Leicester Secular Society Events

Most LSS meetings are at Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB — All Welcome (exceptions are shown in the detailed listings). Contact details are on our Home Page. Hire a room. Follow @LssCalendar

May 2013   Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun (18)     1 2 3 4 5 (19) 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 (20) 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 (21) 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 (22) 27 28 29 30 31     July 2013   Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun (27) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 (28) 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 (29) 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 (30) 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 (31) 29 30 31         June 2013 Public Access Category: All None (i) External event of interest (i) For Information External event featuring LSS member(s) LSS - for information LSS - Public event (not at Secular Hall) LSS - Secular Hall - MEMBERS ONLY LSS - Secular Hall - Public event LSS/joint public event (not at Secular Hall) LSS/joint public event - Secular Hall Secular Hall (non-LSS event) X - Joint meeting (all welcome) X - Public lecture/meeting (all welcome) Category: All Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun W K 2 2           01 Riverside Festival begins (ext event) 09:00» Leicester UAF show of unity (ext event) 02 Leicester Sing for Water (ext event) Riverside Festival end (ext event) 18:30» LSS: Malcolm Elliott - Much Ado About Shakespeare W K 2 3 03 04 15:00» Vigil: International Day for Children as Victims of War (ext event) 19:00» WORD!... with John Hegley (ext event) 05 19:00» Melissa Benn publlic lecture: A New Vision for Education (ext event) 06 07 19:00» Friday night at the Chainmakers (ext event) 08 11:00» Women Chainmakers festival (ext event) 14:00» David Boulton: Utopianism (ext event) 09 18:30» LSS: Carl Gunn - Boxers and Other Interesting People I’ve Known W K 2 4 10 NPC Pensioners Parliament begins (for info) 11 18:00» Multiculturalism, Child Protection and Sharia Law in Britain (ext event) 12 NPC Pensioners Parliament ends (for info) 13 19:30» Avtar Singh: Is it time for Real Democracy (ext event) 14 19:00» TRIDENT, the Dead Elephant in the Room (ext event) 15 19:30» University of Leicester Sinfonia (ext event) 16 17:00» Performance by Indian Political Theatre Company (ext event) 18:30» LSS: Rodrigo Quian Quiroga - Borges and Memory W K 2 5 17 18 16:30» Performance by Indian Political Theatre Company (ext event) 19:30» Jamie Whyte: What's Wrong with Evidence-based Policy (ext event) 19 19:30» Launch meeting of Loughborough Left Unity (ext event) 20 13:00» Refugee Week events in Leicester (ext event) 21 12:15» Henry Jones: International law and Syria intervention (ext event) 19:30» BHA World Humanist Day Variety Concert (ext event) 22 09:30» The People’s Assembly Against Austerity (ext event) 23 10:00» LSS: Summer Woodland Walk 18:30» LSS: Pam Inder and Bessie Hayes - Asylum Seekers - The Modern Untouchables W K 2 6 24 25 26 27 28 12:15» David Moss: Are 'right' and 'wrong' just matters of opinion? (ext event) 19:00» Touring theatre: Mazloom (ext event) 29 International Conference: Empowering Women Through Secularism opens (ext event) 11:00» Succession & Power: Republic Annual Conference (ext event) 30 International Conference: Empowering Women Through Secularism ends (ext event) 18:30» LSS: Allan Hayes - The Case for Humanity

Location:

Bede Park, Mile Straight, Western Boulevard & Castle Gardens, Leicester

Description:

Leicester Riverside Festival - Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd June 2013

Leicester Riverside Festival is a lively weekend of activities for the whole family. This popular festival offers boat trips, live music, a variety of food stalls from around the world, displays and an exciting choice of activities for all ages, making it a fun packed weekend!

Includes Leicester Sing For Water on Sunday - see http://leicestersingforwater.org.uk/

Full details: http://visitleicester.info/riversidefestival

Time:

09:00

Location:

Clock Tower, Leicester

Description:

Leicester Unite Against Fascism "call on everyone to join with them, local trade unionists, faith groups and community groups in a peaceful show of unity against the EDL and its Islamophobic poison".

