Hello Everyone,
At last - getting back in to the pattern after the summer break!
Wednesday 18 September 2019, 7:30pm-9pm-ish
Cultural Emergence
Cultural emergence is a toolkit designed to create cultures of personal
leadership, collective intelligence and planetary care. Developed by
Looby Macnamara in Conjunction with other global visionaries, join
Looby to find out how Cultural Emergence can support you in creating
regenerative cultures in your own life and relationships, as well as
how it can ripple out in to the world. Discover a message of hope and
tools for empowerment.
Looby Macnamara is an experienced permaculture teacher, author and
designer, and runs Applewood Permaculture Centre in North Herefordshire.
Organized by : Herefordshire Green Network.
Wednesday 25 September 2019, 7:30pm-9pm-ish
99% : How creating economic opportunity for millennials will help save
the environment.
Mark E. Thomas, author of the book ‘99% : Mass Impoverishment and How We
Can End It’, will talk about why we are now looking at the first
generation in living memory that can expect to be poorer than their
parents. This is mass impoverishment in action and the result of
political choices rather than cast-iron laws of economics. He will show
how we got into this mess, how we can get out. He will show that five
key actions that we need to end mass impoverishment are precisely those
we need to tackle climate change.
Organized by : Hereford Green Party, Nat Waring.
Last Wednesday we had our first "Second Wednesday of month World Film
Night".
"Women without men", a 2009 film adaptation of a Shahrnush Parsipur
novel, directed by Shirin Neshat.
Shirin Neshat is an Iranian-born artist and photographer whose work
explores gender issues in the
Islamic world. Neshat, banned from even visiting Iran since 1996, lives
and works in New York city.
She left Iran in 1974, just before the Islamic Revolution that drove the
Shar into exile.
The film profiles the lives of four women living in Tehran in 1953,
during the American backed coup that returned the Shar of Iran to power.
The film was called "visually transfixing" by the New York Times
reviewer Stephen Holden - "with fierce beauty and precision of it's
cinematography. Two of the film's recurrent images are of a long dirt
road extending to the horizon on which the characters walk, adn a river
that suggests "a deep current of feminine resilience below an impassive
exterior."
We much enjoyed this film whist agreeing that we found it's rather Avant
guard and surreal presentation made it difficult for us to follow at
times.
A powerful portrayal of the oppression of women in this Islamic society
with expectation of acquiescence to arranged marriage and limitation of
personal freedom forcefully exemplified by a brother saying to a very
unwilling woman expected to meet a suitor "If you leave this house I
will break your legs".
Best wishes,
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