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Eco SUNDAY, BELTURBET MARINA, 14 AUGUST 2022
2.30PM
WATER QUALITY and BIODIVERSITY
Waterside conversation with Ben Malone
The Local Authority Water Programme (LAWPRO) works to identify issues affecting water quality in Ireland and collaborate with the water stakeholders to find a solution. Community engagement is the cornerstone of this approach. Meet Ben Malone, Community Water officer for Counties Cavan, Monaghan and Louth, who joins us to chat about what you can do to help.
Cleary and Connolly believe that learning begins with looking. Looking closely at things - for the purposes of observation and accurate documentation, or just for the simple pleasure of engaging your mind with the world - affords a deeper learning experience by fixing attention and setting up a remarkably complex and active investigation that begins with the eye and progressively engages the whole mind. The Slow Looking workshop invites you to use a range of simple viewing devices - bug boxes and magnifying glasses - to observe closely samples of biodiversity found on site, and to draw these using the materials provided, in a relaxed atmosphere conducive to conversation.
On Sunday 14 August the Eco Showboat Mayfly will dock at Belturbet Marina. You are invited to join us for this wonderful afternoon of art, music, conversation and workshops.
River Movie will record the first expedition of the Mayfly - a series of encounters with artists, activists and scientists as we travel upriver from Limerick to Enniskillen, discovering the beauty of the Shannon and the Erne waterways, exploring scientific and artistic ideas for how we can save this environment from everything that threatens it today - pollution, invasive and endangered species, climate change… Using a 4k drone, a 4k gimbal camera, an IR camera and other devices for macro-photography and sound recording, River Movie will document a unique collaboration of art and science addressing the great problem of our time.
Still from River Movie: The Mayfly passses through the monumental lock at Ardnacrusha, May 2022.
Deirdre Murphy is a musician and multi-disciplinary artist. She has counted herself as a songwriter, singer, choreographer, dancer, playwright, circus artist, designer, and sartorial adventurer. Originally from Alaska, Deirdre travelled nomadically throughout the USA collecting many adventures and stories before moving to Ireland. Deirdre is the writer and composer of “Capitalism: The Musical” (2017), acrobatic musical theatre which has toured Ireland and Italy to sold out audiences, and has been translated into Italian and French. She is the creator/collaborator of many original works of music, dance, aerial dance, theatre, and performance art. Her first album is due out this autumn, and her music has been featured on RTE Radio One's playlists.
4.00PM
DEIRDRE MURPHY
Concert
WORKSHOP
TALKS & PERFORMANCES
3.30PM
EARTHMAN BOB
Performance
"Earthman Bob" - an artistic avatar of artist Robert Fitzgerald - is a poet-astronaut performing a spoken word piece inspired by "the overview effect", a term used to describe the cognitive shift that astronauts experience when they see the world from outer space.
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