Dialogue Cafe Northampton launched 1

Wow what a week that was!

Since mid August 2012 the Dialogue Cafe project team at the University of Northampton have been working flat out to set up the Dialogue cafe at the University. Despite the odd technical hitch, worrying whether people would turn up, and loads of first night nerves on Wednesday 7th November the cafe was officially launch with a Golbal House Party.

Over 50 students and staff attended a link up with London and Lisbon to explore what a Dialogue Cafe was and brainstorm how the University could use and contribute to the cafe to the best effect.

The evening was a huge success!!!

The enthusisam of the University community for the space exceeded all of our expectations with over 80 ideas for new events and workshops/ topics for discussion as well as social events suggested by those present… from global theatre productions through to workshops on issues around international development, there was some major creative thinking going on!

We all thought we could take a breather once the cafe was up and running; now we realise that the hard work is just beginning… its great fun though and we are working hard to harness the enthusiasm of the University its staff and students to contribute significantly to the network ..

We are all looking forward to working with everyone in the network to develop and contribute to a programme that significantly adds to the conversations already taking place as well as starting some new ones.

Thanks to everyone who was involved with the launch at Northampton and for making it such a success… more pictures to follow