Twilight ‘European Cultures Together Conference’ 2023

accordion player and also displays by Guy Jones Grand Master of Taekwondo.

Travelling Community return with their incredible cultural display and many more Special Guests this year are the students and parents for St John’s Junior School ( e Lake) who are displaying the costumes of the Nations of the world and highlighting that ‘Communities are Stronger Together’

To highlight how strong Twilight believe in our youth, having built a very strong and active Twilight Youth Inclusion group for all, a young Ukraine girl, Valeria e very progressive

AgalaKova of just 12 years of age will sing for the attendees on the day.

Twilight Community Group (TCG) are currently the Business of the Year for Diversity, Inclusion and Equality. eir diversity statement says ‘Men, women, boys and girl are welcome in all their diversity’ is clearly visible in all the charity’s programmes and projects at their Twilight International Cultural House. Major upgrades and expansions are now underway for completion by 2024, and these programmes will grow and expand in the years to come.

It is that time of the year when the Twilight Community Group’s International Conference comes to town. e 2023 gathering will see over 15 di erent nationalities celebrate their culture, heritage, history and their arts and show how they transcend all national borders and barriers. is can only lead to better understanding and appreciation of each other’s culture and deliver what everyone wants, that is a fully diverse, inclusive and equal society for all.

Once again, a great friend of Kilkenny, HE DR Lahcen Mahraou Ambassador to Ireland for the Kingdom of Morocco will be present and will be joined by HE Mrs Larisa Miculet Moldavan Ambassador and H.E. Giovanni Buttigieg as Malta’s Ambassador to Ireland as well as members of the Diplomatic corps of Hungary, Slovakia, Poland Romania and community groups from across Europe and beyond.

HE DR Lahcen Mahraou will launch “Christian Presence in Morocco: Living Together” Exhibition in Rothe House on the afternoon of March 16th. e main objective of this exhibition goes well with the spirit of your event as it highlights the origins of the Moroccan identity, its plurality, tolerance, which is a great lesson for the livingtogether that we need today to build a society of peace and resilience. is theme ties in perfectly with the ethos of this year’s Cultures Together Conference.

Kilkenny Charitable group will have the Mayors of Bukkszentkereszt, Eukkarauyos Repashunta (Hungary) Birgu (Malta) Agia (Greece) Baclean (Romania) Padron (Spain) Kosice (Slovakia) And the Ministry of Finance (Latvia). Together all partners are developing a strategy for a 24-month programme of a Network of Towns Project.

Follow Twilight Up to Carlow e 2023 event takes the delegation to a new town.

On Saturday 18th all the team will depart to our near neighbours Carlow and stay in the Seven Oaks Hotel. While here there will be a seminar of ‘ e EU Scepticism’, a meal with the Mayor of Carlow and other members of the municipal district as Twilight Community Group are expanding their services and opening a new branch in the ‘Dolmen county’. e group will be providing community groups in the area support for Integration and Inclusion across the diverse range of nationalities and supporting the Local Communities and o er opportunities through their Twilight/Youth Inclusion group to explore all the Erasmus+ programmes that are available. So as the song goes… Follow Me (or in this case Twilight) up to Carlow!

Highlight of the year

As this has now become one of the highlights of everyone’s ‘Conference to attend’ diary every year the TCG o er the opportunity for Countries and their diaspora to display their community at its most colourful and open way to all who are attending this free event, and this year is no exception. Moldovia are putting on a display of their incredible traditional blouses, Slovenia are bringing an excellent guitarist and vocalist, Hungarian cultural display, Romanian piano