Good Relations Week 2022 will deliver a positive message that ‘Change Starts With Us’ as we shine a light on local communities taking action to build a stronger shared society and a more sustainable future.
The Playhouse will deliver tours, workshops and an exhibition to celebrate the focus on the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals to highlight the political, social, economic, and environmental challenges we face as a region. It will also demonstrate how good community relationships are fundamental to enabling us to work together to promote inclusive and sustainable growth.
EVENTS
ROOTS
Roots- Playhouse Tours
Thursday 22 September, 1pm & 5pm
The Playhouse will open its famous red doors for fun packed tours.
The award winning Playhouse, as featured on BBC Restoration, is housed in two 'B1' listed buildings, which were former Sister of Mercy Primary Schools dating back to 1887 and 1911.
Unusual features include a unique wooden cobbled entrance (the only other wooden cobbles in Ireland are at Trinity College), and bizarre hinge/sash windows.
Refurbished at a cost of £4.6 million, winner of the UK BURA Award 2009, and finalist of BBC Restoration 2004, The Playhouse is well worth a visit.
Open for all to attend.
Roots- An Exhibition
Monday 19-Thursday 22 September
In the 30 years since it opened The Playhouse has gone on a remarkable journey to become one of the most vibrant and loved arts centres in Northern Ireland.
This exhibition is a snapshot of those years, featuring letters of support from a who's who of prominent cultural figures, archive video, original artworks, props and costumes.
Open for all to attend.
SOWING THE SEEDS
Cross-border networking along ‘the western-corridor’
Monday 19 September
The Playhouse, Derry Londonderry in partnership with The Glens Centre, North Leitrim is hosting a networking meeting, bringing together 10-20 theatre-makers/ practitioners engaged with local communities in the northern western border region of NI and ROI. The meeting will enable new cross-border connections and create an opportunity to explore shared interests around further cross-border working and deepening understandings around working across cultural north/south contexts and audiences. (The event is also supported by The Glens Centre, Across the Lines IFI programme, Leitrim County Council).
Theatre of Witness workshops
Wednesday 21 September, 2-4pm
The individuals involved in The Playhouse Theatre of Witness Project have been working together over the past ten years using their produced theatre pieces as an educational resource in workshops, providing participants from both sides of the divide with real life stories documenting the history of the Troubles from key players. Theatre of Witness Workshops explores the power of storytelling as a healing, empowering and transformative tool providing a pathway to peace and reconciliation.
CLICK HERE to learn more about The Playhouse Theatre of Witness Project.
If you are interested in booking a place for this workshop contact kierans@derryplayhouse.com
Street Talk Workshops
Vintage Theatre Poster Printing Workshops
Poster Printing Workshops as part of Good Relations Week, also celebrating the 30th Anniversary of the Playhouse.
Venue: Playhouse Gallery
Thursday 22 September
These old-style poster printing workshops are part of Good Relations Week. The Playhouse are hosting workshops for two school groups and two older peoples’ groups. The participants will learn how to hand-print and take home their own old style fine art poster.
It will also be an opportunity for the older groups to reminisce and share any stories and memories they may have of The Playhouse.
CLICK HERE to learn more about The Playhouse Street Talk Project.
If you have a group who are interested in taking part in The Playhouse Street Talk Project contact deirdre@derryplayhouse.com
Bake sale
Friday 23 September, 10am-1pm
Delicious treats, with proceeds going to Playhouse resident Theatre Company, Lilliput.
Open for all to attend.
Perma-Culture Night at The Playhouse
Walled City Gifts & Coffee, 9 Artillery Street, 5pm-7pm
Join The Playhouse's Artitude: Climate, Culture & Circularity Project for 'Perma-Culture Night', a fun evening of free climate themed arts & growing workshops. You can find us outside Walled City Gifts & Coffee from 5pm to 7pm as we take over Artillery Street with plant-potting workshops, permaculture-themed events and eco-friendly, recycled arts activities for the whole family to enjoy! Come along to hear all about The Playhouse's new community garden which is opening next Spring, meet permaculture design expert Joanne Butler of Ourganic Gardens, and make art for your garden with Anna Barclay of Eco-Art on Butcher Street. See you there!
Open for all to attend. Free, family-friendly event.
CLICK HERE to learn more about The Playhouse's Artitude: Climate, Culture & Circularity Project.
GROWTH
Grow- A Drop in Video Booth
Thursday 22 September, 1pm & 3pm
Drop in to our pop up video booth to share your message on the Good Relations theme of 'Change Starts With Us'.
Tell us how change starts with you, how we can support change in our community, and give us an example of an act of positive change you're committed to daily.
Open for all to attend.
Keep your eyes pealed for more updates here and on our social channels @PlayhouseDerry
