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SUMMARY:Youth Gathering!
DESCRIPTION:Western and Concord Quarters\ninvite youth ages 4-11 (pre-k to 6th grade)\nfor an afternoon of fun and fellowship.\nCheck out the FLYER for registration and more information!\n(The flyer below is an image and does not have live links.)
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/youth-gathering/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201205T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201205T170000
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SUMMARY:Carol Sing at Hockessin Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, December 5: Outdoor Carol Sing at the Meetinghouse\, 3:30 p.m.\n(Alternate date will be Saturday\, December 12\, 3:30 p.m.)\nPlease plan to gather together\, in your mask\, around the outside of the meetinghouse to sing carols and seasonal hymns\, accompanied by piano music wafting out from the meetinghouse windows.\nBYO hot beverage\, blankets\, and lawn chairs\, if desired.\nSong sheets will be provided and safely-distanced spots will be designated.\nRSVP to friends@hockessinquakermeeting.org by Friday 12/4.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/carol-sing-at-hockessin-meeting/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20201208T200000
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SUMMARY:PYM Continuing Sessions Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business
DESCRIPTION:Please register at this link. Scroll down the description of Fall Continuing Sessions to find Meeting for Worship with Attention to Business.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-continuing-sessions-meeting-for-worship-with-attention-to-business/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210103T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210103T203000
DTSTAMP:20201220T151204Z
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SUMMARY:Conscientious Objection: Discerning and Documenting a Claim
DESCRIPTION:from the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative\nA series of sessions from 7:00pm-8:30pm: December 27 – January 3 – January 10- January 24 \nNow that the Selective Service System (SSS) registration for the draft in most states is automatic when getting a state driver’s license\, Quaker youth and other youth of faith rarely consider making a claim as a conscientious objector (CO). Youth miss the opportunity to discern and articulate their nonviolent beliefs and opposition to war. If a draft were ever reinstated\, they could have as little as nine days to prepare a CO claim before having to go before a local draft board. \nThis workshop is an opportunity for youth (both young men and young women) to consider their beliefs and to learn the process for documenting a CO claim if they feel led to do so. This workshop is also an opportunity for other people of faith (parents\, grandparents\, and community mentors) to learn how they can support youth to consider these important questions. \nWorkshop Leaders:\n• Curt Torell of Chapel Hill Friends Meeting\n• Andrew Wright of Durham Friends Meeting\n• Will Strayer of Durham Friends Meeting \nWorkshop Sessions:\nWill include watching a film on one’s own time before December 27 and participating in 4 Sunday evening Zoom sessions from 7-8:30 pm ET on\n• December 27\n• January 3\n• January 10\n• January 24 \nRegistration:\nAll participants must register by filling out this Google Form. A suggested donation of $5 (to help cover the cost of the license to watch the film Soldiers of Conscience) will be collected by PayPal once the workshop has begun. \nResources:\nWe will provide access for participants to watch “Soldiers of Conscience” and will provide a folder with various documents from Curt’s curriculum “Conscientious Objection: Is This for You?”. \nWatch the QuakerSpeak interview with Curt to learn more. \nTo register and get resources – click here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/conscientious-objection-discerning-and-documenting-a-claim/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210110T170000
DTSTAMP:20210106T174352Z
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SUMMARY:Going Forward Together - Palestine as a lens for collective liberation
