In celebration of Good Relations Week 2024 and its ‘OpportUNITY’ theme, Lurgan Library is hosting a Traditional Music Session that brings together Ulster-Scots and Comhaltas Clanbrassil musicians. This event offers a unique opportunity to experience shared musical traditions and explore the rich cultural tapestry of our region. By embracing these shared tunes, we reflect the week’s focus on unity and cultural diversity, celebrating how music can bridge divides and foster positive community relations.
Event Category: Live Music Sets & Performing Arts
Connection: An evening of Story, Poetry and Song in Cookstown Library
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
Performance with Shania Twain
Cara, one of Beyond Skin’s (an intersectional arts collective, building peace & social cohesion in Northern Ireland and beyond) young musicians and #youth4peace ambassador who made the headlines for Good Relations Week 2021, this year will be performing with Shania Twain during Good Relations Week 2023.
Taiko TOGETHER!
An exciting morning of taiko drumming for the BUD Club. This workshops offers a unique opportunity for the young people of the BUD Club to experience vibrant traditions of Japan through the powerful beats of taiko drums.
Contact: ibukitaiko@gmail.com for more information.
UN International Day of Peace: Celebration of Difference
Corrymeela is curating an evening of music and conversation which will shine a spotlight on some of the voices and lives that make our society so rich and diverse.
St Anne’s Cathedral will provide the setting for a night to mark the UN International Day of Peace. Those who have come to these shores seeking asylum will join their creative sound with established musicians from different sectors of our community.
We will have panel conversations facilitated by Jude Hill as we look to the future, 25 years after the Good Friday/Belfast Agreement. This project is being put on by a collaboration of people and organisations including the NI Inter-Faith Forum.
Circus Together
In Your Space Circus will use the medium of circus to work with four schools/youth groups to explore how global issues can be influenced at
the local level and to see how young people from different parts of the North West can collaborate to find solutions to the issues that face all of us.
IYSC is based in Derry and is the Northwest’s leading Circus and Street Theatre Company. They are responsible for such amazement as; Carnival of Colours, the Wonder Windows in Derry/Londonderry (you might have seen at Christmas) and many of the crazy circus characters, shows and installations you see across N.I.
Samara’s Shop by Patricia Byrne – Saturday 25th September
Written and directed by Patricia Byrne, through development workshops, Samara’s Shop explores the fascinating links between Irish and Arabic culture.
The play explores links in language, culture and experience, allowing for a celebration and acknowledgement of two very similar, but different, human experiences.
Samara’s Shop is a play for the present, the past and the future and the vital link between us all. The play will be performed by Julie-Yara Atz, Karim Hadaya, Baraa Halabieh, Sean Donegan and Cara Park.
To book tickets use Event Button.
Samara’s Shop by Patricia Byrne – Friday 24th September
Written and directed by Patricia Byrne, through development workshops, Samara’s Shop explores the fascinating links between Irish and Arabic culture.
The play explores links in language, culture and experience, allowing for a celebration and acknowledgement of two very similar, but different, human experiences.
Samara’s Shop is a play for the present, the past and the future and the vital link between us all. The play will be performed by Julie-Yara Atz, Karim Hadaya, Baraa Halabieh, Sean Donegan and Cara Park.
To book tickets use Event Button.
Samara’s Shop by Patricia Byrne – Thursday 23rd September
Written and directed by Patricia Byrne, through development workshops, Samara’s Shop explores the fascinating links between Irish and Arabic culture.
The play explores links in language, culture and experience, allowing for a celebration and acknowledgement of two very similar, but different, human experiences.
Samara’s Shop is a play for the present, the past and the future and the vital link between us all. The play will be performed by Julie-Yara Atz, Karim Hadaya, Baraa Halabieh, Sean Donegan and Cara Park.
To book tickets use Event Button.
The Community Relations Council presents “Brighter Days” music video by Beyond Skin
The Community Relations Council presents the release of the musical track “Brighter Days” curated by Beyond Skin and written and performed by one of Northern Ireland’s finest musicians, Rwanda Shaw and Jessica Hammond from Black Studios Dundonald.
The song references the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and is part of a wider SDG’s Youth4Peace project enabling a legacy from Good Relations Week with the Brighter Days theme echoing through intercultural arts activities running until March 2022.