Quaker Service Exhibition available for loan
Exhibition celebrates the peace witness of Friends
Quakers in Britain have been encouraged to make use of a highly successful exhibition that celebrates the peace witness of Friends. The Quaker Service Exhibition was one of most visited presentations of the 2012 Yearly Meeting at Friends House in London.
Anthony Wilson, clerk of the Quaker Service Memorial Trust, said: ‘The exhibition is now available for Meetings to borrow. If Area Meetings book it for a period of weeks their constituent Local Meetings can contact libraries, civic centres, and so on, to build up local publicity, as well as save transport to and from Staffordshire, where it will be based initially.’
The twelve panels in the exhibition refer to Quaker service in the nineteenth century – before focusing on relief work by the Friends’ Ambulance Unit and Friends Relief Service in the two world wars. It also deals with witness until the present time.
Anthony added: ‘We are reminded of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1947 and Friends work at the United Nations – all in the context of our witness to peace, whether as conscientious objectors while conscription lasted, or as personal service. A borrower’s pack is available by contacting the Quaker Service Memorial Trust’.
The exhibition is designed to stand quite separately from the Quaker service memorial in the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire. The memorial is to be inaugurated on 20 April 2013.
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