Pucheen Fayre - Saturday 10th March 2007
The next Pucheen Fayre is taking place on the 10th March in McGirls Bar, Ballinamore, Leitrim. The days schedule is as follows:
Films on a big screen...
12.30 - 2.00pm End Of Suburbia
The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of The American Dream is a 2004 documentary film concerning peak oil and its implications on the suburban lifestyle. This film is critical of widespread use of "cheap energy" policies especially in the transportation sector and argues that technological fixes such as biofuels and hydrogen are unfeasible. According to the film, a major reorganization of urban land use is needed to decrease transportation; also, some aspects of the global economy will have to be rolled back, such as long-distance shipping of food. Further, this film claims people and organizations will enter a counter-productive and damaging period of denial as the economy restructures to lower energy use.
The documentary features footage from vintage films in the Prelinger Archives, primarily footage depicting the growth of suburbia and the interstate highway system in the United States after World War II.
The film is hosted by Canadian broadcaster Barrie Zwicker and features discussion from James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare, Richard Heinberg, Matthew Simmons, Michael C. Ruppert, Julian Darley, Colin Campbell, Kenneth Deffeyes, Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and Steve Andrews. The director is Gregory Greene and the producer is Barry Silverthorn.
2.00pm - 3.00pm Robert Newman's History Of Oil
Robert Newman gets to grips with the wars and politics of the last hundred years - but rather than adhering to the history we were fed at ... all » school, the places oil centre stage as the cause of all commotion. This innovative history programme is based around Robert Newman's stand-up act and supported by resourceful archive sequences and stills with satirical impersonations of historical figures from Mayan priests to Archduke Ferdinand. Quirky details such as a bicycle powered street lamp on the stage brings home the pertinent question of just how we are going to survive when the world's oil supplies are finally exhausted.
3.00pm - 4.00pm Talk on Bach Flower Remedies
4.00pm - 5.00pm Documentary on Shell to Sea, Shell in Nigeria.
5.00pm - 6.00pm Speakers form the Shell to Sea Campaign speaking about Rossport
6.00pm - 7.30pm Koyaanisqatsi (was scheduled on the last Pucheen Fayre but ran out of time :)
Koyaanisqatsi is a documentary (of sorts). It is also a visual concert of images set to the haunting music of 'Phillip Glass' . While there is no plot in the traditional sense, there is a definate scenario. The film opens on ancient native American cave drawings, while the soundtrack chants "Koyaanisqatsi" which is a Hopi indian term for "life out of balance". The film uses extensive time lapse photography (which speeds images up) and slow motion photography to make comparisons between different types of physical motion. In one of the first examples, we see cloud formations moving (sped up) intercut with a montage of ocean waves (slowed down) and in such a way we are able to see the similarities of movement between these natural forces. This technique of comparison exists throughout the film, and through it we learn more about the world around us. The film progresses from purely natural environments to nature as affected by man, and finally to man's own manmade environment, d
evoid of nature yet still following the patterns of natural flow as depicted in the beginning of the film, yet in chaos and disarray. Through this the film conveys its key message, which is Koyaanisqatsi: life out of balance; crazy life; life in turmoil; life disintegrating; a state of life that calls for another way of living.
More info: http://www.www.koyaanisqatsi.org/
7:30 - 9:30pm - Eclectic Sounds
9:30 - Late - Live Music with the Pucheen Players - Play an instrument ? Bring it along and enjoy the craic!
As usual we will have a few stalls including local organic food, books, cosmetics, trees/plants, kids corner and more...
We're always looking for people who might be interested in setting up a stall of their own, so if you have something you could sell (crafts, local goods, eco products, information etc.) please get in touch with us at info@pucheen.com.
For more info and pictures of recent events, please visit http://www.pucheen.com/
Hope to see you there,
Ballinamore Permaculture Group
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