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Sole Purpose Productions and Groundwork NI
A Shared Future Theatre Workshop
The Groundwork NI Regeneration Resource Centre, Belfast
Thursday 24th April
10am – 4pm
Caterina Goodman 028 9074 9494
A participatory theatre event with Sole Purpose Productions exploring the possibilities of a shared future with members of the group. No experience in theatre necessary.
Education and Library Board, Inter-board CR Youth Service Event
‘Your Past-Our Future? – a young persons’ community relations event promoting inclusiveness.’
Parliament Buildings, Stormont
Saturday 26th April
10am - 5pm
Geraldine McGreevy 028 9056 4059
200 young people, aged 14-20, from across Northern Ireland will come together to share in a series of activities and workshops. The event will be typified by fun and energy and will include interactive workshops on key themes of Diversity, Accommodating and Celebrating Difference; debates involving local politicians and making Stormont ‘Youth Friendly’.
W5 and Friends of Woodvale Park
Family Fun Day
Woodvale Park , Woodvale Road, Belfast
Saturday 26th April
10am – 4pm
James Stewart 028 9046 7801
Unlock your creativity and learn how to harness the force of the wind by designing, building and racing a mini sail car. A great way for families to have fun, working on their creations together.
UlsterPeoples College
Understanding Community Relations course
Ulster Peoples College
Saturday 26th April and Saturday 3rd May
10am - 4pm each day
Paul Donnelly 028 90 33 0131
An opportunity to study key CR themes such as the nature of divisions in our society and ‘telling your story’.
Education for Reconciliation, Irish School of Ecumenics
CONNECT meeting
The Long Gallery, Parliament Buildings, Stormont
Monday 28th April
10am – 1pm
Eileen Gallagher 028 6632 8210 or 028 9077 0061
CONNECT is the representative body for Church Fora and interchurch groups. They meet to share ideas, information, stories and inspirations. This meeting aims to profile the work being done to a wider audience including politicians. Input from keynote speakers will be followed by interactive workshops.
Irish Association for Cultural, Social & Economic Relations
Cohesion, Integration & Sharing; Can our politicians make it happen?
Long Gallery, Stormont
Monday 28th April
6.15pm
Tom Sullivan/Professor Pauline Murphy 077 7965 1939
The event will involve a panel discussion with representatives from the main political parties on their specific role and strategies in the development of cohesion, integration and sharing across communities in Northern Ireland. Participants will be invited to discuss these issues with the political representatives present.
Northern Visions/NvTv
Belfast Interfaces, launch of TV series
Monday 28th April
12pm
Marilyn Hyndman 028 9024 5495
Launch of the NvTv series, Belfast Interfaces, five one hour documentaries made with local people living and working in the interfaces in the city. Made with the support of the Belfast Interface Project and funded under the EU programme.
Whiterock Library (BELB)
Hands of Friendship
Whiterock Library, Belfast
Monday 28th April
4pm
Michael Scholes 028 9050 9236
Local children are to create templates of their own hands and decorate them using the word “Welcome” in different languages of the world. These will be displayed at the entrance to the Children’s Library.
Belfast Education and Library Board
Ulster Scots “what’s it all aboot?”
Andersonstown Library
Monday 28 April
7pm
Tinya Parkes 028 9050 9200
A special evening to hear about and get a taste of Ulster Scots history and culture. In partnership with the Ulster Scots Heritage Council.
Wave
Reporting the ‘Troubles’
WAVE Trauma Centre, 5 Chichester Park South, Belfast
Monday 28th April
10am – 1pm
The experiences of journalists reporting the conflict in Northern Ireland.This is a closed event for WAVE Members.
TIDES Training and Consultancy
Stepping into Diversity workshop
48 Elmwood Avenue, Belfast
Monday 28th April
10am -12.30pm
Gary Carpendale 028 9020 2026
This workshop is being organised to promote a better understanding of living in an intercultural society. The workshop will include looking at the effects of racism, information on different cultures, and our rights and responsibilities.
