Author: Martina Finn
Building Community & Climate Resilience with special guest Alfred Decker – delivered in partnership with Galway County Public Participation Network
Sustainable Living – Building Community & Climate Resilience with internationally renowned permaculture trainer, Alfred Decker Sustainable Living – Building Community & Climate ResilienceDescription Over a series of 8 weeks, internationally renowned permaculture trainer Alfred Decker will take us through a range of permaculture principles and practices, looking at regeneration as a holistic process in terms…
LandUse Management Talk Series 2021 – delivered by Feidhlím Harty in partnership with Galway County Public Participation Network
Course Content: Week 1 – Introduction to Rewilding – Recording available here Week 2 – Food and Farming: Week 3 – Edible Landscaping in Urban Areas. Recording available here. . Week 4 – Watershed Management Recording available here Week 5 – Forestry and Trees. Week 6 – Overview of the Habitats of Co. Galway. Recording available here. Week 7 – Zero Waste Living. Recording available here: Féidhlim Harty is a writer…
Seed & Plant ExChange – Ukraine Fundraiser
Ukraine Fundraiser – Plant and Seed Exchange You are all very welcome to join us for the annual Third Space Galway, Plant and Seed Sharing Event next Sat April 2nd and April 9th from 12 – 2.30pm at Ravens Terrace, (beside Gourmet Tarts) We greatly appreciate the work of and are grateful to the Irish…
Heritage Week Events at Westside Food Forest
Third Space Galway are delighted to be once again hosting in-person community talks and mindful nature walks as part of our social permaculture platform for this year’s Heritage Week events with special guests, Brian Gaynor from Trees on the Land and native irish speaker Colm de Bhaildraithe, facilitated by TSG Curator and Permaculturalist, Martina Finn.…
Online Courses 2020/21
Join us for our new Online Courses… and Learn more about permaculture and regenerative cultural practices with a wonderful line up of special guests as part of our ongoing ‘Permaculture in the City’ project curated by Martina Finn About this Event…. November / December 2020 – TSG members have invited a wonderful line up of…
The Granary Project Eco Arts Space closed until further notice!
Thank you for your interest in the work of Third Space Galway. Due to Covid 19, our Social Permaculture project space and other in person arts and cultural project work has paused until further notice. We look forward to you joining us in the near future. Please feel free to visit and enjoy our outdoor…
‘The Regenerative Turn’
TSG are delighted to invite you to our new Arts & Cultural programme, ‘The Regenerative Turn’ a year long program of nourishing and energising community and cultural events curated by Martina Finn, in The Granary, 58, Dominic St, Galway, our new city centre Eco Arts, Regenerative & Perma – Cultural Hub. Our Spring Schedule, entails…
Our Common Ground – Intro to Agroforestry
As part of our 2020 Regenerative Agriculture Training Programme, Third Space Galway are delighted to host Paul Soden in Galway for two events as part of his nationwide tour ‘Our Common Ground’ on Syntropic Agroforestry, curated by Martina Finn in partnership with NUIG EcoSoc and Mad Yolk Farm. Date; Friday Feb 14th – 11.30 –…
Social PermaCulture and Regenerative Practices – Creative Workshops
Permaculture Course Nov 2019 Join us for this exciting opportunity to learn more about permaculture and regenerative arts and cultural practices with TSG and special guests as part of our ongoing ‘Permaculture in the City’ ecoarts project curated by Martina Finn. This training is funded by GRETB as part of our ongoing Permaculture and Sustainable…
Regenerative Culture Hub – Schools Climate Strike… Culture Night Sept 20th 2019
Regenerative Culture Hub & Permaculture Canal Trail Walk Third Space Galway is hosting a Regenerative Culture Hub in collaboration with Fridays for Futures and Extinction Rebellion Galway during the Global Climate Schools Strike from 1-4pm on Friday 20th September. School students have been striking for climate action all year.. this Friday, they want us to…