More from Leicester UAF: http://www.leicesteruaf.org/2013/05/29/stop-the-racist-edl-in-leicester-this-saturday/
Appeals ahead of EDL march (from Leicester Mercury): http://thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Appeals-ahead-EDL-march/story-19136366-detail/story.html
Leicester Police announcement: http://www.leics.police.uk/news-appeals/news/2013/05/30/memorial-event-on-june-1

Location:

Bede Park Leicester

Description:

Leicester Sing for Water – 2013
Leicester Sing for Water is a fundraising singing event organised by members of several Leicester community choirs including Red Leicester Choir, Amika Choir and Fosse Singers.

Our aim is to bring hundreds of voices together at Leicester’s Riverside Festival on Sunday June 2nd 2013 to sing in glorious four-part harmony and raise vital funds for WaterAid through choirs’ fundraising activities, sponsorship and by collecting from the crowd. The charismatic Una May Olomolaiye will be leading the singing, in partnership with Karen Silverwood. The last five Leicester Sing for Water concerts at the Riverside Festival have raised over £30,000 for WaterAid.

Details: http://leicestersingforwater.org.uk/

Leicester Sing for Water is part of the Leicester Riverside Festival (1 & 2 June) - see http://visitleicester.info/riversidefestival

Location:

Bede Park, Mile Straight, Western Boulevard & Castle Gardens, Leicester

Description:

Leicester Riverside Festival - Saturday 1st & Sunday 2nd June 2013

Leicester Riverside Festival is a lively weekend of activities for the whole family. This popular festival offers boat trips, live music, a variety of food stalls from around the world, displays and an exciting choice of activities for all ages, making it a fun packed weekend!

Includes Leicester Sing For Water on Sunday - see http://leicestersingforwater.org.uk/

Full details: http://visitleicester.info/riversidefestival

Time:

18:30

Location:

Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB

Description:

Much Ado About Shakespeare.

Next year is the 450th anniversary of the Shakespeare’s birth. Malcolm Elliott examines his credentials and asks who the true author of the works might be.

Breaking the Shakespeare Codes: http://www.shakespearecodes.com/reviews.html

All welcome - Admission Free (a collection will be taken). Refreshments.

Time:

15:00 - 17:00

Location:

Rolls Royce Raynesway factory, Derby

Description:

Vigil: International Day for Children as Victims of War

East Midlands CND and other organisations.

Demonstrate where the reactors for the nuclear submarine engines are made.

Contact: Richard - 0116 255 0133

Time:

19:00

Location:

The Y Theatre, 7 East Street, Leicester, LE1 6EY

Description:

WORD!... with John Hegley

(7pm performers - sign up in the theatre bar)

£6/£4 concessions

Details: http://us7.campaign-archive2.com/?u=e364eb811f22e4821862f812b&id=3faccf0eb1&e=b39e387d29
Word! http://wordpoetryleic.blogspot.co.uk/

Time:

19:00

Location:

Belmont Hotel, De Montfort Street, Leicester

Description:

Public meeting organised by NUT.

Author and campaigner Melissa Benn speaking on "A New Vision for Education".

"Are there any alternatives to Michael Gove's destructive privatisation of state schools?"

Melissa Benn is a journalist and author of 'School Wars: the Battle for Britain’s Education' (Verso Books, 2011) (https://www.facebook.com/events/474940235922132/).

She is a founder of the Local Schools Network and analyses the fragmentation of community comprehensive schooling in England by a government concerned not with children learning but with handing education to the private sector.

Refreshments provided.

Details at https://www.facebook.com/events/474940235922132/

Time:

19:00 - 23:00

Location:

Bearmore Mound Playing Fields, Cradley Heath, B64 6DU

Description:

Women Chainmakers Festival

The festival celebrates the achievements of 800 or so women Chainmakers who fought to establish a minimum wage for their labour. The local employers sought to deny them their rights but were met with forceful opposition, led by Mary Macarthur, who founded the National Federation of Women Workers and later stood for Parliament as a Labour candidate.

Friday night at the Chainmakers takes place on Bearmore Mound from 7.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. on Friday 7th June.
Performers on Friday Night include Sandwell Rock School and Stacey Blythe singing the Chainmakers Song.

The ninth Women Chainmakers festival takes place at Bearmore Mound on Saturday 9th June from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. and will feature TUC President, Lesley Mercer, Gloria Mills, UNISON Head of Equalities, and local black country performers including The Laners, Phil Parton, Easy Street, Tom Martin Band, Steve Morris, Bill O’Brien, East West Fusion, Brett Huckerfield and Marie Timmins, Folk Law, Carol Widenbar, Tony Scott and Billy and Lozz.

