Events Calendar

 

Tues 4th May – “Tellus”: Eco-Communities Crowdcast

Virtual

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You […]

10-16 May – Christian Aid Week: Virtual / hybrid events

Zoom Session

10-16 May – Christian Aid Week: Virtual events In, around and beyond CA Week, virtual or “hybrid” events include: ‘Mary taught her son a lesson that day’ Women’s voices in the Bible This was held as a live event on Wednesday 12th May in St Mary’s-without-the-Walls, Handbridge, but still available to view on YouTube:  www.youtube.com/channel/UCHvzYJ1wjdH8XXy_gtovCBQ […]

Tues 11th May – CWDF Forum-by-Zoom (AGM)

Zoom Session

Tues 11th May - CWDF Forum-by-Zoom  (AGM) 7.00pm  Speaker Henry Sidsaph  on the theme Miténgo coffee, - tree planting through ethical coffee? Henry is a PhD researcher at the Business Research Institute at the University of Chester. Further details TBA. The AGM is an important opportunity to consider  the overall work of the Forum and […]

Wed 12th May – ‘Mary taught her son a lesson that day’  Women’s voices in the Bible

St Mary's Without-the-Walls Overleigh Road, Handbridge, Chester

An in-person event for Christian Aid in CA Week, an evening of storytelling, poetry and music. People are invited to reserve seats in the church, and it will also be available on Zoom and Facebook. Trevor will draw upon his young people’s Bible, The Book of Books, on four of his published collections of stories […]

Donation

Sat 15th May – Chester Friends of Palestine Street Vigil

The Cross, Chester

2pm to 4pm at The Cross, Chester. The vigil is to commemorate Nakba Day, the day when 750,000 Palestinians were driven out of their homes in 1948. If anyone would like to join us please contact Brian Rowe on 07752 949832.

Tues 25th  May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law (Day 1)

Webinar event

Tues 25th  & Wed 26th May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law Free online conference on the afternoons of these dates, organised by the Balfour Project. Exploring the distance between international law – which Britain has pledged to uphold – and the lived reality in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speakers include Baroness […]

Wed 26th May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law (Day 2)

Webinar event

Tues 25th  & Wed 26th May – Israel/Palestine: in search of the rule of law Free online conference on the afternoons of these dates, organised by the Balfour Project. Exploring the distance between international law – which Britain has pledged to uphold – and the lived reality in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. Speakers include Baroness […]

Tues 1st June – “Tellus” TV – Eco Communities Crowdcast

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You […]

Mon 7th June – CWDF “Extra”:  TED Zoom talk & discussion “How Africa can keep rising”

Virtual

Mon 7th June – CWDF “Extra”:  TED Zoom talk & discussion “How Africa can keep rising” 7.00 – 9.00pm.  A TED talk is a short video created from a presentation at the main TED (technology, entertainment, design) conference or one of its many satellite events around the world. Listening to/watching a TED talk gives us the opportunity to hear […]

Free

Tues 8th June -“Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast

Virtual

Every Tuesday 7pm – “Tellus” : Eco-Communities Crowdcast Chester FoE run Eco Communities TV on Tuesdays 7pm each week. If you have something you want to say, a community project you’re involved in, or you want to talk about or anything in the eco/ sustainable world you think people should know about get in touch. You […]

Wed 9th June – “Song of the Prophets: A Requiem for the Climate”

Virtual

Join us on Wednesday 9 June 7-8pm to witness the debut performance of a new orchestral work Song of the Prophets: A Requiem for the Climate. There will be an address from Dr Rowan Williams, former Archbishop of Canterbury, and a panel discussion with climate campaigners. Christian Aid has collaborated with Chineke! Orchestra - Europe's first majority-BME orchestra - and […]

Free

17-20th June – Walking Together during Refugee Week 2021

Chester Cathedral Gardens Chester

Walking Together during Refugee Week 2021 During Refugee Week 2021, June 14th – 20th, Chester City of Sanctuary group are creating a unique public art installation entitled ‘Walking Together’ in Chester Cathedral gardens, to show support to those forced to flee violence and persecution. We are hoping that over 1,000 people will ‘walk together’ with […]