DESCRIPTION:– featuring Central Philadelphia member Sa’ed Atshan\, and a member of PYM’s Middle East Collaborative\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n\n\n \nWe are excited to put on this special Philadelphia based webinar. Please don’t forget to register.\n\n\n\n\nREGISTER\n\n\n\n\nFrom police brutality in Philadelphia to child detentions and military occupation in Palestine\, the U.S. is implicated in systemic racism across borders.\nYou are invited to a special Philadelphia-based webinar\, Going Forward Together: Palestine as a lens for collective liberation.\nThe webinar will center Black\, Palestinian\, and Jewish panelists\, including Sa’ed Atshan\, Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Swarthmore College; Rebecca Pierce\, African-American and Jewish filmmaker in San Francisco; and The Reverend Dr. Leslie D. Callahan\, first female pastor of St. Paul’s Baptist Church in Philadelphia. The conversation will be moderated by Tarek Abuata.\nThe panelists will discuss topics ranging from common struggles in countering racist systems of white supremacy and political Zionism\, to efforts across movements to advocate for collective liberation\, to our role in this movement. Please register in advance.\nDirectly following the Webinar\, at 4:45\, there will be an opportunity to share thoughts and reactions in a one-hour informal discussion hosted by the Tikkun Olam Chavurah and moderated by Rabbi Linda Holtzman. The link for this new conversation will be shared during the Webinar.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/going-forward-together-palestine-as-a-lens-for-collective-liberation/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210111T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210111T203000
DTSTAMP:20210106T174129Z
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SUMMARY:Byberry MM Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a wonderful evening with F/friends as we discuss books (mostly novels but some non-fiction) that have an element of Quakers/Quakerism and the impact on social change movements.\nIn January we are reading “Hiking Naked – A Quaker Woman’s Search for Balance”.\nFor more information\, please visit:  ByberryQuakers.org or contact ByberryQuakers@gmail.com\nhttps://byberryquakers.org/Groups/341461/Zoom_Book_Club.aspx
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/byberry-mm-book-discussion/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210114T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210114T190000
DTSTAMP:20210106T180731Z
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SUMMARY:Virtual Lecture with Angela Dodgson - "Remember the Ladies: Celebrating those who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box"
DESCRIPTION:Angela P. Dodson’s book “Remember the Ladies: Celebrating Those Who Fought for Freedom at the Ballot Box” chronicles the earliest stirrings of the women’s movement in the United States\, arising out of the abolition movement\, and traces women’s political gains to the present. Her book\, published in hardback by Center Street in May 2017\, was released in paperback March 5\, 2019. She also wrote the introduction to the 100th anniversary edition of “Jailed for Freedom: A First-Person Account of the Militant Fight for Woman Suffrage\,” about Alice Paul’s activism on behalf of the movement\, released March 3\, 2020\, by Black Dog and Levanthal. She will discuss the prominent role that members of the Society of Friends played from the very beginnings of the women’s rights movement to the successful conclusion.\nOur own tonya tames taylor of Fallowfield MM moderated a discussion with Dodgson in fall 2020 for Friends Historical Association’s annual gathering.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/virtual-lecture-with-angela-dodgson-remember-the-ladies-celebrating-those-who-fought-for-freedom-at-the-ballot-box/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210116T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210116T110000
DTSTAMP:20210106T181514Z
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SUMMARY:Children and Families Community Playdate - Meeting for Feelings
DESCRIPTION:PYM Community Playdates are for Children up through 5th Grade and their Family\nOur January 16 Community Playdate (10:00am) is a “Meeting for Feelings.”\nWe’ll welcome two special guests from New York Yearly Meeting\, Joy Meikle and her puppet buddy\, Aura\, to lead this program. It’s a “safe space for kids to talk about their feelings. ” Learn more about what Joy and Aura are offering in NYYM here. \nRegistered children will receive “The Feelings Book” by Todd Parr as a gift\, with thanks to the D’Olier Fund and their generous support of PYM Youth Programs. \nLearn more about PYM Community Playdates for kids and families and REGISTER HERE!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/children-and-families-community-playdate-meeting-for-feelings/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210117T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210117T153000
DTSTAMP:20210115T223353Z
CREATED:20201220T170201Z
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SUMMARY:First Month Gathering Western Quarterly Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Click here .\n\nAll portions of the day will have a virtual connection.\nMorning Program 9:45-10:45 – the 12th Query Witness and Civic Responsibility – an Intergenerational Program led by Claire Brandenburg Taylor\nMeeting for Worship 11:00 am\nMeeting for Worship with Attention to Business 2:00-3:30pm\nDownload the FLYER!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/first-month-gathering-western-quarterly-meeting/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210120T200000
