The Edinburgh Festival of Middle Eastern Spirituality and Peace is a series of events (workshops, conversations, presentations, walks, chants, meditation) that brings together people from a wide range of spiritual backgrounds.
Most of the events take place in the Quaker Meeting House and Augustine United Church. There is a broad range of people working with peace, conflict, reconciliation and justice, educators, teachers, scholars and students, people from artistic and cultural backgrounds, people working with health, wellbeing and healing experiences and concerns, people from diverse cultures, traditions and communities, and people from across Scotland and internationally.
More generally, everyone participates in an individual and non-representative capacity, to allow people to draw upon their own unique individual experiences and to share their unique visions and perspectives, and people of all backgrounds who respect the Festival ethos are warmly invited to participate in this spiritual, educational, artistic and cultural and international festival which celebrates peace and mutual understanding.
Full details of the programme are on the Middle East Festival Website: www.mesp.org.uk