TU Dublin hosts COPON! Festival
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COPON! is a first-of-its kind free climate action festival which is being Hosted at TU Dublin, Lower House on 14-15th October. Event partners Happenings, together with Concern, Stories of Change and Connect the Dots, will bring dance, music, movies, food, and festival fun to the table to change the narrative from doom and destruction to positivity and action.
COPON! is a festival designed to stimulate discussion and inspire concrete climate action for realistic and sustained change. Taking to the stage are an inspiring mix of great speakers from Ireland and around the world along with legendary Irish bands, comedians and spoken word artists. Throw in an open-air cinema, award-winning workshops, street food, reggae yoga, special DJ sets and surprises erupting around every corner. Tickets, schedule, and details of workshops, talks and performances are available at https://copon.ie
TU Dublin Faculty of Business Lecturer, Alacoque McAlpine, will join the Sew True panel event moderated by Fionnuala Moran, along with fast fashion experts, Maeve Galvin and Malú Colorín. This discussion will highlight the opportunity to bring about positive change in the fashion industry through the Good Clothes Fair Pay campaign.
Festival performances include
- Kila
- Nialler9
- The Accidental Rapper
- Sive
- 49thandmain
- Ships
- Code of Behaviour
- Stephen James Smith
- Cooks but we’re Chefs
- Adam Mohammed
- Gathering on the Pond
The lead up to COP27, taking place in Egypt this November, creates the perfect opportunity to talk about climate action and what better place to start than our own city? In advance of the festival, a ‘Dialogue’ event is taking place on Friday 7th October, at Wood Quay Venue Dublin City Council. This workshop will gather Climate Activists including several TU Dublin students, Policy and Decision Makers and Dublin 7 Community Stakeholders with the aim to explore how to make Dublin 7 the first net-zero postcode in Dublin. The event presents an opportunity for participating students to understand the COP process in the lead up to COP27 in Egypt. The findings from this workshop will be presented and built upon at the COPON! Festival, and final recommendations will be formally presented at COP27.