How can our communities plan for the future? How can we benefit from local food? What about building local economies? These are just some of the topics that will be the focus of an upcoming two day conference at Tipperary Institute.

This years’ Ceiliúradh is a time when thinkers, doers and communities will gather together to explore new ideas  about how we want to live and if we want to move towards a healthy and positive future. Ceiliúradh is open to anyone interested in exploring the challenges faced by communities in the current economic environment and identifying solutions that will work.

Speakers and topics include:

• The Carnegie Trust
• Marian Harkin and Alan Kelly MEP’s
• Economists Chris Pienaar from the New Economics Foundation London and Richard Douthwaite on Developing the local economy
• The Eden Project on Creativity in the rural setting
• Introducing the idea of a Tipperary or Munster Diet
• A Hallow’een/Samhain Supper hosted by Peter Ward
• Ex-TI student and now Mayor of Kilkenny Malcolm Noonan and Rob Hopkins talking Transition Towns
• Clifford Guest from Tipperary Institute on Peak Oil
• A Planning Workshop and Energy Clinic on Day 2
• David Meredith from Teagasc-Where to from here?

Venue: Tipperary Institute, Thurles Campus
Dates: Wednesday 28th & Thursday 29th October 2009
Cost: €60.00

See the programme for more information.

Ceiliúradh ’09 Programme [pdf]