Faith Space (Saturday)

Faith Space

• Venue: Global Village, Carlisle Pier
• Saturday
  11:00 - 19:00 | Free
• Performance & Special Events

Alongside performances in a beautiful yurt the Faith Space zone plays host outdoors to a mural display of the tree of compassion for your contributions, children’s dove-wreath making with Girl guides and a Tibetan prayer flag station and if you simply want to relax and chat, sip green tea and enjoy a silent pause among others you can do so while reflecting on the Golden rule across various faith traditions.

11.00 – 12:00
Lama Nyendak & Drepung Loseling Monks

Lama Nyendak and Drepung Loseling Monks will be launching Faith Space in a very sacred way. Faith Space will be opened with chanting to bless the venue and Lama Nyendak will then share a teaching on Compassion in Tibetan Buddhism. A few moments of silent mediation with the Mani Mantra chat will be followed by a Q & A exchange with the monks.

12:00 – 12:20 (Photo exhibition all day)
Faces of India by Sasha Mihalova – Photo Exhibition & Reflection

Sasha Mihalova has travelled throughout East Asia photographing people across Thailand, India, Cambodia and Laos. From her travels Sasha highlights how she has learned the art of patience not just in awaiting the right moment to engage others but in the life and faces of the people she captures and how they bring into focus the harmony between tradition, simplicity and perseverance in the places they inhabit.

12:30 – 13:30
Sikhism Spiritual Music of Guru Granth Sahib

With various ages and inputs enjoy an hour long performance of a beautiful set of spiritual songs and music with hymns of Guru Granth Sahib by members of the Sikh Council. This live performance and set will form part of an exchange in spiritual mediation with the audience and also sharing reflections on Sikh faith and compassion in Sikhism. Members of the Sikh community will be at faith space all weekend to meet with and share in discussions.

13:30 – 14:15
A Guides Own Ceremony & Unity Wreath: Irish Girl Guides

A Guide’s Own is a very special type of ceremony, used at Guiding events as a time for personal reflection for people of all faiths. Witness and share with the guides celebrating the good in people, kindness, compassion, charity, respect, empathy, call for greater cooperation between people, encourage the girls to live up to their full potential and ask that people do their best to live life in a moral and ethical way.

14:30 – 16.00
The Golden rule from Belfast to Coimbatore: Youth for Unity Repertoire

Youth for Unity are a group of people (10-17 years) who strive to build a more united, peaceful and just world across the divides of religion, race and class.  They do this by committing to living the Golden Rule present in the sacred books of all the major religions. It’s a simple rule centered on solidarity, peace, justice and love for others, regardless of colour, race or creed.  Over the weekend Youth for Unity will be sharing their powerful music and travelogue of activities and journeys that has taken them on life changing missions from Dublin to Belfast to India and back again.

16:00 – 17:00
‘Sanctuary’: 24 Asylum Monologues, FOMACS.

Casting director and professional storyteller Jack Lynch will introduce ‘Sanctuary’ – a collection of stories of people seeking asylum in Ireland. Produced by FOMACS (Forum on Migration and Communications www.fomacs.org), it comprises 24 ultra-short monologues, all less than one minute long, in which the stories of people who have sought asylum and received refuge in Ireland are recounted and performed by actors and writers living here. From George Seremba’s extraordinary story of escaping death in Milton Obote’s Uganda, told by the actor himself, to the stories of unaccompanied minors forced into exile, those stuck in legal limbo in the asylum system, and of people triumphing over huge odds to make new lives in Ireland, Sanctuary tells stories of loss, survival, tragedy and perseverance. Sanctuary stars Sebastian Barry, Marian Keyes, Mick Lally, Eileen Walsh, Aidan Kelly, and other leading performers and writers, some of whom will be present to perform to and interact with audiences.

17:00 – 18:00
Ancient Irish Sacred Mantras and Soundscapes: Sinead Whyte

Beautiful, mysterious and haunting are the sounds of the Ancient Irish Mantras. Sinead will celebrate three of the Tuatha De Dannann Deities – Dian Cécht, Nuada and Ógma and demonstrate how to shift from one-emotional state to another by playing with the sounds. Sinead will explain the relevance of these sounds in bringing enhanced compassion into our lives today and to the world we live in as we re-connect with the Ancient Light of Ireland.

18:00 – 19:00
Self to Sound vibrations: with music and chanting from ISKCON

ISKCON will be closing out the Faith Space with the sounds of efficacious chanting and those they say who engage in it experience an immediate sense of deep happiness. This chanting is about connecting self to a sound vibration that is transcendental to the present temporal world and is carried out with beads and musical instruments. Alongside with the chanting the devotees will present the key concepts from ancient texts from India on karma and the nature of the soul.