You’re not supposed to laugh about the environment, are you? We did.
People from ages 8-75 got together at storyteller Liz Weir’s Ballyeamon Barn at the head of Glenariff. The craic started with the first cup of tea.
We also talked very seriously about the local-global problems we all face at present. And on the Saturday night, we sang, danced, told stories and poems at Liz’s regular ceili session.
Everybody conspired to help us: the BBC with a live piece on Your Place and Mine, Mother Earth with a big storm overnight, Jacky Ingram with her laughter workshop, Darren from the Ballymena Guardian taking our photo. Furthermore, there was a centrefold on Baglady in Sunday Life (our thanks to reporter Clare and photographer Liam).
A brilliant workshop, the first of many, we hope. The next is already planned for 29-30 November in Omagh. Details later.
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The first draft of Shirley’s new play [Baglady’s first], ASAP, had its first reading at this year’s 21st John Hewitt Summer School, in Armagh [July]. In this alltime coolest of cold reads, Bill Jeffrey stole the show as GreenMouse. The rest of the cast: Jim, Mary, Sandra and Eileen were of course brilliant and the fringe was formally launched by Shirley Bork. The audience was perhaps even better than the cast. We can’t wait to see the piks - watch this space…
ASAP World Premiere will be at the Braid Centre, Ballymena at 7pm on Thursday, October 9. It’s part of Ballymena Borough Council’s children’s week. Email shirley@bagladyproductions.org if you want to come, to find out more, or to book a visit to your town
Workshop auditions for kids’ and adults’ parts to be announced early in September.
Writers, messages also welcome - this is everyone’s show.
shirley@bagladyproductions.org
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A campaign to inspire “A Kitchen Garden in Every Blue Mountains Home” was launched on 26 March by Cittaslow Katoomba Blue Mountains.
See here for further information.
Continue reading ‘A Kitchen Garden in Every Blue Mountains Home’
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November 18th, 2007
in Events.
The Sea of Hands is an Australian movement in support of justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, aimed at mobilising non-Indigenous support for native title and reconciliation.
Continue reading ‘Sea of Hands’
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Tomorrow, we’ll be visiting Antrim Primary School and St Comgall’s Primary. We’ll also be visiting Antrim’s re:store shop, a new kind of charity shop who aim “with the support of local councils…to redirect furniture and white goods from the waste stream, and sell them through EBM (East Belfast Mission)’s Social Enterprise Project.”
After lunch, you’ll be able to see us putting together and screening the film in the town centre.
You can read more about re:store by clicking the image below to download a PDF.
On Saturday, we will be at the Folkfest, in and around Portrush Town Hall. See below for the day’s itinerary (you can also click on the image to download a printable PDF version).
Both are bound to be great days. Come on down, we hope to see you there!
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We had a great day on Saturday! A huge thanks to everyone who came along, and all of you who were unable to attend and sent us messages of support. We had them all on display on our message wall.
There will be a full update in a few days, but in the meantime you can see just a few of our photos here.
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Saturday, March 31 2007, 10am-2pm at St George’s Markets, Belfast. Sponsored by Belfast City Council.
To be opened by award winning international storyteller Liz Weir (pictured right).
- Shop sustainably for fresh, organic and local food with local stall-holders
- Bring your own bags and containers! and save packaging
- Visit our good bad and middling bags exhibition
- See film of people saying NO to plastic bags all over the North
- Hear and tell stories about plastic bags with Liz Weir and other storytellers
- See OUR CELEBS’ (like Jenny Bristow, left, at a previous NEEDabag? event) shopping bags and baskets etc - watch this space for more info
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The mighty friendly Scots capital this week welcomed thousands of people here to protest G8 and/or attend Live8 concerts. And thousands of police.
An amazing atmosphere of acceptance and goodwill, in spite of the violence that gets the headlines [when will the media realise they make the news, not just report it?]
Baglady - focused as ever on beauty, rubbish and picking up - has been zooming about on excellent Lothian buses, filming, meeting all sorts of people, and picking up rubbish.
Murrayfield: The rubbish in the area near the stadium on Live8 night was dealt with by council workers overnight. They say, they’re used to it, with stadium events. But, hold on: This was a statement about global poverty and injustice. How can people say they want to see a better future for Africa, while continuing to drop rubbish? It’s all one world.
Gleneagles is only a hotel. What mattered to Baglady was that the people of Auchterarder welcomed us so warmly (they had no choice, but still they did it right).
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