Conflicts of Caring

Sat 12 September, 12pm-4pm

Join M/others Against Genocide Scotland for an empowering day focused on collective care and connection.

How can we fight for a better world while sustaining each other and ourselves? How can we balance our immediate caring responsibilities with the care we feel for others? How can we love, resist, and keep hope alive?

We’ll be reflecting on our strengths, limitations and challenges, and invite you to come along and lay your struggles, questions and ideas alongside ours. Through stories, journalling, play and discussion, we’ll build resilience and hope.

This is a family friendly event and everyone is welcome. Vegetarian lunch will be provided but feel free to bring a picnic or something to share.

During this event you will be invited to witness the Baby Sock Memorial, created and toured by M/others Against Genocide Scotland. The installation commemorates children aged three and under murdered in Gaza by Israel.

Tickets are free but please book in advance. We will be taking donations for GINA Infant Nutrition Alliance on the door.

Programme

10am-12pm: New Mothers’ Writing Circle workshop
You must book tickets for this event separately so that we can tailor the workshop to the needs of participants. Please book here.

12-12.30pm: Join Wee Peaceful Readers for children’s stories exploring empathy, kindness, racial and ethnic diversity, love, feminism, the environment, humanity, gender inclusivity and peace.

12.30-1.30pm: Lunch will be provided.

1.30pm: Short talks from invited guests.

M/others Against Genocide Scotland are activists who embrace artistic practice, recognising its ability to further the liberatory struggle. Using words, images, objects, bodies, they seek the transformative moment when individual emotion metabolises into collective power.

Israa Hatem Aljaish is a Palestinian researcher from Gaza, and a PHD candidate in Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews. Her research explores higher education, agency, and wellbeing under genocide, with a focus on the agency and the academic continuity in Gaza.

Dr Antonis Vradis
is a geographer working at the universities of St Andrews and Oslo. He was detained by the Israelis while travelling with the Greek delegation of the Global Summed Flotilla in May.

Dr. Lorna McKerracher, GINA Infant Nutrition Alliance, is a Neonatologist & Baby-friendly Initiative Lead NHS Scotland. GINA is a growing circle of volunteers spanning different countries and backgrounds, all united in determination to provide a healthy start in life for innocent children.

2.30-3.30pm:
Join M/others Against Genocide Scotland to write notes/letters/cards of support to people in Gaza.

4pm:
Event closes