More:
Notts TUC: http://www.nottstuc.org/2013/05/the-women-chainmakers-festival-2013.html
Blog: http://womenchainmakersfestival.blogspot.co.uk/
Dr Sheila Blackburn, Liverpool University and Frances O'Grady Deputy General Secretary TUC discuss the legacy of Mary Macarthur and the women chainmakers strike: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_43_thu_04.shtml
Wolverhampton TUC: http://www.wolvestuc.org.uk/index.php/wbdtuc/32-women-chainmakers-festival

Time:

11:00 - 17:00

Location:

Bearmore Mound Playing Fields, Cradley Heath, B64 6DU

Description:

Women Chainmakers Festival

The festival celebrates the achievements of 800 or so women Chainmakers who fought to establish a minimum wage for their labour. The local employers sought to deny them their rights but were met with forceful opposition, led by Mary Macarthur, who founded the National Federation of Women Workers and later stood for Parliament as a Labour candidate.

Friday night at the Chainmakers takes place on Bearmore Mound from 7.00 p.m. to 11.00 p.m. on Friday 7th June.
Performers on Friday Night include Sandwell Rock School and Stacey Blythe singing the Chainmakers Song.

The ninth Women Chainmakers festival takes place at Bearmore Mound on Saturday 9th June from 11.00 a.m. to 5.00 p.m. and will feature TUC President, Lesley Mercer, Gloria Mills, UNISON Head of Equalities, and local black country performers including The Laners, Phil Parton, Easy Street, Tom Martin Band, Steve Morris, Bill O’Brien, East West Fusion, Brett Huckerfield and Marie Timmins, Folk Law, Carol Widenbar, Tony Scott and Billy and Lozz.

More:
Notts TUC: http://www.nottstuc.org/2013/05/the-women-chainmakers-festival-2013.html
Blog: http://womenchainmakersfestival.blogspot.co.uk/
Dr Sheila Blackburn, Liverpool University and Frances O'Grady Deputy General Secretary TUC discuss the legacy of Mary Macarthur and the women chainmakers strike: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/womanshour/2005_43_thu_04.shtml
Wolverhampton TUC: http://www.wolvestuc.org.uk/index.php/wbdtuc/32-women-chainmakers-festival

Time:

14:00

Location:

The Garden Room, Great Meeting Unitarian Chapel, 45 East Bond Street, Leicester, LE1 4SX

Description:

Sea of Faith Network Leicester

Presents

Utopianism

A talk by David Boulton

"They say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one”

Saturday 8th June, 2.00 pm for 2.30

David Boulton is a Quaker and Humanist, Convenor of the Nontheist Friends Network; editor of book 'Godless for God's Sake' ; former editor of the investigative TV programme 'World in Action' and Head of News, Documentaries and Current Affairs at Granada TV; former editor of the Sea of Faith Magazine; author of 22 books on history, current affairs and religion, including 'The Trouble with God', 'Who on Earth was Jesus?'

Sea of Faith Network: http://sofn.org.uk/
Details: https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B2Kn_u3A041taWo0MUJldjM2ZUU/edit?pli=1

Time:

18:30

Location:

Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB

Description:

Boxers and Other Interesting People I’ve Known.

Former boxer Carl Gunn has had an interesting life and won many awards for his gym aimed at keeping youngsters off the streets.

Carl Gunn's Boxing Gym: http://www.netmums.com/charnwood-melton/local/view/after-school-activities/other/carl-gunns-boxing-gym

All welcome - Admission Free (a collection will be taken). Refreshments.

Location:

Winter Gardens, Blackpool

Description:

Full details from National Pensioners' Convention:
http://npcuk.org/

Time:

18:00

Location:

London School of Economics, STC.S75 in St. Clement’s Building, Houghton Street, London WC2A 2AE

Description:

LSESU Atheist, Secularist and Humanist Society public lecture:

"Multiculturalism and Child Protection in Britain: Sharia law and other failures"

Anne-Marie Waters (Spokesperson, One Law for All) and Baroness Caroline Cox speaking about One Law for All's newest report on the state of children's rights in Britain

Chsir - Eileen Munro, Professor of Social Policy

"Anne-Marie Waters and Baroness Cox will show that a multicultural approach, adopted by local authorities and other public authorities, to child protection is placing children in danger and creating parallel societies. Furthermore, the talk is going to topicalise sharia tribunals and their increasing authority in the issue of child custody, questioning the impact this has, and is likely to have, on the equal protection of children regardless of race or ethnicity."

