Traditional herbalist and homoeopath Eleanor Sutherland will give a workshop on wild foods and making herbal remedies on Saturday, 10am-4pm, in Greenan Farm Museum and Maze, Greenan, Rathdrum, Co Wicklow. Booking essential on tel: 0404-46000 or see greenanmaze.com
The incredible tasks that every living cell in your body performs all the time is the theme of a public talk tomorrow at 6pm. Prof Brian J Ford, scientist and BBC television personality, will show dramatic videos of human cells in action at the Houston Lecture Theatre, Royal College of Surgeons, 123 St Stephen’s Green, Dublin 2. Admission free but booking is required at tel: 01-4022373 or aol2011@rcsi.ie.
State and voluntary agencies that offer family and parenting support to one-parent families will showcase their work tomorrow from 10.15am-6pm in the Coach House, Dublin Castle. Support group One Family’s new manual on family communications will also be launched at the event by Minister for Children, Frances Fitzgerald. E-mail: info@onefamily.ie or tel: 01 6629212.
Global Emergency Care Skills is an Irish non-profit organisation which trains doctors and nurses in African countries with developing healthcare systems. Its annual charity ball is on Saturday in the Stephen’s Green Hibernian Club, Dublin. Tickets €100. See gecs.ie for more details.
Healthcare professionals keen to integrate spirituality into the treatment of mental and physical health can inform themselves at a conference on Friday at All Hallows College, Drumcondra, Dublin. Booking for The Mental Health, Practical Theology and Spirituality conference at allhallows.ie or tel: 01-8520756. Cost €80.