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A seminar with Padraig O Tuama
Padraig 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.
Ó Tuama 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. Ó Tuama’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.
Admission FREE, no booking required.
- Speaker
- Pádraig Ó Tuama
- Venue
- Inter-faith Centre, 25 High Street, Old Aberdeen
- Contact
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Tel: 01224 272137
Email: chaplaincy@abdn.ac.uk