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26.06.2010 | Ravenink Festival to bring a world of cultural activities to Ormeau Park
On the 26th June 2010 the Ormeau Park Playing fields Belfast will come alive with live with a variety of cultural activities and performances.
The Ravenlink Festival is a community initiative organised by the Ravenlink Residents Group in partnership with the organisation, Beyond Skin.
Funded by the Unite Against Hate Campaign, Belfast City Council and the Peace and Reconciliation EU Programme for Northern Ireland and the Border Counties of the Republic of Ireland (PEACE III), the festival is part of a series of events and projects through the citywide Creative Legacies programme and the Belfast East project.
This free festival starts at 12pm and runs to 4pm with music from local artists and musicians representing Zimbabwe, India, China, Poland and Portugal, Indian and Chinese lion Dance, an open drum circle, art workshop, bouncy-castles and kids activities and food & craft stalls.
Ravenlink Residents Group previously known as Ravenlink Womans Group piloted the Ravenlink festival last summer in a residential area lower Ravenhill Road. Since then the group have grown and developed capacity to assist more issues within the East Belfast area working with Beyond Skin and other organisations. This year in an aim to reach and provide access for a wider community the Ravenlink festival has been relocated to Ormeau park.
Darren Ferguson from Beyond Skin said, "We are very proud of what the Ravenlink Women have achieved to date and very excited what future positive influences they will have on East Belfast and the wider Northern Ireland community. The festival is a celebration and a true testament to the impact of initiatives like the Creative Legacies project and a visible show of what people with passion and vision for their community can achieve with little resources."
The Festival will be filmed and recorded for a final 'Creative Legacies Belfast East' audio/visual publication.
- For more details about the Belfast East project & the Ravenlink Festival can be found here: belfasteast.net/ravenlinkfestival »
19.06.2010 | Belfast Carnival 2010
On Friday 18th there will be an open workshop in Victoria Square 4-6pm for anyone who would like to come along and make a puppet to bring with them to watch the parade and to join in the puppet picnic. There will be puppets walking around that you can introduce yourself to and from 5.30-6.30pm the Samba band Beat n' Drum will be doing a performance piece. This year the Brazilian band Bongar taking part in the parade. If anyone would like to hear them before that they will be performing at the Black Box Café Hill St from 7.30-8.30pm.
On Saturday 19th in Victoria Square from 10.00-12.00 there will be another open workshop to make puppets for the parade.
The puppet parade will leave Custom House Square at 12.30 and we will dance our way to the City Hall were there will have a huge puppet picnic. There are lots of activities going to be happening in the City Hall ground throughout the afternoon such as Live music from Magwere African band, Interactive world music experience by the Motion Project, Brazilian dance workshop, circus performances and the first ever Raising of the Dragon performance in Northern Ireland.
On Saturday night there will be a Carnival Party in the Mandela Hall, Queen's University featuring more local and international music acts. The weekend will finish with a Puppet Family day in the Black Box on Sunday afternoon.
- Full event details at: beatcarnival.com »
- Alternatively, tel: 028 90 434 767
12.06.2010 | EMBRACE the World Cafe & Voices Together Events!
EMBRACE Inclusion Festival Events
As part of the Inclusion Festival EMBRACE invites all to:
World Café
Saturday 12 June, Willowfield Parish Church (The Micah Centre), My Lady's Road, East Belfast, between 10am - 12.30pm.
More than a tea break or a coffee morning, this event is an opportunity to initiate and develop meaningful conversations informally on topics relating to migration and integration. No specialist knowledge is needed, just an interest in people and a willingness to listen and share. There is no fee, all are welcome including children who will have their own mini cafe. Refreshments, music and 'tablecloths' you can write on will be supplied.
Voices Together
Saturday 19th June, 7.30pm - 9.30pm at City Church, 12-24 University Avenue, Belfast.
Voices Together is a choir from the Belfast area, who will present an evening of music from different parts of the world. Audience participation is welcomed. The event is free and will include refreshments.
- Find out more: embraceni.org »
08.05.2010 | Beyond Skin Global
On World Fair Trade Day 8th May 2010 Beyond Skin launched the new Beyond Skin Global website and brand Creatively linking Global Development Issues to Race Relations, the website will be a central resource for Beyond Skin global initiatives/programmes and partnership projects and campaigns.
In 2008 Beyond Skin set out to use music as a tool to link global development issues to race relations in a schools programme funded by the Department for International Development (DFID). The programme was very successful and due to Beyond Skin's growing global network (thanks to Homely Planet radio) we have developed a Global Development Education initiative.
This involves a schools' radio and music project funded by DFID, global exchange projects and various global campaign projects (such as Sudan365).
In 2009 Beyond Skin became the first organisation in Ireland to become members of UNOY (United Network of Young Peacebuilders). Beyond Skin aims to develop exchange projects with other global members of UNOY, as well as with youth groups in Northern Ireland using music, arts and media.
The Beyond Skin Global brand will soon be present on all Beyond Skin websites and online networks providing a link to the Beyond Skin Global website.
Beyond Skin would wish to thank the Centre For Global Education and Alexandra De La Torre for their support and guidance over the past few years that has resulted in this development of the Beyond Skin Global vision; and also a massive thank-you to Sinful Design for the BSG brand and website design
- beyondskin.net/global »
- For more information email Maurice Macartney (global development/communications officer): beyondskinglobal@gmail.com »
15.03.2010 | Action Week Against Racism!
