Dawn of the Symbiocene, Photo: Cathy Fitzgerald, 2019

An Urgent Conversation for the Arts in Ireland

Update 2 July 2019 : Since giving this talk there has been an important development for arts and sustainability in Ireland. On 28 June Creative Carbon Scotland announced that Caitriona Fallon and Theatre Forum Ireland had been assisted by them to set up a Green Initiative for Arts in Ireland. Read more here on my…Read more An Urgent Conversation for the Arts in Ireland

Cowhouse Studio artists visiting Hollywood Forest 2019

Hollywood Forest School – developing ecoliteracy for creative practices

Cathy Fitzgerald shares how Hollywood Forest is becoming a 'forest school' for artists and others thinking about applying ecoliteracy to their creative practices. Hollywood forest is part of the #GreenWave for #Ireland

Ar scĆ”th a chĆ©ile… Living in harmony

I'm not quite sure how it happened, but I have had a tremendous response, over 500 visitors, looking at my article and podcast on saying "Goodbye to the Anthropocene and Hello Symbiocene" that I posted on Monday. Glenn Albrecht's in-depth but very accessible ideas, in his new book 'Earth Emotions: New Words for a New World' (2019), that map the atrocities of the Anthropocene to a more harmonious future where we prioritise the thriving of all beings -the Symbiocene, seems to have struck a chord with many. Today, I was particularly excited that another Irish artist I know has a keen sense of the Symbiocene in his backyard. Eoin is an old friend of mine, we both were in the same painting class at the National College of Art and Design many years ago. We were delighted to find we will be co-exhibiting at a small exhibition organised by Imelda Healy, that is running alongside a conference 'Art in the Anthropocene' being held in Trinity College, 7-9 June 2019.