Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental.You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
Free to attend.
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic platform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental.You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
Free to attend.
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Hosted by Frank Rafferty, Silver Tongued Deviance is an open mic latform event, where performers, writers, poets and musicians are invited to come along and perform.
You are welcome to perform old work, test something new, or try out something experimental.You are also very welcome to attend if you would rather just watch and enjoy.
Free to attend.
If you require any more information please email hello@derryvoid.com
Join us on Saturday 16 November, from midday to 3pm, for an afternoon event with artist, organic gardener and Void Art Centre researcher-in-residence, Pamela Whitaker. This event will expand on climate change gardening, which encourages the development of creativity both within ourselves and as part of our home and local environments.
Pamela will encourage the development of skills to promote gardens that are both productive and restorative. She will showcase examples from artists who garden and inspire your capacity to regenerate your home garden and local surroundings with both edible and nature friendly landscapes ☁️🌦️ The afternoon will also offer a chance to consider weather in response to the Mikhail Karikis exhibition and how weather changes will impact how we cultivate food in different ways. After the discussion, we will walk together whilst reflecting on the greening of streetscapes and how we can each contribute to the nature of life in the city.
*Please note, this event involves walking which will predominantly be on even ground. If you have access needs, please let us know by emailing cecelia@derryvoid.com or calling us at 028 7130 8080 between 10am-5pm, Tuesdays-Saturdays.
This is a free, drop-in event, meeting at Void Art Centre.
Saturday 6 April 2024 | 12pm-2pm | To sign up, contact mhairi@derryvoid.com
Become an animator for the day!
Part of Derry Halloween festival 2023
Tuesday 31st October
Drop-in workshop between 12-4pm
Take inspiration from the city’s amazing animation installations this Halloween and call into Void Art Centre anytime between 12 and 4pm on Tuesday 31st October to make your own Halloween inspired stop-motion animation with illustrator and animator, Grace Fairley!
No booking required, just call in!
Aimed at children and families. Suitable for all ages, 6+.
Please note, parents/guardians are required to stay at Void Art Centre throughout the time their child is engaging in this workshop.
Spooky Halloween willow lantern making workshops!
Part of Derry Halloween festival 2023
Saturday 28th October
Bookable slots 10-11am, 11:30-12:30am, 2-3pm and 3:30-4:30pm
Awaken the Walled City and make your own spooky Halloween Willow Lantern to take with you to the Halloween parade and/or decorate your home with, on Saturday 28th October at Void Art Centre with Sinead Crumlish!
Throughout the day there will be four bookable workshops at Void Art Centre which are suitable for anyone aged 8+. Children aged 8-14 must be accompanied by and have the support of their parent/guardian during these workshops (one ticket is enough for a parent and child – tickets are sold per participant). Young people between the ages of 14 and 16, can attend this workshop alone but a permission form must be filled out by a parent/guardian upon arrival/ahead of the workshop and emergency contact details should be left at the front desk. This workshop is also suitable for individual adults.
Bookable slots include: 10-11am, 11:30-12:30am, 2-3pm and 3:30-4:30pm. Each workshop will have limited spaces.
Tickets cost £3 per participant.
Please note, you are only required to book 1 ticket per participant. If you are supporting your child, you do not need to book a ticket for yourself. You only need to book an additional ticket if you plan to engage in the workshop on a personal level aswell.
Image credits: Canva
Print + Protein
Thursday 19 October, 6-8pm
Print + Protein is a peer-led philosophy reading group at Void Art Centre organised by Aphra Hill which relates to the themes addressed in Void’s current exhibitionary project, using diverse theory to expand alternative understandings of contemporary art. It takes its name from the essay Virtual Bodies and Flickering Signifiers by Katherine Hayles which explores immaterial media and the affinity between books and bodies.
The next session will take place on Thursday 19th October from 6-8pm. During this session, the group will discuss selected excerpts from The Orpheus Double Bind: What Can Writing Save? by Turkish writer and cultural critic Nurdan Gürbilek. The Orpheus Double Bind is the English translation of “Orpheus Çıkmazı,” – a chapter in the book Sessizin Payı (The Share of the Silent, Metis Yayınları, 2015) by the literary critic Nurdan Gürbilek. This book was published as part of bewitched, bewildered, bothered, Banu Cennetoğlu’s artistic intervention for Asia Art Archive’s exhibition Portals, Stories, and Other Journeys, curated by Michelle Wong and on view at Tai Kwun Contemporary from 23 April to 1 August 2021. Framed as a question, the text uses the myth of Orpheus along with other instances from literature to interrogate what is at stake in employing artistic practice as testimonial. This chapter explores the insufficiency of language in times of crisis, echoed by Cennetoğlu’s installation at Void, right?, as the bouquets of gold letter balloons slowly deflate.
Print + Protein is free to attend and open to the public but booking via Eventbrite is required. A copy of the text will be provided to attendees in advance of the event. Participants are not required to have their thoughts pre-prepared but it is encouraged to read the text or the selected excerpts before the session if possible. Participants of any background or level of experience are welcome to join. Refreshments are provided.
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Aphra Hill is a writer, researcher and recent graduate of Visual Culture at NCAD.
Join us at Void Art Centre on Thursday 5th October from 7-8:30pm for an interactive seminar with Professor Colin Harvey exploring the topic of: is there a future for human rights?
The aim of this interactive seminar is to offer a critical examination of the role and impact of human rights. We inhabit a world filled with the language of rights and a range of legal standards exist. Yet the struggle to realise rights in practice remains as challenging as ever, in the context, for example, of a climate emergency that raises existential questions. This has prompted much agonised reflection on the status of human rights. What more might be done to ensure effective implementation and enforcement? Are there limitations within the discourse that simply cannot be overcome? How might we reimagine the practice of rights to deliver on the promise of a better future?
