[saymaListserv] Workshop for Friends of Color 2/17-19 in NYC

[Bert Skellie]

From: Helen Garay Toppins [mailto:hgfreedom at earthlink.net]
Sent: Friday, January 13, 2006 10:01 AM
To: Jeff Hitchcock
Subject: pls send to lists - POC Workshop

Healing Ourselves
Workshop for Friends of Color
February 17-19, 2006


This experiential weekend is, sponsored by the NYYM Black Concerns Committee
for Friends of Color who want to begin healing our wounds from racism.
Personal healing work will occur through worship sharing, large group
discussion and listening to each other in small groups.  We will also spend
time identifying ways we can support each other as People of Color in the
Religious Society of Friends. Workshop facilitated by Vanessa Julye. Vanessa
Julye www.quaker.org/vanessajulye
quakervjulye at earthlink.net

The workshop will begin Friday February 17 at 7:00 pm at 15 Rutherford Place
in Manhattan.  We will spend the evening getting to know each other.

We will meet Saturday morning at 9:30 pm and then visit, The Slavery in New
York exhibit at The New-York Historical Society. This exhibit explores the
vital role that slave trading, the labor of enslaved people, and important
commerce with slave societies in the 19th century played in making New York
the wealthiest city in the world. Further details of this important
exhibition can be found at: www.slaveryinnewyork.org    Admission for the
museum is: Adults: $10, Seniors, Students and Teachers: $5

After the exhibit we will eat lunch at SylviaM-^Rs restaurant in Harlem.
http://sylviasrestaurant.com/#    Entrees range from $8.95 - $18.95.

After lunch we will have an afternoon session at Brooklyn Meeting sharing
our feelings about the exhibit and our experiences within the Religious
Society of Friends.

After a Caribbean dinner we may see the South African musical, Drumstruck.
The show begins at 8:00 PM and tickets are $66.00 per person. We are also
looking at other Saturday night options.

Sunday morning we will return to 15 Rutherford Place in Manhattan to worship
with Manhattan or 15th Street meetings at 9:30 am. After worship our final
session will be facilitated by Vanessa.

The workshop is free but Friends will have to pay for the cost of their
meals, accommodations, museum admission and theater tickets. To register
please contact Helen Garay Toppins at hgfreedom at earthlink.net
Below is a listing of more affordable places to stay in Manhattan.

Seafarers & International House, 123 East 15th Street, at Irving place,
212-677-4800
Double rooms - $90.00;
Single With Shared Bath: $75; Single with Private Bath: $105
http://www.hinewyork.org/rooms.htm

Vanderbilt YMCA, 224 East 47th St., New York, NY 10017
Phone :(212) 756-9600, Fax: (212) 752-0210
http://www.ymcanyc.org/sub.php?p=about&sp=vanderbilt/vanderbiltabout

Hostel International -New York, 891 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY, USA
10025-4403; Phone: 212-932-2300, Fax: 212-932-2574   Beds start at $29.00.
http://www.hinewyork.org/rooms.htm