Lessons from the Nordics: Imagining a New Ireland

What can we learn from the Nordics and Baltics? These small independent countries also started with big challenges and are continuing to work things out in surprising and inspiring ways.

FRIDAY 28TH MARCH

6:00PM – 8:30PM (DOORS 5:30PM)

QFT, University Square, Belfast

£10

Join Collaboration for Change and special guests for a screening of Denmark – The State of Happiness, followed by a conversation with presenter / producer Lesley Riddoch.
An inspiring film, Denmark – The State of Happiness shines a light on why Denmark is one of the happiest nations on earth. It has the world’s best energy system, a GDP per capita almost a third higher than Britain, more bikes in daily use than the Netherlands, a swim just 15 minutes away from every Copenhagen resident and state-run TV that changed the face of drama with Borgen, The Killing and The Bridge.

Even with less oil, coal and gas to fuel its economy, the Danes have bounced back to become the modern, eco-leaders of Europe. How did they do it?

Lesley Riddoch will be joined in conversation with some of the authors from the Answering Ireland’s Call series of articles in exploring how the Nordic and Baltic examples could help us to shape an independent Scotland and imagine a new Ireland.

 

Collaboration for Change (CfC) formed in Derry 2018 to make visible and support the groundwork activism already happening under the radar of mainstream media and politicians – activism which is addressing and coming up with solutions for the civil rights issues of the 21st Century.

Lesley Riddoch is an award-winning Scottish broadcaster, journalist, author, cyclist, podcaster, land reform campaigner and self-confessed lover of all things Nordic. She has made several documentaries showing how countries such as Denmark, Estonia and the Faroe Islands do democracy, health, food, education, energy, housing, transport – everything in fact, differently from us and very successfully. She has long been a proponent of how an independent Scotland could learn from the Nordic and the Baltic countries.

About Denmark – The State of Happiness: They are the happiest people on earth, with the world’s best energy system, a GDP per capita almost a third higher than Britain, more bikes in daily use than the Netherlands, a swim just 15 minutes away from every Copenhagen resident and state-run TV that changed the face of drama with Borgen, The Killing and The Bridge. Yet Denmark is small (with about half Scotland’s land mass and the same population). It has less oil/coal/gas to fuel its economy and lost an empire – just like Britain.

Yet the Danes have bounced back to become the modern, eco-leaders of Europe. How did they do it?

Tickets for this event are available from QFT.

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