Shared Housing, Shared History: Belfast Troubles Tour for Antrim and Ballycastle Residents
Join us for a Shared Housing, Shared History Tour, where residents from Fennel Drive in Antrim and Dunineany View in Ballycastle will come together for a meaningful exploration of Belfast’s historical landmarks. This joint Troubles Tour will cover significant sites, including Falls Road, Shankill, and the Peace Wall.
Guided by Dr. Tom Thorpe, the tour will offer insights into the complexities of our shared past, fostering a deeper understanding of the Troubles and their impact on our communities.
Reflecting the theme of ‘OpportUNiTY’, this event provides a unique opportunity for residents from different areas to connect through a shared historical experience, promoting dialogue and mutual understanding. By engaging with this history together, participants will explore the ways in which our collective past can inform and enrich our current relationships and community dynamics.
Dalriada Shared Music Programme: Exploring Diversity Through Traditional Music
The Glens of Antrim Comhaltas, in collaboration with the Good Relations Team at Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council, is excited to present the Dalriada Shared Music Programme at the Old Church Centre. This program provides a unique opportunity for young musicians to engage with and explore traditional music, song, and dance from a variety of cultural backgrounds.
In line with this year’s theme of ‘OpportUNiTY’, the Dalriada Shared Music Programme aims to celebrate and harness the power of cultural diversity through music. By bringing together diverse traditions and fostering collaboration, this initiative highlights how shared musical experiences can bridge cultural gaps, promote mutual understanding, and build stronger community connections.
Join us to witness the vibrant fusion of traditional music from different backgrounds and experience how coming together through artistic expression creates new opportunities for unity and appreciation.
In celebration of Good Relations Week 2024 and its theme of ‘OpportUNITY,’ Ballymoney Library, in partnership with the Northern Health & Social Care Trust and as part of the Causeway Loneliness Network, invites you to experience the Human Library Project. This unique event encourages community members to connect with individuals they might not typically engage with, promoting tolerance, celebrating differences, and fostering understanding across diverse cultural and lifestyle backgrounds. Join us to explore and appreciate the richness of our community through meaningful dialogues and personal stories.
Building Resilient Island Communities: harnessing social value for sustainable investment
Islands are small, unique, and often overlooked. They face unique challenges that are not always understood by more centrally based governments and organisations.
This webinar will explore how islands can utilise and maximise social value to improve the resilience of their communities.
Join us for a collaborative learning experience that will cover:
- Ways to address the unique challenges that islands face, now and in the (not too distant) future
- Island Communities Impact Assessment (ICIA) and its significance for social value assessment
- Understanding and increasing social return on investment (SROI) with the Social Value Engine
- Best practices for creating partnerships and collaboration, using the lessons learned and a case study from North Ronaldsay
Agenda:
- Understanding resilience in island communities – Anna Whelan, Burton Whelan/Rose Regeneration
- Valuing the invaluable: the importance of transparent social value and outcome sharing across the island community ecosystem, with a demo of the Social Value Engine – Maddie Kortenaar, Social Value Engine
- Case study: North Ronaldsay – North Ronaldsay Trust/L & L Fraser Ltd
- Getting started with social value – developing proxies and outcomes that matter – Luke Fraser, North Ronaldsay Trust/L & L Fraser Ltd
- Interactive Q&A session
Following on from Good Relations Week 2024 and its theme of ‘OpportUNITY,’ the Beyond Belfast Forum is hosting a residential retreat from 15th to 16th October at Corrymeela. This event is designed to support good relations practitioners by providing a dedicated space for them to connect, share experiences, and reflect on their work. As September is a busy month for those engaged in fostering positive community relations, this retreat offers a valuable opportunity to rejuvenate and collaborate, reinforcing the week’s emphasis on unity and transformative action. Join us in celebrating the collective efforts that drive meaningful change and build a more inclusive community.
In partnership with Northern Health & Social Care Trust and as part of the Causeway Loneliness Network, Garvagh Library invites you to attend the Human Library Project as we also celebrate Good Relations Week.
The Human Library is a way for people to reach out and connect with individuals in their community that they might not normally engage with. Human libraries promote tolerance, celebrate differences and encourage understanding of people who come from varied cultural or lifestyle backgrounds.
Everyone is welcome to attend.
The event will be held on scheme in Girona Close. Gardening together to make window boxes for yourselves and your neighbours. We’ll make beautiful boxes of flowering plants from around the world to bring hope and cheer to our homes for autumn and little flowering bulbs to show us signs of spring in the winter months. A Fun intergenerational event for all members of your family with all materials and tuition provided. Gardening helps us to sew hope for the future while nurturing our present happiness and mental health.
Contact: Deirdre.nash@habinteg-ulster.co.uk for more information
As part of Good Relations Week, Ballycastle Library invites everyone to chose either a blank or worded brick art craft sheet and select a word, that you feel unites your community together and to colour, scribble, draw or design your art template to help us build our project and display of good relations within your community’.