Organico Bantry

A new Irish Slow Food Convivium has been set up in Bantry, West Cork. The committee is made up of Anne O’Brien, from O’Connor’s Seafood restaurant, Eileen O’Shea, from The West Lodge Hotel, Val Manning from Manning’s Emporium Ballylickey, Cathleen Carter from Bantry House, Hannah Dare from Organico Bantry and Letty Baker, former Mayor and Convivium Leader.

The first event planned for the Bantry Bay Convivium is being held here in Organico Cafe on Sunday the 20th of April. The theme is a Spring Tea Party and we are delighted to have Myrtle Allen, the Eurotocque Chair, and Giana Ferguson from Gubeen to assist us to launch Slow Food in Bantry. Artist Martha Cashman (currently showing in Organico Cafe) will also talk about her work.

Organico Cafe will serve a menu crammed with delicious tea-time treats (we’re currently getting very excited aboutclotted cream…mmm…) and, of course, organic fair trade tea!

Tickets are priced at €10 and will very shortly be availabel from Organico, from O’Connor’s, from the West Lodge and from Val’s in Ballylickey.

Membership forms will be available from these places also, and on the Sunday afternoon we will be delighted to invite new members to join us in the Bantry Bay Convivium.

‘Mollie’ from the exhibition entitled ‘Womanagh’ Showing from the 18th of March to the end of April 2008 In Organico Cafe Bantry.

Martha on her own work: ”My work is a homage to the teachers of my past, the farm helpers and local women who visited and helped my mother in the house.Their understanding of the daily running of a small holding impacted on my greatly and led me to appreciate and respect the land we took from daily. The pieces are records of their life stories and teachings.

I received the UCC Purchase prize and Scarva Pottery Prize, two of my pieces are in the UCC Art Archive Collection, also in the CIT Art Collection and the Crawford Student Collection”.

Martha’s previous exhibitions include a solo show in Etain Hickey’s Gallery Clonakilty, Feb 07; a solo show in Milano’s Restaurant, Cork Dec 07/Feb 08, a group show in The Lavitt Gallery Cork Dec 07, the Christmas show in the Courtyard Arts Centre Midleton 07, a group show Courtyard, Midleton Aug 07, Degree show Crawford, Cork July 07, Group show Courtyard Midleton Aug 06, Group show Granary theather, Cork June 06, Group show Tig Fili Cork, Vision Centre, Cork Feb 04.
Next show: Medici Palace, San Marino, Italy April 29-May 18 08