Afri Presents Féile Bríde 2014. Life: Source or Resource – Enslavement versus Sovereignty

kildare | miscellaneous | event notice Monday January 20, 2014 14:55 by R - volunteer

Saturday 8th February, The Osborne Centre, Kildare

Féile Bríde 2014 will look at issues of life, light and liberty with perspectives from our partner Abjata Khalif of the Kenya Pastoralist Journalists Network; from Fergal Anderson linking food sovereignty issues locally and globally, as a ‘small farmer’ from the West of Ireland; and Donal Dorr will be joined by a woman with personal knowledge of the issue of human trafficking to explore the meaning of slavery, sovereignty and sustenance.

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10.30am Registration

11am Fáilte agus ceol with Fionnuala Gill

11.10am Food, Sovereignty & Resilience: Living well with the Planet – Fergal Anderson

12.10pm Lighting the Way to Climate Justice: Finding solutions in Northern Kenya – Abjata Khalif

1.15pm Lunch and Tree planting with Kirsty Daly of the Native Woodland Trust

2.15pm Human Trafficking: Today’s Slavery Hidden from the Light – Donal Dorr and AN Other

3.15pm World Cafe

4.45pm Poetry and Song with Pete Mullineaux

5.15pm Ends

To book online: http://feilebride2014.eventbrite.ie

Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/277376629079162/

For further information the 2014 brochure is available to download here.

Féile Bríde 2014 is part of a week long series of events taking place in Kildare organised by the Brigidine Sisters and Cairde Bríde. Further information can be found here: http://solasbhride.ie/category/upcoming-events/

Féile Bríde 2014 is organised in association with St. Patrick's Missionary Society, Kiltegan.

About Afri

Afri is a group of committed and creative people who seek to promote debate and influence policy and practice in Ireland and internationally on human rights, peace and justice issues.

Afri exists to promote the vision of a more just, more equal and more peaceful world through research, debate, awareness raising and action in partnership with marginalised people engaged with issues of equity and security, especially in the global ‘South’.

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134 Phibsborough Road, Dublin 7, Ireland.

Tel: +353 (0)1 882 7563/7581
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