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SUMMARY:PYM Middle School Friends
DESCRIPTION:We are excited to see you all for our Winter Gathering January 31-February 2! The weekend will include small group worship sharing\, lots of laughter\, group games\, and new friendships as we build our MSF community. \nThe Winter Gathering workshop with Tara Rubinstein will build on earlier discussions at Annual Sessions 2019 and the MSF Fall Gathering. We’ll revisit the model of the gender and sexuality spectrum through games\, reflection\, and crafts. Queries we will explore together include: What is sexual orientation? How do you figure this out for yourself? How do you support your Friends as they figure it out?  \nOur workshop facilitator is Tara Rubinstein of Red Seeds (and former MSF coordinator!). Tara Rubinstein is a writer\, educator and mother. She has created and/or supervised programs for adolescents that support LGBTQ identity\, drag performance; spirituality\, anti-racism\, mythology and magic\, community building\, sexual wellness and body positivity. Her current youth programs include The Diana Circle – a feminist rites of passage group for girls ages 8-13\, and Brother Sun – a positive masculinity program for boys ages 8-10. \nFor more and to register\, click here\nDon’t forget the Middle School Friends Medical/Permission Forms if you have not yet submitted!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-middle-school-friends/
LOCATION:Lancaster Friends Meeting\, 110 Tulane Terrace\, Lancaster \, PA\, 17603\, United States
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SUMMARY:Diversity and Equity in Our Meetings and the World
DESCRIPTION:Friends are invited on Saturday February 1\, 2020 at Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting to share stories and inspiration and explore possibilities for increasing diversity & equity in our meetings and in the world. \nContact: Zach Dutton 215-241-7171 \nTo register\, click here!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/diversity-and-equity-in-our-meetings-and-the-world/
LOCATION:Central Philadelphia MM\, 1515 Cherry St.\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19102\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200204T161500
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SUMMARY:Katharine Gerbner at Haverford College
DESCRIPTION:Quakers and Slavery in the Seventeenth Century\nCHS 104 Chase Auditorium\n370 Lancaster Ave\nHaverford\, PA 19041\nContact: Susan Penn spenn@haverford.edu\n  \nHaverford College’s distinguished visitor Katharine Gerbner\, McKnight Land-Grant Professor\, University of Minnesota will be giving a talk about her research on Quakers and slavery. \nEighteenth-century Quakers were leaders of the abolitionist movement\, but many seventeenth-century Quakers were slave owners. \nIn Pennsylvania\, William Penn was a slave-holder\, and leading English Quakers used their connections to Friends in Barbados to import enslaved men and women. \nProfessor Gerbner’s talk will examine how these seventeenth-century Quakers reconciled slavery with their peace testimony. I will end by asking what it means to truly reckon with the history of Quaker slave-holding today. \nThe talk is sponsored by the Quaker Studies Working Group\, and the Department of Religion in conjunction with the Distinguished Visitors Program.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/katharine-gerbner-at-haverford-college/
LOCATION:Haverford College\, Walton Lane\, Haverford\, PA\, 19041\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200208T173000
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SUMMARY:Game Night!
DESCRIPTION:Come for Fellowship and Fun!\nGame Night at\nKennett Friends Meeting
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/game-night/
LOCATION:Kennett Friends Meeting\, 125 W. Sickle Street\, Kennett Square \, PA\, 19348\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200214T130000
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SUMMARY:PYM Young Friends
DESCRIPTION:This program is an experiment\, speaking to the interest in service and witness expressed by Young Friends last spring at Continuing Sessions. YSOP is an amazing organization! Learn more about them at www.ysop.org. \n– The cost is the same as other Young Friends weekends\, thanks to support for the Youth Programs in the PYM budget. Scholarship is available\, as always! Do not let cost keep you from participating. ALL costs are included in the registration — travel\, meals\, and YSOP program fee. \n– Youth interested in participating should be prepared to travel to Philadelphia on Friday so that we can make the trip to NYC before the opening program begins with YSOP. You will need to leave school early and meet in Philly to catch a 1:00pm bus at the Greyhound Station.Travel costs will be covered by the Young Friends Program. We understand this impacts a school day!  It’s a holiday weekend\, and many people have Monday off from school and work\, which is why we chose this weekend. We will return to Philadelphia by 4:00pm on Sunday. \n“YSOP engages youth in meaningful service experiences through an innovative program that combines an orientation to the issues\, hands on volunteer work and reflection. YSOP is a Quaker organization\, grounded in Quaker values of respect for each individual\, simplicity and service. Our programs are non-sectarian. We welcome people of every faith and belief system\, including people who don’t ascribe to any faith.”  \n\nFollowing the opening program and dinner\, Youth\, Young Friends staff\, and Adult Friendly Presences will spend Friday night at 15th Street Meeting in lower Manhattan. The YSOP program continues on Saturday\, and Saturday night we will gather at Brooklyn Meeting with the opportunity to meet Young Friends in NYYM. We will worship at Brooklyn Meeting on Sunday morning before traveling back to Philadelphia.\n\nRegistration will be limited to 15 youth. If you have questions get in touch with Melinda Winner Bradley\, mwennerbradly@pym.org. \nFor more and to register\, click here\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-young-friends/
LOCATION:PA
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SUMMARY:Friends Home Valentine Party and Open House
