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NWCN E-Bulletin 03 March 2008 |
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Arts Council NI Child Protection Training for Arts Organisations |
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Does Your Arts Organisation Offer Health Promotion Training? |
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International
Womens Day
Empowering Womens Voices Awareness-raising for womens rights Wednesday 5th March 10.00am 1.30pm Pilots Row Community Centre, Rossville Street, Derry/Londonderry. Men and Women Welcome, Lunch Provided. Guest Speaker: Goretti Horgan Keeping the spirit of international womens day alive Workshop 1: The power of storytelling: sharing stories Workshop 2: Campaigning for change
Please RSVP with Helen at Children in Crossfire on Ph: 028 7126 9898 or on helen.henderson@childrenincrossfire.orgThe UNESCO Centres International Development Programme is funded by DFID.
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'Remembering': Victims, Survivors and Commemoration in Post-Conflict Northern Ireland. In association with the above project CAIN is pleased to announce details of the fourth Seminar in its 2007-2008 Series.
The fourth seminar will take place on Thursday 6 March 2008, 13:00-14:00:
Sir Kenneth Bloomfield - 'Ten Years of Working with Victims'
Venue: Room MF216, Magee Campus, University of Ulster, Derry/Londonderry.
Please note that the seminars are free of charge. To facilitate our planning, please let us know if you will attend by contacting: Telephone: 028 7137 5575, Fax: 028 7137 5510, Email: je.farren@ulster.ac.uk, Isy Hawthorne-Steele 028 7137 5017 email: i.hawthrorne@ulster.ac.uk (Magee).
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Have Your Say on Northern Ireland Health Reforms You are invited to the Community Development and Health Networks Networking Event in NICVA, Belfast. The event is on Thursday March 13th from 9.30 1pm. The following 3 workshops will be held at the event:
- Climate Change and Health This workshop, hosted by Northern Ireland Environmental Link (NIEL), will explore the link between climate change and health. Focusing particularly on the impacts of changes in climate both locally and further a-field, and at both the direct and indirect impacts. Flooding, drought, expanding survival areas of diseases and parasites, food shortages and increasing costs of food, increasing diseases aggravated by heat, even increasing levels of food poisoning; all are likely consequences of climate change which will impact upon us in NI. Are we ready to deal with these? What should we be doing now to ensure we can adapt?
- The New Volunteering Strategy This workshop will be hosted jointly by the Department for Social Development (DSD) and the Volunteer Development Agency (VDA). They will give a background to the new volunteering strategy and give you an opportunity to consider the issues facing today's volunteers and how volunteering might be developed in the future. - Lobbying: How to get your message across This workshop hosted by Brian Cavanagh from Clifden Consultancy in Scotland will present an opportunity for attendees to see the best ways to get their communities issues on the political agenda. He will give an insight into the most proactive way to approach politicians and talk from his own experience, as a politician, about how he has engaged and built trust with communities. There will be plenty of discussion time allocated to chat about examples, ask Brian questions and get handy tips! In addition to the workshops there will be exhibition stands to view, networking opportunities and a chance to take part in a fun table quiz. Register with kathymartin@cdhn.org or phone (028 3026 4606) ASAP. The event and lunch are FREE and there is exhibition room available.
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Reminder To All Community and Voluntary Groups
A quick reminder to all groups planning events for Community Relations Week 2008 (26th April - 3rd May). The deadline to have an event included in the CRC publicity is Monday 3rd March. It would be helpful if groups doing a CR Week event could also copy the e-mails to Sue as we she is pulling together a local publicity leaflet. Contact Sue Diven - Sue.Divin@derrycity.gov.uk
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'Intercultural and Anti Racism Week'
This year 'Intercultural and Anti Racism Week' will take place from the 7-14th April 2008. The theme this year is 'Education', focussing on all aspects of both formal and non-formal education. We strongly encouraging all members of society and educational institutions to take part in this important week and assist in a public awareness campaign in your locality. Please email details of your event to kate@nccri.ie <mailto:kate@nccri.ie> by the April 2nd 2008 to include in our calendar of events that will be circulated to our mailing list.
The Week is coordinated by the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism (NCCRI) and the Equality Commission for Northern Ireland in partnership with the National Action Plan Against Racism and the Northern Ireland Race Equality Strategy. Please go to www.nccri.ie <http://www.nccri.ie/> for further information on the week or contact kate@nccri.ie . 6. ARK Seminar Series 2007/2008 'Migration and migrant workers in Northern Ireland', Tues 11 March. This is a reminder of the next ARK seminar in its series for 2007/2008. Guest speaker: Dr Chris Gilligan There is still some places left. Please see attachment for more details and contact us if you will be attending any of the seminars. Telephone: 028 7137 5513 Email: info@ark.ac.uk forms can be returned by fax, e-mail or post:
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Arts Council NI Child Protection Training for Arts Organisations The Arts Council NI have
organised Child Protection Training for Arts Organisations Child
Protection training sessions in Belfast and Derry as follows: |
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Does Your Arts Organisation Offer Health Promotion Training? The Health
Promotion Agency is doing a mapping exercise to find out what training
exists that addresses mental health promotion and / or suicide
awareness.
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OFMDFM Funding for Minority Ethnic Communities 2008 Applications are
now being accepted for development and project funding grants for one year
(2008/09) under the above programme to assist minority ethnic
organisations to promote good relations between people of different ethnic
backgrounds. Applications are welcome from local community organisations
that are working with minority ethnic people to help them
integrate.
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Building Peaceful Communities Award UnLtd has launched
a 5,000 award competition encouraging motivated young people aged 16 to 35
to come up with ideas to promote peace and understanding in Northern
Ireland. The award has been launched to mark the tenth anniversary of the
Belfast Agreement.
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Have your say on Languages Strategy
The Department of Education has commissioned Queens University and the University of Ulster to develop a comprehensive Languages Strategy for Northern Ireland.
A series of Public meetings is planned to ensure that the strategy will address matters including: The health and well being and social development of our citizens. The development of appropriate actions meeting diversity legislation. The development of our local economy and tourism. The development of arts and cultural programmes that serve the developing needs of all citizens. The need for community development plans that can meet the challenges posed by a multilingual, multicultural society.
Voluntary and community groups are invited to have their say in shaping the strategy at one of three public meetings as follows: 27 February 2008 Clinton Centre, Enniskillen. 5 March 2008 Magee College, Derry. 6 March 2008 Queens University, Belfast. To book a place, please visit www.nils.org.uk or plavery@serc.ac.uk.
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