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…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

‘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…

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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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…

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.    …

‘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…

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…