SDPCS

4 Glenarm Terrace Castle Street Totnes, Devon TQ9 5PY

08103 867413

Date: Friday, Feb 29, 2008.         Times: 6.30pm to 10.00pm           Max no: 30 participants

Venue: Birdwood House, Market Sq, 44, High St, Totnes, Devon (click on address for map)

Cost: Advance Booking (before Feb 1) £7; GASW Members & concessions £4;

Tickets at the door: £10; GASW members & concessions £6

The Question: Whose war is it anyway? What has this war to do with me?

Aim: You are invited to participate in the second of a series of agenda free exploratory conversations with others. This time the subject being, your personal responses to the fact that our country is currently at war.

The aim of the workshop is to invite participants to reflect on the impact of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan on their everyday, personal lives. It is hard to believe that Britain is currently in a state of war, as our day to day lives continue completely untouched by the death and decimation being meted out in far away places. It seems impossibly hard to comprehend what the everyday life of the ordinary citizen ‘over there’ must be like, in contrast to our mundane preoccupations: shopping, interest rates, friends, the cinema, the cost of train fares, the weather. One result is that these conflicts appear to have nothing to do with us. Whilst some appear to be completely indifferent to the situation, others experience themselves as ethically complicit and deeply involved in what is taking place. But many of us don’t know quite what to think or how to be.

The intention of the workshop is for participants to discover more about what they think and feel, and where they stand in relation to this situation.

Timetable

Arrivals and Refreshments: 6.30pm to 7.00pm

Session 1                          7.00pm to 8.15pm

Break                              8.15pm to 8.45pm

Session 2                          8.45pm to   10.00pm