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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Aug 12

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

The Flax Meitheal Harvest Celebration - Fibreshed Ireland

Celebrate the flax harvest with a festive weekend of community, conversations, education and craic! 30 -31 August in Co. Tyrone.

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jun 26

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

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Co-Centre for Climate + Biodiversity + Water @climatecocentre.bsky.social · Jun 16

🌱 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

playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jun 5

🌞 Summer Solstice from the Brink! 🌱
10 days of climate action, culture & conversation in Belfast! June 13–22 → panels, parties & planet-positive ideas!
🎟 www.playthinkbrink.com #SolsticeWithSoul youtu.be/OStTOyrBI-8?...
@visitbelfast.bsky.social @niscifest.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

Summer Solstice from the Brink! 2025

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jun 5

🌞 Summer Solstice from the Brink! 🌱
10 days of climate action, culture & conversation in Belfast! June 13–22 → panels, parties & planet-positive ideas!
🎟 www.playthinkbrink.com #SolsticeWithSoul youtu.be/OStTOyrBI-8?...
@visitbelfast.bsky.social @niscifest.bsky.social @climatecocentre.bsky.social

Summer Solstice from the Brink! 2025

YouTube video by Play Think Brink

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jun 1

🧵Make, mend, and create at Summer Solstice from the Brink! (13–22 June): Natural fibres, screen printing, up-cycling & fashion with purpose 🌿✂️
📍Brink!, Union Street, Belfast
🔗 playthinkbrink.com/summersolstice25 for more info & tickets #heritageskills #workshops #playthinkbrink #paywhatyoucan

playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jun 1

🎶 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! 🌍💃
Brink!, Union Street, Belfast
playthinkbrink.com/summersolstice25 #summersolstice #playthinkbrink

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jun 1

🎬 Under the Stars, Against the Storm — 2 nights of open-air climate cinema at Brink! 🌱 Sat 14 & Sun 15 June, 7–10PM.
🎟 www.playthinkbrink.com/summersolsti...

playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · May 29

Summer Solstice from the Brink! 🌿
Day#1 Theme: Becoming a Natural Park City
Talks, workshops & launch party 🎶
🎟️ playthinkbrink.com/friday-13th

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · May 3

Come and join us 13-22 June for ‘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...

@visitbelfast.bsky.social

Play Think Brink — 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...

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Mar 11

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
@visitbelfast.bsky.social

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Mar 5

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

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 23

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.
@niscifest.bsky.social
@climatecocentre.bsky.social

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 23

A cracking day of mapping, drawing, planting, apple tree pruning, sunshine & chats, for the ‘connecting & sharing through food event’, with the Belfast Food Partnership as part of @niscifest.bsky.social ⁦‪
‬⁩ #NISF25 thanks to everyone who came down, helped out, & shared their knowledge

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 20

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...
@niscifest.bsky.social
@climatecocentre.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
@visitbelfast.bsky.social
@meecoprof.bsky.social

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Mark Emmerson @meecoprof.bsky.social · Feb 19

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!

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 16

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...
@niscifest.bsky.social
@climatecocentre.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
@visitbelfast.bsky.social
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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 12

What should this city do about food? 1st night tonight 6.30-9pm Crescent Arts Centre. Inform our city food strategy.
@niscifest.bsky.social
@climatecocentre.bsky.social
@qubelfastofficial.bsky.social
@visitbelfast.bsky.social
@meecoprof.bsky.social
nisciencefestival.com/events/our-s...

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.

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 10

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...

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.

nisciencefestival.com

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 5

Sat 8 Feb: 2.30pm – 3.30pm. Panel & screening: We Feed The UK’s collaboration with Belfast Exposed, Yvette Monahan’s exhibition “The 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...

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 exhibition “The Clean Blue of Linen”, farmers Helen Keys and Charlie

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Feb 3

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...

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.

nisciencefestival.com

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jan 26

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

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jan 24

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

playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jan 23

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

@meecoprof.bsky.social

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.

nisciencefestival.com

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Jan 17

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

The Green Room - Gawain Morrison And Paul Kelly - Brink! - 13th January 2025

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playthinkbrink.bsky.social @playthinkbrink.bsky.social · Dec 9

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-...