CIVIL RIGHTS FESTIVAL - SATURDAY

Please note you do not have to attend the whole day. The registration is just to help us gauge numbers attending.

Viewing Voice of 68 exhibition in Ulster Bank building Waterloo Place

9am -10am Registration

9.45am Welcome from Mayor of Derry and Strabane

10am The Historical Importance of Civil Rights – panel of historians

l Professor. Henry Patterson Ulster University

l Eilish Rooney Ulster University

l Dr Emmet O’Connor Ulster University

11.30am Civil Rights Voices of 1968

l Eamonn McCann

l Marian Donnelly

l Fionnbarra O’Dochartaigh

l Erskine Holmes

l Maureen Hetherington

Chair: Professor Cathy Gormley-Heenan

12.50 Address by Ivan Cooper, Civil Rights leader and presentation to him in recognition of his role in Civil Rights

1pm Lunch

Mayors Reception approx. 1.30pm for President Michael D Higgins prior to address.

2pm Address by President Michael D Higgins

Choir will sing civil rights song before and after ending with We Shall Overcome

3.00pm John Hume Human Rights Lecture by Fergal Keane BBC Journalist introduced by Pat Hume

4.00pm International Human Rights Panel
in association with Front Line Human Rights Defenders Today

Levent Piskin is a Turkish human rights defender and human rights lawyer working on LGBTI+ issues.

Wanjeri Nderu (Florence) is a Kenyan human rights defender based in Nairobi who uses mainstream media and social media spaces to gather information on human rights violations.

Moderated by Tara Madden from Front Line Defenders

5.30pm Close and viewing exhibition