Bernadette Hopkins leads an environmental art project celebrating the diversity of plant life within Drumboe Woods, a vital public and ecological space for the communities of Stranorlar and Ballybofey.

Developed over a series of workshops and interventions with the Crossroads Youth Project, completed works are being installed in the woods during the festival.

Bernadette Hopkins said: “I Came to Breathe Art Installation at Drumboe Woods references the complex communication systems between trees and fungi , the wood wide web and how trees help us by filtering the air. They are the lungs of the planet and our life support system.”

“I experienced the forest as an entwined place, where all the trees are interdependent….a cathedral that was one, with all of its disciples & pews.”
– Suzanne Simard

“The destruction of the Earth is due in part to a failure of the imagination, or to it’s eclipse by systems of accounting that can’t count what matters.”
– Rebecca Solnit