The PEACE Programmes Learning Platform Level 1

Overview: This is a large-scale project working on the ethos that the arts can function as a mediator in conflict resolution. The aim is to focus our programme on celebrating the things that link us together as human beings and as citizens living in a border community. The programme will link a number of groups both sides of the border in workshops, performance, seminars and master classes with the emphasis on social inclusion, diversity and cultural understanding. Objectives: To offer new skills and opportunities to those community members who have due to social, economic or geographic circumstances been unable to avail of arts workshops and performances previously; To offer the opportunity to build on existing skills; To bring old and new communities together under an arts umbrella to explore our shared heritage; To promote a positive link between the community and the theatre by development of its educative and outreach programme; To foster mutually supportive relationships with our professional colleagues and other arts practitioners on a cross border basis; To work towards peace and reconciliation on a cross border and cross community level. The Programme: To achieve our stated aims and objectives we have devised a programme that will target specific community groups and individuals on both sides of the Donegal – Derry and Donegal – Tyrone border. The programme will be delivered in five separate sub-projects that are both process and performance based and they will target various ages and community organisations alongside a participating theatre from each border county in Donegal Derry and Tyrone.