Description
Dr Clare Gallagher, Cormac McArt from Westcourt Centre and a participant of the Women's Advocacy Group Project delivered a presentation at Belfast City Hall as part of the launch of Homelessness Awareness Week.We talked about the specific challenges of female homelessness and its invisibility in the wider public consciousness. We presented our methods from the series of photography workshops and discussed the impact of engaging participants in a group art project. We shared an image made by the group and one of the women generously shared her experiences of the workshops.
Impact focused on making visible marginalised experiences, building empathy, reducing stigma, creating outputs that evoked the women's experiences while permitting them dignity and anonymity, and producing advocacy materials with a wide reach.
| Period | 2 Dec 2024 |
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| Event title | Homelessness Awareness Week 2024, Belfast City Hall: Time for Change: Responding to Homelessness |
| Event type | Conference |
| Degree of Recognition | National |
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Research output
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Women's Work: Female Photography as Visibility, Agency and Resistance: Photo Museum Ireland
Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper
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Taking Boys Seriously: Empowering Voices Exhibition
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Still Somebody: A photography exhibition on female homelessness at Ulster University, Belfast School of Art
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Still Somebody: a photography exhibition on female homelessness at Feile an Phobail, Belfast
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Still Somebody: a photography exhibition on female homelessness at 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Curating Activism: Frederick Douglass Week
Research output: Non-textual form › Exhibition
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Still Somebody: A photography project by women experiencing homelessness
Research output: Non-textual form › Body of Work
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Keynote: No Place Like Home Symposium
Research output: Contribution to conference › Other
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Activities
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The Second Shift
Activity: Talk or presentation › Oral presentation
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Curating Activism
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Still Somebody
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...
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Homelessness Awareness Week
Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Organising a conference, workshop, ...