What can A Living Tradition do in the community?
A Living Tradition can offer a number of activities, helping people to understand our heritage and to respond to it in positive ways.
A Living Tradition can offer talks, presentations and training about the regional heritage of human rights and community cohesion work and how it impacts upon our region and our world today. A Living Tradition charges £35 per hour for these services.
A Living Tradition also conducts Heritage Walks (see Heritage Walks page) - £5 per head for 2-hour walk
In addition we can offer the following courses for community groups and in community settings:
1) A course on our human rights heritage - Learning how people in the region have fought for their rights and those of others over the ladst 250 years. There will also
be a consideration of what we can learn from these struggles and how these events are linked to what is happening across the world today.. There will also be a
consideration of the shared values, which have helped to promote community cohesion in the past.
2) A course on human rights - What are human rights? How have they developed? What is the human rights situation across the region, the country, the world today?
How can we best respond to what is happening?
3) Coping with social change - threats and opportunities in a changing social environment. How has the region changed in the past? How does change impact
upon individuals? What are the threats and changes which come from social change? How can we best cope with social change? What are our shared values?
4) Beginners' guitar/song-writing - learning the guitar, learning to play songs by others and writing your own.
5) Short course on social-songwriting - how have people responded to social issues in the past? How can we write about what is happening today?
6) Creative writing course - examining different ways of writing creatively about our surroundings. This will include writing poetry, stories and articles. (See examples
of work in Community section - Millin Centre).
7) ESOL to help with song-writing and other creative activities - specially designed English course to help students to learn English and also help them to learn
techniques, to help them to learn to write stories, poems, articles e.t.c. (See examples of work in Community Section - Millin Centre).
8) Trips to local places of interest - There are many places associated with the heritage of humsn rights and community cohesion work across the region. These can
be visited and reflected upon later. including Newcastle Human Rights Heritage Walk.
9) Involvement in human rights and related campaigning groups across the region - contacts can be made with many groups axcross the region who campaign for
human rights and partiocipants in the work of a Living Tradition can get inviolved in their work as appopriate.
10) Development of international links with human rights defenders in other countries. Direct ;links can be made with human rights defenders in othrer countries.
These links can help to learn about human rights struggles in various parts of the world and help them to gain justice.
be a consideration of what we can learn from these struggles and how these events are linked to what is happening across the world today.. There will also be a
consideration of the shared values, which have helped to promote community cohesion in the past.
2) A course on human rights - What are human rights? How have they developed? What is the human rights situation across the region, the country, the world today?
How can we best respond to what is happening?
3) Coping with social change - threats and opportunities in a changing social environment. How has the region changed in the past? How does change impact
upon individuals? What are the threats and changes which come from social change? How can we best cope with social change? What are our shared values?
4) Beginners' guitar/song-writing - learning the guitar, learning to play songs by others and writing your own.
5) Short course on social-songwriting - how have people responded to social issues in the past? How can we write about what is happening today?
6) Creative writing course - examining different ways of writing creatively about our surroundings. This will include writing poetry, stories and articles. (See examples
of work in Community section - Millin Centre).
7) ESOL to help with song-writing and other creative activities - specially designed English course to help students to learn English and also help them to learn
techniques, to help them to learn to write stories, poems, articles e.t.c. (See examples of work in Community Section - Millin Centre).
8) Trips to local places of interest - There are many places associated with the heritage of humsn rights and community cohesion work across the region. These can
be visited and reflected upon later. including Newcastle Human Rights Heritage Walk.
9) Involvement in human rights and related campaigning groups across the region - contacts can be made with many groups axcross the region who campaign for
human rights and partiocipants in the work of a Living Tradition can get inviolved in their work as appopriate.
10) Development of international links with human rights defenders in other countries. Direct ;links can be made with human rights defenders in othrer countries.
These links can help to learn about human rights struggles in various parts of the world and help them to gain justice.