This is an open invitation to a conversation about the future of human rights. Everyone is welcome. RSVP is required.
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Colin Harvey is Professor of Human Rights Law and Director of the Human Rights Centre in the School of Law at Queen’s University Belfast. He is a Fellow of the Senator George J Mitchell Institute for Global Peace, Security and Justice, and an Associate Fellow of the Institute of Irish Studies. He has served as Head of the Law School at Queen’s. Before returning to Queen’s in 2005 he was Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at the University of Leeds. Professor Harvey has held visiting positions at the University of Michigan, Fordham University, and the London School of Economics and Political Science. He has taught on the George Washington University – Oxford University Summer School in International Human Rights Law, and on the international human rights programme at the University of Oxford. He served two terms as a Commissioner on the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission (2005-2011) and, in 2023, was appointed to the Irish Human Rights and Equality Commission. He is the General Editor of Human Rights Law in Perspective (Hart-Bloomsbury) and is on the editorial boards of Human Rights Law Review and European Human Rights Law Review. He has written and taught extensively on human rights and constitutional law.
Further information available here: https://go.qub.ac.uk/charvey
The Human Rights Centre at Queen’s University, Belfast was established in 1990 to provide a focus for research and education on human rights. The Centre, based in the School of Law, supports the promotion and protection of human rights in the local and global community. The Centre is privileged to draw on the work of a strong team of academics and postgraduate scholars who are nationally and internationally recognised for their work on human rights. Key areas of research interest and expertise include civil liberties, migration, gender and sexual violence, international criminal law, transitional justice, amnesty laws, reparations, victims and ex-combatants, health and human rights, business and human rights and climate change and environmental justice amongst others. Members of the Centre are active in many different areas – leading and contributing to national and international research projects, publishing academic works, teaching undergraduate and postgraduate students in the School of Law, and engaging in knowledge transfer activities, including undertaking responses and consultations for civil society, governmental and international organisations. The Centre also organises a lively seminar series bringing internationally respected academics and practitioners to Queen’s throughout the year.
Image Courtesy of Colin Harvey
Local artist Indigo Azidahaka is on a mission to get the people of Derry thinking, learning and talking about their human rights…but Indigo needs the help of our city’s children to do so!
Indigo is inviting children aged 4-14 years old along to a fun filled workshop at Void Art Centre on Saturday 7th October to learn about their human rights and make their own activism posters which will be displayed on the gates of St Columb’s Hall in Derry City Centre for two weeks after the workshop, sharing their perspectives on human rights with the public!
Broaching the subject of human rights with your little ones can be tricky when faced with the reality that not everyone is having their human rights met. In this workshop Indigo breaks down what human rights are and why they’re important in a way that’s easily digestible, fun and interesting to children and young people. Indigo will then support each child in making a poster, as an exciting and creative opportunity to share their new knowledge and thoughts around the Universal Declaration of Human Rights with the people around them.
The day will be split into two age appropriate workshops:
– Workshop 1 (aimed at ages 4-8) – 10:30am-12:30pm
– Workshop 2 (aimed at ages 9-14) – 2-4pm
If your child is under the age of 8, parents/guardians are asked to remain in the building throughout its duration of the workshop. If your child is above the age of 8, you have the option to remain in the space or leave your phone number with Void staff and head out locally to spend some well needed ‘me time’ whilst your little monkeys learn all about human rights, if you wish. Tea, coffee and seats will be available in Void Art Centre’s foyer space.
These free workshops are for all abilities. Wheelchair access, a disabled bathroom, a sign translator and a quiet space are all available to make this a great time for everyone. Indigo also has many years of experience working with children and with those with additional needs.
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Indigo Azidahaka (they/them) is a multi-disciplinary artist currently based between Derry and Belfast. Azidakaka’s practice is informed by queer identity, disabled bodies and displacement. Within the work they explore society and the human condition, isolating key behaviours and rituals and analysing their cause and affect through absurdity. As part of this, within the making, Azidahaka carefully considers a message, levels of immersion and the audiences reaction.
Funded by The University of Atypical, Bounce Festival.
Instagram – @indigoazidahaka
Void Tots are relaxed and fun messy play sessions with artist Sinead Crumlish for children aged 1-3 years old at Void Art Centre.
Our next Void Tots sessions will be on Saturday 30th September. Book a spot by visiting our website at www.derryvoid.com to come along and get messy with your little ones!
* Please note that, due to space restrictions, one parent per child is advised. Parents or guardians are welcome to take other children along but they will be asked to remain seated in the gallery foyer or they can visit the exhibition. We also have our popular Drawing Booklets which older children can sit and engage with – just ask one of our staff.
* We also ask that the attending parent please ensure both adult and child are wearing old clothes! We provide large shirts for parents to put over their clothes and we also have a large bathroom with changing facilities if you need to change clothes for baby and parent afterwards.
£3 per child
On Tuesday 26th September the engagement team from The Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission will be facilitating an interactive human rights workshop for secondary schools at Void Art Centre to accompany our current exhibition right?, by Banu Cennetoglu!
These interactive workshops aim to raise awareness of human rights and the work of the Commission in protecting human rights in Northern Ireland. It will equip students with knowledge of their rights and pertinent human rights issues in NI such as climate change, children’s rights, poverty, and mental health. They will be aimed at GCSE/ALevel age groups.
These workshops will start with a tour of Banu Cennetoglu’s exhibition, right?, by Void staff.
Spaces are limited on each time slot so if you are a teacher and this looks like something your students would be interested in, book free tickets for your students as soon as possible (you are required to book one ticket per student – teachers and assistants do not require tickets but are required to be present during the workshop).
Image credit – The NI Human Rights Commission