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July 2024
How the Un-Tenuring of Faculty Affects Everybody (Eva-Maria Swidler, educator/historian)
Over half of Americans go to some college and now most of the teachers they have do not have and will never have tenure. What does that mean for what they can and do teach and how they teach it? What does that mean for the political activities that they can afford (literally) to support the students in (like the encampments where we noticed it was all tenured faculty who were out there)? Etc. The lack of tenure has created…
Find out more »Toussaint the Liberator Band (Music Performance)
A band whose mission is cultural preservation in the age of erasure. Toussaint the Liberator plays blues, soul, reggae and gospel, both original songs and covers, with the intention of using music as medicine to heal the trauma we all experience by living in this corrupted society. The evening performance will follow an afternoon djembe workshop where everyone can join in!
Find out more »Dispossession: Israel, Palestine, and the war for homelands (Linda Dittmar, author)
With the Palestinian Nakba (“catastrophe”) of 1948 at its core, this five-day discussion will use Linda Dittmar’s memoir, Tracing Homelands; Israel, Palestine, and the Claims of Belonging (2023), to initiate reflection and inquiry. Framed in her travel inside Israel to locate remnants of Palestinian villages, this political memoir, at once sympathetic and unflinching, touches on some 100 years of Israel’s state-formation and its devastating consequences for the Palestinians. Some 50 to 60 pages of reading will be discussed each day.…
Find out more »Working towards Reparations in Boston (George R. Greenidge, City of Boston Reparations Task Force)
In early 2023, Boston became one of the first U.S. city government to take on the question of reparations head-on. George R. Greenidge, founder of Greatest MINDS and a widely respected community leader, is a member of the City of Boston Task Force on Reparations and will share updates and perspectives on the Task Force's work 1.5 years into a 3-year mandate aiming to study the legacy of slavery in Boston and the impact on descendants as the basis for…
Find out more »Learning & Teaching the Truth of the Jim Crow North (Alice Levine, Educator)
Motivated by rethinking her own history growing up as a white child in Englewood, NJ in the 1960s during a battle for school desegregation, Alice Levine has embarked on an effort to understand as much as she can about segregation and civil rights struggles beyond the South. In looking at how these topics are taught today, she has found that in many schools, especially those for younger children, the emphasis is still placed on the Civil Rights Movement as exclusively…
Find out more »Ukelele Weekend
Ukulele Weekend returns! Programs will include music from the 1920s to the Beatles, Folk to Rock, and everything in between. There will be workshops during the day, and nightly porch sessions to play and singalong. Participants should have some knowledge of basic ukulele chords. Bring your previous uke weekend songbook or download one available by link.
Find out more »Frontline Earth Defenders in Peril: Strengthening the Firewall & Responding to the Climate Crisis across Africa (Alfred Brownell, activist)
A Liberian lawyer and environmental activist and lawyer, Alfred Brownell is the Founding President of the Global Climate Legal Defense Network, a lead campaigner and founder of Green Advocates, the African Climate Platform, Environmental Rights Africa Coalition, and the recipient of the prestigious 2019 Goldman Environmental Prize.
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 »White Mountain Ceili Band (Music & Contra Dance)
White Mountain Ceilí Band is Dexter Harding on the tenor banjo, Fiona Howell on the flute, Siena Kaplan-Thompson on the fiddle, and Mike Levine on the guitar and occasional concertina. They play Irish, Scottish and Cape Breton instrumental music with warmth and joy, as well as the occasional song. At WF they will perform and call a Contra Dance! Dexter first came to Irish music when he played for contra dances around the valley, and the session at May Kelly’s deepened his…
Find out more »Energy Justice in NH (NH 350 Youth Team)
Elisabeth Bialosky and youth activists from NH 350 share their local new green deal advocacy from anti-fracking to off-shore wind in the Granite State, as well as the story of powerful grassroots advocacy that led to the announcement in March 2024 that Merrimack Generating Station in Bow, NH -- the last coal-burning plan in New England -- will close by June 2028.
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