Mary Tuomanen is a playwright and performer recently named the 2017 F. Otto Haas Emerging Philadelphia Theatre Artist by Theatre Philadelphia. She received the inaugural Artist Residency at Christ Church Neighborhood House for her play, Peaceable Kingdom (2017). The play was nominated for 7 Barrymore Awards, receiving honors for outstanding costume design as well as the Virginia Brown Martin Philadelphia Award for best particular understanding of our global community.

Tuomanen is a founding member of Orbiter 3, Philadelphia’s first producing playwright’s collective, and a company member since its inception in 2009 of the radical theater collective, Applied Mechanics.

Named Best Theatre Artist by Philadelphia Magazine in 2015, she was a finalist for the Haas Emerging Artist Award in 2014, 2016, and a grantee of the the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage for her collaboration with Aaron Cromie, The Body Lautrec.

A collaborator at heart, she will be working while at Haverford with a new creative team of five on an emergent play about the peasant revolt of 1381 and rehearsing for the debut performance of their newest play with her collective theater troupe, Applied Mechanics.

She has performed with many regional theater companies and devised companies in Philadelphia and beyond, including Lantern Theater Company, Arden Theatre, The Riot Group, Actor’s Theatre of Louisville, Opera Philadelphia, Theatre Exile, Azuka Theatre, and Interact Theatre Company, who premiered her play Marcus/Emma in 2017 (now nominated for the Independence Foundation Best New Play Award.) Her one-woman shows, Saint Joan, Betrayed and Hello! Sadness!, have been performed at the Annenberg Center, the Kimmel Center’s SEI Independence Studio, Bloomsburg Theater Ensemble, and FringeArts.

She alternately attends Friends Meeting of Philadelphia and Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting.

News:

At The Intersection of Imagination and Social Justice | Haverford Headlines
Award-winning playwright and performer Mary Tuomanen will spend her time as this semester's Friend in Residence making, workshopping, and performing theater that imagines a better world.

Events:

When Eve Span
Saturday, February 3
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Sunday, February 4
9 a.m. – 3 p.m. 
GIAC Swan Multi-Purpose Room

For logistical details and to save you a spot contact: wsulliva@haverford.edu

Haverford students and other Tri-Co community members are invited to workshop early scenes of a fledgling collaborative theater project about the English peasant uprising of 1381, working with Mary, historian and author Mark O'Brian, theatermaker John Cresswell, and UPenn professor of sociology Andy Lamas.

Workshop: Introduction to Immersive Work
Saturday, February 10
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. 
Stokes 106

Applied Mechanics makes work that engages all the senses. The Introduction to Immersive Work takes students through the process of creating a fuller experience for the audience member, through mindful use of sound, movement, text and space. The Mechanicians help students transform the raw material of themes and images into theatrical provocations, and experiment on fellow classmates to hone and improve their projects. Students experience the thrill of putting performer and audience in direct contact, learning creative ways to negotiate and mine that relationship.

Performance: Hello! Sadness!
Saturday, February 10
7:30-9:00 p.m.
Stokes Auditorium

Hello! Sadness! is a dark comedy that weaves a story from Joan of Arc to the Black Panther Party to misogynist stand-up to awkward French New Wave dancing. With imagination, visual projections, and a perfectly interspersed sound design, audiences move about from the here and now to 1960s Chicago, an intoxicating poppy field, fifteenth century France, a street run by prostitutes, a museum, a trial, a speeding car, a secret place of joy and rage. Mary Tuomanen proposes humor as a weapon for social activism—to laugh at the oppressor in all of us, then punch him in the face.

Workshop: World-Building
Thursday, February 15
7:00-9:30 p.m. 
Stokes 106

The World-Building Workshop allows students to do the impossible: create, in detail, an imaginary society. In this class, both utopias and dystopias are built from scratch, and entire cultures can be invented with their own language, soundscape, physicality and architecture. Once multiple worlds exist, they are brought into contact with each other in guided improvisations, exploring cross-cultural communication and translation. This is a fabulous challenge for students in a multitude of courses of study, including theater, modern language, sociology, anthropology and political science.

Performance: This is On Record (Formerly titled CHRONOTOPE)
Saturday, April 14
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m. 

