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Catchments 2025 exhibition celebrates creativity from Dóchas Midwest Autism Support
Catchments 2025 exhibition celebrates creativity from Dóchas Midwest Autism Support
Catchments 2025, Old River Shannon Exhibition, will put the creativity of members from Dóchas Midwest Autism Support on display at People’s Museum of Limerick
The stunning artwork made by young people diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder from Dóchas Midwest Autism Support will be on display at People’s Museum of Limerick this November.
The exhibition, Catchments 2025 – Old River Shannon Exhibition was created in response to biodiversity along the River Shannon, inspired by field trips to the river banks with artists Cleary and Connolly and Lara Gufferty this summer. The celebratory launch event on Thursday, November 13, includes Arts and STEM talks, a short film screening, a songwriting workshop and a concert which is open to all.
Events will see, on Thursday, November 13 from 11:00 am to 1:00 pm, Anna Tanvir and Maninder Singh invite you to join them for a relaxed songwriting and jam session inspired by nature along the River Shannon. Instruments welcome!
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5.30 pm will see an artists’ talk where Anne Cleary and Denis Connolly talk about the Eco Showboat and the Catchments 2025 project. This will be followed by a screening at 6.00 pm, Old River Shannon, digital video, 15 “.
Once the important and powerful lower course of Ireland’s longest river, the “old” river Shannon saw its flood reduced to a trickle by the 1929 hydro electric scheme. The artists explore this once-great-river-become-backwater as it meanders through the university, through conversations with with engineer Tom Cosgrove and botanist Liz Gabbett.
6.30 pm will bring a STEM Talk, Water and Power, where Tom Cosgrove, UL Professor of Civil Engineering until 2024, shares his knowledge of the heroic engineering project that is the great industrial legacy of the Irish Free State: the Ardnacrusha hydro-electric scheme that reshaped the lower Shannon and changed the ecology of the whole river.
Wrapping up the event at 7.00 pm a concert featuring the Return of the Gian Hogweed. Musical recital with harp, guitar and voice, performed by Irish Indian duo Anna Tanvir & Maninder Singh (Indeceltic). The darkly humorous lyrics and psychedelic sounds of Genesis’ early progressive rock classic The Return of the Giant Hogweed are interpreted for harp, guitar and voice by Irish Indian folk duo Indeceltic.
CATCHMENTS 2025 is supported by Taighde Éireann – Research Ireland* Discover Award, Creative Ireland, The Department of Education, Limerick City and County Council Arts Office and the UCD Earth Institute.
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