CommuNIqué - Newsletter of the Bahá'í Community in Northern Ireland
Issue 116 - 4 Jamál 163 BE - 1 May 2006 CE

 

EVENTS AND ANNOUNCEMENTS

 

THE LAUNCH OF THE FIVE YEAR PLAN FOR NORTHERN IRELAND

A One Day Conference
The Armagh City Hotel
2 Friary Road

Saturday 13 May 2006
9.30am – 5.00pm

Refreshments served on arrival
Lunch provided
Separate area for parents with children

‘Heroes are they, O my Lord, lead them to the field of battle. Guides are they, make them to speak out with arguments and proofs. Ministering servants are they, cause them to pass round the cup that brimmeth with the wine of certitude. O my God, make them to be songsters that carol in fair gardens, make them lions that couch in the thickets, whales that plunge in the vasty deep’
‘Abdu'l-Bahá

DRECTIONS FOR ARMAGH CITY HOTEL:

Armagh City Hotel, 2 Friary Road, BT60 4FR
(Friary Road is at the bottom of the map, left side of the triangle of green space. To help you get your bearings: the Mall is the ovoid green space just right of centre)

Armagh city map

Coming from Belfast: 40 miles (about 45 mins)
1. Down the M1
2. Leave at Junction 11 onto M12
3. Follow the A3 and signs to Armagh.
4. The A3 goes right into the Mall in Armagh

Coming from Londonderry and Omagh: 70 miles (32) (about 80 mins)
1. Via Omagh
2. 3rd exit at Ballygawley roundabout
3. A4, A5 and A28 into Armagh.

oming from Enniskillen: 50 miles (about 70 mins)
1. Leave Enniskillen by the A4
2. Via Clogher and Aughnacloy
3. A28 towards Caledon then Armagh

Coming from Newry: 19 miles (about 30 mins)
1. Leave Newry by the A28
2. In Armagh turn into Friary Road on the A3.

Coming from Coleraine: 60 miles (about 90 mins)
1. Leave Coleraine by the A29
2. Follow the A29 all the way to Armagh via Dungannon.


A YOUTH WEEEKEND WITH A DIFFERENCE!

A deepening on Saturday 17 June in Kilbroney Forest Park followed by a hike up the mountain for an overnight stay (bring your own tent) and another deepening on Sunday morning, again in the park Contact Leigh Byrne or Darragh Graham


NORTHERN IRELAND SUMMER SCHOOL

Summer School this year will take place once again at the popular Lorne Centre just outside Belfast. The School, whose theme is “Ripples of Joy”, will run from Monday 17 to Sunday 23 July.

For further information or to make an initial booking please contact the registrar Negin Elliott

PRICE ROLLBACK!
Not only have prices been held, we have even been able to reduce them slightly from last year!

Speakers include Barney Leith, Patrick O’Mara, Lesley Taherzadeh O’Mara, Val McGinley, Sepideh Taheri, Iain Palin, Dan Wheatley.

We live in interesting times, there is a lot going on in the Bahá'í world at the moment, and this is reflected in the programme. But there will be plenty of light-hearted stuff too. So don’t miss Summer School this year—it’s your event.

Any old Bahá’í books? Let them serve the Faith for someone else if you are finished with them. There will be a second-hand Bahá’í books stall at the School. If you would like to donate them then either bring them to the School or get them to Negin beforehand.


The Association of Bahá'í Women(Northern Ireland)
SPRING CONFERENCE

Theme:
'The Advancement of Women'

NICVA buildings - Belfast

Saturday 6 May 2006
9.30 am - 4.30 pm

Guest speaker: Dr Joan Smyth CBE
Chairman of the Northern Ireland Transport holding company

For further details, and registration please contact: Mahin Gornall.


DEVOTIONALS IN DERRY

Every Sunday morning, 11 am, in the Bahá'í Centre, 5 Clarendon Street.


SCOTTISH SUMMER SCHHOL

29 July—5 August

Information


Association for Bahá'í Studies (United Kingdom)

The Association for Bahá'í Studies (UK) Annual Conference will take place on 17-18 June 2006, at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies, University of London, Russell Square, London. The theme of this year’s Annual Conference relates generally to where the line is to be drawn between the acceptable and the unacceptable, the included and the excluded. There will be a particular focus on communities - where ‘communities’ is to be taken widely to include communities of knowledge and meaning, as well as various human communities.

Papers may, for example, relate to areas such as: stereotyping and exclusion, national boundaries and citizenship, keeping disciplinary rigidity or reaching across disciplinary boundaries, promoting security in the age of terror, self -identification as a marker of community membership, or community recognition as the identifier, where rights should be curbed in order for public life to be sustained.

Please send submissions in the form of an abstract (less than one page). It is intended that the conference proceedings will be made available on our website. ABSTRACTS for papers/presentations/workshops should be sent by 9 May 2001 to the Conference Registrar, Jane O’Hara.

The developments and increased interest in Bahá'í Studies that have led to the sub-division of former Association for Bahá'í Studies (English-Speaking Europe) are very exciting. Bahá'í Studies are not just for the academically-inclined—it’s an area anyone can be involved in.


Association for Bahá’í Studies (Republic of Ireland)

ADVANCE NOTICE and CALL FOR PAPERS

2006 Annual Conference “THE POWER OF THE WORD

Venue: Irish Baha’i Summer School, Newtown School, Waterford.
Dates: Afternoons of Wednesday 2, Thursday 3 and Friday 4 August 2006, 2.00 pm to 5.00 pm.

The Association for Bahá'í Studies in the Republic of Ireland is happy to announce its 2006 Annual Conference and invites submissions for papers, presentations and workshops addressing the theme of ‘The Power of the Word’, and other topics. Presentations can range from 20 to 40 minutes, followed by discussion. Please send submissions in the form of an abstract (100-200 words) by 31 May 2006 to Eamonn Moane.


UNIT CONVENTIONS, 2006

The dates for the forthcoming Unit Conventions in Northern Ireland will be Saturday or Sunday 21 or 22 October 2006 (depending on area). The Bahá'i Council asks you to put these dates in your diary. Unit Convention is an important event for every Bahá'í. Alternative events should not be arranged for this weekend.

 

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