Mayo-based Adventure Film Club moves online

THE Irish Adventure Film Club is a monthly film club that has been running since February 2019. Pre-Covid the film night took place in Castlebar on the second Wednesday of every month.

This month it is launching online and the first virtual screening takes place on Wednesday, April 14, with a film screening and live Q&A with adventurer Sarah Outen and film director Jen Randall.

The film club is usually a mixture of short or feature length films, and often includes a talk with the adventurers, athletes and directors involved in the films.

It was set up through the Irish Adventure Film Festival, due to a frustration at not being able to show more films during the annual festival itself.

After a one year hiatus, due to Covid, the Irish Adventure Film Festival itself will be returning to Westport on the last weekend in February 2022 (February 25 to 27). The adventure film festival will run over two and a half days with a a mix of films, speakers, workshops and events.

Home: An Outward Journey Inward

Between 2011 and 2015, UK adventurer Sarah Outen traversed the globe. For her expedition, London2London: Via The World, Sarah was the engine, travelling by bike, kayak and rowing boat across Europe and Asia, the Pacific Ocean, North America and finally the Atlantic.

Sarah’s incredible four-year odyssey saw her travel over 20,000 miles. As she migrated between cultures, climates and landscapes under her own power, her inspirational voyage was followed by thousands, hooked on her infectious humour and love of life.

But travelling mostly solo, the trip took its toll, and the punishing elements, ticking clock and months of solitude pushed Sarah to the physical and mental brink.

Woven out of hundreds of hours of footage from the expedition, Home intimately and unflinchingly captures Sarah’s journey: the kindness of strangers, the wonders of the wild, the savagery of the elements, the near-death experiences, the demons of her emotional trauma and PTSD, and her discovery of love for a farmer called Lucy.

The screening of the multi-award winning film will be followed by a live Zoom Q&A with Sarah and director Jen Randall, and it's all happening on Wednesday, April 14, at 8 p.m.

Tickets, and full details, here: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/kavumedia/506020