In support of Race Equality Month, North Down Borough Council are delighted to announce details of the Holywood Younite Festival 2010 which will run from 19th – 27th November 2010.
The Departments of Tourism, Leisure and Community Services and Good Relations in North Down Borough Council have partnered with Unite Against Hate, Beyond Skin, Homely Planet, Redburn Loughview Community Forum and the PSNI to deliver a week of activities which will address the hard issues of Good Relations in raising awareness of sectarianism and racism and how they affect our community. The purpose of the week is to promote the concept of Holywood as a shared community, which has a zero tolerance approach to hate crime and its many manifestations. The week will promote equality and a culture of mutual respect and tolerance where diversity is embraced and celebrated.
The festival is being coordinated and part-funded through Holywood Shared Spaces and Services and Holywood in Harmony, which are two Peace III funded projects in the Holywood area. The festival is also part-funded by North Down Borough Council’s Good Relations Programme and the Community Relations Unit of OFMDFM.
The programme of activities includes a sporting event for young people and a number of workshops on different topics including sectarianism in sport; flags and emblems; and conflict and music. There are two debating sessions, titled ‘Everybody Comes to Holywood’ and ‘Holywood Talk’s Back’, focused on how to build a shared and inclusive society in Holywood. Everybody Comes to Holywood is a special youth radio and music session which will take place on Saturday 20th November from 3-5 pm in the Sports Hall of the Christian Fellowship Church in Holywood. Holywood Talk’s Back is an adult open questions and answers forum on Diversity and Equality and will take place on Wednesday 24th November in Redburn Community Centre on Jackson’s Road in Holywood from 7-10 pm. Tuesday 23rd November hosts the Taste of Holywood Multicultural Food Fest, also in Redburn Community Centre. The festival week will be concluded on Saturday 27th November with musicians playing in a number of locations on High Street and with the Toast of Holywood awards and music ceremony in Redburn Community Centre. In addition, a number of radio programmes will be recorded throughout the week by Homely Planet and will be available for download from their website www.homelyplanet.org.
Events
Friday 19th – Sports Event
(St. Pauls’ GAA grounds)
Friday 19th – Workshop on sport and sectarianism
(For the children who take part in the sports event. Queen’s Leisure Complex from 6pm – 7.30pm)
Saturday 20th – Everybody Comes To Holywood
(Youth Radio & Music workshop @ Christian Fellowships Church, Holywood. 3pm – 5pm)
Monday 22nd – Polish Folk Art Workshop
(7pm – 9 pm with the RECON Youth Group at Holywood Presbyterian Church)
Monday 22nd – ‘Our Shared Past’
(Talk by Con Auld in Holywood Library from 7pm – 8.45pm)
Wednesday 24th – Holywood Talks Back
(Adult Discussionin Redburn Community Centre from 7pm -9 pm)
Thursday 25th – Workshop with Dominic Bryan from QUB on flags and emblems
(Redburn Community Centre from 7pm – 9.30 pm)
Friday 26th – Workshop with Jackie McArthur
(with Holywood True Blues Flute Band on music and conflict in the Youth Wing of the Queen’s Leisure Complex)
Sat 27th – ‘Toast of Holywood’ – Holywood Younite Festival Awards Ceremony
(Redburn Community Centre from 7pm – 10 pm. Invite Only).
Saturday 27th – Live music at High Street locations 1pm – 4pm
For more information please contact Patricia O’Toole, Coordinator of Holywood Shared Spaces and Services, Queen’s Leisure Complex, Sullivan Close, Holywood, email: patricia.o’toole@northdown.gov.uk, tele. 028 9042 1420.
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YOUNITE FESTIVAL | 19 – 27 NOVEMBER | HOLYWOOD
The Departments of Tourism, Leisure and Community Services and Good Relations in North Down Borough Council have partnered with Unite Against Hate, Beyond Skin, Homely Planet, Redburn Loughview Community Forum and the PSNI to deliver a week of activities which will address the hard issues of Good Relations in raising awareness of sectarianism and racism and how they affect our community. The purpose of the week is to promote the concept of Holywood as a shared community, which has a zero tolerance approach to hate crime and its many manifestations. The week will promote equality and a culture of mutual respect and tolerance where diversity is embraced and celebrated.
The festival is being coordinated and part-funded through Holywood Shared Spaces and Services and Holywood in Harmony, which are two Peace III funded projects in the Holywood area. The festival is also part-funded by North Down Borough Council’s Good Relations Programme and the Community Relations Unit of OFMDFM.
The programme of activities includes a sporting event for young people and a number of workshops on different topics including sectarianism in sport; flags and emblems; and conflict and music. There are two debating sessions, titled ‘Everybody Comes to Holywood’ and ‘Holywood Talk’s Back’, focused on how to build a shared and inclusive society in Holywood. Everybody Comes to Holywood is a special youth radio and music session which will take place on Saturday 20th November from 3-5 pm in the Sports Hall of the Christian Fellowship Church in Holywood. Holywood Talk’s Back is an adult open questions and answers forum on Diversity and Equality and will take place on Wednesday 24th November in Redburn Community Centre on Jackson’s Road in Holywood from 7-10 pm. Tuesday 23rd November hosts the Taste of Holywood Multicultural Food Fest, also in Redburn Community Centre. The festival week will be concluded on Saturday 27th November with musicians playing in a number of locations on High Street and with the Toast of Holywood awards and music ceremony in Redburn Community Centre. In addition, a number of radio programmes will be recorded throughout the week by Homely Planet and will be available for download from their website www.homelyplanet.org.
Events
Friday 19th – Sports Event
(St. Pauls’ GAA grounds)
Friday 19th – Workshop on sport and sectarianism
(For the children who take part in the sports event. Queen’s Leisure Complex from 6pm – 7.30pm)
Saturday 20th – Everybody Comes To Holywood
(Youth Radio & Music workshop @ Christian Fellowships Church, Holywood. 3pm – 5pm)
Monday 22nd – Polish Folk Art Workshop
(7pm – 9 pm with the RECON Youth Group at Holywood Presbyterian Church)
Monday 22nd – ‘Our Shared Past’
(Talk by Con Auld in Holywood Library from 7pm – 8.45pm)
Wednesday 24th – Holywood Talks Back
(Adult Discussion in Redburn Community Centre from 7pm -9 pm)
Thursday 25th – Workshop with Dominic Bryan from QUB on flags and emblems
(Redburn Community Centre from 7pm – 9.30 pm)
Friday 26th – Workshop with Jackie McArthur
(with Holywood True Blues Flute Band on music and conflict in the Youth Wing of the Queen’s Leisure Complex)
Sat 27th – ‘Toast of Holywood’ – Holywood Younite Festival Awards Ceremony
(Redburn Community Centre from 7pm – 10 pm. Invite Only).
Saturday 27th – Live music at High Street locations 1pm – 4pm
For more information please contact Patricia O’Toole, Coordinator of Holywood Shared Spaces and Services, Queen’s Leisure Complex, Sullivan Close, Holywood, email: patricia.o’toole@northdown.gov.uk, tele. 028 9042 1420.