Northern Ireland Now: Celebrating Diversity

Join us for a celebration of local, collaborative, and contemporary archiving with a special screening and discussion of collected videos from community participants from Phase 1 of the Northern Ireland Now Project.

This special event with Queen’s University Belfast as part of Refugee Week will showcase a selection of videos from some of the diverse community organisations who engaged with the first Northern Ireland Now Project, selecting videos to be a part of a new collection on the Digital Film Archive. 

Following a compilation of video materials there will be a panel discussion with community partners on the project, those who represent groups working with refugees and asylum seekers as well as from ethnic minorities in Northern Ireland.

Northern Ireland Now is a contemporary collecting project run in partnership with the Nerve Centre and Northern Ireland Screen. It addresses underrepresentation in the Digital Film Archive and champions equality, diversity and inclusion. It has just commenced a second phase with a focus on ‘Belfast Stories on Screen’ and is seeking new community partners to be a part of this.

You can explore the Northern Ireland Now Collection below:

https://digitalfilmarchive.net/collection/northern-ireland-now-276

Selected video works from the following community organisations will be screened:

• ImageNation NI, Belfast
• Anaka Women’s Collective, Belfast
• SPUDS, Drumcree Community Centre, Portadown
• North West Creatives, Nerve Centre, Derry City
• BeU LGBTQIA+, Belfast
• Wall2Wall with Springboard Opportunities, Belfast
• Yallaa Cafe, Belfast

The venue is wheelchair accessible; BSL/ISL and Arabic interpretation will be provided.

Should you require interpretation in any other language please contact Maurice Macartney, m.macartney@qub.ac.uk and we will do our best to provide it.

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