Events
Working Better – the 21st Century Challenge
Date: 14 July 2008 12.30pm – 2pm (including working lunch)
Location: Inmarsat, 9 City Road, London, EC1Y 1AX
This is the launch event for our new initiative, Working Better.
Working Better aims to identify and promote new ways of working which help meet the challenges of the 21st century.
We have partnered with Mumsnet and Dad Info, two leading parenting websites, to launch this important debate about balancing paid work and caring.
Justine Roberts from Mumsnet and Duncan Fisher from Dad Info will join our Chief Executive, Nicola Brewer in launching the debate. There will be a question and answer session, round table discussions and the chance to hear some personal stories of how flexible working has had a major impact on individuals’ lives.
Whether you are someone with caring responsibilities, a mother or a father who want to be active parents, a disabled person who wants a fulfilling career, a younger worker wanting phased entry into work or an older worker who wants to stay in the labour market for longer – we’d like you to join us and have your say.
To book your free place, please complete the form below and email it to:workingbetter@equalityhumanrights.com by Monday 7 July.
Working Better: living and working for the 21st century registration form (Word 30kB)
Places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Find out more about Working Better here
Permission to speak: what right do you have to tell me what to say?
Date: 15 July at 6pm
Location: RSA, 8 John Adam Street, London WC2N 6EZ
Panel debate to include Trevor Phillips, Commission chair; Rod Liddle, former editor of BBC Radio 4’s Today programme; Ziauddin Sardar, writer and academic; and Janine Gibson, Editor in Chief, Media Guardian. Chaired by Matthew Taylor, chief executive of the RSA.
Two weeks after Boris Johnson sacked James McGrath for saying about black people in Britain: "Well, let them go if they don't like it here" the issue of language and what it really says about us is back in the headlines.
This provocative, controversial and, we hope, sometimes funny event will be about language, the words we use and what, if anything, we should and shouldn’t say.
Is there such a thing as “political correctness”. Has it gone mad? What is the role of religious sensitivities? Comedy? Plain rudeness? Can you call anyone ‘love’ and get away with it?
We will be seeking to explore how we get along as a nation, speak a common language and understand the difference between freedom of expression and deliberate and hurtful insult.
This is the second RSA event co-hosted with the Commission under the Open to Question banner – a chance to have an honest, courteous and balanced debate about subjects where there is often more heat than light.
To book your free place please email: open2question@equalityhumanrights.com by Wednesday 9 July. Places are limited, so please book early to avoid disappointment.
Celebrat8 on the Silver Screen
Competition deadline: 23 July 2008
Celebr8( Don't Discrimin8) is an exciting annual festival which aims to highlight and celebrate the cultural, social and economic benefits of diversity. This year, as part of the festival, Celebr8 is hosting a new competition - Celebr8 on the Silver Screen.
Entrants should submit a script or piece of creative writing which can be turned into a short film, lasting no longer than three minutes, illustrating ‘What diversity means to me’. The entries will be judged by a panel of experts from the world of film and TV as well key diversity and equality champions.
Five finalists will be chosen, one from each of the region’s counties of Manchester, Lancashire, Cheshire, Liverpool and Cumbria, with one overall winner. The winning films will be shown at a regional premiere in September 2008 and then screened at cinemas across the region.
Read more about Celebr8 and the film competition.