Teaching Divided Histories is an innovative 3-year project developed by Nerve-Centre [Derry-LondonDerry] and funded by the European Regional Development Fund under the Peace III programme. Teaching Divided Histories – International partnerships A new curriculum-linked approach that explores the potential of Digital Media for in-school learning and practices. The key aim of this project is to…
January–February 2014 When Apeejay School, Park Street, signed up for the PeaceWorks literature curriculum, not once did I imagine that I would be the one addressing forty class niners. As the day finally arrived, I was set with multiple copies of Elias Canetti’s vignettes and a very nervous mind with random words tumbling around. The…
We have moments of letting go, honesty, positivity and simplicity. Or sometimes, we have them altogether. This was only made possible by an incredible personality with so much of life and energy into him—Ben. We were in a room of twenty people we hardly knew. Clueless about what the next four hours would do to…
7 January 2014 It was that time. A new beginning. End of holidays, end of a year. Where, by force of habit, one mentions the year bygone while writing the date. For those involved in the Share Stories Open Minds project, it also meant one more thing. Kusumika-di would be in town! For our new…
Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. O when may it suffice? That is Heaven’s part, our part To murmur name upon name, As a mother names her child When sleep at last has come On limbs that had run wild. What is it but nightfall? No, no, not night but…
