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Mevlana Rumi Mosque and Community Centre Annual Friendship Dinner

Tue, 21 Mar 2017 18:30 in Community Engagement
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Where: Mevlana Rumi Mosque and Community Centre, 337 Fore Street, London N9 0NU
Date: 21st March 2016
Time: 18:30

Mevlana Rumi Mosque and Community Centre organised a 'Friendship Dinner' with help from a team of Dialogue Studies MA students currently on a work placement at the Dialogue Society for 10 weeks. This year’s theme was 'Post-Brexit Britain: Communities in Collision or Cohesion'. Given the current climate and tensions both locally and globally, building and maintaining good community relations is even more paramount.

The purpose of friendship dinners is to bring people together and promote interaction and friendship between different groups within the local community. Sharing food is a wonderful way to promote interaction and friendship between people regardless of faith, culture, occupation or political outlook. The dinner is designed to stimulate and motivate individuals and community groups to engage in dialogue through an event combining a friendly shared meal with an element of constructive community discussion.

Friendship dinners also promote discussion of important social issues, encouraging people to reflect on these together, exchange ideas and begin to think about constructive solutions to shared difficulties. Such dialogue can itself be of a valuable form of meaningful interaction between diverse participants. The relaxed, friendly atmosphere promoted by the sharing of food can encourage openness and trust, as well as potentially inspiring new local policy ideas or community action.

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