2011-2020 Events
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2011 |
| January 23 |
Winter Potluck Dinner
Honoring Haitian Culture & Courage
Hearing Haitian Voices ... History .. Culture .. Catastrophe
keynote speech by Dr. Regine Jean-Charles, Assistant Professor, Boston College
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| March 27 |
Thirteenth Annual Peg Kerwin Program
Building the Multifaith Youth Movement
Presentations by three Massachusetts based interfaith youth leadership programs:
(1) Interfaith Action’s Youth Leadership Program, (2) Cooperative Metropolitan Ministries' Interfaith
Youth Initiative, and (3) The Anti-Defamation League of New England’s Camp IF
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| April 10 |
Many WWIAG Leaders and friends attended "Middle East Harmonies: A Musical Dialogue Between Arab and Israeli Cultures,"
presented by the Zamir Chorale of Boston, instrumentalists Bustan Abraham, and selected soloists, at Sanders Theater,
Cambridge MA. WWIAG was named as one of the event's Community Partners.
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| June 9 |
Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Dinner
Hinduism:
Mr. Bharat Dave and Dr. Bijoy Misra
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| November 2 |
Fall Lecture
Why Multifaith? What Does That Look Like?
Dean Victor Kazanjian, Wellesley College
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| November 8 |
Answering Children’s Questions About Their Own Faith & the Faiths of Others!
Dr. Brita Gill-Austern, Austin Philip Guiles Professor of Psychology and Pastoral Theology,
Andover Newton Theological School
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2012 |
| January 29 |
Mid Winter Potluck
Bringing different faiths together for Fellowship, Conversation & Nourishment
"Are We All Pilgrims on a Quest?" Film Discussion with Carol Shedd, Former Director
of Outreach at The Center for Middle East Studies at Harvard
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| March 27 |
Fourteenth Annual Peg Kerwin Program
The Future of Faith"
Dr. Harvey J. Cox, Professor Emeritus, Harvard Divinity School
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| June 14 |
Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Dinner
Festival of Festivals
A program about the many different celebrations associated with our multifaith community
from a gustatory point of view!
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2013 |
| January 27 |
Winter Potluck Dinner
Traces of the Trade
Film and discussion by Dain and Constance Perry former Weston residents. The film which
explores the "triangle trade" opens a fascinating and important window on the role of salve
trade in New England's history.
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| March 10 |
Celebrating Weston's Diversity
A multi-cultural potluck dinner and program honoring Weston's 300th birthday and
WWIAG's 25th Anniversary.
Keynote speaker was Dr. Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies,
Harvard University
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| June 13 |
Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Dinner
My Neighbor's Faith: Golden Rules for our New Interreligious Reality
Gregory Mobley, Professor of Christian Bible at Andover Newton Theological School
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| November 14 |
Being Both: Embracing Two Religions in One Interfaith Family*
Susan Katz Miller discussed her book. A Joint program Weston Public Library.
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| November 24 |
Wayland's annual Thanksgiving Interfaith Service
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* a joint program with the Weston public library.
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2014 |
| January 26 |
Mid-Winter Potluck
Reflections on Hinduism
Vaishali Gupta, Hindu Chaplain at Wellesley College
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| March 23 |
Annual Peg Kerwin Program
BESA: The Promise (86 minute film)
Johanna Neumann, whose family was hidden by the Albanians and who is featured in this
extraordinary film, was with us.
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| May 15 |
Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Dinner
Fire and Water How these elements play a role in many faiths
Bilal Mirza, Imam at The Islamic Center of Boston, Alana Alpert, Jewish Intern at Temple Shir Tikiva,
Regina Walton, Episcopal Priest at St. Peters Church
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| November 23 |
Wayland's annual Thanksgiving Interfaith Service
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2015 |
| January 25 |
Mid-Winter Potluck
Food For The Soul
Traditional dishes from our various ethnic backgrounds were shared and explained
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| March 25 |
Annual Peg Kerwin Program
Training Peacemakers in our Fractious World
Presented by Alain Lempereur, Slifka Professor and Director of the Coexistence and Conflict
Program at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, Brandeis University.
