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Sep 8, 2025
Announcing the GORM Gathering 2025 - Year 2
On October 18th, GORM will host its second annual GORM Gathering at The Complex, Dublin. This year’s Gathering is titled Disrupting DEI Through Storytelling. The community-powered event confronts the performativity of diversity narratives in Irish media. Through film, panels, protest-rooted performances, and raw co-creation sessions, it will present storytelling that unsettles as it inspires.
Disrupting DEI means moving beyond token gestures to deep structural change, grounded in fairness, participatory ownership, and narrative power. When the system won’t hand us the mic, we, the community, bring our own.
This year’s Gathering opens with a screening of GO HOME, a fictional short film by Marcello Fidelis, winner of the 2025 Close-Up Summer Residency. Set during the 2023 Dublin riots, it follows an immigrant father navigating a violent city to reunite with his daughter. Fidelis describes the piece as “Blair Witch Project meets Get Out”, a haunting account of fear, displacement, and solidarity.
Marcello says. "It should be about solidarity — not fear and displacement. We all feel fear, and we all feel displaced sometimes; what changes is what makes us feel that way. So much has happened since that day. Hatred has become more transparent, and attacks have become more public. There's a lot of "this isn't Ireland," but there's always space for these things to happen. We know the country itself is not at fault — it is a land of masses in the ocean with no free will. Go Home is about what happens when those blamed for that neglect try to live their lives. I'm glad GORM made space for this conversation to happen."
Mamobo Ogoro, CEO of GORM and host of Newstalk’s Younified, says: “Last year, we started a conversation. This year, we’re taking it further. We’ve seen the backlash against human rights, the silencing of voices, the washing of community stories. But we say no. With the GORM Gathering 2025, we are reclaiming storytelling for justice, joy, and change. It’s about more than inclusion, it’s about changing the narrative. Whether it's our filmmaking panel, our co-creation session, or the unfiltered honesty of community voices, we’re here to reshape the story and remind people that resilience is radical.”
This year’s gathering is an immersive and interactive experience with live performances including musical artist Toshín, a community-led Co-Creation Session, where industry leaders become listeners and impactful panel discussions;
- From Box-Ticking to Belonging: Disrupting the DEI Status Quo explores how filmmakers are reclaiming authorship of their narratives.
- Creative Interference: Art as Resistance to DEI Tokenism invites artists reframing disruption not as danger but as joy, protest, and truth-telling.
GORM are inviting filmmakers, creatives, cultural leaders, students, industry professionals, and anyone ready to move past the tickbox mentality to attend.Ticket prices start at X
With opportunities for organisations to sponsor tickets
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Sponsors:
Coimisiún na Meán, Cultural and Creative Industries Skillnet, Spin 1038, RTÉ
Event Partner:
FUEL
*All photographs to be credited to Tessy Ehiguese https://tessymedia.myportfolio.com/
GORM is an multi-award winning social enterprise on a mission to unify across differences and advance belonging for marginalised communities through intercultural media and education. Guided by evidence based methods such asBelonging Design Principles and Intercultural Competence Frameworks, GORM delivers its services to Elevate the voices of diverse communities through media, Enable Communities to tell their stories through community programme, and Equip leaders through evidence based intercultural consultancy. GORM aids in the sustainable goals of (10) reducing inequality and (16) Peace, justice and strong institutions.
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