Join us as we nurture a spirit of shared civic purpose with poetry, music, and small dialogue groups. Spirit & Place invites you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values during its "Civic Circle" gatherings. Using the civic reflection dialogue method, these participatory gatherings – […]
Powerful Conversations on Race (PCR) is a monthly community dialogue series exploring topics around race, racism, and the resulting impact. Rooted in humanities- and arts-based sources primarily from The Charleston Syllabus, these sessions give us time to practice and normalize hard conversations about race. A little more about Powerful Conversations on Race: This IS NOT […]
You can use a laugh, right? Who can't these days?! For our 2nd annual spring faith event, Spirit & Place is absolutely giddy to invite you to join Rabbi Bob Alper, Rev. Susan Sparks (a former Spirit & Place Public Conversationalist), and Muslim comic Gibran Saleem for a fun-filled evening of interfaith comedy that highlights […]
Powerful Conversations on Race is a monthly community dialogue series exploring topics around race and racism and the resulting impact. Powerful Conversations on Race is a way for us to get comfortable talking about uncomfortable histories and is, therefore, rooted in historical documents and subject matter. This IS NOT a lecture or book club, but […]
VIRTUAL EVENT. Join us as we nurture a spirit of shared civic purpose with poetry, music, and small dialogue groups. Spirit & Place invites you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values during its "Civic Circle" virtual gatherings. Using the civic reflection dialogue method, these […]
VIRTUAL EVENT. Join us as we nurture a spirit of shared civic purpose with poetry, music, and small dialogue groups. Spirit & Place invites you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values during its "Civic Circle" gatherings. Using the civic reflection dialogue method, these participatory […]
Powerful Conversations on Race is a monthly community dialogue series exploring topics around race and racism and the resulting impact. Powerful Conversations on Race is a way for us to get comfortable talking about uncomfortable histories and is, therefore, rooted in historical documents and subject matter. This IS NOT a lecture or book club, but […]
Powerful Conversations on Race is a monthly community dialogue series exploring topics around race and racism and the resulting impact. Powerful Conversations on Race is a way for us to get comfortable talking about uncomfortable histories and is, therefore, rooted in historical documents and subject matter. This IS NOT a lecture or book club, but […]
VIRTUAL EVENT. Join us as we nurture a spirit of shared civic purpose with poetry, music, and small dialogue groups. Spirit & Place invites you to reflect on our democracy and grapple with what it means to live by America’s civic values during its "Civic Circle" gatherings. Using the civic reflection dialogue method, these participatory […]
Discover how being a part of the Inside-Out Prison Exchange Program challenged participants to re-think their ideas of “identity” and the need to challenge the use of labels that often divide us. How we each identify, and how we are identified by others, are often not the same. The practice of bringing together incarcerated (inside) […]
Experience foods and flavors from Yemen, Pakistan, Ethiopia, Palestine and more while meeting the people who have prepared those foods. Learn about each other while exploring how what we eat is tightly bound to our identity. In the documentary High on the Hog, Yoruba artist Romuald Hazoumè repeats a local saying to Stephen Satterfield, telling […]
Explore how one’s sense of identity affects emotional/behavioral health of Black and Brown people through an interactive TED Talk-like presentation, audience activities, and conversations with local health-focused organizations. Food will be served. This multi-faceted event invites the public to explore the importance of conscious identity labeling in healthcare situations. Through a short TED Talk-like presentation, […]
