Cool Event: Belfast Muralists Come to UMass this week!

Check out this opportunity to meet artists working for social justice!


MURAL PAINTING AT UMASS THIS MARCH AS PART OF PEACE PROCESS
Sponsored by The Art of Conflict Transformation in the north of Ireland/Northern Ireland Event Series

Belfast artists-in-residence at UMass will examine the role of art in the conflict and in the transformation to peace and will collaboratively paint murals for UMass and Springfield communities. These murals are being jointly painted by two artists whose communities were previously at war: Danny Devenny, former Irish Republican Army (IRA) prisoner, and Mark Ervine, son of David Ervine, former Progressive Unionist Party leader and Ulster Volunteer Force (UVF) member.

EVENTS

PAINTING OF UMASS MURAL: Come watch the muralists at work March 26-31 (Friday-Wednesday), Reading Room, Campus Center First Floor, mid-morning to early evening (artist time)


CONTESTED GEOGRAPHIES/SHARED FUTURE: MURAL MAKING IN BELFAST, 1972-2010
Conversation and slide show with muralists Danny Devenny and Mark Ervine
Tuesday, March 30 Cape Cod Lounge, Student Union, 5-7pm, with light refreshments

The artists explore the geography of conflict transformation in the north of Ireland/Northern Ireland where conflict has been expressed through public space and a shared future is still under negotiation.

They present on their separate careers painting murals on Belfast streets, showing slides from some of the 2000 murals they created during the conflict and discussing how they recently came to paint together during the transition to peace.

Co-sponsored by:
Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts (ISHA).


UNVEILING OF THE UMASS AMHERST MURAL
Monday, April 5 Campus Center Auditorium (changed from #163), 5-7 pm
Join U.S. Congressman Richard E. Neal and other special guests. See the mural unveiled and join the festivities with light refreshments and traditional Irish music.


MURAL PAINTING AT NORTHERN EDUCATIONAL SERVICES, SPRINGFIELD
April 1-8
For details on this event go to: http://mural.umasslegal.org/events/mural-painting/
For more information see: http://mural.umasslegal.org/


Sponsors: UMass Amherst Graduate School, College of Social and Behavior Sciences, Legal Studies Department, Law and Society Initiative, Psychology of Peace and Violence Program, Interdisciplinary Seminar in the Humanities and Fine Arts (ISHA), National Center for Technology and Dispute Resolution, Global Horizons/Center for International Education; Falls Community Council; Northern Educational Services Youth Group; PeaceTones/Internet Bar Organization; and Social Justice Mediation Institute.