A Cultural Fusions look at banners

Causeway Museum Service and the Cultural Fusions PEACE III programme will present two speakers on the subject of banner culture at Coleraine Town Hall on Tuesday, August 31.

This free banner talk will feature local banner artist Philip Anderson and Dominic Bryan, Director of the Institute for Irish Studies at Queen’s University, Belfast. Philip, who is son to the late Bobby Anderson, will also present some of his father’s banner work during his talk.

Next week’s event coincides with the ‘Images of Ireland: 1867-1916’ exhibition at Coleraine Town Hall which will runs until September 8.

The exhibition, developed jointly by Causeway Museum Service and Mid Antrim Museum Service as part of the Cultural Fusions programme, explores ideas of culture and identity in the north of Ireland in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Cultural Fusions is funded under the European Union's PEACE III programme managed on behalf of the Special EU Programmes Body by the North East PEACE III Partnership.

The programmme has been offering exciting opportunities for local groups to develop culture and arts programmes with the collaborative assistance of the Cultural Fusions consortium. The overall aim is to promote a greater understanding and awareness of the rich cultural diversity of the North East, including ethnic minority and indigenous cultural traditions.

Cultural Fusions is delivered by the Cultural Fusions Consortium which is comprised of Ballymena Borough Council, Ballymoney Borough Council, Causeway Museum Service, Coleraine Borough Council, Flowerfield Art Centre, Larne Borough Council, Limavady Borough Council, the Mid-Antrim Museums Service and Moyle District Council.