NPFH EVENTS
Through the year, NPFH Falmouth sponsors a variety of talks, presentations, films, and book discussions on a variety of subjects related to the understanding of and commitment to promoting diversity in our community. The events below have been or will be sponsored by NPFH Falmouth, often in partnership with other organizations. Go to our facebook page for more information on past and upcoming events.
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Upcoming Events
Healthcare Inequality: A Matter of Life and Death!
Part of Falmouth Jewish Congregations’s Racial Justice Series
Thursday, June 17, 7:00 – 8:00 P.M.
Please join us by pre-registering for this Zoom event at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuce-qTgoHt2ftq7uT3_lVfeAJoGwDUug
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the disproportionate effect on people of color has magnified our country’s long history of systemic racism and inequality in healthcare. The root causes of poorer health outcomes in people of color go deeper than access to care. This panel discussion will delve into this timely topic and the heightened urgency to finally address racial disparities in healthcare. Learn what actions we can all take to help end systemic healthcare racism. The program will wrap up with an opportunity for your questions.
Panelists are:
Dr. Vonzella Bryant graduated from Xavier University in New Orleans in 1996 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her emergency medicine residency/training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and moved to Boston in 2004, working in the emergency department at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. In 2017 she transitioned to Boston Medical Center as an emergency medicine physician in the busiest Level I trauma center in the area. She is also the emergency medicine clerkship director, and Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Boston University School of Medicine. Her work on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic earned her a spot on the US News & World Report list of “Hospital Heroes” with Drs. Fauci and Gupta.
Shawn Johnson is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. He graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University in 2012. His current research involves implementing the national My Life, My Story narrative medicine program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. This project focuses on how narrative medicine can improve care for patients most at risk of experiencing stigma and bias in the healthcare system, namely racial/ethnic minorities, patients with limited English proficiency and patients with stigmatizing diagnoses.
Part of Falmouth Jewish Congregations’s Racial Justice Series
Thursday, June 17, 7:00 – 8:00 P.M.
Please join us by pre-registering for this Zoom event at:
https://us02web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEuce-qTgoHt2ftq7uT3_lVfeAJoGwDUug
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
The Covid-19 pandemic and the disproportionate effect on people of color has magnified our country’s long history of systemic racism and inequality in healthcare. The root causes of poorer health outcomes in people of color go deeper than access to care. This panel discussion will delve into this timely topic and the heightened urgency to finally address racial disparities in healthcare. Learn what actions we can all take to help end systemic healthcare racism. The program will wrap up with an opportunity for your questions.
Panelists are:
Dr. Vonzella Bryant graduated from Xavier University in New Orleans in 1996 and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. She completed her emergency medicine residency/training at the Medical College of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and moved to Boston in 2004, working in the emergency department at Lahey Hospital and Medical Center. In 2017 she transitioned to Boston Medical Center as an emergency medicine physician in the busiest Level I trauma center in the area. She is also the emergency medicine clerkship director, and Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean of Student Affairs at Boston University School of Medicine. Her work on the frontlines of the coronavirus pandemic earned her a spot on the US News & World Report list of “Hospital Heroes” with Drs. Fauci and Gupta.
Shawn Johnson is a fourth-year medical student at Harvard Medical School. He graduated with his Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry and Biophysics from Oregon State University in 2012. His current research involves implementing the national My Life, My Story narrative medicine program at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. This project focuses on how narrative medicine can improve care for patients most at risk of experiencing stigma and bias in the healthcare system, namely racial/ethnic minorities, patients with limited English proficiency and patients with stigmatizing diagnoses.
NPFH collaborates with the Falmouth Public Schools, Falmouth Education Foundation, and Eight Cousins to bring a Juneteenth celebrations to our schools. See article in the Falmouth Enterprise.
Friends,
Below you will find information about events and activities being held on the Upper Cape to mark Juneteenth. We encourage you to participate. In addition, we are pleased to announce that NPFH - Falmouth joined the Falmouth Education Foundation and Falmouth Public Schools in hosting a program today for elementary school students featuring author Carol Boston Weatherford and her son, artist Jeffrey Boston Weatherford. While the focus was Ms. Weatherford's book Juneteenth Jamboree, the guests presentation and the Q & A (lots of questions from students) was more expansive and addressed other historical fiction by the author and issues of slavery and freedom in our country. Thank you for your support of NPFH - Falmouth's efforts to support educational programs addressing diversity and inclusion.
Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee Hosts the 2021 Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom
Friends,
Below you will find information about events and activities being held on the Upper Cape to mark Juneteenth. We encourage you to participate. In addition, we are pleased to announce that NPFH - Falmouth joined the Falmouth Education Foundation and Falmouth Public Schools in hosting a program today for elementary school students featuring author Carol Boston Weatherford and her son, artist Jeffrey Boston Weatherford. While the focus was Ms. Weatherford's book Juneteenth Jamboree, the guests presentation and the Q & A (lots of questions from students) was more expansive and addressed other historical fiction by the author and issues of slavery and freedom in our country. Thank you for your support of NPFH - Falmouth's efforts to support educational programs addressing diversity and inclusion.
Woods Hole Diversity Advisory Committee Hosts the 2021 Juneteenth Celebration of Freedom
Recent & Ongoing Events Events
Sundays at the Village Green
Each Sunday, at noon, we gather at the narrow end of Falmouth’s Village Green to stand or kneel in silence for 8-minutes-and-46-seconds….the amount of time it took to rob George Floyd of his life. Black Lives Matter signs are appropriate and welcome. Our intention is to have this become an ongoing event, regardless of weather, to remind our community of the imperative to understand that Black Lives Matter.
