A Festival of Irish Botanical Lifeways
for Liberatory Plant & Soil Workers, Community Carers, & Radical Plant Folk
Mushrooms & Roses is an annual gathering that celebrates emergent traditional healing practices and land relationships as a foundation for harm reduction, disability justice, mutual aid, and health autonomy in Ireland.
We come together and share the skills of botanical medicine, radical mycology, soil and seed work — with the intention to build resilient lifeways through radical community care.
We make medicine, exchange ideas, expand our care networks, 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 accessible as possible.
Mushrooms & Roses tickets work on a sliding scale that includes supported space.
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Access Details
• 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
• All toilets are gender neutral
• ISL interpreter on site with advanced notice
• There are quiet spaces available onsite
• There are rooms and toilets onsite that are wheelchair accessible
• We have immunocompromised folx in this gathering, if you are sick that weekend please stay home and take care
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 — do all you can and take action to acknowledge 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 organised as a social enterprise and made with community support.
Donations Welcome
