The Mission of the Winchester Multicultural Network is to:
- Promote the recognition, understanding, and appreciation of diversity;
- Advocate for each and every person’s civil rights;
- Confront intolerance.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Ongoing Events:
September through June: Drop-in Coffee at Cafe Dolce
Thursday mornings between 8:30 and 10 AM at Cafe Dolce, 831 Main Street, Winchester
Stop in and enjoy coffee and conversation.
English Conversation Groups
English conversation groups are offered Monday or Tuesday mornings or Wednesday evenings with priority given to Winchester residents. For questions or to sign up, call Liz Sayre at 781-729-9242 or Email office@wmcn.org
The Lunch Bunch
Lunch once a month at different ethnic restaurants in the area.
Email office@wmcn.org or call 781-729-7100 if you'd like to know when and where our next eating adventure will be.
Fall Foliage Hike in the Fells
Sunday, October 4th at 1 PM
The Middlesex Fells Reservation is a beautiful wooded area with lovely trails. Meet members of International Connections for a hike around Long pond. Meet at the Long Pond parking lot, the first parking area on South Border Road from Winchester Center. The hike will last about one and a half hours. Call Christa at 781-729-7047 for more information and to sign up.
Winchester Reads 2009
James McBride's Song Yet Sung
Author, musician and screenwriter James McBride's landmark memoir, The Color of Water, is considered an American classic and read in schools and universities across the United States. His debut novel, Miracle at St. Anna was translated into a major motion picture directed by American film icon Spike Lee. His newest novel, Song Yet Sung, was released in paperback in January 2009. James McBride's website
Events:
* Winchester resident, Kate Clifford Larsen, author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman: Portrait of an American Hero
Monday, September 21, 7:30 PM, Jenks Senior Center, 109 Skillings Road.
Historian Kate Clifford Larson discusses her book, Bound for the Promised Land, which draws on a trove of new documents and sources as well as extensive genealogical research and reveals Harriet Tubman as a complex woman who was brilliant, shrewd, deeply religious, and passionate in her pursuit of freedom. A finalist for the 2004 Lerner-Scott Dissertation Award from the Organization of American Historians for the best dissertation in Women's History, Larson is also the recipient of numerous awards, fellowships and grants in support of her work on Harriet Tubman.
* "Ellen Craft: Running 1,000 Miles to Freedom"
Tuesday, October 6, 7 PM, Next Door Theater, 40 Cross Street.
In 1848, Ellen Craft, a light-skinned Georgia slave, dressed herself as a man and boarded a train bound for Savannah. Her husband, William, posed as her slave. Follow their journey to freedom through Boston, Nova Scotia, and England as acclaimed performer Marcia Estabrook reenacts this powerful story filled with danger, narrow escapes, victory and the love between a man and a woman united in their determination to be free. In historically accurate costumes and with a thorough knowledge of the life and times of the characters she portrays, Ms. Estabrook's performances throughout the US have won her nominations for the prestigious "Performer of the Year Award" from National Young Audiences.
* "Create Your Own Show Way"
Sunday, October 18, 2:30PM, Winchester Public Library Meeting Room.
A family craft workshop inspired by the Lynch School 2nd and 3rd grade quilting project and by Jacqueline Woodson's "Show Way", a picture book of one African American family's journey from slavery to the 21st century.
* An evening with James McBride, author of The New York Times bestselling memoir, The Color of Water
Wednesday, October 21, 7 PM at McCall Middle School, 458 Main Street
From the publisher:
Nowhere has the drama of American slavery played itself out with more tension than in the dripping swamps of Maryland's eastern shore, where abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass and Harriet Tubman, born less than thirty miles apart, faced off against nefarious slave traders in a catch-me-if-you-can game that fueled fear and brought economic hardship to both white and black families...
The powerful web of relationships in a small Chesapeake Bay town collapses as two souls face off in a gripping page-turner. Liz Spocott, a young runaway who has odd dreams about the future of the colored race, mistakenly inspires a breakout from the prison attic of a notorious slave thief named Patty Cannon. As Cannon stokes revenge, Liz flees into the nefarious world of the underground railroad with its double meanings and unspoken clues to freedom known to the slaves of Dorchester County as "The Code." Denwood Long, a troubled slave catcher and eastern shore waterman, is coaxed out of retirement to break "The Code" and track down Liz.
Filled with rich history --- much of the story is drawn from historical events --- and told in McBride's signature lyrical storytelling style, Song Yet Sung brings into full view a world long misunderstood in American fiction: how slavery worked, and the haunting, moral choices that lived beneath the surface, pressing both whites and blacks to search for relief in a world where both seemed to lose their moral compass. This is a story of tragic triumph, violent decisions, and unexpected kindness.
International Pot Luck Supper
Sunday, November 8th, 5:30-8:00 PM
Our annual pot luck supper will be held at the First Congregational Church, 21 Church Street. Share food from your country and enjoy a delightful evening. Call 781-729-7100 to sign up or office@wmcn.org .
International Film Series
Second Monday evenings at 6:30 p.m.
As part of One Winchester, Many Traditions , International Connections and the Winchester Public Library are collaborating on a Monday evening international film series starting in January.