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Cork Folklore Project to host celebration of sustainability in song and story

8 Feb 2024
Happening On 10/02/2024
  • The event will feature Traveller artists, sustainability activists and UCC environmental researchers.
  • It will explore how past practices of reuse, recycling and thrift can shape a sustainable future.

The Cork Folklore Project will host a performance that unites song, story and sustainability at the Triskel Arts Centre on Saturday, 10 February at 2pm.

The event will explore how past practices of reuse, recycling and thrift can inform current conversations on sustainability.

The event will showcase and celebrate oral testimony on urban thrift in Cork City with renowned Traveller singer Thomas McCarthy, design historian Claudia Kinmonth, Paul Bolger from UCC’s Environmental Research Institute and other guests.

James Furey, Circular Tales Project Coordinator, said: “We have been interviewing Traveller families, sustainability activists and Cork residents, and drawing on our interview archives, to bring together accounts of past and present ways of mending and making, acquiring and stretching resources. This rich material will be shared in the celebration event and through our online Cork Thrift Map.”

Dr Clíona O’Carroll, Cork Folklore Project Research Director, said: “We’re looking forward to seeing a broad mix of people at this free event in the Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, on Saturday 10th February, 2 to 4 PM. Bring your friends and your granny, your singing enthusiasts, your stitchers and your recyclers.”

Dr Paul Bolger, Manager of Environmental Research Institute at University College Cork, said “The development of a circular economy is a key goal of Irish Government policy. However we know that reuse, upcycling and thrift were part and parcel of Irish life in the past. Within Circular Tales, we are looking into the past to better understand the future for Ireland’s circular economy.”

The Circular Tales project is supported by the Science Foundation Ireland Discover Programme and is organised in partnership with the Cork Traveller Women’s Network and the Environmental Research Institute, UCC.

Tickets can be booked online here.

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