Feeling Together

Workshop & In-conversation with Grace Ndiritu & Lama Rinchen Polma.How can we use spirituality in the context of global politics to navigate the multifaceted challenges we face today? From the street to the temple how can we use our minds and hearts to be better activists and creative and spiritual practitioners?In this workshop Grace Ndiritu and her Tibetan Buddhist teacher, the Venerable Lama Rinchen Palmo from the Kagyu lineage, will explore the subject of Radical Spirituality together with participants. Kagyu translates as "Whispered Transmission” and incorporates learning through personal experience, meditation and a deep connection between teacher and student.We invite you to join with Grace Ndiritu and Lama Rinchen for this special one-off event.

The second event as part of A Season of Peace Building, programmed with Grace Ndiritu for The Ignorant Art School Sit-in Curriculum #5. This series of conversations, workshops and gatherings is designed by Grace Ndiritu, drawing on her book Being Together: A Manual For Living as a template.

Sign-up

Event is free and open to all to attend.Sign-up to ensure a seat via Eventbrite.Audiences without tickets will be welcome but we cannot guarantee seating.

Biographies

Lama Rinchen PalmoOf French descent, Lama Rinchen Palmo is a highly experienced meditation teacher who has spent over 12 years in retreat. She is specialised in the Vajrayana practices of Tibetan Buddhism, including the Ngondro. She is one of the three Western lamas who have been appointed within the Samye Ling mandala and is well known for her compassionate and down-to-earth style of teaching.

Grace Ndiritu is a British-Kenyan (Maasai Kikuyu) visual artist, filmmaker and writer whose artworks are concerned with the transformation of our contemporary world.

Access

Cooper Gallery is located to the right side of the DJCAD buildings on Perth Road. The entrance is via double doors which face onto a car park.

The gallery is on two floors. First floor has ramped access and disabled toilet.

Second floor is accessible via lift and for wheelchair access via a stairclimber. The event is held on the second floor. The exhibition is on both the first and second floor of the gallery.

Please email in advance if you require lift or stairclimber access.

First floor is also accessible via 24 steps. Two flights of 12 steps with handrails are separated by a landing.

Exhibition videos are subtitled and captioned in English. Seating is provided and/or additional seating available, please ask an invigilator.

For all enquiries please email: coopergallery@dundee.ac.uk

Toilets

The ground floor has a wheelchair accessible toilet. The toilet is gender neutral.

Interpretation

Large print versions of the exhibition information handout are available, please ask our Guides. If you require alternative formats for material in exhibitions please email or ask our Guides.

About the exhibition

Compassionate Rebels in Action, is an exhibition and event programme by Grace Ndiritu.It is the fifth iteration of Cooper Gallery's programme, The Ignorant Art School: Five Sit-ins Towards Creative Emancipation.

Visit10 October – 13 December 2025Tuesday – Saturday, 12–5 pm

Image credit

Healing The Museum, 2019, Performance documentation, Royal Museum for Central Africa, Tervuren, BE.Photo credit: Caroline Lessire, courtesy Grace Ndiritu

Funding support

The Ignorant Art School Sit-in #5 at Cooper Gallery, DJCAD is supported by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland.