EWJF 2010, A World in Crisis... What is the alternative?

There will be a meeting at 7.30 pm on Thursday 28 January in the Friends Meeting House, Victoria Terrace, to consider both plans for this year and the best ways to carry forward the Festival in future years. It’s open to all individuals and organisations interested in supporting the festival, so we hope you can come or, if not, let us know of your interest.

You’ll know that the Festival was established to carry forward the impetus from the massive Make Poverty History march in Edinburgh in 2005; and that it has been successful in providing an annual programme of events which has raised the profile of numerous issues concerning development and world justice. We hope that this can be continued but many of the individuals involved now cannot devote so much time to the festival.

We are proposing that this year the festival be shorter and more focused - a weekend or a long weekend; and more focused in terms of theme, with one event organized by EWJF and/or coalition of partner organisations; plus slots for other events as well on Friday Saturday Sunday and possible Monday.

The meeting is the time to give your views on the form of the Festival this year and in the future; indeed whether it should go forward at all.

We hope to see you or hear from you