Do you keep your toaster in the cupboard? Hate ABBA? Holiday in Bundoran?
These are important questions that Derry Girls raised during in a memorable episode that dived headlong into the stereotypes that persist in Northern Ireland society.
The ‘Differences’ blackboard from the show is currently on display in the Ulster Museum’s new CultureLab exhibition along with memorabilia from many other ways we express and define our local identity, not just the Orange and Green. National Museums NI’s chief executive Kathryn Thomson explains all in the video below.
An interactive quiz also allows visitors to answer questions and have their cultural identity scored in a very tongue-in-cheek Derry Girls fashion.
The ‘Similarities’ blackboard was empty in the show, but visitors to the Ulster Museum now have a chance to chalk up their ideas on the board. The gallery will remain open until November.
CultureLab is part of Making the Future, a collaborative Peace IV-funded project with a consortium of National Museums NI, Nerve Centre, PRONI and Linen Hall Library delivering a comprehensive programme of cultural engagement, creativity and skills development.
Alan Meban. Tweets as @alaninbelfast. Blogs about cinema and theatre over at Alan in Belfast. A freelancer who writes about, reports from, live-tweets and live-streams civic, academic and political events and conferences. He delivers social media training/coaching; produces podcasts and radio programmes; is a FactCheckNI director; a member of Ofcom’s Advisory Committee for Northern Ireland; and a member of the Corrymeela Community.
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