This post is a little delayed due to a nice interlude of flu... but anyways if you want to learn stuff during the teeny tiny month of February then here's some ideas.
8 Feb 2011 19:00
Compassionate Campaigning
Freeskilling Claire Milne
Better Food Company, Sevier St FREE
This is a really interesting looking session looking at how to increase your power to create positive alternatives through compassionate and conscious campaigning.
10 Feb 2011 10:00-17:00
A World In Waiting
Colston Hall
FREE
I'm volunteering at this event and I have written about it on my blog. It's not strictly speaking a learning event so much as a discussion event, but I think it will be a great way of learning about how policies affect different peoples lives.
Call 0117 922 3686 to book a free ticket
10 Feb 2011 19-21:30
How People of Faith Help the World’s Poor
Dr Marcus Braybrooke, President of the World Congress of Faiths
Progressive Synagogue, 43-45 Bannerman Road, Easton, Bristol, BS5 0RR
I hope to get to this talk as well (why is 10th Feb such a busy day?) This is a really interesting question to me, I wrote for the Climate Squad blog about how faith groups are working environmentally and I noticed differences in approach between faiths as well as faiths working together. I am interested to see how faith groups approaches differ in approaching poverty in all forms.
15 Feb 2011 19:00
Emotional Help for Activists using EFT
Freeskilling Karen Bell
Better Food Company, Sevier St FREE
This is a tutorial evening in learning the basics of Emotional Freedom Technique EFT. Interestingly Karen is giving particular advice on using it to deal with political activism issues.
17 Feb 2011, 18.00-19.30
Professor Tariq Modood Still not easy being British: Multiculturalism today
Bristol Festival of Ideas and University of Bristol FREE
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
Last year I went to a seminar by Tariq Madood at Bristol University, where he and Jan Dobbernack were presenting a paper about multiculture and multiculturalism. The presentation was interesting, but it seemed to assume that most people were either strongly part of a cultural group and identified with it or strongly rejected it. I feel that most people are both. Identifying as part of their cultural group when they go to places of worship, celebrate festivals or hang out with family but people also have friends from many different groups as well as friends from their own group.
You choose friends because of shared interests and if you like them, not on their ethnicity. Of course if your interest is Islam or a ethnically-related dance form more friends may be from that same group because it is an interest found more within that culture. But I was not convinced that there is a massive opposition between these two types of people because I think most people are in the middle, neither only staying in their cultural group or strongly rejecting it.
I am interested to hear more about his work and his understanding of Multiculturalism. I am also interested ideas around conversation being different from a dialogue with an aim. Some groups want each other to speak to each other with an aim of making decisions, rather than listening. Having attended events like Bristol Celebrates and being involved in couchsurfing.org where I see I type of Xenia guest-friendship interaction I can see great benefits to these interactions in valuing others humanity and extending hospitality to them, but I am not sure what role such academic research plays…
22 Feb 2011 19:00
Meditation for People with No Time to Meditate
FreeSkilling Lynne Knight
Better Food Company, Sevier St FREE
Lynne is going to be looking a mini-meditations which if you are really busy attending all the other events on this list might come in handy!
23 Feb 2011, 18.00-19.00
Bristol Festival of Ideas
Izzeldin Abuelaish – I Shall Not Hate: A Gaza Doctor's Journey
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol £5.00 / £4.00
We often hear about the conflict in the Middle-East and how Palestinians and Israelis don’t talk to each other. Izzeldin Abuelaish works as a doctor serving both Palestinians and Israelis. In 2009 his three daughters were killed by Israeli shells and since then he has increased his calls for those in the region to start talking to each other. It is obvious that he is a very inspiring man and his story is worth hearing.
23 Feb 2011 18:45
Creativity in English: Literature, linguistics and communication
Professor Ronald Carter
The Eighth Annual Fullbrook Lecture
Lecture Theatre H124, St Matthias campus UWE, Oldbury Court Road, Bristol. BS16 2JP
FREE
Creativity in language isn’t limited to creative writing or to one individuals creativity, Professor Ronald Carter finds creativity in spoken languages within groups and he will look at the implications of recognising this type of creativity in his field and related fields.
This lecture is FREE but it is necessary to register your attendance, please Register on-line
28 Feb 2011, 18.00-19.00
Tom Segev
Simon Wiesenthal
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
£5.00 / £4.00
Having learned quite a lot about the Holocaust recently I learned we can sometimes expect people to react in a certain way. Holocaust survivors are not a group of people with a single mindset anymore than any other group. Simon Wiesenthal was a survivor who fought for punishment and justice of Nazi criminals to an extreme that made him a hero to some and terrifying to others. Tom Segev who has written a biography about him will share more about his life.
28 Feb 2011, 19.30-21.00
Farewell to Public Welfare? II
Public Service in a Privatised World
Watershed Media Centre, Bristol
£5/£4
This will be useful if you need help to understand the affects privatising public services will have on how services work. Having attended the first Farewell to Public Welfare lecture entitled The Price of the Cuts I can warn you it will probably be quite depressing, but it is helpful to see the predictions in order to prepare for these changes. This series is selling out quickly so book a ticket asap if you want to go!
Monday 28 Feb 20:00
Science Fiction, or 2011 reality?
Science Cafe Julian Lea-Jones
Tobacco Factory
FREE
Is the future now? Well I’m all excited by the idea of invisibility cloaks, but not sure I understand all the rest!
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