Arts Articles
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Moments from a Meeting
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The Way of the Cross
In his The Quest of the Historical Jesus, Albert Schweitzer famously wrote: ‘He comes to us as One unknown’. The unknowability of Jesus is one of the great mysteries of Christianity. During the week leading up to Easter, as we follow the details of his life and death, do we…
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A rising star
Tom Harper was brought up as a Quaker in north London: his father Rod was clerk of North West London Area Meeting, he went to Quaker summer schools and Junior Yearly Meeting and still occasionally attends Meeting for Worship. He had anticipated my question about the extent to which Quaker… -
Passions and mysteries
This year the village of Oberammergau in Bavaria will put on its Passion play for the forty-first season. In 1633 central Europe was gripped by the Thirty Years War (1618-1848), poverty and the plague, which had killed thousands – eighty in the tiny village of Oberammergau itself. After months of…
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Spirit Rising
In 2008 Quakers Uniting in Publications gathered an editorial board of ten young people from different branches of Quakerism and different countries. The board spent a year gathering contributions from around the Quaker world. Then they met in 2009 to select and edit the pieces. Now titled Spirit Rising: Young… -
Leighton Park arts - The Crucible by Arthur Miller
In February Leighton Park staged its senior production, The Crucible. The language is challenging; the narrative gripping; the location atmospheric; the characters beautifully drawn. At Leighton Park, we wanted to concentrate on the emotional content of the play. Student actors often find it difficult to come to terms with the…
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Ackworth drama - Hairspray
‘Last term we performed the musical comedy Hairspray. The story explores prejudice against size and race in 1960s America. I played the role of Penny Pingleton, the main character’s best friend. Penny, a quirky, geeky, ‘in-her-own-little-world’ girl, brings with her the majority of the comedy in this play. Her oddball…
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Celebrating the liberal tradition
In the world of charitable trusts and foundations the Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust is known nationally and internationally as a funder of radical causes that challenge injustice and inequality and aim to create a better, fairer world. Within the Society of Friends in Britain and Europe it is seen primarily… -
Dancing with the Spirit
‘Now, let’s have a barn dance!’ Not, you might think, the most obvious opening for outreach, but this was the line which Philip Gross credits with starting him on the road to Friends. It was his first time in a Meeting house, sometime in the early 1970s, at the end…
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Friendly poet takes leading prize
Philip Gross, the 2010 TS Eliot poetry prizewinner is a Quaker from Penarth Glamorgan. This year Philip will be running a course at the Woodbrooke Quaker Study Centre in Birmingham with his wife Zelie exploring the place of water in art – the TS Eliot prize was awarded him for…
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