Rhizome

Rhizome is a Green Arts programme that aims to highlight the critical role of creativity, optimism, and imagination in the craft of social and environmental change. Initiated by Project Arts Centre in 2021, the project is led by Artivist in Residence Maeve Stone and Artist in the Community Louis Haugh, in partnership with Fatima Groups United, NCAD Field and Trinity College Dublin. At its core, it seeks to connect local communities from different backgrounds and disciplines, in creative conversation about the future of our planet.

Future Food

As part of the Rhizome project, commissioned artist Louis Haugh, worked in collaboration with the Fatima Groups United community to look at the future of food cultivation, consumption, and global supply chains in light of climate breakdown. Together, they created a space to share ideas, histories and personal relationships connected to food and nourishment. Through a series of intergenerational and intercultural exchanges, their intrinsic human relationship to bread and bread making became core of this work.

Read more about Future Food HERE

Rhizome Symposium

The Rhizome Green Arts Symposium took place on June 15th 2022 and consisted of performances, talks, scientific demonstrations and artists panels. 

Symposium Contributors included

Maeve Stone Theatre Artist | Project Arts Centre | Artivist in Residence  

Louis Haugh Visual Artist | Project Arts Centre | Artist in the Community 

Richie Keane Fatima Groups United | Community Coordinator  

Gareth Kennedy Assistant Lecturer | Sculpture and Expanded practice | Coordinator of NCAD FIELD 

DR Quentin Crowley Director of Trinity Centre for the Environment | Associate Professor Geology | Fellow Trinity College Dublin 

Sarah McCormick Associate Professor in Energy Engineering | Trinity College Dublin 

NCAD FIELD students Sylvia Maher, Luis ‘Quique’ Martin, Kasia Boyle, Bill Harris, Muireann Ni Fheargail, Mary Hoy, Dean Stynes 

Eileen Hutton Visual Artist | Roots for the Future participant  

Rosie O’Reilly Visual Artist | Roots for the Future participant  

Vanya Ward – Lambrecht Visual Artist | Roots for the Future participant  

Sinead Curran Visual Artist | Roots for the Future participant  

Roise Goan | Artistic Director of ArtsAdmin (UK)  

Katriona Fallon | Co-Founder of the Green Arts Initiative of Ireland in Association with Theatre Forum and Creative Carbon Scotland 

Alice Ryan | Public Policy Manager at Arts Council of Ireland  

Community Participants Wafaa Mustafa Zeniah, Una Doyle, Tony Dunbar, Sylvia Whelan, Siana O’Connor, Mary Kennedy, Marie Maher, Margaret Humphreys, Joan Russell, Geraldine Guy, Dallal Bounekdja