The public launch of the Recovering the Art of Reconciliation online database in the Belfast Room in the Ulster Museum is at at 4pm, on Tuesday 29 October. The event is an opportunity to hear about the new database of arts-based peacebuilding projects, which we have been building over the past year, in partnership with the Arts Council Northern Ireland and some key regional stakeholders, and to join a discussion led by a roundtable of researchers and practitioners.
The idea for the database, soon to go live, emerged from the findings of an earlier AHRC-funded investigation into the impact of the funded arts on conflict transformation in Northern Ireland, which identified a powerful desire amongst practitioners and researchers to recover information about the history and contexts of arts-based peacebuilding and make it accessible as a resource for academic research, practitioner development, learning and networking.
The event is open to the public, but they are reaching out to practitioners and researchers in particular who might be interested in hearing about the next phase of the research: building a trans-disciplinary Research Network for Arts-Based Peacebuilding consisting of both academics and practitioners.
Places are free but booking is essential. Click here to read more and book.