Welcome to the 31st edition of Féile.
Féile, the north west’s biggest arts festival, returns for the 31st year with a packed programme including music, literature, film, sport, history, comedy, art, carnival, fun days, health, discussions, tours and events and programmes for children, young people and older people. What began as a one day festival in 1993 has since grown into the biggest community arts festival in the North West, attracting over 20,000 people annually to the programme of events. The 100+ events at Féile 2023 will take place across the Bogside, Brandywell, Creggan, Bishop Street, Fountain neighbourhoods and Derry City centre from Saturday August 12th to Saturday August 19th.
31 years since the first Féile, we look forward to celebrating everything that is great about these neighbourhoods where we live, learn, play, work, and visit with our neighbours, friends and visitors to the city. At Féile 2023, we will remember and pay tribute to Roisin Barton, Stephen Gargan and Donncha Mac Niallias, three significant community activists who passed away within the past year, who contributed massively not only to Féile but also to the transformation and development of these communities.
Féile 2023 would not be possible without the support of our funders at The Executive Office, and Department of Foreign Affairs and the collaboration of the many groups, initiatives, volunteers and residents from throughout the Bogside, Brandywell, Creggan, Bishop Street and Fountain areas who have come together to shape and manage this programme of events.
The Big Breakfast
Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership, Central Drive
Saturday 12th August | 11am – 12.30pm
Get your Féile off to a great start with The Big Breakfast at The Corned Beef Tin. Hosted by Eddie Breslin. Adm: Free. Contact Kellie on 02871281900 for further information.
Party in the Park - Big Bog BBQ
Pilots Row Car Park
Saturday 12th August | 2pm – 6pm
Pilots Row comes alive for the annual Big Bog BBQ where all cultures and traditions can come together for a positive community event that will benefit the wider area and the city. the family to enjoy with lots of activities such as kids fairground rides, balloon modelling, face painting, henna tattoos, toddlers play area, live music, food and much more! This is a free event for all.
House in the Wells Annual Féile BBQ
House in the Wells, 130 St Columb’s Wells
Friday 18th August | 12 noon
The Annual House in the Wells Summer BBQ is an open day to invite our neighbours in to say hello, have a BBQ lunch and listen to great live music. The BBQ will be provided by the RRT (Rapid Relief Team). Anyone under the age of 16 must be accompanied by an adult. This is a free event but donations for the House in the Wells Residents comfort fund are welcome.
Lúghnasa
Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin , Great James St
Saturday 19th August | 10am – 4pm
Bígí linn sa Chultúrlann le haghaidh lá gníomhaíochtaí
teaghlaigh dírithe ar an fhéile phágánach Lúnasa. Foghlaim faoi na sean-nósanna traidisiúnta a bhaineann leis an am seo den bhliain, bia séasúrach, agus glac roinnt ealaíon agus ceardaíochta ar aghaidh leat! Rachaidh tú ina bhaile le cúpla focal úr! Join us in the Cultúrlann for a day of activities centred around the pagan Lúnasa festival. Learn about ancient traditional practices related to this time of year, seasonal food, and take home some arts and crafts. You’ll also go home with a few new Irish words!
End of Harvest Barbecue
Ballymagowan Allotments
Saturday 19th August | 12 noon
The annual end of harvest barbecue provides a great opportunity for allotment holders and novices alike who are attending gardening classes to learn the art of growing produce from seeds, to come together in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere, to swap stories and enjoy the food and company in a scenic environment.
Connecting Communities Family Festival
Gasyard Children’s Centre, Lecky Road
Sunday 13th August | 2pm - 4pm
Come along and enjoy a few hours of Music, Dance, Arts & Crafts for Autistic children, young people and their families.
Kids Health Week
Long Tower Youth Club, Ann Street
Monday 14th August- Friday 18th August
10.00am - 3.00pm daily
*finishes at 12pm on Friday 18th August
The Kids Health Week Summer Scheme will provide a variety of fun & creative activities with a breakfast club provided. Activities will include Cookery and Nutrition Workshops, Arts & Crafts, Assault Courses, Football sessions, Basketball with Danny Quigley, Martial Arts with Pinta, Bug Hunts, Nature Walks, Games, Park Play, Relaxation Workshops, Circus Skills, Relax Kids; self-belief & empowerment Workshops, Sparks Music & ‘Healthy Me’ Action Mental Health Workshops & Bouncy Castles.
