Community Workshops

national | environment | event notice Wednesday April 20, 2005 11:41 by dp - Cultivate davie at sustainable dot ie 01 6746396

Building Healthy Community

With the theme of Building Healthy Community the seventh Convergence sustainable living festival begins tis week at Cultivate Centre in Temple Bar. This festival aims to 'Inspire Culture and Redefine Progress'. Below are a few of the free workshops , click on this link for the details of all 35 events: http://sustainable.ie/convergence/7

Cultivate Community Workshops
Informal workshops focusing on areas key to Building Healthy Community

Supported by ENFO: www.enfo.ie and Sunflower Recycling

Saturday April 23

Community Enterprise and Recycling
Venue: Upstairs at Cultivate
Time: Saturday 23rd April 13.00-15.00
Admission - Free
Event Type: Workshop
Facilitating community based sustainable waste management and exploring local job creation and enterprise through recycling is a major challenge in moving us towards healthy communities. If you thought recycling is an environmental issue, think again. Recycling has moved from being a pursuit of the environmentally aware to a potential multimillion-euro economic activity. This interactive session will feature four short presentations by Sheena McCambley from the ballymun Rediscovery Centre, Bernie Walsh from Sunflower Recycling, Mary O'Reilly from MCOS and a representative from the UK Community Recycling Network. These will be followed with discussion on how communities can tap into the potential of creating wealth and jobs from waste.

Community Energy Supply: Doing without the Grid
Venue: At Enfo -17 St. Andrew Street, Tel: 888 2001
Time: Saturday 23rd April 14.00-16.00
Admission - Free
Event Type: Workshop
Last year, "To Catch the Wind" a Western Development Commission report on the prospects for community investment in wind energy in Ireland said that, until government policies changed, no community should waste its time and money trying to erect wind turbines to supply power to the grid. Those policies have not changed. So how realistic is it for communities to set up co-operatives to develop local energy sources to supply heat, light and cooling throughout their areas?


Sunday April 24

Mapping your City Spaces
Venue: Anthology Books, Meeting House Square
Time: 14.00 - 15.30
Admission - Free
Event Type: Workshop

A free workshop about mapping a sustainable day in Dublin. Explore daily life in Dublin with an emphasis on sustainable living, using mapmaking as a way to discover how we see the city and the opportunities it presents for a good, fun, green day out. The workshop involves an intro to mapmaking, some discussion on what we think belongs on a green map, and a lot of mapmaking. No prior experience of necessary, all ages welcome, and you don't even have to be good at drawing. The workshop should take about one and a half to two hours depending on how much there is to discover. Materials provided.

The workshop is free and spaces are limited to 25, so please book as soon as possible.
How to Book:
Telephone Anthology Books at (01) 635 1422; or Email Anthology Books at booking@anthologystore.com; or Sign up in person at Anthology Books, Meeting House Square, Dublin 2. Please indicate how many spaces you would like to reserve, and provide some contact information. Anthology will confirm your reservation before the date of the workshop!


Media for the Community
Venue: Downstairs at Cultivate
Time: 14.00-17.00
Admission: Free
Event Type: Workshop

Margaret Gillan from the Community Media Network will outline the opportunities for community owned media and the progress towards creating a Dublin Community Television Channel. Sample programming will be also be screened at this workshop.