Interfaith Soc meeting this tursday

Hi, Everyone. Next Tuesday is usual curry meal + film. We will be discussing the Banquet which is happening in three weeks. Oh, and why not discuss about Danish Cartoon controversy? Last weeks' discussion about Sharia comment made by the Archbishop of Canterbury was interesting.

James. Can you finalise the time and the room. Plus could you ask Garry to make the poster.
Mo. Can you bring my memory stick and "Everything is Illuminated"
Kevin. Can you make a contact with Hindu speaker.
Enrique. If you are attending, could you bring two special funding request forms.

Cheers.
Yoji

Last week's email

Hi everyone. There will be a meal followed by a documentary film called "The Great Silence" and is about Cartoussian (a Catholic order) monks in the South of France. .

See you

Yoji

Interfaith meeting: film "Devil's playground"

Today we saw the film "Devil's playground" about life of Amish, especially the time when amish teenagers are allowed to mix with the outside world so they can make their own free choice on whether to join the church and stay amish for rest of their lives or leave the church, the film covered the lives and decisions of many amish teenagers. Mo prepared a delicious 3 course curry meal and Yoji got crisps and drinks for the film. 7-8 people attended. We also discussed the agenda for forthcoming Manchester peace week, the multifaith pilgrimage to glasgow, where to visit next week, invciting hare krishnas to teach us cooking etc.

Visit to Sri Harkishan Sahibji

Today at the Interfaith society, we saw the movie "Millions" about the little boy who has visions of many saints and gets a load of money and knows not what to do with it, it was great with all the crisps-chocolates-lemonades, full screen projector, humungous speakers, and all. But real pity only James, myself, Yoji and Kevin turned up to witness it. Then we made spontaneous move to Gurudwara Harkishan sahib on Sherborne street, where we were shown around by members of Sikh Soc and also treated to delicious Langar vegetarian meal of curry and chapati and drinks. We finally had long chat with the granthi (who reads the guru granth sahib scripture) and a committed devotee member of the temple. All in all it was an excellent experience.

8 October: Interfaith Soc. Film night

We're gonna watch a film called "Millions" about an idealistic kid from depressed south Manchester (not the oxford road corridor) who finds a sack of cash by the rail tracks, and has to decide what to do with it. It's a sweet film, showing how the money is perhaps seen with it's true value through the eyes of an innocent child. Munchies will be provided!

Films to be shown in Interfaith Society: Yoji's email

I'm streamlining the email regarding the film night. As far as InterSoc Film night goes, reply only to this email please and do not send any other email.

The films suggested so far are

Water
Saved!
Amen.
Sunshine
Millions
The Fountain
I Heart Huckabees
The Sweet Hereafter
Les Invasions barbares
Mar adentro
Monsieur Ibrahim et les fleurs du Coran
Waking Life
Le Grand Voyage

Thanks Hana. Le Grand Voyage is an excellent choise. I will try to get it for one of our film night. I missed it in my search because it didn't fit into my IMDB search criteria (mim 1000 vote). I will expand the search criteria further. I found few more.

David & Layla
Mr. and Mrs. Lyer
Devil's Playground
Bumbai
Kundun
Phörpa

For each month, I will try to show at least one religious themed film and another one with a theme relevant to religion/faith/spirituality (eg. euthanasia, meaning of life/reality, redemption, nature of evil etc).

If anyone is interested in finding a film, please feel free to use

http://www.imdb.com/list
or
http://uk.rottentomatoes.com/
or
http://www.metacritic.com/

There are 1000s of films to go through. Please set the minimum rating to at least 6, prefably 7. Any film reated below 6 are not good one by any standard.

May 1: Film John Safran Vs God

On Tuesday 1 May meeting, we continued watching the rest of the John Safran Vs God episodes http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Safran_vs_God (you can see most of them from youtube) including the very interesting exorcism episode with evangelist Bob Larson, with Bob "exorcising" John of all the daemons he picked up during his trials of all the earlier religions!

Apr 24: Film on John Safran Vs God

We watched four episodes of John Safran Vs God. If anybody is interested, a lot of the episodes are available on youtube, such as this one (treat for those of you who hate John Safran or think Buddhism is all fluffy and cute):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUXJrO_FiWk

Hope to see you next week for the next four episodes, including the most interesting one on his exorcism by an evangelical minister.

Feb 20: Film (Nightwatch), Islamic Awareness Week and Hindu Sewa Week

We watched the Russian Film Nightwatch (first in a trilogy, about a world where Gods and demons fight eternally and a class of beings called "other" keep the balance between the two)

Please do not forget to participate in the Islamic Awareness Week this week, to know more about Islam and muslims. Its facebook event page is http://manchester.facebook.com/event.php?eid=2237873498

They have events every day of the week, so hope all of you can attend at least the Wednesday exhibition and Mosque tour, Thursday exhibition and Friday meal. There are ISoc stalls outside student union, so you can go and sign up there (but you dont need to sign up to attend the ordianary events, only for the meal). Below is the information regarding the Islamic Awareness week.

