Event Details
Participants who created new textiles pictured at the launch of the exhibition: 'Stitching and Unstitching The Troubles exhibition - Phase 2', at the Braid, Ballymena, April 2013 |
| Exhibition and associated activities: | Stitching and Unstitching The Troubles-phase 2 |
| Description: | This exhibition includes textiles developed by local communities prompted by a series of workshops which followed the September 2012 exhibition in Coleraine: Stitching and Unstitching The Troubles-phase 1
Through these textiles and a number of other pieces from Northern Ireland, England, Spain, Chile, Peru and Colombia, we are invited to explore the multi-layered impact of conflict and its aftermath with a central emphasis on The Troubles in Northern Ireland. Phase two of this two phase programme of exhibitions and workshops incorporates a series of related events.
The exhibition launch takes place on Monday 15th April 2013 at 2.00 pm.
Exhibition opening times are: Monday to Friday 10 am - 5 pm, Saturday 10 am - 4 pm.
All events are free, but booking is essential.
Booking: Maria Cagney, (028) 2563 5926
maria.cagney@ballymena.gov.uk
Web links:
The Braid Museum - News
The Braid Museum - Exhibitions
For information on all phases of this exhibition programme, see: Northern Ireland Community Archive
Follow up: Stitching and Unstitching The Troubles II: Exploring Responses to Conflict Through Textile Art |
| Commissioned by: | Causeway Museum Service and Mid-Antrim Museums Service |
| Date(s): | 13th April 2013 - 29th June 2013 |
| Venue: | Mid-Antrim Museum at The Braid, Ballymena
1-29 Bridge Street, Ballymena, Antrim, Northern Ireland. |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic assisted by Breege Doherty |
| Facilitator: | Cultural Fusions, Causeway Museum Service and Mid-Antrim Museums Service |
| Outcome: | This exhibition showcased 25 textiles created by women on a cross-community basis, exploring their experiences of and response to The Troubles in Northern Ireland. It prompted questions, conversations, connections and collaboration. Many of these textiles have since been exhibited in a variety of venues in several continents and are a valuable textile resource on The Troubles in Northern Ireland. |
| Documents: |
• Exhibition invite, Ballymena, April 2013 - view
• Exhibition leaflet - Ballymena, April 2013 - view
• Exhibition poster - Ballymena, April 2013 - view
• Film screening - Ballymena, May 2013 - view
• Launch invitation - view
• press release - Ballymena - SUTT 2 - view
• press coverage - Ballymena Guardian - view
• press coverage - Ballymena Times - view
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