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Courageous Conversations About Race: A series curated by Vimalasara

On Wed, 8 July, 2020 - 12:11
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Courageous Conversations About Race: A series curated by Vimalasara

Join Vimalasara, for the first conversation, with BIPOC/BAME Order members on Saturday 25th July 2020

USA PST 09:00-11:00 | México 11:00-13:00 | USA  EST 12:00-14:00 | IE & UK 17:00-19:00 | India 21:30-23:30

Vimalasara will be joined by a number of panelists: Amaragita, Danadasa, Nandaraja, Padmadhara, Singhashri, Sujiva, Suryagupta, Viveka

BSL interpreter provided

This event is in association with the International Triratna BIPOC/BAME Teaching Kula and supported by Buddhafield Festival. 

Courageous Conversations about Race is a series of 3 discussions curated by Vimalasara where members of the Triratna Buddhist Order will be talking about race from their personal experience.  

These conversations have been inspired by the recent uprisings against systemic and structural racism and the impact this has had on our Triratna Buddhist communities around the world. They are also a continuation of recent talks rooted in friendship between Viveka and Paramananda, and between Suryagupta and Subhuti (Part One can be found here and Part two here)

It’s hoped that as many institutions are reflecting on systemic racism, we as a Buddhist community can reflect on how we can make Triratna more diverse, and our sanghas more reflective of the populations that live where some of our centers are situated.  

Questions will be invited from the audience. These panel discussions are open to the whole of the Triratna Community and to all who wish to attend.

There will also be a British Sign Language (BSL) interpreter at this event.

More Conversations to come in the following weeks - keep an eye out here and on the Live Events page for more details

Vimalasara worked as an international correspondent covering aboriginal deaths in custody, and Lands Rights. She has a podcast series interviewing people working in the field of addiction/trauma and those with lived experience in this area. Vimalasara recently moderated a national panel in Canada: The African Canadian Response to the Pandemics and Uprisings. She is chair of Vancouver Buddhist Centre.

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Sudipta's picture

Many thanks to Vimalasara and the team for arranging conversations about BIPOC/BAME, it would be nice to see any Order member in the conversations from Indian Dalit community as well. Sudipta

kusaladevi's picture

Hello Sudipta,

Thanks very much for your comment - we’ll ensure we take your suggestion on board

With Metta

Sudipta's picture
Thanks a lot Kusaladevi, all the best. Much metta
Maitrisara's picture

Very much looking forward to this. Can you now add the link to the second conversation between Suryagupta and Subhuti? 

kusaladevi's picture

Hi Maitrisara!
Yes, thanks for the reminder for that - I’ll do that now x

Maitrisara's picture

I’ve been asked if the conversation will be recorded and available for watching afterwards?

kusaladevi's picture

Hi Maitrisara,

Yes, the event will be livestreamed on our Youtube channel (subscribe here!) and the recording will be available afterwards - there will also be an edited version (without the unnecessary live streaming bits!) added to our channel a day or so later

Metta x

Maitrisara's picture

Thanks Kusaladevi. 

viriyalila's picture

Thirty minutes in… brilliant, radiant, heart-opening. Thank you to everyone on the panel today for your willingness to share your experiences, thank you to Vimalasara to curating this panel and to everyone listening.