From Fairy Forts to Doughnuts

Sat Mar 28 2026 at 11:00 am to 01:00 pm UTC+00:00

Crescent Arts Centre | Belfast

Imagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics
Publisher/HostImagine! Belfast Festival of Ideas & Politics
From Fairy Forts to Doughnuts
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Falling back in love with the places that have shaped us and enabled us to thrive ... with the help of doughnut economics!
About this Event

How do we learn to fall back in love with the places that have shaped us and enabled us to thrive? This workshop explores the unrolling of a ‘doughnut’ through stories, cultures and methodologies that we are trying out as part of the Towards Bioregioning Partnership in the wider Garvagh area and Agivey River catchment system as we learn how to reframe and rethink economics.

Garvagh means ‘rough field’. How many times have we passed a rough field where the jaggy lines are interrupted by a circular ring fort, reminding us of a different time and a different relationship with the rest of the natural world (Sean Fearon). Join us for this workshop designed to explore what “unrolling the doughnut,” might mean and look like in a rural area shaped by its forests and river catchment system.

We’ll introduce the principles of Doughnut Economics and the partners who have come together over the next four years with a number of local groups and primary schools in the Towards Bioregioning Project to support the telling of a different story. We will do this from heritage, community growing, design & making, resilience and citizen science perspectives as we learn to make visible the interdependencies between human and natural systems and connecting the people and energies already in place. During this playful session, participants will dive into the principles of the Doughnut Economics model and explore some of the methodologies and approaches we hope to use over the next four years. You will have the chance to play, critique, interact and of course eat a donut or two.

Your hosts will be Community Garden Support, Wild Life, Quarto Collective, the Rural Community Network, Wild Awake and the Hare’s Corner Cooperative.

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Crescent Arts Centre, 2-4 University Road, Belfast, United Kingdom

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