This is On Record is about the challenges of documenting a historical moment. We are investigating stories themselves -- how humans use media to construct and perpetuate cultural narratives. In a time when our American cultural narrative seems so fractured and the role of media as government watchdog so imperiled, This is On Record is an essential piece to make. The audience has the opportunity to “watch the watchers,” as they follow the lives of journalists, artists, documentarians, translators, etc. who tell the story of their time. You could spy on a sculptor as she designs a memorial to a national tragedy, or watch a documentarian as she edits a film about that same sculptor. This is On Record presents the human creators of our cultural understanding of memory, and exposes the filters, pressures and privileges that inform how history is recorded. It both raises questions about the idea that we “consume” media, and reveals the ways in which we inherit values and assumptions without even realizing it. The stories we encounter become an unconscious part of us, and people we never meet can shape our most dearly held beliefs without our notice. CHRONOTOPE also brings us the added challenge of incorporating more technology into our work than ever before -- a design that utilizes projections, live audio and online elements to investigate how media is created and consumed.

On Campus:  October 31–November 5, 2017

Zachary Moon, Ph.D., is Assistant Professor of Practical Theology at Chicago Theological Seminary. He is author of Coming Home: Ministry That Matters with Veterans and Military Families (2015). He formerly served as a military chaplain with sailors and Marines, as a chaplain resident in the VA hospital system, and as a chaplain with combat veterans diagnosed with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder in residential recovery. He was born and raised in the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers).

News:

A Quaker Minister in the Military? | Haverford Headlines
This semester's Friend in Residence, Zachary Moon, will share with the community how serving as a military chaplain was a faithful expression of his Quaker identity and what he learned in that service.

Events:

Moral Dimensions of Trauma (public talk at Swarthmore College)
Tuesday, October 31
5-6:30 pm
Kohlberg, Scheuer Room
Swarthmore

A Brown Bag Lunch in Quaker and Special Collections: A Quaker Minister in the Military
Friday, November 3
Noon to 1pm
Magill Library, Special Collections
Haverford

Dinner with Haverford Christian Fellowship
Friday, November 3

Brunch with Quaker House
Sunday, November 5
Haverford College Apartments 23

Classroom visits in Psychology and Peace Justice and Human Rights

Consultation with Counselling and Psychological Services

Attendance at Philadelphia Yearly Meeting Continuing Sessions
 

On Campus:  March 19-25 and April 2-15, 2017

Eileen Flanagan is a graduate of Duke and Yale, the award-winning author of three books and scores of articles. She speaks to international audiences on topics ranging from personal empowerment and spirituality to climate justice and its intersections with race and class. Her activism is focused through Earth Quaker Action Team, whose board she chairs. She is a member of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting, in Philadelphia, PA. www.eileenflanagan.com

Events:

Thursday April 6
Writing as Activism Workshop
7:00-8:30 p.m.
Stokes 106, Multicultural Center (MCC)

Friday April 7
Brown Bag Talk; "A time of crisis and division: Quaker resources then and now"
12:00-1:00 p.m.
Magill Special Collections

Sunday April 9
Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) Training in Strategic Planning
1:00-3:30 p.m.
Stokes 106, Multicultural Center (MCC)

Wednesday April 12
Nonviolent Direct Action (NVDA) Plan and Role Training
8:00-10:00 p.m.
Stokes 106, Multicultural Center (MCC)

Thursday April 13
Public talk: "We Were Made for This Moment"
7:00-9:00 p.m.
KINSC H109

Friday April 14
Time and place still TBD
A nonviolent direct action associated with EQAT: Power Local Green Jobs

Benigno Sanchez-Eppler is a Quaker and a member of New England Yearly Meeting.

He has traveled in the ministry among Friends in Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, Bolivia, and the United States. He led the Bible Half-hours at NEYM Sessions in 2007, and at the Friends General Conference Gathering in 2008. Benigno teaches at Amherst College and at the Cuban Quaker Peace Institute. His decades of work as interpreter and translator for Friends World Committee for Consultation (FWCC) led him to serve as Co-Clerk of the Quaker Youth Pilgrimage for the last three years. Benigno is a founding co-editor and translator of raicescuaqueras.org. He serves as clerk of the FWCC Section of the Americas. 

