GOAL Global Stage: The Story of Hospitality with Jennie Moran
Tigín at 2.50pm - 3.35pm
The Story of Hospitality looks at the origins and customs of welcoming strangers and reminds us that this is at the heart of many of our day-to-day practices.
This hospitality session will start with a talk about what hospitality means, why it exists, and how many of our customs are rooted in hospitality - for instance, we shake hands to show the other that we are not carrying a weapon and mean no harm. Appealing to all ages, the talk will be activated by use of theatre, courtesy of dance artist, Aoibhinn O’Dea.
This event will be closely followed by the interactive food heritage workshop, Breaking Bread by Jennie Moran. Audiences can choose to attend one or both of these events.
Jennie Moran is an artist who uses the philosophy, culture, and infrastructure of hospitality to create opportunities for shared connection. She started a nomadic hospitality project called Luncheonette in 2013 which operated as the canteen in the National College of Art and Design in Dublin, and was named Irish Café of the year at the 2019 Food and Wine Awards. In 2022 Luncheonette was invited to Artsadmin in London, to take part in a hospitality themed research residency and consultancy project called Say Yes to Who or What Turns Up, using an old café as a site of unconditional welcome.
GOAL Global is a humanitarian response agency, established in Ireland 45 years ago. GOAL works with highly vulnerable communities across the world, to help them respond to and recover from humanitarian crises. GOAL assists these communities to strengthen their local systems and build solutions to lift them out of poverty and vulnerability. GOAL is currently active in 15 countries in Africa, the Middle East, Latin America, and Ukraine.
GOAL’s Global Citizenship Programme GOAL NextGen actively works to challenge stereotypes and encourage independent thinking by building and strengthening the links between the voices and experiences of people in crises globally and young people, communities, society leaders and decision-makers in Ireland. GOAL NextGen aims to empower young people in Ireland to understand the root causes and consequences of global crises and to act in pursuit of a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive world for all. GOAL Next Gen is supported by Irish Aid.