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The Flax Meitheal Harvest Celebration - Fibreshed Ireland Celebrate the flax harvest with a festiveΒ weekend of community, conversations, education and craic! 30 -31 August in Co. Tyrone.

Join Fibreshed, Mallon Linen, Artpark & us to celebrate the flax harvest in Co. Tyrone, 29–31 Aug! Talks, demos, music & more for a regenerative flax future. #FlaxMeitheal Day & weekend tickets available: fibreshedireland.ie/the-flax-mei... - Supported by Culture Bridge & DCCIreland

12.08.2025 08:59 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Did you make it to Brink!? Tell us how you felt about your visit and help us understand how we impact our audiences. You can also be in with a chance to win an overnight hotel stay for two people in The Harrison Chambers of Distinction Belfast. Click here bit.ly/3SBeV4u

26.06.2025 17:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

🌱 Join us today at the Brink! Site for a Symposium for the Spoiled: Climate, Corruption, and the Cracks Where the Light Gets In. We are here all day from 10-6pm with conversations, discussion and poetry

16.06.2025 09:05 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
Summer Solstice from the Brink! 2025
YouTube video by Play Think Brink Summer Solstice from the Brink! 2025

🌞 Summer Solstice from the Brink! 🌱
10 days of climate action, culture & conversation in Belfast! June 13–22 β†’ panels, parties & planet-positive ideas!
🎟 www.playthinkbrink.com #SolsticeWithSoul youtu.be/OStTOyrBI-8?...
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05.06.2025 14:00 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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🧡Make, mend, and create at Summer Solstice from the Brink! (13–22 June): Natural fibres, screen printing, up-cycling & fashion with purpose πŸŒΏβœ‚οΈ
πŸ“Brink!, Union Street, Belfast
πŸ”— playthinkbrink.com/summersolstice25 for more info & tickets #heritageskills #workshops #playthinkbrink #paywhatyoucan

01.06.2025 23:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎢 Music takes centre stage at Summer Solstice from the Brink! (13–22 June): Club nights, acoustic picnics, live BBC broadcasts & a sonic art installation by Rory Friers. Let’s party for the planet! πŸŒπŸ’ƒ
Brink!, Union Street, Belfast
playthinkbrink.com/summersolstice25 #summersolstice #playthinkbrink

01.06.2025 19:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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🎬 Under the Stars, Against the Storm β€” 2 nights of open-air climate cinema at Brink! 🌱 Sat 14 & Sun 15 June, 7–10PM.
🎟 www.playthinkbrink.com/summersolsti...

01.06.2025 12:15 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Summer Solstice from the Brink! 🌿
Day#1 Theme: Becoming a Natural Park City
Talks, workshops & launch party 🎢
🎟️ playthinkbrink.com/friday-13th

29.05.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Play Think Brink β€” What Should Your City Do? 'Summer Solstice from the Brink!' is a festival of culture, conversation and workshops to engage citizens in issues of climate change. We shine a light on what is going on across these islands, to ins...

Come and join us 13-22 June for β€˜Summer Solstice from the Brink!’

A festival of culture, conversation and workshops centred on the climate crisis.

Events, panels, workshops, markets and much more .. sign up for program updates: www.playthinkbrink.com/summersolsti...

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03.05.2025 01:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spring Equinox workshops to think differently about food, fashion & waste, with skilled friends of Brink! 19-23 Mar. Supported by @daera-ni.gov.uk & @belfastcc.bsky.social
#ALMOSTSOLDOUT
Sign up now www.playthinkbrink.com/spring-equin... #playthinkbrink
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11.03.2025 17:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Spring Equinox: new season & new skills. 6 free workshops to think differently about food, fashion & waste, with skilled friends of Brink! 19-23 Mar. Supported by @daera-ni.gov.uk & @belfastcc.bsky.social. Sign up now www.playthinkbrink.com/spring-equin... #playthinkbrink @visitbelfast.bsky.social

05.03.2025 00:37 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Great to see innovation with textiles, flax & linen. Mallon Farms Helen Keys & Charlie Mallon & the growing fibre innovation network across Ireland & the UK.
A lovely 2 wk exhibition on flax to linen process, robot spinner wars, & flax chats.
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23.02.2025 18:43 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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A cracking day of mapping, drawing, planting, apple tree pruning, sunshine & chats, for the β€˜connecting & sharing through food event’, with the Belfast Food Partnership as part of @niscifest.bsky.social ⁦β€ͺ
‬⁩ #NISF25 thanks to everyone who came down, helped out, & shared their knowledge

23.02.2025 18:36 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks to all folks in North & East Belfast who came to #NISF25 city food strategy events the last two nights. Great chats.
nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...
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20.02.2025 23:14 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Getting ready for tonight’s @niscifest.bsky.social event at the Skainos centre on Newtownards Road delivered in partnership with @playthinkbrink.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social & @ClimateCoCentre - talking food systems across Belfast & what this city should DO!

