“Caring for Repairing” was held in Kilbeggan (2022), which is small town located in the midlands of Westmeath, Ireland. The exhibition and festival/féile programme emerged from an intensive year, long project Repair Acts, Ireland that was carried out in collaboration with with Dr. Alma Clavin, Department of Geography, University College Dublin, Westmeath County Council and a team of researchers, architects, artists, designers and community partners, including Men Shed, Mullingar.

Key activities included the launch of a “Repair Declaration” for the county with an accompanying debate that brought multiple key stakeholders together to discuss the future of who the county could become more repair-centred. The world première of our documentary ‘Turning the Collar‘, live music and theatre performances and daily workshops and talks on mending and fixing, that covered topics such as smart agriculture and computer repair, bike mending, creating and fixing a dry stone wall, lace making, toy repair, woodland, bio-diversity and build environment restoration.