LUGHNASADH FIRE, GRAIN & SOLIDARITY

FRIDAY 1ST AUGUST 12 NOON – 2PM

GRAPES COMMUNITY FOOD GARDEN, WINDSOR STREET, NEXT DOOR TO TOXTETH TV L8 1XE

This Lughnasadh; the Gaelic fire festival marking the first grain & fruit harvest, we’re coming together in the garden. It’s important to be together, now more than ever. At this time of celebrating the abundance of the summer season here on Windsor Street and in Liverpool, we acknowledge the forced starvation of the people of Gaza by Israel backed up by our own government. Not in our name. See below and here for Landworkers Alliance ‘Farmers Against Forced Starvation’ campaign.

FOOD IS A HUMAN RIGHT

We’ll be offering up our solidarity, holding space for conversation, grief & hope, making art and breaking bread in honour of Gaza.

Come and be:

  • together around the fire
  • restful in nature
  • held by your community

Come along and share:

  • your hopes and fears at the ‘Round the Table Talk/Draw/Feel/Write’
  • your own harvest offering of the season for the Lughnasadh altar
  • ‘Plant chats’ – have a talk with a plant, you’ll be glad you did…

Come and make:

FREE/BY DONATION. WE’LL BE COLLECTING FOR ALL OUR RELATIONS, a UK-based non-profit supporting 15 displaced families & 4 community-led food aid projects across Gaza.

This Lughnasadh we also love and remember the great poet Andrea Gibson who passed away on 14th July.

PHOTOS BY ANGELICA VANASSE, CLARE OWENS, JUDE MCLOUGHLIN & LUCY HUNTER. ILLUSTRATIONS BY ANGELICA VANASSE