Our Creative Climate Action projects are coming into their final stages and a number of them have public events to which you are warmly invited.
8-12 July – The Air We Share
The Air We Share, Galway. For more information telephone: +353 (0)91 528 325 or email: events@westsideresourcecentre.ie More Info here
July/August – Wilderland
Wilderland in Mayo are running events throughout the Summer. More Info and Booking here
14 August – House on the Beach
House on the Beach, exhibition opening. House on the Beach is a climate art project that challenges us to consider the urgency of climate change and the need to take immediate action. It comprises an art exhibition and curated conversations at beaches in Wexford. More Info here
16 August – Brilliant Ballybunion
Ballybunion Bean Festival. Join the Bean Revolution! Discover innovative ideas that challenge today’s food system and explore how humble beans can lead the way toward sustainability, healthy soils, and community empowerment. More Info here
16-24 August – Bog Bothy
Bog Bothy at Girley Bog, Co. Meath. During Heritage Week, the Irish Architecture Foundation and 12th Field will present Bog Bothy: a purpose-built shelter for connecting with the bog landscape. Programme details will be announced here
5-6 September – Field Exchange
Field Exchange Festival, Tipperary. Field Exchange is about bringing people together to support creative approaches to sustainable agriculture and addressing climate change. More Info and Booking here
11 September – Climate Inspirations Communities in Action Climate Immersion, panel followed by networking at Mick Lally Theatre.
Presentations and panel discussions on the themes around the important role of creatives in the climate emergency. Networking activity afterwards. More Info here
Photo: Myriam Riand/Dinnseanchas Project
Dinnseanchas – Envisioning the Uplands
The Dinnseanchas Project led by Hometree embedding artists in upland sheep farming communities concluded recently.
Photo: All-Island Learning Exchange Workshop, Mayo, July 2025/BluePrint, Shared Island Project
Toolkit for Creative Climate Action
BluePrint was a Shared Island project focused on flooding and its impact on communities. It has published a very useful toolkit for people starting to work in this area.
Bridging Creativity and Climate Risk Communication Through Co-creation: capturing lessons from Derry, Tyrone and Mayo to inspire future artistic co-creation and partnership between government authorities, artists, researchers and communities at-risk.
Photo: Conor Healy – Picture It Photography, courtesy of the Irish Architecture Foundation/Bog Bothy launch with students from Scoil Bhríde, Clara.
Bog Bothy in Clara, Co. Offaly
After more than 2 years of community engagement and design research, the Irish Architecture Foundation and architects 12th Field opened Bog Bothy to the public in Clara, Co. Offaly on 19-21 June, as part of the Bog Trotters Festival. The Bothy, designed by 12th Field, is a purpose-built shelter and gathering space for deep engagement with the bog that builds on the design language of Ireland’s peatlands.
Here are some highlights from the weekend, which included exhibitions, panels, tours, workshops, and performances. The Bothy and exhibitions of work by 12th Field and Shane Hynan remain on site in Sheridan’s Field through July. Meanwhile, Artist in Residence Luke Casserly continues to engage with the community to create new work. The Bothy will tour to Girley Bog, Co. Meath during Heritage Week in August.
Watch the video below
Callout for Scripts
Submit your scripts for a special programme of Sunday Miscellany, Writing the Bog!
On Sunday 7 September 2025, Sunday Miscellany on RTÉ Radio 1 will present a special programme, Writing the Bog: a celebration of the Irish Architecture Foundation and 12th Field’s Bog Bothy project. This is a call for stories untold of the bog landscape, its once electric earth and its imagined future.
For centuries, Ireland’s bogs and peatlands have been sites of labour, sustenance and extraction, shaping both the land and the people who worked it. This place has left its trace, as we have left our marks.
Send complete scripts of 800 words (+/-10%) to sundaymiscellany@rte.ie with the subject line ‘On-spec submission: Writing the Bog’ by Friday 25 July 2025, if you’d like your piece to be considered for this special programme.
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