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 Palestine, Ukraine, and Sudan, Conflict Textiles, Ulster University, INCORE, Queen’s University Belfast, and the Tower Museum are joining forces to present a three-day programme (8-10 December) to mark International Human Rights Day with a programme cross universities, campuses, and cities.
The programme will bring together film students, human rights researchers, activists, curators and the wider community to explore how textiles and film can act as powerful carriers of memory, truth, and justice. Through screenings, workshops, exhibitions, and discussions, the joint programme highlights creative responses to trauma and the disappeared across different global contexts.
The Derry-Londonderry - programme will focus on the arpillera and film about Cadê Heleny? / Searching Heleny. Heleny Guariba was a philosopher, professor and theatre director who 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 at the Tower Museum and Nerve Centre. Esther's work started with writing her post- graduate dissertation on The Art of Survival: International and Irish Quilts, and has since developed to encompass arpillera workshops, organising exhibitions and lately filming in Brazil. She will also be actively involved in filmmaking workshops for non-filmmakers and festival programming with UU Cinematic Arts students.
Dr. Lauren Dempster will organise the programme in Belfast. Two events will take place at Queen’s University Belfast - a lecture by Selma Catović Hughes (originally from Bosnia) and a film screening of My Father’s Diaries, made by Ado Hasanović (a Bosnian film director and festival programmer based in Rome). Both events are rooted in the lived experience of the Srebrenica genocide and its aftermath and explore the role of the creative arts as a response to human rights violations.
A detailed programme and registration links can be found here. |
| Commissioned by: | Conflict Textiles, Ulster University & Queen’s University |
| Date(s): | 8th December 2025 - 10th December 2025 |
| Venue: | Ulster University (Derry-Londonderry), Nerve Centre, Tower Museum, Queen’s University
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| Curator: | Conflict Textiles, Ulster University, Queen's University, INCORE, Tower Museum |
| Facilitator: | L.Aguiar, É.Féron & B.Hamber UU, L.Dempster Queen’s, B.Walsh & M.Edwards Tower Museum |
| Outcome: | The 3 days event was a very powerful collaboration between different institutions and a good networking exercise. The programme brought together film students, lecturers, human rights researchers, activists, curators and the wider community to explore how textiles and film can act as powerful carriers of memory, truth, and justice. Through screenings, lecture, workshops, exhibitions, and discussions, the joint programme highlighted creative responses to human rights violations and the disappeared across different global contexts.
Monday 8th December started in Belfast with a walking tour for our transnational guests visiting 3 Belfast libraries that include Conflict Textiles pieces:
- Ulster University, Belfast campus library,
- Linen Hall Library
- McClay Library, Queen's University
You are invited to access the full outcome report by the 3 coordinators' programme. |
| Documents: |
• Programme 8th to 10th December 2025 - view
• Human Rights 2025 Flyer - view
• Searching Heleny Flyer - view
• Smartphone Filmmaking Workshop - view
• Truth, Memory, Justice - view
• Photo Gallery, Monday 8th December, Belfast - view
• Photo Gallery, 9th & 10th December, (L)Derry - view
• Human Rights 2025 Outcome - view
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