At Haverford Professor Sanchez-Eppler visited Haverford during Religion and Spiritual Life week under a concern for Spiritual Hospitality. He was a guest in classes in Quaker History and advanced Spanish. He met with college administrators supporting international service and digital humanities and visited with Quaker and Latin American student groups.

News:

Friend In Residence Explores "Spiritual Hospitality" | Haverford Headlines
Teacher, translator, and Clerk of Friends World Council for Consultation Section of the Americas Benigno Sánchez-Eppler joins us on campus for Religion and Spiritual Life Week.

Events:

• Bible Study in the manner of Friends.
• A Spanish Voice for Early Friends: a brown-bag presentation in Quaker and Special Collections.
• Translation as a Digital Humanities Practice: an interactive workshop.
• A public talk – From Lodging to Visitation: Hosts and guests pass the threshold of cultural and spiritual irritants

Dr. Amanda Kemp blends activism and spirituality, theatre arts and history.

She earned her PhD in Performance Studies at Northwestern University and completed undergraduate studies in African and Afro-American Studies at Stanford University. Formerly, an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at Cornell University and Assistant Professor of English and American Studies at Dickinson College, Kemp has taught courses on the performance of race, African American playwrights Black theatre, and cultural studies. Currently, A Commonwealth Lecturer for the Pennsylvania Humanities Council on Phillis Wheatley, Kemp is also a sought after speaker and performer. Her unique blend of performance and lecture have taken her to Yale University, Washington University in St. Louis, Roanoke College, and Stanford University among others.

At Haverford Dr. Kemp visited classes talking about everything from race to theater performance and how she views the intersection of the two. She also performed #sayhername, a multimedia performance focusing on Black women who have resisted slavery, Jim Crow, and our criminal injustice system. The performance was written by Amanda Kemp and features poetry, narration, and film excerpts and is scored by soulful violinist Michael Jamanis whose renderings include Bach, African American spirituals, and improvisation.

News:

Friend In Residence Brings #SayHerName to Haverford | The Haverblog
Dr. Amanda Kemp spent a week on campus this fall, culminating in a performance.

A Friend Returns | The Haverblog
Poet-performer Dr. Amanda Kemp came back to campus for a second time this year as Haverford’s Friend in Residence.

Events:

• #sayhername
• Making the Invisible Visible: Working as an Artist, Change Maker, and Intellectual
• Engaging Race Questions: Preparing for the White Privilege Conference
• Class Visits

Kody Hersh is a queer, trans, sex-positive, Christian, young adult Quaker.

They have written blog posts, led workshops, and advocated for change in the understanding of the intersection between religion and sexuality, the gender spectrum, the spirituality of queerness, and the meaning of Jesus. Kody has traveled in the ministry among Quakers across North America, served as an elder, and is a former co-clerk of Friends for Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Concerns. He is a member of Miami Monthly Meeting, Southeastern Yearly Meeting.

Kody participated in a CPT delegation to the Mexico/U.S. border to learn about the effects of border militarization, U.S. immigration policy, and "free trade" on migrants and border communities. Shortly after his residency at Haverford, Kody participated in a month-long nonviolent direct action training to join CPT's reserve corps.

A copy of Kody’s talk at Haverford can be found here:
https://hc.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=169642ff-0dd8-48c6-8bc5-d842b987c638

A published article which came out of the talk at Haverford can be found here:
http://www.friendsjournal.org/quaker-sex-sexuality-jesus/

Events:

• Questions of Peacemaking, Anti-Racism, and Globalization
• Community Dinner
• Know One Another in the Light: Quakers and Sexual Morality
• Having Sex Like a Quaker

Jens and Spee Braun are Quaker humanitarians and advocates for communal living.

Their farm, the Quaker Intentional Village- Canaan (QIVC) in East Chatham, NY, is just one product of their passion for creating spaces that promote their core principles of spiritual living, intergenerational alliance, economic and environmental integrity, and an overall joy for service. Both of them are active participants in humanitarian endeavors; Spee works for Save the Children and Jens devotes much of his time to the Alternatives to Violence Program (APV). Before settling in New York and founding QIVC, the couple lived in many regions around the world including Ecuador, Gaza, Costa Rica, and Nicaragua. They are involved in many projects at QIVC such as organic farming and meat production, bee-keeping, and sustainable construction, skills they shared with three Haverford students on the “Alternative Spring Break” that the couple hosted directly following their visit to the college.

