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Ards Borough Council
Flags and Emblems school seminars
Venues Dates and Times tbc
Jim Murdock 028 9182 4076
Ards Council engages with local schools in a number of Good Relations initiatives. A Flags and Emblems seminar is being offered to all seven post primary schools in the Borough, and it is hoped that a number will participate in this during Community Relations Week.
Ards Borough Council
Launch of re-imaged mural
Venue date and time tbc
Jim Murdock 028 9182 4076
The Council has secured funding to re-image murals with Loyalist images and symbols through the Arts Council’s Re-imaging Communities Fund. It is hoped to launch a new mural to replace the existing one in Queen’s Square, Newtownards, during Community Relations Week.
Ards Borough Council
Diversity Showcase
Town Hall Arts Centre, Conway Square Newtownards
Jim Murdock 028 9182 4076
To showcase the diversity of the Borough and provide useful information on a variety of useful services for people in the Ards Borough.
Colmcille and Ultach Trust
Film showing and debate ‘The Ship of the People/ Soitheach nan Daoine’
Donaghadee Library
Thursday 1st May
7.30pm
Gordon McCoy 028 90230749
‘Ship of the People’ tells how in 1739 one hundred Gaelic-speaking Scottish islanders were kidnapped and held in Donaghadee prior to transportation to America as slaves. Their dramatic escape and the scandal which resulted will be debated by Skye historian Cailean Maclean and local historian Harry Allen.