Kellogg’s GAA Cúl Camps
Celtic Park, Lone Moor Road
Monday 14th August – Friday 18th August
Kellogg’s GAA Cúl Camps provide primary school boys and girls – between the ages of 6 and 13 – with an action-packed and fun-filled week of activity during the summer holidays which revolves around maximising enjoyment and sustaining participant involvement in Gaelic Games. Each child will receive 1 Cúl Camps Kit pack consisting of a Backpack, Jersey and 1/4 Zip Top. Féile is sponsoring 15 places for children from Bogside, Brandywell, Bishop Street, Fountain and Creggan neighbourhoods in receipt of free meals, To register for a free place, contact Elaine at Féile: vipfeilederry@gmail.com
Imagine Create
St Mary’s Youth Club, Fanad Drive
Monday 14th August- Friday 18th August | 11am – 4pm daily
A series of creative workshops at St Mary’ Youth Club where young people will get the chance to work with professional facilitators in areas including music, film, art, dance, photography over four days culminating in a showcase event.
The Greatest Show
Dove Gardens / The Fountain / Ballymagowan / Brandywell
Monday 14th August- Friday 18th August
An unmissable family show featuring some of Ireland’s magicians, comedy acts and circus shows visiting communities across Bogside, Creggan, Bishop Street, The Fountain and Brandywell neighbourhoods.
Performers include Jack Wise, Mr H, Jitterbug Jackson, Tumble Circus and Frankie Magilligan. Keep an eye on Féile’s social media for exact times and locations.
Martin McGuinness Peace Foundation Bursary Awards
The Guildhall
Wednesday 16th August | 1pm
The Martin Mc Guinness Peace Foundation is delighted to be awarding a number of bursaries, 9 in total, for the second year. The Mayor has agreed to host an event for the Foundation at which the Bursaries will be awarded.
The Ryan McBride Foundation Summer Camp
Bishops Field,Creggan
Monday August 14th – Thursday August 17th
The Ryan McBride Foundation was set up following the passing of the much loved Derry City captain. The Foundation aims to support, assist and inspire young players to achieve what Ryan achieved and to assist groups that Ryan supported during his life. A summer scheme for children aged 4-13 featuring lots of footballing fun will be held during Féile 2023. Féile are funding a limited number of free spaces for young people from the Bogside, Brandywell and Fountain areas who are entitled to free school meals. To book your place contact: aisling@bbhealthforum.org
2 day camp 14-15 Aug 9am to 2pm - £20
2 day camp 16-17 Aug 9am to 2pm - £20
4 day camp 14-17 Aug 9am to 2pm - £35 8.30am drop off available £5
Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership Family Bus Run
Bundoran
Thursday August 17th | 9am
Join us for the big family trip to Bundoran. Bus leaves Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership at 9am. Price tbc.
For more info contact Kellie Tel. 028 71281900
COVID Creations
Holywell Trust/Garden of Reflection, Bishop Street
Friday 11th August | 2pm - 4pm
The pandemic was a really challenging time for everyone, but for people with a Cancer diagnosis and their families, it was particularly frightening. ‘Covid Creations’ hosted by The Pink Ladies Cancer Support Group, is an exhibition of the art, poetry and song created by our amazing members during lockdown. These creations are a beautiful way to remember how we came through a time we will never forget. If any of our members would like to showcase their work please contact our office on Tel. 07710025494
Juvenilia
Bull Park
Saturday 12th August
Award winning photographer Megan Doherty has worked with a group of young women from St Mary’s Youth Club, Creggan and Long Tower Youth Club, Brandywell to produce a new exhibition ‘Juvenilia’ (works produced by an artist while young).. The work explores adolescence, friendship, community and girlhood, captured through the lens of the observer, as well as the intimate and unique point of view of the girls themselves who created the work.
