Weekend in St. Columbs Park!

I had a really good and inspirational weekend in Derry!
I took a bus at 6.45 Saturaday morning (crazy i know;) and arrived in foggy Derry (just the way i remembered it from last time on Bloody sunday...fog, fog...and more fog!;).

I woke up so early to be able to take part in and observe an orientation weekend for community workers and artists interested in a project (Phakama) who are setting up projects for marginalised societies (mostly ethic minorities) using artbased approaches. We basically carried out such activites ourselves to experince them first hand and get to know eachother. We were an interesting group of people ranging froms clowns to representatives from the Indian and Chinese community .
Learnt some really good art-based 'group-building' techniques. Also got my first interviews done (yes!) with the art faciliatators who have been carrying out many cross-community projects. It was somewhat of a detour to Derry i guess but still very relevant to my research and basically had a good 'craic' too!;)
Also went to an opening at an art gallery and had some really good chinese!

'That's us...the facilitators and the youth leaders standing in some branchy construction!'

Am off to the Dance project now....exciting! Will tell you how it went tomorrow!

p.s. I elaborated on my unfinished blogs below for those wondering at the spaces and ...'s