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Repast Project: Modesto Junior College Family Mealtime Conversation (Religious Freedom)

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LEARNING EXCHANGE : The Repast Project is our effort to confront declines in civility and reading habits by hosting mealtime conversations with members and others.  The end is always a dinner table (without electronic devices) where we talk about books and ideas in "unconventional" learning spaces: local restaurants, teacher's homes, farms and even prisons.  Currently, we are partnering with Modesto Junior College’s Student Success and Equity Project to provide over a hundred students, professors and community leaders with: (1) a free gourmet meal ; (2) opportunities for meaningful cross-cultural conversation about multi-dimensional issues; and (3) a free book to continue reading and talking about things that matter in their own jobs and homes and with family and friends.  But why?  To begin with, in our age of connectivity  we have little time for face-to-face conversations and deep reading. This collegiate series is open to the entire Modesto Junior College family--students, trustees, faculty, administrators and staff--and their own families. 

 

CORE READING: Reza Aslan's Beyond Fundamentalism: Confronting Religious Extremism in the Age of Globalization (Provided free-of-charge to all MJC Family participants along with a free meal).

Contact: fourthworldcooperative@gmail.com for details.

Earlier Event: October 2
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