Allstate Northern Ireland are hosting Women in Technology Allstate’s Family Planning & Fertility online event on the 28th September at 10am.
This a fireside conversation with guests who will be sharing their journeys around fertility, adoption, miscarriage, loss etc.
This is a closed event for Allstate employees and guests and there will be breakouts on each of the key themes for employees.
During Good Relations Week, the Nerve Centre will launch its latest comic book ‘Partition — A Journey Through The Archives’ as part of its Creative Centenaries project. This story uses archive collections from institutions across the island of Ireland as a means of exploring our past and showing its complexity. It is part of a series of resources that highlight the roles of real people and stories from throughout the 1912 – 1922 period.
On Saturday 25th Sept, we will be hosting an online comic book workshop with the artist behind the Partition comic for 8-15 year olds — Maeve Clancy.
During the workshop participants will learn how to design themselves as a character and create a comic based on their own story.
Running order of the workshop:
To sign up to this online workshop click here.
Armagh City, Banbridge and Craigavon Borough Council are the first council in Northern Ireland, in developing a series of videos for newcomer communities to our Borough.
The Community Development & Good Relations team have been working with The Law Centre to produce a total of 32 videos in 12 different languages, including English, which provide advice around public recourse/funds.
For anyone coming to the Borough who may not speak English but require access to support services this can be a very daunting and difficult time.
The Council are leading the way in this bespoke series of videos to ensure everyone has an immediate understanding of what their entitlements are in respect to health services, education, housing and benefits.
On the 21st September at 6.30pm HERe NI is holding an online story time event for children and families.
This event will include a range of inclusive books which will showcase lots of types of families and their stories.
This will be an online session on Zoom.
Please contact grainne.gibson@hereni.org for the zoom link in advance.
Join HERe NI for a session on Sexual Orientation Awareness and LGBTQ+ Families Awareness.
This online session is ideal for staff and volunteers that work with people or anyone who wants to become more aware of how to be more inclusive.
This session will be on Zoom, please contact grainne.gibson@hereni.org for the link and to register.
Rising prices and the cost of living crisis have had a strong impact on all our lives over the past year, but especially for those already struggling to make ends meet.
In this Research Update, Goretti Horgan, Ann Marie Gray, Sabrina Bunyan and Mark Simpson (Ulster University) use data from the 2021 Northern Ireland Life and Times survey to explore public attitudes to poverty, income inequality and social security.
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!
Join the CollabArchive team from Nerve Centre and the Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) and hear from the project’s volunteers about this exciting digital engagement project.
CollabArchive is a digital volunteering project creating unique volunteering opportunities for the public to engage with archives at PRONI. The project is funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Throughout 2022, the skills-based project has been developing volunteering opportunities for underrepresented audiences, extending and enhancing the value of archives to those who traditionally have not engaged with them.
Volunteers have been working with archives across five broad themes of women’s history, migration, disability, citizenship and LGBTQ+, helping to digitise, transcribe, catalogue and make them more accessible for new audiences.
From Monday-Friday during Good Relations Week we will showcase volunteers’ work as they explain the process behind their collaboration with the archives.
Monday 19 — Roberta Hewitt: Lost and Found in the Archives
Tuesday 20 — Leaving. Crossing. Arriving.
Wednesday 21 — Music Tales
Thursday 22 — On the Margins: Mental Health 100 Years Ago
Friday 23 — A Journey Through LGBTQ+ Records
Find out more and access Partition — A Journey Through the Archives, a new graphic novel from Nerve Centre’s Creative Centenaries project which will be officially launched during Good Relations Week.
This is a Key Stage 3 curriculum linked resource that looks at some of the events up to and surrounding the partition of Ireland and the formation of two new states and explores the role that multiple people played in those events.
The story uses archive collections from institutions across the island of Ireland, including Ulster Museum, Public Record Office of Northern Ireland and the National Library of Ireland, as a means of exploring our past and showing its complexity. The story is supported by suggested creative educational tasks that can be used in the classroom.
Partition — A Journey Through the Archives, has been developed by the Creative Centenaries project which produces innovative resources around the Decade of Centenaries and important historical events. The new resource has been funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund through the Shared History project.
Further graphic novels highlighting the roles of real people and stories from throughout the 1912 – 1922 period are available to access for free from www.creativecentenaries.org/resources
The event will provide an insight into how to engage with the Assembly and its processes. The training is aimed at those from an ethnic minority background who want to gain a greater understanding of the political process and how they can get involved.
The topics covered include:
There will be opportunities to ask questions along the way.
This session will be hosted on Zoom. Haven’t used Zoom before? Don’t worry! The Engagement Team will be on hand to support you joining the event. To register email maire.mccotter@stepni.org. After you have registered, we will be in touch with more details.