Public Talk: The Starling Café, Ullapool - Possible Futures

The Starling Café is a new initiative at the Macphail Centre to make room for ideas, reflection and conversation.

Running every few weeks through 2025, this is an evening event which will include a speaker, tea and coffee, and room for informal and open-ended conversation.  It will be a place to explore ideas and get to know a few other people in our community. The topics explored in this series will include community, hope, belonging, diversity, resilience and resistance.

This session will be presented by Dr Mairi McFadyen, independent researcher, on the topic of Possible Futures. 

Do we in the Highlands have something special to offer to our world?  

Our climate and ecological crisis is deeply tied to the impacts of global capitalism and its colonial legacy—a system that thrives on monoculture, erasing diversity in both nature and culture. What knowledge and traditions rooted here in the Highlands—in the Gàidhealtachd—can be reclaimed as part of a global movement of resistance and possibility?

There will be room for informal conversation to think about some of the ideas from the talk, in a café style setting. No-flipcharts, no public feedback, no action points, no right answers: the aim is simply to have a safe and hospitable space to talk and explore.

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