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Café Darkness In-Person Writing Workshop for People of Color

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Join K. Melchor Quick Hall, Joanne Daley, and Danie “Ocean” Jackson at Pendle Hill

Writing in fields dominated by white writers, editors, and publishers can be an exhausting experience. Café Darkness brings together people of color to share our works-in-progress, celebrate our diverse voices, confront our common barriers, and build a community of support for the challenges ahead. We are looking to connect across genre to the written text, the spoken word, and the body’s language. Although this trio of facilitators brings a range of skills, Melchor is an educator and the author and editor of academic manuscripts, Danie is a singer-songwriter and life coach, and Joanne is a bodyworker and healer. This workshop aims for a well-rounded exploration of the legacies, dedications, texts, sounds, and bodily manifestations of writing by people of color. We hope that you will join us!
For more information, to register, or to apply for financial aid, please visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/cafe-darkness-in-person-writing-workshop-for-people-of-color/

 

Blessing Darkness with Rev. Rhetta Morgan

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A weekend workshop with Rev. Rhetta Morgan

Out of the winter season, participants in this program will explore the darkness together. We will start with a blessing:

We will bless each other.
We will bless what we bring to the adventure.
We will bless our beautiful world,
both the miraculous and catastrophic.

Then we will turn toward how we each define the dark and enter into a journey of reflection, mirroring insights, singing, movement, journaling, and communing in silence to deepen our relationship to the dark. We will then explore themes of the dark as a place of healing and rest, womb that births our vision, our creativity and the home of awe and wonder.

Join us for an adventure into the willowy shadows. Bringing our curiosity and hearts, we will discover, celebrate, and heal together.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial aid, please visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/blessing-darkness/

Aiming for Justice: Race Reparations and Right Paths with K. Melchor Quick Hall

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Dec 13 and 14, 2021 (pre-workshop sessions); workshops begin proper in January 2022

Mon  12pm – 1:30pm EST, Tue 7pm – 8:30pm EST

Designed by Black feminist scholar-activist K. Melchor Quick Hall, the month-long workshop will be facilitated by – and offered for – US-based, white inheritors of wealth.

From the very beginning, this reparations workshop was designed as a popular education experience that would not pay homage to the knowledge of any single expert. Past participants will be taking lead by facilitating all synchronous workshop sessions. Videos, readings, and workshop design will continue to be managed by K. Melchor Quick Hall, who has designed and modified the workshop for the past three iterations.

For more information, to register, or to apply for financial assistance, visit:
https://pendlehill.org/events/aiming-for-justice-race-reparations-and-right-paths-4/

Into the Night: Holiness of Darkness with Rev. Rhetta Morgan

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A Pendle Hill First Monday Lecture with Rev. Rhetta Morgan via Zoom.

In this exploration, we will look at the hard things that happen in the dark, and how language of darkness can become imbued with bias and limitation. In examining the language and frames around darkness, can we challenge negative connotations and move towards holding the dark as holy? This First Monday program will not only utilize lecture, but also song and meditation. Free to the public! Registration required.

For more information and to register online, visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/into-the-night-holiness-of-darkness/

 

Let’s Talk About Faith-based Reparations

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A world that is accountable for past harms including slavery, colonialism, genocide, and other material and moral abuses will be a world better for everyone. The Grassroots Reparations Campaign sponsors a course to examine the history, spiritual, conceptual (ethical and moral) and practical dimensions of reparations as a global movement. Centered on the approach to reparation from the United Nations, the twelve-hour course explores the perspectives that justify and help many ground the case for faith-based reparations. The spiritual journey to uproot white supremacy externally and internally co-exists with working toward full reparations and abolition-democracy. Barb Kreider will offer some insights from this course. Click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 to be part of the conversation.

Café Darkness Virtual Writing Workshop for People of Color with Joanne Daley and Danie “Ocean” Jackson

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Gathering twice daily from 11am-12:30pm and 6:30pm-8:30pm Eastern Time (US & Canada).

Café Darkness a virtual writing space for people of color, of all genres, ages, and levels of experience. At the onset of the pandemic, we began meeting monthly. This year, we will invite people of color who are interested in a week of dedicated writing and sharing to connect to the written text, the spoken word, and the body’s language.

For more information, to register, or apply for financial aid, visit: https://pendlehill.org/events/cafe-darkness-virtual-writing-workshop-for-people-of-color/

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Book club! Moorestown Meeting attender Elizabeth will facilitate discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s award-winning short novel Ellen Foster. This story of a strong, smart girl and her challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 815 8781 6369 to join the conversation with our Anti-Racism Committee.

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Book club! Gather with us for a discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s award-winning short novel Ellen Foster. This story of a strong, smart girl and her challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 815 8781 6369 to join the conversation.

Let’s Talk About the Baldwin-Buckley Debate

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Ben will facilitate a discussion of Fringe Art’s production of ‘Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge’, a recreation of a famed 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley, Jr., on the question, “Has the American Dream Been Achieved at the Expense of the American Negro?” If you have a chance, see the performance Sept 9, 10 or 11 at the FringeArts Theater on the Philadelphia waterfront. You can also watch the original debate online, and find many related commentaries and analyses. Click here or call 646-558-8656 and enter meeting ID 873 3565 8140 to join the conversation.

Let’s Talk About Ellen Foster

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Join Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee as our attender Elizabeth facilitates a discussion of Kaye Gibbons’s beautifully human, short novel Ellen Foster. The award-winning book about a strong, smart girl navigating an unusually challenging childhood is widely available in libraries and from booksellers. Enjoy a book club and help support the important work Friends are doing in witness to our testament of equality; click here or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 873 3565 8140.