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Secret Power: Why it wants to destroy Julian Assange and WikiLeaks

The Julian Assange and WikiLeaks case marks a crossroads for our democracies. A society that does not allow journalists to expose state criminality freely and safely so the public can know about it...
Speaker(s): Stefania Maurizi with Ewen MacAskill

Why is it so hard to believe in a world without cars?

Why is it so hard for society to move away from its love affair with cars? Perhaps we need to focus not so much on the aspirations of those who believe in a green and pleasant land but on the...
Speaker(s): Wesley Wroe, Josh Grantham, Sarah Rowe, Anzir Boodoo

Radical Funerals

Ru Callender has been a self-taught radical undertaker for over 20 years, setting up The Green Funeral Company in 1999 and described in The Good Funeral Guide as one of 'The best undertakers of all...
Speaker(s): Ru Callender

Mad World

Exploring the history of asylums and psychiatry; the relationship between disability justice, queer liberation and mental health; art and creativity; prisons and abolition; and alternative models of...
Speaker(s): Micha Frazer-Carroll

Palestine: the compass of injustice and dignity

On being a Palestinian: living in Palestine and in the diaspora. Engaging questions of faith, liberation and oppression for a silenced, oppressed, and struggling community, torn apart by apartheid....
Speaker(s): Muna Nassar

Disability and Justice: Prophets on the Edge

Disabled people have long been seen as objects of the church's ministry, outreach and care. Yet many of us are speaking back with a prophetic call for disability justice, in a world and church that...
Speaker(s): Naomi Lawson Jacobs & Emily Richardson

Scared to Death

What happens as we're dying? What's the best way to support a dying person? Is hospital the best place? Let's look at all the wisdom we've forgotten. Let's be curious about dying. Let's know more,...
Speaker(s): Kathryn Mannix

A country where poverty does not exist

Poverty in the UK is an avoidable, solvable problem - but it's one we have failed to fix for far too long. As a society we must do better. Former prime minister Gordon Brown will talk about our moral...
Speaker(s): Gordon Brown

Compassion

Many of our churches deliver compassion through programmes and networks. Dave explores what it means to live in compassion and to centre our churches on connection with our neighbourhoods. He will...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

Becoming A Weirdy, Beardy, Kind-Old Elder

I don't want to merely become 'older' but become an 'elder' - not simply 'age-ing' but 'sage-ing' - nurturing regenerative engagement in our world on the margins of my own religion and other...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

Does reconciliation in Israel and Palestine address settler colonialism?

As popular culture deems reconciliation irrelevant in settler-colonial contexts, particularly in the Palestinian struggle for justice, Musalaha presents reconciliation from the position of the...
Speaker(s): Daniel Munayer

In The Body

What do our bodies have to do with the spiritual? What stories of alienation, neglect, and embrace, shape how we inhabit our physical selves? In a world that often demands we divorce our minds from...
Speaker(s): Cole Arthur Riley

Everything Is Extraordinary

In the second of these two sessions, Cole helps us share our own stories, starting with a question: who is the most remarkable person you've ever met? Could be your Mum, could be a stranger or...
Speaker(s): Cole Moreton

Being/Not Being A Self-Righteous Bastard

All my life I've sought to be a 'righteous person', only all too often to be a 'self-righteous bastard'. For someone as combative, dominating and intimidating as me, the quest to 'be right' and 'do...
Speaker(s): Dave Andrews

Bashar Murad in conversation

Performing on the Glade mainstage later, this is your chance to hear from the wonderful Palestinian artist Bashar Murad - in conversation with Palestinian writer, researcher and cultural curator...
Speaker(s): Bashar Murad