Wood of Life Exhibition:

Exhibition focusing on Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) visits Clones Library

Every second of every day, an area of rainforest the size of Croke Park pitch is destroyed. That’s 86,400 Croke Park pitches of rainforest per day, or over 31 million Croke Park pitches of rainforest lost each year. In order to satisfy Ireland’s demands for tropical timber an estimated 50-60 acres of African rainforest is chopped down and destroyed daily.

Tropical forest exploitation is causing grave social, environmental and economic hardships for rural dwellers and keeping millions of people in poverty worldwide. Its time to play fair and celebrate the astonishing contribution the world’s forests play in our lives. You can help.

Monaghan Library Service will host the new Wood of Life exhibition commencing on Tuesday 5th August to Friday 29th August 2008. The Wood of Life exhibition is a hands-on, travelling educational initiative of Offaly-based non-governmental organisation (NGO) Irish Woodworkers for Africa/Just Forests. The exhibition which is financially supported by Irish Aid at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Concern the Dublin-based international development agency will travel to Education Centres and Public Libraries around Ireland for the next three years.

The exhibition will be officially launched on Monday 11th August at 7.30pm in Clones Library with light refreshments. Everyone welcome.

There will be two workshops run in conjunction with the exhibition as such:

· Monday 25th August 3.30pm – 5.00pm for children aged 7+
Monday 25th August 6.30pm – 8.00pm for adults
Booking is essential for these workshops, so please contact staff at Clones Library at 047-51143.

Check out website www.justforests.org for more information about this exhibition.

Clones Film Festival 2008 Launch

An official Launch of Clones Film Festival 2008 will take place on Saturday 16th of August @ 9pm at the new library building in Clones.

The celebrations will include the unveiling of the “monster mural”, art collaboration between Clones Film Festival and Clones Library in which young people from the area are given the chance to contribute to the production of a public mural which celebrates cinema culture. The project will run at Clones library from Monday 11th to Friday the 15th of August 2-5pm each day. So we all calling all you young budding artists to just call into the library, ask staff for the paint & help create this masterpiece.

A free outdoor barbeque and screening of the Scanbitz Short Film competition entries from the 2007 festival will also take place on the night of the launch providing a great opportunity for relaxed family entertainment in a gorgeous community setting. Everyone welcome to the launch.

For further information visit www.clonesfilmfestival.com