Belfast: City of Light: Looking and Listening to Belfast, Come with me - Couverture souple

Lawson, Bronagh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1916308902 ISBN 13 : 9781916308909

Editeur : Inner Stream Limited, 2019

Synopsis

What if, in the city of Belfast that is conflicted both emotionally and physically, a non-churchgoer artist decides to follow an artistic thread of visiting every church in Belfast for a service, simply looking and listening to what is going on? Bronagh Lawson decided to do just that. After thirteen years of setting up and running cross-community, cross-border development programmes on interfaces in Belfast, she went back to her artistic roots and simply followed a thread of creative enquiry. Ten years later, she considered how she could encourage others to see an alternative view of the spiritual life of the city. Belfast: City of Light is a true account of that journey. May it start a thousand conversations.

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Bronagh Lawson Artist Twitter @creativchangeni Instagram @creativchangeni born in Newtownards in 1966 to Frances and Paddy lawson, who had returned to Northern Ireland to oversee the design and build of the Ulster Museum extension, Bronagh spent her first two years on the Upper Newtownards Road with her three older sisters before moving to Portaferry in 1968. After Frances and Paddy separated in the seventies, the girls and Frances moved to a council house in Strangford, Educated at Down High School, Downpatrick, in 1986 Bronagh attended art college in Bristol and then gained a first class degree in textiles and fashion at Winchester School of Art, Hampshire. Moving to London on graduation, she won a Fulbright Scholarship and attended Parsons School of Design in New York. Bronagh sometimes visited Northern Ireland and despaired. Returning to Northern Ireland from New York pre-ceasefire, she spent time as a participant on various cross-community cross-border development programmes before deciding to use her creativity in a different way. For Thirteen years she set up and ran cross -border cross community development programmes mostly within the enterprise sector in interface areas of Belfast.Within this gift of a time she investigated her own socialization of being brought up in rural coastal Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and heard any stories from people in the city similar to life she saw only on TV growing up- and often switched off as it was so horrific. She spent three years based in north Belfast, between the republican New Lodge and Loyalist Tiger's bay. Walking into work one day she collapsed. She had become incapable of processing the trauma that people living in some of the most deprived wards in Europe at the time brought in with them daily.Disillusioned with the traumatised structures that had developed around the peace-dividend, wounded, she found herself coming back to her original training as an artist and hence started a journey towards her own healing. This book is a true account of that time and it's unusual unfolding outcome.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Inner Stream Limited
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1916308902
• ISBN 13: 9781916308909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 178
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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