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

Like many others I first met Richard through his book ‘The Growth Illusion’. His writings changed my world view, influenced many of the decisions I made throughout my life and are the root cause of the large volume of books I have amassed on economics and sustainability. In the last few years, through the Transition Town movement, I had the pleasure of meeting Richard on a regular basis and becoming his friend.
He was always willing to travel from Westport to speak at conferences we organised and to help us in our efforts to introduce the Liquidity Network to the local Council. His passing this week is a great loss to society and all of us in Future Proof Kilkenny are saddened by the news.

We will remember him for his generosity of time, his optimism and profound intellect, but most of all for his infectious laughter.

The second Green Screen event of this season continues this
Tues 8 November, 8pm at the Hole in the Wall.
We will show 2 shorts focusing on the issues of Food, energy and resilience.

The Canadian tar sands oil extraction is a clear message to the world that we’re on the brink of oil depletion. The energy invested on such poor returns along with devastating environmental impacts is just another story in spelling out our desperate addiction to oil.

A closer look at the scarcity of oil as illustrated by Richard Heinberg and Colin Campbell give us great concerns about our future without oil. But for many, its all too easy to keep our heads buried in the (tar) sands.

So how could we grow our food without oil?

A Farm for the Future…

follows film maker Rebecca Hosking as she explores ways of farming without using fossil fuel. With the help of pioneering farmers and growers, Rebecca learns that it is actually nature that holds the key to farming in a low-energy future.
Colin Campbell and Richard Heinberg contribute, permaculture, forest gardens, gardening vs farming, biofuels, biodiversity, industrial farming and no-till farming are all covered. It seems certain that present methods cannot go on feeding Britain as they are highly dependent on fossil-fuel. The film concentrates on the necessity to find a new way to feed the nation.
This highly praised BBC documentary provides answers in the most unexpected ways.
Trailer A Farm for the Future

Surfing the Waves of Change…

is an animation exploring the idea of community resilience using the metaphor of a surfer to explain how communities can make themselves more resilient in these changing times. This project is supported by The Carnegie UK Trust, Comhar Media Fund and Trocaire.
Trailer Surfing the Waves of Change