DTSTAMP:20210106T185550Z
CREATED:20210106T183136Z
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SUMMARY:Kennett Meeting Friends
DESCRIPTION:Kennett Meeting Friends continues to meet every third Wednesday of the month at 7:00pm.\nNext discussion will be Jan 20 to continue with Thomas Kelly’s A Testament of Devotion  focusing on the essay “The Simplification of Life“\nPlease join us if you have read the section or just want to explore a little more about Thomas Kelly!\nThomas Kelly was an American Quaker educator.  \nKelly received word on January 17\, 1941\, that Harper and Brothers was willing to meet with him to discuss the publication of a devotional book. He died of a heart attack in Haverford\, Pennsylvania later that same day. Three months later Kelly’s colleague\, Douglas V. Steere\, submitted five of Kelly’s devotional essays to the publisher along with a biographical sketch of Kelly. The book was published under the title A Testament of Devotion. \nPlease join\, all are welcome! – the link below is good through February 2021 \nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86739314909?pwd=QnJmUWxWQ2ZPVzRkQ3M2YklDRWp2QT09 \nMeeting ID: 867 3931 4909   Passcode: 391875
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/kennett-meeting-friends/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210121T133000
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SUMMARY:ASMH - Updated Exhibit Design Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join Executive Director Sean Connolly as he talks about the recently completed Exhibit Area Design Plan.\nSean will talk through what will be accomplished in each phase of this project and how it will adhere to Quaker principles while adding a sleek new public history approach to engaging with Arch Street Meeting House. Please register for this event here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/asmh-updated-exhibit-design-presentations/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210123T150000
DTSTAMP:20201220T143245Z
CREATED:20201220T143211Z
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SUMMARY:Addressing Anti-Blackness Thread Gathering
DESCRIPTION:Addressing Anti-Blackness in and Beyond Monthly Meetings \nSaturday\, January 23rd\, 2021\, 9:00am – 2:30pm\, VIRTUAL \nCo-hosted with Chestnut Hill Meeting \nThis thread gathering calls us to unlearn and be accountable to our past and present anti-Black ideologies\, institutions\, and behaviors. Knowing that this journey has no finish line\, we bravely and humbly come together to move forward in our journeys with intention to continue to learn and unlearn\, through interrogation\, conversation and understanding in ourselves\, our faith community\, and with each other. \nDisengaging from Comfort or Decentering Comfort \nAs Friends\, we lean on our understanding that we need discomfort to learn to be present during silence\, and this discomfort is a growing relationship with spirit. This discomfort is the same discomfort we are growing with and building a relationship with when we are uprooting oppressive thoughts and behaviors. Racism and white supremacy means some of us are more accustomed to discomfort than others\, as well as that what is comfortable for some is dangerous and violent to others. We invite participants to acknowledge and address that tension and imbalance with us. \nSchedule: \n9:00am Optional worship – led by Chestnut Hill Meeting \n10:00am Introductions & tech review \n10:15am Walking with Anti-Blackness – Oskar Castro \n12:00pm Optional communal lunch \n12:45pm Interrogating and Weeding out Anti-Blackness – Tenaja Henson and Sarah Willie-LeBreton \n2:00pm Resources and Closing \nTo register and read the facilitator bios – click here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/addressing-anti-blackness-thread-gathering/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210127T203000
DTSTAMP:20210106T175546Z
CREATED:20210106T175233Z
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SUMMARY:Byberry Quakers - Quakerism 101
DESCRIPTION:Join Byberry and Upper Dublin Friends Meetings in a two-part presentation and discussion about Quakerism.  While it is being called “Quakerism 101” it is definitely not a program only for new Friends and Seekers.  There is much to be learned by those who have been part of the faith for decades\, as well.\nThe program is the 2nd and 4th Wednesday in January (13th and 27th) at 7PM in Zoom.\nhttps://byberryquakers.org/Groups/355165/Quakerism_101.aspx\nFor more information\, please contact Byberry Friends Meeting at ByberryQuakers@gmail.com.\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/byberry-quakers-quakerism-101/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210206T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210206T150000
DTSTAMP:20201220T142758Z
CREATED:20201220T141335Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201220T142758Z
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SUMMARY:Seasons in the Life of a Meeting: Being Attentive to Change and Responding with Care