Camerawork
Rossville Street
Saturday 12th - Saturday 19th August
Camerawork Darkrooms Derry (Camerawork) was established in 1982 in Derry’s Bogside to provide local people with the tools that would enable them to create their own black and white images. Derry in the 1980’s resembled a war zone and it was not an uncommon sight to see international journalists capturing images of that conflict. It was against this backdrop that Camerawork photographers began recording everyday life in the city from its citizen’s viewpoint. In existence for over a decade, a huge archive was amassed numbering several thousand negatives that provide a fascinating portrayal of a people and place. ‘Picture this’ offers an opportunity for local people to cast their minds back at a time when everything appeared black and white.
Squarebear - Hood Art 2
The Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
An exhibition inspired by lo-fi meme culture which shows sesh culture and corporate globalism overshadow local Irish nationalism by referencing pop culture and art history. Squarebear uses symbols of youth culture, injecting art culture and pop iconography. In the themes of album covers, movie posters, historical themes and pop culture contrasted against Irish nationalism and local disaffected youth. The exhibition’s aim is to galvanise these ideas in a fun non-political way by making youth feel less lonely and engaged by making art directly for “hoods” while also reaching to bring wider understanding to those issues by relating those same lost youth to these wider problems like corporate culture. It is both autobiographical and an objective witness account of sesh culture and irish nationalism and those conflicting parallels made for those disaffected by politics or in need of an alternative eye.
Street Art Tour
Friday 18th August | 2pm
Street artists from across the globe have joined a new breed of street artists to leave their mark in towns and cities across Ireland. In recent years, the Derry collective, Peaball, have been leading the street art movement in Derry. This special event will see street artists take a group across the city and the Bogside and Creggan neighbourhoods and view artworks by acclaimed artists including Aches, Emic, Friz, Dave Bonzai, Razer and Noys. Dress for the weather with suitable clothing/footwear. Pre-registration essential. Contact: hello@peaball.com
The Pen Behind The Wire : Eoghan Mac Cormaic
Museum of Free Derry, Glenfada Park
Saturday August 12th | 2pm
Eoghan Mac Cormaic returns to Féile to launch his latest book, The Pen Behind The Wire. Eoghan ‘Gino’ Mac Cormaic from Derry served fifteen years in jail and was on the blanket protest for five years at a time when ten of his comrades died on hunger strike. Eoghan began writing poems on toilet paper and cigarette papers and smuggled them out to his family who kept them safe from British Army raids and seizure. Some of the poems were published in Republican News. A selection of these early ‘blanket’ poems, and other prison poems written after the protest, give us an insight into Eoghan and his comrades’ lives—which even the prison couldn’t contain—and allows us to look with them from their cell windows out into the world where hopes and dreams would be realised.
Andrea Carter in conversation with Neil Hegarty
Little Acorns Bookstore, 18 Great James Street
Wednesday August 16th | 7.00pm
Join us to celebrate the publication of ‘Death Writes’, the sixth of Andrea Carter’s celebrated Inishowen Mysteries novels. Andrea will discuss her deep connection with Inishowen and Derry, her writing life, her love of crime fiction –and how place forms such a powerful thread in her writing. Neil Hegarty grew up in Derry. His novels include Inch Levels and The Jewel, and his non-fiction include The Story of Ireland, which accompanies the BBC-RTE television history of Ireland. He is the co-author of Impermanence, essays exploring the past, present, and future of Northern Ireland. Adm: Free. Pre-register at eventbrite.com
Kerri Ní Dochartaigh in conversation with Neil Hegarty
Little Acorns Bookstore, Great James Street
Friday August 18th | 7pm
Join us to celebrate the publication of Cacophony of Bone, Kerri ní Dochartaigh’s powerful and arresting follow-up to her remarkable memoir, Thin Places. Kerri will discuss her life as a writer and a mother, her connection with Derry and with nature -and how Cacophony of Bone illuminates life in the course of the pandemic. Cacophony of Bone has been longlisted in the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023. Her first book, Thin Places, was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022 and highly commended for the Wainwright Prize 2021. She is working on a book about mothering through an emergency. Neil Hegarty grew up in Derry. His novels include Inch Levels and The Jewel, and his non-fiction include The Story of Ireland, which accompanies the BBC-RTE television history of Ireland. He is the co-author of Impermanence, essays exploring the past, present, and future of Northern Ireland. Adm: Free. Pre-register at eventbrite. com
Volunteer at Féile 23
We are looking for volunteers to sign up and help us bring this year’s Féile to life! There will be an opportunity to volunteer and take part in a range of events, from music, fun days, health and wellbeing, debates & discussions and much more!
