2019 02.16 OUR BELOVED SWEETEARTH event NEW ROSS - The Cabin - Beithe Deoir - Forest Friends Ireland Branch launch
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THE CABIN, NEW ROSS Co. WX
16th of February 2019
from 10am till 5pmdetails to be defined
OUR BELOVED SWEETEARTH
event organised by and for
Forest Friends Ireland
for the Launch of
BEITHE DEOIR - Forest Friends Ireland Branch
11:00 THE MEMORIAL FOREST PROJECT talk by McBett
in support and awareness of all those affected by loss or related issues.
conversation with the audience
11:45 Talk by Susan Breen
Climate Change- Heading For Extinction
(And What To Do About It)
conversation with the audience
12:15 'Tree Reading' by Tina Wilkins
Bring your handmade drawing/painting of a tree of your choice or made by fantasy,
to be 'read' by a psychic/energy worker during the lunch break
12:30 Vegan Potluck by everyone
in awareness of sustainability, inclusion and cruelty free living
14:00 Storytelling by Baya Salomon-Hawk
A local based storyteller will narrate some trees stories
14:30 Shamanic Meditation by Danny Ahern
A drumming shamanic journey is offered offered through this event
(If you wish to lay down, bring with you a mat and/or a blanket)
15:30 Becoming an Enchanting Forest by McBett
time for recreating and to communicate as a collective mind, like a Forest,
through a performative interaction, a dynamic exercise by artist and director McBett
(No need of any particular skill or fitness. Comfortable clothes and an open mindset are suggested, but not compulsory)
!6:00 Talk by Forest Friends Ireland President, John Houghton
EVENT CONCLUSION and brief story of Forest Friends Ireland with answers/questions
16:30 end of the event
Fundraising lottery
the event will be also a fundraiser for our new branch.
craft and art sale on subject
You are welcome to bring in whatever you consider interesting
PLEASE BE AWARE that this is not a ahole event directed to children
If you like to come along with children please consider the length of the whole event
and choose the more suitable sections for them (like the potluck and tree drawings or storytelling)
Teenagers are welcome
Participation is suggested for the whole day, but you can contact us and ask to stay for only chosen sections
DIRECTIONS
THE CABIN is a wooden cabin within Sweeney's Garden centre, in front of New Ross City Park. along the quay.
The venue is accessible and parking is available inside the garden centre and outside it
If you are not local please let us know if you need details on transports
Buses direct from/to Dublin / New Ross including possible lift shares
here
http://getthere.ie/dublin-new_ross/16-Feb
and here
http://getthere.ie/new_ross-dublin/16-Feb
BIOS:
McBett
is a Senior International Visual and Performative Artist and Director, based in New Ross. She has promoted and produced hundreds of art projects based in different contexts, nationally and internationally, receiving awards and grants in various countries, so as promoting pilot projects provoking proactive social changes in the communities these projects were developed. She is co-director of Forest Friends Ireland, and Founder of the New Branch in the Irish South-Est. Also a rentless human right and environmental activist, an active vegan, animalist and freegan.
Susan Breen
is a Wexford born environmental activist, International co-ordinator for Extinction Rebellion and member of
Deep Green Resistance, involved in many environmental campaigns locally, nationally and internationally.
Tina Wilkins
is a psychic/energy worker... (bio to follow)
Baya Salmon-Hawk
is a ritualist, a storyteller and a writer. She comes from a long line of Occitan storytellers, the Cantairitza. As a Priestess of Elen of the Ways, she works in the Celtic Traditions of Britanny, Provence and Ireland. Baya is as a Shamanic Healer, she trained with Caitlin Matthews. She was ordained as a Priestess by Olivia Roberston and Caroline Wise. Baya has contributed to the revival of the old Celtic Festivals all over the South East of Ireland, bringing venues to life with her voice and her ceremonies. From The Hook Lighthouse to the walls of Wexford Town, adults and children are entertained and sometimes startled by her tales.
www.facebook.com/bayasalmonhawkstoryteller/
Danny Ahern
is a practicing Shaman. He received his Medicine spiral training in the Irish Centre for Shamanic studies, Dunderry, County Meath with Sli an Chroi.
He has held Shamanic events in Creacon Wellness centre, New Ross, to celebrate the Celtic festivals.
John Haughton
is a Town Planner and Social Scientist, who worked for many years as a Senior Executive Planner in Dublin Corporation,
specialising in Community Planning, Ecologically based, with strong emphasis on the environmental heritage.
Co-founder and President of Forest Friends Ireland forestfriends.ie/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?id=7, his work has concentrated on marginalised communities in Dublin City.
The first of these was the 'Finglas Enlivenment Project' which received the Irish Planning Institute's 'Planning Achievement Award'.
It was promoted as representing best practice by the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development,
and by an official report carried out on behalf of the City of Copenhagen, Denmark.
He promotes environmental awareness in his weekly hour-long radio programme, 'Enviro' which goes out on the
Dublin Community Radio Station NEAR FM 101.6 (Dublin North-East Access Radio).