DESCRIPTION:Valentine’s Day Party and Open House\nFeaturing:                \nA Concert by our Friends Home Choir \nCome enjoy a nostalgic trip through the years as our residents present songs about love:\nPerfect theme for a Valentine’s Day weekend. \nSaturday\, February 15th 1 – 4\n(Concert at 2 p.m. in Friends Home activities room)\nRefreshments & Tours \nFriends Home in Kennett\n147 West State Street\nKennett Square\, PA 19348\n610-444-8785
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/friends-home-valentine-party-and-open-house/
LOCATION:PA
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SUMMARY:Continuing Sessions
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for Continuing Sessions at Westtown School! We will highlight the work and witness of collaboratives\, worship together\, be in community with one another\, youth programs and YAFs\, and do the business of the yearly meeting together. We welcome all to join us! Registration will be up soon.\nClick here for the PYM event page.\nClick here for the Youth Programs at Continuing Sessions Spring 2020!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/continuing-sessions-2/
LOCATION:Westtown School\, Lower School\, West School Lane\, West Chester\, PA\, 19382\, United States
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SUMMARY:PYM Worship & Care
DESCRIPTION:Institutional Assessment on Institutional Racism\nPresented by Vanessa Juyle\, The Institutional Assessment is a direct response to the events at the 2016 Gathering that encapsulates the long history of lived experience of People of Color of systemic racism among Friends. A similar assessment focused on Indigenous Peoples\, classism\, ageism\, and disability is encouraged in the future. We hope the results of this assessment may inform FGC’s inclusion of Friends from all communities.\nYou can read the full Institutional Assessment on Systemic Racism within Friends General Conference report here: https://www.fgcquaker.org/sites/default/files/attachments/IA%20Task%20Force%20report%20-%20final.pdf\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-worship-care/
LOCATION:Trenton Friends Meeting\, 142 East Hanover St\, Trenton\, NJ\, 08608\, United States
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SUMMARY:PYM Governance and Stewardship Thread - Deepening Our Practice
DESCRIPTION:Workshops\n\n\nArlene Kelly of Central Philadelphia Monthly Meeting (CPMM) will lead a workshop on the important function of Nominating Committees.\n\n\nSteven Davison also of CPMM will lead a workshop on the the sense of the meeting — what it is\, what it means\, and how we experience it.\n\n\nKri Burkander of Princeton Meeting and Jim Herr of Lancaster Meeting will lead a workshop on the joy of serving as recording clerk in our meetings.\n\n\nEmily Provance will lead a workshop on the art of virtual clerking.\n\n\nTo register or for more information\, click here
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-governance-and-stewardship-thread-deepening-our-practice/
LOCATION:Providence Friends Meeting\, 105 North Providence Road\, Media\, 19063\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200223T123000
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SUMMARY:PYM Ecojustice Collaborative
DESCRIPTION:Climate Crisis:\nWhy Friends Care\, What We Can Do\nLiz Robinson\, Burt Dallas\, Paula Kline and Ruth Darlington\, with PYM’s Eco-Justice Collaborative\, will address actions at the national\, state\, local\, and person levels to lower carbon emissions and other efforts to address the Climate Crisis. This follows Haddonfield Quarter’s worship\, annual business meeting\, and lunch.\n\nContact: Linda Lotz 856-979-4560
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/pym-ecojustice-collaborative/
LOCATION:Westfield Friends Meeting\, 2201 Riverton Road\, Cinnaminson\, NJ\, 08077\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T180000
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SUMMARY:Race\, Power\, and Quakerism in South Africa - Friend in Residence\, Haverford College
DESCRIPTION:Are there Quakers in South Africa? How and when did they get there? What roles did they play before\, during\, and after apartheid? How do South African Quakers address issues of race\, position\, and power both within the Religious Society and the larger culture today? \nCome hear stories\, ask questions\, and share thoughts with Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge\, Haverford College’s current Friend in Residence\, and her husband Jeremy. \nNozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge is a Quaker South African politician and activist who was South Africa’s Deputy Minister of Defense from 1999 to April 2004 and Deputy Minister of Health from April 2004 to August 2007. She is the founder and Executive Director of Embrace Dignity\, a non-profit campaigning for legal reform to abolish the exploitative system of prostitution and support South African women wanting to exit the sex industry. \nMadlala-Routledge is serving as Friend in Residence at Haverford College for the spring semester\, 2020. \nJeremy Routledge is a chemical engineer who is deeply committed to the realization of a society built on non-violence\, gender equality\, environmental justice\, and personal and social transformation. He is one of the founding members of Embrace Dignity and an active member of the international Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP) community. He served as the Director of the Quaker Peace Centre in Cape Town\, South Africa\, from 1996-2002. \nThe lecture is co-sponsored by Quaker and Special Collections and the Quaker Affairs Office. \nProgram will be in Lutnick Library 200.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/race-power-and-quakerism-in-south-africa-friend-in-residence-haverford-college/
LOCATION:Haverford College\, Walton Lane\, Haverford\, PA\, 19041\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200229T190000
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SUMMARY:Concert! Songs of Hope and Courage: An Evening for the Planet
DESCRIPTION:An Evening of Singing\nwith Annie Patterson and Wendi Bourne\nat Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting\n20 East Mermaid Lane\, Philadelphia\nto benefit EQAT\nTo download flyer\, click here!
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/concert-songs-of-hope-and-courage-an-evening-for-the-planet/
LOCATION:Chestnut Hill Friends Meeting\, 20 E. Mermaid Lane\, Philadelphia\, PA\, 19118\, United States
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