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May 26 - BrightMed Talks: From "Convivencia" To "Concreancia"

26 May 2017

Local speakers have been invited to take part alongside world-renowned speakers in this year's BrighMed Talks. 

A spokesman for BrightMed Talks said: "The convivencia often refers to the interplay of cultural ideas between the three religious groups. Gibraltar is an example of how the people can live together in harmony. Our students are the leaders of the future and they will have to keep this way of living in peace."

The Brightmed Talks have invited different speakers from all around the World highly qualified to make the students aware on how to influence their own future on the 7th June, from 9am to 12am at Ince’s Hall.

The talks will be opened by the Minister of Education, Dr John Cortes, and will be conducted by Kath Temple. We mean by creation and transformation the key to transform the world starts through inner harmony and self-transformation.

There will be several talks of 10 minutes each where students are invited to look at themselves and transform for a better future. It will involve the participation of the sages of the med that will lead the Brightmed International Seminar the day after: Andre Azoulay, head of the Anna Lindh Foundation; Dr Rama Mani, expert in International Peace, Winner of Peter Becker Peace Prize, Poet & Performance artist; Baroness Simone Weinberger, Woman of the Year 1991, activist for Peace, and she used to take part in the cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice for Belgium; Safia Taleb Ali Al-Souhail, Iraqi Politician and member of The council of representatives of Iraq, advocacy Director for International alliance for Justice human rights organisation; and Bakhtiar Amin, ex Human rights minister in Iraq.

Inspirational speakers such as Kath Temple will speak about ‘Kindness Warriors - The Kindness revolution’; Nalanie Chellaram: ‘Finding Peace In The chaos’; Molly Bedingfield: ‘Making Your Mark on the World’; Fiona Young: ‘The sound of Harmony - The mediation melody’; and Claudia Le Feuvre: ‘The Body symphony - Finding Your Middle C With Food & Body Balance’.

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