How We Got Here with Oliver Jeffers & Easkey Britton

How We Got Here with Oliver Jeffers & Easkey Britton

How We Got Here with Oliver Jeffers & Easkey Britton

Date and time

Sat, 16 Nov 2024 12:00 - 13:00 GMT

Location

Dingle Skellig Hotel & Peninsula Spa

Mail Road Dingle Ireland

Refund Policy

Refunds up to 7 days before event

About this event

  • Event lasts 1 hour

Join us for an event entitled, How We Got Here. This discussion between Oliver Jeffers and Easkey Britton will focus on our impact on the planet and where we might go from here.

Oliver Jeffers' engagements and practice are truly International in scope. His critically acclaimed picture books have been translated into over fifty languages and sold over 14 million copies worldwide. His original artwork has been exhibited at such institutions as the Brooklyn Museum in New York, the National Portrait Gallery in London, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston. Jeffers has been the recipient of numerous awards, in eluding a New York Times Best Illustrated Children's Books Award, Bologna Rigazzi Aware, an Emmy award for Studio AKA and Apple's adaptation of Here We Are, and an MBE from Her late Majesty Queen Elizabeth for Special Services to the Arts.

"Easkey Britton is a surfer, writer and a social ecologist. Her research focuses on untangling and understanding the connections and interrelationships between humans, our health and well-being, and the health of the planet. She identifies where these connections are broken, how we might restore them, and the transformative healing that can occur when we do. Easkey is the author of several books on our human relationship with the ocean including, "Saltwater in the Blood" (2021) and "Ebb and Flow" (2023).

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The Dingle Literary Festival brings together readers of all interests with writers of local, national and international standing. The festival inspires readers to read and writers to write. Events happen, in both Irish and English, across Corca Dhuibhne, an established creative landscape on the Wild Atlantic Way. The festival includes writer's workshops so emerging writers can hone their skills and activities aimed at children, the readers and writers of the future.

€13.85