Council Area: Derry City & Strabane

Christine Bovill – Piaf Revisited

Special Discount £12 tickets for Piaf Revisited for Good Relations Week.

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The Paris icon and the Glasgow girl.

This is not a tribute show! Christine Bovill established her reputation as “one of Europe’s finest interpreters of French song” with her smash-hit Piaf. With a fresh take on this self-penned work, she now returns with Piaf Revisited, looking back on her remarkable journey, At the heart of the story is a young Glasgow girl, reluctant in school French until she heard NO REGRETS. Her journey is interwoven with Edith Piaf’s life and those incredible songs.

An award-winning songwriter in her own right, Bovill has toured throughout Europe and the Far East with her self-penned homage to the Little Sparrow, appearing on BBC Newsnight and on BBC Radio 4’s series, Soul Music. Her own compositions have appeared in film and TV. During her Edinburgh Fringe sell-out run at the Famous Speigeltent, she shared the stage with Charles Dumont, great friend of Piaf and, most famously, composer of Non, Je ne Regrette Rien.

Validation for her work didn’t come much higher..

Becoming ‘the stuff of Fringe legend’ (BroadwayBaby.com), Piaf Revisited stirs in the eternal Parisian tangle of passion and pain.
“Something that will stay with you for the rest of your life”

– Sunday Times

“If you love music, and you want to experience something extraordinary, then run, fly, race to book your ticket immediately.”

– Edinburgh Festival Magazine

“Bovill’s incarnation of Piaf is too astonishingly perfect, her voice tails off delicately like a spider’s thread to devastating effect”

– Fest Mag

Trawled

Special discount code for £12 tickets for Good Relations Week:

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A jaw-dropping story set on the Coral Sea, Australia. An Irish backpacker blags his way onto a prawn trawler. There he discovers a rarely seen world of hard labour and harder fishermen, where drinking, fighting, storms and hungry sharks are part of everyday life. His raw, exuberant story of adventure twists dramatically into survival culminating in an unforgettable moment of redemptive grace.

Trawled is a one-man biographical drama. The actor plays himself 25 years younger!

This is classic storytelling that plays out like a movie.

★★★★★ “Trawled is a play that cannot be missed” Theatre Thoughts Australia

★★★★★ “Fantastic but thought provoking show” Morish TV

★★★★★ “Writer/Actor Eoin Ryan has based this mammoth adventure on his own experiences” Fifty+SA

★★★★ “Be prepared for a real life, rocking, rolling adventure” Edinburgh Guide

★★★★ “Eoin is an engaging storyteller” One4Review

Age guidance: 16+

North West – Good Relations Leadership

The CRC Core Funded groups in the North West have come together to collectively organise and facilitate this session.

This event will allow space for people to share their frustrations at how the world seems to be moving towards extremes both locally and globally. An opportunity to showcase the good relations work supported by the Community Relations Council core funded groups and to support each other through challenging conversations locally.

At the event we’ll hear from Katy Hayward (QUB & IFI Board Member) who will consider the challenges for community relations work now and in the near future and on how the changing global context and general shift to the right in politics impacts on the work. An insight into the future work of IFI will also be shared.

We’ll also have input from Karina Pieterson and Damien McNally from the Community Relations Council on the place of good relations work in our changing world.

There will also be space for discussion with local good relations focused organisations and practitioners.

Coffee Morning

We are hosting a coffee morning at our offices on Friday 16th October from 10.30am to 12.30pm. This will be an opportunity to learn more about our organisation, meet our staff and find out how you can get involved in your community.

We will have two exciting launches at this event, our newly developed tHIS Matters Toolkit and a digital launch from our youth work participants, allowing us to share the amazing work being carried out by our team.

The Churches Trust carries out Community Development and Good Relations work across the North West – including Derry, Strabane & Donegal. We take a trauma informed approach to all of our work offering a safe and welcoming environment for all residents.

Staff will be available throughout to meet attendees and answer any questions they may have.

 

 

 

Visit from Foyle Network

Come along to Strathfoyle library and meet a representative from Foyle Network who will be here offering help and support with filling out forms, help with benefits and guidance and support on health matters.

10:30am-12:30pm

Voices Without Borders

The Voices without borders event will take place in the Firtrees Hotel, Strabane on 15th Oct 2025 at 11am, it will bring together local people of all ages and backgrounds with people from migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker communities. The event will create a safe space where attendees rotate around tables hosted by individuals with lived experience of arriving in Northern Ireland. Through personal storytelling and conversation, participants will gain a better understanding of the challenges and experiences of those from refugee and asylum seeker backgrounds.

The project specifically aims to engage people who have had little or no previous engagement with migrants, asylum seekers, or refugees, and who may have limited understanding of the differences between these groups or the difficulties they face. By creating personal connections, the event will promote empathy, challenge stereotypes, and strengthen good community relations in the area.

Aims:

-To promote positive relations and mutual understanding between local people and people from migrant, refugee, and asylum seeker backgrounds in Sion Mills and surrounding areas.

-To increase awareness of the diverse experiences and challenges faced by people who move to Northern Ireland seeking safety or opportunity.

-To engage community members who have not previously participated in good relations activities or intercultural events.

 

 

 

Good Relations Week Reminiscence Storytelling

As part of Good Relations week and Positive Ageing month Derry Central Library shall host a Reminiscence Storytelling session. Staff members shall use an assortment of olden Derry photographs, maps and artefacts from our local history department and help customers travel down memory lane and share stories. This shall take place in our Community Corner.

Booking is advisable.

Good Relations Week Harry Potter Themed Arts & Craft

As part of Good Relations Week Derry Central Library invites you to a Harry Potter themed Arts & Crafts session for children aged 4-10. This shall be championed by staff members using an assortment of arts and crafts materials in our Children’s Castle area.

Creggan – Through the Years

Join us in Creggan Library for a special reminiscence session to mark Good Relations Week. Browse our collection of old photos and newspaper articles from the local area. Enjoy a cuppa and chat as library staff give discussion prompts about how the Creggan area has changed over the years.

2:00-3:00pm