The Programme
	Changing Life-styles is a three year cultural education programme linking three different schools with groups of older people in the Ards area. The main aim for participants will be to: 1. develop a sense of pride for their place and the people who live there. 2. encourage respect between cultures in the Ards by exploring commonality and different life-styles, values, beliefs and traditions of British, Irish, Ulster Scot, Bangladeshi, Chinese and other peoples. The programme will promote cultural awareness in the Ards by working under the following headings: language, dance, music, housing, fashion, education, sport and leisure.   Under these specific headings, participants will discover how lifestyles have changed over time by comparing life in the early 1970’s with life today.  Each year an exhibition will display the research work that groups have compiled illustrating local culture in the Ards. 'The exhibition will be put on display and will give others a better understanding of diverse cultural influences on the Peninsula.  In the first year (starting September 2003) Panarts linked young people from West Winds with older people from West Winds living in the area. Click here to view their work. 'Ards Inter Generation Programme is funded by the European Union Peace 2 Programme administered by Ards Local Strategy Partnership' Click Below to View work from: West Winds Primary School St Finian's Primary School

 

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