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Spring Equinox Gathering & Workshop
DATE: 22 Mar, 2025TIME: 11:00 AM - 02:00 PM
We invite you to join us for a creative workshop and celebratory gathering to mark the Spring Equinox and welcome the brighter half of the year.
During this creative workshop artist Kasia Kaminska will guide through us cyanotype sun-printing and we will work with pressed plants and wildflowers collected to create beautiful blue images on fabric. These fabric pieces will be included in a large-scale cyanotype* artwork and calendar of Mayo's indigenous plant life for the Flower Féilire project - a year-long plant gathering and collaborative cyanotype project led by artists Clare Breen and Kasia Kaminska as part of Wilderland. New and returning participants welcome!
This is also an opportunity to meet and chat with fellow participants of the Flower Féilire project. We invite everyone to bring a wild food dish to add to a potluck lunch to share at the end of the workshop and to celebrate the brighter half of the year with seasonal food, refreshments and seed sowing. You can find some sample wild food recipes in the Flower Féilire recipes PDF.
FREE entry, no booking required.
More about the Flower Féilire project
Flower Féilire is a year-long plant gathering and collaborative cyanotype* project led by artists Clare Breen and Kasia Kaminska. Communities who live around Wild Nephin National Park are invited to learn about the native plant life in the park and its environs and work together to create a collaborative public artwork. Participants are encouraged to gather flowers and plants throughout the year during plant walks and to press them in community presses. This large cyanotype will take the form of a calendar, recording a year of indigenous plants in the region.
*Cyanotype, also called sun-printing, is one of the oldest photography techniques. An image is made when an object, for example a plant, is laid on a background painted with a photosensitive solution. This is then placed in the sunshine. The area covered by the plant stays white, as it is protected from the sun, while the other areas turn a rich, beautiful blue.
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The Forge - North Mayo Heritage Centre
