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!
Statement from Hilary Copeland, Director, Fighting Words NI
Fighting Words NI supports children and young people to discover the joy and power of writing in their own words. We provide free creative writing activities that support children and young people most seldom heard to develop new skills, values and attitudes, and reach their full potential.
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...
What a fantastic start to the year!
Eight fantastic artist-facilitators travelled to Dublin from Belfast, Dungannon, Drogheda and Cork for a full day training session ahead of this year's Creative Connections project workshops.
Attention!
Fighting Words NI will be closed from 20th December 2024 to 1st January 2025 inclusive.
Have a wonderful holiday season and we’ll see you in the New Year!
From October 2024-June 2025, we will work with community groups in Belfast, Newry, Armagh, Louth, Monaghan, Dublin and Cork. The project is open to young people aged 15-24 and each programme will be delivered by professional artists.
We’re looking for a multi-talented solution-seeker to work part-time (22.5 hours a week) to coordinate the delivery of a large-scale peace-building youth consortium project, A Shared Agenda for Peace...
Last week our two Write Quest groups from Fighting Words in Dublin and Fighting Words NI in Belfast came together in Fighting Words NI's creative writing hub.
