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Information Bulletin
June 2008
Community Relations Resource Centre is moving
After 16 years the Resource Centre is being incorporated into the main CRC office at Murray Street. We will no longer be selling books but we will be expanding our library in more pleasant and spacious surroundings. If you want to contact Ellana, email etomasso@nicrc.org.uk or Patricia at poneill@nicrc.org.uk
Corrymeela Summer Festival
Sharing the Future, Sharing the Past -28 June 10:00am – 10:00pm
A day of celebration, fun and learning for all ages.
For those who have never been to Corrymeela, and for those who can’t wait to come back. With Special Guest Speaker Donald W. Shriver Jr.
Registration & Coffee
Opening Big Sing, & Celebration
Keynote event with panel
Picnic lunch
Afternoon workshops
Festival activities
BBQ Dinner
Concert
Workshops:
- Politics
- Faith & Life
- Environment & Global Issues
- Story-telling
- Poetry
- Gender / sexual identity
- Film
- Youth programme
Festival:
- Community Art & Labyrinth
- Creche
- Cafe
- Market stalls
- Face painting
- Outdoor activities
- Music/ drum workshops
- Exhibition Football
Donald W. Shriver Jr. is one of the world’s leading experts on citizenship. He has written on the Holocaust, Apartheid, the Civil Rights movement in America, and is the author of An Ethic for Enemies: Forgiveness in Politics and Honest Patriots: Loving a Country Enough to Remember its Misdeeds.
£10/ adult, concession £5, under-18 free. For more information, contact Becca Moody 028 2076 2626 or beccamoody@corrymeela.org and please see our website www.corrymeela.org for programme details.
Peace by Piece
3 day International Women’s Peace24 – 26 JUNE 2008
Waterfront Hall, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Registration Packs now Available
For more information visit:
What’s happening at Creggan for women?
Would you like the opportunity to think about how sectarianism and racism affects people living in Northern Ireland?
If you would like to explore this further, then why not get involved in the WRDA’s Good Relations Programme.Subject to sufficient interest levels, this programme will be run in Creggan, Church of Ireland Hall. The Programme will be delivered by, trained WRDA Community Facilitators on: 11th and 18th June 2008 from 7:30pm - 10:00pm on each evening.
The programme aims are:
· To introduce discussions on sectarianism & the key issues surrounding it.
· To enhance understanding of sectarianism.
· To investigate how sectarianism has shaped the society we live in.
· To introduce an understanding of racism.
· To explore reactions to asylum seekers, refugees and migrant workers.
To reserve a place, on the course, please contact: Kenny Donaldson on: 07900882770 asap.
Linen Memorial Returns to Corrymeela for 2008 Day of Private Reflection
If you missed the moving art installation Linen Memorial to Lives Lost last year, you have another chance to witness this thought provoking piece. Linen Memorial to Lives Lostreturns to Corrymeela’s Ballycastle Centre on Saturday 21 June for the 2008 Day of Private Reflection. Belfast-born artist Lycia Trouton’s Linen Memorial consists of white linen handkerchiefs on which the names of every man, woman and child killed in the conflict are embroidered. The names listed represent the almost 4,000 persons killed traumatically from 1966 to 2001. New names are in the process of being embroidered.
Accompanying the exhibit will be a reading of the names of all those killed, in chronological order, from the book Lost Lives by David McKittrick, Brian Feeney, Seamus Kelters, Chris Thornton and David McVea.
The Day of Private Reflection was instated as a time for people all over the world to pause and reflect upon the Northern Ireland conflict and the possibilities for the future. Speaking perfectly to this ambition, the Linen Memorial to Lives Lost remains a humble and hopeful contribution to the possible ‘fragile parity of esteem-for-difference’ in communities in Northern Ireland. For every observer, it quietly personalises the terrible consequences of conflict.
Lyciareflects, ‘While I have been an artist for many years my most major achievement, to date, has been this commemorative creation.’ A powerful creation that after a long journey might finally have some closure. She said, ‘The memorial has been a heartfelt personal project – now brought home to rest. When I met Kate Turner at the Healing Through Remembering offices in Belfast, she alerted me to the fact that their offices were in a renovated historic Belfast linen handkerchief factory! Then, she told me about their research and projects – I was extremely moved.’
If you are interested in visiting this historically significant piece, please be aware that while Corrymeela makes attempts for a safe and quiet space, the memorial can be quite moving or even disturbing. Please come accompanied by a friend or loved one.
Note: The memorial would not be possible without the contributions of skilled needleworkers and utilitarian sewers. If you are interested in embroidering 10 names on one linen handkerchief (which takes approximately 10 hours to complete), please contact the artist at lyciatrouton@gmail.com
Lycia Trouton is an artist, academic, and site-specific earthworks sculptor. She is the child of a Belfast/Bangor couple who emigrated to Vancouver, Canada in 1970. Lycia spent three years living in the divided city of Detroit, which made her acutely aware of the inequities of racial segregation and reminded her of Belfast, and communities fractured from violence.
The Linen Memorial has been created over a period of eight years and is still in progress. For further information see www.linenmemorial.org or www.lyciatrouton.com
The position of Women in post conflict NI
As part of our Confronting the Legacy of the Past project we would like to invite you to the above named seminar taking place in the Wellington Park Hotel Belfast on Wednesday 18th of June from 10pm until 2pm including lunch.
The seminar will examine whether or not the role of women in Northern Ireland has been enhanced or diminished as a consequence of the peace process.
We will look at the role of Women in Political and Civic society and discuss how working class women are more marginalised in these areas than those from more affluent backgrounds.
Workshops will explore barriers to working class women’s full participation and recommendations on how these barriers can be practically challenged.
We have confirmed 3 speakers for the event which will include workshops and a plenary session.
The speakers are:
Dawn Purvis – Progressive Unionist Party
Deirdre Mc Aliskey – Women into Politics
Antoinette Mc Millen – Belfast Trades Council
For details and registration form contactMel Corry/Kellie O’Dowd at
kellie.odowd@btinternet.comor telephone:02890331053
Community Relations Forum, Newtownabbey
Saturday 21st June
Barron Hall
Glengormley
A Day of Private Reflection 2pm-5pm
All are welcome to attend, for further information contact the Community Relations Forum on 028 9084 9314.
The 2007 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey
The results of the 2007 Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey will be made publicly available on Wednesday 11 June. The Life and Times website (www.ark.ac.uk/nilt) will contain tables of results for every question asked in the survey, as well as the questionnaires and dataset. Of particular interest, the 2007 survey included modules of questions on community relations, religious and national identity, as well attitudes to minority ethnic people and migrant workers.
As part of this launch, a seminar focusing on attitudes to the role of government in Northern Ireland will be held on Wednesday 11 June at Queen’s University – further information and booking details at www.ark.ac.uk/events
