Inspiring Nonviolence zine
A zine made made by Wur Bradford artists Uzma Kazi and Jean McEwan in response to ‘Inspiring Nonviolence’, an online course run by Turning The Tide, a nonviolence social change programme funded by Quakers in Britain, in collaboration with Woodbrooke, who provide Quaker learning including courses about peace and justice. The course took place from February to April 2020, and comprised of a group of community activists, thinkers, speakers, listeners, artists, campaigners and researchers from around the world, who came together online to explore hopes, ideas and collective power to undertake imaginative, nonviolent action for positive social change. The zine captures and some of the ideas, thoughts, hopes and stories from the course, from Uzma and Jean, artists with grassroots project Wur Bradford, who work to explore change through creativity in their work with people and communities in Bradford, UK To find out more about Turning The Tide visit https://turningtide.org.uk To find out more about Woodbrooke, visit https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/ To find out more about Wur Bradford visit https://twitter.com/wurbradford
A zine made made by Wur Bradford artists Uzma Kazi and Jean McEwan in response to ‘Inspiring Nonviolence’, an online course run by Turning The Tide, a nonviolence social change programme funded by Quakers in Britain, in collaboration with Woodbrooke, who provide Quaker learning including courses about peace and justice.
The course took place from February to April 2020, and comprised of a group of community activists, thinkers, speakers, listeners, artists, campaigners and researchers from around the world, who came together online to explore hopes, ideas and collective power to undertake imaginative, nonviolent action for positive social change.
The zine captures and some of the ideas, thoughts, hopes and stories from the course, from Uzma and Jean, artists with grassroots project Wur Bradford, who work to explore change through creativity in their work with people and communities in Bradford, UK
To find out more about Turning The Tide visit https://turningtide.org.uk
To find out more about Woodbrooke, visit https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/
To find out more about Wur Bradford visit https://twitter.com/wurbradford
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This zine gives an insight of some inspiring moments from the
course, which we hope will also inspire others who are
interested in learning about non-violence and peacebuilding,
too. There has been a vast amount of material shared and
we would like to thank all of the organisers, speakers and
participants for their spirit of generosity and sharing of life
experiences, which has been incredibly insightful for us, as
learners and artists, processing the knowledge we have
gained with creativity.
Through the period of this course, the World has been forced
to close its doors due to the Covid19 pandemic. It has
brought the global family and Mother Earth to pause ‘until
further notice’. This is a critical time and anxiety is
streaming high. At the same time many more are connected
in ways that we were not/could not before. Systemic power
and failings of the state are becoming more apparent. Still,
we are told to wait and #StayAtHome to #SaveLives. The
vital work around peacebuilding and non-violence continues.
David Gee and George Lakey offer some hopeful reflections
to see the opportunities of the virus as it offers space to
take stock and go on an inner-journey with this rare gift of
time we sit in, as nature continues to do its thing.
For more information about Turning The Tide, please visit
https://turningtide.org.uk. For more information about
Woodbrooke, visit http://woodbrooke.org.uk
With love, active hope and some gentleness at this time.
Jean McEwan and Uzma Kazi (Artists and participants of
Inspiring Nonviolence 2020)
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