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SUMMARY:Transformative Memory International Network
DESCRIPTION:Transformative Memory International Network\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network facilitates visits and workshops for international artists travelling to Northern Ireland as part of the Network  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nArtists and Academics \n\n\n\nErika Diettes (Bogota\, Colombia) is a visual artist and social communicator who graduated from the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and has a master’s degree in Anthropology from the Universidad de los Andes.  Erika’s work focuses on victims of violence. One of Erika’s focuses is her outstanding work with victims of the Colombian armed conflict\, an exhaustive work that has been recognized and supported by each of the mourners and victims\, who have contributed for her images not only their stories but the objects and crucial references in her creations. She is known internationally thanks to the different places she has taken her exhibitions and the awards she has received. https://www.erikadiettes.com/ \n\n\n\nFernanda Barbosa\, Photographer and Journalist\, Colombia specialising in illustrations on land dispossession and peaceful democracies. https://www.musicinafrica.net/directory/jeff-korondo \n\n\n\nAlit Ambara is a visual and graphic artist and cultural activist from Indonesia\, specialising in poster art. He has engaged in various movements for upholding human rights and social justice in Indonesia and Timor Leste since the early 1990s creating posters to respond to social-political issues. He is the founder of Nobodycorp Internationale Unlimited\, an initiative to encourage serious discourse about social or socio-political issues through its posters and under this label\, he regularly disseminates political messages in thousands of images through various social media channels. https://indoartnow.com/artists/alit-ambara \n\n\n\nJeff Korondo is a solo musician\, singer and songwriter from Uganda\, whose work promotes a range of human rights issues including children’s rights and peaceful democracies. \n\n\n\nWomen’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda:   Artworks are on display from the  Women’s Advocacy Network\, Uganda with photography by Diana Ajok and the work is represented by Abiya Fatuma and Docus Atyeno\, activists from Uganda\, who present on the Bead Project\, on Ugandan textiles and on the Women’s Advocacy Network. The Women’s Advocacy Network (WAN) is an association of women working for a better future after a long war in northern Uganda.  The women were abducted as schoolgirls by the Lord’s Resistance Army\, (LRA) who fought the Government of Uganda between 1987-2008 and forced into so-called marriages with rebel commanders with whom they bore children.  On return\, the women organized to support each other\, share their stories\, and encourage each other\, telling their stories as survivors of conflict related sexual violence so that others with know exactly what happened. WAN has collaborated to tell their stories for more than a decade with the Transformative Memory International Network members Erin Baines (University of British Columbia) and poet Juliane Okot Bitek (Queen’s University) through life history books\, publications\, poetry and art. \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Curator of Conflict Textiles\, Northern Ireland and Chile. https://www.beyondskin.net/roberta-bacic-dancing-together Conflict Textiles is a large collection of international textiles which focus on elements of conflict and human rights abuses.The Conflict Textile pieces in the exhibition include works from Ana Zlatkes\, Argentina\, Linda Adams\, England\, Antonia Amador\, Spain\, Guadalupe Ccallocunto\, Peru \,Sabah Obido\, Syria\, Irene MacWilliam\, Northern Ireland\, Roland Agbage\, Nigeria\,  and Deborah Stockdale\, Republic of Ireland\, and donations of pieces from relatives of the disappeared in Chile\, Colombia and Mexico. \n\n\n\nProfessor Brandon Hamber\, John Hume and Thomas P. O’Neill Chair in Peace\, International Conflict Research Institute (INCORE)\, Transitional Justice Institute (TJI)\, Ulster University\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nDr Pilar Riaño-Alcalá\, Institute for Gender\, Race\, Sexuality and Social Justice\, UBC (Anthropology)\,  The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nDr Erin Baines\, School of Public Policy and Global Affairs\, UBC (Political Science)\, The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nDr Paolo Vignolo\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, (History)\, The University of British Columbia. \n\n\n\nNila Utami\, Transformative Memory Network Coordinator\, PhD Researcher\, Canada \n\n\n\nCate Turner\, Study Visit Coordinator\, Executive Director\, Healing Through Remembering\, Northern Ireland \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nTransformative Memory Network \n\n\n\nEstablished in 2019 following nearly a decade of