EVENTS ARCHIVE
GIFFORD LECTURES AT UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
Diana Eck will deliver a Series of Gifford Lectures in the University of Edinburgh in 2008 – 2009. She is Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies, Frederic Wertham Professor of Law and Psychiatry, Harvard University.
Dates: 27, 28, 30 April, 4, 5, 7 May 2009.
All lectures take place at 5.30 pm.
St Cecilia's Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh
Lecture Series Theme: "The Age of Pluralism"
Overview: The historic religious traditions of humankind are being reshaped in our time by the encounter of people of every faith with one another. The past half-century has accelerated this encounter, and the awareness of religious diversity is today part of the experience and consciousness of people throughout the world. This "age of pluralism" is a concomitant of the massive migration of peoples and the emergence of new cultural demographies in which diversity is ever more evident. Encounter with the religious "other" is also amplified by the speed of communications in the Internet age. Yet diversity alone does not constitute pluralism. How has today's multireligious reality created new and more complex societies and cities? How has it given rise to new theological and spiritual perspectives within each religious tradition? What does the term "interfaith" mean in the many contexts of human life and society today?
SEE: http://www.hss.ed.ac.uk/giffordexemp/2000/details/ProfessorDianaEck.html
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Sunday 29th March – 7pm - by donation
St James' Episcopal Church, Inverleith Row, Edinburgh
Lent Talk on: Walk Humbly
The third in a series of Lent Talks aimed at the general public. The chosen theme for the three 2009 Lent meetings is Micah 6.8. Act Justly; Love Mercy; Walk Humbly. The three speakers have been asked to talk about their own spiritual journeys and to offer insights into the ways in which people from their respective traditions have sought to "walk humbly with God".
Contributors:
Fr. Ed Hone, St Patrick's Church, Edinburgh
Mr Sohaib Saeed, Dialogue Director, Scottish Islamic Foundation
Rabbi David Rose, Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation and Co-Convener of Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association
Organised by Council of Churches for Trinity and Goldenacre in Edinburgh and supported by the Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association
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FILM: "The Age of Stupid" + multi-faith discussion
Date: Sunday, 22 March, 2009 @ 3.15pm
Venue: Filmhouse, Lothian Road, Edinburgh
The Age of Stupid is a challenging drama-doc which explores the social causes and consequences of humans delaying serious action to tackle climate change. This showing includes a post-film discussion on “Faith in action: a covenant with nature”. This is an excellent opportunity to see the film and then discuss responding to the issues raised in the context of faith. Vote with your feet and show you care about this issue - numbers may affect whether the film is issued on general release across the UK. Representatives of the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faith will take part in a discussion and question and answer session immediately following the film.
Find out more about the film: http://www.takeoneaction.org.uk/Age_of_Stupid.html
Be warned: it is a challenging film!
Don’t forget to check www.edinburghclimate.net regularly for details of environmental events in Edinburgh and please advise via the contact form on the site of any events missing from the list.
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Sunday 15th March 11am – 6pm Free
International Women’s Day Celebration
A multicultural event for women of all ages
You, your friends and family are invited to a day of free workshops and activities (a women’s and children only event). For further info please contact: info@edinburghhindumandir.org.uk or download leaflet here
Edinburgh Hindu Cultural Centre
St Andrew Place, Leith
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VISIT TO EDINBURGH HEBREW CONGREGATION
8 November
Following the well attended visit to the Glasgow Reform Synagogue, CAIRS (Churches Agency for Inter-faith Relations in Scotland) has arranged a visit to the Orthodox Synagogue in Edinburgh. Rabbi David Rose, who is also an Executive Member of Edinburgh Inter Faith Association, has extended an invitation to share in the Shabbat service and meet with members of the Congregation.
8 November, 9.45am – 2pm,
Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation Synagogue,
4 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh EH16 5AB.
