Programme Work
Corrymeela hosts programmes which are centered around:
- Schools: seeking to address community relations issues, often through citizenship
- Families: providing respite and development work
- Faith and Life: seeking to support individuals and church communities in their journey of faith and to support encounter with different traditions
- Youth: seeking to provide a safe and welcoming environment, primarily focused on marginalised youth
- Communities: looking at issues of inter-community relations, both on a single-identity and a cross community basis
- International communities: hosting groups who are interested in learning about conflict management and peace-building.
The community also exhibits artwork with themes of peace and reconciliation for Northern Ireland. In 2007, it exhibited The Linen Memorial, a piece made from almost 400 Irish linen handkerchiefs listing almost 4000 names of those killed in the Northern Irish conflict. Visiors left mementos and tokens beside names of those killed, making it an interactive and evolving artwork.
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