Schedule of Events
SEPTEMBER 2024
SATURDAY 28 SEPTEMBER
Gleann a’ Phúca Grande Finale
&
Culminating Event
Public sharings and findings
LUNCHTIME
In The Glen River Park
1.30 – 2.30 pm
Ordinary Gifts Picnic
AFTERNOON
Performances In the Glen Park 5- 7 pm
5.30 pm
Launch of Fuaim Mna Poetry Trail with Ann Dalton
6.15 pm
Through the Valley She Runs
Dance performance with Helga Deasy
UCC Creative Artist in Residence in the Glen
EVENING
In The Wellbeing Room at The Glen Resource Centre
7 – 9 pm
Presentation of new commissioned works from the Gleann a’ Phúca Artists
Screenings Presentations, Performances and Reflections
Ordinary Gifts Presentation Performance
Spoon & Bloom Animation
Dervla Baker Glen River short film
After the event Productions, findings and outcomes will be available on www.gleannaphuca.ie
Thursday 26 September
The Glen Resource Centre Awnings and Wellbeing Centre
Building Rain Gardens In collaboration with the Glen Community Garden. There is capacity to build 8 rain garden planters on site at the Glen Community Garden. This practical workshop is opne to Schools and community groups who will create theri own Rain Garden Planter to bring back to their communities along with the knowledge to create more.
Please get in touch if you are a community leader who would like to build a garden for you group
AUGUST 2024
17th – 24th AUGUST HERITAGE WEEK
Spoon & Bloom invite you to Step into the Past with historian and Glen native, Gerard O’Brien, who will share stories about his boyhood in the Glen Park. The master story teller, historian and author will elaborate on his encounters with biodiversity then and now and contextualise this deeply subjective narrative with references from his research about the history of the park.
The walk and talk will be followed by a workshop with Spoon and Bloom, sharing stories and impressions of the park, Memory and Bio-diversity mapping. This will be their last workshop before they go into the production of their Gleann a Phúca commissioned animation about the Glen River Park.
JULY 2024
SUNDAY 28th July
Monster Parade with the Friends of the Dripsey River and Citizen Science River Action Water Kick Sample Testing and Creative Responses
Ordinary Gifts – Glen River Gaurdian Water performance and public participation on-site with the Dripsey Creatures with artist Elinor Rivers
Glen River Botanical Odyssey with Spoon and Bloom and Glen herbalist, Eoin Marshall
MAY 2024
SUNDAY 5 MAY
Dawn Chorus with Birdwatch Ireland Cork
17- 26 NATIONAL BIO-DIVERSITY WEEK
THURSDAY 23 MAY
Rain Gardens and Water Awareness – Our place in the water cycle
Rain Garden Presentation with The Glen Community Garden – with Barry Hickey and Julie Forrester in collaboration with Sadhbh Burt Fitgerald from Bí Urban
Open to All
This presentation will be followed with a practical Rain Garden Planter building workshop for invited organisations in September.
SUNDAY 26 MAY
Spoon and Bloom – Bealtaine – Bio-diversity Mapping Workshop – deferred to July
SUNDAY 26 May
The Pucaí of the Glen River Folklore collaboration with Jenny Butler and Ordinary Gifts
MARCH 2024
WORLD WATER DAY Weekend Events
SATURDAY 23 MARCH – SUNDAY 24 MARCH
12 am – 1 pm
Kick sampling the Glen river Water with Community Water Officer Catherine Seale
Close looking with artist, Kim-Ling Morris
2 – 4 pm
Slow Walk with Ordinary Gifts artist Elinor Rivers
SUNDAY 24 MARCH
11 am – 1pm
A Dog’s Nose View Spoon & Bloom Workshop
Walkers are invited to Experience the park as a dog, resulting in dog inspired maps and portraits.
2pm – 4pm
A Dog’s Nose View Spoon & Bloom Workshop
Walkers are invited to Experience the park as a dog, resulting in dog inspired maps and portraits
FEBRUARY 2024
WORLD WETLANDS DAY
Ordinary Gifts Participatory Performance exploring Water Rituals and Water Divining (2) with Visual Artist, Elinor Rivers
“An Exploration of the river and its life, through walking, listening, water divining and other sensory activities designed to heighten our awareness of the river as a living entity.”
NOVEMBER 2023
GLEN WATER DAY WITH ORDINARY GIFTS
Slow walk with botanist/herbalist Jo Goodyear
Ordinary Gifts – Water divining and tuning into the waters of the Glen Park with visual artist, Elinor Rivers
OCTOBER 2023
MAPPING THE GLEN WITH SPOON & BLOOM
Annie Mar and Aaron Ross invite Glen walkers to contribute in the creation of a collaborative mapping of the Glen Park
SEPTEMBER 2023
THE GLEN AS A PLACE OF CREATIVE ENCOUNTER
FRIDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 2023
WALK in the Park with Eanna Ní Lamhna
LAUNCH of the new edition of the Glen River Booklet by Éanna Ní Lamhna