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\, February 6th\, 9:00am – 3:00pm\nPhiladelphia Yearly Meeting and Haverford Monthly Meeting invite you to the second of four Thread Gatherings in 2021.\nOur foci in this thread gathering will be:\n\n\nEnvisioning our meetings as dynamic entities constantly undergoing change.\n\n\nHearing from meetings that have met challenges they were facing as successful Co-Creators.\n\n\nApplying this to our own meetings in small group shares.\n\n\nPlease join us:\nFriends with an interest in Governance\, Ministry\, Outreach\, and Religious Education will find connection in this topic. We encourage meetings to identify several persons to attend to carry the day’s learning back to one’s home meeting.\nThe event is free to register and entirely online.\nRegister here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/seasons-in-the-life-of-a-meeting-being-attentive-to-change-and-responding-with-care/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210220T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210220T113000
DTSTAMP:20210205T151100Z
CREATED:20210205T151100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210205T151100Z
UID:11750-1613815200-1613820600@westernquarterquakers.org
SUMMARY:Facebook for Friends: Focused Outreach
DESCRIPTION:How can a Facebook page attract new seekers to your meeting?\nCaln Quarter and South Jersey Quakers is offering a Facebook training session. Learn how Facebook can support your outreach plan\, which tools work best and what to avoid.\nPresenters: Emily Provance – traveling minister with 15th St Meeting\, NYC\nRoma Narkhede – Advancement and Communications Coordinator\, Philadelphia YM\nREGISTER AT:  \n\nhttps://calnquarterlymeeting.ticketspice.com/membership-development-series-part-5-facebook-for-friends–focused-out
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/facebook-for-friends-focused-outreach/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210227T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210227T150000
DTSTAMP:20201220T145835Z
CREATED:20201220T145243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201220T145835Z
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SUMMARY:Ministry & Care Thread Gathering: Truth and Transformation in Community
DESCRIPTION:Truth & Transformation Thread Gathering  \n Saturday\, February 27\, 2021\, 9:00am – 3:00pm\, VIRTUAL \nThe Ministry & Care Committee of Quaker Life Council will explore a Truth & Transformation process which has the goal of creating a space within PYM for individuals to be heard concerning experiences of oppression including incidents of racism that may have left unhealed hurts and wounds. \nTruth & Transformation will hold a space for the holy spirit to gather Friends as they share their stories\, one which supports them in their expectation of being heard and gathered as a spiritual body. \nTruth & Transformation will also focus on the future and anticipate an ongoing need to deal with fresh incidents as they arise. For this reason\, the process is also about building and maintaining capacity for Truth & Transformation for as long as hurts from oppression are being experienced. \nThe ongoing work of Truth & Transformation will be an iterative process:  one that steadily deepens our understanding of how to increase capacity for this healing work as we learn from and are transformed by the work as it unfolds.  This capacity will inform Friends to respond lovingly and compassionately to incidents of racial wounding as guided by Spirit. It will prepare us to listen to the truths of Friends who feel wounded by other “-isms” such as sexism\, classism\, ageism\, homophobia and transphobia.  While these wounds are not identical\, the Truth & Transformation process recognizes the need for Friends who have suffered to be heard\, a human need that transcends any particular wounding. \nRegister here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/ministry-care-thread-gathering-truth-and-transformation-in-community/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210305T170000
DTSTAMP:20210305T144500Z
CREATED:20210305T144500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T144500Z
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SUMMARY:PYM Continuing Sessions - Youth Programs