If you’re on the fence about volunteering, please know that it can provide you with new skills & experiences, allow you to meet new people and boost your confidence, no matter what your age or background is!
Contact Elaine at Volunteer Investment Project for more info: vipfeilederry@gmail.com
Cafe Trad Sessions
with Acadamh Ceoil Chaoimhín Úi Dhochartaigh
Trad musicians from Acadamh Ceoil Chaoimhín Úi Dhochartaigh, the North West’s foremost hub for music teaching and learning will perform at lunchtime sessions at cafes across the neighbourhood throughout Féile 2023.
Danny McGilloway
A Night of Storytelling, Song and Music
Bishops of Creggan, Central Drive, Creggan
Monday 14th August | 8pm
Danny McGilloway is an Irish folk singer, songwriter. A former member of the legendary ‘Thundering Down’, he has played extensively throughout Ireland, England, Scotland and Europe and has shared the stage with Christy Moore, Frances Black and Dolores Keane. For this special event, Danny and special guests will tell the story of growing up in Creggan through the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. Advance tickets at eventbrite.com
My Corona
Sean Dolans GAC
Wednesday August 16th | 8pm
MY CORONA’ is a hilarious new show by award-winning playwright Pearse Elliott, that packs a powerful punch! Starring Caroline Curran, ‘MY CORONA’ follows nurse Donna as she navigates her way through the day-to-day challenges of working in a care home during these unprecedented times. A no-nonsense, modern-day hero, with a cracking sense of humour, Donna encapsulates everything about our wonderful NHS that is truly worth fighting for. A hilarious and heartfelt, state of the nation piece, ‘MY CORONA’ will have audiences rolling with laughter and clapping for the real superheroes of the last few years; our incredible Health Workers! Advance tickets at eventbrite.com
Cormac Begley
+ support from Cáit Ní Riain
Cultúrlann Ui Chanain, Great James Street
Thursday August 17th | 8pm
West Kerry musician Cormac’s Begley’s career has gone from strength to strength over the past year, winning Best Folk Instrumentalist 2022 at the RTÉ Folk Awards and Irish Times Album of the Year 2022, with his second solo album ‘B’. Cormac’s daring and soul stirring approach to the playing of the concertina has opened up the instrument to a broader audience. He has collaborated with several artists and appears on the latest and forthcoming albums of Lankum, Lisa O’Neill, Ye Vagabonds and Stephen James Smith. His long-standing musical relationship with Lisa O’Neill saw them feature in the last scene of ‘Peaky Blinders’. Cormac’s music and playing also featured heavily in renowned choreographer and director Michael Keegan-Dolan’s award winning, sell out show ‘Mám’. Advance tickets at eventbrite.com
Giuseppe’s Ballroom
LGBTQIA+ safe space
The Nerve Centre, Magazine Street
Friday 18th August
Before Dark (under 18s): 6pm - 8pm
After Dark (over 18s): 9pm - 11pm
Over 18s alcohol free disco
For the full Pride experience, look no further! Giuseppe’s hosts the finest of local DJs, cabaret and tasty refreshments to keep you entertained until home time. An alcohol-free space, this is a world where you can dance freely, love openly, and sing your heart out without the headache. Built on compassion, we want everyone who comes along to feel safe and valued, free from risk - so let’s get those dancing shoes polished for our Debut Dry Disco! All proceeds go to The Rainbow Project. We ask that you do not consume alcohol before or during this event for the safety of others.
Accessibility information: darkened room, flashing lights, loud music, smoke machine, wheelchair accessible, accessible bathroom, quiet café area and quiet room.
