Stories and pictures of the real lives of people living in the area will be provided by Eid Swais, a Jordanian living locally. Coffee at 10.30am. All are most welcome. Admission is free with a small charge for coffee.
Speaker: Ben Griffin, co-founder, Veterans for Peace UK.
Quotes from VFPUK's website (“about us”) http://vfpuk.org
ALL WELCOME, ADMISSION FREE, FULL DISABLED ACCESS
Speaker: Nick Dearden (Global Justice Now): TTIP: A Charter for Big Business?
Plus opportunities for networking with justice and peace activists from around the country and get updates on campaigns from national agencies.
Tea and coffee provided, please bring your own lunch.
Tim 'Mac' Macartney guides us through a day focusing on ancient principles for leadership.
The challenges we face, whether within our organisations, communities, businesses, societies or our individual lives, are increasingly complex. As Albert Einstein said, you cannot solve a problem with the same thinking that created it. This workshop explores how we can draw on collective intelligence to go beyond the limitations and assumptions of our usual thinking.
An inspiring multi-media programme of films, readings and life stories. For the past 29 years, Teya Sepinuck has created Theatre of Witness productions in the US, Poland and Northern Ireland with ex-combatants, victims and survivors of war, prisoners and their families, refugees, and asylum seekers, and those affected by inner city violence, poverty and homelessness.
An evening with filmmaker Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee exploring the power of stories in witnessing the changes in our world.
Anyone opposed to Arms Fairs will be welcomed at a meeting of ELAAF. DLR Prince Regent. Wheelchair accessible. Parking available.
Speaker: Kate Hudson, General Secretary, Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament. London Region CND Public Meeting; 7-8pm. There will be time for questions and discussion after Kate’s talk. (This public meeting is followed by a London Region CND Council meeting from 8-9pm at the same venue, which people going to the public meeting can stay on for if they wish.). Disabled access.
In Chesterfield, Guildford, Horsham and Tottenham you will actually be able to VOTE for Peace in the General Election. The Peace Party candidates there are, respectively, Tommy Holgate, John Morris, Jim Duggan and Tanya Mahmood. Some seats in the Council elections will also be being contested by Peace Party candidates on the same day.
A public forum of science, art and politics (Admission/participation free) Evening music from 7.30pm. Convened by Kelvin Mason and Adrian Plant in collaboration with the Department of Geography and Earth Sciences, Aberystwyth University. In the light of Ceredigion becoming the first frack-free local authority in Wales and the Welsh government’s apparent moratorium, we ask: what does it mean?
Leafleting, candles, shadows, cranes.
An Exhibition Celebrating Women’s Peace History. To celebrate the Centenary of the Women’s International League for Peace and Freedom in April, the Peace Museum is proud to present an exhibition exploring the efforts of women and women’s groups throughout history to campaign for peace and equality.
In solidarity with the blockade of the Trident submarine base at Faslane in Scotland - and to mark the Global Day of Action on Military Spending - join us for an evening of party and protest outside the Ministry of Defence in Westminster.
The 6th Annual Lecture in the series put on by the Grassington & District Peace Group and Skipton Quakers.
The speaker is Professor Jenny Pearce from Bradford University Peace Studies Department and her theme is Violence and the Language of Politics.
The first Richard Harland Memorial Lecture to a meeting of the Upper Wharfedale Field Society. Richard was a great admirer and friend of Arthur Raistrick in whose name an annual lecture is given to a wide audience at the UWFS. Richard’s family have funded a series of lectures in memory of Richard, so now they will alternate with the Raistrick lectures, every two years.
Using original photographs, film, interviews and artefacts, 'Faith & Action' tells the compelling stories of Quaker men and women during the 1914-1918 conflict and its aftermath. The exhibition examines the impact of the war on Quaker artists, businesses, families and communities in Birmingham, central England and beyond. Free. In the Community Gallery.
With Rachel Holmes. Unrestrained by convention, lion-hearted and free, Eleanor Marx (1855-98) was an exceptional woman. Hers was the first English translation of Flaubert’s Mme Bovary. She pioneered the theatre of Henrik Ibsen. She was the first woman to lead the British dock workers’ and gas workers’ trades unions.
