Author: Cathy Fitzgerald
-
<img class=" wp-image-259 alignleft" src="https://haumeaecoversity.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/cropped-cropped-smallhaumea_logo1.png" alt="ClipArt Source : Koru Clipart” width=”68″ height=”68″>Update: Fully Booked! but please email me to be placed on waiting list or list for future courses. Haumea Ecoliteracy Services for the Arts: New One-day Workshop in County Carlow, Ireland with ecological artist, educator and former scientist, Cathy Fitzgerald, PhD <img class=" wp-image-259…
-
It is not easy to eat local Irish food all year round and I know that. There are hungry months in late Spring when the food is just not ready after late frosts. So three years ago I decided to do a trial month: A 30 day local food challenge. September seemed a really good…
-
I have been thinking for some time, in my development of an online course for essential ecoliteracy, that I should begin sharing creative works. Many people have asked me how to develop creative work for the ecological emergency that is not too preachy. This sometimes seems a hard thing to achieve with a complex topic…
-
A short survey to determine the key ideas for an online ‘ecoliteracy for the arts’ course I’m exploring ways to help others in the arts gain ecoliteracy as I’ve had an increase in people seeking out my knowledge this year (even though I live in a rural area). I’m looking at new ways to share…
-
Huge congratulations to Caitriona Fallon and Theatre Forum Ireland, who under the guidance of Creative Carbon Scotland’s team and their Scottish Green Arts Initiative, have set up an Irish Green Arts Initiative to ‘provide Irish arts organisations with the resources and support to help build a green Irish arts community.’ #culturedeclaresemergency #ireland
-
“To comply by Earth’s laws, we must first know them, and this requires us to revive our connection with Nature and our ecoliteracy, re-learning Nature’s laws after generations of alienation. This re-learning involves nurturing our relationship with nature. This could be through planting a window box, developing our relationship with a tree in a park,…
-
Originally posted on The Hollywood Forest Story : An EcoSocial Art Practice | Co. Carlow Ireland: “Humanity faces the combined catastrophes of climate change, a mass extinction of vital biodiversity and a degradation of ecosystems health everywhere,” said Lucy Neal, spokesperson for Culture Declares Emergency. “This has now become an emergency situation because governments and…
-
I am delighted to share news of support from the Carlow Local Enterprise Office and the Carlow Arts Office in my work to develop ecoliteracy courses for creative workers I am very grateful to both organisations for these opportunities to develop courses for creative people who wish to develop informed and impactful works on critical…
-
The ecological crises are deeply related to how we do not read the monocultures, the ecological deserts, that surround us in modern societies, as life limiting. Instead, can we reimagine this type of ’beautiful’ image, so overused in tourism, to think what a rich, thriving ecology look like. Hint, it just wouldn’t include one type…
-
Its been heartening to see the voices raised for the planet in the last few months since the international Climate Change Panel (2018), the WWF (2018) have starkly given a timeframe of little over a decade to address the intersecting eco-social emergencies that are accelerating around us. We can all be empowered to do the…