Consider the Women of Ireland
Cultúrlann Ui Chanain, Great James Street
Sunday August 13th | 7pm
Roisin Barton was a woman of Ireland. A lifelong Republican from a family of lifelong Republicans, she was also a daughter, a sister, a mother, an aunt, a grandmother, a great grandmother, a partner and a friend to many.
Roisin was always involved in something. An activist all her life, from her childhood running “messages” for her mother Nancy Keenan in the 1950s, to her last project, Forgotten Women, highlighting the role of Derry Republican women in the 1940s.
Republicanism, prisoner support, women’s rights and community activism marked her life and Derry is a better place for it. A long-term Chairperson of Dove House and a mentor and support for countless community projects, Roisin had a warm and sometimes cutting wit, a fierce intelligence and a steely determination.
Roisin’s life was a life well lived.
Join us on Sunday 13th August to celebrate that life.
The Choice for Unionism - Aaron Edwards
Verbal Arts Centre, Bishop Street
Monday August 14th | 1pm
Since the Brexit referendum of 2016, extraordinary uncertainty has hung over the future of the union between Great Britain and Northern Ireland, creating a crisis of insecurity for the unionist community. Aaron Edwards explores the profound challenges facing unionism. He confronts the narrow beliefs and prejudices of unionists and loyalists, as well as outlining their more positive and forward-thinking aspects.
By embracing these, Edwards argues, divisions can be healed, and a position reached of mutual acceptance, tolerance and understanding that will benefit everyone on these islands.
Dr Aaron Edwards is a historian from Belfast who is the author of A People Under Siege: The Unionists of Northern Ireland, From Partition to Brexit and Beyond.
Colum Eastwood in conversation with Aoife Moore
Pilots Row, Rossville Street
Monday August 14th | 7.30pm
Uniting the people and public services of our island in a reconciled and prosperous new Ireland is the biggest and the boldest idea around. The conversation about what the future could look like is growing every day – people are openly and passionately discussing how we can build better public services, pay workers a fair wage, cut hospital waiting lists and create an ambitious new society that is a home for everyone who shares our island. Join SDLP Leader and Foyle MP Colum Eastwood in conversation with journalist and broadcaster Aoife Moore about the power and potential of the movement for a new Ireland and how it offers the best opportunity to build a truly shared society.
The Legacy Bill of Shame: Professor Kieran McEvoy
Museum of Free Derry, Glenfada Park
Tuesday August 15th | 1pm
As the Legacy Bill of Shame awaits ratification in September, QUB law Lecturer Professor Kieran Mc Evoy will join Pat Finucane Centre’s Sara Duddy at the Museum of Free Derry to discuss what does the proposed Bill actually mean for families and what are the options.
Donncha MacNiallais
Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, Great James Street
Tuesday August 15th | 7pm
Imeacht tráthnóna i gCultúrlann Uí Chanáin, in ómós do Donncha Mac Niallais, a bhraitear go mór uainn go fóill. Beidh gníomhaithe áitiúla agus an t-aoi-chainteoir Mairtín Ó
Muilleoir ag déanamh machnaimh ar thionchar Dhonncha ar athbheochan na Gaeilge ó thuaidh - sna Blocanna H i dtús báire, áit a raibh sé ina mhúinteoir Gaeilge, agus ról aige mar oifigeach cultúrtha, agus i ndiaidh dó a cheann a fháil leis, ina áit dúchas féin i nDoire - áit ar oibrigh sé go dian chun an Ghaeilge a chothú agus a chur chun cinn tríd a chuid oibre le Conradh na Gaeilge agus An Gaeláras/Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, mar aon le Gaelscoil Éadain Mhóir agus an obair a rinne sé le Sinn Féin agus Gluaiseacht na Poblachta sa chathair agus níos faide i gcéin.
An evening event to pay tribute to the much missed Donncha Mac Niallais in Cultúrlann Ui Chanáin. Local activists and special guest Martín Ó Muilleoir will reflect on Donncha’s contribution to the language revival in the north - in the H-Blocks initially, where he taught Irish to others, and took on the role of Cultural Officer in the jail, and also after his release, in his native Derry where he worked tirelessly to promote Irish through his involvement with Conradh na Gaeilge and An Gaelárás/Cultúrlann Uí Chanáin, with Gaelscoil Éadain Mhóir and his work with Sinn Féin and the republican movement in the city and further afield.