‘Sights of Regeneration’
Our ongoing ‘Permaculture in the City’ project aims to ecologically regenerate vacant or underutilized pockets of public land for creative community food and biodiversity interventions, highlighting social permaculture alongside regenerative, biodiversity friendly, herbal and food growing platforms, acting as sites for community conversation, education, environmental awareness, nature based activities, and contemporary socially engaged arts and…
Unlearning
Unlearning at the Old Schoolhouse Sat Nov 10th 2018 @ 10-4.30pm Workshop 1. Work creatively in harmony with nature to make vacant city spaces more productive – An Introduction to Permaculture Design Sat Nov 24th – 10 – 4.30pm Workshop 2. Learn How to turn a concrete yard/backgarden into an edible and biodiverse oasis! Come…
Galway Green Festival Collaborative Event –
TSG host an Arts & Permaculture Networking Event with a Community Harvest Plant Potluck 1-230pm Nimmos Pier Permaculture Designer and Trainer, Hannah Mole will be guiding a conversation to support growing a Galway Permaculture Network and giving an introduction to Permaculture and how we can benefit ourselves, our community and nature…taking place as part of Galway’s…
‘Native Circles’ – perma Culture Night on the Canal 2
Third Space Galway wish to extend a warm invitation to everyone to ‘Native Circles’ Perma Culture Night on the Canal 2 at Raven’s Terrace on Friday, September 21st from 6-8 p.m. Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts and we are delighted to host our second PermaCulture…
Fruitful Futures
Westside Community Arts & Biodiversity Project – Fruitful Futures We are inviting local Community participation in a new Westside Edible Landscape & Arts initiative, between Third Space Galway and the Westside Youth Project, Conservation Volunteers Galway and Galway City Council. Greening our cities and urban agriculture are increasingly seen as vital to the future of our…
Solutionologists – Protecting the Natural World
Nicola Peel – award winning environmentalist and filmmaker in Conversation with author Mark Boyle on tackling climate change, the protection of the natural world and preserving links to our ancient past Venue: Secret Garden, William St West, Galway Date: Wednesday August 15th at 7pm Nicola is an award winning environmentalist, filmmaker, speaker and solutionist…
Regenerate: Art, Activism & Agroecology
Regenerate – International Arts Symposium
Galway Food Festival – Westside!
Third Space Galway are delighted to cohost with the NYI Westside Youth Project the Westside Galway Food Festival events on Thursday 29th March from 3.30- 6pm in the Westside Youth Project, Corrach Buí Centre The afternoon events include.. – ISSA Seed Swop – DIY Seed Pots and Seed Bombs – Youth Art Project Launch with Finbar…
Growing Space – Galway Food Festival Panel Discussion
Galway Food Festival Panel Discussion March 31st 12pm Venue: The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway by TSG curator Martina Finn Growing Space – Community Food and Urban Agriculture In partnership with Galway Food Policy Council Urban agriculture is increasingly seen as vital to the future of our cities and towns as our urban…
Food Futures – Galway Food Festival Panel Discussion
Galway Food Festival Panel Discussions Sat March 31st at 2pm venue The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, Galway Third Space Galway curator Martina Finn has once again being welcomed to curate panel discussions on Sustainable Community Food Systems… Food Futures.. Ireland at a cross road… Panel Discussion 1 Ireland is now recognised as having one…
Communities of Practice
” I believe that the community – in the fullest srnse: a place and all its creatures – is the smallest unit of health and that to speak of the health of an isolated individual is a contradiction in terms” Wendell Berry Recent Events include.. Go Wild in the City – Biodiversity Week May…
Harvest Festival – Food Talks & Plant Powered Potluck
