The Forum Featuring Pádraig Ó Tuama
THE FORUM
FEATURING PÁDRAIG Ó TUAMA
MARCH 24 , 2021 | 6PM | VIRTUAL EVENT
The Forum is a conversation and speaker series that connects the humanities to our civic enterprise.
Pádraig Ó Tuama’s work centers around themes of language, power, conflict and religion. He is the author of four books of poetry and prose: Daily Prayer with the Corrymeela Community, In the Shelter, Sorry for your Troubles, and Readings from the Books of Exile. He presents the podcast Poetry Unbound with On Being Studios, where he also has responsibilities in bringing art and theology into public and civic life. From 2014-2019 he was the leader of the Corrymeela Community, Ireland’s oldest peace and reconciliation community. We will talk to him from Belfast about how story and language has helped him address sectarian conflict and can help us strengthen democracy.
Connect. Consider. Ignite. The Forum has a three-part structure: during the first third of the event audience members will connect in small groups prompted by a question; the middle third is a discussion with our guest speaker ending with a question posed to the audience for consideration; the final third is a facilitated conversation with the audience discussing the question and igniting ideas.
