Community Relations Week

Community Relations and Cultural Awareness Week Monday 18th – 24th September 2017

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Event

Contact Name & Group

Date, Time and Venue

Event Description

Good Rural Connections

Una Cooper RAPID 028 7133 7149

Date: Monday 18th September Time: 11.00am to 1.00pm Venue: Cumber House, Claudy, Co. Derry

Bringing together older rural dwellers and members of black and minority ethnic communities in the DerryLondonderry area to explore and celebrate cultural diversity through discussion, music and dance.

History From Headstones

Seamus Breslin Contact Claire Kelly at DCSDC 028 71253253 ext 4292 or email Claire.kelly@derrystrabane.com

Date: Mon 18th, Wed 20th and Fri 22nd September Time: 1.00pm Venue: Top entrance of Derry City Cemetery

A shared resting place for both communities since 1853, this tour guided by both Catholic and Protestant tour guides – will inform participants about its shared history and connections with the ‘Troubles’.

Youth Workshops

Ciaran Boyle Education Authority Northern Ireland Ciaran.boyle@eani.org.uk

Date: Monday 18th September Time: TBC Venue: Lisnafin Community Centre, Strabane

Facilitated workshop for young people, challenging their preconceived ideas about recent bonfires in the town and how people involved with these events were labelled as a result. The event hopes to encourage understanding of other cultural traditions while overcoming prejudices and stereotypes.

Relations Training

Una Cooper RAPID 028 7133 7149

Date: Tuesday 19th September Time: 10.00am Venue: RAPID offices, Foreglen Road, Claudy

Aimed at promoting respect and mutual understanding of other cultures and traditions, this training session will equip the community sector within the Faughan and surrounding areas to deal with good relation issues.

Messines Programme DVD Showcase

Jackie Barr International School for Peace Studies, Glendermott Road 078 1364 1251

Date: Tuesday 19th September Time: 11.00am

Screening a DVD made with a group of participants from different communities in Lisburn and Castlereagh, this event will showcase the work of ISPS and how the programme works toward peace and reconciliation.

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Event

Contact Name & Group

Date, Time and Venue

Event Description

My City – Your City – Our City

Shantallow Youth Centre & Outer North / AYW 028 7135 3571 john.davis@eani.org

Date: Tuesday 19th September Time: 4.00pm – 6.00pm Venue: Shantallow Youth Centre, Racecourse Road

Young people from Outer North & the local Chinese community in Derry will participate in workshops to promote mutual understanding and acceptance of each other. The event will provide a safe and secure environment for these young people to explore their values and beliefs and challenge stereotypes.

Generation X

Conor McGilloway Youth Action NI 028 7131 8854

Date: Tuesday 19th September Time: 5pm to 9pm Venue: Social Enterprise Hub 1a Hawkin Street, Derry

Generation X is a coding workshops aimed at young people aged between 11 -19 years old. This is to help young people to create websites, games apps etc. There are 6 coding activities over a 3 hour session.

Travellers Culture Awareness Training

Amanda Biega DCSDC Amanda.biega@ derrystrabane.com

Date: Wednesday 20th September Time: 9.00am to 5.00pm Venue: Strabane Library

Aiming to dispel myths and increase understanding, participants will explore Traveller culture, increasing awareness and capacity to engage with the Traveller community.

My City, My Craft

Libraries NI

Date: Wednesday 20th September Time: 10.30am – 11.30am Venue: Waterside Library, Glendermott Road, Derry/Londonderry

Private event: City scape activity incorporating familiar landmarks such as the Peace Bridge, the river Foyle and the Guildhall which will support the learning and development of pre-school children from all corners of the city. The children will be encouraged to work positively together and it is hoped that they can sustain the relationships they forge at this young age.

Syrian Women’s Event Private Event

Mary Deery Women’S Centre, Derry

Date: Wednesday 20th September Time: 11.00am to 1.00pm Venue: Women’s Centre, Derry

Aimed at integrating Syrian and refugee women who have recently moved to the city, this event allows women from different cultures to interact and share stories of their experiences, backgrounds, troubles and challenges to ultimately improve tolerance, respect and celebrate diversity.

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Event

Contact Name & Group

Date, Time and Venue

Event Description

Walking Tour of Siege and Free Derry Museum

Nigel McGilligan Melmount and East Bank Community Association 028 7188 0878

Date: Thursday 21st September Time: 9.00am Venue: Leaving from Melmount Community Forum

SPACES still available to register for this walking tour around the Siege and Free Derry Museum. This informative tour will give you an insight to all the history that Derry is steeped in.

Seminar: The War’s not over yet!

