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BRIGIT FESTIVAL 2007 Time & Date: Registration: Venue: Meals:
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Luce Irigaray: Becoming Divine in the Feminine
Sunday, October 8th, 2006: 2:00 - 6:00 pm
Register Now - Download Form (.doc)Luce Irigaray On Divinity by Mary Condren
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Celebrating The Landscapes
of Woman-Soul
- July 1st to 7th 2006
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Details for participants of CELEBRATING THE LANDSCAPES OF WOMAN-SOUL
- July 1st to 7th 2006
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The Sacred Feminine as Ideology and History: Is the Goddess a Feminist?
- Brigit Festival 2006
- January 29th
- TIME: 1:00 pm - 10:00 pm
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Julia Kristeva: Ethics, Politics, and Psyche
Dominated by myths of reason, Western cultures now struggle to understand the rise of religious fundamentalisms, the political threats of terrorism, and the proliferation of pornographic images that mirror the demise of Western Christianity. The promise held out by the Enlightenment is radically undermined: logic alone cannot do justice to the forces now unleashed on the social order.
Whereas psychoanalytic theorists, Sigmund Freud and Melanie Klein largely rejected mythic and religious consciousness, Julia Kristeva argues that the social unconscious, once given expression in religious form, must now be theorised anew. Aesthetic practices, and analytical listening are Kristeva’s preferred means of mediating individual and social trauma.
In this ten-session seminar we will begin by focussing on Kristeva’s relationship to the work of Freud, Klein and contemporary theorists. We will then analyse the usefulness of her distinct approach to nationalisms, the value of her work for feminist theory, and the implications of her approach for socio-symbolic practices such as religion. All readings will be from English translations.
Who should come?
Kristeva’s interdisciplinary approach is relevant to students of cultural theory, socio- symbolic practice, feminism, politics, psychoanalysis, philosophy, theology and religion. Some background in one or other of these disciplines would be helpful.
Participants will be expected to keep up with the suggested readings, some of which will be supplied (for the price of photocopying).
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Course Co-ordinator: Dr. Mary Condren is director of the Institute for Feminism and Religion and a Research Associate at the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, Trinity College Dublin. She is the author of The Serpent and the Goddess: Women, Religion and Power in Celtic Ireland (Harper Collins and New Island Books, 2002) and she is currently writing on the interplay of gender, violence, war, relationships, and religion. Further details on course: mcondren@tcd.ie.
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Venue: Catherine McAuley Centre, 23 Lr. Herbert Street, Dublin 2.
Dates: 10 weeks: January 26th to March 2nd (break) April 6 th to April 27 th
Time: Wednesdays, 7:30 ¾ 9:30
Cost: €140 Euro
Registration: (Please register in advance)IFR, 121 Barton Road East, Dundrum, Dublin 14. Cheques made out to IFR.
“ Learning from the Women Mystics: “To Laugh and Leap in ordered Dance”.
The theology of the medieval women mystics provides a profound and brilliant alternative vision of Christianity and reveals the conventional malestream theology to be partial, distorted and existentially insufficient both for themselves and for many women today. These women had no blueprint for laying open the way godwards for women, except fidelity to their own insights, and their intuition that the way to God had to equally available to all.
Course Co-ordinator: Mary Malone, author of the three volume work, Women in Christianity, taught theology for many years at Toronto School of Theology, St. Jerome’s University, and the University of Waterloo.
Venue: Catherine McAuleyCentre, 23, Lr. Herbert St. Dublin 2
Date: Feb. 26 th 2005, 10:00 ¾ 4:00
Cost: €40 Concession €20
Registration (Please register in advance) IFR, 121 Barton Road East, Dundrum, Dublin 14. Cheques made out to IFR.
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- Brigit Festival 2005: Weaving Our Fate
- Other Brigit Celebrations for 2005
- Julia Kristeva: Ethics, Politics, and Psyche
- “ Learning from the Women Mystics: “To Laugh and Leap in ordered Dance”.
Belfast Events from the Women's Spirituality Group
Programme for 2005
- Brigit Celebration
Tuesday 1st February 7.30 pm to 10.30 pm Friends Meeting House, Marlborough Park North, South Belfast Belfast
- Dancing the 5 Rhythms
with Caitriona Nic Ghiollaphradaig
Sat. 23rd April & Weekend of 25th/26th June Portadown
- Exploring the Power Within Creative Action Workshop With Janet O'Hagan Saturday 7th May Belfast
Contact Margaret McCullough for further details of these events.
