ChangeMakers, Disappear Here Film Festival and Concern Worldwide are pleased to invite you to the second Disappear Here Film Club screening and post-film talk at the Market House, Clonmany, this Friday 1 July 2022 at 7:30pm.
Our second film is the powerful documentary ‘Losing Alaska’ from Director Tom Burke.
The 375 residents of Newtok, Alaska watch their homes disappear into rolling seas as winter storms steal their coastline and melting permafrost erodes the edges of their town. Tom Burke’s elegiac study follows the community as they struggle to maintain their traditional Yup’ik culture, a subsistence lifestyle of hunting and fishing, and build a new town on safer, higher ground.
Post film panel discussion
Our post screening discussion will include Donegal Green Party Chairman Michael White, Rosemary Mc Closkey, Vice Chair of Inishowen Rivers Trust and Duncan Stewart, Environmentalist, Activist and Architect, talking about how these issues are of local as well as global concern.
Details
The Market House, Clonmany
1st July 7.30pm (Pay at the Door)
Entry to the film and post-screening discussion costs €7.50 and all proceeds go to the newly established ‘Donegal Documentary Fund’, to help raise awareness of sociopolitical and environmental issues in the county.
ChangeMakers has reopened its small grants of up to €650 to community and voluntary groups who wish to support the objectives of ChangeMakers by offering a Development Education activity or project around one or more of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.
The aim of the ‘Seeds of Change’ Grant Scheme is to enable Donegal Community Activist and Voluntary Groups to raise awareness and action around the identified global development issues.
Community groups can make applications under three categories :
• Category I- Social Justice
• Category II- Economic Justice
• and Category III- Environmental Justice
We encourage projects that address multiple categories acknowledging the reality of many of the local and global justice issues we are trying to address in our community. Such applications should identify the ‘main category’ under which their project falls.
To get an application for and full guidelines please email changemakers@inishowen.ie
Closing date has now been extended to January 31st at 5pm
That’s right ChangeMakers has been running since 2012 and since then we have been working hard within the National Development Education and Adult & Community sectors both in terms of receiving awards (2019 Aontas Star Award Adult Learning Initiatives that support Social Inclusion category) and presenting at national conferences (Bookless Book Club pilot at the 2020 IDEA National Conference) , (Supporting climate action at the 2020 Community Work Ireland Conference) & (2021 Fair Trade Ireland Annual Conference)
BUT this year we want to celebrate with YOU , our dedicated ChangeMakers in Donegal – We will endeavour and continue to work hard this year with our annual reach of approximately 700 adults across County Donegal !
If you want to get involved in our workshops , debates , grant awards , mentorships and more, please do get in touch at changemakers@inishowen.ie or check out our webpage www.changemakers.ie
Oh! and make sure you subscribe to our YouTube Channel HERE to see some amazing past projects and participants around the county that have made a change in their community.
Join us for a virtual photo exhibition on Thursday 29th July at 7pm for – Women at the Frontline of Climate Change- by Self Help Africa followed by a group discussion!
Women are the engine of Agriculture , working on small scale farms that support the majority of the continents people. Women till the soil , plant the crops , weed the fields , harvest the produce , transport the goods and prepare the food.
Delighted today to be launching our new Fairtrade Town in Donegal Call Out for 2021/2022 – Are you looking to get involved and fly the flag for #Fairtrade ? We can help you create a group , organise events and help achieve Fairtrade Town status for your town – our goal is towards a fairer world , improve the lives of farmers and their families and help them plan for their future.
Change Makers is looking for a suitable facilitator to deliver our Thinking People workshops to Primary School Children in Inishowen. Click here to download the tender brief.
