Kerry Writers’ Museum showcases the work of leading contemporary artists Lisa Fingleton and Kerry Writers’ Museum showcases the work of leading contemporary artists and farmers Lisa Fingleton and Laura Fitzgerald during Heritage Week. They use video and humour to create work that is grounded in rural Ireland and explores global issues like climate change, food systems, community engagement, colonial legacies, conflict and magic. during Heritage Week. They use video and humour to create work that is grounded in rural Ireland and explores global issues like climate change, food systems, community engagement, colonial legacies, conflict and magic. They are currently exhibiting together at the Scenic Roots exhibition at the Townhall, Cavan.
This is the first of two workshops/screenings that take place on farms in memory of the travelling road shows that screened films in fields and farmyards from the 1920s onwards and introduced many people in North Kerry to the mixed art of storytelling in film and theatre.
The “field” chosen for this roadshow is The Barna Way Organic Farm, Wildlife Sanctuary and Arts Centre, which Lisa Fingleton and Rena Blake, a photographer, founded as a creative and community-based, sustainability and biodiversity project. Lisa is also the Kerry Visual Artist in Residence with Kerry County Council Arts Office and embedded artist with Brilliant Ballybunion, a Creative Climate Action Project.
Laura Fitzgerald works on the family farm in Inch, Co Kerry and this influences every aspect of her work as an artist/storyteller.
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RELATED EVENTS
Kerry Writers’ Museum contributes to Heritage Week with an exciting programme of workshops, screenings and talks that explore the heritage value of film and digital media used to generate personal and community memories and networks.
Daily screenings hosted by filmmakers will celebrate a vibrant and diverse movement in storytelling-in-film that has a long history in North Kerry; beginning with travelling road shows in the 1920s and continuing at the cutting edge of Irish art and climate activism.
A workshop in “pinhole” photography recaptures the extraordinary heritage of the camera obscura.
Musical heritage features in a short film about a trip to the Fleadh Nua in Ennis in 1974. Members of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann reconnect with the fleadh’s legacy and perform a new musical accompaniment.
The Barna Way Organic Farm is the venue for an exploration of a new generation of community filmmakers.
Community storytelling – the most intangible of heritage assets – is explored through a film shot in Moyvane, shown in London and distributed though community networks that connected London, Manchester and north Kerry.
The week ends with workshops in analogue filmmaking and collection management/sharing for anyone who has film and digital media at home.
Kerry Writers’ Museum acknowledges the support of the Heritage Council, the Listowel Duagh Branch of Comhaltas Ceoltóirí Éireann and the department of Media Studies, Maynooth University.
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BOOKING
The Art of Filming on the Farm
7pm-8.30pm Tuesday 20th August
Free event for Heritage Week but booking essential.
TO BOOK your free place:
https://kerrywritersmuseum.com/book-now/
