Filed under: Radio | Tags: Art, Spain, Catholic Church, Human Rights, Derry, Chile, Arpillera, Quilts, Pinochet, Women, Torture, Disappeared, Clothing, Hospitals, Paramilitaries, Communism, University of Ulster, Museums, South America, Feminism, Migration, Immigration, Collectives, Roberta Bacic, EBay
Arpilleras on Display
Quilts meet politics as Roberta Bacic takes on us a tour of Chilean wall hangings made during women under the Pinochet dictatorship. The quilts are not typical ones - they show village life in all its complications, including the violence, activism, and family life during the 1970s and 80s. The arpilleras have travelled around the world, having been sold and exported in order to raise money for women in Chilean villages and also to tell their stories to the outside world.
See more of the quilts here: http://www.derrycity.gov.uk/museums/quilt.asp
Video of a presentation from Roberta at INCORE on the Magee Campus of University of Ulster is here: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/Seminars/CAIN_13-03-08-RB_ref.html
Roberta with an arpillera
And more quilt exhibtions can be seen here:
http://museum.msu.edu/Exhibitions/Current/quilts_and_human_rights.html
An Airport Arpillera
Filed under: Radio | Tags: Belfast, Film, Family, The Troubles, Catholic Church, Scandal, Human Rights, Bill of Rights, Human Rights Commission, Northern Ireland, Priests, Performer, River Phoenix, Lost Boys, Underage drinking, Secret, Tabloids, Louis Walsh, Singing Priest, Ross Hamilton Cleary, Michael Cleary, Alison Millar, Monica McWilliams
Ross Hamilton Cleary, the son of The Singing Priest of Ireland, Father Michael Cleary, speaks alongside filmmaker Alison Millar about the new documentary ‘At Home With the Clearys’. Ross and Alison discuss the scandal that arose when Fr Cleary’s secret relationships were revealed, what life has been like for the family since, and how the film has been received in Ireland.
In the second half of the show, the Chief Commissioner of the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission, Dr Monica McWilliams, talks about the upcoming Bill of Rights for Northern Ireland — how the process has developed, why it is necessary, and what the future holds for it.