The Workers’ Educational Association with Groundwork Northern Ireland
Sustainable Development Course
Groundwork, Duncairn Gardens, Belfast
Monday 28th April - Wednesday 30th April
9.30am – 4pm
Caterina Goodman 028 9074 9494,
Maura Kavanagh 028 9032 9718,
This course is offered free of charge with lunch included. It carries an NCFE qualification at Level 1 (Learn ways to help sustain you projects/communities and save money at the same time)
Belfast Education and Library Board
Who are the Ulster Scots? A display.
Andersonstown Library
Monday 28 April - Friday 2 May
Event running during opening hours
Tinya Parkes 028 9050 9200
This display details four centuries of Ulster Scots Connections and culture.
In partnership with the Ulster Scots Heritage Council.
Survivors of Trauma
Bog Oak Exhibition plus North Belfast Cultural Society Book Launch
151 Cliftonville Road, Belfast, BT14 6JR
29th April @ 7.30pm
Marie Close - 028 9074 9944
Exhibition of Bog Oak Carving/Painting created as part of a therapeutic process by people coming to terms with the impact of the Troubles on their lives. This is part of a healing process in the transition from victim to survivor.
Shankill Stress and Trauma Group
21st Anniversary Celebration
Shankill Trauma Centre, 5 Ballygomartin Road
Tuesday 29th April
11am- 4 pm
Alan Wardle, 028 9020 1901
Shankill Stress and Trauma Centre are celebrating 21 years in existence. The event will be marked by the publication of leaflets on dealing with mental health, and special speakers will include two of the Victims Commissioners.
YouthLink NI
Celebration of Church Peace Building Youth Work
Black Box, Hill Street
Tuesday 29th April
7.30pm
Jeremy Gardiner or John Peacock 028 9032 3217
Through story telling and music this event will celebrate church-based peace building youth work. It also will challenge and inspire young people and youth workers to build relationships towards peace.
Wave
Without Walls
WAVE Trauma Centre, 5 Chichester Park South, Belfast
Tuesday 29th April
1pm – 4pm
For Bookings call 028 9077 9922
An exploration on the theme of a ‘Troubles’ museum for Northern Ireland. Keynote address by Louise Purbrick, University of Brighton. Also, on display a collection of Art Books, featuring the results of Healing Through Remembering’s ‘Open Call for Ideas’ on the concept of a ‘Living Memorial Museum’
Community Relations Council and IFI, Community Bridges Programme
Youth Innovation
Farset International Hotel (Second Floor), Springfield Road, Belfast
Tuesday 29th April
10am – 3pm
Dorothy Monaghan 028 9022 7500
The CRC are hosting this event for youth organisations working specifically in innovative community relations or reconciliation practice. Many can demonstrate a very powerful and challenging reconciliation practice. There will be substantive learning experiences through sharing and demonstration of practice in small workshops.
Housing Executive
Launch of Good Relations Project Awards
Boardroom, Housing Centre, 2 Adelaide St, Belfast
Tuesday 29th April
12pm
Jennifer Hawthorne 028 9031 8829
The Housing Executive, in partnership with the CRC have established a Good Relations Project Award scheme and the event (which will be followed by lunch) will announce this year’s winners. The award scheme has been established to encourage members of the Housing Community Network to undertake practical community relations projects within their respective communities in order to develop relationships within and between communities and increase respect for difference and diversity.
Women’s Resource and Development Agency
Launch of Good Relations resource pack
WRDA, 6 Mount Charles
Tuesday 29th April
11am
Margaret Ward 028 9023 0212
WRDA will launch their resource pack on Good Relations, which offers 3 structured workshop sessions challenging sectarian and racist attitudes and enabling participants to understand how such attitudes develop and persist. Community facilitators trained by WRDA will describe their experiences of delivering the programme and Margaret Ward, director of WRDA, will discuss future plans to extend this work.
