Friends bring light to Cambridge
‘Window Wanderland Cambridge’, brightly displaying the words of Quaker Testimonies.
Jesus Lane Meeting helped bring colour to the streets of Cambridge last month by taking part in a community project designed to reduce social isolation. Six members of the Children’s Meeting each created a design for ‘Window Wanderland Cambridge’, brightly displaying the words of Quaker Testimonies from the Meeting house’s first-floor windows. The trail was organised locally by Cambridge City Council.
Kirsten Lavers, warden of Jesus Lane Meeting House, said she heard about the project on social media and thought it was ‘a lovely outreach opportunity’. She told the Friend: ‘I was really delighted with the designs created by six members of our Children’s Meeting: Saskia, Kima, Aanand, Jaya, Amanda and June. I scaled the words up onto black paper and cut them to add coloured tissue paper to get the stained glass effect – time consuming but rewarding. The response from Friends and on our Facebook page has been enthusiastic, and I’ve been asked to leave them up for longer, at least until the clocks go forward.’
Born out of direct experience of social isolation by Lucy Reeves Khan in 2015, Window Wanderland was established to increase community engagement, improve wellbeing and reduce isolation through creating window displays to bring whole communities together. Other trails will take place in Yeovil, Wotton-under- Edge and Nailsworth this month. There were ninety-three events last year.
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