Cultural Night

An evening of exploring the Protestant Culture, History and Good Relations with a guest speaker. Contact Karen to book a place.

For more information please contact: tullyallykaren@gmail.com

Sisters TOGETHER

NWIA would like to welcome local women to visit their centre to gain insight into the lives of Muslim women, to chat, ask questions about their culture, values and traditions. Through getting TOGETHER it will, dispel myths and misconceptions while creating a greater understanding among women.

Contact: info@nwia.org.uk for more information

Ulster Scots Cultural Celebration

An evening of Ulster-Scots entertainment for the youth to showcase Ulster Scots heritage, breakdown barriers and try to create connectivity in a rural are. This will be an evening of dance, song and maybe a tasting of neeps and tatties!!

Contact: draulsterscots.info@gmail.com for more information.

Oral History and understanding and teaching the Troubles: Voices of 68 and 74

Oral History and understanding and teaching the Troubles: Voices of 68 and 74

Prof. Chris Reynolds – Nottingham Trent University

This webinar should be of interest not only to history teachers but to community educators and all others who believe that better understanding of the recent violent past in Northern Ireland is crucial if society is to move forward.

Its focus is on the challenges facing educators in post-conflict societies like Northern Ireland that continue to experience ongoing division and tension in relation to the past. At the outset it briefly examines the context of the Troubles and how peace was achieved with the 1998 Good Friday/ Belfast Agreement and, importantly, how these events were variously experienced by people from different backgrounds. Subsequently, the past 25 years have seen great progress, despite the many challenges that have had to be overcome…many of which remain to this day.

One of the most urgent and sensitive of these challenges relates to how the legacy of the past can be handled to ensure that it is no longer a source of tension with the capacity to undermine the future sustainability of peace. A central element in this debate is how the conflict is taught in local schools and communities. Research indicates that young people, particularly, wish to move on from the past yet, conversely, many are troubled by questions which they feel remain unanswered either at home or in formal education settings. In responding, the webinar will then concentrate on a recent collaborative project with National Museums NI entitled Voices of ’68. Using a full range of oral accounts and other contemporary artefacts as its key stimuli, the project placed education at the core of its multi-facetted activities. Its experience suggests a potentially fruitful blueprint for how the legacy of the “Troubles” can be approached and taught in ways that generate curiosity and engagement in its audience.

The conclusion will provide other, recent, examples of how the “Troubles” is being constructively and effectively taught, including reference to a newly established Voices of ’74 initiative centred on the Ulster Workers’ Council Strike of that year. Finally, it will be argued that there are lessons for the general issue of managing the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland. Voices of ’68 resources

Chris Reynolds is a Professor in the School of Arts and Humanities at Nottingham Trent University. A native of Northern Ireland, with a particular interest in the European events of 1968, he led the Voices of 68 project focusing on the Northern Ireland Civil Rights movement and now has turned his attention to Voices of 74, collecting accounts of the Ulster Workers’ Strike of that year.

Register at:  https://www.eventbrite.com/e/oral-history-and-understandingteaching-the-troubles-voices-of-6874-tickets-713560156637?aff=oddtdtcreator

 

 

Lisburn; Castlereagh City Council – Create Together

You are invited to register to attend a networking opportunity for local residents to come together, meet and learn to develop your creative skills in designing an Autumnal floral arrangement to take home.

Spaces are extremely limited and booking is essential.  To book, contact Community Services on 028 9244 7713 or community.services@lisburncastlereagh.gov.uk

Communit-Tea at Rathcoole Library

Come along to Rathcoole Library for some tea, stories and chat at our special Good Relations Event with guest Martin McDowell from North of Ireland Family History Society.

Communit-Tea at Antrim Library

Come along to Antrim Library and enjoy some tea and chat about the things in our reminiscence box at our special Good Relations Event

People Together – Sewing Bee in Derry Central Library

As part of Good Relations Week we are reaching out to all community groups, charity organisations and various Libraries NI partners to welcome everyone to a special Sewing Bee Session. We welcome new members along to make new friends and learn new skills.

People Together – Tea and Newspapers in Castlederg Library

The City and inhabitants revel in it’s cultural diversity and ability to welcome all varieties of people into the community. As part of Good Relations Week we are reaching out to all community groups, charity organisations and various Libraries NI partners to welcome all and sundry to a series of special Tea and Newspaper session. These sessions will show how being part of your local library can bring us together as a community in this special shared place to conquer division and and celebrate our diversity.

This is the first of 3 events taking place on 20/9/23, 21/9/23 and 22/9/23 at 11:00am.

A Bit of Craic in Crumlin Library

Come along to Crumlin Library for some chat and stories. Explore bygone days as this session will include a visit from the Digital Film Archive.

Advised booking advisable.