Good Relations Week 2020 Events

Postcards From the Edge is a new online exhibition, delivered by Linen Hall Library and Nerve Centre, featuring work created by participants from different community backgrounds coming together to express aspects of their post-conflict lives in postcard format.

A hand-picked selection from Northern Ireland Screen’s Digital Film Archive to showcase and celebrate the work of people and communities in creating and sustaining good relations in Northern Ireland from 1990.

An online artistic showcase of the thoughts and experiences of many people including practitioners, organisations and individuals who have benefited from and participated in BCRC Good Relations Programmes, through music, poetry, photography, craft and art.

SAME/DIFFERENCE is a creative writing and photography project, facilitated by poets Maria McManus, Nandi Jola, Viviana Fiorentino and photographer Bernarde Lynn. It celebrates the voices and creative talent of people from different cultural backgrounds, now living in Northern Ireland. Explore our increasingly rich, diverse and multi-cultural community.

Since 2014, and with the support of the Community Relations Council, the Nerve Centre’s Creative Centenaries project has developed a suite of graphic novels focused on real-life characters from Ireland’s Decade of Centenaries. Join us as we highlight the curriculum linked resources and find out how you can download and use them for free.

A showcase of Cultural Harmony, exploring music against the backdrop of conflict in the music scene of Northern Ireland in the 70s and 80s. With inputs from prominent figures in the local music scene including John O’Neill and Stuart Bailie, the project brought about thoughtful conversations about music, memory and identity.

Recently described by the Museums Journal as ‘exciting, risky, challenging, funny, thought provoking and revolutionary’, take a virtual tour of CultureLab, an exhibition exploring cultural stereotypes and posing questions around issues of culture and identity in Northern Ireland. And remember, don’t believe the stereotype.

A short film documenting the Rural Housing Association's Diversity Boxes Project in partnership with ArtsEkta. The Diversity boxes project delivered educational boxes full of cultural fact sheets, arts and crafts and recipes inspired by cultures from around the world to over 70 families in Sion Mills, during the COVID-19 pandemic.