More about ReThink
This free programme is designed to empower participants through Creativity, Connection, and Good Relations. Whether you’re a community leader, youth worker, or volunteer ReThink offers a fresh, engaging approach to building understanding and challenging bias.
Led by an executive coach and an artist from WheelWorks, ReThink offers:
• 2 interactive half-days
• A free art pack and lunch
• A certificate of attendance
• A Good Relations toolkit
• A celebration showcase!
What to Expect:
- Creative workshops using art and storytelling.
- Practical tools to support inclusion and challenge stereotypes.
- Opportunities to connect with others and share experiences.
Who is it for: Adults living or working in the Mid & East Antrim and Antrim & Newtownabbey areas who want to make a positive impact in their communities.
Get Involved: Spaces are limited, so early registration is encouraged.
Let’s ReThink together – and build stronger, more inclusive communities.
This Fully Funded training blends reflective and arts-based practice with fresh ways to connect across differences to help you:
• Boost confidence
• Explore culture & identity
• Challenge bias and prejudice
• Connect with peers across identities
We’re excited to hear from you, get in touch with Jodi via services@wheelworksarts.com
# Register your place today for training in Larne, Co. Antrim. WHEN: 29th & 30th of October 2025, 10am to 2pm WHERE: Larne Community Hub, (Access Employment) 32-34 Pound St, Larne BT40 1SQ BOOK: www.eventbrite.com/e/rethink-tickets places are limited
Borderlands is a monthly event held in the Pavilion Bar on the Ormeau Road in Belfast. It is put on by a collective of people which includes Corrymeela Community staff. On the second Tuesday of each month we platform music, poetry, reflections, dialogue, and stories around a theme effecting our society today. This is meant to be a truly borderlands space where an audience gathers from many traditions and community is built. Admission is free.
This month on the second anniversary of the ongoing tragedy in Gaza we want to gather to consider what most humanitarian organisations the world over are calling a genocide. But we also want to reflect on how this situation both effects us here in Belfast and also how we share common roots of a colonial past. When violence in a place is merely labelled a “conflict” it can minimise what is happening. It implies there are two equal parties who are in a dispute over something. For example most would realise that the problem between Russia and Ukraine is not so much a conflict. Rather it is about a superpower being led by a power hungry dictator, thirsting for more territory to conquer. Similarly when we look at Gaza, we do need to look beyond simplistic renderings.
This event will be a brave space for sacred stories. We hope it will leave people with determination to be part of building good relations in our city and our world, not by avoiding the roots of our society’s ills, but by unmasking them and naming them. In his acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964 Martin Luther King Jr said words that resonate today:
“I refuse to accept the view that humankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and kinship can never become a reality… I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word.”
Rev Dr Martin Luther King Jr
A workshop designed to provide support for those who are currently hosting a refugee or are considering doing so. See the flyer below for more details
Reach out via info@embraceni.org to register your interest
This workshop will introduce the Community Resiliency
Model (CRM)®, a trauma and resiliency-informed model
that is being used throughout Ireland and in 80 countries
around the world. This model focuses on building
awareness of common stress and trauma responses, as
well as teaching six wellbeing tools that can be used by
groups and individuals to support their own resilience
following adversity. CRM focuses on the biology of trauma
and wellbeing, supporting people to better understand their
own body’s response to stressors and providing practical
ways to return the body to balance during or after stressful
experiences. The workshop will guide participants through
the theory and practice of all six wellness skills.
We are delighted to open our new Shared Creativity Room in Falls Women’s Centre, a place for women to come together, build friendships, and share their creative skills and culture. The idea of the creativity room grew from our Good Relations Week event last year, itself a shared culture event.
During the racist riots and violence of August 2024, many women and their families were afraid to leave their homes and became isolated. Our cultural sharing event aimed to strengthen connections between women from different backgrounds. A year later, we have taken the idea and transformed it into a place where women can share their skills year-round. We have sewing machines, materials and equipment ready. Our launch day will include an artist-led creative workshop, and a light buffet will be served.
Apex Housing Association is delighted to launch this event for the ‘Housing for All’ Shared Housing Programme Comic alongside a vibrant and creative writing Zine, both devised and created by young people from across Northern Ireland with facilitation from Revolve Comics and Fighting Words NI.
The event will be hosted by Small Worlds NI, taking the form of an interactive roadshow, creating a dynamic and engaging space to celebrate the creativity and achievements of our youth, whilst highlighting the importance of diversity and inclusion in our world today.
We hope this event will spread positivity, promote understanding, and showcase the power of young people to shape shared futures.
Belonging & Beyond: Building Inclusive Futures for Rathenraw Youth Club. This 4 part interactive programme empowers young people to explore themes of identity, race and culture, bias and privilege, immigration and belonging, and the role of an active bystander. Through storytelling, discussion, and practical activities, participants will gain tools to recognise and challenge exclusion, while strengthening empathy, confidence, and respect for diversity. Starting Saturday the 18th 10am-11:30am in Rathenraw Youth Club in partnership with Clanmil Housing and Still I Rise.
Every day from 13 to 18 October you can take a tour of Newry and Mourne Museum.
The Museum is housed at Bagenal’s Castle, a 16-century fortified house, one of Newry’s oldest buildings. The castle’s early history, closely connected with the Nine Years War, the Flight of the Earls and the Ulster Plantation, places Newry at the centre of a seminal period in Irish history.
You will discover how the building would have functioned four hundred years ago, looking at the original features of the castle such as the machicolation, the corbel, and the fireplace.
The main exhibitions in the Museum include prehistoric material, Newry as a merchant town, it’s development during the 18 and 19 centuries. The working life of the area and modern experiences of living in a Border area in the 20 century.
To reserve your spot please email Declan.Carroll@nmandd.org.
Belfast City Council is organising a Living Library Event on Thursday 16th October 10am – 12.30pm
Details of the Belfast City Centre Venue will be confirmed following your booking.
What is the Living Library?
It’s borrowing a person, instead of a book
A one-to-one 20-minute conversation.
How do I get involved?
Come along to Rathcoole Library and enjoy a film screening at the new Film Club for Adults.
11:00am-12:45pm. Booking Advisable