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The Mark Patterson Show: The Native Americans honouring the waters of the River Foyle

The Native Americans honouring the waters of the River Foyle

BBC Radio Foyle - The Mark Patterson Show, The Native Americans honouring the waters of the River Foyle

The Native Americans honouring the waters of the River Foyle.

A group of Native American people are in the middle of a three day Water Walk from the source of the River Foyle in the Sperrin Mountains to the mouth of the river at Culmore, led by Ikidowin Tribal Nation representatives. The ceremony dictates they have to be silent while walking in the presence of the water. It's an incredible story and Mark talks to one of the young people doing it, Nalia Segura from the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. 
Derry's Stage Beyond Theatre Company is a group of young actors who are in rehearsal for a new show from Abba to Shakespeare. One of the cast Brian says that before Stage Beyond doors "were closed and padlocked" to someone like him living with Autism. "We've got disabled actors...Down Syndrome, Autistic, wheelchair bound, we don't care what they are, we are members".
John McDaid from Derry animation company Dog Ears on co producing Northern Ireland's first ever animated feature, creating an Ireland animation "supergroup" with Cartoon Saloon and how global warming is being discussed via cartoon puffins.


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