Breaking bread together is a great way to get to know neighbors, hear each other’s stories, and build strong communities across our varied identities. Unity Suppers Baltimore, brought to you by Leap Forward in collaboration with The Jews of Color Mishpacha Project and Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh, brings you October’s Unity Supper. The theme is: Honoring Our Ancestors: How the Past Can Inform the Present.
Together we will reflect on the importance of remembering our ancestors by birth and by choice. We will discuss how we can be good ancestors to future generations while we connect over a meal and enjoy a conversation about the strength the past can provide us.
We will offer a vegetarian meal (kosher meals available upon request), conversations for grown ups, special activities for children, and an opportunity to connect across our diversities. Note: No one will be turned away due to inability to pay. Please use the On The House option.
Dazia Wallerson is a mother, artist, storyteller, and organizer with a passion for community in the city of Baltimore. When she isn’t exploring cityscapes and fun-tivities with her 6-year old son, she’s supporting devoted community members and families in coming together to express themselves creatively through care and cooperation. Her leading work through the Baltimore Unity Suppers was a direct response to the rising rates of racism and antisemitism that negatively impacted the relationship between Black and Jewish communities after Oct. 7th. The suppers are interactive dinners designed to honor and celebrate culture, artistry, spirituality, and the unique traditions that shape us as human beings in the greater Baltimore region. Powered by the Black-Jewish Coalition of the Leap Forward nonprofit community, Dazia helps lead their vision of a diverse world of people taking care of one another, creating peace and safety for all human beings. Her community is on a mission to develop quality relationships, learn from the historical and spiritual traditions of African, Jewish, and multiethnic cultures, steward common values, and work together in collaboration. They center care for human life beyond the ideologies that keep us apart. Every person is respected, valued, loved, and empowered to thrive.
Kohenet Dr. Harriette E. Wimms is a community convener, Jewish professional, spiritual ritualist, and social justice advocate for people marginalized by systems of power and oppression. She is the new Community Relationships and Jews of Color Engagement Steward at Third Space at Shaarei Tfiloh; and is also a Maryland licensed clinical psychologist who specializes in providing compassion-infused mental health care across the lifespan. Founder of The Village Family Support Center of Baltimore private practice, she is also the founder and executive director of the Jews of Color Mishpacha Project. Dr. Harriette is a prayer leader and lecturer in both the Beit Kohenet community and at egalitarian synagogues across the Baltimore region. Kohenet Dr. Harriette is a Senior Schusterman fellow, a Selah fellow, and a contract trainer for Keshet; and is most proud of being mother to her neurodivegent and gender expansive 20-year-old.
