Cultivate Living & Learning
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Dear Friends of Cultivate,
We're delighted to send you news of upcoming courses and workshops at Cultivate and among our community. Of particular interest may be our new Green Works course offerings, free to jobseekers and open to others for a fee.
- The Cultivate Team
- Community Resilience Trainers Course
- Community Powerdown Trainers Review
- Green Works - Upskill for the Green Economy
- Woodcollective Exhibition of Collaborative Works: 2006-2010
- Vegetables For the Irish Garden by Klaus Laitenberger
- Fleeing Vesuvius
- Spirit in the City
Community Resilience Trainers Course
Exploring the art of sustainability and how you can help your community adapt and thrive in these challenging times
Saturday and Sunday | 27th and 28th November 2010 | 09.30 – 17.00 Both days | Cultivate, The Greenhouse, St Andrew St, Dublin 2 (map) | €170 Book online (€150 members) - Bookings 01 6745773 | Free to the unemployed through Green Works (places are limited - apply on our separate website)
We are looking for people who see themselves as catalysts for change in their local community and who want to support others to understand the challenges of Community Resilience. We are training people to deliver a ground-breaking 10 module course called 'Community Resilience'. This course, also called 'Community Powerdown,' was designed by Cultivate and has been successfully delivered many times across Ireland and beyond.
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Community Powerdown Trainers Review
26th November 2010 | 1:30pm to 4:30pm | €Free of charge - For Powerdown Trainers Only | Cultivate at the Greenhouse, St Andrews Street, Dublin 2 (map) | Booking 01 674 5773
This afternoon meeting is an opportunity to share what is working, how best to secure funding and an update on course content as we change the name of the course from Community Powerdown to Community Resilience. Resilience from a community point of view refers to the capacity of a community to overcome adversity and adapt to change positively. The unprecedented floods and the big freeze that Ireland endured last winter highlights how unprepared we are to cope with any unexpected incidents and the level of our vulnerability.
'Community Resilience' is a 10-week learner-centred course that facilitates possible actions that can be made locally to adapt to the challenges upon us. These actions include; integrated and future-focussed approaches to the rebuilding of social capital and systems of reciprocity; the reduction of carbon emissions and fossil fuel use; and the development of community resilience around food, energy and buildings. Tools and processes to help communities to engage in the sustainable economic development of their area are also included.
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Green Works - Upskill for the Green Economy
Free training for jobseekers | green-works.ie
Interested? Please fill-in an Expression of Interest Form | Dublin Hub: Cultivate, The Greenhouse, St Andrew St, Dublin 2 (map)
Green Works offers courses (at Cultivate both in Dublin and the Eco Village in Cloughjordan, Tipperary as well as by our partners in Cork and Sligo) aimed at educating and upskilling the workforce, preparing students for the growing opportunities within Ireland's Green Economy. Students will benefit from a wide variety of themed courses, FETAC certificates, workshops, work placements, lectures, networking and much more.
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Woodcollective Exhibition of Collaborative Works: 2006-2010
Running as part of Design Week 2010 and Innovation Dublin Festival 2010
Monday - Friday | 9.30am - 5pm | The Greenhouse, St Andrew St, D2 (map)
A collaborative project between Architects, Landscape Architects/Designers, Artists, Sculptors, Designers, Builders, Engineers, Woodworkers, Foresters in association with Industry and Research Agencies.
This exhibition documents collaborative works 2006-2010, innovative use of timber in experimental protypical works, conveying ideas and techniques for adaptation and interpretation to different scales and contexts.
The scope of the works and educational interpretative materials which will be updated over the exhibition period, covers product life cycle, wood fuels and the broader environmental/sustainable context including carbon sequestration & storage. This is in context of raising awareness, questioning assumptions and generating ideas. It is an ongoing and iterative process and generative in vision.
Vegetables For the Irish Garden by Klaus Laitenberger
The Reference Work for the Irish Climate
Cultivate are delighted to be able to offer for sale Klaus Laitenberger's Vegetables For the Irish Garden.
€14.95 (Buy online)
| Paperback: 296 pages | Publisher: Milkwood Publishing (March 2010) | ISBN-10: 0956506305 | ISBN-13: 978-0956506306 | Weight: .725kg
Klaus Laitenberger has been growing organic vegetables for over twenty years in the UK and Ireland. He was running a four-acre organic market garden in England before moving to Ireland in 1999 where he was the Head Gardener at the Organic Centre in Rossinver, Co. Leitrim for seven years. He then took on the challenge to start the garden restoration in Lissadell House in Co. Sligo.
For the last few years he works as a self-employed trainer, mentor and consultant in organic horticulture. Last year he completed his PgDip in Organic Farming (SAC Aberdeen and University of Glasgow). His first book, Vegetables For the Irish Garden, is now available. The book will be of interest for anybody just starting to grow a few vegetables for the first time as well as for the more advanced gardeners.
Read a review by Jane Powers in the Irish Times, published Saturday, July 17, 2010.
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Fleeing Vesuvius
Feasta is launching its new book, Fleeing Vesuvius: Overcoming the risks of economic and environmental collapse, on Saturday, 20 November, in Dublin (details to follow).
Their most important book to date, it draws together many of the ideas Feasta members have developed over the years and applies them to a single question - how can we bring the world out of the mess in which it finds itself?
Fleeing Vesuvius confronts this mess squarely, analysing its many aspects: the looming scarcity of essential resources such as fossil fuels - the lifeblood of the world economy; the financial crisis in Ireland and elsewhere; the collapse of the housing bubble; the urgent need for food security; and the enormous challenge of dealing with climate change.
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Spirit in the City
Every second Wednesday | 7pm | The Greenhouse, St Andrew St, D2 (map) | Facilitator: Martin Duffy | Donation: €15/€10 students, OAP's, unemployed (all profits in aid of The Oaktree Charitable Trust) | RSVP at www.meetup.com/spirit-in-the-city | www.shamanismireland.com
Spirit in the City is a new fortnightly Shamanic Gathering at The Greenhouse. It explores many aspects of the shamanic experience including theory and practice of hemi-sync journeying, shamanic journeying, shamanic drumming, meditation and visualisation. There will also be regular screenings of spiritual cinema.
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