Spring Newsletter

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Wealth and Poverty learning days

• Are we living in a material world?
• Do those who believe in the spiritual have any answers to the moral problems that wealth and poverty bring?

At the Wealth and Poverty Learning Day in Manchester you will have the opportunity to find out the beliefs of Christians, Jews and Muslims and discuss the following questions:

• Is it wrong to be rich when so many people are poor?
• Is there too much poverty for us to be able to do anything about it?

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Young Poet’s Competition

The Cathedral’s Young Poet’s Competition is back — this time running in line with the academic year.

This year’s theme is Loving life! and it has been carefully unpacked by Children’s poet Jan Dean to encourage children to get excited and write creative poetry:

Celebrate how great it is to be alive by writing a poem about something that makes you feel wonderful. It could be a person, a place, an event, a sound, a taste, a scent. It could be a big important thing like a huge migration of birds or animals, or a tiny personal thing like the wrinkles on your grandma’s hands. Celebrate the huge variety of things in the world, gnats and gnus, fruit and fleas, songs and seas.

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Anne Frank [+ You}

Last Updated on Sunday, 17 January 2010 12:56

A record number of school pupils visited the Cathedral during September to see the Anne Frank + You touring exhibition.

1800 pupils were able to view the exhibition, that featured a life-size reproduction of Anne’s bedroom plus narrative videos focusing on modern day experiences of the issues that Anne discusses in her diary, for example: war, racism, social justice and identity.

Thanks to funding from Manchester City Council we were able to offer free visits to the exhibition as well as creative workshops that were planned and facilitated by Visual Artist Laura Nathan.

A resource pack with lesson plans relating to Anne Frank and Contemporary issues is available to download on the Education pages of the Cathedral website - click here.

For further information about the exhibition please go to
www.annefranktrust.org

A big thanks goes to Laura, Ian, Colin, Jenny, Amanda, Andrew, David, Steve, Zahid and all the rest of our volunteers who made the Exhibition such a success!