Chris Alton, the Quaker artist and 2018 Swarthmore lecturer, was interviewed on the ‘web platform’ Young Artists in Conversation this month.
Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) trustees asked Meeting for Sufferings for advice and discernment regarding a proposal to explicitly exclude investments in companies profiting from the…
It has been ‘a long journey’ for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM) on the issue of sustainability, Anne Ullathorne, clerk of Meeting for Sufferings (MfS), said on 6 October at…
The pilot programme of the Vibrancy in Meetings project will come to an end in December 2019, Meeting for Sufferings (MfS) heard on 6 October.
Meeting for Sufferings welcomed an update from Claire Cooper, parliamentary engagement officer for Britain Yearly Meeting (BYM), on the status of Circles of Support and…
The government is advising MPs to say they associate the military with ‘positive values’ such as ‘loyalty, resilience, courage and teamwork’, according to Britain Yearly…
Quaker actor Sheila Hancock delivered an impassioned indictment of the use of indefinite immigration detention in the UK when she joined Jeremy Irons, Zoe Wanamaker, Christopher…
Rwanda Yearly Meeting has thanked Friends throughout the world for supporting its appeal for funding to help install thirty-five lightning rods required by a government decree.
JordanS Quaker Centre held a workshop on Prisons and Justice last month, with contributions from past prisoners and a prison governor.
The Quaker artist Jill Gibbon was among the artists included in an exhibition made up of work withdrawn from the Design Museum’s ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition.
Pakefield Friends in Suffolk performed a play-reading of a historic public meeting discussing the subject of ‘Votes for Women’.
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