The Londonderry Bands Forum podcast returns for 2023 Good Relations Week as we celebrate the theme of together and the work of the Londonderry Bands Forum and their member bands.
Event Format: Online
Mediation tools for building community
Communities are changing, there are many challenges & opportunities facing us all, come along to our workshop where we will share some mediative tools that we have developed from our 20+ yrs work locally, nationally & internationally! This will be an evening online event that will be interactive, we aim to ensure that the session is practically useful, enjoyable & will help develop communities that are more together!
When we work together to share resources, tackle issues, deliver services etc while the outcomes can be fabulous there can also be many challenges along the way. We want to share tools that will help prevent issues, manage relationships & transform any broken or challenging relationships.
Online Trauma Informed Practice Workshop – Level 1 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Awareness
As part of Good Relations Week 2023, Rural Community Network (RCN) is delivering an online course in Trauma Informed Practice – Level 1 Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) Awareness. This course is ideally suited for individuals and organisation’s who are interested in gaining an initial understanding of ACEs, their long term impacts, how they affect behaviours, how we can better respond to people affected by ACEs (including ourselves), and who can support us.
This workshop is part of RCN’s ongoing participation in, and commitment to, the regional strategy to embed ACES Awareness and Trauma Informed knowledge and practice at community and statutory levels. Delivery will be provided by RCN staff who have been trained by Safeguarding Board NI (SBNI). All resources used to deliver the workshop have been developed by SBNI.
To reserve a place at this workshop please click below alternatively contact the RCN Offices on 0288766670 or kelly@ruralcommunitynetwork.org.
Almanac for a Walled City – Experience the New Interactive App
Download and experience Almanac for a Walled City, a new geolocated soundwalk app from Nerve Centre and artist Christopher Steenson that examines our relationship with the weather.
Taking the form of an interactive soundwalk accessed through a geolocated smartphone app, Almanac for a Walled City draws inspiration from the importance of almanacs and weather forecasting in Irish history to speculate on the future of Derry~Londonderry, as listeners walk along the city’s 400-year-old walls.
Surveying today’s existing landscape, users will reflect on Derry’s current place in ecological history, while contemplating how the relationship between our society and our environment might change over the next 400 years, as it is shaped by our ever-changing weather.
Delivered by Nerve Centre, the project is one of five arts projects nationwide supported by the ESB Brighter Future Arts Fund. The €250,000 fund, managed in partnership with Business to Arts, aims to support artists and arts organisations to deliver creative projects that will promote awareness of climate change and inspire positive action around sustainability and the energy transition.
Over the last year, Christopher Steenson spent extended periods of time in the city carrying out field recordings along the Walls, and leading a programme of engagement workshops with young people and community participants. He also spent time meeting and carrying out recordings at Coolkeeragh power station and meeting ESB employees.
4 Corners Festival: Visions Of Our City Premiere
4 Corners Festival is premiering its Visions Of Our City video from the 2023 festival.
Earlier this year, the Festival partnered with Ulster University to bring together young people from all ‘corners’ of Belfast to explore their dreams for the city. This video showcases their experience of the event.
Award-winning photographer Mal McCann (Irish News) led workshops in smartphone photography before the sixth form students had the chance to work in groups and capture images that represent their collective vision for Belfast. A selection of the photos produced can be viewed on the Festival’s website.
Now approaching its 12th year, the 4 Corners Festival was conceived as a way to inspire people from across the city to transform it for the peace and wellbeing of all, featuring a range of art, music, discussion, sport and faith-based events.
Co-founder, Father Martin Magill: “A key part of 4 Corners Festival each year is our encouragement to develop new relationships. It was great to see how the young people got on so well with one another during our first event”.
This event was funded by The Northern Ireland Executive’s Central Good Relations Fund.
Online Quiz Night
Join Reclaim the Agenda and Here NI for an online quiz night.
No team needed, join in from your sofa and get your brain in gear! A mixture of general knowledge questions and some themed around good relations and ‘together’. Prizes to be won.
Email Danielle for the link to join on danielle@reclaimtheagenda.org.
Family Matters
The Moving Up Moving On project within Forthspring Inter Community Group will deliver an event for families from Springfield Primary School and St. Clare’s Primary School.
Families from the two schools will engage in a treasure trail which will criss-cross the interface, aiming to break down barriers and encourage local families to move across interfaces.
This event is open to pupils from both schools and their parents/guardians.
ChangeMaker Podcast
Today’s workplaces are more diverse than ever, and it’s common to work with people from many different places and backgrounds. This has opened many new opportunities, but it has also created many challenges. This is why Wheelworks Arts has developed the ChangeMaker programme, addressing equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace.
The lead artist in the ChangeMaker programme, Lesley Cherry, was also involved in Good Relations Work in East Belfast, helping to transform some of the paramilitary murals there into pieces of public art.
In this fascinating episode of the WheelWorks Creative Works Podcast, Lesley shares her recollections of the project and her challenges and achievements.
Special Screening of “Human the Movie” for Peace Day!
A special screening of “HUMAN” followed by a short discussion in support of International Peace Day and Good Relations Week 2022!
About this event
NETLOVE presents the screening of “HUMAN” by Yann Arthus-Bertrand, in support of International Peace Day and Good Relations Week 2022 on Wednesday 21 September 2022 from 5:00 p.m until 7.00 p.m, at the Guildhall (the Whittaker Suite).
The screening (45 min) will be followed by a short discussion and light refreshments.
Space is limited to 50 attendees |Kindly RSVP|
WHY NOW?
“Each year, the International Day of Peace is observed around the world on the 21st September. The General Assembly of the United Nations has declared this as a day devoted to strengthening the ideals of peace, both within and among all nations and peoples.” (www.un.org/en/events/peaceday/)
In an ever more divided society, where inhumane conflicts and crises are unfolding before our eyes, we may feel powerless. But… could power be found by exploring what it means to be “HUMAN”? Could this understanding help strengthen the unity of vision and action of our fractured society?
SYNOPSIS
“HUMAN is a collection of stories, offering a reflection on what it means to be human. Through these stories full of love and happiness, as well as hatred and violence, HUMAN brings us face to face with the other, making us reflect on our lives. From stories of everyday experiences to accounts of the most unbelievable lives, these poignant encounters share a rare sincerity and underline who we are – our darker side, but also what is most noble in us and what is universal.
HUMAN is a politically engaged work which allows us to embrace the human condition and to reflect on the meaning of our existence.”
http://www.human-themovie.org/
http://netlove.org/
https://www.derrystrabane.com/Subsites/Museums-and-Heritage/Guildhall
Solutions Focused Circle
The Solution Focused Circle is an opportunity for Community Relations Council’s Core Funded and NBSGRP groups to come together and using the SFC model delivered by TIDES training, explore issues and problems.
The model enables the participants to work through and identify creative solutions to the problems faced in a peer support setting and will take place on the 30th September at 10am.