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What What if we were brilliant?
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By: Lisa Fingleton
Publisher: The Barna Way
Published: January 2026
Pages: 128
Categories: Art, Humanities, Non-Fiction
Language: English
Available as: Paperback
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ISBN-13: 9781999317522

What If We Were Brilliant? is a hopeful and creative project by Brilliant Ballybunion and artist Lisa Fingleton that explores how communities can be “brilliant not brutal” in the face of biodiversity loss and climate change. Selected for the IMMA Earth Rising festival 2025, it focuses on sustainable, "brilliant not brutal" actions, documenting their journey in a new book and featuring collaborative art and film The project has been selected for the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) Earth Rising festival from 12th-14th September. Earlier this year IMMA invited proposals for collaborations between visual artists, Irish-based environmental groups, and local communities and Brilliant Ballybunion was one of the four* selected projects.

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