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.