Waking the Land
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22 November 2025 — 14 February 2026
On Saturday 6 December 2025 from 1 — 4pm, a Collectives Social will take place for collectives based in the north-west of Ireland. The event will include two collective making events weaving natural materials. Collective members and individuals seeking collectives of their own are welcome. This event is free and hosted by the ^ collective who are currently exhibiting Waking the Land at The Dock. All are welcome, booking is required.
About ^
^ is a collective based in Leitrim. Our five members are Tara Baoth Mooney, Shane Finan, James Kelly, Laura McMorrow, and Sonya Swarte. We collectively occupy an artist-led studio and experimental space in Manorhamilton that opened in September 2022. Over the past three years, we have led events in North Leitrim in response to environmental grief, care, and tending to the land.
The ^ collective cultivates collaborative research, experimentation, creation, and dissemination by working with the North Leitrim community and nature as mutual co-creators of meaning. To achieve this, we organise and host events, such as social gatherings, symposia, rituals, workshops, walks, sharing food together, and exchanging our different knowledges and stories.
The space is in the centre of Manorhamilton, always in the shadow of Benbo mountain — a constant live presence in the town. The studio allows the collective members and community to explore art in a rural context, examining how the creation of work rooted in place and the local landscape can enable innovative and meaningful collaborative work.