As part of the European-Wide Action Week against Racism 13-21 March 2010, Elmgrove Primary School in East Belfast will be hosting a music performance and Homely Planet radio forum with pupils from Knockloughrim Primary School.
In 2009 P6 & P7 pupils from Knockloughrim embarked on a song-writing project together, exploring the structure of 'song' - literally the Rhyme & Reason for writing! They discovered that music can be a powerful medium for expressing our feelings and thoughts about important issues.
At the time of the project, two soldiers and one policeman were shot in Northern Ireland. Pupils were baffled by these events and confused as to what was happening. It was this which inspired them to express their feelings by writing a song about it. To convey their message: that we do not want to go back to the troubles that our parents experienced in the past. They wanted to show that despite religion and background, we all need to learn how to get along and value each other.
The outcome was the song 'We can't go back'.
The recorded radio programme from the Elmgrove/Knockloughrim session will be available here soon!
- Listen to the song on youtube »
- Explore/Get more info at equalityni.org »
08.03.2010 | International Women's Day (IWD)
IWD occurs annually on the 8th March. This important day of global celebration for the economic, creative & social achievements of women around the world. In some places like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday. The first IWD event was run in 1911 - we're only 99 years adrift!
Next year is IWD Global Centenary 1911-2011.
There will be a range of activities at the Ulster Hall and Ormeau Baths Gallery over the course of the day. It's a celebration of the contribution of women from all over to the life of this city.
Women from East Belfast with artist Emma-Louise Hutchinson though the Belfast East creative legacies programme will be at the ulster Hall with a 'Martisor' craft workshop.
Martisor literally means little March: It is celebrated every year starting on the 1st of March in Romania and Moldova. Every year, local women make handmade flower broaches which are pinned onto the coat lapel. It symbolizes the passing of winter and the start of spring. Homely Planet radio will also be hosting a myth busting session will woman from various cultures.
Timetable - 08.03.2010 @ Ulster Hall
- 10:30 - 12:00 | Martisor - Cafe Foyer
- 10:00 - 11:30 | Women into business seminar - Group Space
- 12:00 - 13:00 | Myth Busting forum with Homely Planet radio
- 12:00 - 14:00 | Foyer Music - Cafe Foyer
- 14:00 - 15:00 | Three Women - A play by Sylvia Plath - Group Space
- 15:15 - 16:00 | Q & A facilitated by the Women's Support Network - Group Space
- 16:15 - 17:45 | Workshop by Textile Artists from University of Ulster - Group Space
- 18:00 - 20:00 | Launch of photographic exhibition in association with Ormeau Baths Gallery - Group Space
- 14:00 - 18:00 | FREE alternative therapies including Indian Head Massage and Reflexology - Meeting Rooms 1 and 2
Performers include
Ashiah Cackowska and Anyah Wysoczynska (Ormeau Baths Gallery), Alinne Fernades, Inge Haghighi, Isobel Anderson, Sara Dylan.
17.02.2010 | WCAD 2010 Update!
A new World Community Arts Day (WCAD) music project was recorded across three Cities: Brasov (Romania), Belfast (NI) & Derry (NI).
The project was a collaboration between the Brasov-based charity FAST (who work with children), music collective Harmonicity and the Derry-based SEEDS organisation - who will be recording new music elements. These elements will go on to formulate a series of workshops for young people in East Belfast.
The project is part of the Belfast East creative legacies initiative. It aims to explore the diversity of our history and heritage to further develop the arts that reflect the individualistic and united culture within East Belfast. The aim is to provide a legacy to benefit the wider community.
The recorded material from these music sessions will be given to participating East Belfast groups to edit and incorporate with the choir piece.
The finished recording will be broadcasted over Homely Planet internet radio » on the 17th February and will be available thereafter on various websites to download.
Belfast East Creative Legacies - an initiative of Belfast City Council managed by Beyond Skin supported the through EU Peace III programme.
'Closer to the Edit' Project is in partnership with SEEDS, Foyle Multicultural Forum, Fast Charity (Romania) & Beat N Track.
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Plans are in motion for a multimedia and music project with East Belfast communities, SEEDS (Derry) and International partners for World Community Arts Day 17th February 2010.
Be creative on the day to raise an important issue you believe in and help create a World Festival Society for a day.
- For more about CAF at caf.ie »
14.02.2010 | Chinese New Year - UPDATE!
Year of the Tiger
Sun 14 Feb, 12-5pm, St George's Market, Belfast
Get ready for a celebration to welcome the Year of the Tiger in the Chinese Calendar!
St George's - a grand Victorian building - will be transformed into a bustling authentic Chinese marketplace, featuring both local and Chinese performers; acrobats, jugglers, martial arts and Chinese arts and crafts.
As part of the Belfast East creative legacies project, children from Nettlefield school have been making and preparing crafts for the event, learning about Chinese culture with their parents.
As it is the year of the Tiger a large tiger mosaic will be created during the event!
So highlight the date in your diaries - Sunday, 14th February.
- Chinese New Year - find out more: www.cwa-ni.org »
- Download the poster »
Homely Planet radio will be recording activities for a later broadcast.
10.12.2009 | All Is New
Beyond Skin have launched a new Belfast East website to celebrate the launch the Belfast East Creative Legacies programme, new Belfast East brand.
Beyond Skin's creative legacies programme will build on our previous and current work in East Belfast also previous and ongoing work carried out by other Arts & Community groups/individuals.
- Download the Belfast East logo from the downloads section »
- Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/belfasteast »
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