Queer Offerings
Sometimes I tell myself, I may only be planting a tree here, but just imagine what’s happening if there are billions of people out there doing something. Just imagine the power of what we can do.
Wangari Maathai
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UPCOMING PUBLIC OFFERINGS
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⨳ 8 March: Ferment for Life
A full day fermentation workshop at Common Knowledge — explore the queer ecology of microbes, engage in discussions on how to reduce food waste, incorporate food medicine, make kin, and decolonise our food-ways, as well as, take home new skills and ferments to steward and share more>
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⨳ 18 April: Community Medicine Making
Field Good Friday event learning about plant medicine fundamentals and gather seasonal herbs to make a Spring tonic to nourish your system and wake up you sleepy winter lymph. more>
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⨳ 2 – 4 May Faoin Tuath 2025
Be Gay & Make Pickles at a dreamy weekend featuring practical skill-sharing workshops, live music, DJs, traditional music sessions, film screenings, shared meals and of course, kick off with a Céilí Mór more>
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⨳ Design Bank Sessions
Monthly workshops/ demos/ talks at Design Bank in Miltown Malbey details TBA
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⨳ 28 June: Ferment for Life
A full day fermentation workshop, on the anniversary of the Stonewall uprising no less, at Common Knowledge — explore the queer ecology of microbes, engage in discussions on how to reduce food waste, incorporate food medicine, make kin, and decolonise our food-ways, as well as, take home new skills and ferments to steward and share more>
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⨳ 9 August: Queer Your Brews
A special fermentation gathering on The Balcony, Project Arts Centre Dublin — Details forthcoming…
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⨳ 16 August: Rekindle Festival of Lost Skills
A We are back with a market stall in Ennistymon at the Land and Lore Maker’s Market — Find Out More >
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⨳ 13 Sept: Ferment for Life
A full day fermentation workshop at Common Knowledge — explore the queer ecology of microbes, engage in discussions on how to reduce food waste, incorporate food medicine, make kin, and decolonise our food-ways, as well as, take home new skills and ferments to steward and share more>
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⨳ 21 Sept: Féile Fómhair (Harvest Festival)
An afternoon of Apple harvesting & pressing for juice, seed saving & swapping, live traditional music, producer stalls, face painting, learning traditional Irish & Palestinian harvest songs & a dance along, scything & tatreez workshops. We will come together on the Autumn Equinox and celebrate the changing of the seasons at Common Knowledge, while raising much needed funds for the Palestinian Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC).
⨳ 21 Sept: Transcience: Gaza Fundraiser
The event will include improvised performances by Queer Sheds members Aoife Hammond, Molly Sterling, and Savage Craic, alongside skill demonstrations from Design Bank artists.
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⨳ 17 – 19 October: Mushrooms & Roses
A Festival of Irish Botanical lifeways for herbworkers, caretakers & the plant curious
Mushrooms & Roses is a three day event focusing on the skills and lifeways of Irish herbal traditions and the radical ways these heritage crafts can inform our responses to mental health, climate, political & economic chaos through vitalism and community care.
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BESPOKE WORKSHOPS
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We offer workshops to social groups, organisations, soil workers, forged families,
communities and comrades — as well as, special events, festivals, and collaborations.
We love making bespoke gatherings that fit the needs of your group — for example a fermentation session centred around a community allotment/ garden harvest, a workshop in partnership with a foraging experience, or a skill share with your eco-folkways artists/ students.
We have done a variety of workshops with social enterprises like Common Knowledge, social groups like Queer Sheds and Trans Community Limerick, as well as, educational institutions like Burren College of Art, Schumacher College, and Limerick School of Art.
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If you have a group of 6-12 folx that would like a 2-3 hour workshop, or a larger group seeking a presentation, simply make contact here or reach out to us on social media @savage.craic
ADDITIONAL OFFERINGS
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Queer Materials
Animism for Artists
Engage with the physical world as a living extension of your art practice and engage in making through reciprocity. This workshop offers an exploration through sonic ecologies to develop new relationships with one’s creative materials.
Together we’ll utilise electrical biodata/current from organic material, generative synthesis, and field recording/ sampling to explore sonic ecologies and deepen one’s relationships with materials.
The goal of these explorations are enriching our artistic practices through relationship-informed methods of becoming-with.
We also hand craft ferments such as our fierce and funky Burren Kymchi and our Mighty Hot Sauces — Maddive Chili, Aiteach and Goth Sauce.
Additionally, we are actively working to make more healing potions for organisers, culture workers, and those in need beyond our own kith & kin.
The sale of ferments and remedies also help to make some of our offerings free, like Solidarity Medicine Making — if you like to help out more, feel free to give us a tip.. Every bit helps.
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GATHERINGS
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We have also hosted several local community groups –like the Queer Ecology Salon, where Hedgerow Academics spill Tea–and plan to host more, in addition to events and symposia, once our sanctuary is established.