GALWAY COMMUNITY HARVEST FESTIVAL TALKS Oct 20th and COMMUNITY POTLUCK Oct 22nd Third Space Galway are delighted to team up with the Galway Vegan community and cohost a ‘Plant Powered Potluck’ with a Community HARVEST and Halloween theme As it’s coming to the end of our growing season we are delighted to cohost a Community…
Perma ‘Culture Night’ on the Canal
Friday September 22nd – 6-8pm Galway Culture Night Third Space Galway wish to extend a warm invitation to everyone to Galways first PermaCulture Night on the Canal on Friday, September 22nd from 6-8 p.m. Culture Night is an annual all-island public event that celebrates culture, creativity and the arts, and we are delighted to launch…
Convergence ’17- ‘Sustainable Stories and Conversations’ Sept 22nd
SUSTAINABLE STORIES AND CONVERSATIONS FOR A LOW-CARBON GALWAY CITY Thursday 21st – 19.30 – 21.30 – PorterShed, Galway cohosted with Cultivate as part of the Nationwide Convergence Festival 2017 CITIZEN ENGAGEMENT * WELLBEING * COMMUNITY RESILIENCE * GREEN COMMUNITIES * LOCAL FOOD * SOCIAl ENTERPRISE * ZERO WASTE & CIRCULAR ECONOMY * SUSTAINABLE CITIES *…
‘It’s in Our Nature’ Permaculture & Heritage Gardening August 26th
FREE – Food and Gardening Heritage and Permaculture workshop with Third Space Galway, permaculture advisor Hannah Mole and special guest on Galway’s Food Heritage, Derrick Hambleton, from An Taisce Saturday 26th August 11am-3pm Venue: Arus na Gael (meeting place – followed by walk along the canal ) Explore the Natural and Cultural Heritage of Sustainable Organic…
PopUp Cafe at Westside Youth Project – July 27th
As part of ongoing engagement between the recently planted Edible Forest garden and the local Westside Community, Third Space are delighted to work in partnership with the Westside Youth Project, Shane Sheedy, GMIT Culinary School and Guest Chef Michelle Crehan from the City Museum Kitchen Cafe, as part of this years Westside Youth ‘Food Camp’….…
‘Defend the Sacred’ – In Conversation with Chas Jewett June 24th
We are delighted to welcome you to a conversation with Chas Jewett, Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Standing Rock Water Protector and other local environmental campaigners, chaired by Vicky Donnelly from the Galway One World Centre Venue: The Secret Garden Cafe – William Street, West Date: Saturday 24th June at 12.30am “We must protect the forests…
Tara Weekend Festival 2017 July 14/16th
venue: Cartys, Kilchreest, Co Galway dates: 14-16th July Arts, Health, Wellbeing, EcoLiving and Community Grassroots festival… starting on Friday 14th July at 6pm until Sunday 16th July at 6pm This festival is a family friendly grass roots, organic permaculture gathering. Everyone is welcome to be part of it. The aim is to cocreate the conditions…
Westend ‘Permablitz’ June 10th
Permaculture Community day of Action! We would be delighted if you were able to join us for a ‘Galway City Permablitz’ Saturday June 10th 1-5 pm Third Space Galway are delighted to be working with Galway City Tidy Towns this year, on a new Climate Change, Food and Biodiversity Community initiative, creating the City’s first…
Heart Tonics and other local Cures May 13th
‘Heart Tonics and other Local Cures’ – how to heal ourselves and our ailing planet? Bealtaine Special – Storytelling, Community Food and Herb Planting day As part of the ongoing development of the Westside Community Edible Forest Garden .. you are invited to take part in a special Bealtaine storytelling and Community Food Planting event……
Róisín Ní Fhaoláin
Was born in Galway City in 1980 and went to school in Salthill. Her family is from Cararoe and She is a native speaker. In 2004, She graduated from the National College of Art and Design with a degree in Fine Art. During her college years, She started to become interested in mental health awareness…
The Living Earth – Panel Discussion Galway Food Festival April 15th
‘The Living Earth’ “The seed, the plant, the soil, our health, and our society, are all part of the same whole… mechanistic practices are not the determinants of our world.. interconnectedness and relationships are” Vandana Shiva As part of this year’s Community Food and Permaculture Project, Third Space Galway curates a discussion on Sustainable…
