Katie Holten
Lughnasa Gathering
Katie Holten (Dublin, 1975) is a visual artist and environmental activist. In 2003 Holten represented Ireland at the 50th Venice Biennale. Her work has been exhibited in museums internationally, including solo exhibitions at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, New Orleans Museum of Art, Bronx Museum, Nevada Museum of Art, and Dublin City Gallery the Hugh Lane. In 2015 she created a Tree Alphabet and published the book About Trees (Broken Dimanche Press). She recently created an Irish Tree Alphabet and a New York City Tree Alphabet. In 2018 she co-founded Friends of Ardee Bog and campaigns for Rights of Nature. Her book About Trees will be reissued by Tin House in 2023. She lives in New York City and Ardee.
Portrait by Helen O’Leary (2016)
Caimin Gilmore
Lughnasa Gathering
Caimin Gilmore is a Composer & Double Bassist. He is a member of Crash Ensemble, s t a r g a z e and plays regularly with the RTÉ Concert Orchestra, National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland & Ulster Orchestra. He has performed & recorded with an array of different artists, including Lisa Hannigan, Damon Albarn, Zach Condon (Beirut), Squarepusher, The Staves, Justin Vernon (Bon Iver), Aaron Dessner (The National), Greg Saunier (Deerhoof), Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh, Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds, Cormac Begley, Niamh Regan, David Kitt, Saint Sister.
Lucy O’Hagan
Bealtaine Gathering
Lucy (They/She) is the founder and director of Wild Awake, an organisation which seeks to rekindle cultural and ecological resilience through the restoration of ancestral lifeways in Ireland. As part of Wild Awake, Lucy also founded Dublin’s first independent Forest School in 2015, ‘Phoenix Forest School’. Lucy has been working with diverse groups for over ten years and is passionate about supporting individuals to unearth their innate gifts and true belonging with the land. Lucy’s love for ancestral skills and wisdom helps her to reweave these frameworks into the fabric of the Irish cultural and ecological landscape. Lucy is a passionate rewilder, wildlife tracker, ethnobotanist and cave lover.
Ziggy Alberts
Bealtaine Gathering
Ziggy Alberts is a platinum ARIA accredited singer/songwriter, free-surfer & environmental enthusiast from the East Coast of Australia. Picking up the guitar in 2011, Ziggy is pushing the boundaries and expectations of self-funded independent artists and continues to share his music around the world to his dedicated grassroots following. He sings heartfelt stories of personal endeavours and experiences, ocean-side upbringing, environmental issues and life on the road.
Kerri ní Dochartaigh
Summer Solstice Gathering
Kerri ní Dochartaigh is the author of Thin Places (Canongate, 2020) which was highly commended by the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. She has written for the Guardian, the Irish Times, the BBC, Winter Papers, and others. Her second book, Cacophony of Bone, is forthcoming in April 2023.
Bronagh Gallagher
Summer Solstice Gathering
Bronagh Gallagher is considered one of Ireland’s leading actors and voices of soul music and is deeply respected for both the quality of her song writing and her stellar live performances. From the beginning of her acting career at age 17 as Bernie, one of the backing singers in Alan Parker’s The Commitments, Bronagh has appeared in countless films including Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, Sherlock Homes, and award-winning TV dramas such as Jimmy Mc Govern’s The Street, and The Accused. She has also appeared in London’s West End, and Broadway Theatre Productions including Complicité’s Street of Crocodiles, the National Theatre’s Warhorse, and most recently Bob Dylan & Conor Mc Pherson’s award-winning musical Girl from The North Country, Sky’s hit TV show Brassic, and her lead role in the multi-award winning A Bump Along the Way. Bronagh has recently been seen in Armando Iannucci’s feature film, The Personal History of David Copperfield, playing Mrs Micawber alongside Peter Capaldi, and also Belgravia – the latest series by Julian Fellows.