Dr Val Walsh, Chair of Duncan Society and PAX Literature Circle Leader is organising a poetry and literature event where participants from different cultural backgrounds work with and across their differences: not to become like each other / the same, but to like and trust each other enough to hold hands and dance!

PAX Literature Circle vision and conviction are that culture and art are peace-making activities: the quintessential bridge-builders, with the potential to move us out of narrow and private worlds, towards each other and our co-creativity – personal / domestic / social / public

This is a collaborative performance, evoking both difference and commonality, rather than a series of individual readings. From the problems of society, we move through matters of the heart: including loss and mourning; participants celebrate recovery and renewal; life process itself, through poetry, story and music. Participants first name our concerns; through our co-creativity, PAX Literature Circle demonstrate our capacity for survival, reconciliation, adventure, and the enduring power of love.