THE CABIN, NEW ROSS Co. WX
16th of February 2019
from 10am till 5pmdetails to be defined
OUR BELOVED SWEETEARTH
event organised by and for
Forest Friends Ireland
for the Launch of
BEITHE DEOIR - Forest Friends Ireland Branch
11:00 THE MEMORIAL FOREST PROJECT talk by McBett
in support and awareness of all those affected by loss or related issues.
conversation with the audience
11:45 Talk by Susan Breen
Climate Change- Heading For Extinction
(And What To Do About It)
conversation with the audience
12:15 'Tree Reading' by Tina Wilkins
Bring your handmade drawing/painting of a tree of your choice or made by fantasy,
to be 'read' by a psychic/energy worker during the lunch break
12:30 Vegan Potluck by everyone
in awareness of sustainability, inclusion and cruelty free living
14:00 Storytelling by Baya Salomon-Hawk
A local based storyteller will narrate some trees stories
14:30 Shamanic Meditation by Danny Ahern
A drumming shamanic journey is offered offered through this event
(If you wish to lay down, bring with you a mat and/or a blanket)
15:30 Becoming an Enchanting Forest by McBett
time for recreating and to communicate as a collective mind, like a Forest,
through a performative interaction, a dynamic exercise by artist and director McBett
(No need of any particular skill or fitness. Comfortable clothes and an open mindset are suggested, but not compulsory)
!6:00 Talk by Forest Friends Ireland President, John Houghton
EVENT CONCLUSION and brief story of Forest Friends Ireland with answers/questions
16:30 end of the event
Fundraising lottery
the event will be also a fundraiser for our new branch.
craft and art sale on subject
You are welcome to bring in whatever you consider interesting
PLEASE BE AWARE that this is not a ahole event directed to children
If you like to come along with children please consider the length of the whole event
and choose the more suitable sections for them (like the potluck and tree drawings or storytelling)
Teenagers are welcome
Participation is suggested for the whole day, but you can contact us and ask to stay for only chosen sections
DIRECTIONS
THE CABIN is a wooden cabin within Sweeney's Garden centre, in front of New Ross City Park. along the quay.
The venue is accessible and parking is available inside the garden centre and outside it
If you are not local please let us know if you need details on transports
Buses direct from/to Dublin / New Ross including possible lift shares
here
http://getthere.ie/dublin-new_ross/16-Feb
and here
http://getthere.ie/new_ross-dublin/16-Feb
BIOS:
McBett
is a Senior International Visual and Performative Artist and Director, based in New Ross. She has promoted and produced hundreds of art projects based in different contexts, nationally and internationally, receiving awards and grants in various countries, so as promoting pilot projects provoking proactive social changes in the communities these projects were developed. She is co-director of Forest Friends Ireland, and Founder of the New Branch in the Irish South-Est. Also a rentless human right and environmental activist, an active vegan, animalist and freegan.
Susan Breen
is a Wexford born environmental activist, International co-ordinator for Extinction Rebellion and member of
Deep Green Resistance, involved in many environmental campaigns locally, nationally and internationally.
Tina Wilkins
is a psychic/energy worker... (bio to follow)
Baya Salmon-Hawk
is a ritualist, a storyteller and a writer. She comes from a long line of Occitan storytellers, the Cantairitza. As a Priestess of Elen of the Ways, she works in the Celtic Traditions of Britanny, Provence and Ireland. Baya is as a Shamanic Healer, she trained with Caitlin Matthews. She was ordained as a Priestess by Olivia Roberston and Caroline Wise. Baya has contributed to the revival of the old Celtic Festivals all over the South East of Ireland, bringing venues to life with her voice and her ceremonies. From The Hook Lighthouse to the walls of Wexford Town, adults and children are entertained and sometimes startled by her tales.
www.facebook.com/bayasalmonhawkstoryteller/
Danny Ahern
is a practicing Shaman. He received his Medicine spiral training in the Irish Centre for Shamanic studies, Dunderry, County Meath with Sli an Chroi.
He has held Shamanic events in Creacon Wellness centre, New Ross, to celebrate the Celtic festivals.
John Haughton
is a Town Planner and Social Scientist, who worked for many years as a Senior Executive Planner in Dublin Corporation,
specialising in Community Planning, Ecologically based, with strong emphasis on the environmental heritage.
Co-founder and President of Forest Friends Ireland forestfriends.ie/cgi-bin/pages.cgi?id=7, his work has concentrated on marginalised communities in Dublin City.
The first of these was the 'Finglas Enlivenment Project' which received the Irish Planning Institute's 'Planning Achievement Award'.
It was promoted as representing best practice by the European Union and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development,
and by an official report carried out on behalf of the City of Copenhagen, Denmark.
He promotes environmental awareness in his weekly hour-long radio programme, 'Enviro' which goes out on the
Dublin Community Radio Station NEAR FM 101.6 (Dublin North-East Access Radio).
