Tarzan Training Camp

Sunday 6th April, 2014

The inaugural Tarzan Training Camp at The People's Park, Pery Square, Limerick City, is part of EVA 2014. This one day training camp devised by artist Seamus Nolan takes place on Sunday 6 April and offers the opportunity to explore a unique and personal perspective in experiencing, managing and negotiating local landscape and environment.

EVA International 2014 and curator Bassam El Baroni join Seamus Nolan in inviting you to participate in this day of exploration of our natural surroundings. Participation is FREE but booking is essential. Participants should be 16 years of age plus.  

Taking place in Pery Square and The Hub (education space) of Limerick City Gallery of Art, the workshops will run from 12pm to 4.30pm. The day's activities will address the landscape (permacultural orientation within our environment); food (locating foraging and preparing food in the wild); movement (bird, animal, and human patterns of movement in the landscape); and voice – marking the boundaries of landscape and territory through vocalisations.
 
12pm – 1pm Catherine Caulwell on Permaculture
1pm – 2pm Oonagh O'Dwyer on Foraging
2pm – 2.30pm Lunch
2.30pm – 3.30pm Isabella Oberlander on Movement
3.30pm – 4.30pm Ann Blake on Voice in collaboration with Seanie Barron

Tarzan Training Camp is presented in partnership and with thanks to Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Limerick City Gallery of Art and the contributors and participants.

Please RSVP to sally-anne@eva.ie

Catherine Caulwell teaches at An tIonad Glas, the Organic College, in Dromcollogher, Co. Limerick where she shares her knowledge of Permaculture, Plant Protection and Beekeeping. Catherine moved from a scientific career in genetics and genetic engineering into Organics and Permaculture through her concerns for the long-term effects of Genetic Manipulated crops on human, animal and environmental health. Having trained with David Holmgren, one of the two originators of Permaculture, the sustainable land use design system, in 1999, Catherine then obtained a Diploma in Organic Farming and has researched strategies to deal with the twin threats of Peak Oil and Climate Change in an Irish context.

Oonagh O'Dwyer, based in Lahinch Co. Clare is the founder of wildkitchen.ie which offers instruction and practical advice on foraging preparing and cooking wild foods.
We have about 8000 edible plants available to us globally and most of us eat only a tiny fraction of these. Modern living now can leave us with less than 20 plant sources of food and much of this is processed. So we often have a nutritional deficit, a taste deficit and a nature deficit......hence wild foods.

Isabella Oberlander Living in Limerick Isabella has a wealth of experience in performing and teaching contemporary dance. Recent projects have included work with Legitimate Bodies Dance Company, a residency at Dance Ireland, and performances with Daghdha Dance Company.

Anne Blake is a writer actor director and voice coach from Limerick, she has appeared in The Bear, Ghosts, Sox, Footfalls, Valparaiso, A Kind of Alaska,  An Ordinary Day, Broken Glass, Misery, Play and directed Impact's Lessons from Louise. In 2007 she wrote and directed Delicate for LYT. Her short play At a Loss (Fregoli Theatre, Galway) won her  'The Jerome Hynes Memorial Award' at Muscailt, 2009. Her play Something That Works was performed as a rehearsed reading by Impact in 'CATDIG' as part of EVA 2010. Ann is a founder member with Choke Comedy Improv and has toured the country extensively with them. She has a certificate in Theatre Direction from NUI, Maynooth and a Masters in Theatre Studies from NUIG. Ann is also a singer with the Brad Pitt Light Orchestra. With thanks to Jonathan Blackmore, Barbara Mulcathy, Michael Sheehan, and Tom Tarpey.

Seanie Barron, a local craftsman, has worked with Askeaton Contemporary Arts for many years as a workshop facilitator and raconteur for visiting artists and local people in the locality and beyond.  An exhibition of Seanie's works is currently on display at Askeaton Civic Trust in Co. Limerick until 12 July. The artist will contribute a demonstration of wild animal calls in the seanchaí style as part of the day.