The Path of MADness 2023

Event Date: 29th January 2023
Location: Upper Heyford Heritage Centre, Building 103, West Castle Street, Heyford Park, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 5BX 11:30 am

An annual event held on Holocaust Memorial Day (Sunday) to reflect on
genocide and other crimes against humanity, and other threats to life
on earth amounting to Mutual Assured Destruction (MAD). The event is held
at a place that once had the capability of contributing to and thereby seeking to prevent nuclear war. The opportunity to walk the Path of MADness is open to all those wanting to remember and reflect on atrocities carried out in the past and to consider ways to prevent occurrence in the future.

There is no charge but donations to Amnesty International or Medecins
sans Frontieres/Doctors without Borders would be welcome.

The HMD Trust theme this year is “Ordinary People”: those people who let
genocide happen, the ordinary people who actively perpetrated
genocide, and the ordinary people who were persecuted. This theme will
also prompt us to consider how ordinary people, such as ourselves, can
perhaps play a bigger part than we might imagine in challenging
prejudice today.

Where: Upper Heyford Heritage Centre, Building 103, West Castle Street, Heyford Park, Bicester, Oxfordshire, OX25 5BX

When: 11.30am on Sunday 29th January 2023

Programme:

- Drive (in convoy) from building 103 to the Quick Reaction Alert to
  hold a service in a Hardened Aircraft Shelter to include reflections,   readings, prose, poems and songs appropriate to HMD and the chosen ‘theme’(30mins)
- walk in thoughtful contemplation the length of the Nato runway, designed for use by nuclear armed aircraft (45 mins)
- reassemble near QRA (10mins)
- leave site around 1.30pm

There is a number 250 bus from Bicester that arrives at Heyford Park at 11.15am but lifts will be required onto the base.

Warning: The flying field at Upper Heyford can be very cold in January and people should dress up accordingly and be prepared if necessary to cut their
visit short.

Event arranged by permission of site owners Dorchester Group.  

Please send email to confirm attendance to [email protected]  enquiries 07949159430