A group of students from Belfast Boys’ Model School in North Belfast have been delving deep into the stories, past and present, of their local community as part of a special literacy project designed to build confidence and enhance writing skills.
The year 10 boys have been training as young reporters, working under the guidance of experienced journalist Mark Devenport and Nerve Belfast to create a magazine, uncovering the hidden history of the area and its people.
The upcoming Good Relations Week in Ballycastle is set to kick off in style, bringing together students from St. Patrick’s & St. Brigid’s, Ballycastle Integrated, and Bridin Ni Dhonnghaile Primary Schools, along with the esteemed presence of Mayor Steven Callaghan.
As part of the celebration, the students will be delving into arts and crafts activities, showcasing their creativity and embracing the spirit of unity and friendship that Good Relations Week aims to promote.
The session will centre around celebrating Good Relations Week through various games and activities. Each young person will receive a portion of a puzzle to design, symbolizing their individual identity. As the session concludes, we will assemble all the pieces to form a complete jigsaw puzzle.
Event by RCity: Communities Integrating Through Youth
As part of Good Relations Week, Positive Steps will be participating in a “paper riot” event, where they will share their own perspectives and listen to their peers’ opinions on community relations. Following this, the team will proceed to design canvases based on various themes of good relations.
Event by RCity: COMMUNITIES INTEGRATING THROUGH YOUTH.
A cafe style workshop will provide a safe space for participants to meet people from different backgrounds and parts of the world.
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.
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.
Building Connections Creatively will use the arts and creative storytelling to build connections with groups of people who would otherwise not meet. This workshop will enable discussions, dispel myths and create a greater awareness of what good relations means to us today.
Please contact: sharon@stcolumbsparkhouse.org for more information
NWIA would like to welcome local women to visit their centre to gain insight into the lives of Muslim women, to chat, ask questions about their culture, values and traditions. Through getting TOGETHER it will, dispel myths and misconceptions while creating a greater understanding among women.
Contact: info@nwia.org.uk for more 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.