One Law for All: http://www.onelawforall.org.uk/11-june-2013-multiculturalism-child-protection-and-sharia-lse/.
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/402314573210269/
LSE announcement: http://www2.lse.ac.uk/publicEvents/events/2013/06/20130611t1800vSTC.S75.aspx

Location:

Winter Gardens, Blackpool

Description:

Full details from National Pensioners' Convention:
http://npcuk.org/

Time:

19:30

Location:

The Ale Wagon, 27 Rutland St, Leicester LE1 1RE

Description:

Unlock Democracy Leicestershire (UDL) presents Democracy Drinks

IS IT TIME FOR REAL DEMOCRACY?

Are you fed up of the 3 big parties?

Are UKIP , The Green Party, Respect etc a real alternative?

Should the Prime Minister be elected by the public?

Is it time we the public decided for ourselves what our laws should be and what our taxes should be spent on? How can we do this?

Our speaker will argue that the answer is Direct Democracy and invite you to join UDL to hear more, take part in the discussion and decide for yourself whether direct democracy is the answer to Britain’s democratic deficit.

Views expressed at this talk are those of the speaker, Avtar Singh, not of Unlock Democracy (or LSS!).

For further details contact Leicestershire @ reformgroups .net (close spaces)

See also Mr Singh's petition to abolish both houses of parliament: http://epetitions.direct.gov.uk/petitions/46765

Time:

19:00

Location:

Unity House, Fennel Street, Loughborough LE11 1UQ

Description:

TRIDENT, the Dead Elephant in the Room

Discussion to be introduced by Mike Green

The history of Britain's nuclear deterrent and its links with the USA, the MAD doctrine and First Strike, and the implications for survival.

7:00 pm for 7:30, .

Full details at: http://fridayroom.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/trident-the-dead-elephant-in-the-room/

"Friday Room is the online presence for Loughborough's pluralist political discussion and activists' forum"

Time:

19:30

Location:

Fraser Noble Hall, London Road, LE2 1EF (tbc)

Description:

University of Leicester Sinfonia presents

BERNHARD ROMBERG Flute Concerto in B minor, Op.17, with Jonathon Wakefield (flute)
MENDELSSOHN Overture: "Die schöne Melusine", Op.32
BRAHMS Symphony No.3 in F major

"The Romberg is a thoroughly delightful and inventive piece, a gem unknown to most people, and a very valuable addition to the small number of really fine flute concertos. The composer lived from 1767 to 1841."

Tickets: £8/£6 via http://www.embracearts.co.uk/ (tel 0116 252 2455), or from Visit Leicester, 51 Gallowtree Gate, Leicester LE1 5AD (t: 0844 888 5181) (formerly Tourist Information Centre), or at the door.

NOTE:
This is a change to the original programme which was to have included the first performance of SONJA GROSSNER's Flute Concerto. Michael Sackin expresses his sorrow that this has to be postponed as he is still convalescing from a recent illness.

Sonja has written a flute/piano arrangement of the concerto which she hopes will be performed at Secular Hall in the next few months.

Time:

17:00

Location:

De City Suit, 80 Wharf Street, LE12AA

Description:

THEATRE PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION


India's leading political theatre company, Jana Natya Manch (JANAM, http://www.jananatyamanch.org) is performing at Loughborough University as part of their UK tour!




Ye Bhi Hinsa Hai' ('This Too is Violence')
A play examining violence against women

16 June, 17:00 - De City Suit, 80 Wharf Street, LE12AA. contact Mohinder 0740 412 6275 or Dyal Bagri 0796 406 8693

18 June (Tuesday), 16.30-18.00 Room B1.14, Brockington Building, Loughborough University. contact: Pawas Bisht, p.bisht@lboro.ac.uk


The language of the performance is Hindustani, the spoken language of North India. Detailed synopsis in English will be provided.
The performance will followed by a discussion on the issue of violence against women.


Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/428770540555289/


All welcome. Please share widely.

Time:

18:30

Location:

Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB

Description:

Borges and Memory.

