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Showcasing Moville 'Then and Now'
09.11.10
A cultural project for
the European Year of Combating Poverty and Social
Exclusion 2010 will be showcased in Moville later
this week.
The 'Then and Now' project involving schoolchildren
and older people from the area will be showcased in
St Eugene's Hall on Friday, November 12 at midday.
The project, to be launched by community chef, Brian
McDermott, has been organised by the Moville and
District Family Resource Centre. It will showcase
the work of children from the three participating
schools in Moville, namely, St. Columb’s N.S,
Gaelscoil Cois Feabhail and Scoil Eoghain. |
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Moville children who took part in the
'Then and Now' project to be showcased on Friday,
November 12. |
The event will take the
form of an exhibition, a live performance by some of
the young people, and the screening of the 'Then and
Now' DVD which documents the activities of the
workshop including stories of days gone by in the
Moville area, of homes before electricity, of
subsistence farming and of travel between Glasgow
and Moville as told by locals, Mary Thompson,
Bridget Moir, and Patrick McCartney. The stories
were recounted through discussions with the children
in each of the schools.
According to the Moville and District Family
Resource Centre, the aim of the 'Then and Now'
project was to highlight issues of poverty in 2010,
and to "discuss these issues in an accessible and
socially relevant way, through the involvement of
older people from the community and in art workshops
in drawing, collage, photography and drama".
The centre thanked all involved with the
intergenerational project for their enthusiasm and
participation. |
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