This is a suite of projects that reflects the emphasis we have placed on Trans-local engagement and collaboration. 50 Galway 2020 / Bid Book Two
SHIP TO SHORE Ship to Shore includes projects that are designed to integrate various shared and common local practices with geographically dispersed communities within Galway, Ireland and Europe and, among the Galway diaspora who have a strong attachment to their new homes abroad and their old homes in Ireland. These projects connect people to people, communities to communities, languages to languages, food-growers to food-growers and Europeans to Europeans. As an island nation, our selection of the title Ship to Shore aims to illustrate how strongly we plan to interact and make connections within our own island of Ireland and further afield. Ship to Shore invites two-way communication and this is at the core of these projects. Galway is synonymous with movement and mobility, it is part of our DNA. We, in Galway, can do trans-local better than anyone else – we know how to connect and engage, be it through Foreign Direct Investment, international education programmes, artist exchanges, virtual communication, tourism or emigration. Ship to Shore will develop long-term, tangible trans-local connections that highlight and explore shared European themes. SHIP TO SHORE PROJECT BAA BAA! – EUROPEAN COLLECTIVE OF SHEEP FARMERS AND SHEPHERDS Seamus Sheridan, Event Director, Galway European Region of Gastronomy 2018 This festival will build on our unique heritage by inviting other communities across Europe and northern Africa – who have a similar relationship with sheep. The project will focus not just on sheep cheese and sheep wool, but also on sheep meat – dairy from sheep i.e. cheeses and yoghurts – which are unique all around Europe and culturally, draw on the unique interpretation of fabric, weaving and knitting that is found across Europe and in Northern Africa. There will be myriad events and celebration of everything ovine including: THE SHEEP CONGRESS This will take place in 2018 & 2020. This event will take place in Athenry at the Teagasc centre and will concentrate on the unique cultural events that occur around ‘sheep’. JUMPING JUMPERS Exhibitions of textiles – jumpers (various types of wools and knit patterns) – traditional fabrics using modern interpretations – and also the crafts i.e. spinning – weaving – felting. National Partners Teagasc, European Region of Gastronomy, Made in Galway, Connemara Mountain Lamb Producers, An Bord Bia, Design & Craft Council of Ireland, Sheridan’s Cheesemongers, McGee Tweed, Foxford Woollen Mills, Galway Tweed Project, Failte Ireland, Enterprise Ireland, Aer Lingus, Avoca European/International Slow Food Presidia (IT) Time June 2018 and June 2020 Location Venue, found space, site specific, indoors, outdoors, Galway City & County (Congress Athenry and Aran Islands) Produced by the European Region of Gastronomy and Teagasc SHEEP OF MYTH & RELIGION Sheep are common symbols in both mythology and religion.This is a two day forum on the role of sheep in religion. Across many religions, sheep play an important role. THE BAA BAA BANQUET This is a street feast with a difference, all the food will be a complete celebration of the ‘sheep’, from yogurt, to curd, to ice cream, lamb chops, lamb shank, lamb sausages, blood sausages, cheese, a complete celebration of Sheep. SHEEP SCHOOL Schools will be invited to working sheep farms for the ‘lambing season’. SPINNING YARNS Folklore and literature weaving thought the programme curated by poet Louis de Paor. Cultural & Artistic Content 51
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