Northern Ireland Council for Integrated Education
‘Flags and Emblems’ training session
NICIE, Aldersgate House, 13 - 19 University Road
Tuesday 29th April
10am – 1pm
Deborah Girvan 028 9023 6200
A training session for staff and Board members on the issue of flags and emblems and how these should be handled in schools.
Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Re-imaging Communities and the Art of Community Relations
Europa Hotel TBC
Wednesday 30th April
All day event
Joan Dempster 028 9038 5247 or jdempster@artscouncil-ni.org
This exhibition aims to celebrate the achievements of the Re-imaging Communities Programme by visually highlighting the successful projects that have been completed to date. It is also an opportunity to demonstrate how the arts can be used to develop good relations and to support community development throughout Northern Ireland.
Belfast City Council
A Showcase of Good Relations work in Belfast
Europa Hotel, Belfast
This event is postponed until later this year.
David Robinson/Emily Brough 028 9032 0202
The event seeks to showcase good practice in Good Relations activity in Belfast from a number of different sectors.
CRC Policy Development Programme
Truce or Transformation? – ten years on from the Agreement
Europa Hotel, Belfast
Wednesday 30th April
9.30am – 4pm
Dympna McGlade 028 9022 7500
The conference aims to look retrospectively at the 1998 Agreement through a good relations lens and look forward in a questioning way to what now lies ahead.
Irish School of Ecumenics
‘The Churches and Community Relations: Marginalisation or Reconciliation?’
Public Theology Seminar by Dr Gladys Ganiel
Irish School of Ecumenics, Antrim Road, Belfast
Wednesday 30th April
10.30am -12pm
Arlene Poole 028 9077 0061
Dr Gladys Ganiel, Lecturer in Reconciliation Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, will lecture on ‘The Churches and Community Relations: Marginalisation or Reconciliation?’ There will be time for questions and discussion.
Eastern Health and Social Services Board
Drama presentation exploring the implications of racism and sectarianism within health and social services
Eastern Health and Social Services Board, 12-22 Linenhall Street, Belfast
Wednesday 30th April
12.15pm - 2pm (includes lunch)
Anne McGlade 028 9055 3974
Building on its success in 2007 this event provides an opportunity to explore the implications of racism and sectarianism as experienced by health and social services, patients, clients, staff and their families. The drama is produced by Artsekta in association with the Eastern Area Equality and Human Rights Best Practice Forum. A discussion will follow the event.
Northern Lights Review
What Community Relations Can Do for Business
A lunchtime seminar
Europa Hotel, Edinburgh Suite.
Wednesday 30th April
12pm – 2.00pm
Contact
Annika Nestius-Brown at events@northernlightreview.org
or
Ian James Parsley 028 9146 4579 or Ray Mullan at CRC at 028 9022 7500
This is an opportunity to quiz top business people and economists on what the private sector can do, inside and outside the workplace, to improve community relations. As the Executive has made the economy its number one priority, the link between promoting business and respecting diversity has never been clearer – this is your chance to make your voice heard on the subject.
The Local Government Staff Commission for NI
Good Relations in Local Government
Malone House, Belfast
Wednesday 30th April
10am – 2pm
Lorna Parsons 028 9031 3200
This event will showcase good relations practice in local government and will include a number of case study examples from district councils. Invitation will be sent to council officers and members, our Partner Consultees, students, and local school children.
Ulster Peoples College
‘A shared future or a better future?’ A seminar
Ulster Peoples College
Wednesday 30th April
2.30pm - 4.30 pm
Karen McCartney 028 9033 0131
This seminar provides an opportunity to discuss the uncertainty of the status of the ‘A Shared Future’ policy. Followed by exhibition and reception.
Mediation Northern Ireland
Mediation and Peace III – A Seminar
Groundwork NI, 63 - 75 Duncairn Gardens,
Wednesday 30th April
2pm – 4pm
Peter O’Reilly 028 9043 8614
In this seminar Mediation NI explore with interested actors the challenges to and resources for responding to the objective Peace 111 (Priority 1, theme 1.1) It will help participants to envision the impact of achieving the objective and challenging sectarianism and racism in their local areas.
