Stories from the Edge: Religion at the Margins – Aberdeen
19 Oct 2016
Aberdeen
Stories from the Edge: Religion at the Margins
A seminar with Pádraig Ó Tuama
19 October 2016, 15:30 – 16:30
Venue: Inter–faith Centre, 25 High Street, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3EE
Admission FREE, no booking required.
Other Events with Pádraig at Queen’s Cross Church, Albyn Place, Aberdeen, AB10 1YN over the weekend of 21–23 October can be found here.
Pádraig Ó Tuama is an Irish author, poet and theologian and leader of the Corrymeela Community. Now in its 50th year Corrymeela works with over 10,000 people a year. Participants come from across the world to learn how to address global issues of division and violence from the deep wisdom of Corrymeela’s 50 years of groupwork and dialogue experience.
Pádraig has worked to bring diverse groups of people together across conflicted divides. His local work in Northern Ireland has involved developing community and school–based curricula exploring: Groupwork, Narrative Practice, Interfaith dialogue, Arts and Conflict, and Reconciliation. His international research has involved interventions on the justification of the death penalty for LGBT people in Uganda.
Pádraig’s poetry has been used in the context of politics too, most recently with a handwritten version of the poem “Shaking Hands” being given to the retiring First Minister of Northern Ireland.
Contact information:
Tel: 01224 272137