F E S T I V A L 17th-25th AUGUST 2019

BANTRY • WHIDDY • BALLYLICKEY • ADRIGOLE • KEALKIL • GLENGARRIFF

WALKS • TALKS • WORKSHOPS • EXHIBITIONS • LIVING HISTORY • BOAT TRIPS

Following in the Footsteps of Ellen Hutchins (1785-1815)

This award-winning festival, now in its 5th year, provides a great opportunity to find out more

about Bantry Bay’s nature, heritage, culture and landscape through the story of Ellen Hutchins.

Ellen Hutchins I R E L A N D ’ S F I R S T F E M A L E B O TA N I S T

Programme of events

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Saturday 17th August

10:00 - 12:00 CHILDREN’S INDOOR NATURE ART A fun workshop using pressed and dried flowers, muslin and leather to make bookmarks that last. For 6 to 12-year-olds. Leader: Cara Tremayne

Venue: Forest & Flock, New Street, Bantry.

Free event but booking required (see www.ellenhutchins.com for details).

10:00 - 16:30 LICHEN CRAFTS Two workshops for adults: Lichen Lampshades (10:00-12:00) and Dyeing with Lichens (14:00-16:30). Organiser: Two Green Shoots

Venue: The Garden of Reimagination, Glengarriff.

Cost: from €35 per person/workshop. Booking: www.twogreenshoots.com

14:00 - 15:00 ELLEN HUTCHINS: THE BOOK AND THE TRAIL Hear Madeline Hutchins talk about her recently published book on Ellen and listen to the Heritage Trail Audio Guide. Option to visit Garryvurcha graveyard afterwards.

Venue: Bantry Bookshop, William Street, Bantry.

Sunday 18th August

13:00 - 16:00 WHIDDY ISLAND - SEAWEED EVENT An exciting chance to discover the seaweeds along Whiddy Island’s shore with Dr Susan Steele (SFPA) and try identify & preserve seaweed specimens 1800s style.

Ferries leave Bantry’s Railway Pier at 1pm,

returning at 4:15pm.

Cost: €6.50 return. No dogs please.

Monday 19th August

14:00 - 16:00 LICHEN MICRO-TRAIL - DROP-IN SESSIONThe Ellen Hutchins team will be on hand with leaflets and hand lenses to help families find a fascinating array of different coloured and shaped lichens on the shore.

Venue: Snave Beach, Ballylickey. No dogs please.

16:00 - 17:00 NATURE ART DEMONSTRATIONA chance to get up close, watch and talk with artist Sue van Coppenhagen as she paints one of her beautiful nature art pictures, inspired by the wonderful County Cork.

Venue: Mannings Emporium, Ballylickey

Tuesday 20th August

10:00 - 12:00 WILDLIFE KAYAK TOURKayak around Adrigole Harbour with local marine expert, Niall McAllister (Wild Atlantic Wildlife). See seals, seaweeds and other marine life.

Venue: West Cork Sailing and Powerboating Centre, The Pier, Adrigole.

Cost: €15 per person.

Booking: text Niall 083-1156672

14:00 - 17:00 SEAWEED TASTING & FORAGING

Explore the shore and find out which seaweeds are edible with aquatic biologist Frances Gallagher. Followed by a cooking demonstration & tasting session.

Venue: West Cork Sailing and Powerboating Centre, The Pier, Adrigole. Cost: €15 per person. Booking: www.ellenhutchins.com

Wednesday 21st August

10:00 - 12:00 and 14:00 - 16:00 NATURE-ART WILD CHILD DAY IN BANTRY HOUSE GARDENS

A range of activities including leaf painting & printing, flower pounding, flower bookmarks, woven willow mobiles and more. Suitable for 5 to 12-year-olds. Leaders: Cara Tremayne, Etaoin Melville, Ciara Strange & Sue van Coppenhagen

Free event, booking not required

14:00 - 16:00

BOTANICAL ART DEMONSTRATION

Award-winning botanical artist, Shevaun Doherty, will be demonstrating her exquisite art skills live and talking about botanical art.

Venue: The Loggia, Bantry House

Thursday 22nd August 10:00 - 11:30 BANTRY BAY - BOAT TRIP & MARITIME HISTORY

An exclusive tour of inner Bantry Bay: join a small flotilla of motorboats and hear about the maritime history of the bay from local guide, Paul O’Donoghue.

Cost: €15/person (15 places)Booking: www.bantrybayboathire.ie/hire-a-boat

12:00 - 15:00 GUIDED NATURE WALK ON WHIDDY ISLANDLearn about Whiddy Island’s wildflowers and follow in the footsteps of Ireland’s first female botanist 200 years ago. 3km loop walk, no dogs permitted. Leader: Clare Heardman (NPWS).

Ferries leave Bantry at 11:30am, returning at 15:45pm. Cost: €6.50 return.

Friday 23rd August

10:00 - 12:00 PLANT HUNTING IN BALLYLICKEY

Three parallel hunts to find Ellen’s garden plants, wildflowers and cryptogams around her former home in the company of experts. Join Howard Fox (National Botanic Gardens/OPW); Maria Cullen (Irish geomycologist); Astrid Wingler (Professor of Plant Biology/UCC); and Clare Heardman (NPWS).

Venue: Seaview House Hotel, Ballylickey Free event but booking required (see www.ellenhutchins.com for details).

12:00 - 14:00 SEAWEED TASTING EXPERIENCE

Wild Atlantic Seaweed Discovery & Tasting Experience with WASi Seaweeds, who will set up their stall at Mannings Emporium (Ballylickey) with free seaweed tasting samples.

