Showing posts with label Lucy Bianca Peel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Lucy Bianca Peel. Show all posts

Thursday, 17 February 2011

MEET LUCY BAINCA PEEL, DOCUMENTARY FILM MAKER


To Embrace Arts at the Richard Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester this afternoon, where I'm being recorded on video by Dr Lucy Bianca Peel (photo above). She's making a documentary about One Day, No Religion, which takes place this coming Sunday (20 February). Lucy asked me the following questions (the same set of questions will be asked to all individuals being interviewed). How would you have answered these questions, faithful reader? I wonder if you can guess how I answered them.
THE QUESTIONS
  1. Do you feel as if you have enough time to relax?
  2. Do you consider organised forms of relaxing such as prayer or meditation to be useful?
  3. Do you consider depictions of ghosts, angels, gods, reincarnation and karma to be a way of describing human emotions?
  4. Are there any situations in which a person should not be optimistic? That a person should avoid wishing for the best outcome?
  5. Do you believe that you could be visited by an angel or be reincarnated?
  6. Does faith play any role in your life?
  7. How would you make a decision on whether to give money to a person begging on the street?
  8. Do you vote in political elections?
  9. If you vote, how do you make the decision on which group to vote for?
  10. To what extent should a leader, speaker or lecturer attempt to influence an audience’s opinion?
  11. Is a society more functional when everyone believes in one way of living or has many different ways of living?
  12. Do you believe faith to be a static model of belief, or can a person’s model of faith change over time?
  13. Do you believe that leaders should change their model of faith should there be pressure from the audience?
  14. What is an appropriate age to make a lifelong commitment?Would you want to make sure a child always has a support network in place, should anything happen to their parents?
  15. How do you make a decision on which school to send a child?
  16. Is attending a school different to belonging to a religious congregation?
  17. Is there a limit to which science should be allowed to probe?
  18. If you were ill and needed to take a medicine that would save your life, would you take it?
  19. Would you agree that the aim of religious people, atheists and secularists is to generate a safe environment to live in?
  20. If the aim of these separate groups is the same, then is it really important as to how this aim is fulfilled?

Friday, 8 October 2010

PEACE VIGIL AT CLOCK TOWER


The Clock Tower is the location for a Peace Vigil at 1630, in advance of the demonstration by the English Defence League and counter-demonstration by Unite Against Fascism in the city centre tomorrow afternoon.


Cllr Manjula Sood, Chair of Leicester Council of Faiths, addresses the crowd (in photo above). You'll see that she's wearing the lime green that has been adopted as the visible expression of the city's united objection to the protest. This colour is much in evidence in the city centre this weekend. In the photo below, Liz Kendall MP (Labour, Leicester West) is in black with the green scarf. Documentary film maker, Lucy Bianca Peel, is on the far right (of the photo, not politically!)


The vigil has been organised by Hope Not Hate. You can read Nick Lowles' blog post about it. Photos by Citizens' Eye Community News Agency, used here with permission.