Chef Hernán de Majo and Renata Brenha CocinaStudio prepared an incredible food experience to thank those whom so generously had given their time to meet with...
We were thrilled to take part in the fist edition of the Rírá Festival of Chidren's Arts with the theme "Calculated Risk".
We took part by hosting two workshops:
“Art, Intuition and Nature” In thi...
We started the residency in the most wonderful way.
We visited Ceadogán Rugs where we delved into the challenges of producing high quality designs made with completely n...
We are delighted to host the founders of Cocina Studio, Hernán de Majo and Renata Brenha, as our first Summer Residents.
Our residencies were developed to give time an...
We are delighted to be part of this year's Ri Rá Festival of Children's Arts 2024: Calculated Risk
Join us next Friday July 26th for the two workshops we will be hosting:
10:00 am “Art, Intuitio...
We are thrilled to announce our "Open Arms" Residency. Our first resident will be Yujin Lee, who wil...
We often get asked for futher information about regenerative agriculture. The following is a list of resources that we have found useful at various stages.
If interested please also see post about ...
The primary school children who visited us On Saturday May 9th had the opportunity to witness the fabulous performance of LUMEN by the florafauna project (maria Nilsson & Stace Gil) as part of the Sp...
We are thrilled to be collaborating this year for th...
Last Saturday, May 4th, 2024 we had th...
Join us for a special screening of The Quickening, a powerful new artwo...
Oisín and I love books, over the course of 20 years we have gathered a library on the subjects that most interest us.
A section of that collection has now traveled to VOID Art Centre in Derry-Lond...
Photo credit: Candice Earle-Hutton Photography, 2023.
Blackbird Cultur-Lab was thrilled to h...
We are delighted to host the wonderful library of FEEDER, part of the research-based installation about landscape, farming, food production and the sustainable use of natural resources that Irish arti...
It was an absolute delight and great fun doing the two Cruinniú na nÓg workshops: “Soil, Clay and Natural Pigments” with soil scientist Luis López Sangil and myself, and “Natural Inks” with artist ...
Blackbird Cultur-Lab is thrilled to take part again in Cruinniú na nÓg.
This year we will offer two workshops for children ages 7-12 and their parents.
We had the incredible privilege and pleasure to take part this April in the seminar "The Actor: Composer and Catalyst of Culture" and in a couple of cultural barters in Aculco and Mexico City, Méxi...
It was an incredible pleasure to witness the creative journey of Richard Malone over the 4 weeks of his research residency at Blackbird.
On March 18th we hosted a show of his work in progress. Ric...
Creative Freedom
We are thrilled to host Irish visual artist and fashion designer Richard Malone as this year's Research Resident.
We developed the Spring Residency to give time and space for pr...
One of this year's pilot projects has been the "Cut-Flower" paddock. In the previous post I had talked about the different trials and mistakes I made before creating proper beds using the no-dig meth...
What a glorious Summer we had in Ireland! As I write these words the rain has come back with force. It is good for the land as it had been dry for the past few months.
Our multi-species swards surpr...
On Saturday June 11th we had the pleasure to host many children and their parents for two different workshops:
In "Grow your Own Veggies in a Box" participants observed and matched different types...
Blackbird Cultur-Lab is delighted to be part of Cruinniú na nÓg 2022 this Saturday June 11th.
We will offer two different workshops for children and their parents:
**"1. Grow your Own Veggie Fri...
Regenerative Agriculture -or Biological Farming, as it is also known- aims to restore the health of the soil and of all the ecosystems related to it.
It is a holistic approach where the first step is...