"Moving On"
North Belfast Interface Network
Survivors of Trauma, Cliftonville Road, Belfast
1st May @ 7.30pmThe event “Moving On”has been planned by the NBIN & S.O.T to explore the benefits that a Truth Commission will bring in addressing the needs of victims/survivors and discuss the view that reconciliation is central to the process of moving from victim to survivor and is integrally linked to a truth recovery process. There will also be an opportunity to discuss the barriers that still exist to community relations from unresolved events of the past.
Rab McCallum: rab@nbin.info , Tel; 028 90742255
Conflict Transformation Network (CTN), Belfast
Seminar
Senate Room, Queen’s University
Thursday 1st May
9.30am – 12.30pm
Kerry McIvor 028 9097 4098
An event to showcase the current work of Belfast’s strategic leaders, community practitioners and academics in relation to transforming conflict in Belfast. Organised to explore how the collaborative approach taken by the network has been effective in relation to addressing conflict within Belfast.
Chinese Welfare Association
‘A good neighbour is a found treasure’ (Chinese proverb)
Linenhall Library, Belfast
Thursday 1st May
7:30 pm
Sofia Botzios cro@cwa-ni.org
The stories of 5 remarkable people from the Chinese community in Northern Ireland, who will share their experiences, successes and difficulties in living in Northern Ireland, followed by a discussion with the audience.
UlsterMuseum
Art Outreach Project Launch
Ulster Museum, Stranmillis Road outdoors
Thursday 1st May
3.30pm
Colleen Frew 028 9039 5084
The launch of four large wall-panels painted by the Sure Start Chinese mothers and toddlers’ group with the help of Sri Lankan artist, Anushiya Sundaralingam. This art work was inspired by the Ulster Museum’s fashion collection and will adorn the builders’ hoardings on the Stranmillis Road for the next two months.
Northern IrelandChildren’s Enterprise
‘Lets Chat’: a young person’s version of ‘Lets Talk’
Australia House
Thursday 1st May
7pm
Jonny Baxter 028 9066 8867
This will be an interactive evening for young people to make community relations relevant to them through raising the issues they feel need to be heard. A panel representing different areas of local community will share with the group and be challenged.
Northern IrelandCouncil for Voluntary Action
Launch of NICVA’s new CR Policy Forum
NICVA, 61 Duncairn Gdns, Belfast
Thursday 1st May
2.30pm
Cathy Breslin 02890877777
NICVA is launching a new Community Relations Policy Forum for all those interested in sharing ideas on policy issues and learning from colleagues about policy challenges. The forum will enable interested organizations to make policy responses, coordinate policy information, participate in policy development, and influence decision making. All are welcome, not just 'experts'.
Housing Executive and the Inter-Community Network
Launch of the Shared Race Relations Charter
Housing Centre, 2 Adelaide St
Friday 2nd May
12pm
Jennifer Hawthorne 028 9031 8829
The lunchtime event (which will include buffet lunch) will see the launch of the Shared Race Relations Charter which has been drawn up by the Housing Executive’s Inter-Community Network. The aim of the Charter is to give a clear and strong message that the Housing Executive and community groups will not tolerate hate crime in any form on its estates. It also aims to help promote good relations between all communities including Black and Minority Ethnic and Migrant Worker communities and actively encourages their participation in community life.
Ultach Trust
Young Protestant Learners of Irish
Linen Hall Library
Friday 2nd May
1pm
Gordon McCoy 028 9023 0749
Ian Malcolm explains his research on young Protestants who have had an opportunity to learn the Irish language at school. His work, which has had many surprising results, suggests ways to increase the cross-community appeal of Irish.
Irish Congress of Trade Unions
May Day rally, A March and Diversity Festival
Belfast city centre and St George’s Market
Saturday 3rd May
12pm – 4.30pm
Clare Moore 028 9024 7940
Annual trade union rally, march and family festival on May Day 3 May. Join the trade union movement for a unique family festival celebrating diversity and interdependence – music, food and more!
