Arts Articles
Inside Out/Outside In
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...
Being
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...
Midsummer Meeting
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...
Women in War
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...
Thought for the Week: Sunday Meeting
A pocket of silence to slip into Where warmth and quietness rule Waiting for the fidgeting to subside. – The rustle of a raincoat – The creak of an old bench – The tick of the clock measuring...
Mykene
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...
Daisy
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.
The Meeting house plane tree
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.
The Gates of Greenham
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...
The challenge of fiction
‘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€...