I'm an Ireland-based NZ ecological artist and ecoliteracy educator at HAUMEA ECOVERSITY.IE. My ecological l art practice, the ongoing Hollywood Forest Story (since 2008) is based on real-world learning and multidisciplinary efforts in transforming a monoculture conifer plantation into a forest and re-imagining forest policy, forest management, forest-community change in Ireland.

The hollywood forest story: co-creating agency and transformation from within a small Irish forest see website link below

Never Records is a combination recording studio and record shop, setting up in locales throughout the world. The sole proprietor, interior decorator, and engineer is New York-based artist Ted Riederer. Inspired by his own redemptive education at a young age inside the walls of a local record store in Rockville, Maryland as well as the field recording projects of Alan Lomax, Riederer devised his unique community art installation in the early part of this century and has been replicating it with regional variations throughout the world since 2010.

Performers from a locale sign up for recording sessions ahead of time, with no auditions necessary. Riederer usually offers three hour sessions, during which he mixes on the fly and cuts vinyl right in front of the artist’s eyes once both are satisfied with a particular take. The recordings are free to the artist, the sessions are open to the public, and you can’t buy anything you see. Ted hasn’t lowered prices by cutting out the middleman. He is the middleman. He is not a vertical operation; he is an elliptical one, a constant feedback loop supplying its own demand. Still, everyone takes something home, even if it’s the barest speck of record shop camaraderie inadvertently inhaled.
-Ryan Sparks, New Orleans

Mark Durnin is an Irish Singer/Songwriter from Dundalk who writes all of his own material. Mark has always had trouble deciding which "genre" he has been described as "an exceptionally talented singer/songwriter...who's lyrical poetry and subtle, sweet melodies will engulf the senses" (Dundalk Leader). He has also been described as "Folk Rock", “Soul" and "Real chilled out". On Saturday 9th October 2010, Mark officially launched a 4-Track EP “Streetlights”. Hope you enjoy the songs, and hope that you will find something in my music that makes you come back for another listen. Love, Mark x

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