National Tree Week Celebration - March 26th - 12 to 4pm - All Welcome
National Tree Week, organised by the Tree Council since 1985 and in partnership with Coillte
since 1989, is a week long programme of events to celebrate all things trees.
It is generally held in the month of March.
National Tree Week Event at Chapel Hill School of Art
- Free Event - All Welcome!
March 26th - 12pm to 4pm
Chapel Hill School of Art is delighted to feature the work of American writer Beth Jones in the screening of two digital stories
Shadow Forests and Dreaming of Trees.
Dreaming of Trees the screening of two digital stories by Beth Jones, investigating ancient forests as a method of communicating current topical events relating to the environmental crisis. Four forests are represented: the 385-million-year-old Cairo and Gilboa fossil forests of New York are the oldest in the world, followed closely by the ancient tropical forests of Svalbard, High Arctic. The Gearagh in Cork is a 9,000-year-old submerged glacial woodland, flooded in 1954 to support a hydroelectric dam.
Beth Jones Bio
Beth Jones is an American author, journalist, digital storyteller and educator living in Boston. Her internationally exhibited digital stories combine narrative writing, research, video clips, and personal and archival imagery. Jones’ journalism has been published in the New York Times, the Boston Globe and many other outlets. She co-wrote an award-winning memoir with Little, Brown & Co., and she is a content creator for Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and many other universities.
National Tree Week Event at Chapel Hill School of Art - Free Event - All Welcome!
March 26th - 12pm to 4pm
Upstairs in the Community Room
Exhibition of paintings by Siobhan Duggan ‘The Gearagh Month by Month’ and “The Lone Alder”
At 12pm
Herb-lore ‘The Medicinal Properties of Trees & The Medicinal Properties of Tree Stories’ with Majella O’Riordan of Dandoline Health and Aurora Planells - All Welcome!
At 1.30pm
Debut Screening of Digital Stories of ‘Shadow Forests and Dreaming of Trees’ by American writer Beth Jones.
At 2.00pm
Beachairi Chorcaigh / Beekeepers Cork at Chapel Hill to support and educate the community on the art of caring for bees.
At 2.45pm
Irish Native Tree planting demonstration in the Walled Garden
At 3.15pm
Tree Walk & Biodiversity on the gorunds with Ted Cook - Weather Dependent -
https://www.corkcoco.ie/en/nature-articles-ted-cook
On the Ground Floor
From 1pm
Demonstration of Circular Weaving by textile Artists Ann Mechelinck
Wood Sculpting Demonstration - by artist Denis Lynch
Visual Art Exhibition - Ann Mechelinck 'Forest Floor’
In the Prayer Room - viewing from 1pm to 2pm only
Willow Basket Weaving Workshop with Rosemary Kavanagh of Belonging to the Willows