ISLAMIC AWARENESS WEEK
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Asalaamu alaikum- peace be upon you,

Your Islamic Society of Manchester University warmly invites you to Islam Awareness Week Feb 19th-23rd 2007.

As every year, the ISOC organises a week of talks, exhibition, Q&A and FREE DINNER for the non-Muslims on campus With speakers coming all the way from London, Rome and Sydney.

Join us and discover what Islam says about Prophet Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad (peace be upon them).
Discover why our convert speakers (including an ex-priest) became muslims.
Discover more about Islam.

Monday 19th
PURPOSE OF LIFE
Speaker: Umar Abdullah
Venue: roscoe lecture theatre B
6pm.

Tuesday 20th
WHY I BECAME MUSLIM?
Speakers: Panel of reverts
Venue: roscoe lecture theatre B
6pm

Wednesday 21st
DISCOVER ISLAM EXHIBITION
Help yourself to the tasty treats, mint tea and wonder around the exhibition which aims to give you a taste of different aspects of Islam including: how the Quran and science are related, beautiful Islamic art, unity and hajj, prayer, hijaab and niqab, just to name a few.
Venue: MDH in students union
11am-4pm.

MOSQUE TOUR @Didsbury mosque
Venue: Didsbury Mosque
Time: Meet outside SU at 12pm

FILM SCREENING
Council chambers students' union
12pm

VATICAN TO AL-AZHAR
Speaker: Idris Tawfiq
Venue: roscoe lecture theatre B
6pm

Thursday 22nd
DISCOVER ISLAM EXHIBITION
Venue: council chambers in students' union

Q and A- IS THERE AN ISLAMIC THREAT?
Venue: renolds C9
5.30pm

Friday 23rd
FREE DINNER FOR NON- MUSLIMS
DOES ISLAM HAVE A PLACE IN THE WEST?
Venue; Sanam restaurant, Wilmslow Rd.
6pm

There will be a da'wa stall outside the Students' Union building (Oxford Rd) everyday from Feb 12th- 23rd to publicise the events and answer any questions on Islam that people may have, with free literature on Islam available too!!

For any more information, please email us at info@manchesterisoc.com or check out our website www.manchesterisoc.com .

Thank you and we hope to see you soon

wa alaikum assalam

your ISOC

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NHSF NATIONAL HINDU STUDENTS FORUM SEWA WEEK
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Hey all! Hows it going? Hope all is well.

I am currently promoting NHSF's 'Sewa' week a.k.a. Charity week. Sewa, in Sanskrit, is selfless
service, so this week is dedicated to doing our bit to give back to the world, and encouraging others to do the same. Below is the weeks program (I've also attached a more detailed word document to this email) It would be great to have as much support from everyone as it is obvious, from conversations with you all at the interfaith events, that Sewa week accommodates the principals common in all religions and faiths!
Monday

1-3pm University of Manchester Students Union – Promotional stand for blood donation and collecting money for Saraswati Vidayalya through individual sponsorship
Tuesday

12:30pm University of Manchester Students Union – Bake Sale raising money for charity.

6:00pm Asda, 100 Princess Road Hulme Manchester M15 5AS – A chance to give back to the community by helping customers pack their shopping and raising money.
Wednesday

1:00 – 4:00pm Aquatics Centre Swim-a-thon, swim and collect sponsors.
Thursday

7pm – late University of Manchester Students Union -Showing of the inspirational Gandhi with refreshments with all proceeds to charity.

Friday

A finale night of the week!!!

6- 10pm Manchester Metropolitan Students Union in the Conference suite.

There will be many fun activities including:

Wax-a-thon, Games, Raffle, Refreshments, Eat-a-thon and Mendhi.
Weekend

Come and help plant trees and help the environment. Details will be sent to you very soon!


Let as many people on your committee + members know about it, and I'll hopefully see you sometime next week!

I look forward to a positive response!

Please to not hesitate to contact myself, or Kalpa if you have any questions, suggestions etc...

Kunal

Nov 7: Film Night, a multifaith comedy

We watched a multifaith film organised by Oxana. Its called "The mad adventures of Rabbi Jacob". Its IMDB link is http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069747/ Oxana writes about it "It is a French comedy from the 1970s. It is about a man who starts off as a French Catholic chauvinist, but then has to disguise himself as a Rabbi and hide in the Jewish community to save himslef and an arab revolutionary. It is very funny and uplifting. "

Oct 24: Film (comedy) social

Because of reading week it seems not many people turned up: we saw a movie as planned: My Big Fat Greek Wedding. We also decided on the plan of the events for coming weeks.