Finding a safe and sustainable role and cause close to our hearts.
“Reaching Out” - a new outreach initiative aiming to bring people of all ages together to learn about community life, The Well at Willen and The Society of the Sacred Mission, and also to have the opportunity to network, socialise, and reflect and share on important contemporary issues.
Social & environmental change.
Privilege - What is it?
Do we have it? If so what are we going to do with it?
“Reaching Out” - a new outreach initiative aiming to bring people of all ages together to learn about community life, The Well at Willen and The Society of the Sacred Mission, and also to have the opportunity to network, socialise, and reflect and share on important contemporary issues.
Identity. Who are we? What defines us? Are we who we think we are?
“Reaching Out” - a new outreach initiative aiming to bring people of all ages together to learn about community life, The Well at Willen and The Society of the Sacred Mission, and also to have the opportunity to network, socialise, and reflect and share on important contemporary issues.
Community
An evening supper and workshop on the theme of “Community” - What is it? How do we achieve it? Why do we need it?
Cley Marshes: a wild vision.
With David North, Head of People and Wildlife at the Norfolk Wildlife Trust. The talk is at 1pm and will last about 30 minutes followed by questions. Admission is free. You are welcome to bring a packed lunch any time from 12.15pm. A donation is invited for a hot drink and biscuits.
Embassies Walk
11am Dick Sheppard Chapel, St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, for liturgy & lunch then join our annual Embassy Walk round the Embassies in London to ask them what progress they are planning to make towards ‘the elimination of all nuclear arsenals’ at the Review Conference of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May this year.
All faiths and none welcome; the Embassy Walk is secular.
Wrap up Trident: The Churches Speak.
Join Christian CND in early bird PRAYER AND PROTEST
11.00 am at St Martin-in-the Fields, Trafalgar Square.
11.00 am Prayers in the Dick Sheppard Chapel in the basement.
11.30 am Lunch together in St. Martin’s Cafeteria (profits to their Homeless Project)
12.15 pm Readings of Church Statements against Nuclear Weapons, on the Steps of St. Martin-in-the Fields, Trafalgar Square
NJPN Open Networking Day
Speaker: Alison Jackson, Church Action on Poverty on 'Visions of the Common Good'
An opportunity to prepare for the General Election, to network with justice and peace activists from around the country, and to get updates on campaigns from national and local agencies.
Tea and coffee will be provided, please bring a packed lunch.
Independent Working Class Education Day School
The day will discuss the IWCE Network Manifesto and ask how we can work together to enrich working class education and class struggle. Have a look at
http://iwceducation.co.uk/
Stop the War AGM: National conference
More details soon.
Book Launch: Getting By: Estates, Class and Culture in Austerity Britain
With Lisa McKenzie. While the 1% rule, poor neighbourhoods have become the subject of public concern and media scorn, blamed for society’s ills. This book redresses the balance. Lisa Mckenzie lived on the St Ann’s estate in Nottingham for more than 20 years.
[Again] Introductions presents: ‘Feminism’
With Prof. Stella Sandford. The third and final talk in the [Again] Introductions series at Housmans is on the subject of feminism, and will provide an insight into the movement’s latest debates and challenges, from the perspective of the feminist tradition in philosophy and theory.
‘Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’
With Tansy E. Hoskins. Few of us know the exact details of where our clothes come from. In ‘Stitched Up: The Anti-Capitalist Book of Fashion’, Tansy E. Hoskins poses questions that we as consumers rarely pause to ask: how were our garments made, who manufactured them, and which corporation owners profited from them?
‘Stopping the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership’
With Linda Kaucher.
Linda Kaucher explores the numerous threats contained in the US/EU ‘free trade’ TTIP deal, and presents the campaign to stop its implementation.
[Again] Introductions presents: ‘Biopolitics’
With Nikolas Rose. The second [Again] Introductions talk is on the subject of biopolitics, which tried to understand the way that modern power takes the very lives of individuals as its object.
:'Contemporary Journalism'
[Again] Introductions presents talk with Nick Davies.
Capitalism 101
Brick Lane Debates present: Capitalism 101
Workshop led by Neil Faulkner.
'Capitalism is Bad for Your Mental Health'
BOOK TALK with Robert Dellar, Alistair Kemp, and the Association of Musical Marxists.
'South Sudan: A Slow Liberation'
BOOK LAUNCH with Edward Thomas, Thomas Mawan Muortat and Liz Hodgkin
South Sudan: A Slow Liberation tries to explain how South Sudan's first years as an independent country have been marred by violence. Come along for a panel discussion led by three of South Sudan’s most thoughtful analysts.
Capitalism 101
Brick Lane Debates present: Capitalism 101
Workshop lead by Neil Faulkner
