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Interfaith Week 2014 Photos
Tuesday, December 1st, 2015
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Interfaith Week 2013
Thursday, November 26th, 2015
Inter Faith Week 2013
Slough Faith Partnership organised week-long events taking place to celebrate Interfaith Week this year. We had excellent speakers with plenty of opportunity for debate and discussion.
Talk and Discussion – Fear of Change: Monday 18th November at 7pm at Langley Academy, Langley Road, Slough SL3 7EF
Rev Alistair Stewart will talk on The Rhetoric of Persecution, with discussion on fear of change to one’s Faith, including the evolution of ideas, and faith and evolution.
Speakers Reverend Alistair Steward and Atta-ul Khan
Audience at a glance
Talk and Discussion – Fear through Faith: Tuesday 19th November at 7pm at Slough & Eton Business & Enterprise College Ragstone Road SL1 2PU
Speakers Dr Hugh Boulter and Khalid Abdullah with chair Monique Cunningham
Audience gather at Slough and Eton Business Enterprise College for a discussion on Fear through Faith
Dr Hugh Boulter of Oxford Diocese Committee for Interfaith Concerns talked on The Importance of Dialogue, with a Buddhist perspective provided by Khalid Abdullah.
Video and Discussion – Fear of Secularism: Wednesday 20th November at 7pm at Slough & Eton Business & Enterprise College Ragstone Road SL1 2PU
James Gibbons of St Joseph’s Catholic High School with the evening’s Chair David Sparrow.
Young People from local schools showed their video interview with prominent Humanist Professor AC Grayling, followed by discussion on doubt, and how faith and doubt go hand in hand.
Talk and Discussion – Fear of Extremism: Thursday 21st November at 7pm at Slough & Eton Business & Enterprise College Ragstone Road SL1 2PU
Revd Julie Wearing chairs the evening: Fear of Extremism
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong and Mohammed Abbassi from the Association of British Muslims, and Alfred Agius, former Director of Westminster Interfaith.
Paul Salahuddin Armstrong and Mohammed Abbassi from the Association of British Muslims, and former Jesuit priest Alfred Aguis will speak, along with young people from local schools.
Talk and Discussion – Fear and Freedom of Speech: Friday 22nd November at 7pm at Iqra School, off Wexham Road, SL2 5FF
Revd Rod Cosh, Area Dean of Burnham and Slough and Nigel Cohen of the Maidenhead Jewish Community will speak, exploring the limits and responsibilities of freedom of speech.
Conference – Overcoming Fear:
Saturday 23rd November at 2pm at Upper School, Eton College, SL4 6EU (entry via gatehouse)
Following on from our discussions, we use what we have learned during the week to identify ways of overcoming the hold that fear has on our lives and communities. The event is chaired by Eton College Conduct, Rev. Canon Keith Wilkinson.
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Interfaith Week 2015 Photos
Wednesday, November 25th, 2015
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Mosque Open Day
Friday, November 13th, 2015
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One World Week Film Festival Photos
Friday, November 1st, 2013
Rev Linda Hillier presents the autism panel
Rev Linda Hillier addresses the audience
LGBT Panel discussion
HIV panel, chaired by Jennifer Williams discussed issues surrounding HIV/AIDS
HIV/AIDS panel with Thames Valley Positive Support
Panel discussion on LGBT issues
Last movie of the Film Festival, Untouchables,about Disabilities/Carers
Panel discusses the issues surrounding disability and caring
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Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013
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One World Week events 2013
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013
For One World Week this year, Slough Faith Partnership will host a mini Film Festival featuring five films to stimulate discussion on important social issues.
Click here to download a leaflet of the events for the week
The Festival will be held at The Britwell Centre in Wentworth Avenue (SL2 2DT) each evening from Monday 21st to Thursday 24th October, and on Saturday 26th. The films will start promptly at 7pm, and will be followed by discussion and light refreshments. Everyone is welcome – please note that the films on Monday, Wednesday and Thursday are rated PG-13, while the films on Tuesday and Saturday are rated15; anyone under the age of 15 will not be admitted on these days. The evenings are free of charge.
On Monday 21st the festival feature the Australian film Black Balloon (rated PG-13), about a young man growing up with an autistic brother. On Tuesday 22nd, the Peruvian film Undertow (rated 15) tells the story of a man reconciling devotion to his male lover with the rigid traditions of his town. On Wednesday 23rd, the film Matchstick Men (rated PG-13), starring Nicholas Cage, explores the life of a phobic con artist when his teenage daughter suddenly pays a visit; this will be followed by Azeem Khan’s short film Open Secrets. On Thursday 24th, Life, Above All (rated PG-13), sees a young girl fighting the fear and shame of HIV in her community in South Africa. The week closes on Saturday 26th with the French Film Untouchable (rated 15) telling the story of a quadriplegic aristocrat who hires a young unemployed man as his carer.
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Shared World Environmental Initiative – 1
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Saturday 10th November at 6pm – St Paul’s Church Stoke Road
For more information, contact Malcolm 07909 100675
As a new venture for 2012, Slough Faith Partnership is supporting a project to encourage local
action on the environment across faith communities. Called Shared World, it aims to bring people
together in a shared space as a focus in making decisions towards a practical and local expression of our responsibility towards our shared environment. The project is a partnership between Slough Faith Partnership and the Burnham and Slough Deanery Climate Concern group.
This is the first meeting for the project. Feedback from this event will then inform a second event at 7pm on Friday Nov 23rd at The Centre, Farnham Road. At this event, the spotlight will turn to the state of the environment both globally and locally, not only because of its crucial importance in contemporary thinking, but because most faiths have an awareness of our relationship to creation as a significant part of their self-understanding.
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Inter Faith Awareness Walk
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Sunday 18th November at 11.45am – meet outside Kingsway URC Church Street
For more information, contact Rafi 07887 840477 or Michèle 07919 095118
Slough is a multi-cultural town; people living here have many different nationalities, languages, belief systems, customs and traditions, but we all share the same values of peace, respect, wisdom and harmony.
Throughout the year, Slough Faith Partnership promotes these values by organizing activities involving different faiths and community groups with the aim of increasing mutual understanding and providing opportunities to exchange ideas, socialise, and work together. This year we are proud to be holding an awareness walk in the town centre on Sunday Nov 18th, where we will meet members of the public and encourage them to get involved with our work.
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Who am I? – Religious Identity of Young People
Friday, November 2nd, 2012
Monday 19th November at 7pm – Kingsway URC Church Street
For more information, contact David 07412 974454
Who Am I? is a project in which young people explore and discuss their religious identities. It grew out of an Inter Faith 2010 event and has now been produced and filmed at Slough Grammar School, with Sixth-form students, teachers and Inter Faith groups taking part.
The resulting DVD – a resource for schools and other groups as a basis for debate and discussion – will be officially launched at Kingsway, Church Street on Monday Nov 19th at 7pm. During the evening some of the students who took part will be talking about their experiences.
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