Intercultural Dialogue and Nonviolent Communication Skills Training Programme
📅 Dates: Saturday 25 October, Saturday 8 November, Saturday 22 November
⏰ Time: 10am – 1pm (followed by lunch)
📍 Location: The Junction, 12 Beechvalley Way, Dungannon, BT70 1BS
⭐Register to participate here⭐
Enhance your communication skills through Migrant Centre NI’s training on Intercultural Dialogue and Nonviolent Communication skills. Discover tools to foster understanding, reduce and prevent conflict, and build connections across differences in personal, professional, and community settings
Participants will receive a certificate of participation at the end of the final workshop.
Travel expenses can be reimbursed and interpreters can be booked on request. Children can be brought to workshops if necessary, but must be accompanied by their parent/guardian.
The training will be facilitated by The Irish Network for Nonviolent Action Training and Education (INNATE), an organisation which supports groups and individuals exploring nonviolent approaches to conflict and social change issues.
The programme is only for participants with lived experience as members of migrant and/or ethnic minority communities in Northern Ireland.
Dungannon Library hosts an interactive Music and Dance Performance in collaboration with ArtsEkta
Mid Ulster District Council is shining a spotlight on the transformative power of working together to address challenges such as sectarianism, racism, inequality, health and well-being, poverty and education.
Please join us for a spot of breakfast, engaging speakers and musical performances to celebrate some of the Good Relations work that has taken place this year.
Tea, coffee & breakfast from 09:30 and event start 10:00.
Join us for a cross-border collaboration of songwriters, poets and storytellers from the Burnavon Writers’ Group based in Cookstown and the Monaghan Poets and Songwriters Group from Monaghan. These two collectives are coming together to entertain the public with their original stories, poems and songs, performed in celebration of the theme of ‘Connection’ as part of our events for Good Relations Week 2024.
This event is free and open to everyone. So come along, relax, listen and enjoy. Refreshments will be provided. Booking advisable by contacting Cookstown Library on 02886763702 or by email at CookstownLibrary@librariesni.org.uk
Deric Henderson and Ivan Little are very experienced journalists who reported on the Northern Ireland conflict for most of its duration. Subsequently, their two highly acclaimed compilations of reporting from the time have made an important contribution to public understanding of the period from the insider perspective of those who recorded those turbulent and horrific years.
In more recent times, journalism has been openly critical of the role of schools, and history teachers, in failing to adequately provide young people with a grounded understanding of the nature of the conflict and its continuing impact on Ireland in the present.
This online session brings together the journalists, Deric Henderson, Brian Rowan and Freya McClements, of the Irish Times, history teachers and interested others, first to listen to Deric and Brian’s experiences of reporting the Troubles, then to consider the validity of criticisms of current history teaching practice and discuss the contribution that the journalistic legacy might make to enhancing the teaching of the Troubles in classrooms.
In celebration of Good Relations Week 2024 and its theme of ‘OpportUNITY,’ Galbally Runners in partnership with Choice Housing Ireland is excited to bring back the One Mile Road Relay Race. This inclusive event, which winds through the heart of Dungannon, offers a unique opportunity for participants from all sections of the community to come together and engage in friendly competition. By encouraging teamwork and community spirit, the relay race embodies the week’s focus on unity and positive community relations.
Community fun Run in Dungannon Sponsored by Choice Housing
Over a period of 14 weeks, a group of 8 women from Cookstown of all ages and from various diverse backgrounds, came together to learn photography. The project was about much more than merely taking photographs, it involved empowerment, sharing experiences, storytelling, building confidence, writing
journals and learning through art. Connections were made and friendships were formed.
This was an individual project as well as a group project.
On Wednesday 2oth September 2023 (6-9pm) the book will be exhibited and launched in the Hub, Cookstown.
The event will be compered by Tim McGarry.
The Bad Bridget exhibition at Ulster American Folk Park (on display until April 2024) tells the stories of the thousands of women who left Ireland for North America between 1838 and 1918. Many of whom found themselves facing troubles and struggling to survive.
Through a sensory experience of the lives of these women, visitors are taken on a journey beginning with their lives in Ireland, their experiences of life alone at sea to seeking jobs once they landed in America; as well as the real life experiences of living in poverty within the tenement housing of the period.
Bad Bridget is a continuing collaboration between the museum, Queen’s University Belfast and Ulster University and is based on significant research carried out by Dr Elaine Farrell and Dr Leanne McCormick.