Jack Surlis, making the Leitrim Chair, Edwina made this video with craftsman Charles Perpoil with the… Read More »The Leitrim Chair Project
Lilter Siobhán Ó Donnell & Edwina Guckian performing on TG4 FleadhFest August 2021
This year’s festival featured 57 dance artists, musicians, choreographers, videographers and performers from around the world. Curated by Edwina who has been artistic director of the festival for the past 6 years, this year’s events saw the largest participation with over 500 attending live and… Read More »Leitrim Dance Festival 2021
Irish Traditional Music Archives Artist in Residency As artist in residency at the Irish Traditional Music Archives Edwina followed in the footsteps of an amazing, yet tragic, long-distance dancing feat undertaken by Jack Lattin of Morristown, Co. Kildare in 1731.“Jack Lattin dressed in satin Broke his heart… Read More »Drawing from the Well
A new Irish dance documentary is coming to RTÉ this Christmas 2021 featuring choreography and dance scenes curated by Edwina in Leitrim with the finest of Irish dance masters from around the world.
Creative Ireland in collaboration with Edwina Guckian & Áirc Damhsa Culture Club invited children all over the world to have a Céilí in the Kitchen on June 12th to celebrate Cruinniú na nÓg! But what is a Céilí in the Kitchen? Years ago, family, friends… Read More »Céilí in the Kitchen
The bones of this project formed in January 2020. Edwina Guckian & Fionnuala Maxwell were investigating the strawing traditions in the calendar year of old Ireland. Investigating the Mummers tradition and because of Covid, they developed the Modern Day Mummers where we visited elderly people… Read More »Sowing the Seed
a film by Edwina Guckian & Vincent Woods Hunger’s Way/Bealach an Fhéir Ghortaigh The legacy of Ireland’s Great Hunger is explored in a new film which uses poetry, music, visual art and historic landscapes to consider how we remember famine and trauma and how best… Read More »Hunger’s Way