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E-Bulletin 24 July 2008 |
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"A March Through Time" - Free Community Relations Awareness Training
The Community Relations Officers in Derry City Council are currently recruiting for places on a free Community Relations Training Programme entitled 'A march through time.' The aim of the project is to explore the reasons for marching and commemorations North and South of Ireland and how our history has influenced marching and commemorations of the present day. The project will look at both Orange and Green perspectives. This project aims to challenge people from different community backgrounds on perceptions and perspectives on parading. The project is an opportunity to stimulate debate amongst peers in an informed manner. The project involves one day of preparation 9th September and a two-day residential on 16th and 17th September, visiting different historical sites of interest. Participants will also take part in workshops and dialogue sessions. The Community Relations Officers from six local council areas are involved in the Northern CRO forum and are organising this project - Derry City Council, Limavady Borough Council, Ballymoney Borough Council, Coleraine Borough Council, Magherafelt District Council and Moyle District Council. If you wish to apply for one of the places on this training please complete and return the attached application form by 22nd August to: carol.stewart@derrycity.gov.uk, or for further information call 028 7134 5160 Where there is over demand for available places, priority will be given to those with least previous Community Relations experience and working full time for Community Development organisations. |
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The Skilled Listening Programme
A Two-Day Facilitated Workshop for Community Development Workers. The Skilled Listening Programme is a 12 hour introduction to a user-friendly structure for Listening and Basic Counselling. It is delivered by Relate NI trained counsellors and will allow participants to develop skills and confidence that will be very useful in any formal or semi-formal listening situation. The workshop will include: Introduction to Basic Counselling skills, Introduction to the Egan Model: Exploration; Understanding; Action Exploring blocks to Listening, Practical application of skills. Further details are available upon request. DAY 1: Wednesday 24th September 08 DAY 2: Wednesday 1st October 08 Both days at Old Library Trust, 9.30am – 4.30pm, with facilitator Owen Donnelly, Relate NI. CONTACT: Anne @ 028 71377940 / cdli@btconnect.com and Leeann @ 028 71373870 Places are limited as the programme is free, please book early. |
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Suicide
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Tender for Co-ordinated Physical Activity Programmes for Older Men
The Western Investing for Health Partnership (WIFH) invites proposals from a partnership of organisations in the community, voluntary and statutory sectors to manage, deliver, monitor and evaluate co-ordinated physical activity programmes for older men modelled on a Framework developed by the Later Years Sub-group of WIFH. The successful tendering organisation(s) will be expected to proactively target older men and deliver programmes across either the District Councils of Omagh and Fermanagh or Strabane, Derry and Limavady or alternatively across the whole Western Board area. This initiative will run from September 2008 to March 2010. Tender forms and further particulars may be obtained from Michelle or Colette at the Western Health Action Zone on 028 71880221. Completed tenders should be returned no later than 3pm on Friday 5th September 2008 to Colette Brolly, Western Health Action Zone, Unit 13 Strabane Enterprise Agency, Orchard Road Industrial Estate, Strabane, Co Tyrone, N. Ireland, BT82 9FR |
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Towards Understanding and Healing - Stories in Conflict (Short Film)
Towards Understanding and Healing presents "Stories in Conflict," a short film on storytelling and dialogue. The Junction (8 Bishop Street, opposite Poundstretchers) Saturday, 26 July at 2.00 - 4.00 p.m. Entrance free For information contact: Sara Cook at 7137 0685. This year, Towards Understanding and Healing have created a DVD illustrating their processes of storytelling and dialogue. Storytelling and dialogue bring together people who have been affected by the Troubles to talk about its legacy in their lives and to discuss key issues stemming from the conflict. The film features the processes at work; and includes a wide range of voices, from ex-combatants to those injured and bereaved from all sides. Following the screening of the film, several contributors to the DVD will be available for a discussion with the audience. This discussion will be chaired by Eamonn Baker. |
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Calling all Residents/Former Residents
We would like to invite you to attend a reminiscing afternoon in the Cathedral Youth Club on Thursday 31st July, 3pm – 4pm, afternoon tea will be provided. We would particularly like to encourage anyone who used to live in the Bishop Street, Creggan area of the city. Please contact Jeanette Warke, 71 329144 / 71 260483 or mobile 0780 8736927 and also email, jeanettewarke@hotmail.com. |
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Invite to Derry?London?London?Derry? - Exhibition in Context Gallery.
Exhibition by Anna Boyle, Curated by Damien Duffy Opening Saturday 19th July 2008 @ 8pm Exhibition runs until 16th August 2008
The project Derry London grew out of a discussion regarding a painting made in 1988, A grey stained raw canvas affair with the text Derry - London, painted in capitals at either side of the canvas, like an exploded cartography that mapped a nonsite, of neither Irish nor English. The choice to leave the homeland and to opt for a sense of exiled exclusion within London. An `ideality` of not belonging as an option in a landscape of entrenched identities. The use of London St. as a locus for this series of exhibitions could be mirrored in Derry St. in west London, the link built into the streets of both places. The post agreement landscape now serves to protect both identities via the relinquishment of the politics of antagonism towards the politics of inclusion and difference. The eventual recognition of difference within citizenship marks a move to a normalized society that works on various social contracts that allow us as subjects to form our worlds, be they collective or individualistic. |
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Challenge of Change Cross Border Conference
Challenge of Change: Towards an Active, Equal and Intercultural Society on 18 September 2008 from 9.30 am – 4.00
pm at Park Inn Hotel, Dundalk,
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Petition for St. Michael's Estate, Inchicore, Dublin
This petition is calling on the government Minister John Gormley, Minister for Housing, Michael Finneran and Dublin City Council to urgently regenerate the 14 acre site at St Michael's Estate in Inchicore, Dublin. These people are living in the most awful conditions, facing dreadful social problems and they need support. So let’s get some real solidarity, people power and revolution behind them. It is our aim to get 10,000 signatures urgently. It takes about 30 seconds just go to www.stmichaelsestate.ie ; it is also a very nice website that documents our struggle (have a look at our videos on you tube!). |
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