OWW Events
To see what events are happening in OWW this year, please scroll down this page to the Calendar
To submit your event to go on the calendar go to Submit an event
What is a OWW Event?
The aim of OWW is to bring people and organisations together to raise awareness about global issues of justice, poverty and inequality. Events take place locally all over Britain and in many countries around the world.
When?
Most happen during One World Week, which includes United Nations Day on 24 October, giving everyone a feeling of joint endeavour and building a movement. But you can celebrate it when it suits you and your community.
Who Takes Part?
Local community groups, religious and voluntary organisations, inter-faith groups, environmentalists, human rights and peace groups, youth groups, schools, universities and campaigners or local branches of national organisations create events which are accessible, yet challenging, to all in their community.
You can either tailor a regular meeting of your own organisation to focus on One World Week or collaborate with others.
What?
Any local event you’d like to organise, with reference to OWW's vision and aims, which reflects this year’s theme. This could be an inspiring talk, quiz, debate, film, fair trade fete or coffee morning, walk, global/local meal, vigil, act of worship, arts performance, school assembly or project, inter–faith activity … Whatever - it’s up to your community!
The Theme
Every year OWW sets a theme around a global justice issue, along with a selection of resources and links to related actions initiated by our partners, to give our event organisers focus and material to enrich their OWW events. Our themes are broad to encourage our volunteers to come up with their own interpretations and angle relevant to their communities. For more about this year’s theme visit the Theme page
INTERNATIONAL: The International Week for Nonviolence
Date: 17 Array 2015 00:00 to 25 Array 2015 23:00
The International Week for Nonviolence
Date: October 17th -25th 2015
Venue:
Various locations around the United States and Internationally.
The Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence is running as part of the International Week for Nonviolence, so please read the blogs here:
http://www.instantblogsubscribers.com/entry/Zhana21/261320/Blogging+Carnival+for+Nonviolence+2015
Links for the Week for Nonviolence are also available on that page.
Preserving and Strengthening the Middle/Working Class.
"Changing the Culture of Violence in America - and the World".
This event is NOT about "hope", it is about practical methods to bring about positive change.
We CAN transform society. It starts by transforming ourselves.
You can also read the blogs in the Blogging Carnival for Nonviolence. Blogs by Nonviolent Communication (NVC) trainers and authors who work internationally, as well as members of Black Women for Positive Change, and others, will be updated daily during the Week for Nonviolence.
They will include topics such as:
Black Lives Matter - Is There an Age Gap?
Transforming Conflict into Connection and many more.
Please join us. http://www.instantblogsubscribers.com/entry/Zhana21/261320/Blogging+Carnival+for+Nonviolence+2015
Young people and elders will be sharing our views, methods and experience of nonviolence.
Any members of organisations, faith communities, or others organising events during the Week for Nonviolence please contact Black Women for Positive Change with deails.
This is open to everyone. http://www.blackwomenforpositivechange.org/2015-week-of-non-violence-flyer/
Admission Details: All Welcome
PORTSMOUTH: OWW at Wild Thyme-Exhibition & Stall
Date: 18 Array 2015 10:00 to 24 Array 2015 22:00
OWW at Wild Thyme
Date & Time: 18 - 24 October 2015
every day from 10am -2pm
Venue: Wild Thyme
102 Palmerston Road
Southsea PO5 3PT
Exhibition about OWW in the shop window
inside an exhibition about
Fairtrade and Global Justice Now's campaigns
about Agroecology and African food
A stall with a different focus each day:
Mon: Fairtrade and Global Justice Now campaigns information
Tues: Traidcraft sales; Global Justice Now campaigns info.
Wed: Fairtrade and Global Justice now campaigns information
Thur: Fairtrade
Fri: Zaytoun and Palestinian products - sales
Sat: Fairtrade (maybe not definitely as Great South Run starts)
Call us: 02393 073768
Email us: info@wildthymewholefoods.co.uk
Admission Details: all welcome
BAKED ALASAKA: Alderley Edge, Birmingham,Stoke, Wolverhampton, Lichfield, Shrewesbury
Date: 19 Array 2015 19:30 to 24 Array 2015 19:30
BAKED ALASAKA
Theatre production by Riding Lights
Touring from September 16th until November 28th 2015
Full details of the tour and all venues can be found at
http://ridinglights.org/baked-alaska-tour-dates/
Tickets can be purchased
from the Box Office: 01904 613000 OR online
Press photos can be viewed at
http://ridinglights.org/baked-alaska-production-photos/
Extra-ordinary theatre for these extraordinary times
An island in the South Pacific has a problem. It’s hollow.
