All events take place today at the Maldron Hotel, Shandon.
10:00 a.m. The Big Meeting. A documentary about the annual Durham Miners’ Gala, the largest trade union and community gathering in the UK. Directed by Daniel Draper.
11:30 a.m. Bernardo Guanche Hernandez, Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba to Ireland. Life in Cuba
1: 00 p.m. Club Ceoil Ballyphehane Ballad Group.
2:15 p.m. Grace O’ Sullivan. “Taking Action for the Planet: Life on the High Seas”. In memory of Fernando Pereira (1950-1985)
3:45 p.m. Tadhg Hickey: Writer, film maker, comedian and political activist.
5: 00 p.m. GAZA (2019):
A film by Garry Keane and Andrew McConnell.
Portrait of a people and a place prior to the Genocide.
7:30 p.m. “This Land is Our Land: Confronting Extremism and Reclaiming Democracy”
Panel discussion: speakers,
John Donoghue, Associate Professor of History, Loyola University, Chicago
Gema Kloppe-Santamaria, Lecturer, School of Society, Politics and Ethics, UCC.
Tom Boland, Lecturer in Sociology in UCC.
Moderator: John Barimo.
9:30 p.m. John Nyhan and Friends
David King and Friends: Songs of Struggle, Songs of Hope.
