Event Details
(L-R): Roberta Bacic, CT curator; Sarah Calvin, Museum Services Development Manager; Laura Wright, Museum Officer; Councillor Ciarán McQuillan of Causeway Coast and Glens Borough Council; and Clem McCartney, CT Trustee (Photo: CT Archive) |
| Exhibition: | Arpillera journey in the Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services |
| Description: | This exhibition explores the Museum Services journey with Conflict Textiles. From an exhibition in 2011 in Harpur’s Hill Community Centre to the Stitching and Unstitching the Troubles programme which generated our museum collection of arpilleras.
The arpilleras created through the Stitching and Unstitching the Troubles programme have travelled to museums, institutions and countries across the world sharing the experiences of the women who created them here in the Causeway Coast and Glens area. The textiles explore many themes and the contrasting emotions that many felt and experienced growing up and living through the Troubles. Peace, justice and love was represented alongside bombings, car bombings and life during the Troubles. The exhibition also explores the legacy that these leave.
This display is a satellite of the Conflict Textiles retrospective exhibition Threads of Empowerment: Conflict Textiles' International Journey at the Ulster Museum, Belfast (June 2024 - March 2025). For more information please visit our Summary page. |
| Commissioned by: | Causeway Coast and Glens Museum Services |
| Date(s): | 13th January 2025 - 29th March 2025 |
| Venue: | Community Gallery, Ballymoney Museum
Townhead Street, Ballymoney. BT53 6BE |
| Curator: | Sarah Calvin & Roberta Bacic |
| Facilitator: | Sarah Calvin, Museum Services Development Manager |
| Outcome: | - Access to the collection
- Increasing awareness of where the arpilleras have been exhibited and the importance of sharing experiences of the Troubles here
- Creating a legacy for future generations
- Local year 5 children from St Brigids Primary School attended a workshop at the museum, learned about the exhibition and made friendship bracelets. They also visited the exhibition Causeway Safari Tale.
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