Mushrooms & Roses
is a Festival of Irish Botanical Lifeways
for Liberatory Plant & Land Workers, Community Carers, & Radical Plant Folk
Mushrooms & Roses is an opportunity to share skills and build care networks through herbalism and other natural healing techniques, land relationship, radical mycology, regenerative design, traditional and contemporary arts.
This is an annual gathering that celebrates emergent traditional practices as a foundation for harm reduction, disability justice, and health autonomy in Ireland.
We come together to make medicine, exchange ideas, develop community care, and cultivate decolonial futures — forging deeper relationships with our nature community and each other.
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Savage Craic and Mushrooms & Roses is queer, neuro-expansive, and disabled led.
We have direct experience with access needs, including financial considerations, and we consider disability justice central to our work.
Having put on sliding scale events for many, many moons we are always looking at new strategies to make things as as possible.
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Access Details
• Our tickets are sliding scale and supported spaces are made available
• We ensure there is proper ventilation and/or HEPA air filtration in shared spaces
• Guests are encouraged to arrive and remain scent free
• Masks, sanitiser, nervines and other herbal care remedies are available onsite
• Gender neutral toilets are provided
• ISL interpreter on site with advanced notice
• There will be quiet spaces available onsite
• There will be rooms and toilets onsite that are wheelchair accessible
• We will have immunocompromised folx in this gathering, if you are sick that weekend please stay home and take care
• The degree of mobility access will always be a significant consideration when working with venues
Our outline for access is directly informed by the work ov Sins Invalid, Alexis J. Cunningfolk, and in direct collaboration with comrade and collaborator Tara Máirín with input from various individuals and communities in Ireland.
Disability justice, housing and health autonomy has a long way to go in Ireland — please do all you can and take action that acknowledges the value ov access, self-determination and the expectation ov difference.
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“Herbalists should go with the flow, embrace being on the wrong side of capitalism and the law, and put our energies towards establishing decentralized, autonomous, grassroots health networks that empower community self-reliance, provide care to those most in need, and reduce the need for people to access conventional medicine.”
Dave Meesters
Savage Craic Apothecary and this gathering are non-for-profit and made with community support.
Donations Welcome
