A place, a border – Diffrent Stories

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The conference will examine how stories can be collected and shared with others in programmes and events, different stories to promote understanding and dialogue. Dundalk is a border town located in the Republic of Ireland which has been affected by the conflict in and about Northern Ireland. Both the museum and Diversity Challenges is involved in several projects on peace building and dialogue. EU Grundtvig Project ‘A Place and its Story’ partners present, share and exchange storytelling methods. Local and international organisations to present.

info: Will Glendinninng – w.o.m.glen@btinternet.com

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Visit Antwerp 02-04/12

During the Grundtvig-project we are working with citizen groups. A few of them went to Vaasa and Berlin. Their task in the project is to tell the story of their neighborhood. The learners of Berlin made digital stories, the learners of Vaasa wrote a tale. They will present their stories during your time in Antwerp.

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Border Lives

Border Lives is an exciting storytelling project that has produced six short films, capturing people’s life and experience along the border region between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland during the years of ‘The Troubles’ and right up to the present day.

borderlives.eu

 

Welcome to Finland in September!

We are looking forward to introducing you our area and showing you to how we work with places and stories. We will see different places in Ostrobothnia, experience two Time Travels with younger and older kids in different languages and on Friday we will do a workshop on how to use Time Travels and Historical Environment Education. On Thursday we have time for the Grundvig-meeting. Here is the program.

Annina from The Ostrobothnian Children’s Culture Network BARK

 

48 Stunden Neukölln

Dear friends

I just want to share an idea with you, which fits into our working frame:

Since 1999 every summer a festival takes place called “48 Stunden Neukölln” (48 hours Neukölln). Neukölln is a district in Berlin with 310 000 inhabitants. (about as many as in Iceland). 48 Stunden Neukölln is a local, non-commercial art festival taking place over one weekend.

SAMSUNG DIGITAL CAMERAThe contributions come from professional artists, amateurs, initiatives, neighborhoods. The locations are mainly unusual places for art: empty stores within shopping malls, pubs, churches, clubs, galleries, garages, hotel rooms, private homes. The citizens of Neukölln perform in all categories you might think of. There are more than 300 events such as: Exhibitions of art, social events, film, theatre, dance and tours, public readings, multidiscipline actions, music of all kinds, storytelling.

An important part of the concept is that the immigrants (over 20%), living in Neukölln, are taking part:

This year there was an action: immigrant families invited the public into their homes and told stories and sagas from their native country. Another example: an exhibition with photos taken by disabled people – how they see the world and each other. One installation shows the protests in Gezipark, Istanbul, 2013, because the majority of the immigrants in Neukölln come from Turkey. Students from a Neukölln school focused on living conditions in their district and present the results.

All together there are over 300 positions you can see, hear, look at, take part in, and listen to. It is all free, and the artists do not receive any money.

After 16 years this unique festival has become a big success, thousands of people tour through Neukölln from Friday night till Sunday evening, looking, discussing, eating and drinking.  It is a vivid way of connecting, meeting people, showing your ideas and your life.

www.48-stunden-neukoelln.de

Margit

Iceland visit june 2014

Salted and sun dried cod was a huge local industry in the first half of the 20th century. Big lava fields were broken down and formed large areas where the cod was dried. Most of these spots are gone today. The jobs and life on the fish fields are forgotten. Within the Grundtvig framework the Museum of Hafnarfjordur presents a serie of lectures about history, cultural heritage and … stories, of course. The questions we hope to answer are:

  • How can we gather information about our history and cultural heritage, both through photographs and oral history?
  • how best we can preserve it?
  • and how to  introduce the knowledge to the public?

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