Each Sunday, at noon, we gather at the narrow end of Falmouth’s Village Green to stand or kneel in silence for 8-minutes-and-46-seconds….the amount of time it took to rob George Floyd of his life. Black Lives Matter signs are appropriate and welcome. Our intention is to have this become an ongoing event, regardless of weather, to remind our community of the imperative to understand that Black Lives Matter.
“Our Story: The Complicated Relationship of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims,” with Journalist, Educator and Activist Paula Peters
Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 P.M. on Zoom
Hosted jointly by No Place for Hate – Falmouth and Falmouth Jewish Congregation
This was a presentation based on the new permanent exhibit at the Provincetown Museum: “Our Story: the Complicated Relationship of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims.” Paula Peters, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe and one of the curators of this exhibit was present to guide us through the accurate story of the Wampanoag Tribe’s history on Cape Cod.
Paula is a journalist, educator and activist. A member of the Wampanoag tribe, she has spent most of her life in her tribal homeland of Mashpee, Massachusetts. She holds a B.S in Communications and Activism from Bridgewater State University. Paula is a founding partner of SmokeSygnals, a media and communications consulting firm. She wrote a book and produced the documentary Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On about nine Mashpee Wampanoag men jailed in 1976 for drumming and singing their traditional music.
Learn more about the incident and Paula’s work at:
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/mashpee-nine-a-story-of-cultural-justice-oWy8-ZJ3XE-AqYOcYWtCHg
Wednesday, November 11 at 7:00 P.M. on Zoom
Hosted jointly by No Place for Hate – Falmouth and Falmouth Jewish Congregation
This was a presentation based on the new permanent exhibit at the Provincetown Museum: “Our Story: the Complicated Relationship of the Indigenous Wampanoag and the Mayflower Pilgrims.” Paula Peters, a member of the Wampanoag Tribe and one of the curators of this exhibit was present to guide us through the accurate story of the Wampanoag Tribe’s history on Cape Cod.
Paula is a journalist, educator and activist. A member of the Wampanoag tribe, she has spent most of her life in her tribal homeland of Mashpee, Massachusetts. She holds a B.S in Communications and Activism from Bridgewater State University. Paula is a founding partner of SmokeSygnals, a media and communications consulting firm. She wrote a book and produced the documentary Mashpee Nine: The Beat Goes On about nine Mashpee Wampanoag men jailed in 1976 for drumming and singing their traditional music.
Learn more about the incident and Paula’s work at:
https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/mashpee-nine-a-story-of-cultural-justice-oWy8-ZJ3XE-AqYOcYWtCHg
2020 Alternative Gift Market
Dear Friends and Supporters,
This year NPFH-Falmouth was privileged and delighted to, once again, be part of an amazing event, the Alternative Gift Market Cape Cod’s online market. Fifteen faith communities on Cape Cod sponsored and supported this year's Alternative Gift Market (AGM). This year it was a virtual market of nonprofit organizations that are addressing the needs of people who have been impacted by COVID-19, locally, nationally, and globally, or addressing other critical needs in our community or around the world. TNPFH-Falmouth was one of the 24 nonprofits featured in the market. |
Cape Verdean Club Day of Action
Saturday, July 25 at 1pm
Meet at the Cape Verdean Club, 126 Sandwich Road
https://www.facebook.com/events/862261974297865/
This was an open forum to tell our story and our experiences with prejudice, systemic racism, inequality and injustices on Cape Cod followed by a march from the Club to the Town Administration Building in protest of our name not being included on the signs at the beginning and end of Sandwich Road - even though we have been here since 1940!
Saturday, July 25 at 1pm
Meet at the Cape Verdean Club, 126 Sandwich Road
https://www.facebook.com/events/862261974297865/
This was an open forum to tell our story and our experiences with prejudice, systemic racism, inequality and injustices on Cape Cod followed by a march from the Club to the Town Administration Building in protest of our name not being included on the signs at the beginning and end of Sandwich Road - even though we have been here since 1940!
Friends,
Thanks to so many of you for participating in the silent vigil honoring the memory of George Floyd and confronting racism.
We write to share with you a letter that we co-signed with Town of Falmouth officials -- a statement on events of the past week. We also want you to know that we are actively engaged in planning events that will enable us to learn, discuss, advocate, and take action to address and better understand systemic racism. Look for emails from us for these Zoom-based meetings. Send us your ideas, as well.
In peace and in our common pursuit of justice and respect for all,
No Place for Hate - Falmouth, Steering Committee
Thanks to so many of you for participating in the silent vigil honoring the memory of George Floyd and confronting racism.
We write to share with you a letter that we co-signed with Town of Falmouth officials -- a statement on events of the past week. We also want you to know that we are actively engaged in planning events that will enable us to learn, discuss, advocate, and take action to address and better understand systemic racism. Look for emails from us for these Zoom-based meetings. Send us your ideas, as well.
In peace and in our common pursuit of justice and respect for all,
No Place for Hate - Falmouth, Steering Committee
On July 9th, NPFH-Falmouth held a community listening session on Building Community.
This virtual program took place via Zoom on Thursday, July 9 from 4-5pm.
This was part of a series of conversations to address ways to build and shape our community through an exchange of personal stories and experiences. The July 9 session featured Black women on Cape Cod sharing their stories and included a Q & A. Seyana Muwasi, educational leader and transplant from Oakland, CA, and Robin J. Miller, educator, artist, author and poet (the 2018 MLK National Holiday breakfast speaker) spoke.
This virtual program took place via Zoom on Thursday, July 9 from 4-5pm.
This was part of a series of conversations to address ways to build and shape our community through an exchange of personal stories and experiences. The July 9 session featured Black women on Cape Cod sharing their stories and included a Q & A. Seyana Muwasi, educational leader and transplant from Oakland, CA, and Robin J. Miller, educator, artist, author and poet (the 2018 MLK National Holiday breakfast speaker) spoke.