Edible EcoSystems | Westside Forest Garden Demonstration and Talk Mar 10th/ 12th
‘EDIBLE FOREST & COMMUNITY FOOD DEMONSTRATION GARDEN IN WESTSIDE – INTRODUCTION To EDIBLE FORESTS AND AGROECOLOGY PUBLIC TALK – FRIDAY 10th at 7-9pm Westside Youth Centre and FOOD FOREST COMMUNITY PLANTING DAY SUNDAY 12th at 2-4pm of a Food Forest Demonstration Garden in the Westside Amenity Park (located between the Circular Rd. and…
Permaculture in the City: Farming in Small Spaces Feb 18th
A one day introduction workshop on Permaculture in Galway City Centre…. With tutors Hannah Mole and Istvan Markuly. The day will offer an introduction to the what and the how of Permaculture, an overview of the main concepts, principles and patterns used in Permaculture design and an introduction to using applied Permaculture techniques, including…
EcoHub Galway’s Pop Up Sustainable Living Centre – Convergence 2016
EcoHub Oct 24th -28th All week @ Galway 2020 Community hub, The Corn Store will host A NEXUS OF ECO TALKS CONVIVIALITY AND COMMUNITY MONDAY Oct 24th We believe Galway has a unique opportunity to be at the forefront of world cities, in leading not only in the fields of arts and culture but in…
Convergence – Galway Sustainable Living Festival Oct. 20th- 28th 2016
THURSDAY 20th OCTOBER – 19.30 – 21.30 Venue – Portershed, Eyre Square, Galway POST CARBON GALWAY LAUNCH -ACCELERATING THE TRANSITION TO A LOW CARBON, HEALTHY AND SUSTAINABLE REGION . Convergence 2016 opens with the launch of the new Post Carbon Galway initiative, a recently established cross-sectoral project set up to accelerate local pathways to a…
Gone but not Forgotten – Leagacy of Community Arts 2016
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Place: Institute for Lifecourse & Society, North Campus, Daingean, NUI Galway, Galway City. Date: October 17th at 6pm (Evening only) and October 18th from 10.00am to 4.30pm. Legacies of community arts and culture as agency for social justice and transformation now The community arts work undertaken in Ireland in the 1970s,…
Post Carbon Galway Public Meeting Oct. 3rd 2016
We would like to welcome you to the founding meeting of the recently established Post Carbon Galway – an umbrella network, bringing together the community of Galway to address the needs of environmental protection, community resilience and Climate action for Galway City and County. If you’re interested in environmental protection, ecological action and a sustainable…
Convergence Festival 2016
How do we engage citizens in developing local resilience and adapting to climate change? How can we best engage communities to play a part in the transition to a just and low carbon society? What is the role of artists and culture creatives in times of transition? How do we make our communities and cities…
Tara Festival 26-28th August 2016
“The Music of the stars is mine, and the melody o’the moon. Oh do you not hear them singing to you in the silence of the night? Covered with manifold trees and creepers, resounding with the sound of many birds, And with murmur of waterfalls, thronged with wild beasts of many kinds; Many species of…
Post Carbon Galway 2016
This project proposes a community led inclusive, multidisciplinary and all sectoral approach in the creation of a new sustainable era for Galway in which we reduce our carbon footprint and introduce new ways to educate and inspire our communities about how we collectively respond to Climate Change and re-imagine our world, through arts, education, community…
Re Mapping the Commons
Re Mapping the Commons is part of an ongoing process in partnership with members of Collaborative Ways , Transition Galway, and others of devising and making visible a local fora for collective and cooperative methods that empower citizen-led social change and transformation, gathering on the grounds of commons perspectives and sustainable local solutions. …
Post Climate March Commons Nov. 2015
Third Space invites Galways Commoners to a post march potluck. Come join us … At the post People’s Climate March gathering to celebrate your Commoning on the 29th November… Climate Change March: 1pm Sunday 29 November Eyre Square End of March Speeches – City Museum Square Commons Gathering: 2.30- 4.30pm in TULCA Festival Process Room,…
