Ella McSweeney to feature in Cloughjordan SpeakEATsy

Join RTÉ’s Ella McSweeney in Cloughjordan this Saturday, September 21st, when she interviews Mary Reynolds as part of the SpeakEATsy show.

SpeakEATsy, which starts at 7pm in the WeCreate enterprise centre in Cloughjordan, features an incredible locally-sourced meal, poetry, live and DJ music, and, as a centrepiece, a compelling conversation between two people who are really worth listening to. This time, reformed landscape gardener, Chelsea Flower Show winner and founder of the We Are The Ark global movement Mary Reynolds will be interviewed by Ella McSweeney of (RTÉ, BBC and the Guardian).

The pair will discuss this new global initiative Mary has spearheaded since its inception a few short months ago. ARK stands for Acts of Restorative Kindness. Since April hundreds of ARKs – nature-free places where native flora and fauna are encouraged to re-establish – have appeared all over the world.

 

For more on this, see the main article in this week's edition of the Nenagh Guardian.

September’s SpeakEATsy will treat the ears and feet too. It features music from Deirdre O’Leary, clarinettist with world-renowned music collective Crash Ensemble, which has performed in places such as the Royal Opera House (London) and Carnegie Hall (NYC). Performance poetry with award winning poets Sarah Clancy (The Truth and other Stories) and Mel White (Extinction Rebellion) will engage with searing, soaring, striking words that resonate with the times we are in.

To finish, Pressure Drop DJs Ollie Paul and Anacalypsis will play global roots music.

Don’t forget the grounding of it all – an incredible, super-local super-natural multi-course meal. A joint venture between the Cloughjordan-based apple juice company the Night Orchard and the Cloughjordan Community Farm, the member-owned and operated farm, which provides weekly veg for 80 families in the region.

September 21st is already Cloughjordan’s Applefest day, and European day of Sustainable Communities - a great day to visit Cloughjordan. For bookings, go to www.cultivate.ie.