Reclaim the Enlightenment presents - Bastille Day 2024
Schedule
Sun Jul 14 2024 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm
Location
St Joseph's Church Sailortown | Belfast, NI
About this Event
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The Marseillaise
Alan Miller: poem commemorating the fall of the Bastille.
John Gray on ‘War and Peace’
- ‘must we forever be in thrall to the military industrial complex’.
Ann Marrian ‘Reforming our education system’
- Ann describes steps we are taking to follow up on our publication of Is Our Education System Failing Our Children.
- Launch of our petition calling for the abolition of selection and the 11+
INTERVAL
John Gray provides an update on the campaign to save the Assembly Rooms for appropriate public and cultural uses.
Recitation: ‘Toussaint’s Farewell to St. Domingo’
- Written by James Orr, the Bard of Ballycarry, and United Irishman. This gives eloquent voice to Toussaint Louverture’s sense of betrayal when the French overthrew the first independent black state in Haiti.
Launch of a new edition of Nini Rogers’s, Equiano and Anti-Slavery in 18th Century Belfast, introduced by Dr Brian Kelly. Brian is a Reader in history at Queen’s University and has written extensively on slavery and racism and is an activist in opposing both.
Free to all paid up members contact stmccracken@hotmail, or £10 donation secures membership.
Where is it happening?
St Joseph's Church Sailortown, 9 Princes Dock Street, Belfast, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
GBP 0.00
