Issue 3 Launch

The launch of Channel Issue 3 will take place via YouTube Premieres on Thursday 26 November at 8.00pm.

The online launch will feature readings by Irish and international contributors drawn from a pool of over 1700 submissions. Photography depicting the localities our contributors write from, and the human, plant and animal life that has inspired their work, will accompany the readings. 

Also featured will be video content from the young artists behind My Generation, a project that brought teenage asylum seekers, refugees, migrants and youth activists working through Cork Migrant Centre together with professional artists to create temporary public artworks communicating their lives in 2020 Ireland. The artworks combine the teenagers’ handwriting, photography, collage and drawing to create a powerful call for action towards positive social change. This issue’s cover, designed by Kate O’Shea using a photograph by Clare Keogh, showcases one of these art pieces. By installing their work on Cork public buildings these young people have powerfully asserted their place in the city’s social and physical landscape, and we couldn’t be happier to celebrate their work through Channel Issue 3. 

We believe community artworks like My Generation have a vital role in repairing the fractured relations between ourselves, one another and the natural world. When we work together to create, honouring our differences and centring our collaborative natures, we embody the same energy and influence needed to address the crises we’re facing. 

We hope the work within and framing of Issue 3 makes clear that human rights and racial justice are fundamental elements of a functioning environmentalism. The biosphere is built on collectivity, creativity, diversity and change; the more often we embrace these, the closer we come to bringing ourselves and the natural world back into balance.

Issue 3 is now available for pre-order via our online store, and will be available from our stockists from the date of the launch.

The launch video will be viewable from this page on the day of its release.