Grass Roots Gathering in Cork in November

The next Grass Roots Gath­er­ing will take place in Cork on the week­end of the 14th, 15th and 16th of Novem­ber.

This Gath­er­ing will have the twin themes of Inclu­sion and Com­mu­ni­ty Build­ing — Sur­viv­ing the ’ Reces­sion’ . Dur­ing the ear­ly plan­ning stages we spent some time think­ing about who comes to these gath­er­ings and how we could encour­age and enable more diverse par­tic­i­pa­tion, espe­cial­ly for peo­ple who have found it dif­fi­cult to attend pre­vi­ous gath­er­ings. To facil­i­tate this we are hold­ing the event in city cen­tre venues with full acces­si­bil­i­ty, mak­ing it child, par­ent, teenag­er and elder friend­ly and ask­ing as many groups and com­mu­ni­ties as pos­si­ble what we need to do to make them feel wel­come ( Basi­cal­ly try­ing to let go of think­ing that we have all the answers and doing a bit more lis­ten­ing ! ) If you are plan­ning on attend­ing we hope you will try step­ping out­side your com­fort zone and invite or enable a friend you may not have approached due to shy­ness or stereo­typ­ing to join you.

Work­shops, activ­i­ties and events being planned so far include : The present legal sit­u­a­tion for les­bian, gay, bisex­u­al and trans-gen­der peo­ple, Trav­ellers and set­tled peo­ple work­ing togeth­er, Telling sto­ries, shar­ing expe­ri­ence look­ing at exclu­sion. Hous­ing coops, food secu­ri­ty, tack­ling racism in times of unem­ploy­ment, repro­duc­tive rights, wom­en’s right to choose, con­flict res­o­lu­tion, social cen­tres, recent expe­ri­ence, L.E.T.S. , reclaim­ing our nat­ur­al resources, ener­gy secu­ri­ty,

+ Film show­ings, crimes of the built envi­ron­ment, swap shop, cre­ative cor­ner, activist well being, art activism, wel­com­ing area for peo­ple drop­ping by and the shy among us, and dis­plays by var­i­ous com­mu­ni­ty groups and cam­paigns. Also expect some sur­pris­es we want to keep peo­ple awake at this gath­er­ing !

On Sat­ur­day night there will be a tra­di­tion­al Cork cabaret. We are invit­ing some clas­sic local acts but leav­ing plen­ty of time free to show case your tal­ents so come pre­pared ! music , dance , poet­ry , inter­ven­tions , com­e­dy ‚read­ings , cir­cus or what­ev­er you fan­cy all wel­come.

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I’m organ­is­ing accom­mo­da­tion for peo­ple who are com­ing to the Grass­roots Gath­er­ing 14th 15th and 16th Novem­ber, Cork City, so if any­one in Cork can put peo­ple up for the week­end, or any­one trav­el­ling to Cork needs accom­mo­da­tion please email me at:
tracywall@email.com
or text me on:
085 7560078

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Email address for get­ting in touch with gg organ­is­ing group as fol­lows:
ggcork08@gmail.com