Take Me to the River: WATER_CONNECTIONS_LIFE CYCLES
Location: Swift Cultural Centre and Porchfield, Trim
Date: Saturday 9 August
Time: 10am - 2pm
Price: Free, booking essential
Participants: All ages
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This workshop focuses on interconnections between biodiversity and river health. Beginning in Swift Cultural Centre, explore a large collection of mounted and live butterflies and moths with Jesmond Harding of Butterfly Conservation Ireland. Butterflies are key pollinators in healthy ecosystems and their presence or absence helps us study the impact of biodiversity loss and habitat fragmentation.
Walking to the Porchfields, learn about their environment, discovering the river's impact on their habitat. Engage in kick-sampling at the water’s edge with a representative of Inland Fisheries Ireland to study and log the aquatic organisms of the river.
Guided by artist Annabel Potterton and Cineál, use colour and line drawing to capture winged and aquatic sightings, and create imagery to map the biodiversity of this river site.
Workshop participants will contribute to a sectional drawing that narrates the ecosystem from the riverbed to the treetops. This transect study will create an accessible record of the river’s environmental condition, specific to the site, contributing to the ‘Creative Catchment Map’ developed in the project in 2024, to record information, activities and scientific enquiry.
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