Fermanagh and Omagh District Council lights up buildings for Good Relations Week

Monday 18 September marks the start of Good Relations Week 2023.  Good Relations Week 2023, coordinated by the Community Relations Council, aims to deliver a positive message of togetherness as it celebrates peace-building and cultural diversity in an effort to eradicate sectarianism, racism and inequality across Northern Ireland.

Both Enniskillen Castle and Strule Arts Centre will be illuminated yellow on 18 September to mark the start of Good Relations Week

 

TREK CULTURAL TRAILS

The installation of 21 Trek Cultural Trails is an event to celebrate Good Relations Week and to mark the end of a TREK Project delivered to 10000+ children across 42 schools in North Belfast including Nursery, Primary and Secondary School age children over a 3 month programme of activities with over 500 parents attending a range of workshops and activities with their children over this time and co funded with NIHE.

The 21 cultural trails have been developed in partnership with Brilliant Trails and will be installed into 21 participating Primary Schools to further promote culture, diversity & inclusion within a school setting. This will include mainstream, Irish and Integrated Primary Schools with installation of Trail Boards & QR Codes and provision of worksheets in both English and Irish. These will be used with over 2400 children accessing the trails over Good Relation’s Week & a further 5000+ children will engage in use of the trails over the following year.

 

Repair Cafe Foyle

Repair Café Foyle is part of a growing movement tackling the waste generation crisis.

Our friendly pop-up events are aimed to reconnect people with their stuff and creating space for dialogue about overconsumption and the right to repair.

Our team of volunteers are at hand to have a ‘wee go’ at fixing just about anything from bikes to lamps and toasters.

Diverting waste from landfill or incineration has never been more important as we re-evaluate our impact on the planet.

With our textile experts from the Fashion and Textile Centre and Bike team from Life Cycles, we are confident that we can find a solution. If we can’t fix it, we will signpost you to a specialist.

With the increased cost of living, communities can become more resilient by reconsidering our relationship with stuff!

We can’t wait to meet you all!

Mini Mela

In celebration of Good Relations Week 2022 a Mini Mela will be held in partnership with Belfast City Council, Northern Ireland Housing Executive & Dunmurry Community Association on Thursday the 22nd September from 6.30pm-8.30pm.

This will be an event bringing world music, dance and food together with various activities taking place such as:

  • Chinese Lion
  • Bollywood/Polish/Chinese/Mexican Dancers
  • African Drum Circle
  • Crafts from Around the World
  • Food Tasting from Around the World
  • Ice Cream
  • Tea/Coffee

 

Peace Ring Declaration

Building Bridges Community Boxing Club are honoured to have their boxing ring in the Macrory Centre, Duncairn Gardens designated as a ‘PEACE RING’.

In celebration of Good Relations Week 2022 there will be an unveiling of a plaque as an official recognition of the boxing ring in the Macrory Centre being dedicated as a ‘PEACE RING’.

The event will be held on Wednesday the 21st September at 5.30pm and will involve a sparring match, some food as well as a local boxer unveiling the plague.

Sports Together Meeting 2

The Irish Football Association is hosting a partners meeting from 23-24 September in Belfast within the project “Sport Together – Strengthening Cross-Community Social Inclusion in Post-Conflict Regions” co-funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Sport Programme.

The overall objective of the “Sport Together” project is to strengthen social inclusion in divided communities within grass-roots sport through training, education, awareness-raising, capacity-building of sport stakeholders and cross-community youth sport interventions. This project will have a particular focus on young people particularly girls and disadvantaged groups- in particular refugees and newly arrived migrants and minorities.

The project will use sport to tackle cross-border threats to social cohesion in the partners countries – Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Partners meeting is one of the key events within the project as it is dedicated to monitoring, evaluation and reflection on the achieved results, as well as planning for the further activities to be implemented within the project until 2023.

Besides the meeting the international partners will have a chance to connect, exchange and get to know good practices in Northern Ireland.

It should be noted that this event is invitation only.

 

Sports Together Meeting

The Irish Football Association is hosting a partners meeting from 23-24 September in Belfast within the project “Sport Together – Strengthening Cross-Community Social Inclusion in Post-Conflict Regions” co-funded by the European Commission under the Erasmus+ Sport Programme.

The overall objective of the “Sport Together” project is to strengthen social inclusion in divided communities within grass-roots sport through training, education, awareness-raising, capacity-building of sport stakeholders and cross-community youth sport interventions. This project will have a particular focus on young people particularly girls and disadvantaged groups- in particular refugees and newly arrived migrants and minorities.

The project will use sport to tackle cross-border threats to social cohesion in the partners countries – Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Greece, Ireland and Northern Ireland.

Partners meeting is one of the key events within the project as it is dedicated to monitoring, evaluation and reflection on the achieved results, as well as planning for the further activities to be implemented within the project until 2023.

Besides the meeting the international partners will have a chance to connect, exchange and get to know good practices in Northern Ireland.

It should be noted that this event is invitation only.

 

Fan Zone Northern Ireland v Kosovo

In celebration for Good Relations Week 2022 The Irish Football Association (IFA) will be providing a Fan Zone free of charge on the 24th of September.

There will be a number of activities for children as well as football games.

The Fan Zone will be on the Olympia pitch just outside of the national stadium.

During the Fan Zone there will be giveaways. Cool Fm will also be providing music on the night!

This is a free event and open for all!

Sustainability Workshop

For Good Relations Week 2022 Creggan Preschool and Training Trust Ltd will be providing workshops about sustainability and the impact that the cost of living is having on local residents on Wednesday 21st September at 10.30am.

Advice NI will also be in attendance offering a range of services to residents

For more info please email Louise McIntyre: Louise@cpttderry.org