MIDWEEK Oct. 2: Mey Hasbrook | ReWilding Quakers: Everyday Valiance (Hyrbid)
About this MIDWEEK practice
ReWilding Quakers as Living Practice (a series within this series!)
"Quakers have become so extraordinarily respectable that you have all forgotten just how wild you used to be." ~ historian Marcus Rediker
ReWilding Quakers is a three-part series of experiential, living practice to stir our hope, joy, and communal care. This practice is to reinvigorate us beyond "extraordinary respectability" into embodied memories of being courageous in our present. DIY supplies are encouraged for a range of prompts. Each session is stand-alone, while the whole series is sequential and arises from encounters among the Religious Society of Friends. The series is scheduled in tandem with World Quaker Day. Joiners are welcome to one or more sessions.
"Everyday Valiance" is the launch to reclaim a wild lineage as Friends in faith community and informed by real-time encounters. We will imagine a river as it becomes an ocean, inspired by Kahlil Gibran’s poem “Fear.” This session is to reclaim the living truth that we are a wild multitude. In doing so, we must reframe “origin stories” as false when they separate to make us singular. Supplies for this session are minimally paper and writing tools; recommended items: blank and lined paper, newsprint, pencil with eraser, and bold dark pen or marker.
Mey (she/ her/ hers) resides on Wabanaki lands in Lewiston, Maine and is active with Three Rivers Monthly Meeting. Her past creative projects spanned Michigan, Peru, and the British Isles. She also traveled in ministry among world Friends. These days, Mey is steeped in repair work as a daily choice and a collaborative journey that carries divine promise. She draws-up experiences as a survivor of violence nearing seventeen years of sobriety and identity recovery as a person of mixed lineage. In this series, Mey offers a “frame” of generative life-giving practices informed by seasoned community work and diverse contexts including Quakers of the US Northeast.
Illuminate...or The Truth Shall Set You Free (2023)
What is MIDWEEK?
In the Quaker tradition of Midweek (Wednesday) worship, Beacon Hill Friends House brings you MIDWEEK: Experiments in Faithfulness. This is a weekly, one-hour, facilitated spiritual practice with Quaker flavor and an experimental ethos. Each week, a guest facilitator engages us in a unique spiritual practice that is meaningful to them, and that we can bring into our own lives.
MIDWEEK is always free and open to the public. If you'd like to support this program, you can make a donation here.
Event Accessibility
Beacon Hill Friends House is working on making our historic space accessible to everyone. (Covid policies for onsite attendees are below).
Automated Closed Captions will be available for all participants (on Zoom and in-person).
Physical space: This event will take place in our Parlor, which does not have a ground-level entrance. Our primary entrance is up a flight of stairs. If you would like to attend this event but need it to be held in a different space, please indicate so on your registration. On the basement level, we have a single-user, all-gender bathroom with wall-mounted handrails and ample space for chairs and/or aides. We are not a scent-free space but tend to be low-scent.
Attending onsite at BHFH (Covid policy and directions)
All MIDWEEK practices are offered on Zoom and in-person at Beacon Hill Friends House. Here is the information you need if you choose to attend onsite. All registrants will also be sent the Zoom link.
Covid policies: All in-person attendees are required to wear a mask while inside. Masks will be available for those who forget them.
If you are feeling under the weather, please opt to attend on Zoom rather than onsite. You can make that choice on the day of the event and simply hop on the Zoom link!
Getting to BHFH: Use the address "8 Chestnut St., Boston, MA, 02108" for navigation. We recommend taking public transit to get here: We are a short walk from every transit line in Boston. If you choose to drive in, paid street parking is available on Charles Street (and on Beacon Street before 6 pm). We also have parking passes available for $9 to the Boston Common Garage.
About Beacon Hill Friends House
Beacon Hill Friends House is a Quaker Center for Learning and Action in downtown Boston, MA. Founded in 1957, its mission is "to embody the Quaker principles of faith, simplicity, integrity, community, and social responsibility in order to nurture and call forth the Light in all of us." BHFH lives into its mission by:
Providing a center where Friends and others can meet, worship, and learn
Advancing and fostering the principles of the Religious Society of Friends
Offering opportunities for leadership development, personal deepening, and collective action
Maintaining a diverse, intentional, residential community guided by Friends principles