**New Year’s Eve Celebration \| Thursday 31st December** Looking for a different kind of New Year’s Eve? Spend a meaningful evening at Kadampa Meditation Centre Manchester where you can enjoy a sociable but uplifting event that offers peace and hope. The evening includes meditation, a talk, and a vegetarian buffet, then chanted prayers by candlelight to the Buddha of Compassion at midnight. **Hope for our World** Gen Kelsang Drolkyi shares practical meditations and ways of thinking that help us understand how to help our world through the power of compassion. After the talk, join us for a vegetarian buffet and celebration. Everyone is welcome, whether you are new to meditation or have been coming for years. Join us to have an alcohol free new year. **Schedule, Thursday 31 December** 8.30pm: Welcome with (non alcoholic) hot punch and registration 9pm: Talk and meditation 10–11pm: Vegetarian buffet. 11.30pm–12.10am: Chanted prayers and lighting candles, to see in the New Year.

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