Issue 003. The very first Car of the Year back in 1998 was just the third go at this thing a group of guys – Harry Metcalfe, John Barker, Dickie Meaden, art editor Damian Smith and publisher Allan Pattison, plus Peter Tomalin, current editor Stuart Gallagher and a host of freelance photographers – called
evo. I don’t want to pat them too heartily on the back, but you’ve got to admire the blind ambition, the tenacity to secure the cars and the commitment they showed to the cause, even when the future of this experiment was uncertain at best and downright precarious in the cold light of day.
Belfast s Out To Lunch festival goes online to serve up arts and culture events throughout January
Belfast s annual Out to Lunch Festival has returned in spite of the current lockdown, with a full menu of culturally stimulating online events to enjoy. David Roy rounds up this year s offerings Emer Maguire will be appearing at this year s Out To Lunch festival
Martin Lynch will be in conversation at this year s Out To Lunch festival
BELFAST S annual Out To Lunch Festival is all about kick-starting Belfast s cultural calendar with a post-New Year programme of arts and culture events served up throughout January in worker-friendly lunchtime slots and accompanied by delicious hot food.
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th January, as they present
Prophets, Makers and Risk Takers: A Showcase of Writing from Northern Ireland. An exciting and unique one-day Writers’ Symposium, part of the Cathedral Quarter 2021 Out to Lunch Festival, that invites writers, readers and industry professionals from across the globe to explore writing from Northern Ireland.
The symposium will show the breadth of writing talent that Northern Ireland has to offer and is supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s Organisations Emergency Fund and the Department for Communities’ Covid-19 Social Enterprise Fund.
Curated by local author Jan Carson, the symposium aims to bring together leading voices in writing from across Northern Ireland (NI) to discuss how NI writers’ approach global issues and themes; how they are revisiting ideas associated with the history and politics of NI, how they are finding new ways to tell the stories, exploring what opportunities exist outside NI, ho
File Photo / Zach Hirsch
Earlier this year, a man from Tanzania tried to seek asylum in Canada by crossing the border at Roxham Road, north of Champlain, NY. However, unlike thousands of others who had crossed in previous years, he was turned back to the U.S. under new pandemic-related border restrictions.
Canadian police gave him a piece of paper saying to come back when the border reopened, but returned him to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who detained him over lack of authorization to be in the United States. He was transferred to the federal immigration detention facility in Batavia, when he reached Jennifer Connor, executive director of Justice for Migrant Families in Buffalo.
A woman looks back before stepping into Canada at Roxham Road, back in 2017. File photo: Zach Hirsch
Dec 29, 2020 Earlier this year, a man from Tanzania tried to seek asylum in Canada by crossing the border at Roxham Road. However, unlike thousands of others who had crossed in previous years, he was turned back to the US under new pandemic-related border restrictions.
Canadian police gave him a piece of paper saying to come back when the border reopened, but returned him to U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents, who detained him over lack of authorization to be in the United States. He was transferred to the federal immigration detention facility in Batavia, near Buffalo, when he reached Jennifer Connor, executive director of Justice for Migrant Families in Buffalo.