Anxiety levels are rising in a North American boardroom. Eve’s garden is bursting with next door’s rubbish. Even the ducks have relocated… they’re in Bangladesh.
From the four corners of the earth come colourful, inter-connecting stories of humanity living with the wild, unpredictable effects of climate change.
Scientists, farmers, oil magnates, climate warriors, prophets, mothers, journalists and others just like you and me – we’re all in the mix and hungry for a recipe of hope. In the struggle over power, some sound the warming bell, some blow hot and cold, while others make a pudding of the planet.
Vivid, sharp and deliciously entertaining, BAKED ALASKA serves up the realities of climate change with flair and clarity about the temperatures involved.
In the high-energy, ‘seriously funny’ style for which Riding Lights is well known, BAKED ALASKA is something we can all look forward to… unless we do something about it.
Dates and Venues in One World Week
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Monday 19/10/2015 Alderley Edge, Cheshire |
Time: 7:30pm Alderley Edge Methodist Church, Chapel Road. Alderley Edge SK9 7DU. Venue phone: 01565 872306 |
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Tuesday 20/10/2015 Birmingham |
All Saints Kings Heath | |
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Time: 7:30pm All Saints Church, 2 Vicarage Rd, Kings Heath, B14 7RA. Venue phone: 0121 444 0760 |
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Wednesday 21/10/2015 Stoke-on-Trent |
St Paul’s Church | |
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Time: 7:30pm. St Paul’s, 131 Longton Hall Road. ST3 2EL. Venue phone: 01782 598366 |
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Thursday 22/10/2015 Wolverhampton, W. Midlands |
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Time: 7:30pm. St. John’s in the Square, St. John’s Square WV2 1DT. Venue phone: 01902 422642 |
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Friday 23/10/2015 Lichfield, Staffordshire |
Lichfield Cathedral | |
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Time: 7:30pm.
Lichfield Cathedral, The Close. WS13 7LD. Venue phone: 01543 306100 |
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Saturday 24/10/2015 Shrewsbury |
Church of the Holy Spirit | |
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HAVANT OWW Celebration
Date: 22 October 2015to 12:00
Havant Fairtrade Group OWW Celebration
October 22nd 10am - 12 noon
Celebration and networking opportunity for local groups and charities to share information and ethical goods - coffee and Cake .
Havant Mayor will award global Citizenship award to a young peoples group
Venue: St Joseph's RC Hall, West Street, Havant, PO9 1LP
Admission: Free
Contact Name: Maureen Thompson
Contact Email: fairtradehavant@gmail.com
SETTLE: Talk on 'Relations with Muslims' and LOAF meal
22 October 2015
Talk on 'Relations with Muslims' and LOAF meal
Venue: St John's Church Hall, SETTLE, BD24 9JH
Date & Time: 22 October 2015 at 6.30pm
Event Description:
Talk by Dr Philip Lewis
After six years studying Islam in Pakistan, Dr Lewis advised Anglican Bishops in Bradford on Christian-Muslim relations for over a quarter of a century. He is now retired, and we are privileged to have him visit and give us a talk on:
"The burden of history: Why relations with Muslims are difficult".
The evening will start at 6.30pm with a "LOAF" meal
(LOAF: The Food ingredients used will be at least one of: Locally sourced (L), Organically Grown (O), Animal Friendly (A) and Fairly Traded(F).)
Admission Details: Donations welcome (to OWW).
Please book by emailing info@ctisad.org.
Contact Name: Judith Allinson
Contact Email: info@ctisad.org.uk
Contact Telephone: 01729 822313
SKIPTON: Talk - Slavery Past & Present
22 October 2015
Global Voices: Slavery Past and Present
Talk by Hannah Flint
(Regional Development Executive for International Justice Mission)
Date & Time: 22 October 2015, 7pm
Venue: Dame Judi Dench Studio
Skipton Girls High School
Skipton, BD23 1QL
Hannah Flint
(Regional Development Executive for International Justice Mission)
will talk about their anti-slavery and anti-trafficking work to stop abuses of people and their rights.
Contact Email: fiona@cravendec.org.uk
Admission Details: Free - contrbution towards costs welcome
PORTSMOUTH: Timbuktu - a film for OWW
22 October 2015
Timbuktu - a film for OWW
Date & Time: Thursday October 22nd at 7pm
Venue: Portsmouth Film Society
Eldon Building
Winston Churchill Avenue
Portsmouth, PO1 2DJ
Timbuktu (France/Mauritania 2014) Cert 12A | 96 min.
