Tuesday, 16 September 2025
Event Details
Cadê Heleny? / Searching Heleny - Front (Photo: Martin Melaugh) |
| Workshop, Talk and Film Screenings: | Human Rights 2025 Programme |
| Description: | In the context of present flagrant human rights violations, including in Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan, the organizing team has chosen 8th , 9th and 10th December to mark International Human Rights Day with a programme cross universities, campuses, and cities. It also connects human rights researchers, practitioners, activists and the wider community.
Special focus is the arpillera and film about Cadê Heleny? / Searching Heleny. Heleny Guariba was a philosopher, professor and theatre director disappeared in 1971 under the Brazilian dictatorship.
Esther Vital, originally from the Basque Country, who has been involved with CT since 2008, will be presenting her work. Esther's work started with writing her post graduate dissertation on The Art of Survival: International and Irish Quilts, and has developed to encompass arpillera workshops, organizing exhibitions and lately filming in Brazil. She will also be actively involved in a film festival curated by cinematic students in close collaboration with Laura Aguiar.
Lauren Dempster will organize the programme in Belfast. This will include a lecture by Selma Catović Hughes (originally from Bosnia). Of special significance is her work on the disappeared rooted in her own experience of having her father disappeared during the Siege of Sarajevo in the early 1990s. |
| Commissioned by: | Conflict Textiles, Ulster University & Queen’s University |
| Date(s): | 8th December 2025 - 10th December 2025 |
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| Curator: | Conflict Textiles, Ulster University and Queen's University |
| Facilitator: | Laura Aguiar (UU), Lauren Dempster (Queen’s) Brandon Hamber (UU) & Roberta Bacic (CT) |
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