May Minute Meetings

KRISTALLNACHT REMEMBRANCE PLANNING COMMITTEE
May 14, 2008 Meeting Notes – Unitarian Church

Members Present: Henry Karp, Roger Butts, Rick Weinstein, Kai Swanson, Alan Ross, Marietta Castle, Sean O’Harrow, Ron Quay.

John Kiley from the Diocese of Davenport was unable to attend the meeting.

Roger served as Convener and invited the committee to review the planned agenda for the meeting. The Agenda was approved with the addition of a focus on funding needs and opportunities.

The Minutes of the April meeting were reviewed and approved with the correction on the spelling of Martin Doblmeier’s name.

Review of the Weekend Plans:
Friday evening Vicki Barnett from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will be at the weekly worship services at Temple Emanuel.

Saturday morning she will be at the Tri-City Jewish Center for their services. In both instances the larger Quad Cities community is invited to participate.

Saturday evening Vicki Barnett and Martin Doblmeier will be at the Figge Art Museum. The evening will include, assuming the funding can be secured, a showing of prints depicting Kristallnacht. Accompanying the showing will be a chamber music offering as background music while guests enjoy refreshments and view the prints.

At 7:00 p.m. there will be a showing of the film by Martin Doblmeier presenting the life of Dietrich Bonhoeffer entitled Bonhoeffer. The film will be followed with a panel discussion including Mr. Doblmeier and Ms. Barnett along one or two others from the Quad Cities community.

Sunday afternoon will offer a series of workshops which Henry Karp presented similar to a planned workshop series for 2007 Kristallnacht that did not happen. The committee discussed the format and agreed that the workshop format was the preferred option. It is the committee’s desire that we plan for around 100 people in attendance and that we offer 4-5 workshop which each could be offered twice so that people could decide which two they would visit during the afternoon.

It was hoped that possibly a first hand look at a street following the Kristallnacht attacks could be built in the gym of the Center.

Workshop options that were discussed included:

· Poetry of Witness with Rebecca Wie
· Art & Writing
· The Church and Christianity’s role in these events – The faith communities role in genocides then and now
· Civil Liberties with a lawyer from UICHR in Iowa City
· Confronting Hate
· Identities and Power of Fear
· The power of the small deed

Alan reported on the funding requests that were being made. He will follow-up with a logo once some of the grants are decided.

Kai will send out a short descriptive piece that could be used in area faith communities and elsewhere.

The next meeting of this planning committee is set for Wednesday, June 11th at 11:30 a.m. We will again meet at the Unitarian Church, Davenport.

Respectfully submitted,


Ronald C. Quay, Temporary Secretary for the Committee