Retuning: Between Empowerment and Vulnerability
Somerville Chapel is unique among Oxford colleges in that it was founded in 1935 to be non-denominational. In keeping, with its roots, they offer a weekly secular service of 'Choral Contemplation' at 5:30pm on Sundays during term time. Each term has a central theme and this term's is ‘On Being Vulnerable’. Weekly speakers will explore vulnerability through reflections on our fragile earth, caring relationships, divinity, our identities and how we express ourselves in various spaces. The concluding contemplation of term is this collaborative Contemplation with Alternative Canon Project, ‘re-tuning’ our meaning of vulnerability and empowerment in the context of International Women’s Day, with speaker Aparajita Kaul (Somerville MCR Women’s Rep).