Committee members were pleased to share the story of the Drummin Bog Project in Soiuth County Carlow with Minister Chris O’Sullivan, a keen birder. We acknowledge all of the support from the different departments of Carlow County Council and regional NPWS staff who also visited.
Tag: Carlow Arts Office
Carlow’s Drummin Bog represented in Mary Robinson’s ‘Fite Fuaite’ Quilt for the UN COP30 Climate Meeting in Brazil
Carlow’s Drummin Bog Project was represented fpr Mary Robinson’s ‘Fite Fuaite’ Quilt for the UN COP30 Climate Meeting in Brazil. Voluntary Drummin Bog Committee member Brigid O’Regan, a former science lecturer, and a member of the Carlow Borris Lace group created the beautiful Drummin Bog Quilt Square for Mary Robinson’s Quilt.
CWF Artists Webinar series: hear about the developing Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats creative-led community engagement programme with Jules Michael, Monica de Bath and Kate Flood
The latest installment of the CWF (Community Wetland Forum) Creativity for the Wetlands artists webinar series takes place on Thursday 29 February at 7.30 pm. This webinar will feature Jules Michael (Drummin Bog Project), Monica de Bath (Rathangan Meithal) and Kate Flood (Girely Bog) who will speak about the developing Arts Council ‘Invitation to Collaborate’ Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats creative-led community engagement programme led out by Carlow County Arts Office in collaboration with Kildare and Meath County Arts Services/Offices.
Summary of Autumn 2023 Creative-led, Nature-inspired activities celebrating our peatlands – Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats programme
As part of the Gnáthóga Nádúrtha programme, a series of events in Autumn 2023 marked the end of the first phase with a rotating community engagement event at each of the three sites. ‘Each artist unearthed a physical expression of their work on the project and their local peatland – a Butter Firkin, a Bog…
Gnáthóga Nádúrtha | Natural Habitats Drummin Bog Walk, Talks and Activities Afternoon: Sunday 12 Nov. All Welcome!
Please join us on Sunday 12th November for an afternoon of fun, creativity and nature-based activities celebrating our nearby peatlands. Make a wish on muslin for the Gangers Hut. Weave a remnant on a weaver’s frame. Learn about plant lore, making teas from wild plants, and old dairy ways of butter-making. Create your own bog colours postcard, draw bog plants, and hear short talks from the artists involved – the…
Tales and Tastes from the Bog
Tales and Tastes from the Bog: as part of the 3 county Gnáthóga Nadúrtha Natural Habitats programme supported by Carlow, Kildare and Meath Arts Offices, please join us this Sunday 1st Oct 2-5pm in the Old Schoolhouse, Rathangan Co. Kildare for an afternoon of sharing bog stories, plant lore, the makings of an 1812 Bog Map, and past times, as we weave connections between us and our nearby peatlands.
‘Slow time on the Bog’: painter Mairead Holohan celebrates Carlow’s Drummin Bog
On International Bog Day, the Drummin Bog Project is delighted to share that a 2022 ArtLinks bursary is enabling south Carlow-based painter Mairead Holohan research and create new work in response to Drummin Bog and the local area. #Ireland #wetlands #beauty #creativity #art #internationalbogday #iucnpeat
Our Barn Owl nesting box has been installed on Drummin Bog!
Our Barn Owl nesting box has been installed on Drummin Bog! Read more about BirdWatch Ireland and community efforts to help this endangered red-listed bird species in South County Carlow as part of Creative Drummin – Druimín Cruthaitheach supported by Creative Ireland & Carlow Arts Office
A talk and walk about the ecological botanical wonders of Carlow’s Drummin bog
As part of the upcoming Creative Drummin Bog programme this weekend, we are delighted that Dr Fiona MacGowan will be leading a walk on Drummin bog on Sat 16 Oct at 3pm (see the event schedule below) Fiona conducted the first 2020 ecological botanical survey of Drummin bog, the report you can read and download…
Get the Drummin Bog book for World Wetland Day and UN Decade of Ecosystem Restoration
There is great excitement in the South Carlow national schools of St. Brendan’s, Drummond, Scoil Moling, Glynn and St. Michael’s, Newtown this week as the “An Fraughan” eBook is launched. The eBook commemorates the ecosocial art project also called “An Fraughan” that ran in the three schools in 2019. Funded by Creative Ireland with the…
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