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| May 17 |
Annual Meeting and Pot-Luck Dinner
Games for a New Climate
Pablo Suarez and Janot Mendler de Suarez.
An interactive program on the global effects of climate change.
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| October 18 |
Movie "David"
Discussion facilitated by Dr. Asif Razvi, member and past president of The Islamic Center of Boston,
and Rabbi Jen Gubitz of Shir Tikva followed the showing of the film.
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2016 |
| April 19 |
Annual Peg Kerwin Program
Sharia Law
Shaykh Yasir F. Fahmy, Imam at the Islamic Society of Boston Cultural Center.
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| October 30 |
Fall Program
Faith Ed: Teaching about Religion in an Age of Intolerance
Linda Wertheimer speaks about her book and lead a panel discussion on the promise and challenge of
teaching the world's religions in America's public school
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2017 |
| January 29 |
Winter Pot-Luck Dinner
Interfaith Music program
Musical Traditions from each faith community featuring: musician/composer Lev Friedman,
Rabbinic Intern, Shir Tikva, Wayland; Abdou Adam and 4 musicians from The Noor Ensemble;
and Reverend Lisa Durkee, Congregational Church, Weston.
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| April 27 |
Annual Peg Kerwin Program
Discrimination: Anti-semitism, Islamophobia, Racism* - What can be done to foster
understanding of "the other" and why that understanding is crucial to a democratic society.
Panel Members: Andrew Tarsy, former Executive Director of the Anti-Defamation League of
New England; Dr. John Robbins, Executive Director of The Council on American-Islamic Relations,
Massachusetts (CAIR); Reverend Liz Walker, Minister at Roxbury Presbyterian Church;
Diane Moore, Director of the Religious Literacy Project at Harvard University.
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| October 22 |
Empowering Women, an Interfaith Panel Discussion
Panel Members: Celene Ibrahim, M.Div. Muslim Chaplain, Tufts University.
Ilana Krakowski Rabbinical Student, Hebrew College.
Lynn Cooper Catholic Chaplain, Tufts University.
Rev. Viola P. Morris-Buchanan Pastor, Allen AME Church, Providence, RI.
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* a joint program with Weston PTO.
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2018 |
| January 28 |
Mid Winter Pot-Luck Dinner
Musical presentation by The Tufts Jackson Jills, Tufts Oldest All-female
A Capella Group, est. 1963
"Our sisterhood and strong alumni ties have created (and continue to create) a
network of
passionate, warm, and intelligent women who are not only talented
performers, but friends."
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| May 8 |
WWIAG's 30th Anniversary
Does Pluralism Have a Future?
Dr. Diana Eck, Professor of Comparative Religion and Indian Studies at Harvard.
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| October 21 |
Etched in Glass: The Legacy of Steve Ross*
A film by Roger Lyons: Finding Hope in Hitler's Death Camps to Inspire a New Generation.
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* a joint program with Wayland High School.
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2019 |
| January 27 |
Mid Winter Pot-Luck Dinner
Musical Presentations by Sikh youth from The New England Sikh Study Circle, Westborough ,
who sang'shabads' (divine wisdom)on the ideas of thankfulness, peace and unity, and
contemporary and traditional moves to Bollywood's favorite hits by Babson College students.
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| May 2 |
Annual Peg Kerwin Program
"New" Americans and their "Old" Countries - should the cord be cut?
Dr. Adil Haider, Dean Medical College, The Agha Khan University, Pakistan.
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| October 27 |
Understanding American Muslims
Asima Silva, Co-founder of EnjoinGood.org.
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2020 |
| January 26 |
Mid-Winter Celebration of Songs and Musical Performances
Including offerings from the tradition of Klezmer music. Featuring Yoni Battat and his Two-Shekel Band
as well as tunes performed by song/guitar duo, Rabbi Louis Polisson and Gabriella Feingold.
Two-Shekel Swing is a Boston-based ensemble whose transcendent music,rhythmic drive and soulful
character are universally easy to love.
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