DESCRIPTION:Fun – Community – Worship . . . Spring Continuing Sessions is an event for everyone! \nListed below are programs specific to our youth community. Parents and guardians should also visit the Spring Continuing Sessions page for the schedule on Saturday and adult registration. \n\nFriday\, March 26 — FUN\n\n6:00-7:30 PM Start the weekend with Friends!  We’ll gather with ALL-ages — come after supper or join over your meal. Friends will enjoy fellowship\, games\, and singing together. We will be led in song by Molly Hicks from Old Haverford Meeting\, who has lots of great ideas for sharing our voices in community.\n\n\nSaturday\, March 27 — COMMUNITY\n\n9:00-10:00 AM All-ages Worship\nAll ages are part of our Yearly Meeting\, and we’re All Together when everyone is in meeting for worship together. Here are some things that might be helpful to bring along\, if you’re a younger Friend:\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBeing Present: Worship at Home offers ideas for encouraging and grounding children in waiting worship from their home.\nLovely Coloring Sheets to help you see beauty and listen within during waiting worship . . .\nTwo books to process the experience and feelings around the pandemic:\n\nMasks\, Masks\, Masks by Drs. Michelle and Benjamin Lemelman\nMatilda + Theo looking after our lost and found things in the time of Coronavirus by the Australian Childhood Foundation\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n12:30 -1:30 PM  Main Youth Program for Kindergarten through Grade 12\nCommunity games and a craft project creating biodegradable planters for planting seeds of HOPE!\n\nYou must register to receive the Zoom link and materials for the afternoon program — see registration form below! \n\nSunday\, March 28 — WORSHIP \n\n9:00-9:45 AM Giant Children’s Meeting for Families with PreK-Grade 5 Children\n8:00-8:30 PM Youth-led Meeting for Worship for Middle and High School Youth\n\n\n\n\n\nYouth Registration: Spring Continuing Sessions 2021
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-continuing-sessions-youth-programs/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210314T163000
DTSTAMP:20210313T131826Z
CREATED:20210313T131618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210313T131826Z
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SUMMARY:Support Committee Meeting
DESCRIPTION:Western Quarterly Support Committee Meeting will meet virtually at 3:00pm. Friends are welcome.\nAgenda\nMeeting link 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/support-committee-meeting/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210323T203000
DTSTAMP:20210305T143002Z
CREATED:20210305T143002Z
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SUMMARY:PYM Continuing Sessions - Climate Change Session
DESCRIPTION:Discussion on making climate change a yearly meeting witness\n\n\n7:00 – 7:30pm: Worship\n\n\n7:30 – 8:30pm Q&A with Eco-Justice Collaborative. A discussion about making climate change a yearly meeting witness.\n\n\nPlease use the Spring Continuing Sessions registration to sign up for this opportunity to connect with Friends about the urgency of climate change.\nAdvance Documents on Climate Change\n\n\nClimate Change Resources\, Compiled by the Eco-Justice Collaborative\n\n\nQuakerSpeak Video on Quaker Earth Care\n\n\nQuakerSpeak Video on Why Climate Change Is an Issue of Faith\n\n\nQuakerSpeak Video on How Quakers Approach Sustainability Work\n\n\nQuakerSpeak Video on What Quakerism Teaches About Connecting to Nature\n\n\n\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-continuing-sessions-climate-change-session/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210326T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210326T193000
DTSTAMP:20210305T143154Z
CREATED:20210305T143154Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210305T143154Z
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SUMMARY:PYM Continuing Sessions - Fellowship
DESCRIPTION:Fellowship\nBegin your weekend with Friends. We’ll gather together for all-ages fellowship\, sharing stories\, and song. Feel free to bring your dinner to this fun\, virtual space. Please join us!\nPlease use the Spring Continuing Sessions registration to sign up for this fun time to connect virtually with Friends.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-continuing-sessions-fellowship/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210410T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210410T113000
DTSTAMP:20210405T143650Z
CREATED:20210405T143650Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210405T143650Z
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SUMMARY:Caln Quarter Membership Development Series
DESCRIPTION:Meeting Vitality\n Saturday\, April 10 from 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.\n\nWe will bring three topics to the table.\n\n\nCommunity-building\, including the role of the old reliable pot-luck\n\n\nManaging dissension\, the major reason why religious organizations lose congregants\n\n\nChecking the pulse of our spiritual vitality\n\n\n\n\n\nPlease register here:\nhttps://calnquarterlymeeting.ticketspice.com/caln-quarterly-meeting-membership-development-series-part-6\nRegistration is free. The donation is optional. To register only\, fill in your ticket information then scroll down past the donation and billing sections to the SUBMIT button below.\nOnce you have registered\, you can expect an email with the Zoom link on Friday night and again on Saturday morning.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/caln-quarter-membership-development-series/
LOCATION:PA
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SUMMARY:Pathways to Ending Gun Violence
