Eve of Ardoyne Parade & community work goes on

Jul 11, 2012, 03:33 PM

An interview I did with community artist Breandan Clarke about the work he and others are doing to improve fractured community relations in North Belfast. There's a contentious Orange parade at Ardoyne tomorrow as part of Northern Ireland's annual Twelfth celebrations. In previous years violence has followed the progression of the loyalist parade along a main road past a predominately nationalist area. Yesterday Brendain helped bring 50 Catholic and Protestant kids from the district together as part of a new art installation. It's a huge aerial map of north Belfast set out in randomly arranged squares. The idea is to make the kids consider a city without the so-called peace walls values and sectarian districts. Here Breandan describes the work and other attempts to improve relations across the city's interfaces