Facing the Stranger: Beyond the Walls
Guestbook Project Documentary
2012
In 2010-2011 Guestbook organized an Exchanging Narratives project in cooperation with the Nerve Center in Derry/Londonderry. This took the form of an educational experiment in a city of Northern Ireland where 90 percent of schools are still organized along denominational lines, each denomination being aligned with an opposing political tradition. Two schools (Protestant/Unionist and Catholic/Nationalist) were invited to engage in a process of ‘Exchanging Narratives’, with the respective students retelling a set of stories from both their own and the other’s perspective.
This documentary was produced by Martin Melarkey and John Peto with support from the Guestbook Project and the Nerve Centre, and cosponsored by the Institute of Liberal Arts at Boston College, the Nerve Center, Sharing Stories, and the International Fund for Ireland.
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