Aonach Mhacha is pleased to announce that internationally renowned Jewish-Israeli artist Zohar’s touring exhibition, The Palestinian Paintings, will be open to the public from Tuesday 20 September.
This peace-building, cross-border, cross-community, interfaith, bilingual exhibition will travel to each of Ireland’s 32 counties, promoting good relations among our diverse populations.
The Palestinian Paintings, a series of works started in 2017 to address the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Growing up in Israel, Zohar had a familiar position to witness the Six Day War of 1967 and the subsequent occupation of the territories and the ongoing and increasing displacement of Palestinian citizens.
Aonach Mhacha is pleased to announce that internationally renowned Jewish-Israeli artist Zohar’s touring exhibition, The Palestinian Paintings, will be open to the public from Tuesday 20 September.
This peace-building, cross-border, cross-community, interfaith, bilingual exhibition will travel to each of Ireland’s 32 counties, promoting good relations among our diverse populations.
The Palestinian Paintings, a series of works started in 2017 to address the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Growing up in Israel, Zohar had a familiar position to witness the Six Day War of 1967 and the subsequent occupation of the territories and the ongoing and increasing displacement of Palestinian citizens.
Aonach Mhacha is pleased to announce that internationally renowned Jewish-Israeli artist Zohar’s touring exhibition, The Palestinian Paintings, will be open to the public from Tuesday 20 September.
This peace-building, cross-border, cross-community, interfaith, bilingual exhibition will travel to each of Ireland’s 32 counties, promoting good relations among our diverse populations.
The Palestinian Paintings, a series of works started in 2017 to address the Israeli occupation of Gaza and the West Bank. Growing up in Israel, Zohar had a familiar position to witness the Six Day War of 1967 and the subsequent occupation of the territories and the ongoing and increasing displacement of Palestinian citizens.
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
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.
As part of Good Relations Week 2022 Fountain Street are hosting a Good Relations visit to Kilmainham Gaol in Dublin on Saturday 24th September.
This event is part of our Reminiscence Group based at Fountain Street CDA in Strabane that has been funded via Derry City & Strabane District Council Good Relations Fund.
The participants are involved in a project titled “Looking back- Moving forward”.
This event is open to all local residents of Strabane.
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.
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.
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!
Towards Understanding and Healing are hosting a series of readings from culturally diverse community based writers, all exploring how each of us might take more personal reasonability in creating a more dynamic social, cultural, environmentally and economical change.
Writers reading in the cafeteria area of Holywell Trust: Sue Divin, Roy Arbuckle, Grainne McAnee, Jim Simpson, Felicity McCall, Anne Walker and Stan McWilliams.