Meeting Point: IMMA Reception
Free, booking required. Book here

Bearing Witness by Interface is exploring narratives around wind farms, teasing out the tensions and balance between climate action and biodiversity action. Laney Mannion exhibits a set of woodcut prints exploring narrative. At this workshop you can try your own hand at inking and printing from a woodcut and bring it home with you. 

Interface Inagh is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: Matheson Creativity Hub 
Free, drop-in.

Coilte Dúchasacha Ársa / Ancient Native Woodlands—Printing workshop—Interactive project of hand-printing images taken from layers of the Irish Wild Atlantic Rainforests from hand-engraved glass plates. 

This is a family-friendly activity that teaches the process of Mono printing and ecology simultaneously—workshops will be conducted in Irish and English. 

Róisín de Buitléar is part of the Dinnseanchas project. Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: Meet at Farm Gate, IMMA Courtyard 
Free, booking required. Book here. 

The path to a regenerative and more sustainable future is complex. Systems thinking is a framework that can help us to better understand these complexities and navigate through them.  

This creative and participatory workshop is an introduction to the Systems Thinking framework, exploring complexity, the uplands, and sustainable food systems through butter!  Facilitated and co-created by Zoe Rush and Jennifer Ahern. 

Zoë Rush and Jennifer Ahern are members of the Dinnseanchas project. Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025.

Location: Studio 10
Free, booking required. Book here.

A two hour interactive drawing workshop on The Future We Want to Be with artist Lisa Fingleton and the Brilliant Ballybunion collaborators. What is the future we want to see, and how can we co-create this together?  

This workshop reflects the core spirit of Earth Rising in terms of sparking transformative climate conversations and actions through immersive cultural experiences. 

Brilliant Ballybunion is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: Johnson Room 
Free, booking required. Book here. 

Poetic Policies,  a workshop co-facilitated by Living Rhythms (Heather Griffin and Patrick Mulvihill) and poet Grace Wells, invites participants to reimagine Ireland’s food policies through poetic forms and language.  

Using poetry not just as a creative exercise but as a tool for deep listening, critical analysis, and collaborative visioning, participants will transform rigid policy frameworks into adaptive, regenerative visions. Through techniques like language analysis, redaction, and collective composition, the workshop bridges emotional and analytical understandings of food policy.  

Join us to explore where governance meets creative expression, crafting policy visions that honour both human and more-than-human communities. 

Heather Griffin, Patrick Mulvihill and Grace Wells are members of the Dinnseanchas project.  Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025. 

Location: People’s Pavilion
Free, booking required. Book here. 

Join Shock of Grey to get creative and hands-on with one of their most popular zero-waste workshops! In Fused Plastic, turn scrap plastic bags into wallets, tote bags, jewellery, and more using simple fusing techniques – no experience needed, just imagination. This workshop celebrates creativity, sustainability, and reuse, proving that with the right tools and a little inspiration, waste can become something beautiful. 

Location: People’s Pavilion
Free, booking required. Book here. 

Join Shock of Grey to get creative and hands-on with one of their most popular zero-waste workshops! In Reworked Upcycled Jewellery, featured on RTÉ Nationwide, old beads and broken accessories are transformed into one-of-a-kind pieces. Bring your own bits to rework or use materials sourced from charity shops. This workshop celebrates creativity, sustainability, and reuse, proving that with the right tools and a little inspiration, waste can become something beautiful. 

Location: Meet at Farm Gate, IMMA Courtyard 
Free, booking required. Book here. 

Upland Lip-synching is a participatory workshop and artwork that engages with the often-silent voices of rural communities. Guided by artist William Bock, we will synchronise our lips to the recorded voices of West Cork hill farmers and residents the artist met during the Dinnseanchas project.  

In the short recordings, each person speaks of a dramatic cultural and ecological change they experienced during their lifetimes. This workshop encourages deep listening through pathos, humour and shared play, restoring lines of communication between the rural and the urban and between the cultural and the ecological. 

Willam Bock is part of the Dinnseanchas project. Dinnseanchas is one of four projects selected from a national open call for Earth Rising 2025.