Pavee Point - Recent Events and Initiatives
Traveller Focus Week 3rd – 7th December 2007:
Download the Calendar of Events in PDF format
Toolkit and Guidelines for the Employment of Travellers in the Health Service Executive
Traveller Health Unit, Eastern Region
Download in PDF format
Read press release
Launch of DVD on All Ireland Traveller Health Study
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All Ireland Traveller Health Study - Order Form
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Conference: Foundations for Equal Opportunities
for All in Early Childhood Care and Education
European Conference DECET (Diversity in Early Childhood Education
and Training) Network. Conference Brussels 18th, 19th, 20th October 2007.
Pavee Point invites you to download brochure for further information or for
registration details log on to www.decet.org
Download the brochure in PDF format (size 300 Kb)
June/July 2007: Alliance Calls for Humane Action for Roma Living on Ballymun Roundabout
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Developing and Delivering Anti-Discriminatory
and Anti-Racism
Practice
A Programme on Anti-racist Practice
17th - 18th May 2007 (Traveller Organisations only)
& 21st-22nd May 2007
Venue: Dublin
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National Conference: The Traveller Community - Reflections and Challenges in Public Service Delivery
This conference is being organised by Pavee Point Travellers Centre and the National Consultative Committee on Racism and Interculturalism in association with the Irish Human Rights Commission, Pobal, the Family Support Agency, the Department of Justice, Equality and Law Reform and the Equality Commission Northern Ireland.
Date: Tuesday March 27th 2007
Venue: Davenport Hotel, Merrion Square, Dublin 2
Time: 9am-3.30pm
Click here for the conference brochure (PDF)
Raineys CD Relaunch
The Rainey’s CD is being relaunched as part of the Tar Eis Na Feile Bride Festival in Letterfrack, Galway on the 4th of February. The launch will take place at a concert at 9 O’Clock in Molly’s Bar where the original recording of the Rainey’s was made by Professor Tony Knowland in 1956.
You can order the CD from Pavee Point.
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Pavee Point Calendar 2007
Pavee Point's 2007 Calendar is of Louis le Brocquy’s Tinker Series
The Calendar’s cover (right) is of "Travelling Woman with Newspaper"
The calendar is available from Pavee Point Travellers Centre
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Traveller Focus Week 2006:
Traveller Focus Week is organised by the three National Traveller Organisations, Pavee Point Travellers Centre, the Irish Traveller Movement and the National Traveller Women’s Forum. In 2006 Pavee Point Travellers Centre is the designated lead organisation.
The theme of the week this year is PARTICIPATION. This theme was chosen as it is one of the key objectives of the National Action Plan Against Racism and represents a real challenge in the work with Travellers.
New CD: The Raineys
The Raineys. A rare recording of Irish Traveller music The Raineys is available to purchase from Pavee Point.
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A Traveller's Ireland goes to Kilkenny
August 11-31, Comhairle, 4 The Parade Kilkenny
Photographs capturing the everyday life of Travellers in Ireland will be exhibited as part of Kilkenny Arts Festival from 11th August– 31st August in Comhairle, 4 The Parade, Kilkenny.
The 25 photographs comprise the winning entries and short-listed works from Pavee Point Traveller's Centre's National Photography Competition "A Traveller's Ireland" which was funded through the National Action Plan Against Racism.
Pavee Point Position Paper on Senior Traveller Training Centres
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New CD: Travellers and fellow Travellers Keepers of the Flame, featuring: Bohinta, Kitty Cassidy, John Doherty, Felix Doran, Christy Dunne, Mickey Dunne, Pecker Dunne, Finbar Furey, Christy Moore, and more...
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Pavee Point recently produced a DVD for Traveller Parents on ways to support their children in Primary school.
Pavee Parents; Primary Concerns is an Educational tool which stresses the importance of parental involvement and how this involvement enhances a child's education.
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