POSTPONED- Workshop: Truth-Telling & Repair in Places & Spaces

POSTPONED. We are looking into the possibility of rescheduling. Please indicate on this form if you’re interested in attending a make up session by Zoom so we can reach out about a date.

You’ve heard about monuments coming down, and new monuments and memorials being created. All across the country, communities have found creative ways to confront racism in the places and spaces where we live, worship, and learn – with many lessons to be learned about how good processes can lead to stronger, more engaged, more equitable communities.

After Sunday’s service, come learn about and engage with some ways communities have honored those who have been left out of public narratives, openly and honestly confronted harmful pasts, and moved together toward hopeful futures.

Lenore will offer an hour-long workshop introducing frameworks of truth-telling and reconciliation and lifting up examples to better understand the moment in which we live. We’ll see some some “complex truths” approaches that artists, towns, universities, and faith communities have taken to reckoning with racist pasts and presents for a more inclusive future. And we’ll begin to consider what this movement means for Unitarian Universalist communities.

RSVP’s are helpful; walk-ins welcome. Please indicate if you are interested in joining via Zoom: we are working on that capacity.

Lenore Bajare-Dukes, Director of Lifespan Faith Development at UUCL, has spent years witnessing how communities confront legacies of racism, including a practicum with the theatre for truth-telling and conciliation The Conciliation Project in Richmond, VA; and work with Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth on a project mapping grassroots initiatives that confront legacies of racism. She has previously co-taught graduate courses in truth-telling, reconciliation, and restorative justice at Eastern Mennonite University’s Summer Peacebuilding Institute.

Caption for image:

Unitarian and A.M.E. Philadelphian Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (https://www.uuworld.org/articles/we-are-all-bound-together)
Memorialized in “Bronze Muse,” 2015
Mass. State Library, June 2022
Photo courtesy of State Library of Mass. (https://mastatelibrary.blogspot.com/2022/06/new-at-state-library-frances-ellen.html)