Pippa Evans on Improvising Difference
The overarching theme for Realisation 2023 is Unlearning and Reimagining Difference. So here are a few ideas on types of difference that might seed your thoughts, or prompt an awareness of more types overlooked below. “Opposition is true Friendship,” wrote William Blake, as well as “Without... Read more


More Thoughts on Difference, by Mark Vernon
The overarching theme for Realisation 2023 is Unlearning and Reimagining Difference. So here are a few ideas on types of difference that might seed your thoughts, or prompt an awareness of more types overlooked below.
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Pippa Evans on Improvising Difference
The scene opened and two improvisers began the show. They hadn’t looked at each other when the lights had come up, and when they did to their horror, one of them was putting X-rays on a Lightbox and the other was frying something in a pan.
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Opposite is true friendship.
A thought on unlearning and reimagining difference, by Mark Vernon
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Tickets are now on sale for Realisation 2023
We are pleased to announce that tickets for Realisation 2023 (29th June to 2nd July) are now on sale. We are looking forward to welcoming back many of you who came to Realisation in 2022, and meeting new people.
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Clearing the Fog of Assumptions
Assumptions and thoughts challenged, but also a sense of feeling enlarged. Oliver Burkeman revealed his state of mind as he spoke with Jonathan Rowson on the last day of the Realisation Festival.
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Free Taster Session for Realisation 2022
Watch a recording on the Perspectiva Youtube channel.
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Why is the Realisation Festival at St Giles House?
One reason is that it was the home of a philosopher, Anthony Ashley Cooper. His ideas are radical, exciting and, as Mark Vernon writes, immensely illuminating when considered now.
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What’s the Point of the Realisation Festival?
Jonathan Rowson, co-founder and director of Perspectiva, describes his vision for the Realisation gatherings in What’s the point of The Realisation Festival?
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