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2023
Oxford, 23 April:
Kindness and justice in hope’s work
Short talk on the tension between kindness and justice in hope’s work – as part of the Sunday Choral Contemplation series at Somerville College Chapel. 5.30pm. No charge. All welcome.
Edinburgh, 24 June:
Hope, Power and place
As part of a series of monthly river walks arranged by the artist Jonathan Baxter, I’ll be a day guide for a journey upstream along the Braid Burn, to discuss the tangled relationships between the waterway, the military installations nearby, and hope in the face of the ecological crisis.
Jonathan writes, ‘The story we’ll be telling, or rather, the story we’ll be walking, concerns our collective sense of what it means to live within a climate and ecological crisis, and how walking a watercourse might enable us to live that question now with rejuvenated purpose and joy… In a time of climate and ecological crisis what qualities, human and more-than-human, might we braid to ensure our planetary survival? What can we learn from walking this particular watercourse? Why walk from mouth to source: upstream and in search of something we may never find?’
Free, though there aren’t many places and you’ll need to book, preferably by 15 April.
Thirsk, 21-23 July:
POlitics of hope
I’ll be working with the Holy Rood House Summer School on ecologies of hope, reflecting on what kinds of commitments might lead into a more hopeful politics.
Edinburgh, 4 August:
Hope as Belonging and care
With Barbara Keal, artist, Coat of Hopes
In this disturbed age, how can we face a future that can be hard even to find?
David will draw on Phoebe Anna Traquair’s visionary murals in the cathedral’s Song School, asking what commitments, held in our character, communities and cultures, can shape a more hopeful politics.
Barbara will introduce the Coat of Hopes, made of pieces of blanket into which have been sewn the griefs, remembrances, prayers and hopes of people along its journey to COP26 in Glasgow in 2021 and beyond.
We’ll reflect as a group on where we seek and where we find hope in this time of crisis.
Facilitated by Jonathan Baxter, A&E.
1-4pm, in the Song School.
All welcome, no charge.
Zoom, 18 October:
On The conditions of hope
I’ll be a guest on Clare Bonetree’s Hope as a Practice course (online) at Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre exploring the conditions of durable hopefulness in our disturbed age.
Oxford, 27 October:
Untold stories of hopeful work
When the future is hard to face, what shape does hope take?
Join us at the Oxford Quaker Meeting House for an evening exploring journey’s in ‘hopeful’ work. Ranging from the global to the local, we’ll hear four testimonies of hope in the face of injustice, and explore together what the stories mean for the tellers, ourselves, and our world.
There will be cake.
7pm for 7.30pm. Finish by 9.30pm.
All welcome, no charge (donations invited).
Bit more info here.
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