Some examples of our most playful and innovative creative moments
"The peace / good relations sphere can be very predictable. It is not known for its experimental creativity and art playfulness, so we fill that void. Sometimes it is to shake up institutions, sometimes we just get bored of boxes, but always the intention is for the greater good whilst enabling people to exercise their creative freedom without boundaries"
We got musicians across 22 countries to collaborate on a composition for Make Music Day asking performers not to play their instruments during the entire duration. And we had to get a license to do it because 4 minutes and 33 seconds of not playing music is copyrighted.
We put musicians from Loyalist flute bands and heavy metal musicians together.
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We curated a 100 page book of unique art (poetry, stories, painting, photography, embroidery and more) created by 100 women. It was overwhelmingly beautiful and we planted it in the ground for 100 years so only third generations will see it.
One World Festival Northern Ireland invited us to do a virtual event. So we thought why don't we put on a festival of traditional music and dance in rural Zambia with no audience physically there but a virtual audience.
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For Chinese New Year we commissioned an Irish punk musician to collaborate with a Chinese chef and this happened...
The brief was to program the stage with music that reflected diversity. And that is exactly what we did but not what people expected...
When we put out the entire press statement for our International Youth 4 Peace Summit including International Women's Day as a rap music video. Much to the bemusement of a Government funder.
We took all the public evaluations from a participatory budgeting democracy project and made it into an Opera to give to the council.
Poo Guru's, Artivism and good old Rock 'n' Roll. Lough Neagh is one of the greatest examples of the impact of humans abusing our natural world, most of the time for profit. So with our friends Love Our Lough and Chris Hines from Surfers Against Sewage we are doing something about it documented by a perpetual film.
Yes we did...