Kinvara, Co. Clare.
IMBOLC: QUICKENING AND STILLPOINT -
The Institute for Feminism and Religion
is co-sponsoring with the
Ferns Diocesan Centre, St. Peter’s College
Women and Christianity: A Tapestry of Experience
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A six-week course with
Mary T. Malone
on
Tuesdays
October 5th - November 9th 2004
7:30p.m. - 9:30p.m.
Cost: €60
Ferns Diocesan Centre, St. Peter’s College,Wexford
This course will present a series of historical vignettes from the history of Christian women, exploring the available (and limited) evidence in order to (a) reveal lives of courage, ingenuity, brilliance, dynamism and hope, and (b) challenge the accepted malestream version of the core teachings of Christianity. From this exploration, an alternative version of the Christian reality will emerge.
Themes for the sessions:
1. Inclusion/Exclusion: Spinning the good news.
2. From Hidden Virgin to Mitred Abbess
3. Mystics, Heretics, Saints and Sinners: Exploring the Stereotypes
4. "Following dear Magdalene":Women of the Reformation
5. Side-stepping Trent:The Upside Down Church of Women
6. Global Connections:Truth-telling in a Multitude of Voices
To book a space on this course please download (pdf) and send the application form to:
Send to:
Enquiries: Phone: Dublin (01) 298 0573
and Sr. Finola at 053-45511 or 086 639 5607
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Reclaiming Women’s Soul download (pdf)
The role of myth, symbol, ritual,
and body in oppression and liberation.
Why do women often seem to be their own worst enemies? What effects
does internalised oppression have on our bodies and souls? How can we
understand erotic domination? What role is played by religion, myth, symbol in
shaping our bodies and forming consciousness? We will explore these
questions using feminist approaches to myth, theology, philosophy,
psychoanalysis, and two evenings on BodySoul work.
Course Director: Mary Condren,Theologian and feminist theorist.
Integrative Work: Marian Dunlea, Jungian analyst and BodySoul practitioner
Date: Wednesdays, October 6th to December 8th 2004
Time: 7:45 to 9:15.
Cost:: Advance booking €120 for ten evening sessions.
After September 30th €140.
Concessions: Fulltime students and social welfare recipients €60.
Special circumstances by negotiation.
Early arrivals may avail of tea/coffee in the coffee shop.
Marian Dunlea will be offering an additional one-day
Saturday workshop on BodySoul work on December 4th
Cost: €50 full fee. €25 concessions. Bookings taken during course.
Further Enquiries: Email: mcondren@tcd.ie
Note: Bookings cannot be made through email.
Course Bookings: To book a space on this course please download (pdf)
and send the application form to:
Institute for Feminism and Religion
Catherine MacAuley Centre,
23 Lwr. Herbert Street, Dublin 2.
Tel: 638 7500.
Enquiries: Dublin 462 4504 or 490 1408
Turing Back the Streams of War: Brigit’s successor, the abbess of Kildare, was known as An Cailleach Libhtí: She Who Turns Back the Streams of War. Where are women’s voices to be heard today? At this time of global crisis, who will turn back the tides of war? Are women naturally peaceful, or just passive citizens? Does peace come dropping slow as W.B. Yeats would have it, or is peace a raging mother fighting for the survival of her children and the earth?
In this course we will examine current feminist theory, and examine the writings of somewomen who raged against war æ among them æ Hannah Arendt, Rosalie Bertell, Simone de Beauvoir, Helen Caldicott, Dorothy Day, Marguerite Duras, Eva Gore-Booth, Joanna Macy, Virginia Woolf, and Simone Weil.
Course Director: Mary Condren Th.D.
Venue:
Catherine Macauley Centre, 23 Lr. Herbert Street, Dublin 1
Dates: 11:00 — 4:00 Saturdays: Jan. 17th, Feb. 14th, March
20th, April 24th, May 15th
Cost: €150 or €75 (state benefits)
Booking: Kitty Stafford, 121 Barton Road East, Dublin 14. Tel:
2980573
Celebrating the Festival of Brigit: Full day event, Saturday, January
31st 2004, at Kilnamanagh Family Recreation Centre. Brigit ritual,
Sunday morning Feb. 1st. Times and cost to be announced.