19.02.2025 18:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Help inform our city food strategy.
2 great nights last week. 2 to come this week.
Wed 19 (Skainos) / Thur 20 Feb (Duncairn) nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...
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16.02.2025 23:53 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our Story, Our City, Our Responsibility | NI Science Festival With over 180 events across 50+ venues, the NI Science Festival offers a stimulating and wide range of events focusing on the wonders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

What should this city do about food? 1st night tonight 6.30-9pm Crescent Arts Centre. Inform our city food strategy.
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nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...

12.02.2025 08:39 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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Our Story, Our City, Our Responsibility | NI Science Festival With over 180 events across 50+ venues, the NI Science Festival offers a stimulating and wide range of events focusing on the wonders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Join us, 4 evenings, N,S,E,W Belfast discussing what this city should do about our food system. 12, 13, 19 & 20 Feb 6.30-9pm
@niscifest.bsky.social
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@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
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@meecoprof.bsky.social nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...

10.02.2025 21:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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PANEL DISCUSSION & FILM SCREENING: REGENERATIVE FLAX FARMING IN IRELAND | THE CLEAN BLUE OF LINEN - Belfast Exposed As part of We Feed The UK’s collaboration with Belfast Exposed and Yvette Monahan’s exhibitionΒ β€œThe Clean Blue of Linen”, farmers Helen Keys and Charlie

Sat 8 Feb: 2.30pm – 3.30pm. Panel & screening: We Feed The UK’s collaboration with Belfast Exposed, Yvette Monahan’s exhibition β€œThe Clean Blue of Linen”, Mallon Farm's Helen Keys & Charlie Mallon, Kerry Melville Nourish NI & Brink!'s Gawain Morrison. www.belfastexposed.org/whats-on/pan...

05.02.2025 13:36 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Story, Our City, Our Responsibility | NI Science Festival With over 180 events across 50+ venues, the NI Science Festival offers a stimulating and wide range of events focusing on the wonders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Join us - 4 evenings, N,S,E,W Belfast discussing what this city should do about our food system - 12, 13, 19 & 20 Feb 6.30-9pm @niscifest.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social @visitbelfast.bsky.social @meecoprof.bsky.social nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...

03.02.2025 23:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Thanks Rosslare for attending Nina McGowan’s House on the Beach event. Passionate discussions on climate, coastal erosion, habitats & people’s lives. Coastal communities are at the coalface of climate change. Listen, learn & support. Creative Ireland. TCD Geography. @climatecocentre.bsky.social

26.01.2025 00:31 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Thanks Xander. It was fantastic to hear all of your ideas & thanks for throwing yourselves into the day. Good luck for the future & hope to see you again

24.01.2025 22:48 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Our Story, Our City, Our Responsibility | NI Science Festival With over 180 events across 50+ venues, the NI Science Festival offers a stimulating and wide range of events focusing on the wonders of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

Join Brink! & 4 amazing speakers to discuss a resilient food strategy for Belfast: @niscifest.bsky.social.

4 nights/4 parts of Belfast, supported by @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social Medicine, Health & Life Science & @climatecocentre.bsky.social

12th, 13th, 19th & 20th Feb

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23.01.2025 00:44 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
The Green Room - Gawain Morrison And Paul Kelly - Brink! - 13th January 2025

Last week Megan Best, CEO of Native Events, interviewed Paul Kelly & myself for The Green Room, on Dublin City FM, to talk about our year of Brink!, what we've done in our city centre green & culture space, and what our plans are for this year.
www.mixcloud.com/1032DublinCi... #whatshouldthiscitydo

17.01.2025 10:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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In 2024 we turned a derelict site into a grow space & cultural venue, running weekender conferences & festivals to discuss issues of climate change, hosted community & citizen cultural events across food, film, music, & art. Read our year review here.
www.playthinkbrink.com/blog/thanks-...

09.12.2024 23:12 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Big thanks @chrisgpackham.bsky.social for taking time to visit the Brink! site, in Belfast. We chatted about this part of the city, our heritage growing project, the broken food system, renewables, activism & punk bands.
β€œWinning is not giving up & the fuel is love & rage”
#whatshouldthiscitydo

28.11.2024 00:34 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Beautiful winter gathering for the Belfast Sustainable Food Network last night at @playthinkbrink.bsky.social

27.11.2024 21:02 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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