Bloody Sunday March Committee's 2024 Programme of Events

The Bloody Sunday March committee has released its Programme of events for 2024.

The Bloody Sunday March for justice will take place on Sunday, January 28, 2024. It will assemble at the Creggan Shops at 2.30pm.

Kate Nash, chairperson of the Bloody Sunday March Committee said the theme of this year’s march was ‘Free Derry - Free Palestine 2024’.

Kate added: “One of the reasons Western governments are confident they’ll get away with supporting genocide in Gaza is that they’ve gotten away with it in other places, time and time again. Bloody Sunday is just one example. 

“Everywhere the terror comes overwhelmingly from the guns of oppressive governments, not from groups opposed to governments.

“It’s not true there is nothing we can do. Massive assemblies have gathered in every art and part to cry together for peace and freedom for Palestine. It is here that hope survives. When we link arms for Palestine, we are part of something huge happening all over the world.

“We don’t have to be lookers-on at genocide. It is for this reason that the banner of the Bloody Sunday March Committee is raised at every show of solidarity with Plestine. It is for the same reason that the issue of Palestine will again  be front-and-centre at the annual Bloody Sunday March,” said Kate Nash.

The events are as follows:

Tuesday, January 23 - ‘Rights of Nature: Decolonising our land and our minds’, 7.30pm to 9.00pm, The Playhouse, 5-7, Artillery Street, Derry.

Thursday, January 25 - ‘Stephen Gargan: There and Back Again’, 7.30pm, Nerve Centre Cinema, Magazine Street, Derry.

Friday, January 26 - Hostages: Mansoor Adayfi and Tommy McKearney in Conversation, 3.00pm to 4.30pm, Central Library, Foyle Street.

Radical ‘Question Time’, 7.00pm to 9.00pm, St Columb’s Hall, Orchard Cinema, Orchard Street, Derry.

Free Derry - Free Palestine Music Gig, doors open 9.00pm, Sandino’s CaféBar, Water Street,Derry, featuring: The Bonnevilles, Hypnic Jerk, Tessio, Tomcat, Square Bear and Molly Duffy. Admission is £10.00.

Saturday, January 27 - Defying the Lies: Tactics for Truth and Justice, 12.00pm to 1.30pm, Pilots Row, Roseville Street, Derry.

Forensic Architecture - Tools for Truth and Justice, 2.30pm to 4.30pm, Pilots Row, Rossville Street, Derry.

Derry Radical Bookfair, 12.00pm to 5.00pm, Pilots Row Community Centre, Sports Hall, Rossville Street, Derry.

Cearolann Phlaiceard i nGaelige / Placard Making workshop in Irish, 12.00pm to 5.00pm, Pilots Row Commmunity Centre, Rossville Street, Derry.

Free Derry Wall - Art Installation by ‘Spicebag’, Saturday January 20 to Saturday, January 28. Internationally acclaimed artist ‘Spicebag’ will transform Free Derry Wall in the week leading up to the 52nd Anniversary of Bloody Sunday.

Sunday, January 28, The Art of Protest - Local artists from the Free Derry Collective will provide art and visuals along the route of the march. 

Further details of all events can be found at: www.bloodysundaymarch.org. 

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