^TEND

17-19 January 2025, Manorhamilton, Ireland

A 3-day event about tending, healing and care featuring artworks, talks and performance at ^, the Glens Centre and outdoors in Manorhamilton, January 17th-19th 2025.

^TEND will explore the journey of healing, contrasting much of the narrative that presents healing as a 'return to normal'. A programme of events will take place on the 17th-19th January. The event will be artist-led and community focussed and will give space for participatory conversations on perspectives of care, tending and healing through metamorphosis of human and non-human bodies extending to the land. ^TEND is supported by Creative Ireland and Leitrim Arts Office.

On January 17th there will be a one-day symposium with public talks, screenings, performances at the Glens Centre. This will begin at 1pm on the 17th with a kick sampling riverside walk with Yosef Dvores.

After this, the symposium will take place at the Glens Centre Manorhamilton with a round-table and card game on final wishes in palliative care led by retired nursing director, academic and farmer Lisa Gifford, a talk on climate grief by socially engaged artist Alan James Burns, a talk on cures and medical practice in old Irish by Siobhan Barrett, NUI Maynooth and a screening of a film on livestock disease by artist Shane Finan and a workshop on caring for kombucha by chef and botanical cuisine expert Amy Bunce. We will provide a light vegan dinner from Edergole Kitchen

Later in the evening, we will have a screening of the film 'Mammary Mountain' by Tara Baoth Mooney followed by a panel discussion chaired by Dominic Campbell (Irish Hospice Foundation) with Tara and her collaborator Camille, also joined by Alan and Lisa.

The artwork Mammary Mountain (Tara Baoth Mooney, Maf'j Alvarez, Camille Baker) will be exhibited at ^ on Saturday 18th and Sunday 19th January, open from 11am-6pm, with artistic responses to Mammary Mountain by James Kelly and Laura McMorrow.