Peacebuilding a shared Northern Irish society
Peace by piece: Launch of interface exhibition @DoJ_Interfaces by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 20 November 2017 Ulster University’s York Street campus, home to the schools of art and architecture, served as a fitting venue for the launch of an interface exhibition sponsored by the Department of Justice and featured ongoing community-based projects as... Continue Reading →
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Exhibition launch: “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” @TheLinenHall by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 2 August 2017 The Linen Hall Library has presented the first of two exhibitions of its Divided Society digitisation and outreach project. “We Lived It: The Social Impact of the Troubles” contains artwork, imagery, ephemera, and... Continue Reading →
“Art can tread where words and politics often can’t”: The Art of Conflict Transformation @The_JHS by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 25 July 2017 As part of the 30th anniversary of the John Hewitt Society international summer school, the Institute for Conflict Research (ICR) sponsored a panel discussion, “The Art of Conflict Transformation”, which... Continue Reading →
An acorn matures: Book launch of Little House on a Peace Line (Tony Macaulay) by Allan LEONARD 27 June 2017 The Duncairn Centre for Culture and Arts was the venue for the launch of Tony Macaulay’s latest edition of growing up in the contested space of Northern Ireland: Little House on a Peace Line. Bill... Continue Reading →
Art, peace and reconciliation: In conversation with Rita Duffy by Allan LEONARD 11 May 2017 At the last lecture in the spring series of events hosted by the Mitchell Institute of Peace at Queen’s University Belfast, artist Rita Duffy conversed with Professor Fiona Magowan, on how she has applied her creativity to help better understand... Continue Reading →
Using art to fill in gaps of our reconciliation: DFAT Reconciliation Networking Forum by Allan LEONARD 14 December 2016 At the eleventh annual convening of a reconciliation network organised by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (Ireland), an afternoon panel discussion explored the role of the arts in Northern Ireland’s reconciliation process. Entitled “Culture,... Continue Reading →
Without fear or favour: 30 years of Troubled Images by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 28 November 2016 The latest incarnation of the Troubled Images project — the launch of a free downloadable iBook — was cause for a reunion of sorts at the Linen Hall Library for the original team that compiled and... Continue Reading →
A Lagan College birthday: The story of integrated education in Northern Ireland by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 11 November 2016 Just past the reception desk is a small, black-and-white photography of the simple and utilitarian building that housed the first enrolment of students at Lagan College in 1981; today, celebrating its 35th birthday,... Continue Reading →
Confident. Ambitious. Prosperous. Distinctive. Launch of Successful Belfast. by Allan LEONARD for Shared Future News 27 October 2016 Walking past the students at their tabletops, working on their assignments with mock constructions at the School of Architecture at the Ulster University Belfast campus, there was no mistaking that I found the venue for the launch... Continue Reading →
Charlotte MANSON informed me of this museum and resource centre. Reminded me of potential of PbCRC. http://ift.tt/2dJrnJr Temple Preah Khan (Royal Sword) A monument to the past. A school for the future. Memory In order to build a more just and humane future, we remember those who went before us. Justice The uncompromising lens of... Continue Reading →
Charlotte MANSON informed me of this museum and resource centre. Reminded me of potential of PbCRC. http://ift.tt/2dJrnJr Temple Preah Khan (Royal Sword) A monument to the past. A school for the future. Memory In order to build a more just and humane future, we remember those who went before us. Justice The uncompromising lens of... Continue Reading →