informal exchange and research collaboration between partners\, the Transformative Memory International Network is a collective of scholars\, artists\, social movement leaders\, community-based organisations and policymakers\, engaged with the question of what makes memory transformative of legacies of violence\, our sense of self and responsibilities to others. Network members are from Colombia\, Uganda\, Indonesia\, Canada and Northern Ireland. Our lines of inquiry and methodology build on knowledge exchange amongst Network members and partners around key questions: How do we remember responsibility for mass and state-sponsored violence? What do we learn from the strategies of powerful actors to deny responsibility? How does remembering responsibility shape present and future relations and ways of being together in land\, community\, country\, and global politics? \n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network is travelling throughout Northern Ireland with for both closed and open events. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nVISUALISING CONFLICT: PHOTOGRAPHIC APPROACHES\n\n\n\n18 October 2022 (9am to 12pm) \n\n\n\nThis workshop will introduce Northern Ireland’s practice-based research into photographic representation of conflict\, with examples of relevant work from the Troubles to the present day. The morning will include discursive talks and exhibition visits beginning at the university and walking through the city centre via Belfast Exposed Gallery to the Ulster Museum. We will look at how photographic artists have challenged simplistic photojournalism of conflict through the work of artists such as Victor Sloan\, Mairead McClean and Tabitha Soren and the collaborative project Now You See Me Moria\, as well as emerging artists from the Belfast School of Art. \n\n\n\nFacilitator Dr Clare Gallagher \n\n\n\nhttps://www.belfastexposed.org/exhibitions/here-mairead-mcclean-northern-irelandinternment/https://www.nmni.com/whats-on/against-the-image-photography-media-manipulation-2022Clare Gallagher has been a lecturer in photography since 2003 and her research focuses onmaking women’s experience of home and the everyday visible. Her work The Second Shiftwas published as a book in 2019\, has been exhibited internationally and was nominated forthe Deutsche Börse Prize in 2021. She currently supervises practice-based PhD projects on women and conflict\, post-memory\, the missing Black body in archives of war\, memory and land\, and collaborative photography with victim & survivor groups.https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/persons/clare-gallagherwww.claregallagher.co.uk \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nHIDDEN BARRIERS: A TOUR OF BELFAST’S SECRET PEACE LINESDavid Coyles\, Senior Lecturer at Ulster University will lead a tour visiting a number of hiddenpeace lines across the city. See https://www.ulster.ac.uk/staff/d-coyles \n\n\n\nThis event takes an alternative tour through the city of Belfast. Drawing on recent findingsfrom the Hidden Barriers research programme at Ulster University\, the tour visits a range ofdivisive architectural installations put in place by a confidential government securitycommittee during ‘The Troubles’\, the period between 1969 and 1998 when the sectarianconflict in and about Northern Ireland was at its most extreme. Whilst Belfast’s highly visibleand widely recognised ‘peace walls’ are both major tourist attractions and the subject ofdedicated government conflict-transformation policy seeking their removal\, these hiddenbarriers are instead a little-known and fundamentally overlooked legacy of conflict. Made upof ordinary\, ‘everyday’ parts of the built environment such as shops\, houses\, factories\, roads\,and landscaping\, they effectively hide in plain sight across the city. The tour travels to thenorth\, east and west of Belfast to reveal first-hand the ways in which these seemingly benignstructures actually act as hidden peace walls between Catholic and Protestant communitieswhich enforce social and physical division in unseen and problematic ways.  \n\n\n\nThe Hidden Barriers research programme at Ulster University is led by Dr. David Coyles\, SeniorLecturer in Architecture at the Belfast School of Architecture and Built Environment. HiddenBarriers examines how the processes of political\, economic\, military and ideological conflictshape urban space and community development. The ongoing work of the programme buildson a series of grant awards from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)\, whichhave so far funded seven years of investigations into cities such as Belfast\, Derry\, Liverpool\,Bilbao\, and Detroit. The tour will stop at a number of locations where participants will beinvited to leave the bus for short intervals and walk around the immediate area. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nLINEN HALL LIBRARY & EVERYDAY OBJECTS TRANSFORMED BY CONFLICT EXHIBITIONFacilitator: Cate Turner \n\n\n\nThis workshop will involve visits to three collections in two locations which gather items tohelp people to understand the complexity of the conflict. \n\n\n\nFirst we will visit the Linen Hall Library\, founded in 1788\, it is the oldest library in Belfast andthe last subscribing library in Northern Ireland. Amongst its various collections are ThePolitical Collection and Troubled Images. The Everyday Objects Exhibition is currentlyhosted by LibrariesNI and we will visit part of it in a Library in a Belfast suburb.The Political Collection is an archive gathered by the Library since 1968 of items relating tothe ‘troubles’ and peace process. It includes thousands of artefacts\, books and pamphlets\,leaflets\, posters\, and periodicals\, encompassing all shades of opinion. In the political collection\, academic studies and government publications are housed alongside more ephemeral items such as election flyers\, badges\, postcards and Christmas cards. The ephemera is a particular strength of the collection – from miniscule messages written on cigarette papers by Hunger Strikers in the 1980s\, to the original plan clandestinely produced by Maze prison inmates for the 1983 IRA escape plan\, and rarely-seenphotographs of the main political players.Troubled Images is some of the several thousand posters in the political collection reflecting the extraordinary outpouring of political imagery in Northern Ireland during this period. These posters give real insight – they are the physical remnants of the times in which they were collected and serve as historical documents that help us to better understand those times; conveying the messages of the moment\, stirring emotions\, encouraging reflection or in many cases promoting action. \n\n\n\nEveryday Objects Transformed by the Conflict is an Exhibition which brings together manyviews and experiences of the recent conflict in and about Northern Ireland. The exhibitionreveals both unique and everyday stories through a range of loaned objects and their accompanying labels\, all written in the words of those who own them. The exhibition does not aim to agree on one single version of history but instead lets people from various backgrounds speak for themselves.Objects such as a bin lid used as a street communication tool in nationalist areas\, a bullet-proof clipboard used by the security forces\, as well as a matchbox with a well-known unionist slogan ‘Ulster says No’ printed on its cover are examples of the range of diverse objects on loan for this exhibition. The stories behind these objects not only offer a glimpse into the everyday lives and memories of individuals\,communities and organisations\, they also help visitors explore the nature\, causes and effectsof conflict. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nCONFLICT TEXTILES: TEXTILE LANGUAGE OF CONFLICT\n\n\n\nOn the last day of our shared space as Transformative Memory International Network\, Conflict Textiles will facilitate a hands-on workshop which aims at communicating\, via scraps of cloth\, needle and thread\, a material and tactile response to the displays of arpilleras and other textiles exhibited at The Chocolate Factory in Dublin; Ulster Museum & Ulster University in Belfast; and Ulster University Magee Library and the Great Hall in Derry. No sewing skills are required and the outcome created by of participants will be added to existing exhibited work. \n\n\n\nRoberta Bacic\, Chilean\, resides in Northern Ireland and is the collector and curator of Conflict Textiles.  \n\n\n\nDeborah Stockdale is a Donegal-based textile artist who provides textile expertise in themaintenance and preparation of textiles for exhibitions of the Conflict Textiles collection. Seehttps://cain.ulster.ac.uk/conflicttextiles/ \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nMATERIAL CULTURE & MEMORY WORKSHOPAs Northern Ireland seeks ways to deal with the memory of the conflict\, artefacts associatedwith the period\, which can be ascribed with an aura of historical authenticity\, are placed onpublic display as yet another means to employ the past. This workshop will explore the roleof memorial museums as housing such artefacts specifically as deliberate acts that is seekingpublic acknowledgement and action for those who suffered in conflict. It will draw on localmuseums and projects\, but also provide a vehicle to share experiences with internationalparticipants to critically discuss these questions. \n\n\n\nElizabeth Crooke is Professor of Heritage and Museum Studies at Ulster University where shewrites in the areas of museums\, material culture and memory studies. She has publishedHeritage After Conflict (Routledge 2018 ed. with Maguire); Museums and Community: Ideas\,Issues and Challenges (Routledge 2007) and Politics\, Archaeology and the Creation of aNational Museum of Ireland (Irish Academic Press 2000). Her peer-reviewed articles can befound in Cultural Geographies; Memory Studies; Museum and Society; Irish Studies Review\,International Journal of Heritage Studies and Irish Political Studies. