Interfaith Week Launch Event
Fri 7th Nov 2.0pm (Registration from 1.45pm)– Interfaith Week Launch Event
Location – Council House, Victoria Square
Programme will include – address by Lord Mayor, Cllr Zafar Iqbal; Cabinet Member, Cllr Jamie Tennant – see separate programme attached
Presentations from Deepak Naik, URI UK and Shari Brown, City of Sanctuary
Everyone welcome to attend
Contact – pjrookes@gmail.com
Hourly Schedule
Event Itinerary
- 1.45pm - 2.00pm
- Registration
- Arrival, Registration and Refreshments
- 2.10pm
- Arrival of the Lord Mayor
- 2.15pm
- Welcome and Housekeeping – Jimmy Suratia, Chair, Birmingham Council of Faiths
- 2.20pm
- Official Opening of the Birmingham Programme for National Interfaith Week – Cllr Zafar Iqbal, Lord Mayor of Birmingham
- 2.30pm
- Outline of IFW’s Significance & outline of Birmingham Programme - Dr Peter Rookes, Joint Secretary and 3rd Sector Liaison Officer, Birmingham Council of Faiths
- 2.45pm
- ‘One Song’ by Jalaluddin Rumi read by Shreen Mahmood with a reflection on a Sacred Call for Peace
- 2.55pm
- United Religions Iniative(URI)and IFW Steering Group – Deepak Naik MBE, Chair URI UK
- 3.05pm
- Faiths Serving the Community – Cllr Jamie Tennant, Cabinet Member for Social Justice, Community Safety and Equalities
- 3.15pm
- Musical – Emine Betul Kilinc
- 3.25pm
- City of Sanctuary – Faith Places of Sanctuary
- 3.35pm
- Faith-Art – Cheryl Homer, Westhill Endowment
- 3.45pm
- Candle lighting, Faith flags and Reflection – Dr Andrew Goldstein, Membership Secretary, Birmingham Council of Faiths
- 4.00pm
- Close