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Exchange Forum 8th June 2019 | Brian Friel Theatre in the Queens Film Theatre

Interpreting the goals of Art for Reconciliation The Brian Friel Theatre in the Queens Film Theatre University Road, Belfast BT7 1NN Saturday 8 June 2019 1.30 – 7.30 pm!

Photorealistic painting or photo of a nighttime alleyway framed by redbrick walls. At the end of the alleyway half of a brighttly illuminated house gable is seen, similar to the way one might see light at the end of a tunnel.

Exchange Forum (schedule)

This is the first of three public Exchange Forums to examine how - and if - theatre, visual art, dance, music can reflect, represent, or respond to experiences of political conflict and deliver reconciliatory outcomes. Join funders, artists, arts managers, community support professionals, academic researchers and the public to explore the role and potential of Art for Reconciliation. The discussion will be followed by an hour-long showcase exploring innovative ways in which the arts are contributing to peace-building in Northern Ireland.

Logos of the Partner organsiations of the 2019 Exchange Forum

Showcase: Paula Carson, James Doran, Vincent Higgins and Simon Sweeney performing extracts from Green and Blue by Laurence McKeown and A Queer Ceili at the Marty Forsythe by Dominic Montague. Produced by Kabosh Theatre, directed by Paula McFetridgeFilm examples from work created by The Playhouse Theatre and Peacebuilding Academy. Live music from Columbian children’s welfare activist Genesis Quintero Perez, in Belfast at the invitation of Beyond Skin.

Exchange Forum: Our research is driven by co-production and engagement. We wish to hear all voices that are related to AfR. Together we will:

  • Learn more about the intentions of our research
  • Hear findings from our first phase of research, which focuses on what we learnt about the funding of AfR work in NI
  • Hear about the way the project has located and researched funding data and how we have conceptualised AfR
  • Respond to those findings, help co-produce future research and bring relevant voices to the conversation and debates that concern AfR
  • Help develop networks to support future practice
  • Hear and feed into our plans for the next phase of the research
  • Hear about our interactive website and the plans for it
  • Observe and engage with an arts showcase

1:30pm

Registration

Presented by

2:00pm

What are our intentions of researching Art for Reconciliation

Pete Shirlow, Principal Investigator, Arts for Reconciliation research team and Director at the University of Liverpool’s Institute of Irish Studies.

2:15pm

Data, Practitioners Perspectives and Concepts

 

Peter Campbell and Sarah Jankowitz, co-Investigators, Arts for Reconciliation research team.

3:15pm

Co-producing Research: A roundtable discussion led by Tori Durrer and members of the AfR Research Advisory Committee

 Tori Durrer (co-Investigator Arts for Reconciliation research team) with Eamonn Baker, Maggie Cronin, Sarah Feinstein, Ali Fitzgibbon, Jennifer Goddard, Paula McFetridge and Hugh Odling-Smee.
4.30pm The AfR Project website Pauline Hadaway (AfR Administrator) and Simon Hagan (AfR website designer)

5:00pm

Buffet

Café Krem 

6:00pm

Showcase

Paula Carson, James Doran, Vincent Higgins and Simon Sweeney performing extracts from Green and Blue by Laurence McKeown and A Queer Ceili at the Marty Forsythe by Dominic Montague. Produced by Kabosh Theatre, directed by Paula McFetridge. Film examples from work created by The Playhouse Theatre and Peacebuilding Academy.

Film extracts from Don’t Shoot my Wanes, Shoot me, Shantallow Community Arts and Unlocking by Raymond Watson.

Music from Beyond Skin.

7:00pm

Followed by wine reception

 

 

 

Originally publsihed 1 May 2019.