Set in the early days of the jihadist takeover of Northern Mali in 2012, the once bustling city is now near-silent, kept in order by soldiers who patrol the winding streets, employing their strict rules and swift justice to anyone who contravenes their law.
The film's narrative weaves between small but significant stories: a woman refuses to cover her feet as she sells from a street stall, a local imam confronts the extremists calmly in his mosque – but at the centre of the story is Kidane, a local shepherd, who lives freely outside of the city in the desert with his wife and two children.
Admission: NB: The Portsmouth Film Soc. is a club
so you need to buy temporary membership.
Contact Name: Sue James
Email: sue@oneworldweek.org
Telephone: 02392 250267
MALVERN: Talk-Peace building in long term conflicts
22 October 2015
Talk: Peace building in long term conflicts
Refreshments from 7pm
Date & Time: Thursday October 22nd 2015
7 pm for 7.30pm
Venue: The Quaker Meeting House
Orchard Road
MALVERN, WR14 3DA
Professor Paul Jackson
from University of Birmingham, School of Government & Society
will take four aspects of his work
- peace agreements and former combatants
- political reconstruction
- post conflict justice
- memory of conflict
and then relate these to his own work in Nepal, Sierra Leone and latterly Colombia as tangible examples of peacebuilding.
Followed by an extensive Q & A session.
Admission : Free
SWINDON: Experiences of war torn Syria
22 October 2015
Experiences of and escape from war torn Syria
Date & Time: Thursday 22nd October 7.30pm
Venue: The Friends Meeting House
Eastcott Hill
Swindon SN1 3JF
Swindon & Marlborough Amnesty International Group
Experiences of and escape from war-torn Syria
There will be refreshments and time for questions and discussion to include what, if anything, the UK Government and its allies should be doing.
Admission Details: Free
WOKING - film to mark One World Week
22 October 2015
Woking - film to mark One World Week
Venue:
Mayford Village Hall
Saunders Lane, Mayford, Woking, Surrey, GU22 0NN
Date & Time: 22nd October 2015 at 8pm
Event Description:
Our annual One World film this year is
Bikur Ha-Tizmoret (A Band's Visit)
which is a clever, subtle slice-of-life comedy, that also explores cross-cultural issues. A band comprised of members of the Egyptian police force head to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town.
Admission Details: £5 payable on the door
Directions: http://www.wncc.org.uk/wnccdirection34.php
Contact Name: Steven Lock
Contact Email: admin1@wncc.org.uk
Contact Telephone: 014 8347 5745
Visit our OWW Events Pages from previous years to see what people got up to
News
Press Releases
Newsletters
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(September 2016)
(August 2016)
Recently Added Resources
New Funding Opportunity - The Common Good Fund - Application Deadline 27 Feb. 2017 see more here
Organisers' Evaluation form for 2016 events Download from here
Wordsearches for Including You events - download them from here
Press release template for 'Including You' events download here
Quotations about building an inclusive peaceful society - Download from here a 5 page booklet as a word.doc or pdf
Pledges to build an inclusive society - find them here
"Who is a Migrant?" - anactivity/game to get people talking to each other at your events. Download the instructions here
School Assemblies from Christian Aid- link to and download a PowerPoint and notes
Looking for a speaker for your event? Download here a list (pdf) from the Discussion page (posted 12 Sept 2016)
Faith resources relating to "Including You".Download pdf here links to materials offered by OWW's partners and supporters: worship, discussion, films ...plus Prayers for OWW(updated 7 Sept '16)
Presentation "A OWW approach to Migration" Download this PDF version of a 12 slides (15 -20 minutes) powerpoint
Need funding for your event? Apply to Big Lottery Celebrate Fund! NOW or you'll be too late for OWW more here and other suggestions
Poster/ flyer design kit - download from here
2016 Leaflets "Including You" download PDF versions here
Introductory PowerPoint about organising local inclusive OWW events - updated for 2016. Down load ppt here
Migrant crisis or poverty crisis? - A briefing paper from Global Justice NOW Download as a PDF here
2016 - "Including You" - Booklet of ideas, links and resources for interpreting the theme. Dowload a PDF here (updated July 2016)
Learning resource/activity for young people about peace - from Fly Kites not Drones; suitable for activites in or out of school. find links here: schools ; activities (added Nov. 2015 but still relevant for this years events)
Organisers' Evaluation Form for event organisers to complete and send to OWW - down load the word.doc from here