Arts - period ended 3.1.2006

Arts/Drawing/Humor/Wilkenson, Signe/Why I go back to the drawing board/Concord Monitor,/Concord/NH/USA/20-Feb-2006//... impaired, religions. However, I also have compassion for the members of humor-impaired religions. After all, I am a Quaker. ( By SIGNE WILKINSON) It's been ...

This same story and a cartoon by Signe Wilkinson illustrating this story, are located at Beliefnet.com

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The Signe Wilkinson cartoon below, was originally published in Friends Journal, Friends Publishing Corp.

Arts/Theater/Quaker History/Slavery/ON THE TRAIN TO REDEMPTION: Pastor and church find a catalyst to .../Detroit Free Press/Detroit/MI/USA/21-Feb-2006//BY ERIN CHAN. David Teeter, 52, and Jordan Barnett Drummer, 15, both of Detroit, play the Quaker and the conductor. Married to: Harold ...

Arts/Theater/Business/Slavery/Playwrights Bullmore and Kuti share Blackburn Prize/Houston Chronicle/Houston/TX/USA/26-Feb-2006//... and is now touring England. The Sugar Wife, Kuti's third play, is set in Dublin's Quaker community in the 1850s. It centers on a ...

Arts/Theater/Business/Slavery/Bullmore's Mammals and Kuti's Sugar Wife Share 2006 Susan Smith .../Playbill.com/New York/NY/USA/25-Feb-2006//... Set in an 1850 Dublin Quaker community, the play tells of a women "torn between her work with the city's poor and her husband's prospering business: a string ...

Arts/Theater/Business/Slavery/Mammals and The Sugar Wife split prize/London Theatre Guide/London/England/UK/28-Feb-2006//…The Sugar Wife is Elizabeth Kuti’s third play, set in Dublin’s Quaker community in 1850. It transferred to the Soho theatre in January 2006, after its premiere in Dublin in 2005. Hannah is torn between her work with the city’s poor and her husband’s prospering business: a string of oriental teahouses. Their new guests, an English philanthropist and a freed slave, are scarred by their experiences in America’s Deep South. All four characters find it harder and harder to maintain their lofty ideals. Elizabeth Kuti was born in England and has worked in Dublin as an actress and playwright. She is currently a lecturer in drama at the University of Essex. ...

Arts/Television/Conscientious Objection/Faces of the week/BBC News/London/England/USA/17-Feb-2006//…Keith's father had been a Quaker who was interned during World War II for being a conscientious objector. He had his qualifications as an architect taken away from him. ...

Arts/Poetry/Whittier, John Greenleaf/Revisiting the work of Whittier/Amesbury News/Amesbury/MA/USA/17-Feb-2006//... "There's a tendency to think of him as this grizzled old Quaker guy without much of a viewpoint when he was anything but," he said. ...

Arts/Poetry/Whittier, John Greenleaf/Reawakening Whittier/News-Daily.com/Clayton/GA/USA/17-Feb-2006//... And John Greenleaf Whittier — the 19th-century Quaker poet from Haverhill and Amesbury whose mother was born in Maglaras’ hometown of Dover, NH — was a ...

Arts/Poetry/Whittier, John Greenleaf/Bringing sound to 'Snow-Bound'/Boston Globe/Boston/MA/USA/15-Feb-2006//... abolitionist, she said. ''He was certainly a man who led his life based on the principles he espoused and lived by as a Quaker. I guess ...

Arts/Music/Raised-a-Quaker/Raitt, Bonnie/Raitt Will Bring the Blues Back Home to Delta on Saturday/International News Service/Sydney/Australia/Oceania/26-Feb-2006//... During this time she persevered as a live concert draw, and she rediscovered her Quaker activist roots, playing a key role in such socio-musical efforts as ...