DESCRIPTION:The annual workshop of the Legislative Policy Collaborative of Philadelphia Yearly Meeting will be a virtual event\,  featuring a keynote address by\nPeter Murchison\, a member of Wilton Friends Meeting (CT)\nwhose nephew was one of the first graders killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School eight years ago.\nThere will also be a panel discussion of local activists on gun control\, breakout rooms to share ideas and lobby training by a staff member of the\nFriends Committee on National Legislation (FCNL).\nJoin us for this exciting and timely event!\nRegister here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pathways-to-ending-gun-violence/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210416T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210418T120000
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SUMMARY:By and For Young Friends - Living Authentically
DESCRIPTION:https://pendlehill.org/events/living-authentically-finding-your-space-in-the-world-by-exploring-your-values/
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/by-and-for-young-friends-living-authentically/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210417T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210417T120000
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SUMMARY:Recording Clerk Workshop with Jim Herr
DESCRIPTION:Saturday\nZoom Pre- Registration is required.\nThis 2-hour interactive discussion format workshop is open to f/Friends in the Philadelphia Quarter and across the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting – all levels of experience are welcome.\nAre you intimidated by what seems to be a daunting task? Do you want a re-fresher? Get ready to be inspired.\nJim Herr brings his love of being a recording clerk and years of spiritual and practical experience to interactive training on an essential practice of our faith*.  Jim currently serves as a recording clerk for PYM and the clerk of Caln Quarterly Meeting. He is a member of Lancaster Monthly Meeting and recently retired administrator of the School of the Spirit Ministry.\nThe Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting (PQM) is sponsoring this “PQM Presents” workshop with the goal of supporting the work of its constituent Quaker meetings by sharing best practices\, lifting up ministries and nurturing Quaker connections across the quarter.\nFor resources advanced documents and resources – Visit the event page on PhiladelphiaQuarter.org: https://www.fgcquaker.org/cloud/philadelphia-quarterly-meeting/events/recording-clerk-workshop-jim-herr-april-17-2021
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/recording-clerk-workshop-with-jim-herr/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210418T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210418T094500
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SUMMARY:All Ages Program
DESCRIPTION:Join Claire\, our Youth Coordinator\, for an All Ages Program\nprior to worship at our April Gathering.\nClick here for the flyer.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/all-ages-program/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210419T203000
DTSTAMP:20210405T215344Z
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SUMMARY:A Clean Energy Future: How We Get there at the Local Level
DESCRIPTION:Ready for 100 invites local governments to lead the way to a transition away from dirty fuels like coal and fracked gas to 100% clean energy sources like solar and wind.  We are asking Supervisors\, Councilors\, Mayors\, CEOs\, religious leaders\, principals\, college presidents\, civic and community leaders\, parents\, and students to commit to solutions that help us achieve 100% clean\, just\, and renewable energy for all. Register here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/a-clean-energy-future-how-we-get-there-at-the-local-level/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210421T203000
DTSTAMP:20210418T145553Z
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SUMMARY:Kennett Friends Spirituality Group
DESCRIPTION:The spirituality Group continues to meet every 3rd Wednesday evening at 7:00. On this Wednesday April 21\, Annmarie Carr will lead us in a discussion about the Byzantine way of illuminating manuscripts!