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Quaker art in exhibition with Design Museum protesters
The Quaker artist Jill Gibbon was among the artists included in an exhibition made up of work withdrawn from the Design Museum’s ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition.
‘Votes for women’ costume performance
Pakefield Friends in Suffolk performed a play-reading of a historic public meeting discussing the subject of ‘Votes for Women’.
Meeting for Sufferings: ‘A simple church supported by a simple charity’
‘We have a huge agenda today,’ Anne Ullathorne, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), observed on Saturday 6 October in Friends House, London. The Young People’s Participation Day ran parallel to the gathering, which included updates and ministry on investment, diversity, sustainability and vibrancy.
Meeting for Sufferings: Sufferings to include four places for Young Adult Friends
Friends enthusiastically welcomed a proposal to create four places reserved for Young Adult Friends (YAFs), aged under thirty-five, at Meeting for Sufferings for the remainder of the current triennium.
Meeting for Sufferings: Young Friends ask ‘connecting questions’
The Young People’s Participation Day was held in parallel with Meeting for Sufferings on Saturday 6 October. Young Friends, aged between fourteen and eighteen, joined Sufferings for opening and closing worship.
Meeting for Sufferings: Exploring diversity and inclusion in Meetings
‘All divisions among people are made by people.’ This comment from an Area Meeting was highlighted by Edwina Peart, inclusion and diversity coordinator for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), when she spoke to her report at Meeting for Sufferings.
Friends come together for Quaker Week
Quakers are celebrating Quaker Week this year with a range of events and faith-inspired action. The week, themed ‘Room for More’, is being marked across the UK from 29 September to 7 October with discussions, displays, vigils and other initiatives.
‘Art the Arms Fair’ are ’New Radicals’
The launch of the next ‘Art the Arms Fair’ exhibition got off to a good start last week as it celebrated its ‘New Radicals’ award.
Dorking Friends hold Bertha Bracey exhibition
More than sixty visitors came to an exhibition exploring the Kindertransport at Dorking Meeting House.
Manifesto for wildlife march
Quaker Concern for Animals (QCA) were among around 10,000 who took part in the march through London to launch A People’s Manifesto for Wildlife. The march, on 22 September, was coordinated by TV naturalist Chris Packham, who drafted the manifesto along with seventeen experts. It calls on the government to bring...