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April Quarterly Meeting – joint program with Concord Quarter & Wilmington Friends School
April Quarterly Meeting
Western AND Concord Quarters at Wilmington Friends School
(101 School Road, Wilmington, DE)
Children’s Program (during Meeting for Worship and Afternoon Program for elementary and middle school age Friends)
child care available 9-11:45 am and 1-3 pm
8:45-9 am Sign-In
9-10:15 am Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business – for each Quarter
10:30-11:30 am Joint Meeting for Worship
11:45 am -12:45 pm Lunch for all
1-3 pm Program by Dr. Amanda Kemp
5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Racial Bias, with Dr. Amanda Kemp
5 Steps to Stop Your Implicit Bias
About a year ago Starbucks Cafe closed every store in the nation to provide implicit bias training to its employees. Their training was spurred by an April incident in which employees at a Philadelphia Starbucks store asked the police to remove two black entrepreneurs who were waiting for a business contact. More recently, Lancaster City Police used a taser on an unarmed Black man who was cooperating. This was caught on video and has spurred action.
But what about the everyday indignities, harms and unconscious biases that go unnoticed and largely unintended?
Dr. Kemp’s Racial Bias Awareness and Prevention Training offers:
- Tools to have productive conversations about racism;
- Ways to recognize and stop actions driven by unconscious bias;
- Greater understanding of institutional racism;
- 5 steps to make your businesses, organizations, and communities more inclusive and equitable.
Note while this is an introductory workshop in many ways, participants will be given opportunities to continue learning and practicing skills gained previously. Participants who have engaged in this work regularly will have much to offer those new to the work. It is an opportunity for all participants to expand the ways we know ourselves and each other.
Registrants will be given pre-work to prepare for the presentation.
Register here (at Concord Quarterly Meeting event page.)
We also recommend the Stop the Hurt 5 Day Challenge or go to www.dramandakemp.com for Dr. Kemp’s book.
For more information on Dr. Amanda Kemp, please check these links:
Founder of Theatre for Transformation
Watch “Make America Great Not the Land of Hate Again” Music video
TEDx Talk “How to Lean into Conversations about Race…”
www.dramandakemp.com
Memorial to the Lost at Kennett Meeting
In one way or another all of us have had to face the harsh reality of gun violence in communities, or in our friends’ communities and unfortunately an ever increasing occurrence of gun violence where our most vulnerable go to learn and grow, our schools. Our own children are leading this conversation that has affected them so deeply and are teaching us to confront our own fears and demand change. In light of this, faith and community leaders have come together to sponsor and invite us to engage in community conversations around the issue of gun violence and how it intersections through a variety of ways in our lives.
On Sunday, April 22nd: Gun Violence Awareness Day, the whole community is invited to gather outside for a time of remembrance, music and prayer, and then move inside for a community forum with a diverse panel of speakers who will share their expertise and perspectives.
Bridges out of Poverty Initiative – information session
This Thursday, March 22, at 7:00 pm (in the Meeting Room)
KACS director, Melanie Weiler, will present a new initiative for addressing the causes of systemic poverty in Kennett Square. The program is based on a nation-wide community support program called Bridges Out Poverty Initiative. This in turn is part of a larger effort called Bridges to Sustainable Communities. Join us to learn more about this program.
Speaking from the Heart: The Real Work of Undoing Racism from the Inside
After nearly two years of discussion and planning, the Western Quarterly Meeting-sponsored workshop addressing racism was finally held on Saturday, September 16. This workshop was designed with our membership in […]
WQM Undoing Racism Workshop – Sat, Sept 16
One-day Workshop:
Speaking from the Heart— The Real Work of Undoing Racism from the Inside
Saturday, September 16, 2017
8:30 am—3:30 pm
Lunch provided. Registration required. Free, with $5-$35 donation suggested.
This one-day workshop is designed for participants to engage with issues of racism and oppression on a personal level. We will learn tools for recognizing, addressing and healing from the impact of racism on our everyday lives. Our facilitators will employ large-group and small-group interactive formats. Reading materials will be provided prior to the workshop. Participants from all backgrounds and those engaged at all levels of awareness are welcome.
Our facilitators will be Joyce Bembry and Linda Lucero from Delaware’s Coalition to Dismantle the New Jim Crow.
Workshop organized by Western Quarterly Meeting & hosted at Kennett Friends Meeting, 125 W. Sickle Street, Kennett Square, PA
For more information contact: coordinator@westernquarterquakers.org or 610.444.1012
Human Trafficking – presentation & panel discussion
A HOT TOPIC Event Wednesday, May 10 at 6:30 p.m. on Human Trafficking (Exploitation)
FEATURING: A/V presentation by Yolanda Schlabach, founder and Executive Director of Zoë Ministries PANEL: Commissioner Mary McDonough, Delaware Court of Common Pleas, Human Trafficking Court Commissioner Loretta Young, Delaware Family Court Nancy McGee, Coordinator, Sexual Assault Network of Delaware, ContactLifeline, Inc. Johanna Bishop, Director, Behavioral Sciences Program, Wilmington University
This event is free and open to the public; however, pre-registration is requested. Email lwvncc@comcast.net using the subject line “Attending May 10 Event” and providing your name.
Partners/Sponsors supporting this event: St. Helena Parish Social Ministries, St. Mark’s Lutheran Church, St. Mary Magdalene RC Church, Newark Friends Meeting, Pacem in Terris
Location: Masci Hall • St. Helena Parish 210 Bellefonte Avenue • Wilmington, DE 19809
Conversations on Race
Conversations on Race – March 28, 7 pm
Western Quarterly Meeting has been peripherally involved in the planning and hosting of this monthly conversation (4th Tuesdays at 7pm), which currently meets at Kennett Friends Meeting House (in the Worship Room). In March Iram Shaukat, of the Islamic Society of Delaware and the Delaware Civil Rights Coalition will share perspective on “Muslim Families in America”. Followed by small group discussions. All encouraged to participate.
Quarterly Meeting – January 15
Time to Wake Up & Stand Up
Fighting for Social Justice in the 21st Century
“In the end we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
Featured Speaker: Jerry Franklin Poe
Jerry Franklin Poe Jr. is the Vice President of the Martin Luther King Jr. CommUNITY of Greater Kennett Square and an active member of the MLK Advocates. He has been a leader in the struggle for social justice for many years. Jerry believes in confronting injustice by speaking the truth in love.
Jerry will speak to us about the MLK CommUNITY of GKA’s function in Southern Chester County. Their work and mission are directly aligned with Friends’ testimonies of community, equality and peace, and many Friends in our Quarter have been (and continue to be) involved.
| Schedule: 9:00 – 9:25 – Registration and coffee 9:30 – 10:30 – Worship 10:45 – 11:45 – Program: Time to Wake Up & Stand Up 12:00 – 1:00 – Lunch 1:00 – 3.:00 – WQM Business Meeting |
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After a few minutes of shared Worship the children will enjoy their own program centered in our community & equality testimonies. Childcare for the very young can also be available. Contact: youth@westernquarterquakers.org |
International Day of Peace – Events in Philadelphia
Peace Day Philly promotes and collaborates on programming related to personal, local and/or global peace, on and around the United Nations International Day of Peace (“Peace Day”), SEPTEMBER 21. Peace Day Philly’s focus is on building positive peace and creating the conditions for peace, unity and justice through diverse and collaborative activities such as: dialogue, skill and resiliency-building, creativity, mindfulness and citizenship.
To see a list of events for the week, click here (full schedule).
To find out what is happening in Delaware, click here (full schedule).