Today is the UN International Day of Peace. For 40 years the IFI has backed the people and places making peace an everyday reality in Northern Ireland and the border counties, not as a single event, but as a daily, patient practice. #InternationalDayOfPeace
From theatre performances and concerts to exhibitions and festivals, there's lots happening in the arts this autumn 🍂
Some of our highlights include:
✨Bounce Arts Festival
✨ Culture Night Belfast
✨Belfast International Arts Festival
✨ City of Derry International Choir Festival
✨Young at Art Baby Rave
✨ A Thirst for Silver exhibition at Craft NI Gallery
...and much, much more.
Visit 👇
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Digitalisation is “for your convenience.” - try explaining that to the 3 million people who are not online in the UK. The majority (67%) are aged 70 or over. The digitalisation of everything is creating digital exclusion for millions of people - in particular, our elderly.
Locked out of the basic services they spent a lifetime paying for.
This isn’t progress. This is deliberate exclusion of millions of elderly people dressed up as efficiency. Especially for the generation who rebuilt this country, raised us, and are now being told: adapt or disappear.
Convenience for some. Isolation for millions. That’s not digital transformation. That’s digital abandonment.
You don’t actually want change.
You want the comfort of talking about change while keeping everything exactly the same.
I write a weekly letter about the truths people avoid seeing.
Read it here.