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A celebration of community relations and cultural diversity in Northern Ireland, 24 to 30 April 2006.
Monday 24 April 2006
Sunday 30 April 2006
00.00
Across Northern Ireland
Free
Event
Building a Shared Future
Community Relations Week will be held this year on 24 to 30 April 2006. Under the broad theme of Building a Shared Future, CR Week has a number of sub-themes. The first is housing and the Housing Executive plans to launch guidelines on flags, emblems and sectional symbols and to hold a roundtable seminar on mixed housing based on a research report on Ballynafeigh in South Belfast.
A second major theme will be youth and education.The Youth Council will be staging a Shared Future celebration involving 300 young people in creative workshops and the Youth Service will showcase examples of good quality community relations projects.
Armagh College of Further and Higher Education will be holding a conference on Partners in Pluralism and NUS/USI will launch a regional network for students interested in developing diversity initiatives in further and higher education. The NI Council for Integrated Education will provide an opportunity to discuss the future shape of the education system.
There will be a Kids In Control event at Hazelwood integrated school, a Verbal Arts Centre exhibition in Derry on the See Me, See You education programme, a display of interface images taken by youth working together across the Fountain/Riverview interface in Derry, and cross-community football organised by Brownlow Sports Trust.
Local government will be a third theme and most District Councils are participating in the week, eg Belfast will have a seminar on minority ethnic participation and Strabane and Lisburn will launch welcome packs for newcomers to Northern Ireland. Newtownabbey is supporting a drama production on truth recovery processes and Larne is supporting a production of The Humour of the Troubles according to Martin Lynch.
Culture and the arts are another sub-theme, including events by the Indian Community Centre and the Chinese Welfare Association. There are also film screenings by the Nerve Centre in Derry, drama performances by Community Dialogue and talks at the Linenhall Library on the Protestant involvement in the Irish language.
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