LAUNCH OF THE ECO SHOWBOAT EXPEDITION 2022 !
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Eco SUNDAY, HUNT MUSEUM, 01 MAY 2022
Eco SUNDAY 01 MAY 2022 | 11AM-5PM
ECO SHOWBOAT at the Hunt Museum
Limerick
V94 EV8A
52°39'59.1"N 8°37'29.5"W
2.30PM
COMMUNITIES AND WATER
Conversation in the Pangolin Pavilion
3.15PM
NEW INNOVATIVE SENSORS
Conversation in the Pangolin Pavilion
LEAD ARTISTS
TOUR MANAGER
Vincent O’Shea
TALKS
WORKSHOP
2.20PM
Water Paths presents THE MAYFLY FLAG to Eco Showboat
Presentation
On Sunday 1 May, the Eco Showboat Mayfly will be launched from the Hunt Museum in Limerick City. You are invited to join us for this wonderful afternoon of art, workshops and talks.
Artists Cleary and Connolly welcome you in the extraordinary Pangolin Pavilion for an afternoon of events to launch the Eco Showboat Journey.
Artists Deirdre Power and Chelsea Canavan share 3 new wonderful new artwork series - The Mayflly Flag, Water Paths Archive and Ljusne Stich’n Limerick - created for the Eco Showboat project.
Ruairí Ó Conchúir of the Local Authority Waters Programme tells us what people can do to help improve water quality.
Limerick born scientist Dr. Margaret McCaul demonstrates new innovative water quality sensors developed through research at the INSIGHT SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics.
The Slow Looking workshop invites you to look more slowly and closely at nature to understand the qualities and problems of the environment
The results of a year long creative engagement between the artists Deirdre Power and Chelsea Canavan and the Limerick waterside communities, The Water Paths Archive is a collection of notebooks and journals kept by Limerick residents recording their relationship with the river, accompanied by photographs, video and sound records made by the artists throughout their creative process.
The artists Canavan & Power invited two groups engaged in the craft of embroidery to participate in a curated strand of the Mayfly Flag project. Connected by the water that divides us, participants from Limerick and Sweden are invited to respond to riverine ecology, respectively. The delicate nature of stitches, the tiny nature of insects, bacteria, and hidden ecologies along the river are brought into a tangible display alongside the ceremonial flag. The outcome, highlighting the fragility of our natural world, a space we must collectively stitch together, for the good of all.
The MayFly Flag, designed by artists Canavan & Power, responds to the life and ecology of our rivers, reflecting the short lived aquatic insect of the northern hemisphere, the ephemeral Mayfly. The 2.5 metre biodegradable flag fashions an interconnected creative resonance between oceans in relation to the fragility of freshwater habitats and ecologies found around the world. Selected for The Flag Project, in New York City, supported by The Rockefeller Center, the Climate Museum and the United Nations Environment Programme, the flag will fly over the iconic Rockefeller Center Rink during Earth Day Celebrations in April 2022. On its return, it will continue its journey aboard the Mayfly, the flagship of the Eco Showboat
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 Ruairí Ó Conchúir, LAWPRO officer for the South West Region, who joins us to chat about what you can do to help.
Dr. Margaret McCaul, Limerick born scientist and Assistant Professor in Analytical Chemistry at Dublin City University, demonstrates a new innovative water sensor recently developed by INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics. Sensors will be deployed on the Mayfly to collect continuous real-time data providing information on the water quality status.
Artists Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly of the School of Looking believe that looking closer and longer at things affords a deeper learning experience by fixing attention. Whether we regard nature as science or as art, we can better understand its qualities and its problems if we observe carefully and document accurately. This 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.
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