Event Details
'Northern Ireland Peace Quilt', by Women Together. (Photo: Colin Peck) |
| Exhibition and associated activities: | Stitching and Unstitching The Troubles II: Exploring Responses to Conflict Through Textile Art |
| Description: | This exhibition, which explores responses to conflict through textile art, features a number of local and international textiles. The Northern Ireland textiles, with the exception of two, were created by community groups in workshops exploring their response to their own experience of the Troubles, as part of the exhibition programme Stitching and Unstitching The Troubles-phase 1 and Phase 2.
Guided tours by curator Roberta Bacic will take place at 2pm, 27th January, and 7pm, Tuesday 4th February.
For further information contact:
Mrs Jamie Austin
Museum & Heritage Officer
Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre
Email: jamie.austin@rvacc.co.uk
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| Commissioned by: | Causeway Museum Service and Mid-Antrim Museums Service |
| Date(s): | 6th December 2013 - 22nd February 2014 |
| Venue: | Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Limavady, Northern Ireland
Limavady Ritter Gallery, Limavady |
| Curator: | Roberta Bacic assisted by Breege Doherty |
| Facilitator: | North East Peace 111, CMS and MAMs |
| Outcome: | This initiative brought the textiles created in Stitching and Unstitching The Troubles-phase 1 and Phase 2 to a new audience and community. The exhibition and associated activities were well attended. |
