Magic in nature! Thank you to everyone who came for the Dawn Chorus with Barry O Donoghue and Rena Blake at The Barna Way… thanks to all the birds who performed in the early morning symphony and to Jennie Moran of High Luncheonette for her delicious porridge
We have had an amazing few days and are delighted to be part of the MOYA Festival
“What we sow here now today will bloom tomorrow…”
The beautiful voice and lyrics of singer songwriter Katie O’Connor opened the MOYA Festival on the Earthlings stage in the woodland at The Barna Way.
This reminds us of the importance of setting our intentions and vision for the future we want to B!
Then came the beautiful words of artist Jennie of High Luncheonette at Brilliant Ballybunion Goes Wild!! This was our first public event and we had a magical evening celebrating food and music in the heart of nature with our community collaborators and their guests.
We are delighted to work with the talented Lily Toomey as a Creative Food Collaborator with Brilliant Ballybunion. For the last few days Lily has prepared the most amazing plant based food using as much locally sourced ingredients as possible from The Barna Way, Leagh Farm and Manna Organic, Tralee
Not only have we been nourished by her food, but also inspired by her research into Irish bogs.
It was lovely to see all the connections and collaborations with Lily, Jennie Moran (High Luncheonette) and Katie O’Connor music, weaving the web of creative talents connected to our wonderful town Ballybunion.
Thanks to Bob, Mike, Joe, Gerry, Hugh, Natalia for all your amazing work behind the scenes to create the forest venue and the spaces for people to gather
Thanks to Creative Ireland for funding our project and events through the Creative Climate Action Fund
Brilliant!
Join Rena Blake, Barry O’Donoghue & the blackbirds, pheasants, thrushes, finches & robins for a magical and musical extravaganza at 5am, 4th May. Experience the living aural landscape of the Dawn Chorus in the stunning surroundings of The Barna Way (V31YK68), an organic farm and native woodland just outside Ballybunion.
FREE EVENT
Please bring:
https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/dawn-chorus-for-moya-tickets-885463113007?aff=oddtdtcreator
An evening of radical hospitality, creativity & music at The Barna Way
6pm – 8pm Friday 3rd May
With Jennie Moran, Katie O’Connor, Lisa Fingleton & Rena Blake
FREE EVENT
Please bring:
A Brilliant day today at The Barna Way creating land art/ a willow dome/bird hide with magical portholes! Lots of great teamwork and fun using all natural materials including willow and handmade flax rope…. A great team of willow warblers!
Lots of delicious local salads from Leagh Farm and soup and microgreens from Barna.
We spent the afternoon busy in the potting shed and polytunnels planting and transplanting baby plants.
Great news, we are delighted to collaborate with Badly Made Books on a beautiful Brilliant Ballybunion journal.
The journals will be used by the community collaborators and artist Lisa Fingleton over the next year and a half to document our Creative Climate Action journey with Creative Ireland. All printed on recycled paper
Wishing you a very special Earth Day!
We had a brilliant day today at our first Wild About Life event with ecologist and team member Dr Joanne O Brien. We spent World Water Day – 22.03.24, literally immersed in nature and water, learning how to analyse river water quality. We were all amazed at the number of creatures living in water and what they can tell us about the quality of the water. We even got to listen to their activity underwater. We spent the afternoon in a living lab at The Barna Way. Thanks to Joanne for all the knowledge and skills sharing and to Rena for the great photos. We were reminded that drawing was very much a necessary part of a naturalist’s practice (pre photography to record nature) and it was great to see artist & collaborator Marta at work capturing the scene, along with lead artist and team member Lisa. We had another delicious lunch with organic salad from Manna Organic Store (Tralee) with freshly made soda bread and soup, again, thanks to Rena.
