Calendar
Our Summer 2024 program is here! Check calendar below for specific events.
Recurring events also hold each week (June 28-September 3, 2024), including:
Sunday Evenings Games! Kicking off each week with interactive fun from charades to WFC Jeopardy! and even flashlight tag…
Tuesday Afternoons WFC Book of the Summer discussions on The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store by James McBride.
Wednesday Evenings S’more community campfires. What’s more “summer” than a campfire? Stars visible. Guitars/singing welcome.
Weekday Afternoons Summer Social Justice Institute. Our social justice fellows gather to discuss social movements & justice issues. Join for a session or volunteer as a mentor!
Friday Evenings Fun Night! Bring your talents to share with our community. Music, poetry, children’s plays, bad dad jokes. Every Friday. Open to all. Sign up ahead or let the spirit move you.
Saturday Mornings* Tamworth Farmers’ Market. If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! We help arrange carpooling to the best farmers’ market & local gathering place. *Occasional Saturday morning programs. Check below.
Saturday Afternoons Community conversations. We open spaces for facilitated conversations on issues dividing the left, finding resilience among the horrors of 2024, and sharing hopes/ideas for the future of World Fellowship.
Saturday Evenings* Music and poetry, contra dancing and theater. Served up coffeehouse style to round out your week or hit a weekend high note. *Check below for specifics.
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Learning & Teaching the Truth of the Jim Crow North (Alice Levine, Educator)
16 July @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
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 or primarily focused on the South–and ending with the passage of federal civil rights legislation. Because Alice has found that there are so few books for children that focus on segregation and civil rights struggles outside of the South, she is working to support educators to broaden their teaching to include more truthful narratives.
Having come to WFC for decades, Alice hopes to use this interactive session to share and workshop resources (including books for adults and children, photos and slides) that she will be presenting at the Massachusetts Teachers Association 2024 Summer Conference in late July. As part of the presentation and discussion, she invites others to browse her book display and to share their perspectives, experiences, feedback, and suggestions on the materials and approach.
Alice Levine has been an educator (primarily in Boston) for over 45 years and currently works as an occasional consultant and teacher trainer, focusing on the use of books that explore many kinds of diversity and social justice issues. Especially over the past several decades, Alice has also been engaged as an activist, particularly in fighting for the rights of immigrants and asylum seekers who have crossed (or are trying to cross) at our Southern border. In recent years, Alice has been greatly impacted by her participation in several courses on race, racism, and reparations and has been looking critically at the versions of liberal racism with which she was raised. She is now working to apply her understanding of Jim Crow North to her work as an educator by writing blog posts, talking to those who play critical roles in developing curriculum and selecting books, and offering workshops for teachers.