Visit our website www.instituteforfeminismandreligion.org
Feminist Theologies: The title Feminist Theology encompasses many diverse strands. Originally emerging from white women, as the movement has progressed other layers of oppression and domination have been identified. The term "Feminist Theology" now relates to a wide variety of perspectives and approaches: Womanist, Mujerista, Ecology, Goddess centred, Radical Feminist Spirituality. (Jointly sponsored by the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy).
Wednesday afternoons, January 14th to April 21st 2004. 26 X 1 hour sessions.
COURSE DIRECTOR: Mary Condren Th.D.
Book directly for Feminist Theologies to — Dr. Geza Thiessen, Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy, Milltown, Dublin 6. Tel: 296-8388. Fee €260 or €200 (state benefits).
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November 29th
Into Winter: A Creative Writing Day with poet, Ann McKay.
Prepare yourself to enter the cold and dark of the coming season and welcome with words the rewards of winter.
December 22nd
Winter Solstice Celebration
February 21st Into Spring:
Into Spring: Creative Writing Day with poet, Ann McKay,
Gather yourself to meet the light and warmth of the coming season and welcome with words the surging energies of spring.
March 6th and April 17th
Dancing the Five Rhythms with Catriona Nic Ghiollaphradraig
Download the (PDF) for more information
Brigit's Cloak
Winter Solstice CelebrationFriends
Meeting House Monday
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We aim to experience, honour and celebrate the darkness and stillness of the solstice. Bring
some finger food to share. Contact Margaret phone 3883 1819 email Margaretnorth@aol.com |
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Samhain Circle
Celebrate the Harvest and Remember our Ancestors
On October
31st /1st November we traditionally celebrate the end of the harvest
and give thanks for the gift of the earth and the bounty of its fruits.
In Celtic times the door between this world and the next world is said
to be open and spirits walk freely through the land, and so we remember
our dead.
We are inviting people from all cultures and traditions to an evening
of sharing their stories, food and music and to call on the wisdom of
our ancestors to guide us in this time of global crisis.
Venue:
Kilnamanagh Family Recreation Centre, Treepark Road,
Kilnamanagh, Dublin 24.
Date: November 1st 2003.
Time: 7:30 — 10:00 (programme), onwards for party lovers.
Booking: No need to book tickets, but please let us know if you
and friends are coming so we know how many to expect. Telephone 01-4901408,
01-4521199
Admission: Free. Bring cold finger food (sweet or savoury) to share with six others, and/or something to drink. An ethnic mix of foods would be great. Tea/coffee will be provided. A collection will be taken to benefit a women’s group in Iraq for post-war reconstruction.
Clothing: Wear comfortable loose clothing and shoes for dancing.
Program: Loosely structured to enable us to share our stories, poems, songs, wisdom, and memories.
Sponsors: Kilnamanagh Family Recreation Centre, and WISERTh (Women Imagining for Spirituality, Ethics, Ritual and Theology).
Directions To Kilnamanagh Family Recreation Centre:
M50:
Coming from North or South, take the Ballymount/ Cookstown exit. Follow
the signs to the Belgard Road, or Cookstown. You will drive about half
a mile. The new LUAS lines will be on your right. Take a left at the
top (at the dual carriageway) and take the next left (at Potterson Myson).
Follow the Mayberry Road until after you pass Dunnes Stores. Take another
left and
drive about another half a mile until you come to the Kilnamanagh Family
Recreation Centre on your right. Yellow railings are around the building.
Coming from Templeogue Bypass: Turn right at the Square, Tallaght, and drive about half a mile until you come to Potterson Myson on your right. Turn right for Kilnamanagh, and turn left after you pass Dunnes Stores. Drive another half a mile until you come to the KFRC on the right.
From
Greenhills Road Walkinstown, driving or by bus: If coming by bus,
(50, 77, 77A) get off at the Cuckoo’s Nest public
house. KFRC is across the road. If driving, take the first right after
the Cuckoo’s Nest (second traffic lights) and take the turn
before Dunnes Stores.
Lessons from History: The Minority Christian Report on Women
Mary T. Malone
10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Monotype Corsiva'">on
Wednesdays
October 15-November 19, 2003
7:30 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
(€20 individual sessions)
St. Louis High School
Charleville Rd., Rathmines
Dublin 6
This course will present a series of historical vignettes from the history of Christian women, exploring the available (and limited) evidence in order to (a) reveal lives of courage, ingenuity, brilliance, dynamism and hope, and (b) challenge the accepted malestream version of the core teachings of Christianity. From this exploration, and alternative version of the Christian reality will emerge.Themes for the sessions:
- Inclusion/Exclusion: Spinning the good news.
