Interfaith Week 15th-21st November 2015
Birmingham Events – Provisional List
(Please send any additions, amendments or queries to Dr Peter & Mrs Jean Rookes, Birmingham
Council of Faiths, c/o BVSC, 138 Digbeth, B5 6DR. e-mail pjrookes@gmail.com, or phone 0121 477
2282 or 077 033 360 88.
A final list will be issued on Wed 11th November.
For further details refer to the flier where indicated and contact the person listed.
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Date Sat 14th Nov
Start time 9.45 am
Finish time 4.0pm
Title Understanding Sikh Faith
Location Nishkam Centre, Soho Road, Handsworth, B21 9BH
Accessibility Car parking, bus stops outside, disabled toilets, lift available
Description Study day for non-Sikhs. See flier for further information.
Cost £8/£10
Need to book in advance
Organisation holding the event Birmingham Council of Faiths
Contact Ruth Tetlow, 0122 449 4892, ruthtetlow@btinternet.com
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Date 15th Nov 2015
Start time 2pm
Finish time 4pm
Title Annual Interfaith Conference to Celebrate Diversity, & Communities Together to Share our
Values
Location Darulbarakat Mosque, 85 Tilton Road, B9 4PP
Accessibility Car parking, event is on the ground floor, disabled toilet.
Description of event Interfaith and Communities Together to Celebrate Interfaith week together
and Community Cohesion. Free Dinner will be served to all attendees
See flier for further information.
Cost free, donations welcome.
Need to book All wishing to attend must contact the organisers for catering purposes please.
Organisation holding the event Pan African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association Midlands Region UK
Contact Toby 07576503170 E: tobanephram@yahoo.co.uk, W: www.loveforallhatredfornone.org
W: www.paama.org.uk
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Date Mon 16th Nov
Start time 9.30
Finish time 4.00
Title Faiths, Health & Wellbeing Seminar
Location University of Birmingham Orchard Learning & Resource Centre (behind the new University
High School) Weoley Park Road, Selly Oak, B29 6QW
Accessibility parking on site, disabled access & toilets
Description Presentations & discussion on different aspects of mental health including safety for
children on-line, research in schools, 0-25 year mental health service, adult mental health service,
GPs & IAPT (improving access to psychological therapies), spiritual care chaplaincy, Friendly Places
training. See flier & poster for further information.
Cost free Need to book with organisers
Organisation holding the event Faiths for our City of Birmingham & Birmingham Council of Faiths
Contact organisers Dr Peter and Jean Rookes at pjrookes@gmail.com, phone 477 2282 or 077 033
360 88
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Date Wed 18th Nov
Start time 7.0pm
Finish time 9.0pm
Title Interfaith Presentation of 3 Spiritual Paintings
Location AI-Mahdi Institute, 60 Weoley Park Road, Birmingham, 829 6RB
Accessibility Parking in grounds & adjoining roads, wheelchair access
Description Presentation of paintings to Al-Mahdi Institute, St Mary’s Church & Selly Oak Methodist
Church. Talks by Revd Dr Andrew Wingate (Former Principal of UCAJ, Revd Donald Eadie (Methodist)
and Shaykh Arif Abdulhussain(Director ofAMI), Recitation of the Holy Qur'an, An Indian-Christian
dance performed by Arul Israel, Hymns by St Mary's Anglican Church choir.
See flier for further information.
Cost free Booking By invitation only, please contact organiser
Organisation holding the event Al-Mahdi Institute
Contact rukhsana.banji@almahdi.edu or <ruthtetlow@btinternet.com>
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Date Fri 20th Nov
Start time 12.0 midday
Finish time 1.0pm
Title Interfaith Devotional
Location Queen Elizabeth Hospital Chaplaincy, Birmingham, B15 2TH
Accessibility Multistorey fee paying carpark, access by bus and train, lift to department
Description Interfaith devotional
Cost free Booking not necessary
Organisation holding the event Baha’i Community
Contact sylvia.girling@gmail.com
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Date Fri 20th Nov
Start time 7.0 pm
Finish time 9.0pm
Title Interfaith Devotional
Location 16 Reading Road, Birmingham, B13 8LN
Accessibility Private home
Description Interfaith devotional
Cost free
Booking please contact organiser
Organisation holding the event Baha’i Community
Contact sylvia.girling@gmail.com
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Date Sat 21 Nov
Start time 2.00 pm
Finish time 4.00 pm
Title Interfaith 'EXHIBITS and CONVERSATIONS' in the run-up to the Paris Climate conference
Location Quaker Meeting House, 40 Bull Street B4 6AF
Accessibility Meeting house has wheelchair access, disabled toilet, loop system. Parking by prior
arrangement visitors with mobility problems
Description 'EXHIBITS and CONVERSATIONS' Quaker hosted National Interfaith Week event
A Quaker hosted National Interfaith Week Event to encourage conversations, sharing and
learning about what different faiths say about the environment and climate change.
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Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Jewish, Muslim and Sikh displays & conversations
Earth Globe centre piece with our planet’s oceans, forests, deserts and weather and a
‘Keep Coal in the Ground Hole’ for children
Children’s activities to enable young people to tell adults about the world they want to
live in when they are old.
Quaker Host & Interfaith Week Welcome Corner: endorse Lambeth Declaration 2015,
Friends of the Earth, information about interfaith networks and activities.
Refreshments
See flier & kit for further information.
Cost free
Booking not necessary
Organisation holding the event Central England Quakers in conjunction with a planning group
based on Birmingham Council of Faiths
Contact Chris Martin 0121 475 2088 chrismartin2@btinternet.com