‘Old Ways In New Days’ the second in the series of Tri-Biosphere Webinars.

In celebration of the 50th year anniversary of the UNESCO Man and the Biosphere programme, three neighbouring Biosphere Reserves, the Dublin Bay Biosphere Reserve, The Kerry Biosphere Reserve and the Isle of Man Biosphere Reserve, have come together to co-host a yearlong webinar programme celebrating the natural and built heritage and culture of these extraordinary places.

This month it’s the Kerry Biosphere’s turn to host and they have lined up a very interesting speaker.

Biosphere Reserves are described are places where Nature and Culture connect; the three main functions of a Biosphere Reserve are conservation, development and learning. They are focused not only on the conservation of the environment in which they sit but the culture and heritage of that area too, the people within a Biosphere Reserve are just as important as nature.

With this in mind, this month’s webinar offering will focus on culture with Shane Lehane, course Director of Cultural and Heritage Studies in CSN, College of Further Education, Cork and lecturer in the Department of Folklore and Ethnology, UCC where his specialism is in ‘Custom, Tradition and Belief’.

Shane is a beekeeper and an advocate of Irish vernacular craft; his research interests include material culture and time. These topics speak very closely to today’s discussions around fast fashion and sustainability. He is often seen on the couch with Maura and Daithí on the Today show (RTÉ) and has written numerous articles on different topics of culture and heritage for publications like the Irish Times.

If you like the idea of getting out and doing it for yourself, building boats or baskets, learning by doing and the rich cultural history of how stuff is made and why it’s made that way then this webinar is for you!

This webinar was recorded and can be viewed below.

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