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nTHEATRE AND CONFLICT\n\n\n\nIn responding to the aftermath of the Northern Ireland conflict\, the Derry Playhouse has beenthe centre for testimonial theatre that engages with the personal\, lived experience ofdifferent sections of the population. To date\, this work has engaged with formerparamilitaries\, former members of the security forces\, refugees and asylum seekers\,bereaved parents\, and front-line workers in the medical services and in journalism. Thisworkshop will explore the creation of testimonial work through video and discussion ofexisting performances\, and creative exercises that engage with the memories of theparticipants. \n\n\n\nDr Lisa Fitzpatrick is Senior Lecturer in Drama at Ulster University. She works in the areas oftheatre\, gender-based violence and conflict\, and contemporary theatre practices in Ireland.She has published Rape on the Contemporary Stage (Palgrave 2018) and Performing Violencein Contemporary Ireland (Carysfort 2013)\, as well as edited volumes on Irish womenplaywrights\, feminism in Ireland\, postcolonial theatre\, and Irish theatre in translation. Herpeer reviewed articles can be found in Modern Drama\, Performance Research\, andContemporary Theatre Review. She is the Associate Editor of Theatre Research Internationaland convenes the Feminist Studies Working Group for the International Federation of TheatreResearch. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations Involved / Partner Organisation(s):\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information:
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SUMMARY:Our Civic Heritage International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Transformative Memory International Network\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network facilitates visits and workshops for international artists travelling to Northern Ireland as part of the Network  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international exchange between partners from the Our Civic Heritage project. The project seeks to promote European common values and civic education and engagement in Europe. It addresses three types of target groups: members of the public that are interested in civic participation activities\, educators that teach civic participation and cultural heritage\, and policy makers and those working in the cultural heritage and civic sector whether in a public or private capacity. \n\n\n\nTraditionally the term ‘heritage’ is used to describe a people’s language\, culture or architecture in a historic way. More current definitions of heritage focus rather on contemporary society in terms of what people have in common\, promoting the values of diversity\, civic participation and intercultural understanding. A city’s heritage is no longer a set of buildings\, archaeological sites or statues of people showcasing historic facts but also a set of values that promote civic engagement and participation\, openness to society and critical thinking. \n\n\n\nThe development of civic competences – knowledge\, skills\, attitudes and values that enable an individual to actively participate in the society – is a prerequisite for the active\, democratic and civic engagement of people in their societies. Education in ‘values’ helps to build our civic heritage -inclusive societies on the shared values of democracy\, tolerance and freedom by strengthening solidarity and local communities. \n\n\n\nThe Covid-19 pandemic is already changing the way people are engaging with each other and how they are supporting their local communities and national initiatives. Activities related to civic engagement have become stronger than ever during this pandemic\, getting people closer together during a time of extreme physical isolation. From informal local and small initiatives such as helping vulnerable neighbours during the pandemic\, to large scale national programmes of volunteering to support health service or food production\, all citizens have a role to play. We have also noted during this period\, unprecedented support for a European action and involvement of citizens to support at European level. As we are still in the early days of this pandemic and these new ways of working\, we will monitor how people’s civic engagement will progress. There will be a lot of mourning and reflection at the end of this crisis\, but also quite a lot to celebrate on. Civic engagement is bound to be a success story. \n\n\n\nThe project Our Civic Heritage seeks to promote European common values and civic education and engagement in Europe. It addresses three types of target groups: members of the public that are interested in civic participation activities\, educators that teach civic participation and cultural heritage\, and policy makers and those working in the cultural heritage and civic sector whether in a public or private capacity.  \n\n\n\nThis project is supported by Erasmus+\, and the partners are Pressure Line\, NL (Lead Partner); Smashing Times\, IRL; IntheCity\, NL; Dona Daria\, NL; Jfdek Ltf\, UK; UNIVERSITA PER STRANIERI DI SIENA\, IT; KuTu\, BG; IFESCOOP\, ES; Fundatia Centrul Educational Spektrum\, RO; Landsbyggðin lifi\, ISL. