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

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. 

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

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: 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. 

Meeting point: Main Reception 
Free, drop-in.

Bearing Witness by Interface is exploring narratives around wind farms, teasing out the tensions and balance between climate action and biodiversity action. Laney Mannion explores the reductive nature of main-stream narratives around climate action.  Through hands-on experiences, participants are drawn into a broader conversation about Ireland’s biodiversity and the impact of offshore wind farms—amplifying local perspectives and fostering collective dialogue.

Find us in the Upper North Range at IMMA for the duration of the Earth Rising Festival.

Location: Matheson Creativity Hub 
Free, drop-in

Autumn family workshop: Clay & Seed Mosaics

Join us for a hands-on family workshop inspired by Earth Rising at IMMA. In this festive workshop, you will have the opportunity to create your own autumn themed mosaic. We will be using clay and a collection of colourful seeds to create your own unique mosaic decorations . Perfect for all ages, this workshop invites families to come together and make nature- inspired mosaics that capture the essence of Autumn. All materials and tools provided.

Guided instruction from artists Eleanor McCaughey and Mika Moret

Meeting point: Main Reception 
Free, booking required. Book here. 

This immersive workshop invites participants to activate their imagination and shift their perception of nature and self. Through storytelling, reflection, and creative writing, we reconnect with the wild, untamed energy of the natural world—and of ourselves.

Participants will explore nature not as a commodity or resource, but as sacred, sentient life that we belong to.By embodying non-human perspectives and drawing inspiration from natural elements, we cultivate empathy, imagination, and emotional resilience.

The ÉRIU education programme is created by Our Story and the Lifes2Good Foundation, and inspired by ÉIRU, the new animation film co-produced by Cartoon Saloon and HerStory, written and directed by Giovanna Ferrari, with support from Screen Ireland and BCP.

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: 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.

1pm workshop, book here.
4pm workshop, 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.