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LEARNING
TO REPAIR THE WORLD
BE PART
OF A LIFE-CHANGING EXPERIENCE
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Learning to Repair the World is a program that
brings together students (5th through 7th graders) from diverse
religious and ethnic backgrounds to learn and grow together
and find their voice and power as agents for positive change
in the world.
Participants will meet one Sunday a month from
2:30 to 5:30, November 2004 to June 2005 at Charter Oak Cultural
Center to discover ways of building a peaceful world. They
will also do cool, collaborative arts projects together as
well as design and implement their own social justice project.
Students will also enjoy the community-building experience
of going on an overnight retreat in the spring.
Learning to Repair the World is a program that
brings together students (5th through 7th graders) from diverse
religious and ethnic backgrounds to learn and grow together
and find their voice and power as agents for positive change
in the world.
Participants will meet one Sunday a month from
2:30 to 5:30, November 2004 to June 2005 at Charter Oak Cultural
Center to discover ways of building a peaceful world. They
will also do cool, collaborative arts projects together as
well as design and implement their own social justice project.
Students will also enjoy the community-building experience
of going on an overnight retreat in the spring.
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Marela Zacarias is our arts
instructor. Born in Mexico City, she came to the US in
1996 to attend college specializing in "Social Movements
in Art and Religion." See www.marela.org |
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John Humphries, our civic-education
instructor, has extensive experience in civic engagement
and leadership development. He has lived and worked in
Egypt, Haiti, Japan, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam; and this
year he established the Quaker Peace-builder Camp for
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Program: Learning to
Repair the World
Where: Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue, Hartford, CT 06106
(860) 249-1207
When: November 2004 to June 2005
Cost: $100 / participant for the full program (Scholarships
are available)
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| Enrollment is limited. Please
contact Dr. Donna Berman at (860) 249-1207 |
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Meetings will be
held on the following Sundays: |
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November 7, 2004
February 6, 2005
May 8, 2005
December 5, 2004
March 6, 2005
June 12, 2005
January 9, 2005
April 10/11, 2005 (Retreat!)
June 21, 2005 (Tuesday) **
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** This (Tuesday session) will be a potluck dinner (including
parents) to celebrate the conclusion of the program |
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"Over the past six months, about 15 Hartford-area
children have learned that they can change the world.
A pilot program called 'Learning to Repair the World'
brought Jewish, Christian and Muslim sixth-graders together
each month to learn about each other's cultures and
to work on a social justice project… During each session
the children discussed growing up in their particular
faith, as well as issues such as homelessness, war,
hunger and prejudice. The group worked together on an
art project, and each participant came up with an idea
to serve the community… Though the project was aimed
at children, it also drew in the adults who brought
their children to the program".
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-Hartford Courant, June 26, 2003 http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/hc-repair0625.artjun26.story |
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Learning to Repair the World is made possible by the generous support
of the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation of the Endowment Foundation
of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Inc.
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