‘Emerging Futures’ Convergence 2015
‘Emerging Futures’ – A Cultural Remapping Recognising the need for an urgent and deep cultural shift towards more equitable and sustainable ways of life… across the country we’re seeing a growing interest in cooperative and social enterprise, community and renewable energy, co-housing, local food, arts and cultural activists events, embracing the emerging collaborative and solidarity…
‘Coop Culture’ – Culture Night 2015
Culture Night Friday September 18th Venue: Woodquay Time: 6-9pm ‘Coop Culture’ is a participatory art and cultural event to experience, explore and celebrate themes on the Commons and our Cooperative Cultural Heritage. Everyone is Welcome to share his/her visions, ideas and cooperative and commons-related practices, as the starting point of a mobilization to reclaim, protect…
Cooperative Convergence
As part of the nationwide Cooperative Convergence 2015 organised by Cultivate, Third Space co-hosts a number of arts and cultural conversations on 20th and 30th October in partnership with Galway City Partnership, Collaborative Ways, Galway Community City Network, Transition Galway, Galway 2020, Community Knowledge Initiative, NUIG, Cultivate, and Sheridans Cheesemongers. http://www.cultivate.ie/ Tuesday October 20th…
‘agri-Cultural Inventions’ Culture Night 2015
agri-Cultural Inventions Culture Night – Friday 18th September Venue: Artfarm, Cloonkeen, Newbridge, Co. Galway Time: 2-4pm Farmers’ contributions to culture are often overlooked, yet they have plenty of knowledge, skills and creativity that they use to find solutions to everyday problems, as well as creating new ideas. This event offers farmers and the local community…
‘From I to We’
‘Third Space member Martina Finn has been invited to participate in a series of three conversations over 3 days, initiated by Susanne Bosch as part of her residency project in collaboration with the Leitrim Sculpture Centre and fellow artists. Date: 11-13th September Leitrim Venue: Leitrim Sculpture Centre The general themes for these conversations are as…
The Art of Commoning – Summer School
“What becomes possible when we harness our collective capacity in service of the commons?” The Art of Commoning – Summer School August 25th – 27th 2015 Members of Third Space and Collaborative Ways Forward attend ‘The Art of Commoning’ Summer School, a shared inquiry for a 3-day gathering, hosted by P2P Foundation, Cultivate and The Art…
Potlatch Picnic in Woodquay Park
Third Space Galway co-host ‘Potlatch Picnic’ in partnership with Collaborative Ways Forward members of Transition Galway, P2P Foundation and An Ait Eile Date – on Saturday 25th July at 11.45- 1.45 Venue – The Green, Woodquay As a follow-up from the successful Collaborative Ways Forward inaugural event on the Cooperative and Solidarity Economy on July…
Collaborative Ways Forward
Third Space Galway co-hosts a public meeting on Open Cooperatives, Collectivity and the Commons in partnership with Transition Galway and An Áit Eile on Wednesday July 1st at 7.30pm Venue: The Kitchen Cafe at Galway City Museum The groups are aiming to bring a diversity of Galway’s creative communities, cooperative oriented groups and local support…
Advancing Cultural Rights
Tuesday May 26th 2-5pm Third Space in partnership with Community Knowledge Initiative, NUI Galway, Galway City Community Network, Galway Community Arts Network and Bluedrum cohosts Cultural Rights Workshop Venue: The View, Áras na Mac Léinn, NUI Galway Workshop Aim: to explore cultural rights as possible drivers for change in communities of place, interest and identity.…
Dr. Anna King
Writer specialising in performance ethnography & arts-based research methods that value the centrality of culture in local, regional and European policy-making. Anna King is developing a unique Irish methodology for understanding the palette of complex ways in which local communities cope and respond to changing social and cultural landscapes. Apart from elevating the role of…
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