JANUARY WEEKEND [Saturday January 14th]

Warm Up - Equal Distance exercise (Sometimes caused Bomb & Shield  from Forum Theatre exercises)

Participants walked around the space. 

everyone was asked to  select 2 other people in their mind. 

The aim of the exercise, for each participant, is to walk around the space and keep an equal distance between them self and the two people they have chosen. 

The group may come to a point that everyone stands still...or the exercise may need to end without this point

Prompting themes of Body awareness/ connection to others/ cause and effect)

Today opened with a workshop on Visualising Information with weblinks and examples
eg  https://www.gapminder.org
informationactivism.org 
https://tacticaltech.org/

Peter Orntoft

Informationgraphics in context (2010)

https://www.behance.net/gallery/924345/Information-graphics-in-context

Info activism How to

https://howto.informationactivism.org/

This led into a statistic exercise where groups responded visually/ digitally to statistics!


                                          If the world were 100 people......

The richest 1 % have more wealth then 99%

5:50:500

After lunch we went more in-depth into understanding the need for critical thinking skills....

A fun and very effective tool in understanding and developing critical and divergent thinking skills....

After Lunch: we looked at Adjusting
Some other really interesting subversion creations http://posterheroes.org

- Some Samples

Our Adbusts:

JANUARY WEEKEND [Friday, January 13th]

The key words of the weekend :

Input from Barry Finnegan / Lecturer  - Journalism & Media Communications, Griffith College

I’ve attached readings on:

- Intro to Sociology of the Media;

- Curran’s four country, citizen’s political knowledge;

- News Values and how they work;

- Chomsky’s propaganda model;

and

- on Iraq war, how many people believed the lies the media told about Iraq and how they were more likely to support the invasion of Iraq as a result.

Here’s a small sample of the people’s journalism:

Dublin: http://www.dublininquirer.com/

and http://www.irishleftreview.org/

and: http://www.broadsheet.ie/

Belfast: http://www.thedetail.tv/

London: https://www.thebureauinvestigates.com/

and https://www.constructivejournalism.org/

and https://www.positive.news/

and http://www.thecanary.co/topics/newsnight/

Amsterdam: https://thecorrespondent.com/

Paris: https://www.mediapart.fr/en/english

Baltimore, USA: http://therealnews.com/t2/

New York: https://www.propublica.org/

And a sample of some Civil Society Organisations (CSO) to follow on social media and get their newsletters in email:

https://stop-ttip.org/cetacheck/

http://attac.ie/

http://comhlamh.org/

http://foeeurope.org/

https://www.tni.org/en

https://corporateeurope.org/

http://canadians.org/

And CSO events which will be ignored by the media who are neoliberal, imperialist and capitalist:

World Social Forum - Forum Social Mondial 2016: https://fsm2016.org/en/

Jan 21^st Jan is a European Day of Action Against CETA, but you won’t hear much about it in the media:http://www.stoptafta14.org/category/actions/21janvier2017/

https://stop-ttip.org/blog/visiting-meps/

Here’s Cork Against TTIP/CETA: https://www.facebook.com/CORK-Rejects-Ttipceta-458210784355416/

Introduced 5 ways to Wellbeing 
Creativity & Change Programme Creativity, Resilience & Global Citizenship Toolkit


Wheel of Wellbeing



Connecting the 5 ways


Linking personal wellbeing to Global Citizenship

If I 'Connect/ Give/ am Curious/ Am Active/ Learn what impact will this have on me/ my community/ The World





We used Stop Motion Animation as a tool to share messages that promote the ways of wellbeing in nurturing ourselves and our capacity to be active and resilient Global Citizens

Animation Apps: SMOOVIE, ​Lego Movie Makers, PICPAC
Some Examples:


Movie Night
THE YES MEN
http://yeslab.org