Workshops & Events
“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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2026 OFFERINGS
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2026 is a big development year for Savage Craic, lle is deep in an incredible learning experience at Terra Sylva School of Botanical Medicine, working on creative projects, studying NADA acupuncture, as well as, additional skill building and helping to organise Queer Sheds Clare — this means the offerings calender will be a little lighter this year.
There will still be plenty going… just not the full bounty ov previous seasons 🌱
⨳ 28 Feb: Hand to Hand ⨳
llewyn will be speaking as part of the panel Learning through Community and Intergenerational Exchange: how skills, stories, and ways of knowing are carried through communities, mentors, and wider networks — through watching, collaboration, repetition, story, and shared labour.
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⨳ 4th & 5th April: Heritage in Action ⨳
Two days if workshops focusing on fermentation as an emergent heritage skill and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
Two days if workshops focusing on fermentation as an emergent heritage skill and Traditional Ecological Knowledge
At the Common Knowledge Centre
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⨳ 11 April: Fermentation School ⨳
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
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⨳ 1 – 4 May Faoin Tuath Festival ⨳
Faoin Tuath is a non-profit festival for queer people to connect beyond the city, featuring practical skill-sharing workshops, talks, live music performances, DJs, traditional music sessions, film screenings, shared meals, and much more.
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⨳ August 7-9 Queer Sheds Drogheda ⨳
Something special is happening in Ardee Bog
Details TBA
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⨳ August: Rekindle Festival of Lost Skills
We will be back with a market stall in Ennistymon at the Land and Lore Maker’s Market — Details TBA
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⨳ 9-13 Sept Our Fermented Lives ⨳
Savage Craic us joining Julia Skinner and to bring you A Fermentation Writing Retreat at Common Knowledge Centre.
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⨳ 2 – 4 October: Mushrooms & Roses ⨳
A Festival of Irish Botanical lifeways for Liberatory Herbworkers, Community Carers, & Radical Plant Folk
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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⨳ Fire Cider as Liberatory Care ⨳
Date and Details TBD
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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.
