Cnoc Meadha-jic

Cnoc Meadha-jic, www.cnocmeadh-jic is a multimedia project exploring the theme of sustainable communities. It focuses on the dynamic and magical community that flourishes around the foot of Cnoc Meadha & the Headford Hinterlands, in particular around Campbell's Tavern in Cloughanover, about 16 miles from Galway City. It embraces and highlights the collective work of local groups including Solstice Arts Group; Play Guitar; Mairead Berrill’s Music programmes for local schools; the Bombanova Social Club; na Sean chairde; the Cloughanover Rock School (still in development); Guitar-Made-Easy; Luimnagh Village Book Club; the local commuity associations – approx. 6 top level site zones.

These groups have collectively run community events – exhibitions in visual art & photography, prop making, showcases of local & visiting musicians and comedians; they’ve braved the March winds to parade their Samba group; they’ve dodged the rain & marked Mid-Summer Solstice with their annual Fete; they’ve linked with local schools on filmmaking workshops and screened the resultant films of junior animators; they’ve contributed to the establishment of Headford Country Market; they’ve gathered to plan and fund raise as required and much of it through the informal focal point of the local haven at Campbell’s Tavern.

Cnoc Meadha-jic takes stock and creatively showcases this community. Through informal sessions (at the monthly community gatherings & the Summer Fete); one-to-one & group interviews, engaging all generations, from the very young to our most esteemed veterans, we use simple digital technologies to author and evolve our community’s stories and creations in a multimedia multi-platform method.

The process will empower our community – families, artists of all disciplines, educators in our schools, youth clubs, people in their 3rd age, our musical society, local music schools, cultural entrepreneurs – the whole caboodle – we aim to celebrate the creative projects we’ve already realized by transforming that content and pushing it out across multiple platforms – in performance, in parade, through film & podcasts, text – interactively using all our media to celebrate and sustain our community through creativity