Join us for this unique and timely online event where together we will explore our response to COVID-19, the present and historical phenomenon of enforced absence, and our need for basic sustenance, in particular food. Dr Clare O’Grady Walsh will speak about food sovereignty with particular emphasis on the absolute importance of seeds.There will also be a contribution from Fergal Anderson, farmer and founder member of Talamh Beo and music by Tommy Hayes and Matthew Noone.

The event will be highly participative in the tradition of our previous ‘physical’ Food for Thought/Lon Intinne events in 2018 and 2019. Indeed, we hope we’ll be able - to some extent - to get beyond the standard two-dimensional structure of online discussions. In this spirit, we'll be asking participants to send an image or short piece of text in advance which will be incorporated into the discussion.

Before the event we'd love for you to consider these (optional) preparatory steps:

1. Please take a photo, or write a short piece of text, about something that’s evocative to you in relation to the past few months. It could be of food or of something that you find of interest in your area, or something else entirely. (You can also combine a photo and text.)

2. Email us the photo or text at Diese E-Mail-Adresse ist vor Spambots geschützt! Zur Anzeige muss JavaScript eingeschaltet sein!, before September 1.

The photos and text will be integrated into the event.

Organised by Afri and Feasta in collaboration with Irish Seed Savers and Maynooth University