Prof Rodrigo Quian Quiroga of Leicester University will connect how neuroscience understands how the brain deals with concepts with way that author Jorge Luís Borges describes them.

Links:
University of Leicester: http://www2.le.ac.uk/departments/engineering/people/academic-staff/rodrigo-quian-quiroga
Funes the Memorious by Borges (short story): http://www.srs-pr.com/literature/borges-funes.pdf

All welcome - Admission Free (a collection will be taken). Refreshments.

Time:

16:30

Location:

Loughborough University

Description:

THEATRE PERFORMANCE AND DISCUSSION


India's leading political theatre company, Jana Natya Manch (JANAM, http://www.jananatyamanch.org) is performing at Loughborough University as part of their UK tour!




Ye Bhi Hinsa Hai' ('This Too is Violence')
A play examining violence against women

16 June, 17:00 - De City Suit, 80 Wharf Street, LE12AA. contact Mohinder 0740 412 6275 or Dyal Bagri 0796 406 8693

18 June (Tuesday), 16.30-18.00 Room B1.14, Brockington Building, Loughborough University. contact: Pawas Bisht, p.bisht@lboro.ac.uk


The language of the performance is Hindustani, the spoken language of North India. Detailed synopsis in English will be provided.
The performance will followed by a discussion on the issue of violence against women.


Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/428770540555289/


All welcome. Please share widely.

Time:

19:30

Location:

Please check venue on Skeptics in the Pub website (Square Bar has closed)

Description:

Skeptics in the Pub: What's Wrong with Evidence-based Policy

Jamie Whyte

Simon writes: "We doubt Whyte's support for free markets will be to everyone's taste. I anticipate an extremely interesting talk followed by a passionate debate in the Q&A. I've been trying to get Whyte to speak for more than two years. This should be challenging & fun."

Details: http://leicester.skepticsinthepub.org/Event.aspx/1593/Whats-Wrong-with-Evidencebased-Policy

This is not a Leicester Secular Society event, so please check with the organiser's website for last minute changes.

------

UPDATE: Anne Marie Waters talk on the One Law for All Campaignis on 16 July.

Full details from Skeptics in the Pub: http://leicester.skepticsinthepub.org/

Time:

19:30

Location:

John Storer House, Wards End, Loughborough LE11 3HA

Description:

Launch meeting of Loughborough LEFT UNITY

Left Unity is working towards forming a new political party with new ideas!

Left Unity supports taking essential services back into State control, ensuring that groups of people are not discriminated against, sustainability, caring for the environment; finding non-violent ways to sort out conflicts, and presenting an economic alternative to austerity for the majority, changing the economic system to benefit everyone – (not just those who have money and power!)

More: http://fridayroom.wordpress.com/2013/06/09/launch-of-loughborough-left-unity/
Contact Ray 07580952761 or leftunity loughborough @ gmail .com (close spaces)

Time:

13:00 - 18:45

Location:

Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB and other venues

Description:

It’s Refugee Week 17th – 23rd June

Exhibition all week at Central Library, Bishop Street, Leicester

What is Asylum?
Who is a refugee?
Come and find out more and how you might help

20 June:
13:00 - 16:00 Open Day at our Drop in session: St Martins House by the Cathedral 1-4pm
17:15 - 18:45 Public event at Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate

Leicester City of Sanctuary - Working to create a culture of welcome in the City and County of Leicester

More details: http://www.cityofsanctuary.org/leicester

Time:

12:15

Location:

Leicester Adult Education College, Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6HL

Description:

Free lunchtime lecture:

Should someone intervene in Syria? A view from international law.

Henry Jones, School of Law, University of Leicester

http://www.lasals.co.uk/docs/lunchtimelectureslist.pdf
Contact: berta. stevens @ leicester . gov .uk (close spaces)

Time:

19:30

Location:

The Nave, St Paul's Church, 1 St Paul's Rd, London N1 2QH

Description:

BHA Choir One Life Concert to celebrate World Humanist Day

Doors 7.00 p.m. for 7.30 p.m. concert.

The BHA Choir will be singing a selection of life affirming songs and some well loved favourites such as Every Sperm is Sacred, Fix You, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Life on Mars, Do You Realise.

The evening will be compèred by The Sunday Assembly's Sanderson Jones.

Speakers include Professor Chris French, Iszi Lawrence, Alom Shaha, Andrew Copson and Stevyn Colgan with more to be confirmed.

