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.
Council Area: Causeway Coast & Glens
Garvagh Library hosts the Human Library
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.
Flowers from around the world workshop
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
Together, Let’s Build – Art Craft in Ballycastle Library
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’.
Family Film Screening in Coleraine Library
Come together at Coleraine Library for a FREE film screening as part of Good Relations Week 2023. Suitable for all the family. Details available in branch.
Booking Essential
Together, Let’s Build – Art Craft in Ballymoney Library
As part of Good Relations Week, Ballymoney Library invite 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 display of good relations within your community’.
Cafe Culture
This café style dialogue event has been designed to raise awareness of the people from many different cultures who have come to live in the Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council area.
Conversations will take place in a café style environment with the purpose of creating a positive and informal space to hear from individuals representing a variety of cultural and racial groups. It is an opportunity to learn about different countries, why people have left their home country, what the experiences have been for them arriving in a new country, cultural and religious differences and much more.
This is a great opportunity to hear from people directly and have the opportunity to ask questions with the aim of raising awareness and understanding of cultural diversity and differences, the reasons why people come here, the challenges they may face and how they make a positive contribution within our local communities.
This event will also include presentations from 2 local community organisations who will give an overview of the work they have been doing to assist newcomers and the experiences and learning that they have gained to develop the projects that they now implement to support individuals and to aid positive community integration.
To attend, register your interest at good.relations@causewaycoastandglens.gov.uk.
Disability on the Record Exhibition in Coleraine Library
Come along to Coleraine Library where you can view the PRONI exhibition “Disability on the Record”. This exhibition provides an overview of how disability has been represented in Northern Ireland over time. Please check Libraries NI website for opening times.
History Walk – Good Relations Week
A historical walk on Saturday 23rd September 2023 around Cushendun noting places of importance and how Gaeilge was once the main language taking place. A very interesting walk which is like a journey back in time about life in the area.
We aim to bring people together to hear and learn about the local history – everyone is welcome!
Meeting in St Patrick’s Church Car Park at 1.15pm.
To book please contact Máirtín (07811833590) or Áine Máire (07515809019) or email dubhdoite@gmail.com
The Cornfield Project
‘Change Starts with Us’ and the Cornfield Project in Coleraine is an amazing regeneration project that has transformed an unloved area of land, between two communities, into a thriving nature zone with widespread environmental activities. This exciting space benefits residents by bringing them together in the great outdoors to tackle issues such as segregation, low employment and health.
Good Relations Week 2022 is running until Monday 26th September with a colourful programme of over 250 community focused events across the region based on the ‘Change Starts with Us’ theme.
Visit www.goodrelationsweek.com for the 2022 event listings #GRW22
Check out this video to learn more about the Cornfield Project: https://fb.watch/fOylVRuras/