Essential Gathering Festival

Category: Sponsors

  • Chocolate Factory

    Chocolate Factory is a new creative community developing in the old Williams & Woods building in Dublin on Kings Inn Street.

    The first concrete building in the city is being rejuvenated to become a creative hub comprising of creative spaces for design, art, music, dance, photography and many other creative areas for creative people to become a part of the Chocolate Factory Community.

    Along with these spaces The Chocolate Factory will house a world class hostel, a cosy but urban cafe and restaurant, an active art gallery and a venue space for events and hire.

    We are currently in the first phase of development with a number of resident creatives already setting up their spaces and focus is now on the cafe and gallery space.

    The Lung Ying Academy is a long standing resident of the Chocolate Factory. They will be taking part in the Bloom Fringe Festival that is running alongside Bloom In the Park on Saturday May 31st from 1pm – 5pm. Bring along the little ones for a Dragon and Drum’s spectacular show on Kings Inn Street at 1 o’clock outside the Chocolate Factory. The Dragon will have some special chocolate treats, catch them if you can and get there early to enjoy the show.

    Note: This is a free event
    See here for a full schedule.

  • Have you heard about ReCreate?

    Have you heard about ReCreate?

    ReCreate is a national social enterprise that takes end of line and surplus stock from businesses and reuses them as arts materials.

    Their warehouse is full to the brim with all types of fantastic arts materials such as paper, wool, plastics, fabric, tubing, foam and many other unusual and unexpected surprises. Distribution of the materials is on a membership basis which is at a nominal cost as Recreate are looking to drastically reduce the expenditure on arts materials for schools, community groups, preschools and crèches and representative organisations throughout the country. Additionally tonnes of materials will be diverted annually from landfill as well as saving businesses on their disposal costs, everybody wins!

    ReCreate have also introduced an in-house art shop, in which their members can buy the products they have not been able to salvage. They also have a workshop area where members can visit the resident artist and learn how to transform regular business materials into stunning art pieces, plus they have regular themed workshops. To date, ReCreate is proving to be a great success in its Warehouse of Wonders in Ballymount Drive in Walkinstown. It continues to salvage unwanted stock from signature businesses such as Avoca, Smurfit Kappa, Bewleys Coffee, Universal Records and many more and turn them into fantastic arts materials.

    For more information go to www.recreate.ie or find us on Facebook at ReCreate Ireland.
    Additionally, you call us on 01-4568798 or email us at info@recreate.ie

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    Some creative examples from ReCreate [/one_half]
    [one_half_last]Cardboard tubing from ReCreate[/one_half_last]

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    Coffee Sacks from Recreate[/one_half]
    [one_half_last]Children's Workshops at Recreate[/one_half_last]

    ReCreate board logo's

  • Positive Life Magazine

    Positive Life Magazine

    A very warm thank you to Paul from positive life, for sponsoring us at this years festival. Positive Life magazine started years ago, but the team of Paul Congdon, Patrick Bridgeman and Manu took over in the Summer of 2008. Simon O’Connor took over the post of Graphic Designer from Manu in the Summer of 2009. And Elva Carri came on board as editor in 2013.

    Our hope and our aim is to deliver uplifting, informative articles and information designed to enhance the quality of our readers’ lives. We’ve been fulfilling that goal more and more with every issue, and this website gives us even more scope to share the magic and joy that we know is in the world.
    For more information go to www.positivelife.ie