Sidcot students and Charlotte Resuggan, head of drama Photo: Photo courtesy of Sidcot School.
Eye - 20 July 2012
From a stage at Sidcot to the travelling Telford Meeting
Artistic flare
Turbans at the ready! Sidcot School’s annual Summer Festival kicked off with a student production of Arabian Nights.
Nearly forty junior and senior pupils put on four performances of the story, which sees Scheherazade tell tales that led a sultan to spare her life and fall in love.
Charlotte Resuggan, head of drama, said: ‘It’s been a fantastic creative effort by students and staff with wonderful costumes and it was brilliant to perform in a huge tent.’
The Summer Festival, held 20-24 June, celebrates artistic, sporting and prize-winning students. It includes, among other things, a sports day, summer ball, art exhibitions and performances.
Elizabeth Burgess, acting head, added: ‘Our Summer Festival is very traditional with amazing support from students and staff. It gets bigger and better every year.’
God and nominations
Would God pass our Nominations processes? This was the intriguing question posed by Leslie Fuhrmann of Worthing Meeting: ‘At an excellent Nominations conference at Woodbrooke the subject of long standing appointments was raised. God came to mind…’
- Recognised? Probably
- A long standing member/attender? We hope so
- Regularly attends Meetings? Yes
- Over twenty-one? Yes
- Permanently resident in our area? We hope so
- Reported on by visitors? Varied favourable reports
- Recognises our Peace Testimony? In favour of harmony
- Spiritual understanding of responsibilities? Yes
- Able to make an energetic contribution? Yes
- Walks in the Light? And in the Dark
- Best candidate for the post? So far as we can tell
- Served more than six years in current post? Not a problem in this case
More than a room
Jackie Fowler wrote to Eye with tales of her travelling Meeting.
She writes: ‘On most Sundays, Telford Friends worship in the Quaker Room at Meeting Point House… Three other groups worship there each Sunday morning: Anglicans in the chapel and a Chinese Christian Church and an evangelical church in two other rooms.
‘On the last Sunday of the month from April to October, Friends decamp to Dale House, former home of Abraham Darby, which is part of the Ironbridge Gorge Museum.
‘On Thursday lunchtimes, Meeting for Worship is held in the chapel at Meeting Point House because the Quaker Room is not available. Additionally two healing Meetings (one daytime, one evening) and two discussion groups are each held monthly in the homes of different Friends. Then there are the social activities…’
As Jackie says, ‘Telford Friends clearly demonstrate that a Meeting is not defined by where it meets but by the people who gather together.’
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