For security and catering purposes, prior registration is essential, by 23 October. Contact Andrew Sarle on 01259 222364 or andrew@cairs.org.uk For further information, visit www.cairs.org.uk
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Edinburgh Churches Climate Change Conference 08
A day conference on the Christian response to climate change hosted by The Rt Revd Brian Smith with expert speakers: Chris Rapley, Elaine Storkey, Michael Northcott and John Ferguson
Saturday 11 October 2008
9.30am to 4.45pm
The Performing Arts Centre at Stewart’s Melville College Edinburgh
www.edinburghclimate.net
“Whom shall I send? And who will go for us? Says the Lord Isaiah 6:8
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Inter-Faith Event: Annandale St. Mosque Saturday 3rd May 7.00pm
The Global Co-operation of World Faiths for World Peace: Responding to the ‘Common Word’ Call.
Confirmed Speakers: Imam Dr. Abduljalil Sajid, Fr. Chris Boles SJ with a further contribution from John Bagust (Buddhist).
The proceedings will including readings and prayers from the Holy Koran and the Holy Bible
This is an open public event and if you can indicate your wish to attend by email, letter or telephone this will assist with event management matters. info@eifa.org.uk
Organised by Annandale St. Mosque, Churches & Inter-Faith Work for Peace in co-operation with and supported by The Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association
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Friday 28th March - Sunday 28th April 2008 - Free
PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
HIS HOLINESS THE DALAI LAMA in Edinburgh
A small collection of attractive photographs featuring His Holiness The Dalai Lama on a visit to Edinburgh which included the Scottish Parliament and The City Art Centre.
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Friday 25 April @ 7pm
Royal Botanic Garden Lecture Theatre. Enter at 20A Inverleith Row
Blue Poppy - Film Premiere
A documentary about young Tibetan women, trained as traditional doctors, who leave their nomadic homelands to learn how to preserve their endangered medicinal plants at the Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh. There will also be an opportunity to meet the young women who are currently studying at the Garden as well as the rest of the Rokpa team.
Price: By donation. No booking required.
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Sunday 20th April @ 11.00am - Sikh Gurdwara, Sherrif Brae
VAISAKHI WALK
The Sikh Community of Edinburgh would like you to know that they will be having their annual Vaisakhi Walk on Sunday 20th April which starts at 11.30am from the Gurdwara.
There will be an earlier religious service in the Gurdwara and a demonstration of Sikh Martial Art outside before the procession makes its way around the Leith area and returning to the Gurdwara. For those who wish to participate in the Vaisakhi Walk the Edinburgh Sikh Community welcome you and will host you in the Gurdwara following the walk.
Vaisakhi is actually on 13th/14th April. This is the Sikh New Year Festival, which also commemmorates the founding of the Khalsa by the tenth Guru (Guru Gobind Singh) in 1699.
for more information on Vaisakhi read ....
http://www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/sikhism/holydays/vaisakhi.shtml
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Thursday 10 April @ 7pm – 8.15pm at The Story Telling Centre
FILM: TAO OF THE TRAVELLER
'When knowledge as old as time falls into her hands a journey she never intended begins. There was no flash of lightning, no crash of thunder to mark the moment, but nothing would ever be the same again!'
Filmed on location in the rain forests of Australia, the mountains of New Zealand and the mango woods and villages of India. Music by Dave Clayton of 'Simply Red'. With Clarke Peters, Lucinda Drayton and Tamasin Ramsay as the Traveller.
A new independent film from Australia (2008). Running time 64 minutes.
Venue: The Story Telling Centre, 43-45 High Street, Edinburgh EH1 1SR
enquiries: T: 0131 229 7220 Box Office 0131 556 9579 Tickets £3(£2)
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Friday, 4th April 2008 @ 7pm – 8.30pm
St John's Church, Princes St. Edinburgh
'Singing Louder - Echoes of Drapchi Prison'
A concert and public talk by four Tibetan nuns imprisoned for peaceful protest.
The four Tibetan nuns, Gyaltsen Drolkar, Phuntsok Nyidron, Namdrol Lhamo and Ngawang Sangdrol were all imprisoned in Lhasa's notorious jail, Drapchi, for expressing their loyalty to Tibet's exiled leader, the Dalai Lama, and calling for Tibet's freedom in peaceful protests. In June 1993, they secretly recorded in their prison cells moving songs about their love for their country and the Dalai Lama, to signal to their families and the Tibetan people that their spirits remained unbroken. One of the tapes was smuggled out of prison and later distributed around the world.
