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2019 Events

While these events have already happened, they serve as an excellent starting point for independent research, and all focus on themes of justice and equality. Please check our most recent events page for current events that you can attend. All programs were supported by a grant from Humanities New York.

Previous Events

  • Interfaith Panel on Peacemaking
    Interfaith Panel on Peacemaking
    Sun, Nov 03
    Farmington Friends Church
    Nov 03, 2019, 1:00 PM
    Farmington Friends Church, 187 Co Rd 8, Farmington, NY 14425, USA
    the Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Farmington Friends Meeting and the 1816 Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse are co-sponsoring an interfaith forum on how the peace positions of the Jewish, Muslim, and Christian faiths are influenced or grounded in their beliefs
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  • Sojourner Truth Tells It Like It Is
    Sojourner Truth Tells It Like It Is
    Sun, Oct 13
    Sonnenberg Gardens
    Oct 13, 2019, 2:30 PM
    Sonnenberg Gardens, 151 Charlotte St, Canandaigua, NY 14424, USA
    Eunice White delivers Sojourner Truth's “Ain’t I A Woman?” speech
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  • Faces of Engagement 50 Years After Stonewall II: Healing and Trauma Recovery
    Faces of Engagement 50 Years After Stonewall II: Healing and Trauma Recovery
    Sun, Sep 29
    Farmington Friends Meeting
    Sep 29, 2019, 2:00 PM
    Farmington Friends Meeting, 187 Co Rd 8, Farmington, NY 14425, USA
    John will describe his years of work with prison inmates, refugees from torture, those living with HIV/AIDS, and survivors of abuse.
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  • Restoring Indigenous Relationships with Land: A Biocultural Approach
    Restoring Indigenous Relationships with Land: A Biocultural Approach
    Sat, Sep 14
    Ganondagan State Historic Site
    Sep 14, 2019, 2:00 PM
    Ganondagan State Historic Site, 7000 Co Rd 41, Victor, NY 14564, USA
    Neil Patterson, a citizen of the Tuscarora Nation, will describe how indigenous peoples have unique relationships with the lands and waters of what is now called New York State.
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  • Faces of Engagement 50 Years After Stonewall I: Study War No More!?
    Faces of Engagement 50 Years After Stonewall I: Study War No More!?
    Sat, Aug 03
    Wood Library
    Aug 03, 2019, 2:00 PM
    Wood Library, 134 N Main St, Canandaigua, NY 14424, USA
    In narrative and song, historian Verdis Robinson will share his journey as an African-American gay man of faith
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  • Lucretia Mott: Quaker minister, abolitionist, suffragist and Seneca Falls Convention organizer
    Lucretia Mott: Quaker minister, abolitionist, suffragist and Seneca Falls Convention organizer
    Sun, Jul 21
    Farmington Friends Church
    Jul 21, 2019, 7:00 PM
    Farmington Friends Church, 187 Co Rd 8, Farmington, NY 14425, USA
    Christopher Densmore, former curator of Friends Historical Library at Swarthmore College and Quaker scholar will speak on Mott’s vital role in the great social reforms of her time.
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  • Frederick Douglass in Canandaigua
    Frederick Douglass in Canandaigua
    Sun, Jul 14
    Sonnenberg Gardens
    Jul 14, 2019, 2:00 PM
    Sonnenberg Gardens, 151 Charlotte St, Canandaigua, NY 14424, USA
    Actor and scholar David Shakes will appear as Frederick Douglass and deliver excerpts from speeches Douglass made in Canandaigua
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  • Akoma
    Akoma
    Sun, Jun 23
    Sonnenberg Gardens
    Jun 23, 2019, 2:30 PM – 4:00 PM
    Sonnenberg Gardens, 151 Charlotte St, Canandaigua, NY 14424, USA
    The Rochester-based African American Women’s Gospel Choir will present a range of songs including selections from the 1800s and the time of slavery and struggle for freedom as well as more contemporary times.
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  • Open House at the Meetinghouse
    Open House at the Meetinghouse
    Sat, Jun 15
    Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse
    Jun 15, 2019, 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
    Farmington Quaker Meetinghouse, 230 Sheldon Road, Farmington, NY, USA
    Open House at the Meetinghouse followed by Erie Canal: Mural Mania and the Preservation of History though Community Art
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  • The Underground Railroad in Wayne County
    The Underground Railroad in Wayne County
    Sun, May 19
    Macedon Academy
    May 19, 2019, 2:00 PM
    Macedon Academy, 1185 Macedon Center Rd, Macedon, NY 14502, USA
    Presented by Marjory Allen Perez, author of “Final Stop, Freedom! The Underground Railroad Experience in Wayne County.” Book signing and refreshments to follow. (Co-sponsor Macedon Historical Society)
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