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Integrated Education Rocks!20/07/2009
Nora Murray Cavanagh´s one hour on the plinth in London´s Trafalgar Square.
“Integrated Education Rocks!”
“I wanted to celebrate the 6% of Northern Ireland pupils who now attend integrated schools” says Nóra Murray Cavanagh. Nóra was one of the lucky 10% of applicants chosen to have one hour on the 3-month long “One and Other” public art project on the vacant plinth in London’s Trafalgar Square. The project, by artist Anthony Gormley, lasts from 6 July to 14 October. 2,400 one-hour slots.
“I am going to spend my time on the plinth celebrating those 6% of Northern Ireland’s pupils”, says Nóra, “and the whole ethos of educating children together in a society that is still deeply divided in spite of the hard work of the current peace process”.
A former student of Oakgrove Integrated Primary and Oakgrove Integrated College in Derry~Londonderry, Dr Nóra is coming down to London from her work in an Edinburgh medical practice for her one hour allocation from 10pm-11 pm on Tuesday 21 July 2009.
To find out about the “One and Other” public art project see: www.oneandother.co.uk This website includes a permanent webcam round the clock until 14 October. So you can see it right now from any computer. (And, of course, you can tune in from 10pm -11pm on Tuesday next, 21st July).
“But don´t think only of Northern Ireland”, says Nóra. “Think of segregated communities everywhere. And could Trevor Phillips (Head of the UK´s Commission for Equalities and Human Rights) be right? Is Britain itself "sleepwalking towards segregation"?
