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Dialogue Society Annual Picnic – Graves Park Sunday 27th August 13:00
On behalf of The Dialogue Society Sheffield Branch, I would like to take this opportunity to cordially invite you to our 3rd Annual Dialogue Picnic event on Sunday, the 27th August 2023 at 13:00hrs. The event will be in the beautiful Graves Park. It would be a great pleasure for us to have you at this event. Please book your place via sheffield@dialoguesociety.org not via Sheffield Interfaith.
The event is aimed at having a chance to see each other, catching up, having friendly conversations with a diverse range of individuals and communities who have contributed in positive ways to bring about social cohesion within Sheffield and surrounding areas. We are also planning to play some games to enjoy our times at the event.
The event will be a casual picnic where we will have some food, play some fun games and converse with each other. For an informed preparation for the event, there is a number of things that we would like to point out:
• We will serve hygienically prepared homemade Turkish food however it is completely up to you to have some of them or bring your own.
• We will not serve hot or cold drinks. We kindly ask you to bring your own hot or cold drinks as you wish.
• We kindly ask everyone to bring their own picnic rugs or chairs.
• For a more eco friendly picnic experience, we kindly ask everyone to bring their own plates, cups and cutlery. It is up to you to bring disposable or reusable ones. But we have decided not to provide these.
• If prior to the event day, the weather forecast suggests that it will not be a dry day, we will sadly have to cancel or postpone the event. In that case, we will inform you of the cancellation or postponement via e-mail.
We are looking forward to your response and we politely encourage you to reserve. Please kindly reply to confirm your attendance by the 17th August. Your presence at the event will be an absolute honour for us. Please let us know how many adults and children you are attending with in your confirmation email.
Please note that there may be limited parking space in the car park at the address below. Unfortunately, we will not be able to guarantee parking spaces as the venue is public park. Thank you for your understanding.
The event will be in Graves Park. Please find attached a map showing the actual area where we will be gathering on the day. As mentioned above, one of the addresses/postcodes provided is for Graves Park itself and the other one is for the car park. Please also find attached the invitation banner.
Kindest regards,
Mehmet Acar
Dialogue Society Sheffield Branch
Event Theme: Dialogue Picnic
Date: Sunday, 27th August 2023
Time: 13:00
Venue: Graves Park, Hemsworth Rd, Sheffield S8 8LJ
Car Park: Graves Park Animal Farm Car Park, Bunting Nook, Sheffield S8 8JU
RSVP:sheffield@dialoguesociety.org
(Please let us know if you do not want your photos & videos to be taken in the event. We will be taking photos & videos to be able to share this event publicly on Dialogue Society website and social media channels.)
The Dialogue Society is a registered charity, established in London in 1999, with the aim of advancing social cohesion by connecting communities through dialogue. It does this by bringing people together through discussion forums, courses, capacity building publications and outreach. It operates nation-wide with regional branches across the UK.
Faith and Identity – Thursday 15th June 7.30pm, Shirley House Interfaith Centre
How much is your faith part of your identity? Were you born into it or was it a personal decision? Is it bound up with ethnicity/culture, or conversion ? Come and discuss these issues. Are there variations between faiths, or just between individuals?
Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane S11 8YL
Open to all faiths and everybody – refreshments provided
7.30 pm Thur 15th June
We hope also to offer Zoom option. Contact shirleyhouseinterfaith@gmail.com for the link
or 0114 258 8932 for further details.
We can offer lifts home – please contact us.
Faith and the Environment – Shirley House Interfaith Centre, Tuesday 23rd May 7:30pm
Open to all faiths and everybody
Refreshments included
7.30 Tue 23rd May
Upstairs at Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane, Sheffield S11 8YL
We hope to offer a Zoom option. Contact shirleyhouseinterfaith@gmail.com for the link
or 0114 258 8932 for further details.
We can offer lifts home – please contact us.
Why I converted to Islam – by Mikhail Brown, Shirley House Interfaith Centre Tuesday 25th April 7:30pm
Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane S11 8YL
Open to all faiths and everybody – refreshments provided
7.30 pm Tue 25th Apr
We hope also to offer Zoom option. Contact shirleyhouseinterfaith@gmail.com for the link
or 0114 258 8932 for further details.
We can offer lifts home – please contact us.
Two engaging and creative workshops that provide a Sikh perspective on the Mind- April 8th, Millennium Gallery
Dear Sheffield Interfaith,
I’m a volunteer for a charity arts Organisation, Without Shape Without Form, and we are currently touring the country with our free ‘Journey of the Mind’ exhibition and are at the New Art Exchange, Nottingham until 22 April 2023. We are also hosting some satellite events in Leicester and Sheffield.
This 8th April we will be at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield hosting two engaging and creative workshops that provide a Sikh perspective on the Mind (both workshops are free to attend but please do book in advance- see pdf below and click on QR box).
There is so much focus, and rightly so, on mental wellness and we are bringing a unique and simple perspective. Personally, I’d love to hear the diverse view that an interfaith network would bring to these workshops.
Creative Mind Workshop – Sheffield.pdf
Ameet Singh
Community Engagement Manager
t: +44 (0) 773 272 6558
Community Climate Action in Sheffield – a request
Dear Friends,
I’m from South Yorkshire Climate Alliance, SYCA, and we are encouraging and supporting community climate action across the region.
Our aim is to expand the number of communities involved in climate action and deepen their impact or range of activities.
