Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Large index cards, one for each participant Pens or pencils Newsprint or a dry erase board and markers Preparation for Activity If you choose to use the Dewey Delight recipe provided below as an example, consider writing it on newsprint before...

You can find “Pull the Next One Up” in the anthology, The Spoken Word Revolution, edited by Mark Eleveld (Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, Inc., 2003). Marc Kelly Smith is considered the Poetry Slam founder. A WikiHow page offers ideas for building time capsules.

Discuss which activities were successful and which ones were less so with your co-leader. If you are storing time capsules until they are complete, make sure you have a safe and private place to keep them. The next two workshops will be used to plan the Poetry Slam....

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice Copies of Singing the Living Tradition, one for each participant Description of Activity Use the Closing designed by your group or the one provided below. Recite together Reading 712 from Singing the Living Tradition: Do not be conformed to...

Materials for Activity Shoeboxes, mail tubes, or plastic storage containers, one for each participant Arts and crafts materials Journals and pens or pencils Newsprint or dry erase board and markers Other materials as mentioned in the activity and contributed by participants Description of Activit...

Activity time: 5 minutes Materials for Activity Chalice and matches Description of Activity Use the Opening designed by your group or the one provided below. Gather around the chalice. As a volunteer lights the chalice, ask the group to focus on the word “transformation” in silence. After about...

In Workshop 10, You and Me, we asked you to think about how much of your true self you have contributed to this program. Now ask yourself another question: if you have indeed brought aspects of your true self to this program, have you been transformed as a result?

ACTIVITY MINUTES Opening 5 Activity 1: Transforming Communities 20 Activity 2: Life Recipes 30 Faith in Action: Time Capsule Closing 5 Alternate Activity 1: Poetry Improv 15 Alternate Activity 2: Recipes and Equations 15 Alternate Activity 3: Journal Review...

Well, that's the trick: the sudden unexpectedness inside the overknown. — Heather McHugh This is the last workshop before planning the Poetry Slam. Both the planning and the presentation of the Poetry Slam provide opportunity for participants to use their individual voice and for the group to use...

Gathering—Call to worship, choral call/call with music. Marks the intentional gathering of religious community for the purpose of common worship. Opening—Opening words, lighting the flame in the chalice, covenant, hymn. This indicates the opening of the sacred time we have chosen to spend with...

You can use the following ideas to design a worship service to present the UN World Millennium Goals to the congregation. Keep in mind that, although a worship service can include an educational piece, it needs much more to be spiritually fulfilling....

From The Complete Poems (New York: Penguin Books, 2003). Grey haunted eyes, absent-mindedly glaring From wide, uneven orbits; one brow drooping Somewhat over the eye Because of a missile fragment still inhering, Skin deep, as a foolish record of old-world fighting. Crookedly broken nose — low...

Materials for Activity Journals and pens or pencils Description of Activity Participants review their journals and finish incomplete work. As the date for the Poetry Slam approaches, encourage participants to use whatever time remains at the end of the workshops to review the writing in their...

Activity time: 10 minutes Materials for Activity Journals and pens or pencils Stationery Description of Activity Participants write poems or letters to people in their lives who seem quite different from themselves and with whom they have had difficult relationships....

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint with easel, or dry erase board, and markers Drawing paper and markers, crayons, or colored pencils Preparation for Activity Determine where you can display finished pie charts at the close of this activity, and make sure you have tape, pu...

Activity time: 30 minutes Materials for Activity An instant camera and enough film for an individual photograph of each participant Arts and crafts materials for a bulletin board or other gallery-style display Preparation for Activity Identify a space in which to display self-portraits when...

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Newsprint Three markers Journals and pens or pencils Handout 2, "The Same Inside," by Anna Swir Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 2 , "The Same Inside," one for each participant....

Activity time: 25 minutes Materials for Activity Drawing paper Pencils Mirrors, one for each participant Handout 1, "The Face in the Mirror," by Robert Graves Newsprint or dry erase board and markers Journals and pens or pencils Preparation for Activity Photocopy Handout 1, "The Face in the Mirro...

If we agree in love, there is no disagreement that can do us any injury, but if we do not, no other agreement can do us any good. Let us endeavor to keep the unity of the spirit in the bonds of peace. — Hosea Ballou (1771-1852), Universalist minister IN TODAY'S WORKSHOP... We learned about...

The St. John's College Robert Graves Trust website has a very complete biography of the artist. The enotes.com biography of Anna Swir tells about her life in Poland.