The Museum of Orange Heritage offers visitors an opportunity to learn about the history, significance and current activities of the Orange Institution.
We are committed to providing a better appreciation of the cultural and social impact of Orangeism from its inception in 1795 until the present day.
You are invited to the launch of ‘Young Men, Masculinities and Imprisonment: An Ethnographic Study in Northern Ireland’ (Palgrave Macmillan) by Dr Conor Murray.
The event will take place on Wednesday 20th September 2023, 5-7pm at Ulster University’s Belfast Campus (BC Building).
Running order for the event:
| 5-5.30pm
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Wine and canapes | Atrium |
| 5.30-5.40pm | Welcome by Dr Brendan Coyle
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BC-03-115 |
| 5.40-6pm | Young Men, Masculinities and Imprisonment by Dr Conor Murray
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BC-03-115 |
| 6-6.30pm | Panel Discussion: Chaired by Dr Brendan Coyle, with panellists Dr Conor Murray (UU), Professor Shadd Maruna (QUB), Fiona Greene (CEO NIACRO), and representation from Department of Justice. | BC-03-115
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| 6.30-7pm | Q&A, and Close | BC-03-115 |
No Alibis Bookstore in association with Springer Nature are happy to offer a Special Launch Price of £34.99 (RRP £110.00). Please order your copy HERE or visit https://noalibis.com/
Please register for the event: Eventbrite
International Day of Public Action celebrated around September Equinox embodies Bbeyond’s strategy, making monthly public actions. To share these encounters with other artists around the globe is a great opportunity for synergy in solidarity. The public space, our common ground and the desire for freedom for all people around the world, opening time and space for equals to creativity interact together.
Contact: bbeyond@europe.com for more information.
A celebration for the great work of our staff, volunteers and parents in bringing diverse groups of young people together held on Wednesday 20th September 10am-12pm.
There will be lunch provided by current Princes Trust participants.
RSVP by 13th September.
If you would like an invite to this event, please contact kristine.joel@princes-trust.org.uk
Young people from differing communities have been working together on a Springboard project exploring the legacy of the Northern Ireland conflict. The ‘Our Lives, Our Legacy’ event at Crumlin Road Gaol on UN International Day of Peace will bring people together for a showcase of their learning. The event aims to show how shared events can help promote integration and maximise community cohesion. Young people will take attendees through an immersive exhibition and performance marking the 25th Anniversary of the GFA and share their collective visions and hopes for the next 25 years.
If you would like more information contact 02890315111 or admin@springboard-opps.org.
Breathe is a community art project. It is based on a piece of writing of the same name, written by Prof John Paul Lederach, as presented at the 4 Corners Festival ’22. His words are mostly situated in Belfast and consider what it is like to live, be and breathe in the city. The 22nd September sees the start of the project which is taking place in Forthspring Inter-Community group. It is engaging participants from the centre and neighbouring areas of Belfast and is facilitated by CAP artist/facilitators Carole Kane and Charmaine McBride. It starts on the 22nd September 10.30am-12.30pm and runs for 10 weeks.
The project will enable the production of creative artwork in response to Breathe in Belfast and will be exhibited in January ’24. Watch out for further information…
Oral History and understanding and teaching the Troubles: Voices of 68 and 74
Prof. Chris Reynolds – Nottingham Trent University
This webinar should be of interest not only to history teachers but to community educators and all others who believe that better understanding of the recent violent past in Northern Ireland is crucial if society is to move forward.
Its focus is on the challenges facing educators in post-conflict societies like Northern Ireland that continue to experience ongoing division and tension in relation to the past. At the outset it briefly examines the context of the Troubles and how peace was achieved with the 1998 Good Friday/ Belfast Agreement and, importantly, how these events were variously experienced by people from different backgrounds. Subsequently, the past 25 years have seen great progress, despite the many challenges that have had to be overcome…many of which remain to this day.
One of the most urgent and sensitive of these challenges relates to how the legacy of the past can be handled to ensure that it is no longer a source of tension with the capacity to undermine the future sustainability of peace. A central element in this debate is how the conflict is taught in local schools and communities. Research indicates that young people, particularly, wish to move on from the past yet, conversely, many are troubled by questions which they feel remain unanswered either at home or in formal education settings. In responding, the webinar will then concentrate on a recent collaborative project with National Museums NI entitled Voices of ’68. Using a full range of oral accounts and other contemporary artefacts as its key stimuli, the project placed education at the core of its multi-facetted activities. Its experience suggests a potentially fruitful blueprint for how the legacy of the “Troubles” can be approached and taught in ways that generate curiosity and engagement in its audience.
The conclusion will provide other, recent, examples of how the “Troubles” is being constructively and effectively taught, including reference to a newly established Voices of ’74 initiative centred on the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike of that year. Finally, it will be argued that there are lessons for the general issue of managing the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland. Voices of ’68 resources
Chris Reynolds is a Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. A native of Northern Ireland, with a particular interest in the European events of 1968, he led the Voices of 68 project focusing on the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement and now has turned his attention to Voices of 74, collecting accounts of the Ulster Workers’ Strike of that year.
Our Living Library event is your opportunity to ‘borrow’ a person, instead of a book, for a one-to-one 20-minute conversation.
Running as part of Good Relations Week 2023, our library-with-a-difference is the place to discover unique and fascinating real-life stories.
With 15 different stories to discover on the day, here are just some of the intriguingly titled ‘books’ to whet your appetite:
• How did a social worker end up in Long Kesh?
• Poet…. peeler, Druid…. healer, Queer (LGBTQIA+)…. volunteer!
• ‘So where are you from, love?’
• This will only end in two ways………..death or prison
Read the full list of titles, along with a synopsis of each story: Living Library 2023 (belfastcity.gov.uk
To book your place, contact us with your book(s) selection and we’ll come back to you with your allotted 20-minute timeslot(s).
Email: goodrelations@belfastcity.gov.uk or call 028 9027 0663.
The event will take place at a Belfast city centre venue, which will be confirmed along with your booking.
In its 20th Anniversary Year, PeacePlayers will be hosting a series of events, both on-line and in person, which will celebrate and promote the power of sport for promoting diversity and building sustainable peace.
During Good Relations Week, PeacePlayers’ social media channels will play host to a series of online content celebrating what the organisation has achieved over the past 20 years in bridging divides, developing leaders and changing perceptions through sport.
PeacePlayers’ annual closed Coaches Training session will also be held during Good Relations Week 2023 – building the next generation of peace builders.
The Shared Spaces Project exhibition presents photographs and reflections from young people aged 16-18 who live in or grew up in Belfast. It tells us how public spaces, such as restaurants, parks, streets or buses, are viewed and how they shape young peoples’ experiences of community relations in the City. Featuring discussion with the young people and the researchers who interviewed them, the exhibition will help us take stock of how young people in Belfast view progress made toward good relations, stimulating thinking on remaining challenges.
The exhibition is being held at The Crumlin Road Gaol on the UN International Day of Peace as part of the ‘Our Lives, Our Legacy’ event organised by Springboard Opportunities. The event includes a youth -led immersive exhibition and performance that will explore the legacy of the Good Friday Agreement and share young people’s hopes for the future.