\n Please join\, all are welcome! –\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/86739314909?pwd=QnJmUWxWQ2ZPVzRkQ3M2YklDRWp2QT09\nMeeting ID: 867 3931 4909   Passcode: 391875\nWe looked last month at several of the great Irish illuminated manuscripts\, and marveled at the intricacy of their interlace ornament. \nWriting and ornament together form an abstract unity\, as if demonstrating the immense complexity and vitality that reside within the very words of Scripture. In some ways the Byzantine way of illuminating manuscripts is the converse of the Irish. It\, too\, fairly pulsates with the energy of the word\, but it focuses emphatically on the human figure\, and its interest is in bringing to life the relational experience of words spoken and heard as they are exchanged among people. \nWhat we call Byzantium called itself the Empire of the Romans. It was the Roman Empire as it continued for eleven centuries after the translation of its capital by the emperor Constantine from Rome to Constantine’s city— Constantinople—in 330 CE. It was a Christian state; its Church\, centered in Constantinople\, is the basis of what we now know as the Orthodox Church. By the 6 th century\, the Empire’s language had become Greek and remained so to the end in 1453. Johannes Gutenberg began his Bible project in 1452; the Empire fell in 1453. Thus Byzantium was throughout its history a pre-print culture. Books were labor-intensive and expensive\, and painted adornment even more so. \nNonetheless\, among medieval societies\, Byzantium was a comparatively literate one. Church\, army\, and imperial administration all operated at a high level of literacy\, and its major cities were entrepots of far-flung international trade networks\, demanding numeracy and basic literacy. We continue to be astonished by the large number and wide distribution of the small lead seals that were used in Byzantium to seal letters—they appear in archaeological sites all over the empire; and we know of laypeople as well as clergy and monks who accumulated libraries and prized books. \nAccordingly\, along with books designed to serve large communities\, Byzantium stands out in the Middle Ages for the number of books\, including illuminated ones\, that were made for individual\, personal use. \nThey are overwhelmingly religious\, and their illuminations emphasize figures whom we Quakers by and large do our best to avoid—Jesus Christ\, the Mother of God\, and major saints. But I think there is an aspect of the Byzantine images that can be of interest to us Friends in the light of our faith in the priesthood of all believers. This is the degree to which Byzantine imagery is rarely just ministry; it is a means of building an experiential bond between the individual reader and the divine. The Orthodox Church is great in its contemplative mystics\, and the faith in the experiential immediacy of humans’ relationship to the divine shaped the way the holy was expressed in art.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/kennett-friends-spirituality-group-2/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210422T203000
DTSTAMP:20231016T225634Z
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SUMMARY:Let’s Talk About Deep Delta Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join Moorestown Friends Meeting’s Anti-Racism Committee as we read and discuss our member Matthew van Meter’s book about life\, politics and civil rights in the 1960s – and the landmark civil rights decision of Duncan v. Louisiana. Matthew\, a journalist and activist (Shakespeare in Prison)\, did extensive research to create an account of “how grassroots heroism can topple even one of segregation’s most fearsome tyrants.” The book is available through Pendle Hill and numerous other outlets. Click here to join the discussion\, or phone 646-558-8656 and use meeting ID 873 3565 8140. And save the date: Matthew joins us Thursday\, May 13\, at 7:30pm\, to discuss his work.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/lets-talk-about-deep-delta-justice/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210430T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210502T120000
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SUMMARY:"Camp" Weekend for Youth and Families
DESCRIPTION:All PYM youth and families are invited to join the Youth Programs staff for a weekend of activities that will center fellowship\, fun\, and a “camp vibe.”\nMSF and Young Friends cannot be together at Camp Swatara with our Caln Quarter Friends this year\, and our Spring Family Overnight won’t be at Camp Dark Waters this spring\, but we can be ALL together in spirit and on Zoom!\nThe schedule for the weekend includes programs for all ages — More information below and the registration form. We will look forward to resuming our in-person camping weekends in 2022!\nFor more information and to register\, click here.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/camp-weekend-for-youth-and-families/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20210506T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210506T201500
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SUMMARY:Staying Strong! Staying Smart! Staying Safe!
DESCRIPTION:Part 1 on May 6 will deal with falls and home safety with resource people from Barclay Friends and Friends Life Care.\nPart 2 will be May 13 on medication management and driving safety with resource people from The Hickman and Bryn Mawr Rehab’s driving program.\nRegister  for the Zoom link.  Come to one or both programs.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/staying-strong-staying-smart-staying-safe/
LOCATION:PA
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