Raymond Williams Foundation (RWF) visit www.raymondwilliamsfoundation.org.

uk for up-dates on all below Mid-week Residentials at Wortley Hall (WH), Wortley, Sheffield S35 7DB www.wortleyhall.org.uk

Special helpful budget rates from WH, and subsidized by RWF - so remarkable value. 1. Wed 12 Oct from 10.00am > Thu 13 Oct 4.30pm. 2011

Theme: The Media, Communications and Democracy. Key-note speaker from the worlds of Journalism and/or Media Studies: 6 sessions, with at least four where two below run concurrently based on Discussion Circle/PiPs principles: Themes inc. The Murdoch Empire; RWs book Communications ; Local media the future; TV Drama; News Bias and Balance; Celebrity and Privacy. One session will include WEA training on use of web and social networks within learning/discussion circles. All-in residential cost, with en suite bedroom, 68.00pp. 2. Wed 23 Nov Deposit: 30.00pp

arrival 4.30pm to Fri 25 Nov, 2.00pm departure

Theme: Philosophy and Politics Today. Key-note speaker from the worlds of Philosophy and/or Political Theory. 8 sessions, six (with two each concurrently based on Discussion Circle/PiPs/caf philosophique/Sci-bar principles). Programme will include: Aung San Suu Kyi and Non-Violent Resistance; Direct democracy: 38 Degrees and Avaaz. Why Marx was right; Feminism an up-date; Hobbes and JS Mill; Scientists struggling with Ethics; The role of Aesthetics, from garden gnomes to wind turbines; The Arab Spring; Cooperatives in 2020. One session will include WEA training on the use of web and social networks within learning/discussion circles. All-in residential cost, with en suite bedroom: 128.00 pp Deposit 30pp

Some of the sessions in both courses will be based on reading, listening, viewing; Reith Lecture/s; www.opendemocracy.net; Radio 4, In our Time and Thinking Allowed; New Left Review and other essays, and books. Everything in association with Philosophy in Pubs (PiPs) and the WEA. This e-leaflet circulated through our networks (also including, caf philosophique; sci-bars, Salons, Lit&Phils; U3A; Free University of Slawit; Talking Allowed, Leeds; etc) Please pass/send on to anyone likely to be interested. Over 2000 people will receive it in this way. By early Sept, both are likely to be fully booked. A detailed programme will then be available and sent to all enrolled. Booking form: Post to RWF, 18 Tatton Close, Leek ST13 8NS .. Name Address (post code ..). Phone No e-mail ..

I want to book for: The Media.. and/or Philosophy and Politics Single room. I will share bedroom with Dietary and/or disability issues . Enclose cheque made to Raymond Williams Foundation for 30, or 60, deposit/s. If you want a receipt by post inc. a stamped/addressed envelope. Other receipts sent by e-mail.