You may refer to the article “Friends in Residence Bid Farewell” for more information on Jens and Spee.

News:

Friends in Residence Bid Farewell | The Clerk
Experienced international peace activists Jens and Spee Braun concluded their two-week visit to campus last Friday after a packed schedule of classroom visits and public events.

Events:

• Is Quakerism at Haverford a Myth?
• AVP basic workshop
• Non-Profits Abroad: Careers in International Service
• Responding to HIV/AIDS and Ebola in Real Life
• Dinner with Quaker and Quaker Interested Students
• Safety Fourth: Nurturing Courage for a Thriving World

Vanessa has been a guest speaker for many churches, organizations and Quaker conferences.

She is an active member of the Religious Society of Friends, serving on numerous committees in her local meeting (Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting, CPMM) and Philadelphia Yearly Meeting (PhYM) as well as on the boards of Quaker organizations. Vanessa has a calling to ministry with a concern for helping the Religious Society of Friends become a whole blessed community.

Vanessa has established several organizations to empower people of Color. She has written several articles about her experience as a Friend of Color in the Religious Society of Friends. Her photographs were printed in the Philadelphia Tribune accompanied by an article written about the 2000 Gathering of the Fellowship of Friends of African Descent (FFAD) in Jamaica.

Vanessa worked for a couple of years with the Green Circle Program, a human relations program that helps children and adults understand and appreciate difference. Prior to that she was the Associate Secretary of Friends World Committee for Consultation, Section of the Americas for many years. Vanessa is currently writing a book that explores the relationship between African Americans and Quakers from the 17th Century to the present day. She wrote the forward for a pamphlet published in January 2003 by Friends General Conference by Margaret Hope Bacon, “Sarah Mapps Douglass, Faithful Attender of Quaker Meeting: View from the Back Bench.”

For an extended version of this biography, visit http://www.quaker.org/vanessajulye/id20.htm

Event:

• Fit for Freedom, Not for Friendship

evalyn parry is a Canadian Quaker, and an award-winning musician, poet and theatre artist.

Her interdisciplinary performance works, inspired by a deep commitment to social justice, explore themes that range from 19th century cycling heroines to bottled water, from queer identity to the quest for the Northwest Passage. Whether accompanying herself on guitar, water bottle, shruti box or loop pedals, or joined by a percussionist playing an amplified bicycle, parry's unique work has been performed all over North America, and been widely broadcast, commissioned and anthologized; she has released four critically acclaimed CDs, and directed, written and acted in numerous original theatrical productions. In her hometown Toronto, evalyn serves as the director of the Young Creators Unit at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre, mentoring and directing young queer artists in the creation of solo performance. She has lead workshops at colleges and universities, community, professional arts and Quaker organizations across the US and Canada, using writing, music, movement and theatre to explore diverse themes, and to give expression to the unique creative voice within each of us. evalynparry.com

News:

Canadian Quaker evalyn parry takes Haverford by bicycle! | Quaker Affairs
Innovative, award-winning Toronto artist evalyn parry takes her audience on an uncommon theatrical and musical journey in SPIN, her tour-de-force performance celebrating the Bicycle as muse, musical instrument and agent of social change.

Events:

• Welcome Lunch
• A Taste of evalyn parry
• What the F*** is Feminism Anyway?: An interactive workshop
• From Outrage to Creation
• SPIN

Marcelle Martin travels widely in the ministry, talking to meetings and facilitating retreats on different aspects of spiritual life.

She is also a writer and scholar who is completing a book about the Quaker spiritual journey and writes the blog A Whole Heart. As a member of Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting Marcelle has a deep understanding of god in her life and strives to share that with others. She has spent most of her adult life traveling in the ministry and taking on jobs as they presented themselves to sustain herself financial, she worked at Pendle Hill for a time, but has a deep passion for traveling and helping others find the god within themselves and their meetings.

At Haverford Marcelle lead workshops on yoga and ecstatic dance as well as visiting many classes and talking about her spiritual and scholarly work.

