Arts Articles

Inside Out/Outside In

06 August 2015 | by Anne McNeill-Pulati

‘Into the void’ by Anne McNeill-Pulati. |

The exhibition ‘Inside Out/Outside In’, at St Martin-in-the-Fields, Trafalgar Square, brings together a collaborative exhibition of three Quaker artists. We come from multi-faith backgrounds, namely Jewish, Hindu and Christian. For the three of us in this exhibition, our creative practice uses the figure as a vehicle both metaphorically and...

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Being

06 August 2015 | by Alex Thomson

‘We are all beautiful, Whether a flower or a weed.’ | Javcon117* / flickr CC.

Dissolve into the Wholeness, And in time Let the Wholeness Bring you together, And together live. What is there to give That is not already given? Your life is processing The Wholeness, Being a form of flow, Of taking in from the Whole, And letting it pass through The space...

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Midsummer Meeting

30 July 2015 | by Clare Banham | 1 comment

On a bright summer’s day in a small country town Meeting began when the first Friend sat down. Hard on her heels came a youth at a jog, A hiker, a biker, a dentist, his dog. A visiting family filled the back row And all let the silence gather...

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Women in War

16 July 2015 | by Keith Chatfield

Women and children are rarely, if ever, instigators of war; but, according to the UN, they account for the majority of those affected by armed conflict. ‘Women in War in Their Own Words’ is a celebration in words and music of the resilience, beauty and courage of the human spirit...

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Thought for the Week: Sunday Meeting

FREE 09 July 2015 | by Moira Fitt | 2 comments

A pocket of silence to slip into Where warmth and quietness rule Waiting for the fidgeting to subside.      â€“ The rustle of a raincoat      â€“ The creak of an old bench      â€“ The tick of the clock measuring...

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Mykene

02 July 2015 | by Roger Iredale

Summer morning come heat on the wine-field      and the lizards crinkle understone. In olive groves cicadas chirr and the blunt lion-gate lies open to the horde.      Those hills opposite were purple in the dawn, now fragments in a heat like...

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Daisy

18 June 2015 | by Brigid Sivill (Smith)

Daisy comes to Meeting, greets us as she enters with a throaty wruff, lifts her big body round to nose each person, fur softer than silk, eyes wet with doggy love. We sit in our silent circle.

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The Meeting house plane tree

04 June 2015 | by Mary Speechley | 1 comment

I looked at the tree with an upward glance When its thousands of leaves were in merry dance, Wrestling in joy with the boisterous breeze Like a sailing-ship on surging seas.

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The Gates of Greenham

23 April 2015 | by Alec Davison

Thirty years ago, on Easter Monday 8 April 1985, what is reputed to be the largest gathering of Friends in the twentieth century assembled in the Royal Festival Hall, London. It was the premiere of a peace passion, The Gates of Greenham, to celebrate a four-year ongoing witness of the women’s...

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The challenge of fiction

16 April 2015 | by Ian Kirk-Smith

‘I am interested in what constitutes loneliness and in the difference between solitude and loneliness.’ Jennifer Kavanagh is best known for a series of thoughtful non-fiction works on subjects such as travel, spirituality, homelessness and aspects of Quakerism. The quote above gave an insight into the link between the authorâ€...

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