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Monthly Drop-in Sessions
How does your faith motivate you to make the world a better place?
In K4PB’s monthly Community Workshops, you’ll get to answer that question! Join our workshops to learn about different faith traditions and deepen your own religious identity through dialogue with other young people. Workshop topics will focus on deepening our knowledge of different faith traditions, and on giving us the language and tools we need to create the inclusive world we want to see. You’ll also have a chance to visit houses of worship around the Greater Boston Area, observing prayers and meeting religious leaders. K4PB workshops will help build your skills to create a world where everyone is truly included and valued, and you will have a lot of fun meeting new people and forming friendships to last a lifetime in the process!
All are welcome to join K4PB Community Workshops—whether you are a seasoned member of our community, this is your first program with us, or you are a youth leader seeking to bring your youth group to join us!
With our Community Workshops, you don’t have to commit to a yearlong program—you can sign up month-by-month or for the entire year, according to your own schedule!
Community Workshops will take place in Dorchester from 2-5pm except where noted otherwise. Open to anyone in 7th-12 grade.
Community Workshop Dates & Topics:
September 12, 2021: Welcome Back Workshop- Moving Our Community Forward
November 7, 2021: Indigenous Religions of the Americas
January 16, 2022: Kids4Peace Boston’s Annual Dr. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day of Service
March 18, 2022: Jewish Ritual Observation
May 15, 2022 Kids4Peace Boston Annual Family Dinner, with Muslim Ritual Observation
October 24, 2021: Harvest Festival: Our Religious Connections to Land, Food, and Place
December 5, 2021: Christian Ritual Observation
February 13, 2022: Whose Religion is it Anyway? African, Afro-Caribbean, and Afro-Diasporic Religious Traditions
April 19 & 20: Dialogue & Facilitation Training
Sign Up: Upcoming Community Workshops
You can sign up for workshops individually at the drop-in rate, or you can sign up for all workshops in the 2021-2022 School Year at a discounted rate. To sign up for an individual workshop, use the “Register Today” button in the description of the workshop below. If instead you’d like to sign up for all of the workshops in the 2021-2022 School Year, you can use the “Register for ALL Community Workshops” button below.
December 2021
Let's Explore
Christian Religious Observation
Please see our COVID-19 policies here
Christian Religious Observation
December 12 | 3:00-5:30pm
in-person (Cambridge, MA)
Register by: Friday, December 10, 2021
We are excited that our December Community Workshop is also our first religious observance of the year! A Kids4Peace Boston classic, we will be invited into the Christian community of the Society of St. John the Evangelist for a tour of the monastery, to observe the Sunday Evensong, and a time for fellowship, refreshments, and questions after the service. Religious Observances offer an opportunity for us to live interfaith dialogue in a very special and tangible way, and they are a favorite of our K4PB community. We are looking forward to Jewish and Muslim observances later this year.
Individuals can sign up below, and family members are welcome to attend with their youth. If you are interested in bringing your youth group, email Megan at megan@kids4peaceboston.org to make arrangements.
Please note: this Community Workshop is hosted by a House of Worship, and therefore is held at a different time than our other workshops throughout the year to comply with their worship schedule.
What to expect at our Community Workshop:
- FUN! Let’s be honest—as much as we can do some stuff together on Zoom, nothing beats actually being together
- Seeing old friends, making new ones, and welcoming new members into the K4PB community
- Community and skill building—after more than a year of not getting to work together in-person, we’ll be diving into the skills we need to build truly inclusive, welcoming, and interfaith community
- We’ll make space to share on this important topic, and explore how it connects to our work of using our faiths to make the world around us better
Previous Community Workshops
November 2021
Let's Explore
Indigenous Religions of the Americas
Please see our COVID-19 policies here
Sunday, November 7, 2021 2:00-5:00pm
Exact location details will be shared with those who register.
