This bank holiday weekend, Scariff was a very lively town during the Harbor Festival. Things started off with a concert by Mary Black on Friday evening. A number of people from the Camphill Community attended, and all enjoyed her music. We also had a stall at the main square on Saturday and Sunday. Unfortunately, it was a rather wet weekend and we were unable to display some of our woven goods( made in our own weavery).
Those who had the chance to see what we had for sale showed genuine interest though, and we had many good conversations as a result. Meanwhile the festival went on all day and night. There was a busking competition and there were cooking lessons and crafts activities (blacksmithing, spinning wool, woodworking, basket making, etc) by CELT.
There were activities by youth groups and other civic groups too. There was even a free boat ride from the river to Lough Derg.Finally, there was an open concert by ASLAN Saturday night. Some of us would have stayed all day and all night if we could have! Anyway, after such a busy weekend, we are back to work, hopefully not too exhausted by the weekend...
Tuesday 3 August 2010
Tuesday 8 June 2010
Mountshannon Art Festival
The annual Mountshannon Art Festival was held between 29th of May and 7th of June.
It is the time of year that we realize that there are so many talented people locally in art, music, craft and the other kind of skills. There were 2 concerts, one comedy show, a couple of art exhibitions, and the presentations by the local youth group(music, fashion show, etc). There were more about films, set dance, story telling and puppet show for children, etc. and More.
On Sunday afternoon, there was a green fair at the centre of the park, the Aistear. We participated in the activities and had our own stand. We were there to meet people to let them know who we were and what we were doing in the community so that we could get integrated in the area more.
We were selling some products that were made by our people in the weaving workshop. They brought lovely bright colors in the park and they attracted a lot of people to our stand. Another attraction was "The community mosaic" work. We asked the visitors to complete the mosaic picture with some tiles. It was a metaphor to explain about the community life. Each single piece doesn't create something special but together we can.
People just liked the mosaic activity anyway and a lot of children kept coming back to add more tiles to make the picture.
We were blessed by the good weather and had lovely time listening to nice music in the park.
It is the time of year that we realize that there are so many talented people locally in art, music, craft and the other kind of skills. There were 2 concerts, one comedy show, a couple of art exhibitions, and the presentations by the local youth group(music, fashion show, etc). There were more about films, set dance, story telling and puppet show for children, etc. and More.
On Sunday afternoon, there was a green fair at the centre of the park, the Aistear. We participated in the activities and had our own stand. We were there to meet people to let them know who we were and what we were doing in the community so that we could get integrated in the area more.
We were selling some products that were made by our people in the weaving workshop. They brought lovely bright colors in the park and they attracted a lot of people to our stand. Another attraction was "The community mosaic" work. We asked the visitors to complete the mosaic picture with some tiles. It was a metaphor to explain about the community life. Each single piece doesn't create something special but together we can.
People just liked the mosaic activity anyway and a lot of children kept coming back to add more tiles to make the picture.
We were blessed by the good weather and had lovely time listening to nice music in the park.
Wednesday 28 April 2010
Drumming Workshop
It is organized by the brothers of Charity and it is for 10 weeks session. We are all very keen to go to the drumming session. Our music tutor, Michael, comes with a lot of african drums in all kind of shapes and sizes.
This is an instrument that anybody can enjoy playing. We are learning a couple basic rhythms to play together. As long as the basic rhythms are kept, it is quite fine to add different rhythms and sound. It makes the session even more lively.
This is an instrument that anybody can enjoy playing. We are learning a couple basic rhythms to play together. As long as the basic rhythms are kept, it is quite fine to add different rhythms and sound. It makes the session even more lively.
Open Day
We have had our open day on 17th of April in Clai house. We were fortunate to have very good weather and it made everybody present here happy. Our local friend, Tom Ryan came for support and played irish music.
It was wonderful to meet some new people with different interest. It happend that we were looking after a new born lamb and a goat for 2 months and they entertained the children. Our neighbor's horse, Misty, was busy taking some children for a ride.
We showed them around the community, including the new weaving workshop building and the vegetable garden. It is Martin's first year to grow some vegetables as a main gardener and we are very happy to see the result. A lot of the visitors made positive comment on the work.
Regarding the new weaving workshop, we hope that we will get some more support to finish it off.
It was wonderful to meet some new people with different interest. It happend that we were looking after a new born lamb and a goat for 2 months and they entertained the children. Our neighbor's horse, Misty, was busy taking some children for a ride.
We showed them around the community, including the new weaving workshop building and the vegetable garden. It is Martin's first year to grow some vegetables as a main gardener and we are very happy to see the result. A lot of the visitors made positive comment on the work.
Regarding the new weaving workshop, we hope that we will get some more support to finish it off.
Ash Trees
Before the spring, we have planted about 400 ash trees on the slope in front of Clai house. As the house is exposed on a hill, hopefully, in a few years time, they can give a kind of shelter in windy days.
Eventually, they'll provide us some firewood for the hoses. We actually, thought that they might have died after the heavy frost in winter time. It seems that they have started show the signs of life and most of them seem to be well.
Eventually, they'll provide us some firewood for the hoses. We actually, thought that they might have died after the heavy frost in winter time. It seems that they have started show the signs of life and most of them seem to be well.
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