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/our-civic-heritage-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:ACTitude International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Transformative Memory International Network\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network facilitates visits and workshops for international artists travelling to Northern Ireland as part of the Network  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for partners in the ACTitude project. The ACTitude project develops an innovative methodology based on improvisation techniques (Improv) to facilitate individuals suffering from mental health disorders to confront demonstrations of social rejection in the form of verbal abuse and mockery to which they are being exposed so often in their day-to-day lives. \n\n\n\nIn contrast to traditional theatre\, Improv is a method based on natural actions that surge during the performance. In Improv\, there are no scripts- the latter are being created on the go\, through the interaction between the persons involved in the performance. \n\n\n\nThe ACTitude Improv based training program provides professionals working with the target group with a tailor-made intervention process to empower the persons with mental illness to recognize when they are being subject to verbal abuse\, to stand up for themselves\, and respond to the offenders in real time in order to cut short the abuse. \n\n\n\nThe training program\, using elements of the 3rd generation psychological therapies and techniques applied in improvisational theatre is created jointly by the team of psychologists and researchers from the Dept. of Psychology of the University of Maribor (UM) and a transnational team of expert performers and trainers specialized in improvisation. \n\n\n\nFunded by Erasmus+. The partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland; Intras\, Spain; EDRA\, (Mental health service provider) Greece; KNUA (theater studies department of the Kapodisian University) Greece; University of Maribor\, Slovenia; IMPROVA (improv theatre company)\, Spain. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/actitude-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Online,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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SUMMARY:EVIA International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Transformative Memory International Network\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network facilitates visits and workshops for international artists travelling to Northern Ireland as part of the Network  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for the EVIA project. This three-year project develops a new education programme called EVA – Education for Values and Attitudes – and an EVA educational platform vaeie.eu.  The EVA educational programme will contain a toolkit and media content\, that primary and secondary school teachers can access in order to work with students to raise awareness of the European Union goals and history and to cultivate European values of democracy\, human rights\, gender equality\, and the rule of law. \n\n\n\nThe project uses Education for Values and Attitudes (EVA) to encourage progressive attitudes toward society\, active citizenship\, and human solidarity. The project supports an inclusive education and society and promotes the peaceful co-existence and integration of diverse groups in Europe\, including religious and ethnic minority communities\, migrant workers\, and refugees fleeing from war\, overcoming issues that can promote far right extremism and anti-European attitudes. \n\n\n\nThe project outputs are (1) an EVIA online Platform – eva.eu hosted in Belgium (2) a Training kit made up of module one (European Values)\, module two (Media Tech Guide) and Module Three (Methodology Guide) (3) a Toolkit made up of six EVIA lesson plans with media integrated lessons and (4) a Teacher’s Community with guides. A range of communication and dissemination activities will be carried out across Europe to foster social inclusion and integration through enhanced values and attitudes education at a European level and to strengthen the teaching profession through the provision of open resources\, training and cooperation activities\, fostering European integration and raising awareness about European Values and Attitudes Education. \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by Erasmus+ and the seven partners are UCLL\, Limburg\, Belgium (lead partner); Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland; Music Department of Giessen University\, Giessen\, Germany; EURINNET NGO\, Rome\, Italy; History County Museum\, Botoșani\, Romania; AIGB (Associatia Institutul Geogebra Botosani)\, Botosani\, Romania and PEKSA\, Zonguldak\, Turkey. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/evia-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
