NOV
28
Quaker Conversations. 6: What is mine to do? Quaker Journeys in AWPS
by Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC)
Following
Free
Actions and Detail Panel
Sales Ended
Details
Event Information
Please join us on November 28 for Quaker Conversation 6: What is mine to do? Quaker journeys in AWPS (the Asia West Pacific Section).
About this Event
About the Quaker Conversation Webinar Series
In its role of providing connective tissue, FWCC is offering a series of 6 Quaker Conversation sessions to any Friends who want to listen and learn and contribute to concerns important to Friends, particularly during this time of grief and reflection and, transformation.
Session 6:
Please join us on November 28 for Quaker Conversation 6: What is mine to do? Quaker journeys in AWPS (the Asia West Pacific Section) where we will hear from Jo Vallentine of Australia Yearly Meeting and Gerry Yokota of Japan Yearly Meeting.
These two remarkable women have lots to say about how being a Quaker has affected their lives, calling them to their work and activism. “I have been determined to take my Quakerism with me wherever I have felt called” says Jo, referring in part to her 8 years in the Australian Senate. Gerry will talk about being a Quaker in Japan and the importance of Quaker diversity, likening it to the spaces in music. Both women have lived into their Quakerism in inspiring ways.
Come, listen, and learn with Friends around the world.
This is event is in partnerhip with FWCC Asia West Pasific Section.
Corresponding timezones around the world:
London, United Kingdom 07:00 GMT
Paris, France 08:00 CET
Bhopal, India 12:30 IST
Tokyo, Japan 16:00 JST
Melbourne, Australia 18:00 AEDT
Brisbane, Australia 17:00 AEST
About Gerry Yokota has been a member of Osaka Monthly Meeting, Japan Yearly Meeting since 1993. She grew up in a Southern Baptist church in the U.S. and became a Quaker as an adult. In her professional career teaching university English to undergraduates and cultural and literary theory to graduate students, she seeks to plant seeds of awareness of issues of social justice and climate justice through courses focusing on the SDGs.
What Gerry will be exploring in session 6:
As an American who has spent the last three decades of my life in Japan, I am keenly conscious of the need to “feel where the words come from,” as John Woolman said in reference to communicating with Indigenous people he encountered in the American colonies. In this Quaker Conversation, I will talk about how Japan Yearly Meeting sustains my never-ending quest to realize What Is Mine To Do in my professional life as an educator in Japan.
About Jo Vallentine – mother, grandmother, teacher, activist, accidental politician, serial offender, has been connected with Western Australia Regional Meeting since 1972.
What Jo will be exploring in session 6:
Pathway to Quakers (black sheep of family, Catholic boarding school education, finding Meeting with fabulous mentors)
Anti-nuclear campaigning accompanying motherhood, being led to contest a place in the Australian Senate in 1984 (against all odds, winning a seat)
The accidental Senator (being a peoples’ representative through a Quaker lens, simultaneously creating community)
Continuing with activism (including nonviolence trainings, Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects, committing holy obedience and landing in gaol, round Australia Pilgrimage with Chernobyl survivors connecting with indigenous groups, helping to establish Alternatives to Violence Project in Western Australia
Current contributions (Extinction Rebellion grandparents’ group, lobbying for de-militarisation which could fund all of U.N.s seventeen Sustainable Development goals)
Additional Event Details:
This event will be held in English. If you need additional interpretation or assistance, please contact faithb@fwcc.world with the subject line 'interpretation request'.
This event will be hosted online. Once you register on Eventbrite, you will get a link to the zoom meeting where this event will be hosted.
Tags
Online Events Online Conferences Online Spirituality Conferences #quaker #quakerconversations
Date And Time
Sat, 28 November 2020
17:30 – 19:00 ACDT
Add to Calendar
Location
Online Event
OrganiserFriends World Committee For Consultation (FWCC)
Organiser of Quaker Conversations. 6: What is mine to do? Quaker Journeys in AWPS
Organiser Website Website
The purpose of FWCC is to encourage fellowship and understanding among all the branches of the Religious Society of Friends. FWCC brings Friends together in multiple ways to celebrate God in our lives, to gather the Quaker voice and build networks to address issues of our time, and to unite us within our diversity.
The Quaker community circles the globe, spanning a rich diversity of regional cultures, beliefs and styles of worship.
FWCC organizes its work through its four section offices and the World Office, collaborating and encouraging the work of each section and work across sections. Each section embodies rich cultural and theological diversity, and they organize opportunities and programmes to bring Friends together and to learn from each other.
The World Office uniquely represents all Friends at the global level through our participation with the Quaker United Nations Offices, offering Quakers the chance to contribute to world affairs. Our consultation extends to those of other faiths through work with the World Council of Churches, the Conference of Secretaries of the Christian World Communions, and participation in global ecumenical and interfaith work.
During the coronavirus pandemic, we are running a webinar series called 'Conversations with Friends' to continue the connecting of our global family of Friends during this time of social distancing and change around the world.
Each month the FWCC World Office will be hosting a conversation for Friends world wide in partnership with Quaker agencies, and study centres, and the FWCC sections.
Following Contact
