August 2023 - Pavee Point

Recovery Month at Pavee Point

Recovery Month aims to promote awareness and understanding around substance misuse including alcohol and drugs. Additionally, it seeks to champion and celebrate individuals from all walks of life who have managed to carry out a successful recovery. On the 27th September Pavee Point will host an evening of discussion and celebration. Three speakers will get […]

Traveller Men Raise Awareness on Suicide and Addiction

Pavee Point Traveller & Roma Centre played Coolmine Therapeutic Community last night (17/8) in an 11-a-side football match to raise awareness on suicide and addiction. The game started with a minute’s silence for people that have died of addiction and suicide. What a game! The game was 5-5 after 90 minutes and went into penalties, […]

Heritage Week at Pavee Point

Oein de Bharduin and Geraldine McDonnell hosted a very enjoyable workshop on CANT today at Pavee Point as part of #Heritageweek2023. There was a great exchange of words, stories and ideas and we all learned something. We hope to have more gatherings like this. #LivingHeritage We were also delighted to host visitors to centre during […]

Drop In During #Heritage Week

We are getting ready for #HeritageWeek 12 – 20 August!! We found a lovely set of exhibition photos of a Traveller wedding from 1968 which we will have on view. We also found some great copperware, beady pockets and lots of old newspaper articles that show the different ways Travellers were treated in the media. […]

Roma Genocide Memorial Day – 2nd August

To mark Roma Genocide Memorial Day on the 2nd of August, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, in collaboration with An Post, is organising a special viewing of the tapestry ‘el holocausto’ at the historic GPO building on O’Connell Street, with a short ceremony featuring testimonies from Roma survivors. Testimony of the Paszkowska Family by Vanessa Paszkowska Both of […]

Workshop on CANT during Heritage Week

To celebrate #LivingHeritage, Oein de Bharduin will host a workshop on CANT – the Traveller language on Thursday 17 August, 10.30am at Pavee Point. This will be a great chance for Travellers and members of the general public to find out more about a language that is still very much part of Traveller culture and […]