For your chance to hear the nuns sing those same songs and recount their experiences of prison come along to their concert and public talk
Of the 'Drapchi 14', or 'Tibet's singing nuns' as they became known around the world, one died in custody, seven remain in Tibet and six are now living in exile in India, Belgium, Switzerland and the USA. The nuns will be in Edinburgh as part of a UK reunion, organised by the Tibetan Community in Britain
Tickets: £5: Available on the door
Organised by Students for a Free Tibet. Event supported by St John’s Church, The Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association and Tibet Society
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CAIRS Annual Meeting and Lecture
Thursday February 7th - 7pm @ Augustine United URC, George IV Bridge, Edinburgh. (Annual Meeting 7pm - Lecture 7.30pm )
By Bishop Angaelos of the Coptic Orthodox Church, Moderator of CCIFR
(Churches’ Commission for Inter Faith Relations)
will speak on the topic of: “Orthodox Spirituality and Inter Faith Relations”
ALL WELCOME
For further information contact Andrew Sarle by email at andrew@cairs.org.uk or call 01259 222 364.
Organised by The Churches’ Agency for Inter Faith Relations in Scotland (CAIRS) who work in association with Action of Churches Together in Scotland (ACTS): Charity No SC000295.
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The Edinburgh Inter-Faith Assocation in co-operation with the Indian Consul General
GANDHI REMEMBERED by the Rev Prof Frank Whaling
Wednesday 30th January - 7pm @ St John's Church, Princes Street
This is one of three events to remember Mahatma Gandhi at the time of the 60th Anniversary of his assasination. Also view the photographic exhibition on the theme of Gandhi which is being held in St John's Church from Mon 28th Jan - Mon 4th Feb. (public talk and exhibition are both free)
PUBLIC TALK
GANDHI PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION
Monday 28th January – Sunday 10th February 2008 - free
St John’s Church, Princes Street
To mark and commemorate the 60th anniversary of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi there will be a photography exhibition of work from a number of international photographers on the theme of Gandhi.
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FILM
A Celebration of Non-Violence
The Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association and The Edinburgh Peace and Justice Centre are partnering on a programme of events to highlight the lives of two great exponents of ‘Non-Violence’: Martin Luther King and Mahatma Gandhi. We are marking Martin Luther King Day (15 January) and the 60th Anniversary of the death of Mahatma Gandhi on 30 January 1948.
Friday 15th January
Murder in Memphis
Tue 15 Jan at 6.15pm Tony Stark • Britain 1999 • 1h50m • Beta SP • PG Documentary
What really happened the night Martin Luther King was assassinated? Did James Earl Ray really pull the trigger, or was he the fall guy for a conspiracy that involved members of the USA government? For over thirty years lawyer Bill Pepper has sought the truth about the assassination. This is his story. Also screening will be be two interviews with Martin Luther King from the sixties, including the1961 interview with John Freeman for the Face to Face programme.
Thursday 31st January
Gandhi, My Father
Thu 31 Jan at 5.45pm Feroz Abbas Khan • India 2007 • 2h14m • 35mm • English and Hindi with English subtitles • PG
Cast: Darshan Jariwala, Akshaye Khanna, Bhumika Chawla, Shefali Shah, Vinay Jain. Gandhi, My Father opens in Bombay in 1948, a few weeks after the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. A drunken disheveled man is picked up by officials and taken to the paupers’ hospital, whereupon he reveals himself to be Harilal, the oldest son of Ghandi. The rest of the story is told in flashback, starting in 1906 with Harilal’s attempts to follow his father into the legal profession, through his decline into petty theft and destitution, his conversion to Islam and the eventual breakdown of his relationship with his family. The film unfolds against the momentous historical events of the time, conveyed through newsreel footage, and tells the story of the sacrifices made by Mahatma Gandhi to become the father of the Indian nation. Far from diminishing the man, the film paints him in a more human light, conveying the painful sacrifices that he had to make in the political, social and spiritual liberation of his people. For further details contact the
Filmhouse Box-Office on 0131-228-2688 or consult the Filmhouse website at www.filmhousecinema.com
Another Film worth seeing!
