What would it mean to look with our souls at the relationships between land, material and each other?

Join us at Centre of the Earth on Monday, 25 September for a magical woodland dinner with award-winning writer and poet Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan for the launch of her upcoming book, Seeing for Ourselves: And Even Stranger Possibilities.

Alongside Suhaiymah, we have neighbours Elilta Tiruneh and Noor Shah joining us to share their experiences of what it means to be able to see for ourselves in our homes, streets, neighbourhoods and places of study in a time of transition.

Dr Lisa Palmer, Yonatan Tiruneh and Aisha Garwood also join us to explore what it would mean to look with our souls at the relationships between land, material and each other.

This special dinner follows on from the Retrofit for Energy Reduction Skills for Transition class during the day as a means to deepen our practice around the many spaces for learning of all kinds together in the neighbourhood, but it is open to anyone who would like to share in this ritual for reflection and connection as part of the wider Retrofit Reimagined 2023 festival season.

Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan is a poet and writer whose work disrupts assumptions about history, race, violence and knowledge. She is the author of Seeing for Ourselves, Tangled in Terror and the poetry collection Postcolonial Banter; a co-author of A FLY Girl’s Guide to University; and a contributor to the anthologies Cut from the Same Cloth? and I Refuse to Condemn. She is based in Leeds and is currently writing for theatre.

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