Next weekend:    25th - 26th  February

On Saturday 25th and Sunday 26th February Marjó Oosterhoff will be teaching a mindfulness retreat (non-residential) in the
Castalia Hall of Camphill Community in Ballytobin near Callan.

The retreat will start at 10.30 am on both days, and finish around 4 pm.

All are welcome, the retreat is suitable for beginners and non-beginners, it’s possible to come for one or both days.

Loving kindness meditation will also be incorporated during the two days.

The cost is by donation and please bring something for your own lunch (meditation cushions/stools/blankets will be provided if you don’t have your own)

You can visit  www.vipassana.ie for details of these meditation practices if you are not familiar with them.

Please book in beforehand if you would like to come by emailing Marjó at: moosterhoff @ eircom.net

Marjó Oosterhoff is the resident teacher and manager at Passaddhi Meditation Centre in Adrigole, Co. Cork. She has practised meditation (both vipassana and metta) for many years, in monasteries and meditation centres in Burma and Thailand, as well as in Buddhist retreat centres in the West. Her Thai and Burmese teachers authorised her to teach vipassana/mindfulness and metta/loving kindness retreats.

You are invited

to join us at the meeting of a new Social Enterprise initiative incorporating community, County Council, local business. This is an opportunity for community groups and or individuals to be involved in a new community social enterprise pioneering initiative; supporting local producers, entrepreneurs and social enterprise for a pilot project starting in March 2012

Information and consultation meeting

Tuesday 31st January 2012

7-9pm in Newpark Close Family Resource Centre

Presentation by Mayor David Fitzgerald and members of

“By Kilkenny” steering group

Followed by Questions and Answers

This initiative includes:

1. Innovative collaboration between business and community

(social enterprise)

1. Local employment creation and support opportunities
2. Linked support
3. Mentoring
4. Marketing

Open to all groups and individuals resident in County Kilkenny

All community leaders and interested individuals are welcome

For more information:

Ken Kirwan kenkirwan@gmail.com Tel: 086 0898185

Elinor Mountain Tel: 086 8179459

Trish Duffe kilkennyjobclub@gmail.com Tel: 056 7756043

Its almost Christmas so we thought ‘Play Again’ would be a suitable family orientated film to wrap up this Green Screen season.

Not your typical x-mas movie, “This moving and humorous documentary follows six teenagers who, like the “average American child,” spend five to fifteen hours a day behind screens. PLAY AGAIN unplugs these teens and takes them on their first wilderness adventure – no electricity, no cell phone coverage, no virtual reality. “

So what are the consequences of a childhood removed from nature?

By most accounts, this generation will face multiple crises — environmental, economic and social. Will this screen world — and its bevy of virtual experiences — have adequately prepared these “digital natives” to address the problems they’ll face, problems on whose resolution their own survival may depend?

‘Play Again’ is not just for Christmas! Parents, Educators, community leaders alike need to have considered the huge shift in childhood time patterns that seems to adjust to the rapid developments occurring in new media technologies and how we interact with it.

We would especially hope you can join us for the Future Proof Kilkenny x-mas gathering following the screening at Hole in the Wall.

Time: Thurs Dec 15th, 8pm
Place: Hole in the Wall, High St
Cover Change: we don’t charge entry but do appreciate a dontation towards running costs of our work.

In season 5 of our Green Screen we showed ‘The Vanishing of the Bees’, which followed two Bee keepers as they tried to maintain their pollination contracts. Their difficulty stemmed from the alarming disappearance of honeybees and the greater meaning it holds about the relationship between mankind and mother earth.
Now in season 6, we bring you ‘Queen of the Sun’ which continues along the same vein, describes how that mono-culture and pesticide use are leading to the wiping out entire colonies of bees.  Colony Collapse Disorder not only affects Bees, but in turn will kill off birds and plants. As our [hidden] food systems gives the impression that we are seperated from the natural world, ‘Queen of the Sun’ helps us understand how utterly dependent we are on bees in the process of plant pollination.
The Bees have a message, what are they telling us?

This next movie night will change back to the regular Thursday slot.
Thurs Dec 1, 8pm
Hole in the Wall, High St