14:00 - 16:00

LIVING HISTORY: LETTER WRITING 1809

Learn the letter writing practices of 1809, write with a quill pen and hear about Ellen’s correspondence; with Carrie O’Flynn (re-enactor) and Madeline Hutchins (researcher).

Venue: Seaview House, Ballylickey. Tea and scones can be ordered for 4pm.

Free event but booking required (see www.ellenhutchins.com for details)

Saturday 24th August

10:00 - 17:30 ELLEN HUTCHINS’ STORY IN 10 OBJECTSExhibition. Discover the story of Ireland’s first female botanist (1785-1815) through a drawing, her letters, books, and the type of microscope and writing materials she used.

Venue: Future Forests, Kealkil

11:00 - 12:30 BOTANICAL ART DEMONSTRATIONAward-winning botanical artist Shevaun Doherty will be demonstrating her exquisite art skills live and talking about her botanical art.

Venue: Future Forests, Kealkil

12:30 - 13:30

CEOLCHOIRM RÚNDA (SECRET CONCERT)A traditional music event in conjunction with West Cork Music & the Masters of Tradition Festival.

Free event but booking required: www.westcorkmusic.ie/mastersoftradition/

Venue: Future Forests, Kealkil

14:30 - 16:30

GARDEN PLANTS: PAST & PRESENTWalking talks around the garden centre with some of the Future Forests team, explaining heritage plants versus modern varieties, and gardening with wild plants.

Venue: Future Forests, Kealkil

10:00 - 12:00, 13:00 - 15:00 or 16:00 - 18:00 SEAWEED SIX WAYS: KIDS FOODIE FUN!

Discover six delicious ways to enjoy local seaweeds. Children will get the chance to make seaweed breads, scones, a seaweed dip, seaweed crisps, seaweed jelly and sweeties.

Venue: Garden of Reimagination, Glengarriff. Cost: €20/child. Booking: www.twogreenshoots.com

Sunday 25th August

14:00 - 16:00 GUIDED LICHEN WALK – GLENGARRIFF WOODS

Explore the wonderful world of woodland lichens with Paul Whelan (author Lichens of Ireland). Hand lenses will be available for participants to see lichens up close.

Meeting point: Fisherman’s Path layby, near the Nature Reserve entrance, 1km from Glengarriff

Many of the

events are free!

Botanical Art Workshops

Tuesday 20th August 10:00-16:00

BANTRY HOUSE

Atmospheric Nature Watercolours: One-day workshop with renowned watercolour artist, Sue van Coppenhagen, painting flowers & leaves with atmospheric background effects.

Cost: €50 per person (including materials). Booking: sue@vancoppenhagen.com

Thursday 22nd & Friday 23rd August 10:00-16:00

BANTRY HOUSE

Colours of Summer Flowers: Two-day workshop to learn the watercolour techniques needed to paint the vibrant colours of summer blooms, with award-winning artist, Shevaun Doherty.

Cost: €100 per person (including materials). Booking: shevaun.doherty@gmail.com 087-1656948.

Saturday 24th August 14:30-17:30

FUTURE FORESTS, KEALKIL

Botanical Art for Beginners: New to watercolour and love plants? Take your first steps into botanical art with Shevaun Doherty in this fun and friendly class held in a magical building.

Cost: €30 per person (including materials) Booking: shevaun.doherty@gmail.com 087-1656948.

Exhibitions and trails

Bantry Library

PUTTING PEN TO PAPERAn exhibition on letter writing materials and the postal system in the early-1800s. Learn about quill pens, oak gall ink, seals and stamps.

DRAWINGS AND LETTERS: sit and look through folders of Ellen’s drawings, specimens and extracts of her letters.

Open daily 9:30-17:30, except Sunday & Monday.

Bantry Bay Area

ELLEN HUTCHINS HERITAGE TRAIL

Explore Bantry Bay’s shores, woods & mountains by following a self-guided trail telling the story of Ireland’s first female botanist. Trail leaflet with map available free from Bantry Tourist Office or Bantry Library.

Download the free audio guide from www.abartaheritage.ie/product/ellen-hutchins-trail/

Snave Beach

LICHEN MICRO-NATURE TRAIL A new micro-trail for kids at Snave beach, Ballylickey. Enjoy finding different shaped and coloured lichens at low tide (see www.ellenhutchins.com for tide times).

Trail leaflets (free): Bantry Tourist Office or Manning’s Emporium Ballylickey.

Seaweed Baths

WILD ATLANTIC SEAWEED BATHSPop-up hot seaweed baths in whiskey barrels on Snave Pier, with locally sourced seaweed.

For times and dates see www.facebook.com/wildatlanticseaweedbaths/

SEAWEED BATH HOUSEBaths, hot tub and spa at Seaview House Hotel

See: www.seaviewhousehotel.com

Glengarriff

Bantry

Ballylickey

Whiddy Island

Kealkil

Seaview HouseMannings Emporium

Bantry HouseMain Pier

Adrigole

Snave Beach

Glengarriff Nature Reserve

Future Forests

BANTRY, CO. CORK

AUGUST 21 – 25, 2019

Online Booking

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FOR FULL EVENT DETAILS & BOOKING:

WWW.ELLENHUTCHINS.COM

Funding: Fisheries Local Action Group - South,

National Parks & Wildlife Service, Cork County Council and Bantry Credit Union

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