Register by: Friday, November 5, 2021
In this community workshop, we will pause and reflect on the religious traditions that are indigenous to the Americas—extending from Alaska to Argentina. We will consider how our own religious stories relate to the narratives of these vibrant and varied traditions, and we will learn about the rituals that sustain them. And of course, we will have plenty of fun along the way!
What to expect at our Community Workshop:
- FUN! Let’s be honest—as much as we can do some stuff together on Zoom, nothing beats actually being together
- Seeing old friends, making new ones, and welcoming new members into the K4PB community
- Community and skill building—after more than a year of not getting to work together in-person, we’ll be diving into the skills we need to build truly inclusive, welcoming, and interfaith community
- We’ll make space to share on this important topic, and explore how it connects to our work of using our faiths to make the world around us better
October 2021
Let's Explore
Harvest Festival: Our Religious Connections to Land, Food, and Place
Please see our COVID-19 policies here
Sunday, October 24, 2021 2:00-5:00pm
Exact location details will be shared with those who register.
Register by: Friday, October 22, 2021
Did you know that harvest—the season of gathering crops after a successful summer of farming, often to be stored for the winter—is tied to religious practices in many traditions? In this program, we’re going to think together about the ways that our faiths have integrated the importance of land, food, and place to how we connect to the Divine. We’ll also consider how religious traditions are responding to the climate crisis today, and what resources we have in our religious traditions to take action. And of course, we’ll have a lot of fun along the way!
What to expect at our Community Workshop:
- FUN! Let’s be honest—as much as we can do some stuff together on Zoom, nothing beats actually being together
- Seeing old friends, making new ones, and welcoming new members into the K4PB community
- Community and skill building—after more than a year of not getting to work together in-person, we’ll be diving into the skills we need to build truly inclusive, welcoming, and interfaith community
- We’ll make space to share on this important topic, and explore how it connects to our work of using our faiths to make the world around us better
September 2021
Welcome Back Workshop: Moving Our Community Forward
What to expect at our first Community Workshop:
Dorchester, MA. Exact location details will be shared with those who register.
Please see our COVID-19 policies here
What a year it’s been since we had our school-year program in-person! We’re so excited to be back—whether you’ve been in K4PB for years or this is your first time joining the community, we can’t wait to see you on September 12th! In this workshop, we’re going to be all about community building and exploring how to move our interfaith community forward. That means having fun, talking about how things have been this year, and thinking about how we want to keep building our community this year and beyond!
- FUN! Let’s be honest—as much as we can do some stuff together on Zoom, nothing beats actually being together
- Seeing old friends, making new ones, and welcoming new members into the K4PB community
- Community and skill building—after more than a year of not getting to work together in-person, we’ll be diving into the skills we need to build truly inclusive, welcoming, and interfaith community
- Dialogue—this year has been hard on everyone’s mental health. We’ll make space to share on this important topic, and explore how it connects to our work of using our faiths to make the world around us better
APRIL 2021
Let's Explore
What We Honor in Public Spaces: When Art, History, and Social Justice Collide
Wednesday April 7
4:30pm-6:00pm
Wednesday April 7
4:30pm-6:00pm
Lately there’s been a lot of attention on Confederate statues in the South: are they part of the fabric of our country that need to stay where they are so that history isn’t erased, or are painful and daily reminders of historical and current racism that need to be taken down so that we don’t honor people and ideas that cause harm? We don’t hear as much debate closer to home around what we people and ideas we highlight and honor in our public spaces. But did you know that controversial names and images can be found all over the Boston area, too, like the famous Faneuil Hall, named after a slave trader?
Come to this month’s K4PB@Home meeting as we talk about and use art to explore questions like:
- How do we decide what our society should show, honor, and highlight in public?
- What do our faith traditions teach us about how we use art and images to honor what’s important to us?
- How have people in other parts of the world dealt with the questions around how to balance history and justice?
- What visions do we have for our communities? What do we want to highlight and celebrate in our public spaces?
