March 25 2022: The role of the artist in catalysing a wellbeing economy on the island of Ireland
A discussion with artists and cultural catalyst researchers on building a new social imaginary for Ireland.
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Report and video from ‘Breakdown or Breakthrough?: Catalysing the Wellbeing Economy’
This event drew an online audience of over 120. For a few minutes prior to the official start of proceedings we were serenaded by the gentle guitar music of Paddy Flamenco (Paddy Anderson). Then our genial compere Davie Philip ( a member of Hub steering group) introduced proceedings with a poem from fellow Cloughjordan resident, […]
Breakdown or Breakthrough?: Catalysing the Wellbeing Economy
This interactive event was the formal launch of the WEAll Ireland Hub – a follow-up to our successful online gathering in June. We heard from leading global visionaries Kate Raworth of Doughnut Economics and Katherine Trebeck of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. They joined with Jennifer Wallace of the Carnegie UK Trust, core members of the new WEAll Hub for Ireland, the Irish Doughnut Economics Network and other local […]
A short report from our WEAll Hub Ireland Online Welcome Event, June 23 2021
Written by Caroline Whyte, WEAll Ireland Hub High levels of enthusiasm and readiness for change were expressed in the course of this participatory event, with emphasis placed on a need for fundamental economic transformation to bring about greater community empowerment and increase overall societal wellbeing. The participants – 45-50 – came from many backgrounds with […]
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