Still from River Movie: The Mayfly passses through the monumental lock at Ardnacrusha, May 2022.
ECO SUNDAY, CARRYBRIDGE MARINA, 21 AUGUST 2022
3.30PM
PERFORMANCE
Daine Henshaw | Paddy McEneaney | Michael Cummins | Valerie Whitworth
2.30PM
CONVERSATION
with Artist DIANE HENSHAW and Actor PADDY McENEANEY of Exit does Theatre
Diane & Paddy will talk about their collaboration, inspiring ideas & actions for change – creating a vision for hope with a specific focus on inviting conversations around climate change using art as a call for action, beginning their discussion around their collaboration and its ideas based on the four laws of ecology:
•Everything is connected to everything else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms, and what affects one affects all.
•Everything must go somewhere. There is no ‘waste’ in Nature, and there is no ‘away’ to which it can be thrown.
•Nature knows best. The absence of a particular substance from Nature is often a sign that it is incompatible to the chemistry of life
•Nothing comes from nothing. Exploitation of Nature always carries ecological costs, and these costs are significant.
(Adapted from Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle 1971)
TALK
WORKSHOP
On Sunday 21st August the Eco Showboat Mayfly will dock at Carrybridge for the last stop of our 2022 river expedition. You are invited to join us for this wonderful afternoon of art, conversation and workshop.
Visual artist Diane Henshaw and actor Paddy McEneaney are seeking in their collaboration to explore the correlation of contemporary drawing and corporal mime through the prism of industrialisation of the ancient landscape of the region which is host to a Geopark and a broad greenbelt both of which is under threat due to proposals for industrial mining and fracking.
Live interactive drawing with Diane Henshaw & performance by Patrick McEneaney of Exit does Theatre accompanied by creative collaborators Michael Cummins (light / tech / drawing) and Valerie Whitworth (sound performance) in association with the Eco Showboat & the public.
Cleary and Connolly believe that learning begins with looking. Looking closely at things - for the purposes of observation and accurate documentation, or just for the simple pleasure of engaging your mind with the world - affords a deeper learning experience by fixing attention and setting up a remarkably complex and active investigation that begins with the eye and progressively engages the whole mind. The Slow Looking workshop invites you to use a range of simple viewing devices - bug boxes and magnifying glasses - to observe closely samples of biodiversity found on site, and to draw these using the materials provided, in a relaxed atmosphere conducive to conversation.
River Movie will record the first expedition of the Mayfly - a series of encounters with artists, activists and scientists as we travel upriver from Limerick to Enniskillen, discovering the beauty of the Shannon and the Erne waterways, exploring scientific and artistic ideas for how we can save this environment from everything that threatens it today - pollution, invasive and endangered species, climate change… Using a 4k drone, a 4k gimbal camera, an IR camera and other devices for macro-photography and sound recording, River Movie will document a unique collaboration of art and science addressing the great problem of our time.
Cloud appreciation. Diane Henshaw, 2022. Ink, carbon, tempera, paper.
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