Opening a physical storefront is hard enough, but imagine doing so during a global double pandemic. Learn how Quontay Turner, Owner and Founder of Emerald City Plant Shop, has navigated the challenges that systemic racism and COVID has played in her journey opening and running New England’s First Black Owned plant shop. Quontay Turner also known as "Q", is a multi-talented creative and entrepreneur. She has over ten years of experience in community organizing, event management, recruiting, and facilitating conversations and…

Larry Millman has done ethnographic work with the Innu in Labrador, who speak a dialect of Algonquin not unlike the dialect spoken by the indigenous people who once lived in the vicinity of World Fellowship.  In this presentation, he’ll discuss his work with Innu as well as discuss the current assaults on their world (mining, dams, etc) by outsiders. He'll also read from Wolvlerine the Trickster and The Cannibal Lynx, both collections of folktales he collected from Innu elders. Larry is an author,…

Join Thursdae for a meditation session by the Schmauch meeting room or a walk down the pond! Beautiful way to end out your day with a guided meditation! Thursdae is a registered meditation and yoga teacher, as well as an intentional living mentor at Dae + Night Studio. Through meditation, movement, and integrative practices, they have found the balance of mindfulness and intention in their life. Thursdae offers sustainable ways to slow down their client's daily life, allowing them to…

Kilombo Novo of Dorchester, MA brings an annual retreat and opportunity to experience the practice, energy, and commitment that this discipline of empowerment and liberation brings to community. Kilombo Novo is a community of people that study the Afro-Brazilian martial art called Capoeira Angola. This family of community members and professionals seeks to reduce urban violence, trauma, and loss caused by poverty and living in disenfranchised neighborhoods who face racism, classism, access to deadly weapons and drugs, negative images in…

Join August 5,6, and/or 7th for soccer practice and some games with coach Stu Ball!! Dependent on interest, so let's play some soccer this weekend!

Ernesto "Eroc" Arroyo-Montano is a proud father of three, an artist, curandero, organizer and educator. A queer, Boricua, raised in Boston, Ma. He is the Director of Cultural Organizing at the national grassroots Economic Justice organization, 'United for a Fair Economy', a founding member of the radical Hip Hop group Foundation Movement a member of the ‘Seeds of our Ancestors’ healing collective. Healing Justice and Popular Education are his priority in movement work. Eroc was born and raised in Boston,…

Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ) has its roots in the call from the Black liberation movement in the mid 1960’s. Mae will describe SURJ's work and provide ample space for discussion in pairs, small group and with the full group on the concepts the presentation raises. SURJ is a national organization that brings hundreds of thousands of white people into fights for racial and economic justice. At SURJ, we bring our folks in by offering a better alternative: a…