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SUMMARY:The Story Project International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Transformative Memory International Network\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network facilitates visits and workshops for international artists travelling to Northern Ireland as part of the Network  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nLearning from Community Stories – Young people’s crisis-response behaviours and actions – The Story Project \n\n\n\nOver the course of the past few months\, the Covid-19 pandemic and its economic and social impacts have disrupted nearly all aspects of life for all groups in society. While older adults suffer disproportionately from Covid-19’s health and economic slowdown impacts\, young people\, who are already starting to be termed the “lockdown generation”\, are likely to bear the brunt of the global economic and social crises unleashed by the coronavirus. The Global Survey ‘Youth and COVID-19: Impacts on Jobs\, Education\, Rights and Mental Well-Being’ (2020) focused on four areas of impacts on young people: namely\, employment\, education and training\, mental well-being\, and rights and voices. \n\n\n\nWhile there is a clear emergence of the digital youth work and increasing use of digital tools in working with young people within both formal and non-formal education across Europe\, there is also an understanding that there are needs of young people that have not been responded to\, leaving many to face on their own issues related to social exclusion\, discrimination and a redefinition of social and safety nets\, changing relationships and behaviour\, changing perspectives on connection to friends and community\, impact on well-being and mental health\, participation. \n\n\n\nResearch on resilience and survival after disasters increasingly validates the importance of social cohesion in a community’s response and recovery process. For all young people\, and especially those facing discrimination and disadvantage\, human rights that include labour rights and the right to education provide the basis on which they can make their voices heard\, organize\, assert their interests\, create systemic change. Culture and creativity are powerful tools for communities to create a positive narrative about who they are and what they want their futures to look like. Sharing personal or community stories can form bonds\, supportive networks\, or opportunities\, which encourages the development of community and personal resilience. \n\n\n\nThe Learning from Community Stories – Story Project-  steps up to put young people’s voices at the heart of decision making and enable them to be part of the solution to reuniting communities in the aftermath of the crisis. The project develops a model for culture based on storytelling linked to community resilience in response to Covid-19 and uses creative approaches and participatory processes to provide an opportunity for young people to tell the stories of the intersections of the pandemic in economically deprived and isolated/colour/immigrant/refugee/LGBT/Roma communities. It seeks to collect data and develop communications materials in order to share these stories with broader audiences and to inform policy makers. \n\n\n\nThe project aims to stimulate and support: \n\n\n\nbuilding an inclusive\, safe path for community conversations and story sharing which provides a solid foundation for meaningful crisis-response behaviours and actions;illustrating positive community resilience in communities as well as work to illuminate where inequities still exist within structures to inform new policies and systems that work todismantle racism and oppression that leads to inequities;contributing to social inclusion of marginalised youth;enhancing intercultural competences and creative potential of youths;linking young people with organisations in the cultural and creative sector and open up paths for exploring opportunities for youth’s employment in the sector\, as well as for innovationof the sector itself.\n\n\n\nThe project creates easily adaptable and transferable outputs – ‘Storytellers league’ model – methodology and series of creative based workshops held with local youth communities \n\n\n\nacross Europe; “Youth Communities’ Voices” – impactful digital stories of young people form disadvantaged communities\, and digital portfolios to inform policy makers on issues \n\n\n\naround youth communities. \n\n\n\nA total of 60 targeted young people and youth workers will benefit of the training and pilot activities; 12 target group actors will share their impact stories; 6 young people/groups of young people will be involved in films. Project results will directly reach at least 500 persons (young people\, youth workers\, actors in the cultural and creative sector\, stakeholders\, policy makers) via project activities\, multiplier events\, creating a strong base for long term exploitation. \n\n\n\nThe project brings together 6 social\, educational/youth\, cultural and audio-visual organisations\, exploring