N4 Ireland Continues to Shine!
While the new year is young, Narrative 4 Ireland has already made numerous achievements up and down the Emerald Isle to inspire us moving forward throughout 2024!
Celebrating several major milestones and events across the Emerald Isle!
While the new year is young, Narrative 4 Ireland has already made numerous achievements up and down the Emerald Isle to inspire us moving forward throughout 2024!
For starters, we’ve been super busy in Limerick!
Students at Laurel Hill Coláiste secondary school and Corpus Christi Primary School Moyross recently held their latest of many Story Exchanges. A beautiful relationship has blossomed between these two Limerick city schools, which came together again to share stories and connect students at different stages of life!
Meanwhile, also in Limerick, we held a Story Exchange workshop on Monday, February 19 for trainee teachers using a Performance Studies module with our longtime partners, Mary Immaculate College.
Finally, on Tuesday, February 27, Narrative 4 participated at Coláiste Nano Nagle Inclusion Day in Limerick, meeting with teachers, students, and community members about our work and programs.
One-hundred kilometers south in Cork, Le Chéile Secondary School recently received the Bronze Empathy school award, signalling their commitment to fostering a culture of community and compassion among teachers and students.
“The students who went through the programme are more aware of what it means to communicate with their classmates… what it means to have strong friendships and relationship” says Ipek Balcik, a teacher at Le Chéile Secondary School.
And up northeast in the capital city of Dublin, we worked alongside the Irish Prison Education Service to train our biggest cohort of prison educators to date! This much-needed facilitator-training session, held Thursday, February 22, shines a light through prison bars by training Dublin-based prison educators to serve throughout the city.
As one of our first regions, Narrative 4 Ireland continues to prove the power of our focus on cultivating compassion, community, and creativity!
Our New Spanish-Language Website is Live!
After months of hard work and collaboration between our México and IT teams, a labor of love finally came to life on Valentine’s Day, Wednesday, February 14 with the launch of Narrative 4 LATAM, our Spanish language website!
“A Book That Will Shake Your Soul” – Sting
Diane Foley tells her story with N4 President and National Book Award-winning author, Colum McCann in a powerful, profound and deeply personal, yet universal memoir, American Mother.
Training in Tanzania
Narrative 4 Tanzania trained 45 teachers as Story Exchange facilitators.
Listen: N4 Mexico Appears on Popular Podcast!
Blanco y Tinto (“White & Red”) goes “Entrando al corazón de Narrative 4,” or “Inside the heart of Narrative 4!”
Connecting Pen Pals Across 7,200+ Miles!
The N4 Letter Exchange connects Narrative 4 students in Nigeria and Mexico, creating a community of care that crosses beyond borders.
N4 Artist Darrell Bourque’s Until We Talk uses jazz-inflected ghazal poetry to highlight the tragic losses for contemporary Israeli and Palestinian families
Tragedy is everywhere these days, nowhere more so than in Israel and Palestine. N4 Cofounder Darrell Bourque takes on tragedy in an unexpected way – poetry.
Saying “Y.E.S.” to Student Leaders
Sixty students from Cambridge, MA. led a story exchange during the 2nd annual Youth Equity Summit (Y.E.S.)!
Empowering Emotions in Mexico
Narrative 4 México reached 117 middle school parents during a powerful virtual conference: “Reconociendo las emociones” (Recognizing The Emotions).
A Partner to Others. A Friend to All.
Narrative 4 was honored to receive the Partner Award from our long-time friends at Open Doors NYC for their first-annual Nursing Home Lives Matter Gala.