9.30-

10.00-

10.15-

11.15-

Arrival and Registration

Gathering in Plenary

Open and Welcome

·                        Why are we here? Opening Address ; Representatives from Kilbarrack ‘fight the cuts’ group and Representatives from Kilbarrack Youth Group

·                        Setting the scene for the 'Speak-outs'

Thematic facilitated work camps

1)     Social Inequality (with a particular focus on class , gender, race)

This work camp will support the  articulation  of  a collective voice on the nature and lived experience of the structural inequalities which are deeply embedded in Irish society and which  restrict so many people’s lives ; it will also  explore what needs to happen to  challenge  and help dismantle these structures   and how we can all be a part of this    

2)     Fighting the Cutbacks- Ways of Protesting

This work camp will concentrate on developing creative ways to resist cutbacks and changes in policy, and most especially to identify and challenge what has been happening to leaders (formal and informal) in the community development, equality and disability sectors. We plan to write articles, poems, verse and limericks and anything else that comes up during the workcamps. Creative support and inspiration will be provided (as will computers and powerpoint access).

3)   Transformation- Bringing about Change

 Most of the time our work has to be in a specific place, around a specific issue - but we are motivated by the thought that our local efforts, together with the struggles of other people in  other places around other issues, might add up to a much bigger change.

This work camp will be around "joining the dots" - getting from structures of inequality to a just and sustainable world, bringing together personal change and effective protesting into effective struggles for change that  might really make a difference on a large scale.

4)   Sustainability and Global Justice

The scale of global inequalities can make action for justice at a global level seem daunting. This workcamp will link some of the causes and impacts of structural inequalities in Ireland with those of people throughout the world. It will further explore if and how we can forge solidarities between ‘local’ struggles for economic, social, political and environmental justice and those being undertaken by people in the Global South.

5)     Finding and supporting the Warrior Leader (in ourselves and others)

This work-camp will explore how, our human potential  is developed,  not only through looking at how we relate to ourselves and those close to us, but  also by becoming aware of how we influence society and the world  by our thinking and our actions  or inactions.

Through different activities, participants will work towards an understanding of how to be more effective as active agents of sustainable change in the wider community, while also respecting and supporting each other in a supportive and holistic process. Possible tools and traditions being drawn on: authentic leadership; yoga; 'mindfulness' meditation; story- telling; deep listening; liberation theology.

6.     Young People as Change Makers

Change takes many forms; it doesn’t have to be a global, economic or even community change to be significant.  In order to seek change on a larger scale we sometimes need to look within to find the strength and courage to make some changes for and in ourselves. We then may feel ready to move to bigger changes.   Continuing a legacy of generations before us is easy as sometimes it is all we know. However change making and pattern breaking are possible and achievable.   This work camp will support participants to identify changes they can make.  

   1.00

Lunch

2.30-

Creative Media Workcamps – planning actions, making statements, plays, stories, photos, films etc.

1)     Creative Writing and Telling Stories for Change

2)     Creating Change through Food and Gardening

3)     Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed

4)     Photography as a medium for Change

5)     Video/ Film

6)     Stunts

7)     Art and Installation/ Badges and Banners

4.00

Break

4.30   

'Speak outs'

5.15

Close