In Memory of Myself
In memoria di me Fri 11 to Mon 14 Jan Saverio Costanzo • Italy 2007 • 1h55m • 35mm • Italian with English subtitles • U – Contains mild scenes of distress
Cast: Christo Jivkov, Filippo Timi, Marco Baliani, André Hennicke, Fausto Russo Alesi.
Italian writer/director Saverio Costanzo penetrates the enclosed world of a Jesuit seminary in In Memory Of Me, an absorbing and atmospheric account of a trainee priest’s novitiate. The handsome Andrea (Christo Zhirko) is a new recruit at an all-male religious community on a island across from Venice. Under the watchful eye of his Father Superior (André Hennicke), he immerses himself in the daily routines of prayers, scripture reading and contemplation, yet serious doubts about his chosen vocation soon surface.
Action and dialogue are sparse so what takes place is weighted with intent and import, although never ponderously so. Costanzo is focusing not just on the trials of religious and cloistered study, but on elements of daily and lifetime living that are profoundly, universally resonant. He has crafted a superbly measured piece that moves at the deliberate pace of the monastic world to build up a compelling tension from the simplest of exchanges and observations.
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Festival Open Day
Sunday 19th August 2007 - 12.00 – 4.30pm
at the Synagogue, 4 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh
(near the Commonwealth Swimming Pool)
Join us for bagels, coffee, cake and a taste of Jewish cultural events and shows at the Edinburgh Festivals! See our exhibition - the history of the Edinburgh Jewish Community.
Tour the Synagogue - a rare modernist 1930s building by leading Glasgow architect James Miller. Grade B listed. Enjoy Festival participants performing extracts and talking about their shows In Conversation with writer/producer David Ian Neville
EDINBURGH HEBREW CONGREGATION
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JAZZ IN THE CHURCH
All friends of EIFA are invited by Sir Tom Farmer to enjoy an evening of Jazz in the Church with world renowned jazz perfomer Al Carson from New Orleans. This special evening which also features Gospel Singing is in aid of the Scottish based aid agency Mary's Meals.
Jazz in the Church
Gospel Service
St Cuthbert’s Church
West End
Sunday 29th July at 6.30pm
Admission Free
Offering Appeal for Mary’s Meals
by Sir Tom Farmer
view poster download
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FESTIVAL OF SPIRITUALITY AND PEACE 5th - 26th Aug
INVITATION to LAUNCH EVENT
BREAKING THE CHAINS FREE
Sunday 5 August, 6pm - 7pm at St John's
Kofi de Graft-Johnson, an Anglican priest from the Cape Coast in Ghana, reflects on the legacy of slavery and the implications for us now. With meditations in words, music and dance from Edinburgh Protest in Harmony Choir, St John’s Choir and Edinburgh’s Mao no Chao (‘hand on earth’) capoeira dancers and others… and the formal opening of the Festival of Spirituality and Peace by a government minister (tbc).
Followed by informal reception (until 8.30pm) with various festival artists and contributors present. Come mingle and celebrate! ALL WELCOME. RSVP here
Festival of Spirituality and Peace website or download the full programme pdf
To have a Festival Programme posted to you please email us your postal address
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LAMA YESHE RINPOCHE VISITING EDINBURGH
14TH AUGUST
download leaflet
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MOTHER MEERA
Edinburgh 18-19 July
EIFA are delighted to welcome Mother Meera to Edinburgh. This is part of Mother Meera's first visit to the U.K. EIFA are also pleased to be able to support the organising group.
See the official visit website for further details: www.mmdarshanuk.org
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Five-a-Side Football ‘Diversity Cup’ TEAMS WANTED!
Sir Tom Farmer to present the Winners Trophy
Saturday 7th July - K.O. at 12 noon
In aid of the Inter-Faith in Action project with ‘Habitat for Humanity’ in Kyrgyzstan, Central Asia there is to be a Five-a-Side Football Tournament, ‘The Diversity Cup’. Teams are invited from across the community for this inaugural and unique football tournament.
