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The Great North Festival,
NECTER and The Great Debate present
Northumbria Stories
10am to 1pm, Saturday 21st September 2013
St Mary and St Cuthbert’s Church, Chester-le-Street
In a pluralist society, what are the spiritual stories/texts which
might make for a compassionate society? Representatives
from Christian, Moslem, Jewish and Secular traditions will reflect
on the stories which inform our culture and tell stories which
speak of hope to our modern world.
The debate will be in the
place where the Lindisfarne Gospels were, and the English translation
made, for 100 years.
Speakers:
Colin Kirkwood,
Alan Bartlett and
Shahzad Hassan
Chair: Caspar Hewett
Come along, hear the stories and join in the conversation!
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Timetable
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Saturday 21 September 2013
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09:30am - 10:00am
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Registration and welcome
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10:00am - 11:00am
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The Stories
Speakers: Colin Kirkwood, Alan Bartlett and Shahzad Hassan
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11:00am - 11:15am
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Organ Music by Messiaen, played by Michael Stoddart,
Organist of Newcastle Cathedral
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11:15am - 11:30pm
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The significance of St Mary’s Church
Short talk
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11:30pm - 01:00pm
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Discussion
Speakers brief responses to each others' stories from the first session,
followed by a more general discussion with the audience.
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Speakers
Colin Kirkwood is a psychoanalytic psychotherapist living in
Edinburgh. Since the 1970s he has played leading roles in adult
education and community action, promoting the work of Paolo Freire.
He was Senior Lecturer in Counselling Studies at Edinburgh University
and later worked as Senior Psychotherapist at the
Huntercombe Edinburgh Hospital for women and girls suffering from severe
eating disorders. He now offers psychoanalytic psychotherapy and
supervision privately.
He is the author of a number of books, most recently
The Persons in Relation Perspective
/ In Counselling,
Psychotherapy and Community Adult Learning.
‘Now that most of us have chucked religion out of the window,’
he notes, ‘we find ourselves living in Dante's ethical "dark forest".’
Alan Bartlett is currently a Church of England Vicar
(Gilesgare, Sherburn and Shadforth) and has lived and served in the
North East since 1988. He was formerly tutor in Spirituality,
Church History and Practical Theology at Cranmer |Hall (St John’s College,
Durham University) an Anglican Theological College where he still
teaches and supervises part time. Amongst other books, he is the author of
Human Christianity (2004).
He is passionately committed to bringing the wisdom of our traditions
into honest dialogue with the needs of contemporary society.
He is married with 2 adult children.
Shahzad Hassan is the director of the York Mosque building project.
The mosque, founded in 1982, now has planning permission to build a new
Mosque in Bull Lane, York. The Mosque recently invited a group of the
EDL objecting to their project to join them for tea.
Shahzad will be attending the occasion with the new Imam, Sheikh Abid Salik.
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