Copyright  2008 The ChinaFilm Project

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The ChinaFilm Project

 

 

THE BLACKQUAKER PROJECT: a Quaker program dedicated to examining, celebrating, preserving, and presenting the contributions and experiences of Black Quakers throughout the world.

 

Current activities include:

 

1. BOOK PROJECT: Publishing BLACK FIRE: BLACK QUAKERS ON SPIRITUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS, an anthology. Editors: Paul Kriese, Steve Angell, and Hal Weaver (initiating editor). Status: most materials collected, working with FGC Publications Committee. SEE PROPOSAL BELOW. Contact:  weaverhal@yahoo.com 

    

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BEACON HILL FRIENDS HOUSE

  2008 WEED LECTURE

  SUNDAY APRIL 13

  AT 1:00 PM

 

 HAL WEAVER

 

FACING  UNBEARABLE  TRUTHS

 

· “Race:” Chattel Slavery, Its Legacies, and Friends

 

· Quaker Testimonies: Equality, Peace, and Truth

 

· Unconventional Wisdom: “Race,” “Racism,” and “Violence.” (Direct versus Systemic)

 

· Internal Challenges: “Barriers to Free Access to the Society of  Friends” (Critique of the 2007 Shoemaker Consultation)

 

· Proposal: Major Quaker Commitment to Redressing the Past Dehumanization: Retrospective Justice

 

· Proposal: New Justice Testimony

 

New England Friend Hal Weaver is currently focusing his ministry on using the arts to encourage international understanding and racial justice through The ChinaFilm Project, The BlackFilm Project and The BlackQuaker Project. Educated at Westtown and Haverford, Hal holds a doctorate in international education from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

 

Beacon Hill Friends House presents this annual free lecture in memory of past Directors, Ernest and Esther Weed. To learn about the House and its program, visit www.bhfh.org. The lecture will be published by the Beacon Hill Friends House..

 

On Sunday join Beacon Hill Meeting for Worship at 10:30 and a simple meal at Noon. Childcare will be provided on Sunday during the lecture.

The Program Committee of the House will be glad to arrange overnight hospitality if you are coming to the Weed lecture from a distance. Call Sarah Spencer 617.965.7042

 

Beacon Hill Friends House is a Friends center and residential community in Boston.

Beacon Hill Friends House * 6 Chestnut St, Boston, MA 02108 * 617/227-9118 * www.bhfh.org

 

 

 

 

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES:

 

 

1. Committed to presenting a weekend course at Pendle Hill based on our FGC   book (forthcoming), BLACK FIRE: BLACK QUAKERS ON SPIRITUALITY AND HUMAN RIGHTS (May 2009)          

 

2. Committed to making presentations in Finland at Kokkalo Art College and  Friends Meetings (late September 2008)

 

3. Delivered the Weed Lecture at Beacon Hill Friends House, Boston on “FACING UNBEARABLE TRUTHS” (4/13/ 2008)

 

4. Researching quotations of African American Quakers for the revised FAITH AND PRACTICE, New England Yearly Meeting (NEYM) (through WMM/MORE, 2007-2008)

 

5. Organized and co-offered with triennial participants Margaret Fraser, Katy Cullinan, and Anne Nash a program and dinner for Wellesley Meeting on the 2007 FWCC Triennial and Friends worldwide (11/30/2007)

 

6. Offered a weekend course at Pendle Hill Spring 2007: “Lift Every Voice and Sing ”:   Paul Robeson and Bayard Rustin. A weekend with Hal Weaver (March 30-April 1 2007)

 

7. Offered a second hour at Wellesley Meeting (“Freedom”), commemorating the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the British Empire (3/25/2007)

 

 

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