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11am
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Spoken Word with children’s author Fiona Longmuir
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A spoken word event during the Muckno Mania festival with the opportunity for the children to read their work.
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12.30pm -2.30pm
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Plant Dye Workshop with Dervla McElvaney
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Venue: Castleblayney Library
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2pm - 4pm
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NATURE SQUARED
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A combined nature survey and macrophotography workshop with Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly. A quadrat is a square frame commonly used as a tool to investigate the abundance of plants and/or animals in a habitat. Cleary and Connolly invite you to join them on the banks of Lough Muckno to survey important species, document your findings, make stunning art using macro-photography, and contribute to important nature monitoring programmes by submitting data to the National Biodiversity Data Centre.
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4pm - 6pm
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BEE COUNTED!
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Flower-Insect Timed Counts (FIT Counts) are a really useful way that people can help environmentalists monitor pollinators and contribute to the All-Ireland Pollinator Plan.
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Using the same quadrats from Nature Squared, the team will count, photograph and video pollinators while recording the sounds of the different insects to create a “pollinator symphony” sound recording that will accompany the visual artworks. Data gathered will be submitted to national pollinator monitoring schemes.
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11am - 1pm
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HAVE YOU SEEN THIS LADY?
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A nature walk and “treasure hunt” with Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly.
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The National Biodiversity Data Centre are compiling a Ladybird Atlas 2025, gathering sightings of ladybirds all over Ireland to address a gap in our knowledge in the status of this important species. Native species are threatened by an invasive species, the Harlequin. During this relaxed walk join the artists in spotting and identifying ladybirds of all kinds, taking cool macro photographs of these gorgeous creatures, and submitting the data to the NBDC to contribute to the important ongoing survey.
