Friends at the Easter Settlement. Photo: Photo: Martin Schweiger.
A confident Quaker voice
Friends gathered in Cloughton for their Easter Settlement
More than fifty Yorkshire Friends recently gathered in Cloughton, near Scarborough, for their 2016 Easter Settlement.
The theme was ‘Building the Confident Quaker Voice’. The settlement was facilitated by Arthur Pritchard. He explained that Friends ‘worked on dramatic games and roleplay exercises, some of which were drawn from Augusto Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed. Groups worked on short presentations on equality and social justice, sustainability and peace’.
Asked how this event differs from other Quakers in Yorkshire gatherings, Arthur said: ‘Friends attend for various reasons and social fellowship is an important feature of the occasion. I think that more people participated in the presentations than previously, where people discuss their responses to input from a keynote speaker’.
Eight children were among the Friends present.
