| DATE | TIME | SESSION | LEADER / SPEAKER | VENUE | DELEGATE SPACES & INFORMATION | SESSION TYPE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wednesday, 18th May | 08:00 – 08:45 | Morning prayer and reflection | Yejide Peters (Conference Chaplain) | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Liturgy |
| 09:00 – 11:15 | Racial Justice: introduction | Rogers Govender (Chair) | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Plenary | |
| 09:00 – 11:15 | Reparation, restoration, and resolution: re-envisioning the cathedral as a place for racial reconciliation | Sharon Prentis | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Plenary | |
| 09:00 – 11:15 | What if Racism never ends: creating fugitive spaces in cathedrals | Robert Beckford | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Plenary | |
| 09:00 – 11:15 | Making waves or ruling waves? | Azariah France-Williams | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Plenary | |
| 11:15 – 11:45 | Tea/Coffee break | Social/Networking | ||||
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Racial Justice: how can we help cathedrals take this forward? | Panel discussion (15 minutes) | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Panel discussion | |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Reflection and action planning | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Group session | ||
| 12:30 – 13:00 | Midday prayer | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Liturgy | ||
| 13:00 – 14:30 | Lunch | East End, Newcastle Cathedral | ALL | Social/Networking | ||
| 14:30 – 16:45 | Workshops: Building the new Church (1 hr, repeated 14:30 to 15:30 & 15:45 to 16:45 unless otherwise indicated) | Various locations in central Newcastle | to be advised | Workshop | ||
| 14:30 – 16:45 | Repair, recovery and renewal: welcoming our visitors back | Bernard Donoghue | Nave, Newcastle Cathedral | Workshop | ||
| 14:30 – 16:45 | Making good things happen: how to turn your vision into a narrative that funders will find compelling | Patrick Boggon | County Room, County Hotel | Workshop | ||
| 14:30 – 16:45 | Human flourishing at the heart of mission (2 hours) | Gillian Straine Edward Kellow | Lecture Theatre, Miners Institute (Common Room of the North) | Workshop | ||
| 14:30 – 16:45 | The ‘wiser living phase’ of the pandemic: insights from trauma theory (2 hrs) | Hilary Ison Christopher Southgate | Wood Hall, Miners Institute (Common Room of the North) | Learning Outcomes | Workshop | |
| 14:30 – 15:30 | Just Scripture (1 hour) | Justin Thacker Christian Aid | Lecture Room, Lit & Phil | Learning Outcomes | Workshop | |
| 15.45-16.45 | The prophetic voice of young people (1 hour) | Josh Grear Catherine Odell Christian Aid | Lecture Room, Lit & Phil | Workshop | ||
| 14:30 – 16:45 | The Southwark experience: growing racial inclusion | Andrew Nunn Rosemarie Mallett | Assembly Room, Vermont Hotel | Learning Outcomes | Workshop | |
| 14:30 – 16:45 | Insurance surgeries (by appointment)
Benefact Trust’s Grants for Cathedrals | EIG Benefact Trust | Mozart Room, County Hotel | Surgeries | ||
| 14:30 – 16:45 | Open Space: opportunity for participants to host discussion/input about their research, concerns or enthusiasms. | Eve Poole | Gold Room, Vermont Hotel | Open Space | ||
| 17:45 – 18:15 | Evening Prayer | Quire | Liturgy | |||
| 18:30 – 19:15 | Civic Drinks Reception | Banqueting Suite, Newcastle Civic Centre | Social/Networking | |||
| 19:15 | Conference Gala Dinner | Banqueting Suite, Newcastle Civic | Social/Networking |
Different Country: Different Church
Starts Monday 16th May 2022
Different Country: Different Church
Starts Monday 16th May 2022
Different Country: Different Church
Starts Monday 16th May 2022
Different Country: Different Church
Starts Monday 16th May 2022
Different Country: Different Church
Starts Monday 16th May 2022
Workshop title: Just Scripture
Workshop leader(s): Justin Thacker (Christian Aid)
Location: Lecture Room, Lit & Phil Library
Timing: One hour (14.30-15.30)
Description:
This workshop introduces Just Scripture, a Christian Aid programme of justice-focused, intercultural bible studies that has been developed with partners in Bolivia and South Africa. In this participative session, we hear from theologians in Kenya and Ecuador as they consider the significance of James 5:1-6 to global economic justice. In the process, we will explore how we could use this approach in our own contexts to transform both ourselves and the communities in which we work.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, delegates should be able to:
- Run your own Just Scripture session using the resources that have been made available
- Have some insight into the joys and challenges of leading intercultural bible studies
- Be inspired to consider justice issues through an intercultural, contextual, biblical lens.
Workshop title: The ‘wiser living phase’ of the pandemic – insights from trauma theory
Workshop leader(s): Hilary Ison, Christopher Southgate
Location: Wood Hall, Miners Institute (Common Room of the North)
Timing: 2 hours 14.30-16.30, Wednesday 18 May 2022
Description:
After a brief introduction to the theory of individual and collective trauma, the workshop will consider where in the response to collective trauma cathedral communities find themselves, and what sources of hope can be identified. We then consider who might be left behind in the transition to the ‘new normal’, and how cathedrals might be places both of lament and memorial, but also of protest and the search to do justice, love mercy, and walk humbly before our God.
Learning outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, delegates should be able to:
Understand the differences between individual and collective trauma, and consider to what extent COVID can be accounted a collective trauma.
Locate their own experience and perceptions within a wider discussion of the place of cathedral ministry in the transition to a (much-contested) new normal.
Take away ideas as to how to disseminate these insights with colleagues and congregations.
Workshop title: The Southwark experience of a diocesan covenant: growing racial inclusion
Workshop leader(s): Andrew Nunn, Rosemarie Mallett
Location: Assembly Room, Vermont Hotel
Timing: One hour repeated (14.30-15.30, 15.45-16.45), Wednesday 18 May 2022
Description:
Being anti-racist is not the same as simply not being racist. It is not enough as a Diocese not to be racist; instead we must actively counter, disrupt and oppose racial injustice. This isn’t an easy task; it takes introspection as well as continued intentional action and is not a static description of ourselves.
The Southwark Anti-Racist Charter was unanimously approved by Diocesan Synod on 13 March 2021. We are now in the process of making the words of the covenant live in the lives of the people of the diocese.
This workshop will look at the process behind the making of the Charter and suggest ways in which we can all be intentional about this work and especially in our Cathedrals
Learning outcomes:
At the end of the workshop participants will have
- A desire to be more intentional about tackling racism
- A commitment to action
- An agenda for change
By the end of this workshop, delegates should be able to:
- Bring the challenge to their own Cathedrals, Chapters and communities
