This year’s festival endeavours to reawaken and illuminate our often forgotten connection to the natural world - to biodiversity, heritage and place, but also to our deepest impulse to belong, to nurture and to care. Over the course of two days a rich and hopefully inspiring tapestry of events will be on offer, including; readings, public interviews, concerts, talks, trails, workshops, film screenings and more.
Come and join us as we celebrate and nurture kinship with the natural world through artistic immersion, creative connection, thought provoking conversation, experiential learning, sensory awakening and more. This programme offers a feast for the senses and along with renowned nature experts it includes a rare opportunity to see world class artists in the most intimate of settings.
The Shaking Bog is about stepping away from everyday life to deepen our appreciation of the natural world so that we may move forwards, together, in hope.
We urge you to make the most of it - book your tickets in bundles, invite friends to come along and immerse yourselves in the alchemy that happens where art and nature meet.
At Schoolhouse For Art
5pm-6pm, Sat 14th September
3pm-6pm, Sun 15th September
The Shaking Bog supports independent booksellers and we’re delighted to welcome back Bridge Street Books for the 2024 festival. Bridge Street Books will be situated under the awning in front of the Schoolhouse for Art, Enniskerry, selling a selection of books by our visiting artists as well as a wide choice of other nature writing.
"I loved that performance in the woods –
the quick glimpse of gorse, the songs of Joseph Campbell, then off to the Reconciliation Centre..."
Alice Oswald
Offering a rich tapestry of readings, reflections and conversations from some of Ireland’s finest writers, artists and nature experts, each episode offers a carefully crafted and varied canvas of voices from a diverse range of artistic disciplines. Interweaving gentle observations of life, art and nature, the podcast endeavours to bring the listener on an intimate meander through the seasons.
"A festival like this is what I call civilisation"
Michael Longley