Event Category: Digital Storytelling

Almanac for a Walled City – Experience the New Interactive App

Download and experience Almanac for a Walled City, a new geolocated soundwalk app from Nerve Centre and artist Christopher Steenson that examines our relationship with the weather.

Taking the form of an interactive soundwalk accessed through a geolocated smartphone app, Almanac for a Walled City draws inspiration from the importance of almanacs and weather forecasting in Irish history to speculate on the future of Derry~Londonderry, as listeners walk along the city’s 400-year-old walls.

Surveying today’s existing landscape, users will reflect on Derry’s current place in ecological history, while contemplating how the relationship between our society and our environment might change over the next 400 years, as it is shaped by our ever-changing weather.

Delivered by Nerve Centre, the project is one of five arts projects nationwide supported by the ESB Brighter Future Arts Fund. The €250,000 fund, managed in partnership with Business to Arts, aims to support artists and arts organisations to deliver creative projects that will promote awareness of climate change and inspire positive action around sustainability and the energy transition.  

Over the last year, Christopher Steenson spent extended periods of time in the city carrying out field recordings along the Walls, and leading a programme of engagement workshops with young people and community participants. He also spent time meeting and carrying out recordings at Coolkeeragh power station and meeting ESB employees. 

 

Our Place in Space — Creative Challenges

Find our more about how you can take part in a series of online creative challenges from Our Place in Space that will challenge you to think in new ways about improving our world. 

Led by expert presenters and thinkers including astronauts, authors, car designers and musicians, these fun challenges are opportunities for young people to take part at school or from home. 

Be inspired by astronauts Chris Hadfield and Nicole Stott about our place on Earth, find out how author Neil Gaiman wants you to use your creative writing skills to tell a story and get motivated by engineer Ella Podmore to design your own unique renewable spacecraft. 

Our Place in Space creative challenges have been designed to encourage new thinking about our world and our place in it. Each challenge resonates with the UN Sustainable Development Goals and get you to think about how we can make peace and prosperity for our planet now and into the future. 

So, get creative and join us in helping make the world a more positive place — and be in with the chance of winning some exclusive prizes!

www.ourplaceinspace.earth 

Verbal Wellbeing – Storytelling sessions for 8 – 11 years 2

Come along and take part in our Verbal Wellbeing Storytelling Sessions as part of Good Relations Week ’22. These are specialist shared reading workshops for children which contain a specially selected short story that is read aloud together, combined with evidence based therapy type questions that will spark insightful, reflective conversation.  

The storytelling sessions will create a safe space for all to express their thoughts and explore positive wellbeing through group conversation and shared experience. Verbal Wellbeing sessions explore a variety of chosen themes and cultures with the aim to create a positive outlook towards people from different backgrounds and to celebrate cultural diversity.  

Verbal Wellbeing – Online Storytelling Sessions 4

Come along and take part in our Verbal Wellbeing Storytelling Sessions as part of Good Relations Week ’22.

These are specialist shared reading workshops which have been developed to engage with those from various backgrounds who are looking to build their social contact and connectedness within in their community.

The online storytelling sessions will create a safe space for all to express their thoughts and explore positive wellbeing through group conversation and shared experience.

This online storytelling event will welcome a trained facilitator who will read a short story aloud. Regular discussion breaks will aim to stimulate conversation, encouraging the group to reflect and explore how chosen story themes might relate to their lives.

Verbal Wellbeing – Online Storytelling Sessions 3

Come along and take part in our Verbal Wellbeing Storytelling Sessions as part of Good Relations Week ’22.

These are specialist shared reading workshops which have been developed to engage with those from various backgrounds who are looking to build their social contact and connectedness within in their community.

The online storytelling sessions will create a safe space for all to express their thoughts and explore positive wellbeing through group conversation and shared experience.

This online storytelling event will welcome a trained facilitator who will read a short story aloud. Regular discussion breaks will aim to stimulate conversation, encouraging the group to reflect and explore how chosen story themes might relate to their lives.

Verbal Wellbeing – Online Storytelling Sessions 2

Come along and take part in our Verbal Wellbeing Storytelling Sessions as part of Good Relations Week ’22.

These are specialist shared reading workshops which have been developed to engage with those from various backgrounds who are looking to build their social contact and connectedness within in their community.

The online storytelling sessions will create a safe space for all to express their thoughts and explore positive wellbeing through group conversation and shared experience.

This online storytelling event will welcome a trained facilitator who will read a short story aloud. Regular discussion breaks will aim to stimulate conversation, encouraging the group to reflect and explore how chosen story themes might relate to their lives.

PeacePlayers Northern Ireland 20th Anniversary Launch

PeacePlayers Northern Ireland was established in 2002 to provide a rare opportunity for Catholic and Protestant youth to form friendships and advocate for reconciliation and shared society.
PeacePlayers Northern Ireland  helps 2,000 youth each year to challenge religious divisions, prejudice and sectarianism through sport.
The mission of PeacePlayers Northern Ireland is to use sport, in particular the game of basketball, to create opportunities for young leaders to promote respect and mutual understanding between the historically divided community of Northern Ireland.

Throughout our 20th anniversary year we will be looking back and celebrating where we have been and the impact we have made, sharing where we are now and inviting you to join us in where we are going.

So join us in the launch of our 20th Anniversary celebrations and stay tuned for what is still to come.

Verbal Wellbeing – Online Storytelling Sessions

Come along and take part in our Verbal Wellbeing Storytelling Sessions as part of Good Relations Week ’22.

These are specialist shared reading workshops which have been developed to engage with those from various backgrounds who are looking to build their social contact and connectedness within in their community.

The online storytelling sessions will create a safe space for all to express their thoughts and explore positive wellbeing through group conversation and shared experience.

This online storytelling event will welcome a trained facilitator who will read a short story aloud. Regular discussion breaks will aim to stimulate conversation, encouraging the group to reflect and explore how chosen story themes might relate to their lives.