Screenings of Tree Stories at An Gairdin Beo
The Gathering for treestory tellers on Sunday 28th Jan.2024 was very special with almost 60 people in attendance. . A huge thank you to Sister Mary Carmody and all at Carlow’s Community Garden ‘An Gairdin Beo’ (Ireland) for the use of the communuty hall and their continued support . The screenings included a wide range of stories ranging from the very rare Wollemi Pine to a joyful tree song from Yunnan to a very funny tree climbing gorilla . After the screenings there was no need to facilitate tree story speed dating , everyone was curious and jumped straight into meeting and chatting with other treestory tellers. They had found their tribe . After the break we had a few words introducing The Earth Charter by Dr Cathy Fitzgearld. Also there was videographer Patrick Bramley who shared the experience of trying to entice people to tell a tree story at different events at Carlow’s Garden Festival Summer 2023. The open discussion included ideas and information from tree planters foresters, farmers and gardeners.
A special thank you to Carlow County Council Creative Ireland Fund for 2023 funding for website and recordings at Carlow Garden Festival 2023.
We now have established a solid platform ready for a more global participation .
Here is the link for the current 81 Tree stories on video.
Open Call for your just a minute Tree Story on video
Memory Palace of Tree Stories is a socio-ecological art practice which invites you to tell a story or share information about trees . It is a creative-led social enquiry of how we can live well for both personal and collective wellbeing. Your story can be any kind of tree story , a personal tree story, an ecological tree story , an environmental tree story, an historical tree story or even a botanical tree story. I do hope you can contribute a comment on how we can live better with the greater community of life.
The year 2024 we continue to gather your stories in the form of one minute videos and we are really looking forward to hearing your tree story . I can be contacted directly on this platform or at [email protected]
Niamh Cunningham