Maureen Hetherington The Junction NI

Date: Thursday 21st September Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm Venue: DiverseCity, Community Partnership Building, 8-14 Bishop Street

The Junction’s Ethical and Shared Remembering Project will host a seminar to examine the legacy of the Treaty of Versailles and the impact this peace agreement had on future conflicts around the world. Led by Seamus Farrell, the event will encourage participants to ask important questions about democracy and civic society.

Access your Art

National Museums Northern Ireland Anna.liesching@nmni.com

Date: Thursday 21st September Time: 2.00pm Venue: Tower Museum

Highlighting the activity of Creative Community Connections, members of the Creggan Day Centre will unveil their community-curated objects selected from the Ulster Museum art collection aimed at enriching the lives of local communities through knowledge of art.

Multicultural Workshops

Willie Lamrock YMCA

Date: Thursday 21st September Time: Evening time Venue: YMCA

This event will create an evening of understanding and celebration of different cultures that exist in the local community.

These multicultural workshops will consist of Henna art, Bollywood dancing, Ibuki Taiko drums, Polish crafts and Ulster Scots and tasters of different traditional foods.

Is Democracy on the way out?

The Junction – NI

Date: Friday 22nd September Time: 11.00am – 1.00pm Venue: DiverseCity, Community Partnership Building, 8-14 Bishop Street

Author Johnston McMaster will deliver a seminar examining the theory that democracy is on the way out. Participants will have the opportunity to discuss this theory and debate how the future of Northern Ireland, Europe and indeed the world is all dependent on the future of democracy.

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Community Relations and Cultural Awareness Week

Event

Contact Name & Group

Date, Time and Venue

Event Description

Launch of LGBT Scheme

Martin McConnellogue Fist Housing Aid & Support Services

Date: Friday 22nd September Time: 1.00pm Venue: Jefferson Court, Derry

This is a launch event of a pilot scheme being delivered by First Housing Aid and Support Services. This scheme consists of different agencies across the city working together to create safe space for vulnerable members of the LGBT community.

Traditions Meet

Gordon Speer Border Arts

Date: Friday 22nd September Time: 3.00pm to 5.00pm Venue: The Diamond, Castlederg

The event will involve live music & dancers from Country, Irish and Scottish traditions performing at the Diamond in Castlederg Town centre. This event will help participants improve levels of tolerance and respect for different cultures while celebrating them together.

Multicultural Evening

Shauna Mullan EA Youth Service

Date: Friday 22nd September Time: 7.00pm to 8.30pm Venue: Waterside Youth Centre

A multicultural evening that will showcase the culture and traditions of the young people who are participating in a youth inclusion programme at the Waterside Youth centre. The event will consist of traditional food, music, dance, arts and crafts and traditional clothing from countries such as India, Philippines and Egypt.

Musical Traditions from around the Globe

Peter O’Doherty An Culturlann 028 7126 4132

Date: 22nd September Venue: An Culturlann Great James Street, Derry

The event will consist of an evening in Culturlann with Irish traditional, Ulster Scots and Syrian musicians, to accompany this will be a visual projections around the centre to increase the awareness of each cultural background.

Culture Night – On the Move

Gasyard Wall Féile 028 7126 2812 jonathon.fulton@ urbanvillagesni.org

Date: Friday 22nd September Time: 5.30pm – 9.30pm Venue: The Bogside, Fountain and Bishop Street, Derry/Londonderry

Culture Night goes on the move to the historic and culturally rich neighbourhoods of the Bogside, Fountain and Bishop Street Urban Village area. The event will encourage local residents to partake in the Culture Night celebrations in a safe and shared space.

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Event

Contact Name & Group

Date, Time and Venue

Event Description

Frances Quinn – Irish Language Storytelling

Libraries NI 028 7122 9990 www.librariesni.org.uk/ Libraries/Pages/DerryCentral-Library.aspx

Date: Friday 22nd September Venue: Derry Central Library

Frances Quinn will perform from her extensive repertoire of Irish and multicultural stories, verse and dramatic monologues. The event has been funded by the ‘Peg and Jim Armstrong Bursary’ and will help to promote mutual respect and understanding for the Irish language in a safe and shared place.

Open night

Kyle Thompson North West Cultural Partnership 028 7126 5869

Date: Friday 22nd September Venue: New Gates Art and Cultural Centre, 20-22 Hawkin Street

There will be an opportunity for visitors to the centre to play various musical instruments, show case local talent and stimulate discussions and conversations around cultural diversity.

Taste the World

Kyle Thompson TRIAX PEACE Walls 028 7126 1916

Date: Friday 22nd September Venue: Bishop Street and Fountain Street

This event will explore different cultures using the medium of dance, music and traditional cuisine. This will positively engage people from different backgrounds and let them experience different cultures.