By community we mean: street, neighbourhood, workplace, faith group, community group, school, and many others
To help things along in Sheffield specifically, we wanted to create a small steering group. Victoria Penman, from the Sustainability Team at Sheffield City Council is keen to join this group. We also have support from VAS, and VAS CEO, Helen Simms is on the SYCA Board.
We work fairly closely already with Cathy Rhodes from the Diocese and we are hoping to get in touch with other faith groups.
Here is a database of some activities already going on that we know about
I hope this is something you feel the interfaith community would like to participate in. If you would like to discuss further then please give me a call anytime.
Thank you for your time
Warm Wishes
Joan Miller
(Contact details to follow)
Dialogue Iftar Dinner on Sunday, the 16th April 2023 at 18:15hrs. Hallam Community Hall S10 4BD. Our theme is “Ramadan is Community: Challenging the cost-of-living through inclusion”.
We aim at finishing no later than 21:15hrs.
Event Theme: “Ramadan is Community: Challenging the cost-of-living through inclusion”
Date: Sunday, 16th April 2023
Time: 18:15 – 21:15
Venue: Hallam Community Hall, Hallam Grange Crescent, Sheffield, S10 4BD
RSVP: sheffield@dialoguesociety.org
Ramadan is a holy month of fasting observed by many Muslims in the United Kingdom. As one of the five pillars of Islam, fasting during Ramadan is a form of worship of utmost importance. Among the many positive attributes Muslims aspire to develop during this period, empathy with those less fortunate and a reinforcement of positive, proactive community engagement stand out the most, especially as the Office of National Statistics show that the cost-of-living crisis has impacted 92% of adults in the United Kingdom.
For us at the Dialogue Society, we uphold the belief that the inclusion of our diverse communities of all faiths (or none), cultures, ethnicities, abilities, and sexual and/or gender identities are crucial to the well-being of our society overall. Inclusion and the cost-of-living crisis are mutually exclusive; in short, more inclusion aids in tackling the cost-of-living crisis, whereas an increase in the cost of living contributes to the increase in hate crime and reduces inclusion.
So, this year, under “Ramadan is Community: Challenging the cost-of-living through inclusion”, we hope to foster a community dialogue on this theme throughout the UK. Through utilising the several faith festivities that will coincide with one other (Ramadan, Easter, Navaratri, Mahavir Jayanti, Passover and Vaisakhi), we hope to bring our diverse communities together to both celebrate and spark dialogue on how to further inclusion to tackle the cost-of-living crisis.
The event will be around a dinner table and alongside our traditional structure as it will include distinguished guest speakers and presentations about the theme, we are also planning on incorporating prayer, reflection, music, a very special art display, quiz as it is organized as a social event that would help to promote inter-social and inter-cultural understanding among the communities from different backgrounds.
We will serve a range of hygienically prepared home-made delicious Turkish dishes. The word “iftar” means fast breaking. Therefore, we will start serving the dinner at the fast-breaking time which will be around 8pm.
How about a challenge? This year we invite you to join us on the event day for a completely voluntary “Fasting Challenge”. In order to share the spirit of fast breaking amongst all the participants, as part of the fasting challenge, we invite our guests to fast for a day, or half a day or even for an hour to experience how Muslims fast and go on a spiritual journey of self-reflection and self-discipline this Ramadan. As mentioned above, this will be on a voluntary basis. More importantly, if you think that this may not be good for your health, please refrain from joining this challenge.
We also would like to note that while we love all of the children in our lives, we have decided to keep our Iftar Dinner an adults-only event. Thank you for your understanding.
We are looking forward to your response. Due to limited venue space, we politely encourage you to reserve your place. Therefore, please kindly reply to confirm your attendance and do so by the 2nd April. Your presence at the event will be an absolute honour for us. Please let us know how many adults you are attending with alongside with your dietary requirements in your confirmation email.
Yours sincerely,
Mehmet Acar
Dialogue Society Sheffield Branch
Please reply to Dialogue Society Sheffield Branch, not to Sheffield Interfaith
Any Questions- Shirley House Interfaith Centre Wednesday 15th March 7:30 pm
Is there something you want to know about a particular faith or belief ? Or to hear different faiths’ ideas about an issue? A diverse panel will try to answer questions submitted in advance (so we can prepare a suitable panel for the session, and they can research any topics they are not sure about) to:
shirleyhouseinterfaith@gmail.com
Open to all faiths & everybody
Refreshments included
7.30 pm Wed 15th March
At Shirley House Interfaith Centre,
31 Psalter Lane, S11 8YL
Contact 0114 258 8932 for further details or email (above) for Zoom link
We can offer lifts home, contact the above tel or email
Introduction to Hinduism – illustrated talk by Dr Vithal Patel. Shirley House Interfaith Centre Monday 23rd January 7:30 pm
Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane S11 8YL
Open to all faiths and everybody – refreshments provided
7.30 pm Mon 23rd Jan
We hope also to offer Zoom option. Contact shirleyhouseinterfaith@gmail.com for the link
or 0114 258 8932 for further details.
We can offer lifts home – please contact us.
Islam and animals- illustrated talk by Dahlia Tayel-Brown at Shirley House Interfaith Centre Tuesday 22nd November 7:30 pm
Shirley House, 31 Psalter Lane S11 8YL
Open to all faiths and everybody – refreshments provided
7.30 pm Tue 22nd Nov
This will be a hybrid live/Zoom presentation. Contact shirleyhouseinterfaith@gmail.com for the link
or 0114 267 8289 for further details.
We can offer lifts home – please contact us.
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