DRAMA & ARTS ACROSS THE BORDERS Ballymacarrett Arts & Cultural Society will launch its evaluation report on the Drama & Arts Across Borders project at a reception held by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland on Monday, 26th November 2001 in the Long Gallery, Parliament Buildings, Stormont at 1.30p.m. Click Here For Photographs From Event The event will be hosted by Mr Billy Hutchinson MLA. Mr Hutchinson will also deliver the opening address. Other speakers will be Mr Raymond Laverty (Chairman of BACS), Mr Sammy Douglas (Chairman of GEPB), Mr Tony Kennedy (Chairman of Co-operation Ireland), and Mr Mark McCallum (Balor Developmental Group, Ballybofey). Performances by a sample of organisations and artists who participated in the project will be by Balor Theatre Players, Ballybofey; Maureen Harkins, Ballybeen Theatre Group; Noel Large, Folksinger, Ballymacarrett Arts & Cultural Society, based at 143 Albertbridge Road, Belfast, offers the communities of east Belfast, through participation in a broad range of art forms, a means of expression and education through social interaction with other communities. In June 2000, Ballymacarrett Arts & Cultural Society received funding from Co-operation Ireland under the E.U. Programme for Peace and Reconciliation to develop the society’s work on a cross-border basis. The resulting Drama & Arts Across Borders project ran for 12 months and involved ten exchanges and, in the border counties of the Republic of Ireland, performances of two plays written, directed and performed by people from working class Protestant/Unionist areas in Belfast. The plays dealt with issues that concerned the Unionist community and examined aspects of culture and traditional heritage. The report, written by Brid Ruddy, offers a detailed evaluation of the initiative. For more information contact Matthew Hendry, Arts Council, tel (028) 90385200 email: mhendry@artscouncil-ni.org George Newell, BACS, tel (028) 90460707 Caitriona Gallen, Co-operation Ireland, tel (028) 90321462 |