The Social Conscience of the Song

North West Play Resource Centre 028 7126 8027 liam@derryplayhouse.co.uk £8.00

Date: Saturday 23rd September Time: 8.00pm – 9.45pm Venue: The Playhouse, 5-7 Artillery Street

Focusing on how artistic expression can unite communities, this live musical performance and interactive discussion will trace the history of songs that became the soundtrack to generations and causes, including civil rights, the ‘Troubles’, anti-war, class struggles and LGBTQ rights.

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Event

Contact Name & Group

Date, Time and Venue

Event Description

Polish Film Night

Polish Abroad info@polishabroad.co.uk

Date: Saturday 23rd September Time: 6.00pm – 8.00pm Venue: Nerve Centre Cinema, 7-8 Magazine Street

This Polish film screening (inc. English subtitles) gives all minority and majority communities a chance to participate in the cultural experience of one of the largest ethnic minorities in NI.

Mixed Martial Arts Showcase – Fight to Unite

St Columbs Park House www.stcolumbsparkhouse. org

Date: Saturday 23rd September, Sunday 24th September Time: 12.30pm – 6.30pm Venue: Foyle Arena, St. Columbs Park

Cross community youth clubs from across Derry and Belfast will come together to for a mixed martial arts showcase involving the M Powered project from St. Columbs Park House. Young people taking part will learn more about the good relations work going on locally and also see first-hand how the park can be used as a safe and shared space.

Political Tour

Derry City and Strabane District Council Amanda.biega@ derrystrabane.com

Date: Saturday 23rd September Time: 9.00am – 5.00pm Venue: Belfast

Private tour to Belfast for young people from both Protestant and Catholic backgrounds in Castlederg, exposing them to the political division that exists in the Falls and Shankill areas to see and hear how young people living in this area are trying to overcome their experiences of conflict. The event will give young people from these three communities the opportunity to share and compare their personal experiences.

Nurture – Nature

Karen Healy Creggan Country Park

Date: Sunday 24th September Time: 1pm – 3pm Venue: Creggan Country Park

This event will use biodiversity as a tool to improve cross community and intergenerational relations and promote a better understanding of disability.

It will bring individuals of all ages and backgrounds from across the city together.

Make Them Visible – Oxfam exhibition

Libraries NI 028 7188 3686

Date: Throughout September Time: During library opening hours Venue: Strabane Library, Railway Street

Oxfam exhibition featuring images from South Sudan and people who have had to flee this country. The exhibition hopes to make ‘these invisible people’ visible by highlighting the situation of South Sudanese refugees and raise awareness of the challenges they often face.

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Contact Name & Group

Date, Time and Venue

Mutual Respect

Jyoti Suri Hindu Association 077 0902 1461

Date: During CR Week

A meeting of people within the community from different cultures, ethnicity, Nationality and religion to discuss how their culture is important to them. This will be followed by food and photographs.

Every Story Matters

James Kerr Verbal Arts 028 7126 6946

Date: During CR Week Venue: Rathmore Centre, Caw Community Centre, Stable Lane and Mall Wall, Bishop Street within Derry/ Londonderry

Community groups from across the city will participate in individual reading at the Rathmore Centre and Caw Community Centre culminating in a joint reading at the Verbal Arts Centre. This is an opportunity for groups to share stories, traditions and beliefs so their voices can be heard.

Community Relations Exhibition Launch - Human Library for School: Galvanising the Peace

Gerard Deane Holywell Trust 028 7126 1941

Date: Monday 18th September Time: 12.30pm - 2pm Venue: Holywell Trust

Over numerous years Holywell Trust has been recording community relations events.

With hundreds of photographs an exhibition will be launched with anecdotes from previous participants. Also Galvanising the Peace report and podcast will be launched throughout the week.

Multi-Cultural Tea Dance

Gina Devine FSCDA 028 7188 5100

Date: Wednesday 20th September Time: 7pm - 10pm

To promote cultural diversity across Strabane District Fountain Street CDA will run a Tea dance to show case the different cultures and traditions of the local community through music and dance.

Event

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Event Description

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Derry City and Strabane District Council

Good Relations Officers

98 Strand Road Derry BT48 7NN

Amanda Biega, Derg and Waterside Angela Askin, Ballyarnett and Foyleside Carol Stewart, Moor and Strabane Town Pauline O’Neill, Faughan and Sperrin

47 Derry Rd Strabane BT82 8DY

Tel: (028) 71 253 253 E: info@derrystrabane.com Website: www.derrystrabane.com

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