The evening promises to be thought provoking as well as thoroughly entertaining.

Tickets - One Darwin (£10).

You can purchase tickets through this link to the BHA. http://humanism.org.uk/choironelife

For more information contact: bhachoir@yahoo.com.

Any updates will be posted no doubt on Meetup: http://www.meetup.com/Central-London-Humanists/events/116180052/?a=ea1_grp&rv=ea1&_af_eid=116180052&_af=event

Time:

09:30 - 17:00

Location:

Central Hall, Storey’s Gate, Westminster, London SW1H 9NH

Description:

The People’s Assembly Against Austerity

From the Launch Letter in The Guardian:

"This is a call to all those millions of people in Britain who face an impoverished and uncertain year as their wages, jobs, conditions and welfare provision come under renewed attack by the government. With some 80% of austerity measures still to come, and with the government lengthening the time they expect cuts to last, we are calling a People’s Assembly Against Austerity to bring together campaigns against cuts and privatisation with trade unionists in a movement for social justice. We aim to develop a strategy for resistance to mobilise millions of people against the Con Dem government.

"The assembly will provide a national forum for anti-austerity views which, while increasingly popular, are barely represented in parliament. A People’s Assembly can play a key role in ensuring that this uncaring government faces a movement of opposition broad enough and powerful enough to generate successful co-ordinated action, including strike action. The assembly will be ready to support co-ordinated industrial action and national demonstrations against austerity, if possible synchronising with mobilisations across Europe. The People’s Assembly Against Austerity will meet at Central Hall, Westminster, on 22 June."

More from http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk
Registration: http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/register/
Launch Letter and full list of signatories: http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/the-peoples-assembly/launch-letter/
Owen Jones: http://thepeoplesassembly.org.uk/owen-jones-on-the-peoples-assembly-making-a-movement/

Time:

10:00

Location:

Junction of Markfield Lane and Main Street, Newtown Linford, Leicestershire

Description:

Walk leader Terry writes:

"Our Summer Solstice walk will take place on Sunday, June 23 - the closest Sunday to Midsummer Day. Time tba.

"It will be a 4.5 mile circular walk, starting and ending at Newtown Linford. It will last around two-and-a-half hours, including breaks. I shall be leading it.

"Newtown Linford is around seven miles from the centre of Leicester. It is reached by driving north on the A50. Shortly after the A50 crosses the A46, the second turning on the right is Newtown Linford Lane.

"We start at 10 a.m. If you arrive early, you can park at the start of Markfield Lane - it's signposted Markfield (A50) (M1), which runs west from Newtown Linford Main Street, at the north west end of the village. That is where the walk starts. Otherwise you can park in Main Street.

"The walk will be mainly through woodland. There are several stiles and a few climbs. There will be a little walking on roads with pavements.

"What to wear: walking boots are ideal, though stout trainers would be adequate (have a second pair of footwear with you); a warm and waterproof coat; a sweater, worn or carried; headgear to suit the weather. What to bring: hot and/or cold drinks; something to nibble, say biscuits or a banana, carried in a small rucsac. We ain to start at 10, so allow time to park and get boots on, etc.

"Lunch after the walk will be at the Post Office Tea Rooms in Newtown Linford. Tables will be reserved for us. An inexpensive place: you can get a meal, e.g. an all-day breakfast, for less than a fiver. Vegetarian options are available. Sorry it will be a non-alcoholic lunch: Newtown Linford's pub is currently closed for refurbishment.

"The walk will not interfere with the Secular Hall evening meeting - it will be over long before then.

"Any queries, email me, terrylee 74 @ talk talk.net (close spaces), or phone 01509 767317. It would be useful for me to know beforehand if you plan to go on the walk and / or lunch."

Time:

18:30

Location:

Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB

Description:

Asylum Seekers - The Modern Untouchables.

Pam Inder (Chair) and Bessie Hayes (Vice Chair) of Leicester City of Sanctuary will set the record straight on asylum seekers and talk about the work of LCS

More: http://www.cityofsanctuary.org/leicester

All welcome - Admission Free (a collection will be taken). Refreshments.

Time:

12:15

Location:

Leicester Adult Education College, Wellington Street, Leicester LE1 6HL

Description:

Free lunchtime lecture:

Are 'right' and 'wrong' just matters of opinion?

