This event brings together leading voices from architecture, heritage, cultural geography and the arts to ask: what would our small towns look like if we truly connected to their material reality?
Speakers will include: Síle de Cléir (UL), Nessa Cronin (NUIG), Fiona White (ATU), Karen Keaveney (UCD), Philip Crowe (UCD), Laura Earley, Stephen Wall (UCD), the Mayo Traveller Movement, Victoria Durrer (UCD) and more.
Themes will include connection to rural identity, colonialism, morphology, ritual, adaptive capacity, mapping the future, inclusion, climate change and beauty.
The day includes two workshops led by local artist Tom Brawn (currently a postgraduate student at the Royal College of Art in London) and a creative writing workshop by poet and artist Alice Lyons on Words & Places. There will also be tours of the town, led by Orla Murphy and John Mulloy.
Structured as a day of talks, workshops, and town walks, Samhlú – Seeing Things invites participants to explore continuity and change — from from ancient May rituals to contemporary questions of livability and belonging.
Location: the old Dunnes Stores building and Breheny’s old garage, Castlebar Street, Westport.
Booking for the event will be open on February 3rd on www.westportcivictrust.org
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