- From Hidden Virgin to Mitred Abbess
- Mystics, Heretics, Saints and Sinners: Exploring the Stereotypes
- “Following dear Magdalene”: Women of the Reformation
- Side-stepping Trent: The Upside Down Church of Women
- Global Connections: Truth-telling in a Multitude of Voices
Yes, I would like to attend Mary T. Malone’s six-week course Lessons from History at St. Louis H.S, Rathmines
Name:__________________________________________________
Address:__________________________________________________
E-Mail_______________________________ Phone:______________
The full course fee is €90. A deposit of €30 is required to secure a place as numbers are limited.
Enclosed: €_______ Make cheques payable to The Institute for Feminism and Religion
Send to: Kitty Stafford by the 30th Sept., 2003
Kitty Stafford
121 Barton Road East
Dundrum, Dublin 14
Inquiries: Phone: (01) 298 0573
E-mail: kittys@eircom.net
Autumn Equinox trip in Ireland
Hello Friends,
Please share the information with others who may be interested in these upcoming trips in Ireland. Many thanks for you help in networking on our behalf! Summers Blessings, Sonja Geoghegan
We still
have a few openings in our Autumn Equinox trip in Ireland:
September 12 - 21, 2003.
Our Pilgrimage
is based in Kerry this year with travels upland into the Hill of Tara,
Uisneach, the cairns of Loch Crew, Loch Gur Grange to mention a few of
our sites we plan to visit. We will relax in Irish Seaweed Baths and stay
at an Organic Farm in Co. Westmeath with wonderful food. Our trips are
small no more than 9 guests and the price is 1700 Euros. Our Itineary
is available at our website:
http://www.ancientgoddesspilgrimage.com
Pilgrimage for Susun Weeds
We also have created a pilgrimage for Susun Weeds first visit to Ireland
on
October 17 - 24, 2003.
Our pilgrimage will be centered in County Mayo with a Samhain theme. We will travel to Carrowmore area which is one of the largest concentrations of early megalithic sites in Europe. Walk to maeves Cairn & Ballmacgibbon Cairn, connected to the first meeting of the Firbolg & Tuatha de danann. Travel to Loughcrew and stone circle in Ballinvalley.
The complete
Itineary is online at Susun's website At:
http://www.susunweed.com/Ireland2003.htm
BRIGIT FESTIVAL 2003
Celebrating
Brigit
Guide to Planning, Preparing, and Presenting
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SEMINAR SERIES; LUCE IRIGARAY.
Over a series of Saturdays between November and May 2003, the Institute is offering a series of Seminars ont he work of Luce Irigaray. Details will shortly be posted to the website, but you may wish to take note of the details:
DATES: November
16th; December 14th; January 18th; February 15th; March
15th; April 12th; and May 17th.
TIME: 11:00 -- 4:00 --5:00 pm (Meet at 10:30 for tea/coffee) The late starting time is to allow for those who wish to come to Dublin from other parts of Ireland, to arrive by train, bus, etc. Bring your own lunch. Tea/Coffee will be provided.
VENUE: Catherine McAuley Centre, Herbert Street, Dublin
COST: 150 Euros. Photocopying costs will be in addition.
BOOKING: Booking details will be on this list shortly.
PARTICIPATION: Participation will available to those with some background in any of the various disciplines to which Irigaray's work relates: feminist theory, theology, psychoanalysis or philosophy. Those who have taken a number of Institute courses, or who have acquired those backgrounds through other means, should be fine. If you are in doubt about eligibility, please contact me directly at mcondren@tcd.ie
Participants will be expected to keep up with the readings. Some may wish to form groups and meet between sessions.
NUMBERS: Will be limited, to allow for optimum participation
The
Bard organisation is offering two summer events. Irish Myth: Diarmuid
and Grainne, July 9th to 13th; Classical Myth: The Odyssey, August 13th
to 17th. Both events are on Clare Island in Clew Bay, Co. Mayo.
E-mail bard@bard.ie
"Women's Ordination Worldwide" Conference in Dublin and tour, June 22- July 1, 2001
Northern Regional Events
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