Small City Becomes Huge... The Irish Food Heritage Project When: Throughout 2013 Where: Citywide
Chinese Culture Week When: 9 – 16 February 2013 Where: Citywide The Chinese community is Northern Ireland’s largest and oldest minority ethnic group. Chinese immigrants arrived in the 1960s, mainly from Hong Kong, and today there are over 13,000 Chinese people - including students - living in NI. Chinese New Year is the biggest celebration in the Chinese calendar. For City of Culture 2013, there will be a week-long celebration of Chinese culture across the city to mark Chinese New Year, ‘The Year of The Snake’. www.cwa-ni.org
The Irish Food Heritage Project will be organising a number of events, tours, education and outreach projects in 2013 as well as launching a publication and smart app exploring the historical roots of local cuisine. The project seeks to revive Irish food heritage and the traditional rural way of life. As well as touring various community venues across the city, throughout 2013 the Irish Food Heritage Project and the mobile hearth will be making appearances at the city’s established local festivals, ‘Gasyard Wall Feile’, ‘Carnivale of Colours’ and ‘Earhart Festival’.
International Women’s Weekend Creativity Month When: 1 – 31 March 2013 Where: Citywide City of Culture 2013, in partnership with Culture NI, will play a lead role in Creativity Month – a celebration of creativity and the creative industries across the region. An exciting programme of events and workshops will take place in March, aimed at stimulating thinking and collaborations to help creative people, creative ideas and creative businesses to emerge and flourish. The impact of the creative industries can be seen across a wide range of sectors from tourism to manufacturing. There are examples all around us in advertising, architecture, art, crafts, design, film, music and digital technologies. Creativity Month will also showcase how our creative and cultural infrastructure and programmes are providing new ideas to tackle challenges in the economy, health, social inclusion and the environment. www.culturenorthernireland.org www.creativityni.org
When: 8 – 10 March 2013 Where: Citywide International Women’s Day Art Exhibit will be launched on Friday 8 March, running for two weeks at Eden Place Arts Centre. The theme for the exhibition is ‘Celebrating Women as Cultural Creators’, focusing on the important role women have culturally as creators in all capacities of life. The exhibition is a crosscommunity endeavour hosted by Inishowen Rural Arts Network, Derry Women Artists Alliance and various other art groups throughout the North West. There will also be drama, debate and, of course, dancing! Various locations across the city will host international guests as well as showcasing local talent and celebrating all that is ‘WOMAN’ in our beautiful Maiden City.
St Patrick’s Day Spring Carnival When: 16 – 17 March 2013 Where: Queen’s Quay & Guildhall Square With carnival parades, concerts, dancing, storytelling and colourful characters celebrate your St Patrick’s Day in the City of Culture and home to the 2013 All Ireland Fleadh. The main festivities will take place on Sunday 17 March and all the stops are being pulled out to ensure it is a spectacular family friendly occasion with something for all ages. There will be street entertainment and fun activities to keep the kids amused and a range of events held across a series of locations throughout the city in an effort to encourage people to explore new locations and areas of the city they may not have visited before. The official St Patrick’s Day Spring Carnival programme will be available online from February 2013 at www.derrycity.gov.uk/stpatricksday
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