FEBRUARY 2021
Let's Explore
Discovering Me, Discovering Us: Creating Change Together
February 23
4:30pm-6:00pm
Join us in February as we revisit our identities and welcome new K4PB participants! It’s a word we use a lot, but what is identity anyway? Is it how I look at myself or how my friends, family, or even strangers look at me? We all hold many different identities, all at once—our faith, race, gender, family ties, and more—and these all combine to help us understand who we are and how we interact in the world.
In our next K4PB@Home session, which will be in February, we will explore the different ways that identity affects us and why it’s important to think about identity when we try to make our world better. We will tackle fun topics like intersectionality and social justice, and think about how we can create change using the new things we learn about identity. We will also be inviting new youth who are interested in exploring K4PB and possibly joining our community, so we hope that you will help us welcome them! If you participated in this session when we ran it in November, we’d love for you to still come to this session—talk to us about how you can take on a leadership role!
What to Expect
- Learn about the idea of intersectionality and what it means for us when we work to create a more just, equitable, peaceful society
- Build community by exploring your own identity and the identities of others in K4PB through a fun, creative activity designed by new K4PB staff member and artist Nadege Tessono
- Apply your new knowledge about identity and intersectionality to see if you can solve a real-world challenge
- Welcome potential new K4PB community members!
DECEMBER
Let's Explore
Discovering Me, Discovering Us: Religious Identities in Communities
December 8
4:30pm-6:00pm
Want to learn about other peoples’ religious identities, and share your own? Interested in exploring the objects, practices, and wisdom of the different faith traditions represented in our K4PB community? Do you want time to hang out and have fun? Then we hope you’ll join us for our December interfaith celebration!
What to Expect
- Share important parts of our faith traditions and identities using fun and creativity
- Learn about each others’ traditions and make connections across our different identities
- Have fun hanging out and celebrating our community members’ upcoming holidays!
NOVEMBER
Let's Explore
Intersectionality and Identity
November 17
4:00pm-5:30pm
It’s a word we use a lot, but what is identity anyway? Is it how I look at myself or how my friends, family, or even strangers look at me? We all hold many different identities, all at once—our faith, race, gender, family ties, and more— and these all combine together to help us understand who we are and how we interact in the world. In November’s K4PB@Home session, we will explore the different ways that identity affects us and why it’s important to think about identity when we try to make our world better. We will tackle topics like intersectionality and social justice, and think about how we can create change using the new things we learn about identity. You don’t want to miss this!
What to Expect
- Learn about the idea of intersectionality and what it means for us when we work to create a more just, equitable, peaceful society
- Build community by exploring your own identity and the identities of others in K4PB through a fun, creative activity designed by new K4PB staff member and artist Nadege Tessono
- Apply your new knowledge about identity and intersectionality to see if you can solve a real-world challenge
OCTOBER
Let's Explore
Voter Suppression
October 21
4:30pm-5:30pm
Is voter suppression a thing of the past or a persistent and present problem? How do we ensure all voices are heard in elections? How do our faith identities call us to participate in democracy, and ensure all voices are heard? In this K4PB@Home program we’ll start to answer these questions and more.
- Learn about obstacles to voting that have affected voter turn-out both historically and today
- Specifically, we'll discuss how the votes of marginalized and oppressed groups are often silenced
- Investigate how voter suppression could affect the 2020 presidential election
- Discuss how our faith identities calls us all to participate in the democratic process, and ensure that others have the opportunity to do the same
- Take action to ensure that all people have the right to participate in free and fair elections
Questions?
Let us know if you have any questions, comments or suggestions! We ALWAYS want to hear from you!
Email Us
info@kids4peaceboston.org
Dorchester, MA. Exact location details will be shared with those who register.
Please see our COVID-19 policies here
What a year it’s been since we had our school-year program in-person! We’re so excited to be back—whether you’ve been in K4PB for years or this is your first time joining the community, we can’t wait to see you on September 12th! In this workshop, we’re going to be all about community building and exploring how to move our interfaith community forward. That means having fun, talking about how things have been this year, and thinking about how we want to keep building our community this year and beyond!