Intercultural

Education Services

We offer a wide variety of programmes designed to foster better understanding of our European, Middle Eastern, Asian and East Asian collections.

Included are activities for all age groups including family days, children's workshops, tours, films, lunchtime talks and much more.

Understanding Islam in Irish Education 2013

Funded by the Anna Lindh Foundation

Understanding Islam in Irish Education 20 March 2013
Under the Common Operation grant from the ALF, the Library co-hosted a one day seminar with Mary Immaculate College Limerick, Kerry Action Development in Education and Youth Work Ireland, Cork. Subjects in the national teaching curriculum aimed at B.Ed students as well as themes relevant to ALF members were explored. Key note speeches were presented by Susan Douglass from Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding, Georgetown University, Washington DC and Prof Maria Parker-Jenkens of the University of Limerick. See the following Prezi presentation on the findings of the day.

Special thanks to the Anna Lindh Foundation and Irish Network http://www.euromedalex.org/.

Intercultural Cities Conference 2013

Dublin hosted a major conference in February exploring diversity in the city. The conference was co-hosted by Dublin City Council, the Council of Europe and c.150 key cities from around the world. The Library participated in workshops as well as hosted a site visit for delegates and introduce their unique intercutlural learning programme and exhibitions. See http://www.coe.int/t/dg4/cultureheritage/culture/Cities/Dublin/event_en.asp
for details.

Young Curators Project 2012-13

Young Curators Multi-Media Project for Young People

Click here for the website.
The Library and Pivotal Arts Studio (formerly known as FOMACS) invited a group of young local Chinese and Irish people to explore photographs from the Wellcome Trust's collection of John Thomson. China through the Lens of John Thomson 1868-72 inspired this group of Young Curators to create their own multi-media responses to 19th century photographs of Chinese men, women and children and can be viewed on line.

A panel from the Young Curators displayed their work in The Exchange, Temple Bar during the Chinese New Year Festival in February 2013.

Special thanks to Dublin City Council, The Arts Council, Cross Care Community Centre and all of the participants involved.

Meet the Community

Meet the Community offers visitors a chance to experience a variety of cultural events as well as meet members of the Asian, Middle Eastern, South East Asian and European communities. As part of our public programme the Library hosts a number of events ranging from workshops, music performances, art demonstrations, cookery demonstrations and family days. These events have been specially organised as part of the exhibition programme.
See What's On www.cbl.ie for more details.

Community Ambassador Programme
Did you know the Library now offers tours in Mandarin, Arabic and Japanese? These tours are made available through our new Community Ambassador Programme, the first of its kind in Ireland, which aims to promote the Library's exhibitions to multi-ethnic communities. For more details about the programme, please contact Justyna Chmielewska on tel: 4070772, email: jchmielewska@cbl.ie

Family Activities & Adult and Teen Drawing Packs

Explore the Library with specially designed activities for under 3's, 5+ and 8+. These include, puzzles, crosswords and a colouring book. Drawing packs are also available for adults and teens with a number of simple exercises ranging from the use of line, colour, decoration, perspective and shading.

Packs are available the first weekend of each month on Saturdays and Sundays from 1pm to 4pm and are free of charge.

Guided tours

The Library offers a variety of tours including

public tours: Wednesdays at 1 P.M. and Sundays at 3 and 4 P.M.
group tours: must be booked in advance. Please fill in the Guided tours form.

Activities for Children
Silk Worm Club for six-
to eleven-year-olds

If you are curious about the marvels of the Chester Beatty Library collection and you like stories, art, craft, music and dance, this is the club to join! See What's On www.cbl.ie for more details. Please note the Chester Beatty Library has a Child Protection Policy in place and we request parents/guardians to comply.

Lunchtime lectures

These regular talks offer an opportunity to hear curators, artists or scholars speak about works on display, special exhibitions or other aspects of the arts and cultures of Europe, the Middle East, Asia and East Asia.

See What's On www.cbl.ie for more details.

Demonstrations

The Library hosts a number of demonstrations throughout the year in a number of techniques such as origami (Japanese paper folding), calligraphy, poetry, music and lots more.

See What's On www.cbl.ie for more details.

Family days

Since 2000, the Library has engaged with a number of communities and celebrated cultural festivals including the Chinese New Year, Diwali, Christmas and Easter.

These are marked on an annual basis and details can be found in What's On www.cbl.ie .

Links

If you are interested in Asian, East Asian, Islamic and European art there are resources available on our links page.