The Point Festival

Carnsore Summer School 2012

Draft FINAL PROGRAMME

Friday7 September 2012

Time / Event / Venue
7:00pm to 7:45pm / Registration / Carne Centre
8:00pm / Reflections on Carnsore Past
Radio show style panel discussion – talk interspersed with songs from acts who played original festival.
To be chaired by: Eamon Keane.
Confirmed panellists:Adi Roche; John Munnis (Paul Brady's tour manager).
To be confirmed:Nationally known musician and original local organiser. / Wigwam Tent
10:00pm / Performance of Eco Friendly Jihad by Abie Philbin Bowman. / Wigwam Tent

Saturday 8 September 2012

Time / Event / Venue
9:00am / BREAKFAST / Carne Centre
10:30am / Climate Change Denial and Populism
To be chairedby: Nuala Ahern.
Confirmed speakers: Dick Pels (Dutch Green Foundation); Prof. John Sweeney (NUI Maynooth) member of the International Panel on Climate Change. / Wigwam Tent
12 noon / Nuclear Energy – The Answer to Climate Change?
To be chaired by: Eamon Ryan.
Confirmed speakers: Rebecca Harms MEP; John Gibbons Newspaper Columnist; Cllr. Mark Dearey, member of the STAD group; Professor Philip Walton BENE (Better Environment with Nuclear Energy) and Alain de Halleux (documentarian). / Wigwam Tent
1:45pm / LUNCH / Carne Centre
1:00pm to 3:00pm / Workshop – Effective responses to populism
Input provided byEye to Eye Insights / Carne Centre
3:00pm / Politics and Environmental NGOs – scratching whose backs?
To be chairedby: Elaine Byrne.
Confirmed speakers:Tara Connolly (Greenpeace Europe, formerly of VOICE); Michael Ewing (Irish Environmental Network).
Speaker sought: German or French “NGO turned politician” speaker. / Wigwam Tent
4:45pm / COFFEE BREAK / Carne Centre
5:15pm / Workshop on Comedy as a Campaigning Tool
Givenby: Abie Philbin Bowman. / Carne Centre
6:45pm / OUTDOOR BARBECUE
7:45pm / Irish premiere of Recits de Fukushima
Introducedby:Alain de Halleux. / Wigwam Tent
9:30pm / Leviathan Political Cabaret
Music, comedy and film inserts centred around a panel discussion on the subject of 'It’s not about old and new media. It’s about good versus bad journalism.
To be chaired by Andrea Pappin, Broadcaster. Panel being sourced.
Debate interspersed by music, comedy and film segments. / Wigwam Tent

Sunday 9 September 2012

8:00am / Group swim / Carne Beach
9:00am / BREAKFAST / Carne Centre
10:00am / Robert McClure Lecture (Local Hero / Polar Explorer).
Givenby: Dr. Huw Lewis Jones. / Wigwam Tent
11:00am / People Centred Planning Lessons from Rossport Lessons for Fracking?
To be chaired by: Frank McDonald
Speakers: Jeremy Wates (European Environment Bureau); Katja Rottmann- GermanWatch;Speaker from the Danish Board of Technology; Elizabeth Muldowney (An Taisce/Fracking Company Leitrim)
Speakers sought: from the Rossport campaign. / Wigwam Tent
1:00pm / The Greens and The Future of Europe – Input from Rebecca Harms MEP co-leader of The Greens/EFA in the European Parliament.Pierre JonckheerCo-President of the Green European Foundation and Nuala Ahern, Chair Green Foundation Ireland.
Pointer towards next GFI event in November
2:30pm / End of Festival