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Historically Friends worried that music and the arts could serve as spiritual distractions but today many are involved in the arts. Share you work, along with your views of the role of the arts in contemporary Quaker culture. Tag: arts.
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Friends and the Arts:
The Fellowship of Quakers in the Arts sponsors art shows and discussions about the role of the arts.Quakers and Music is one of the most comprehensive lists of Quaker musicians, maintained by Peter Blood. Peter and his wife Annie Patterson are authors of the wildly-popular Rise Up Singing songbook.
Music and Quakerism is a fabulous overview of Quaker attitudes toward music put together by the Haverford College Libraries.
Quaker Discussion Forum
Further Discussion On Quakers And The Creation Of Art
Started by Jacob Graham. Last reply by Allison Wolff 6th month 6, 2012. 6 Replies 0 Likes
Are Quakers Afraid of self-expression?
Started by anne stansell. Last reply by Peter Hart 9th month 12, 2011. 12 Replies 0 Likes
Self expression in music.
Started by anne stansell. Last reply by James Miller 3rd month 6, 2011. 2 Replies 0 Likes
Featured Blog Posts
Emerging Diane: Intellectualism and pop culture in earlier Friends
Eighteenth century Quakers were apparently anything but anti-intellectual. Their fear was not of knowledge--they encouraged their members to tackle weighty subjects--but of a shallow, superficial veneer of information that substituted for mature thought.
Quaker poets – Listen to Them Breathing
The programme elegantly draws out intersecting lines between Quaker worship and poetry, that have taken some of the poets interviewed years to discern. Philip Gross says: ‘I spent twenty years seriously being a poet and seriously being a Quaker, and it never dawned on me that they might be aspects of the same thing’.
With My Needle
Here is another stitching project I am currently working on. I love many of the "Goode Huswife" designs. I always find wonderful designs with very pleasing color schemes. I do, however, sometimes...----> Well Bless my Bonnet! (to see my progress)
Deborah
A Brand New Quaker Arts & Craft Blog!
I know there must be many of you ladies and men who enjoy doing various arts and crafts, and frankly...I would love to see your work! So I decided to make a new blog where you can post and display pictures of what you've created. What follows is my first post. So please stop by and join!
Danny Coleman: Silence and Light
A description in song of Quaker worship.
Michael Forster Rothbart: A Quaker Photojournalist Reflects on Witnessing (Friends Journal)
Today, I am equally a Quaker and a photojournalist, and these two tracks of my life cross-pollinate constantly. Both live as witnesses, and there are many parallels between photography and Quaker worship. We are searching for Truth and insight, willing (ideally) to seek this Truth out no matter where it leads us. We know the way may be hard, yet we persevere.
Sarah Hoggatt: You Know this Painting?
"What did you say about that painting, Simon?" I ask from across the small wooden gallery. "It was painted here." "REALLY?" "You know this painting?" he asks in surprise. "Of course!" Hugh and I exclaim together.
"Earth Quakers" flash mob caroling at bank
We were quickly met by security, but we still sang many carols to an audience of PNC patrons, staff and management, drawing a crowd as we presented our coal-filled stocking to PNC's head of security, along with our Christmas card demanding that they immediately cease all further financing for mountain-top removal.
Jon Watts' next album: Songs About Early Quakers and Nakedness
The album will look at the "theological underpinnings of going naked as a sign" and ask "What was going on with these radical Christians?" Right now, he's fundraising.
NEYM Pie to the tune of American Pie
A bit of Quaker history set to music!
NEYM Pie
(to the tune of American Pie, words by Jim Grace, 2010). Lyrics via New England YM website:
A long, long time ago,
Friends can still remember how the Spirit came to these here shores.
Young George Fox heard a voice within him, saying there is one to speak to his condition.
And then his heart did leap for joy.
But Mary Fisher and Ann Austin walked cheerfully in Puritan Boston.
To thank them for their trying, they were banished on pain of dying.
And William Leddra, and William Robinson, and Mary Dyer and Marmaduke Stevenson,
Were all hanged on Boston Common, as Friends can testify.
Chorus:
So mind, mind, mind the light that thou hast,
Not the preacher nor the steeple nor the book from the past.
But gather in love and hold the Spirit so fast,
Asking “What is it now thou canst say? What is it now thou canst say?”
Did you read the book of Love, and do you have faith in God above?
Did the Spirit tell you so?
Well, do you believe in Inner Light? Did Jesus tell you not to fight?
And, can you teach me how Friends decide, real slow?
Well I know that you’re in unity when I see you sit so quietly.
You might drop off to sleep, but I know that worship is deep.
Ooh, I was a young urban professional, and I’d seen my last confessional,
But I knew I was impressional the day I came to Friends. I started singing:
Chorus
Did you hear the Newport news, what with George Fox sitting in the pews,
And the Spirit of the Lord was over all?
Well, for three hundred and fifty years we’ve been meeting there and meeting here,
Always seeking to discern our corporate call.
But we’ve not always heard it clearly, and those enslaved have suffered dearly.
As we discerned intensely, John Woolman helped immensely.
So slavery’s days have seen their ends, but did we fully make amends?
And were those freed as fit for Friends? We still have work to do.
Chorus
“To scripture” cried the Gurneyite, as Wilburs followed Inner Light,
A split was underway.
And when Eli and Sybil departed, a Friends school in Ramallah started.
We were going global all the way.
But when independent meetings came and Rufus Jones had made his name,
We found that reuniting was better far than fighting.
And though we were in unity, we still had much diversity,
And when we talked theology, we had to find the way.
Chorus
To Jubilee we came this year, God's quiet voice for us to hear,
The Spirit over us to sway.
We needed to discover fear and do a different thing this year,
Never easy when the Spirit has its day.
But as we sat in stillness there, community for us to bear,
And not a word was spoken. The boundaries all were broken.
I can't remember if I cried when that sense of separation died,
But something touched me deep inside, the day I found my guide. We were singing:
Chorus (two times)
Quaker Songwriter Jon Watts at the FGC '10 Multigenerational Activity
Jon Watts performs "Songs that I've Released" at Friend General Conference (FGC) in the Summer of 2010 in Bowling Green, OH.
John: poem 'The End'
John: poem 'The End'. And God will wipe away all tears from our eyes, Will surely wipe away all tears from our eyes. Inclined no way but One, we lose all dread; Unthreatened, we disarm all spears from our eyes.Read Full Article
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Comment by clarissa ann wade on 4th mo. 23, 2012 at 9:10pm -
why are those who create art such as drawings considered bad or no longer chrristians by the bible ? can any one help me answer this?
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Comment by Virginia J on 9th mo. 15, 2011 at 7:14pm -
Good morning from Western Australia.
The notion of poetry being 'a form of Quaker plain speaking' speaks strongly to me. Re the recent review here of BBC radio doco 'Listen to them breathing' - I just missed the online deadline to listen again - if anyone saved/recorded it and could share it I'd be grateful.
Along the same lines - having read the review I now can't wait for a collected UA Fanthorpe to arrive by mail and would like to read again her poem 'Friends Meeting House, Frenchay'. At once, or sooner! Can't find online - does anyone have a link or a copy they could share?
Best, Virginia
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Comment by QuakerQuaker on 8th mo. 4, 2010 at 9:13am -
Of interest: Earlham School of Religion is having a "Ministry of Writing" colloqium on 10/15/2010. Details at http://www.quakerquaker.org/events/esr-ministry-of-writing
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