Author: Cathy Fitzgerald
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Webinar notice from the fabulous Nessa Cronin at NUI Galway. Please circulate widely! Unfortunately I will giving a UK guest lecture at this time but I encourage all working in the Irish creative and wider cultural sector to attend. Thank you Nessa for organising this important meeting and previous seminars too. A chairde, We hope…
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Organised by ecoartist-educator Cathy Fitzgerald and sculptor husband Martin Lyttle, the group came together to shine their lights out in solidarity with youth, Indigenous front-line and other social justice activists who marched yesterday across the world demanding concrete political action to urgently end fossil fuel dependence and environmental degradation. On Sat 6 November, a crowd…
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An article on the newest Haumea Ecoversity 6-week online course on the Earth Charter by Cathy Fitzgerald, first written for the ClimateCultures network. My thanks to Mark Goldthorpe for the invitation. NEW YEAR 2022 Haumea Ecoversity Earth Charter6-week Online Course Booking Information, begins 19 January The Earth Charter is the next big thing… [Photographer unknown]…
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Performance is profound. Taking part as a performer or audience–we share a collective emergent experience that may affect our perspective long afterwards. Last Saturday, in the grounds of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the new Breaking Cover Collective shared poignant responses to the ecological emergency and inspired a large crowd to journey with them–through…
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Breaking Cover at IMMA – Past Haumea learners direct and form part of inaugural ecoart performance programme and event at the Irish Museum of Modern Art – IMMA. As I often get notes from past Haumea learners about what the learning has empowered them to do, I’m especially thrilled with the scale, sensitivity and spread…
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The renowned meditator and artist Chogyam Trumpa once said: “To change the world, you have to change the culture; to change the culture you have to change society; to change society you have to change the art; to do that, you have to change how art is taught’ How the Haumea ecoliteracy for creative professionals…
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I am delighted and honoured to have recently been nominated by Dr Iain Biggs (Bristol) and Prof. Mary Modeen (Dundee) to join the PLaCE International members network. My work is listed in the member’s directory here If you have developed a creative practice that has evolved over time for a site, ecology, place and community,…
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I’m delighted share that I will be talking about my ongoing ecosocial arts practice, The Hollywood Forest Story (since 2008), this Thursday 20 May, 2PM Irish/UK time 2021 for UK Chrysalis Art Development’s Art & Climate in Practice three-week programme. Chrysalis UK are hosting a series of talks and events exploring the work of artists,…
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‘The Future Has An Ancient Heart’ – Carlo Levi The start of Summer starts today on Bealtaine, May 1st in Ireland, and Scotland. Steeped in ancient pagan lore of myth and magic, and more recent traditions, this day between Spring and Summer promised better times ahead, and gave a sense of renewal for Ireland’s people…
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Talking about their drawing and writing creative practices and their new collaborative book ‘On Sentience’ (2021), niece and uncle, Sarah Gillespie and Peter Reason ask what would it be like to live in a world of sentient beings rather than inanimate objects? How could we relate to such a world? And then, what would art…
