Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Joint Oireachtas Committee on the Implementation of the Good Friday Agreement
Cross-Border Theatre Projects: Smashing Times Theatre Company
10:10 am
Ms Freda Manweiler:
We have worked on cross-community projects between the Shankill and the Falls. We have worked with women's groups from the Falls Women's Centre and the Shankill Women's Centre. We have worked across the community. We have also done work in Newtownards on a cross-community basis. We brought community members from all around Strangford Lough to work on a cross-community basis. Usually when we work in schools the students are aged 14 years and above. That is the age group on which we focus. Recently we worked in a school in Letterkenny.
There was an assumption that everybody in the class was Catholic until we started doing some work and two young girls told us they were Protestant. This information was not communicated within the class. We were in a position to enable the class to have some kind of discussion about the issues experienced by the young Protestant girls. Sometimes we are very focused on bringing two groups together, while at other times we may not know who is in a group. We have a cross-community group in place. Does that answer the Deputy's question?
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