Nora Greer #fightingwordsbelfast volunteer has just been announced Winner of Arts and Culture Volunteer of the Year at Belfast City Council's Age-Friendly Awards at City Hall with Lord Mayor Nuala McAllister.
Nora was nominated by Geraldine Wilkins, Development Officer Fighting Words Belfast
Write Clubbers invited to write stories based on the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
Fantastic article providing an overview of the Fighting Words Belfast project to date. Lots of impressive facts and figures and powerful quotes from participants and teachers.
Fighting Words Belfast received a Flagship Grant from The Ireland Funds and is now reaching 2,000+ children in Northern Ireland.
Fighting Words Belfast was delighted to welcome children with autism and their families from the Belfast Trust’s Speech & Language Therapy Clinic for a series of three creative writing workshops.
Participants, aged 8-10, worked with volunteer writing mentors to create three new stories which they then completed individually.
“It was great to see my son relaxed and happy in a new environment with his peers,” said one mum, Lisa.
Peter Wilson, a 14 year old Larne Grammar student, encouraged by Fighting Words Belfast writing mentors to share his writing.
As part of this year's EastSide Arts Festival, Fighting Words Belfast hosted a fast-paced, interactive play-making workshop in partnership with Accidental Theatre.
Belfast Harbour is helping to fund a programme of creative writing workshops for teenagers which are being delivered by Fighting Words Belfast.
The workshops, which started earlier this year, are taking place each week across North and East Belfast, and will run until the end of the year.
The storybook, written collaboratively by young people from Belfast and Dublin, is now available for all to read in the Creative Zone at Seamus Heaney HomePlace.
Teachers are singing the praises of Fighting Words Belfast volunteers following the success of the cross-community cross-border More Crosswords programme.
With the support and encouragement offered by our trained volunteer mentors, teachers commented that even the quietest child in the group was drawn into the fun of collective story making.
Fighting Words Belfast hosted over 150 primary school children from Belfast and Dublin for the unveiling of 'The Teleportation Electrician' storybook, the result of a 2 month cross-community cross-border creative writing project.
