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Green Light For Change

As the old two-party system falls apart, Green Party CEO Harriet Lamb is keen to hear your views and questions. She outlines the power of progressive politics, and how we can all get involved in...
Speaker(s): Harriet Lamb

Could you slide the marmalade down this way?

Ever lived in community? Or talked to yourself about it? Or wondered if it's something for you? Utopian pipe dream or rule of a good life? Folk from the Iona Community share their experiences of a...
Speaker(s): Iona Community, Ruth Harvey

Hope in a divided age: responding to the climate crisis and the rise of the far right

As anti-Net Zero rhetoric and populist politics rise, how can the Church remain a voice of prophetic hope and climate action? This interactive workshop provides practical tools for faithful...
Speaker(s): Clare Fussell, Green Christian, Melanie Nazareth

How Animals Heal Us

Pet-owners and animal-lovers instinctively know that animals heal. This talk offers the evidence, drawing widely on scientific discoveries, history and Indigenous knowledge.
Speaker(s): Jay Griffiths

Who Will Slay the Elbit Beast?

Clare Hinchcliffe's daughter Zoe (20) was imprisoned for 18 months on remand for direct action against an Israeli weapons factory in Bristol. Clare and Zoe share their story and how prayer and poetry...

Love Your Cancelled Enemy

Dave Tomlinson asks what it means to love our enemies in an age of callouts and cancel culture. Can movements for justice stay transformative without writing people off, are there better ways to...
Speaker(s): Dave Tomlinson

Fringe Dweller

A fresh look at Jesus the Fringe Dweller. Exploring his encounters with those at the fringes and delving deeper into one story - Flip The Script. With conversation, participation and artist responses...
Speaker(s): David Cotterill, Jonny Baker

A More Humane Climate

Marina Warner, author of Sanctuary, joins the Refugee Tales panel to talk about the dangers of writing the human costs of climate change out of the story. We’ll explore how migration increases as...
Speaker(s): David Herd, Marina Warner, Refugee Tales

Holding on to Hope in a Hostile Moment: Towards a Humane Asylum Process

Refugee Tales workers and experts by experience report from the frontlines of immigration detention and human rights, explore models of a better approach, and highlight hopeful actions people can...
Speaker(s): David Herd, Patrick Gale, Refugee Tales

Staying At The Table

Coventry Cathedral and Embrace the Middle East invite you to explore the practice of gracious dialogue as a way of listening well and speaking truthfully on difficult and divisive issues such as...
Speaker(s): Embrace the Middle East

How (On Earth) To Parent

Between nappy changes and nursery rhymes, the news brings horror and anxiety. This is a space to explore the feelings that emerge as we raise children in these times. Bring your grief, your rage, and...
Speaker(s): Grace Claydon

Whispers of Peace

How to act for peace as the war drums beat loudly? What can the faith-shaped peacemaker do in the face of multiple global challenges? This workshop will help you refine what is yours to do in this...
Speaker(s): Hannah Brock Womack, John Cooper

Seeds and Pearls

A Bible study on the stories Jesus told about letting go, scattering seeds, selling fields, seeking pearls. We'll explore different facets of our theme, Let it all go, and what we might dream and...
Speaker(s): Miranda Threlfall-Holmes

The Human Story

Join award-winning journalist and filmmaker Mobeen Azhar as he talks with Elizabeth Oldfield about interviewing white supremacists, exposing police corruption, and telling raw stories from inside...
Speaker(s): Mobeen Azhar, Elizabeth Oldfield

Policing the Beats

Lambros Fatsis (aka Boulevard Soundsystem) shows how music has been used as an instrument for policing Black people, from the era of colonial slavery till now, and how racist legal processes make...
Speaker(s): Lambros Fatsis