Calling all youth clubs! We are seeking four groups to receive a year of free Fighting Words NI workshops, residentials and more. Our branch of the Youth Action NI 'Shared Agenda for Peace' project is now going NI-wide under a new name, "Peace by Piece".
Are you a student at Queen’s University Belfast, Ulster University, or Stranmillis University College?
Sign up to do a placement programme with Fighting Words NI!
Words Warriors is back for another summer!
This free creative writing camp is for young people aged 8-11 and will take place on Wednesday and Thursday mornings from 10.30am to 12:30pm.
Our Director, Hilary Copeland, was a speaker on the “Arts and the Reconciled Future” panel on Thursday as a part of the Government of Ireland’s 4th Shared Island Forum.
Our new project, Shared Agenda for Peace, offers free training, develpment and creative writing opportunities to youth groups in the areas of Newry, Mourne and Down and Armagh, Banbridge, Craigavon!
Great News! We’re expanding the area for our Creative Connections youth group recruitment.
If you’re from the Belfast, Lisburn, Newtownabbey, North Down, Castlereagh and Carrickfergus districts then we want to work with you!
The End of Our Connswater Chapter: Statement from Hilary Copeland, Director, Fighting Words NI regarding the closing of our premises at Connswater Shopping Centre.
IMPORTANT NOTICE:
As our Connswater writing space will close on March 21, we are suspending in-person workshops until further notice.
Zoom bookings will go ahead.
Join us in the Seamus Heaney Centre at Queens University Belfast on Saturday 29th March, 12-13:30, for a workshop delivered by some seriously rap talent, rappers and facilitators Kosyne, Barrowclough, and Joel the Custodian are coming to Belfast to perform their London Symphony Orchestra-commissioned show as part of the Imagine! Festival. They are offering this session to anyone aged 13-18.
Three is the magic number!
Over the weekend we brought together three groups from Fighting Words NI in Belfast, Fighting Words in Dublin, and Graffiti Theatre Company in Cork for a cross-border, cross-community writing quest...
