RoUTE 18 - YES Festival
Date: 13 June 2024 - 16 June 2024
Venue: Various Venues, Derry~Londonderry, County Derry~Londonderry
A Ulyssesean walk from the Brandywell Showground to Ebrington Square.
The Return of Ulysses Trail Exhibition in Derry~Londonderry will comprise 18 venue locations across the city centre, from the Brandywell Showground in the west of the city to Ebrington Square at the end of the Peace Bridge. Each of the Derry~Londonderry venues and locations will host one of the ULYSSES European Odyssey cities project exhibitions that offers the most comprehensive and unique insight to the 18 city 2-year journey ULYSSES European Odyssey 2022-2024 project. In each of the venue locations will be exhibits from one of the European city UEO projects accompanied by video footage, photographs, publications, the first revealing of each city writer’s composition and each city’s c.17 questions that will make up the publication: ‘What will you Answer? 309 Questions from Europe’.
RoUTE 18 is a bespoke ULYSSES European Odyssey exhibition trail free to the public across 8 days. RoUTE 18 brings together the UEO project that has taken place across Europe into a single concentration hosted by 18 Derry~Londonderry locations empathetic each of the 18 designated European city themes.
Access will be free. Visitors can choose locations in any order, as few or as many per day, or spread across a number of days.
Episode I – ATHENS
Long Tower Youth Club, Brandywell Showground
Youth, Citizenship, Democracy
Episode II – TRIESTE
The Siege Museum & Museum of Free Derry
Weight of History
Episode III – VILNIUS
Three Photo Boards Outside Ebrington (Mute Meadow/Peace Bridge)
Urban Renewal
Episode IV – BUDAPEST
Brooke Park Leisure Centre
Neighbourhoods
Episode V – MARSEILLE
Christ Church, Infirmary Road
Migration
Episode VI – PARIS
Chapter House, St. Columb’s Cathedral
Dialogue with the Dead
Episode VII – Berlin
Nerve Centre Foyer
Commodity Fetishes
Episode VIII – Lugo
Ebrington Hotel & City Hotel
Relationship with Food
Episode IX – Copenhagen
Foyle Valley Railway Station
Educaton Reform – Disability
Episode X – Istanbul
Holywell Trust DiverseCity
Coexistence
Episode XI – Cluj
Guildhall Foyer
Emigration
Episode XII – Zürich
Aras Colmcille
Nationality
Episode XIII – Leeuwarden
Ball In The Ballroom – YES Hub, St.Columb’s Hall, Orchard St.
Gender Freedom
Episode XIV – Eleusis
Photo Board on Bay Road Area (opposite the abandoned boat)
Safeguarding our seas and shores
Episode XV – Oulu
YES Hub, St Columbs Hall
Mental Well-Being
Episode XVI – Lisbon
Tower Museum
Intergenerational Matters
Episode XVII – Dublin
North West Transport Hub (Railway Station)
HomeSweetHome
Episode XVIII – Derry~Donegal
Millennium Forum, New Gate Arts Centre, The Playhouse, Derry Walls, Balor Theatre Ballybofey, Regional Cultural Centre Letterkenny, Lisfannon Strand, Ebrington Square, Guildhall, An Grianán of Aileach, The Peace Bridge, Guildhall Square, The North Pole Pub, Arc Fitness, St. Columb’s Hall, Little Acorns Bookshop, Derry City Cemetary, An Grianán Plaza, Altnagelvin Hospital, Letterkenny Hospital, In Our Space, Celtronic, The Taphouse
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