Festivals etc

It has been a while since we updated this blog. We have been terribly busy and the project is really taking off now. We were at the Irish Green Gathering and it was a great experience. First of all the festival is tremendous. There is a nice crowd aiming towards the same goal: community, return to a real dialogue with the natural environment, solidarity. The music, the workshops, the films etc were great too and we would like to be there again. I really recommend it to everyone.

Last weekend we were kindly invited to the Cool Earth Fair (picture) which was taking place beside the Festival of World Cultures in Dun Laoghaire. The atmosphere was fantastic and it was a very good operation for Rothar. It made people of Dublin realise that such an initiative exists and we are already swamped with offers of bicycles, volunteers and maybe premises. We will keep you posted on this. We were helped by our lovely volunteers and they did the whole difference allowing us to take breaks and showing a great enthusiasm for the project. Thanks guys, that was highly appreciated.

The workshop with the kids in Ballyfermot is coming to an end, and we will start another one mid September with the Rathmines Community Partnership.

In short, we realised that the project can be successful and that we will probably have to give more time to it in the very near future. In order to do so, I decided to work part time and I will available a day and a half per week for Rothar from September.

Until then, because we have been spending all our energy the whole summer and because we need to rest before Autumn comes, we will put our activities on hold for a couple of weeks. We are moving house too and we need this time to settle down. I will see you then by September 15th!