digital storytelling and series of cultural events\, to reach out to local marginalised communities across Europe and will produce and disseminate at EU level intellectual outputs that will significantly contribute to the creativity in the youth education sector and will create opportunities for the cultural and creative sector in the partner countries and beyond. \n\n\n\nThe lead partner is St. Dona Daria\, Rotterdam\, the Netherlands and the partners are Smashing Times International Centre for the Arts and Equality\, Dublin\, Ireland; In the City Development Project\, the Netherlands; Pressureline\, the Netherlands; Università per Stranieri di Siena – University for Foreigners of Siena\, Italy; FIFEDE (Fundación Canaria Insular para la Formación\, el Empleo y el Desarrollo Empresarial)\, Santa Cruz\, Tenerife\, Spain. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/the-story-project-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Dublin:20211015T143000
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SUMMARY:Forgotten Voices International Partner Exchange
DESCRIPTION:Transformative Memory International Network\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe Transformative Memory International Network facilitates visits and workshops for international artists travelling to Northern Ireland as part of the Network  \n\n\nBook Your Place\n\n\n\nSold Out \n\n\n\nFull Event Details\n\n\n\nThis event is an international partner exchange for the Forgotten Voices: Stories of Hope\, Courage\, Resilience from the Holocaust and WWII project. The project uses a diverse collection of forgotten or hidden stories exploring voices of resistance from ordinary people who stood up against fascism and a hatred of the other. Time and time again\, acts of kindness\, courage and resilience were carried out by ordinary people\, both within the camps and in wider society struggling under totalitarian regimes\,  as people stood up against fascism to protect the rights of others. The project highlights how people from all backgrounds  risked\,  and  in some cases\, sacrificed their lives for complete strangers\, demonstrating a belief in humanity and a determination to fight for a future where all people would be treated equal.  \n\n\n\nFour European partners from Ireland\, Spain\, Poland and Germany come together and select 20 stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ in a time of war\, 5 from each partner country. The stories inform the creation of a digital book\, ‘live’ theatre monologues and a twenty-minute film which are  then shown to the public and used to bring people together to promote a remembrance of European history. The stories explore what happens when democracy is denied and how this impacts on ordinary people from the genocide of the Jewish and Roma communities to the imprisonment and deaths of  political activists\, people with disabilities\, Spanish Refugees\, Polish civilians\, German anti-Fascist resisters and many more. By shining a light on dark events of the past\, the  project uses stories of ‘hope\, courage and resilience’ to highlight the role of the EU today  to promote democracy\, equality and peace for all. By telling the stories of ordinary people who stood up against fascism and supported democracy and freedom\, the project promotes a remembrance of a shared European history and raises awareness of the shared values that Europe stands for in relation to promoting peace\, democracy and the wellbeing of all its people equally. \n\n\n\nThe project culminates in an international creative arts event held for the 2021 Dublin Arts and Human Rights festival where participants take part in interactive theatre performances\, film screenings\, panel discussions and debates\, highlighting stories of a diverse range of groups who stood up against fascism and hatred of the other.  Participants then engage in debate on how to recognise the growth of fascism in society and debate on contemporary democratic achievements in Europe and how European solidarity plays a key role in promoting democracy\, equality and peace for all people today. A key aim is to encourage participants to recognise the importance of European solidarity and the way in which the EU promotes right and values for all people equally and to engage citizens in actions to prevent the growth of intolerance and to promote diversity and inclusion. \n\n\n\nThe project is supported by Europe for Citizens and the partners are Smashing Times\, Dublin\, Ireland (lead partner); IFESCOOP\, Valencia\, Spain; University of Hannover\, Germany; and Akademia Humanistyczno-Ekonomiczna w Lodzi\, Poland. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nOrganisations and Funders\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nVenue Information
URL:https://smashingtimes.ie/event/forgotten-voices-international-partner-exchange/
LOCATION:Carmichael Centre for Voluntary Groups\, North Brunswick St\, Dublin 7\, D07 CR98\, Ireland
CATEGORIES:Onsite,Partner Exchange,Sold Out
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