David Moss, Department of media and communications and department of Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester

http://www.lasals.co.uk/docs/lunchtimelectureslist.pdf
Contact: berta. stevens @ leicester . gov .uk (close spaces)

Time:

19:00

Location:

Embrace Arts, Richard Attenborough Centre, Lancaster Road, Leicester

Description:

Mazloom is a portrait of a young refugee, alone in London, whose life is being torn apart by the impending prospect of deportation to Afghanistan, where indiscriminate violence and Taliban intimidation await.

This short, powerful theatre performance incorporates immersive film footage to recreate the long perilous journey to Europe and the agonising wait for the life-or-death decision on their asylum claim.

Mazloom is based on the experiences of young Afghans, who as children were forced by war to leave their family and home to seek safety in the UK.

Details and booking: http://mazloom.org.uk/

Location:

Dublin, Ireland

Description:

Womens Rights are Human Rights

Atheist Ireland's international conference on Empowering Women Through Secularism

29 - 30 June 2013

Speakers include:

Dan Barker, Freedom From Religion Foundation, USA
Ophelia Benson, author and commentator, USA
Ann Brusseel, Member of Flemish Parliament, Belgium
Mairin de Burca, writer and secularist, Ireland
Carlos Diaz, President Atheist Alliance International, Argentina
Jane Donnelly, Education Policy Officer Atheist Ireland
Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freedom From Religion Foundation, USA
Anthea McTiernan, reproductive rights activist and journalist
PZ Myers, science professor and blogger, USA
Maryam Namazie, Fitnah Movement for Women’s Liberation
Taslima Nasrin, novelist and activist, Bangladesh and India
Michael Nugent, Chairperson Atheist Ireland
Nina Sankari, Polish Rationalist Association
Farhana Shakir, lawyer and legal consultant, Pakistan
Kate Smurthwaite, comedian and activist, Britain
Anne Marie Waters, One Law for All Campaign, Britain
Rebecca Watson, Skepchick network, USA

More information and booking here: http://ewts2013.com/.

Time:

11:00 - 16:30

Location:

Orange Rooms, 9 Newarke Street, Leicester LE15SN

Description:

Succession & Power: Republic Annual Conference

This year’s guest speaker is Tanya Gold, who writes "It is not so much what monarchy does that offends me, but what it does not do. It does not tell us that we are free and equal, and that any child born can do anything."

Republic will be launching its Born Equal campaign as a direct challenge to the media’s unquestioning royal baby-hype.

Booking essential. Open to members and non-members of the Republic campaign.

Details and booking: http://www.republic.org.uk/annualconference

Location:

Dublin, Ireland

Description:

Womens Rights are Human Rights

Atheist Ireland's international conference on Empowering Women Through Secularism

29 - 30 June 2013

Speakers include:

Dan Barker, Freedom From Religion Foundation, USA
Ophelia Benson, author and commentator, USA
Ann Brusseel, Member of Flemish Parliament, Belgium
Mairin de Burca, writer and secularist, Ireland
Carlos Diaz, President Atheist Alliance International, Argentina
Jane Donnelly, Education Policy Officer Atheist Ireland
Annie Laurie Gaylor, Freedom From Religion Foundation, USA
Anthea McTiernan, reproductive rights activist and journalist
PZ Myers, science professor and blogger, USA
Maryam Namazie, Fitnah Movement for Women’s Liberation
Taslima Nasrin, novelist and activist, Bangladesh and India
Michael Nugent, Chairperson Atheist Ireland
Nina Sankari, Polish Rationalist Association
Farhana Shakir, lawyer and legal consultant, Pakistan
Kate Smurthwaite, comedian and activist, Britain
Anne Marie Waters, One Law for All Campaign, Britain
Rebecca Watson, Skepchick network, USA

More information and booking here: http://ewts2013.com/.

Time:

18:30

Location:

Secular Hall, 75 Humberstone Gate, Leicester LE1 1WB

Description:

The Case for Humanity.

Allan Hayes, Humanist representative on Leicester Standing Advisory Council on Religious Education (RE), wants RE to be replaced by education in Life and Humanity.

More: http://www.reonline.org.uk/supporting/re-matters/news-inner/?id=18250

All welcome - Admission Free (a collection will be taken). Refreshments.

In the interest of freethought and free speech we also list other selected events of interest - no endorsement or responsibility is implied. Always check details with the organisers.

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