Was there a Derry influence in the Good Friday Agreement?
Pilots Row, Rossville Street
Wednesday August 16th | 7.30pm
Twenty five years on from the Good Friday Agreement, Féile takes the opportunity to talk with negotiators Mark Durkan and Mitchel McLaughlin. It will be an opportunity to reflect on that momentous time and the progress since, while also looking forward as the conversation on constitutional change in Ireland develops and expands.
Special Educational Needs (SEN) Information Session
Dove House Community Trust, Meenan Square
Thursday August 17th | 10am-12noon
Do you have a child with Special educational needs? Did you know the Northern Ireland Framework for Special Educational Needs has changed? Are you thinking on applying for a Special Educational Needs Assessment for your child? Does your child already have a SEN statement in place, but you feel the provisions are not adequate in meeting their needs? Come along to our information event and find out more about how we can support you and your child through this process. Places Limited- Call Dove House on 71269327 to secure your place.
Think 32 presents:
Why is there a reluctance to properly plan and prepare for a Border Poll/Irish Unity?
Thursday August 17th | 1pm - Online Event
Two years ago we asked a panel ‘What should the governments be doing about Irish Unity?’ Despite the continued growth of the conversation around the constitutional question, there has been very little forward movement on the issue. At Féile, we ask ‘Why is there a reluctance to properly plan or prepare for a Border Poll/Irish Unity? Hosted by award winning journalist Patricia Devlin, the panel will feature Jim O Callaghan FF TD, Lynn Boylan SF TD, Aaron Edwards and Emma De Souza. Watch at: youtube.com/feilemediaderry
Brian Rowan - 25 Pieces
Brian Rowan in Conversation with Freya McClements
Pilots Row, Rossville Street
Thursday August 17th | 8pm
Irish Times Northern Editor Freya McClements in conversation with journalist and author Brian Rowan about his ‘25 Pieces’ exhibition.
Drawn from his extensive news archive of his contacts with the many sides to the conflict, the accompanying exhibition booklet follows the hard road to Good Friday 1998, and the story since. It is a conversation about codewords and ceasefires, decommissioning and demilitarisation, agreements and disagreements, prisoners and the often broken politics of peace. A limited number of books ‘‘25 Pieces’ will be free to attendees.
Professor Colin Harvey: A Pathway to a New Ireland
Pilots Row, Rossville Street
Friday August 18th | 7.30pm
Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law, Director of the Human Rights Centre and Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice at Queen’s University Belfast. 25 years since the Good Friday Agreement and a United Ireland seems to be closer than ever.
In this seminar, Professor Colin Harvey will outline a pathway to a New Ireland.
Older Peoples Bus Run
Pick up spots: Pilots Row/Old Library Trust
Monday August 14th - 12pm
This year we are off to Ards Monastery to explore the beautiful grounds, relax and enjoy the scenery, then onto the Silver Tassie Hotel for a lovely two course meal and some live music. Cost: £10. Please note that Pilots Row/Old Library Trust will be the only pick-up and drop-off points. Spaces are limited so booking is essential through denise@bbhealthforum.org tel. 02871375330
Music at Older People’s Residences
Throughout Féile 2023, musicians and singers will entertain our older people at residences across the neighbourhoods.
Grow your Own/Plant a flower Event.
House in the wells, St Columb’s Wells
Monday August 14th | 11am
The House in the Wells Car park will be turned into a mini gardening plot. Staff from the House in the Wells, Creggan Scouts and RSUN (Regional Service User Network) will be on hand to help people learn how to plant seeds for flowers and grow their own. This is a free event but donations for the House in the Wells Residents comfort fund are welcome. This event will be for people aged 55+.
Brandy Balls Snooker Competition
Pilots Row, Rossville Street
Tuesday August 15th | 6.30pm
This year as part of Féile, Bogside and Brandywell Health Forum are running their annual snooker competition. There will be a cash prize for the winner on the night. £2 entry fee. To register your interest contact denise@bbhealthforum.org 02871365330
Fun Bingo
Pilots Row, Rossville Street
Wednesday August 16th | 2pm to 4pm
Fun Bingo with Eddie Breslin & Bernie Kennedy. Come along for a great day’s craic of Fun Bingo with spot prizes. £3 per person.
