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We are thrilled to offer a wide range of educational programs, recreation, body movement, creative expression, and much more throughout the Summer 2025 season. Please check regularly for updates and additions! Direct any questions, offers, and ideas to programs@worldfellowship.org.
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August 2024
Cleaner Future Through Building Decarbonization (Mary Kuhn, affordable housing advocate)
Mary Kuhn works with SlipStream to support energy transition strategies for affordable housing in the Midwest, including promoting passive architecture techniques in partnership with groups like Habitat for Humanity.
Find out more »Antipoverty Policy that Works: Learning from the Pandemic (Bob Ross, scholar-activist)
Scholar-activist Bob Ross, who has previously engaged WFC with his work on sweatshop labor, turns his attention to the pandemic inspired policies that reduced poverty and temporarily stopped the increase in inequality. The author of two books on global capitalism (Global Capitalism: The New Leviathan and Slaves to Fashion: Poverty and Abuse in the New Sweatshops), Ross taught urban affairs and social policy at Clark University for forty years. Much earlier he was among the founders of Students for a…
Find out more »Fun Night!
Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, children's plays, etc., to entertain and amuse at Fun Night. All ages, all acts… all love it, every Friday! Sign up ahead or let the spirit move you.
Find out more »Sol y Canto! (Music Performance)
It’s not summer at World Fellowship without Rosi and Brian Amador and the magical sounds of Sol y Canto. The good news? In 2024, it will be summer at World Fellowship again as they bring their special blend of "Latin roots music to change the world."
Find out more »Rural Community Pathways to Climate Action (Aaron Strong, Hamilton College)
As the climate crisis continues, rapidly reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 is essential to minimize human suffering and to avoid the worst impacts of the crisis. The pathways to climate action require rapid deployment of renewable energy, reductions in animal agriculture and changes in land management to protect forests and promote reforestation, all of which take place in rural communities. Here, I discuss ongoing research (focused in upstate NY) on US rural community perceptions of climate…
Find out more »Generational Cycles in Activism (Judy Clark)
Judy Clark was a red diaper baby who jumped into activism in her early teens, supporting the struggle for quality education and community control in NYC, led by the Black community in Brooklyn. By 1970, she joined Weatherman SDS, and for over a decade immersed herself in small, self-enclosed. anti-imperialist cadre organizations that championed armed struggle, even after becoming a mother. Ultimately, she spent 38 years in prison for her part in the 1981 BLA Brinks robbery, in which three…
Find out more »Counter-Narratives & Challenging Hegemony through Art (Part I – Poetry)
A morning poetry workshop with a Brooklyn-based writing group (Ben Snyder, Misa Dayson, Thyra Heder, and Felice Belle), part one in a three-part series. Listen to some examples of Felice Belle's poetry from TEDCity2.0 and Brooklyn Poets.
Find out more »Balancing Fear and “Hopeism” in the Face of the Climate Crisis and Rising Fascism
Liza Featherstone is a writer tackling issues ranging from climate to labor and the DSA. She is contributing writer for The Nation, and a columnist for Jacobin Magazine and The New Republic. She is also an adjunct professor of public policy at Columbia University and NYU. In this talk, she will build on a general thesis about the right balance in messaging to keep us active in the face of crises.
Find out more »Counter-Narratives & Challenging Hegemony through Art (Part II – Narrative Storytelling)
A morning narrative storytelling workshop with a Brooklyn-based writing group (Ben Snyder, Misa Dayson, Thyra Heder, and Felice Belle), part two in a three-part series. Ben Snyder recently won best screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival.
Find out more »Counter-Narratives and Challenging Hegemony through Art (Part III – Improv)
A morning improv workshop with a Brooklyn-based writing group (Ben Snyder, Misa Dayson, Thyra Heder, and Felice Belle), part three in a three-part series. Ben Snyder recently won best screenplay at the Tribeca Film Festival.
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