News:

Friend in Residence Marcelle Martin on the Quaker Spiritual Journey | The Haverblog
During a visit to Professor of History Emeritus Emma Lapsansky-Werner’s “History and Principles of Quakerism” class this week, Friend in Residence Marcelle Martin talked about what she sees as her ministry, helping people “pay attention to spiritual experiences they have had and might have pushed aside, and helping them to be open to more of those experiences.”

Events:

• “The Body Speaks” workshop
• Brown Bag Lunch on Women Quakers
• Spoke on Quakers and Witchcraft
• Class Visits

Peterson Toscano is a playwright, actor, Bible scholar, blogger, gay activist, and Quaker.

Toscano spent nearly two decades undergoing ex-gay treatment and conversion therapy before accepting his homosexuality and coming out as a gay man. He has since shared his experiences internationally through various media outlets, especially plays.

During his time at Haverford, as part of the President’s Social Justice Series, he presented Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible, a rare showing of his full theatrical production along with short pieces presented by trans people from Philadelphia. He also performed Peterson Uncut: The Raw Version, a stand up comody performance which gave him the opportunity to “tell some bawdy Bible stories and saucy tales from the Homo No Mo Halfway House and more.” Along with these two events he helped coordinate the climate summit, visited classes, and spent time doing research in special collections.

News:

Peterson Toscano: Friend in Residence | The Haverblog
On the tail end of his three-week stay at Haverford as the 2013 Friend in Residence, performance artist, bible scholar, and queer and environmental activist Peterson Toscano sat down with us to answer a few questions about his work and time on campus.

Events:

• Transfigurations–Transgressing Gender in the Bible
• Peterson Uncut: The Raw Version
• The Climate Summit
• Class Visits

Peter G. Brown is 1961 graduate of Haverford, is a professor at McGill University, where he is affiliated with the School of Environment, the Department of Geography, and the Department of Natural Resource Sciences.

Before going to McGill, he founded the University of Maryland's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, as well as its School of Public Policy, and established the School's environmental policy program.

Brown is a member of the Religious Society of Friends and the author of Restoring the Public Trust: A Fresh Vision for Progressive Government in America and The Commonwealth of Life: Economics for a Flourishing Earth. He is the co-author, with Geoffrey Garver, of Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy, which expands the Quaker concept of“right relationship” to advocate for a global perspective on using the earth's resources and a shift away from the emphasis on growth. As part of his residency, Brown gave a public talk titled “Saving Our Future: Is What You Are Learning Helpful? Rethinking the Human-Earth Relationship.” The talk was part of the President's Social Justice Speaker series.

News:

Friend in Residence 2012 | Quaker Affairs
Quaker scholar of environmental policy Peter G. Brown '61 will be "Friend in Residence" and give a public lecture on March 21 at 6:30 p.m.

Events:

• Saving Our Future: Is What You Are Learning Helpful? Rethinking the Human-Earth Relationship.”
• Class visits

Joe Volk, our first Friend in Residence, is the former Executive Secretary for Friends Committee on National Legislation.

Volk has devoted his life to advancing peace and social justice. Prior to his 21-year term at FCNL, a non-partisan, Quaker lobby and the first registered national religious lobby in the United States, he worked for the American Friends Service Committee (AFSC) for 18 years and served as its national secretary for peace education from 1982 to 1990. While at FCNL, he lobbied Congress to support peaceful prevention of deadly conflict, nuclear disarmament, peace in Iraq and many other issues.

During his time at Haverford Volk gave a talk entitled, “If War Is Not The Answer, What Is?: A Peace Activist on Capital Hill”, as part of the President's Social Justice Speaker series. He also attended classes, ran workshops and met with interested students and community members.

News:

New "Friend in Residence" Program Launches | Haverford Headlines
Joe Volk comes to the College for a three-week stay as Haverford's first Friend in Residence. The aim: to highlight the College's Quaker roots and increase connections to the Quaker community.

Events:

• Talk “If War Is Not The Answer, What Is?: A Peace Activist on Capital Hill”
• Visited Classes
• Talked at Quaker retirement communities
• Attended local monthly meetings
• Lunch rountable discussion as part of the Center for Peace and Global Citizenships Perpetual Peace Project.