Local primary and secondary schools are being invited to book now for free culturally based workshops for their pupils under Derry City Council’s “Culture Quarter” initiative.
In 2013 a large number of local primary schools benefitted from free workshops under the initiative run by the Council’s Community Relations team and due to its success is to continue for the next three years.
The first round of workshops will from 2 – 20 June to tie in with Community Relations Week.
All workshops are related to understanding diverse identities locally to promote reconciliation and awareness.
Schools based in the Derry City Council area can choose up to four workshops from “Different Drums”:
• Interactive drumming workshop (suitable P5 – Year 10. 30 pupils max)
• ‘Story of Derry~Londonderry’– Tower Museum tour/workshop (Suitable P4- Year 10. 60 pupils max)
• ‘Ubuntu’ Workshop – Global identity/culture locally workshop (Suitable P3 – Year 8. 30 pupils max)
• ‘Marching Bands’ – Workshop and Music on bands culture (Suitable P7 – Year 11. 30 pupils max)
The “Ubuntu” global workshops will be linked to the Ubuntu festival running as part of the Clipper festivities. ‘
“Ubuntu” – a South African word meaning that all our identities and humanity are inter-linked and should be respected – will cover global identities here locally and will have a flavour of the Phillipines, India, Spain, Japan or Latin America brought to them by locally resident facilitators with different identities.”
Specific workshop dates/times will be allocated on a “first come first served” basis.
To book or check availability of workshops on particular dates and times contact Helena Kearney [email protected] tel: 02871365151 ext 8223
Deadline for booking workshops is Monday, 26 May next.
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