We are delighted to have set up a branch of The Compassion Salon at Cuddesdon, in conjunction with the Salon founder and Director, Dr Marti Balaam.
Revd Dr Harriet Harris, who hosted Mary Gunn in conversation at the first Compassion Salon in Edinburgh, is Principal of Ripon College Cuddesdon. She held a window onto the Cuddesdon Compassion Salon at our Friends and Former Members Day, and was in conversation with Julia Hollander, a singer and writer, and the first woman, whilst still in her early 20s, to direct the English National Opera. Her several books and essays include When the Bough Breaks, Chicken Coops for the Soul, and Why we Sing, and they speak, among other things, to her relationship through singing to her severely handicapped child, and to people with dementia.
Our first Salon as such will take place at 7pm on Monday 15 June, in the Common Room at Ripon College Cuddesdon, Oxford, OX44 9EX.
The conversation will be with Professor Barbara Becnel, a leading racial justice activist in the US. Her work with the former gang leader Stanley Tookie Williams was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, made into the Golden Globe nominated film Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story. Becnel is a criminologist seeking to work with leaders around the world to reject publicly the Doctrine of Discovery and papal edicts or ‘bulls’ of the 1400s and 1500s that promoted a theological narrative of European domination and superiority, and to reconceive the social contract in more equitable ways.
Booking:
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