The sixteen team event will be held at The World of Football within the Edinburgh Corn Exchange in Chesser Avenue. Already there is strong interest with team enquiries from the Pakistan Muslim Community, Buddhist Community, a Christian team and the Sikh Community. Other enquiries have come from a Tesco team, an Asda team, a Police team, a Mulsim Women's Team and possibly a Lothian Buses team.
The participation fee is only £5.00 per person in a team. All proceeds from this Five-a-Side Football event will go directly to the ‘Inter-Faith in Action’ project in Central Asia.
Sir Tom Farmer who is a keen supporter of Inter-Faith work and celebrating cultural diversity has agreed to come to the tournament final and present the winners trophy.
In mid July a group of 20 Christians and Muslims from Edinburgh will travel to Kyrgystan, Central Asia to partner with ‘Habitat for Humanity’ in building some six new homes with the families who will actually live in them.
Event organisers, The Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association, invite teams to participate. To register a team please contact us directly on 07909 618236 or email victor@eifa.org.uk
Five-a-Side Football ‘Diversity Cup’
Saturday 7th July – Kick Off at 12 noon
World of Football
Edinburgh Corn Exchange
see details of the Inter-Faith in Action project at: www.hope-into-homes.org.uk
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World Disarmament Campaign
Churches and Inter-Faith Work for Peace
PEACE: CELEBRATION AND CHALLENGE
An evening of Music & Sharing from Different Faith Traditions
Edinburgh Inter-Faith Choir and a Bahai Music Group
Thursday 28th June – 7.30pm
28 Great King Street (Edinburgh Theosophical Society)
Free Event – Open to All
Contributions from: Sr Louisa Gupta – Brahma Kumaris Spiritual University; Geoffrey Carnall – Quaker; Rev Wally Shaw – Playwrite; Mr Bashir Malik – Annandale Street Mosque; Elizabeth Marshall – Family Federation World Peace & Unity;
Event organised by Rev. Brian Cooper, WDC Churches Inter-Faith Secretary
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Sunday 27th January 2008
The Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association in partnership with the City of Edinburgh Council will join many other people in towns and cities across the country in marking Holocaust Memorial Day.
Holocaust Memorial Day Event
Sunday 27th January 2008 @ 3.45pm
Lothian Chambers
George IV Bridge
Followed by a the Annual Civic Reception for The Edinburgh Inter-Faith Association hosted by the Rt. Hon. Cllr. George Grubb the Lord Provost of the City of Edinburgh. Civic Reception @ 5pm
Holocaust Memorial Day 2007 Programme Download
Both events are by invitation only.
To receive an invitation please RSVP at the button below
There are only 60 places for public invitation so please email us asap. Invitations will be given on a first come first served.
INVITATION FROM EDINBURGH JEWISH COMMUNITY
19 October - 7.30pm
The Edinburgh Jewish community are pleased to invite our inter-faith friends to a Succot reception at the synagogue (Salisbury Rd) on the 19th of October at 19.30. This will consist of light refreshments in the Succah (booth) and an explanation about the festival.
Edinburgh Hebrew Congregation Synagogue, 4 Salisbury Road, Edinburgh EH16 5AB.
An R.S.V.P. to info@eifa.org.uk would be most helpful to give an indication of numbers.
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ANNUAL LECTURE 2007 - Sunday 27th May
'MUSLIMS IN BRITAIN'
by
Shakyh Imam Ibrahim Mogra
(Inter-Faith Relations Representative to the Muslim Council of Britain)
City Chambers, Main Chamber, The Royal Mile
3pm - free entry
followed by
ANNUAL CIVIC RECEPTION
Hosted by Cllr Jenni Dawes, Leader of Edinburgh City Council
4.45pm City Chambers, European Room, The Royal Mile.
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ANNUAL LECTURE 2006 - SUNDAY 19th FEBRUARY
'Globalisation for the Common Good: An Inter-Faith Perspective on Globalisation'
Dr. Kamran Mofid
Founder
An Inter-Faith Perspective on Globalisation for the Common Good
www.commongood.info