Deeds Tea Dance
Bishops Field Sports Centre, Central Drive
Wednesday August 16th | 2pm to 4pm
This event is a closed event and is by invite only.
Summer Madness Bingo
Bishops Field Sports Centre, Central Drive
Thursday August 17th | 7pm to 9pm
Come and try your luck at the big bingo.
Tea and Coffee will be served. £5.00 per book
Some great prizes on the night.
Tickets available at OLT on 02871373870.
Dander-Ball Tournament
Ryan McBride Brandywell Stadium
Friday August 18th | 12pm
This is sure to be a good day’s craic! Come along and support the teams as they battle it out to be crowned this year’s winners. If you haven’t already registered a team and are interested in taking part contact
denise@bbhealthforum.org 02871365330.
Social Night at the Corned Beef Tin
Creggan Neighbourhood Partnership, Central Drive
Saturday August 19th | 8pm – 11pm
Music on the night from Eddie Breslin & Dannika with a choice of fish and chips or sausage and chips. Tickets: £3 available at CNP on Tel. 02871281900.
Trojans YCG – Unnus Summus
The Nerve Centre Cinema, Magazine Street
Sunday 13th August | 5pm
Board members, players past & present of Trojans YCG and residents of Creggan feature in this new Féile film that documents the history and positive contribution the club and its members make to the Creggan area and wider city.
406 Days - The Debenhams Picket Line
The Nerve Centre Cinema, Magazine Street
Sunday 13th August | 7.30pm
This captivating documentary follows the 1,000 Irish Debenhams workers who were made redundant through a generic email in April 2020 after Debenhams shut all 11 Irish stores. The workforce, 95% female, had been denied an earlier agreed redundancy package and voted to go on strike. The workers remained on the picket lines, through the COVID-19 pandemic for 406 days, making this the longest industrial dispute in Irish labour history.
ADM FREE via eventbrite.com
Burned - Protecting the Protectors:
The Nerve Centre, Magazine St
Monday 14th August | 7pm
The Pink Ladies Cancer Support Group has long been highlighting the risks of PFAS chemicals and the high risk of cancer in firefighters through exposure in their turnout gear. This documentary tells the true story of one person’s quest to understand decades of firefighters’ cancers.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A panel with guests including: Di Cotter, Robbie Butler MLA and Professor Graham Peaslee. Contact Jacquie Loughrey: jacquiepinkladies@gmail.com
ADM FREE via eventbrite.com
Mincéir
The Nerve Centre Cinema, Magazine Street
Tuesday 15th August | 7.30pm
‘Mincéir’ is a unique documentary that brings the audience on a journey across Irish Traveller culture exploring their past traditions, present transitions and future views. It portrays how their culture has evolved through the collaborations of various members of the community from very different backgrounds including story tellers, wagon makers, singers, writers, actors, flower makers, tinsmiths, cooks and recyclers. ADM FREE via eventbrite.com
Be Yourself? LGBTQIA+ Perspectives in Derry in 2023
The Nerve Centre Cinema, Magazine Street
Wednesday 16th August | 7.30pm
This new Féile production follows Dee McLaughlin, a youth worker from Creggan, as he meets with a range of members of the LGBTQIA+ community in Derry to share stories about the issues they have faced in the past, those they face today and their hopes for the future. A Communities In Transition project funded by The Executive Office.
ADM FREE via eventbrite.com
Who Would Jesus Bomb?
The Nerve Centre Cinema, Magazine Street
Thursday 17th August | 7.30pm
Around 3 million US troops have gone through Ireland’s Shannon Airport since 2002. Who Would Jesus Bomb? explores Ireland’s complicity in the global War on Terror, and how a small number of Christian activists risked their freedom trying to stop the American war machine and save lives. This film aims to raise important questions about Irish neutrality, spark debate about forms of activism, and challenge what it means to be a Christian. The screening will be followed by a Q&A with the film’s director Emmet Sheerin.
ADM FREE via eventbrite.com
