Rena Blake and Lisa Fingleton live on an organic social farm near down a small boreen near Ballybunion in North Kerry called The Barna Way. Both are passionate about creativity, community, equality and the nature. They recently planted 10,000 native Irish trees on...
m i n k (Moving Image Network Kerry) is a Kerry-based collective of filmmakers and artists. As part of Culture Night 2020, there is a group exhibition at ANAM Arts & Culture Centre in Killarney featuring films by Eavan Aiken & Jennifer Redmond, Treasa...
Leic Snámha_The Swimming Flagstone_Creative Communities Project_ Lisa Fingleton_Rena Blake _2020
Gaining Ground Reflections_A day long symposium reflecting on Public Art in a rural context _POSTPONED TO LATER 2020
Borris Festival of Writing and Ideas. Panel on Farming, Conservation and Art hosted by Paddy Woodworth
Grow your own vegetables and buy local- this is how Ballybunion woman Lisa Fingleton is taking action to reduce her impact on the environment. By reducing her need for plastic packaging, the unnecessary waste of carbon emissions during transport and the use of...
Join author, artist and grower Lisa Fingleton for an interactive, visual talk on how we can take action on climate change by eating local food, Lisa will be on hand after the talk to sign her book “the Local Food Project”. 7.30, Thursday 28th November, The...
The 25th annual Listowel Food Fair, will be held from Thursday November 7th to Monday 11th 2010. Lisa Fingleton will be speaking about her book ‘The Local Food Project’ at the Food Academy on Friday 8th October and also at the Business Development Seminar...
Well done to the 300 people who joined the ’30 Day Local Food Challenge this year’. It seemed particularly urgent and relevant this year in the context of Climate Change, Greta Thunberg speaking at the UN and of course Brexit. Yet over the last four years...
The work of seven artists feature in this year’s Kerry Visual Artists’ Showcase: Lisa Fingleton, Des Fitzgerald, Kaye Maahs, James Hayes, Julie Lovett, Nicole Tilley and Norman McCloskey This is the fifth annual showcase and it runs until October 31st at Department of...
Would you like to join the ’30 day local food challenge’ this September 2019? It’s a great way to eat tasty, fresh food; support local food producers and raise awareness about community resilience, climate change and food miles? The challenge...
Wild Mind is a celebration of our natural environment, nestled between the Kerry mountains and the Wild Atlantic Ocean it holds space for people to engage with the local environment, to learn about our wildlife systems and to open our minds to potential for change our...
Delighted to be taking part in this unique conference with 350 artists, indigenous, activists, leaders, and visionaries including Vandana Shiva PhD
Joe McGill’s guest on Radio Kerry’s In Conversation (6pm 10th April 2019) is Lisa Fingleton. Lisa is an artist, filmmaker, writer and grower. Living and working on a small organic farm near the sea in Ballybunion, she has spent many years cultivating deep-rooted...
“The dynamic artist, filmmaker, grower and author of the acclaimed book, ‘The Local Food Project’, Lisa Fingleton will talk about how we we can take action on climate change by eating local. An inspiring afternoon for people who are passionate about...
Artist and food activist Lisa Fingleton ate only foods produced in Ireland on her 30-day local food challenge. She tells Ellie O’Byrne about her vision for a future where our season’s greetings are also homegrown, seasonal greetings. Retail giant Iceland’s banned...
“Here’s a good table-quiz question: How many ingredients are in a BLT (bacon, lettuce and tomato) sandwich? Three, plus the bread, spread and condiments? Think again. Kerry artist and filmmaker Lisa Fingleton asked herself the same question when she bought...
Could you eat a diet consisting of only local food? Im not talking about the food you buy in a local store. I mean truly local, seasonal food direct from a farm or food producer? Well that’s what Lisa Fingleton asked herself and set about doing over 3 years ago…… Read...
Ever since reading Barbara Kingsolver’s book Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, in which she documents her family’s year of eating locally in the US, I’ve been entertaining the idea of eating only Irish food for a year. Could I really live without chocolate, pasta, rice,...