UPCOMING WORKSHOPS
WORKSHOP CATALOGUE
We are crossing our fingers that we can soon reinstate our regular workshops. for the mean time, feel free to have a peruse of what we have to offer, and feel free to contact us if you have any questions.
ONLINE EVENTS
GIB’S JUNKYARD RENAISSANCE
We are entranced by Gib’s dystopian robots, pieces forged from scrap metal into new life, from the moment we met them. The Robots come from an imaginary world, where the only available resources are recycled junk from another era.
LIFELINE PODCAST - EPISODE ONE
Join us on Sunday August 23rd, Water Heritage Day, as we launch the first in a series of podcasts exploring the LIFELINE territory. We will journey with Valerie Vetter, Dublin City FM community radio presenter, and Kaethe Burt O'Dea, creative director at Bí Urban, along the route formerly taken by the Royal Canal from Broombridge to Broadstone to explore how the heritage of urban waterways can inform sustainable regeneration.
Group Bookings
We have had some wonderful experiences over the past while with private group bookings. It’s quite a unifying experience to chat and bond over a new craft or creative task, and it’s something, perhaps, we have lost appreciation for: The act of doing & conversing together.
MENTORS
Miceal Murray
Miceal Murray runs workshops, talks and walks on urban forraging under the guise of Taking a Leaf. Takingaleaf in its heart is about the immediate landscape and being open to a deeper connection with it, a willingness to explore the nooks and crannies and little forgotten patches of green.
Places we may walk past every day but our busy lives don't let us engage with them.
Kaethe Burt O’Dea
Kaethe Burt-O’Dea is an independent healthcare design consultant based in Dublin, Ireland. A diverse range of experience contributes to her research approach including careers in the arts, nursing, organic farming, product design, and cross-disciplinary sustainable design development. Her consultancy, Desireland, focuses on the socio-cultural relationships that influence human well-being within the built environment and the promotion of integrated healthcare systems.
Feargus de brún
Dublin 7 based carpenter Feargus de Brún leads a wonderfully meditative process in woodcrafting.
His workshops effectively demonstrate the beneficial impact of making a direct connection with nature through traditional tools, techniques and natural materials.
Liadain Aiken
Liadain Aiken believes that a quality woollen garment is something that should be treasured for years, even generations. Her belief in longevity extends to the philosophy of their designs. Liadain finds her muse in that which is universal, timelessly beautiful and emotive; inspired by the rolling landscapes of her native Ireland, or playful, irreverent colours that are sure to produce smiles!
Lili Heller
Born in 1981 in France, Lili Heller is a professional Visual Artist based in Dublin. She had a studio at Richmond Road Studios for six years. She also has over fifteen years of experience as an Art teacher for children, teenagers and adults.
She obtained her Visual Arts Masters in 2004 in the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Marseille (France). In 2005, she then received a Masters of Theoretical Art Studies from the Université de Provence in France.
Since 2002 she has had many solo exhibitions in France and Germany and has participated in numerous group shows in France, Canada, Slovenia, Ireland and China. Her artistic work is in numerous public and private collections in France, Austria, Germany, Ireland, Slovenia, Canada, Brazil, China, Thailand.
Lili ran BLOCK T’s Education Department until 2014 and create SKILLSETS until 2014. She was also a co-initiator of the International Exchange Programmes and one of the main initiators of the LINK Culturefest, the 2012 BLOCK T arts and culture festival in Smithfield.
She has taught in Trinity Arts Workshop and Youthreach.
Lili is a highly experienced, devoted and passionate art teacher.
Tanguy de Toulgoët
Tanguy de Toulgoët came from France twenty five years ago in lovely Laois to live him & his partner Isabelle’s dream life. Their intensive kitchen garden is a potager-style, nature friendly which though only an acre in size yields a huge variety of plants and vegetables and even produces melons in Co. Laois.
They are acutely aware of the tiny relationships in nature that make a huge difference to the ultimate health of a garden, and like any other school, they love to share our knowledge with people!
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