Arts - period ended 10.1.2006

Arts/Theater/Quaker History/Masterful 'Patience' is long but power-packed/Boston Globe/Boston/MA/USA/22-Sep-06//…In matters of racial parity, the tiny island of Nantucket -- whose predominantly Quaker population knew something about persecution -- was way ahead of the mainland. The island outlawed slavery in 1773, 10 years before the Commonwealth as a whole. In 1846, its secondary school was the first in the state to be integrated, although not without a fight. ….

Arts/Television/Fox, George/From Restoration TV hit to Men and Mountains/Lakeland Today/Lakeland/England/UK/26-Sep-06//... Also interviewed was Roy Stephenson, who told about the life of George Fox, who established a major Quaker community in the region. ...

Arts/Peace Activities/Raised-a-Quaker/Big light show -- art for peace 500 flashlights to be turned on at .../San Francisco Chronicle/San Francisco/CA/USA/21-Sep-06//... Scudder, a native of New York City, got into the peace art trade partly to honor the memory of his late mother, a Quaker, who was less than delighted when Scudder enlisted in the Navy at age 18.

"She almost disowned me,'' the artist said with a smile. "But the world is a complicated place." ...

Arts/Painting/Northern Friends Peace Board/Society of friends: Local artists, from left, Ros White, Gillian .../News & Star/London/England/UK/18-Sep-06//... The exhibition is being held to raise awareness of the Religious Society of Friends. All the money raised will go to the Northern Friends Peace Board. ...

Arts/Film/Immigration/Tropical Ridge neighborhood to throw block party/Palm Beach Post/Palm Beach/FL/USA/26-Sep-06//... Joshua Samter, also known by the nickname "Waffle," will present A Whisper North: migrant journeys on freight rails and desert trails at 7 p.m. Friday at the Friends Quaker Meeting House, 823 N. A St., Lake Worth. ...

Arts/Film/Back Creek Friends Church/Dean, James/Dozens Attend Memorial Service For James Dean/WANE/Fairmount/IN/USA/1-Oct-06//The Grant County native died in a car crash in California on September 30th, 1955. The service was held yesterday at Back Creek Friends Church. ...

Arts/Dance///Alonzo King has an angular approach to choreography/North County Times/Ventura/CA/USA/27-Sep-06//... time.". King compares the creative process to a scene repeated frequently across Quaker cultures. "All those people get together. ...

Arts/Architecture/Wanstead Meetinghouse/Opening doors and minds to our hidden treasures/Ilford Recorder/Ilford/England/UK/15-Sep-06//... On the same day, Wanstead Friends Meeting House, Bush Road, Wanstead, opens from 10am-5pm. The Quaker building, constructed in 1968, consists of four hexagons with gently sloping roofs, built around a central worship room.. ...

Arts////Art Association visits La Quinta/Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise/Bartlesville/OK/USA/16-Sep-06//... together, Michael and I discovered that much of La Quinta Mansion’sd/cor is inspired by Cervantes’ Don Quixote and the Foster’s Quaker heritage,” said ...

Arts////Society of friends: Local artists, from left, Ros White, Gillian .../News & Star/Carlisle/England/UK/18-Sep-06//AN EXHIBITION at the Quaker Meeting House, on Fisher Street, Carlisle, brings together paintings by city artists Alison Dyer-Smith, Gillian Robinson and Ros ...