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Contact: Darren Ferguson

Belfast Carnival Centre
11-47 Boyd Street

Tel: 07877756987

E-Mail: info@beyondskin.net

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Aims and Objectives

To address racism and sectarianism in Northern Ireland through multicultural arts

To promote positive attributes reflected from a society made up of different cultures

To promote multicultural arts for the benefit of the inhabitants of Northern Ireland

To promote racial harmony and the exchange of cultural ideas and relations through the medium of the arts

To contribute to maintaining a peaceful society in Northern Ireland

To increase social awareness of different cultures within Northern Ireland

To increase links between communities from different cultural backgrounds

To present, promote, organise, manage and produce performances and exhibitions of works of cultural and educational value

Projects and Activities

Beyond Skin was established in January 2004 to assist cultural relations in Northern Ireland using music, arts and media as a methodology. Beyond Skin over the years have acquired a strong reputation for the development and delivery of creative inovative programs that in turn have produced positive and successful outcomes assisting cultural relations.

• The majority of Beyond Skin’s work is through the organisation’s multicultural world music collective, ‘The Motion Project’ which has become a high profile locally and globally recognised project that uses music to assist cultural learning, exchange and relations through workshops, performances, recording programs and interactive music sessions.
• Beyond Skin’s other flagship program is ‘Homely Planet’ radio, an internet broadcast station focusing on cultural education/exchange and world music. Homely Planet launched in April 2008 and quickly became internationally and locally recognised as a media network beacon for global cultural exchange and world music. Partnerships is a key element for Beyond Skin's delivery strategy and we are always interested in collaborations and ideas that can assist the method of peacebuilding and cultural education.
• World Music NI is a partnership music enterprise with SEEDS (Derry) providing a wide range of services within the world music sector.
• With launch of Beyond Skin Global in 2010 we are using our Global Partners to develop projects with Northern Ireland communities.