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SUMMARY:Middle School and Young Friends Virtual Camp Swatara
DESCRIPTION:Youth staff have put together a virtual weekend featuring some Camp Swatara favorites. Join Middle School and Young Friends from Philadelphia area and beyond.\n-Blanket fort-making challenge  -hike workout    -worship sharing in small groups    -talent show with youth MC   -sing around the virtual campfire with your own snacks!   -program graduation on Sunday\nMiddle School Friends register here\nYoung Friends register here\n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/middle-school-and-young-friends-virtual-camp-swatara/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200502T093000
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SUMMARY:Caln Quarter's Swatara 2020 Virtual Plenary and Discussion - Growing Our Meetings
DESCRIPTION:Featured speaker – Barry Crossno\, General Secretary Friends General Conference\n\n\n\n\nPlenary Speech on The Meeting Experience: share stories\, statistics\, and practical tools to help re- imagine a Meeting experience that is invitational and responsive to the needs of the diversity of current and potential Friends.\nOutreach Panel: explore findings of Facts on Growth study\, Outreach resources of Yearly Meetings and Friends General Conference.\n2020-2021 Membership Development Zoom Series: create an Outreach Working Group to identify and convey resources\, activities and information regarding membership development.\nRegistration\nQuestions? e-mail registrar at irene5951@gmail.com\nEvent flyer \n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/caln-quarters-swatara-2020-virtual-plenary-and-discussion-growing-our-meetings/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200502T150000
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SUMMARY:Family Overnight! - going virtual!
DESCRIPTION:For information about alternative programming May 2 on goto the PYM Children’s Program Events page!\nGather for one\, two\, or all three sessions with program staff Kimani Keaton and Crystal Hershey during the weekend:\n\n\nSaturday\, May 2\, 7-8pm Family Games\n\n\nSaturday\, May 2\, 9:30-10:30pm Parent Fellowship\n\n\nSunday\, May 3\, 10-10:30am Worship Experiment\n\n\nOn the evening of Saturday May 2\, bring your tea and hot cocoa\, chocolate snacks and fruit bowls\, and join us to play games and share fellowship. After your kids are in bed\, we’ll regroup on Zoom at 9:30pm for a time just for parents to chat with fellow parents. On Sunday morning\, we’ll gather for a worship experiment from 10:00-10:30am.\nRegistration link
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/family-overnight/
LOCATION:Camp Dark Waters\, 26 New Freedom Road\, Medford\, NJ\, 08055\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T190000
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SUMMARY:Commonwealth Interfaith Prayers for Justice and Peace
DESCRIPTION:Loving Your Neighbor as Yourself in a Time of Pandemic\nJoin PA Council of Churches for their 12th year in raising a collective voice for a more just and peaceful world.\n6:oopm via Facebook Event link\nhttps://www.facebook.com/PAChurchesAdvocacy/live\nQuestions / Contact Rev. Sandy Strauss 717-545-4761 s.strauss@pachurches.org
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/commonwealth-interfaith-prayers-for-justice-and-peace/
LOCATION:PA
ORGANIZER;CN="PA Council of Churches":MAILTO:pcc@pachurches.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200507T210000
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SUMMARY:Building a Nonviolent Direct Action Campaign
DESCRIPTION:We’re living in strange times. While many of us are experiencing or standing in solidarity with the immediate suffering around us during the Coronavirus epidemic\, we are also aware of the bigger social needs so glaring in this moment of profound rupture. We want to use this time well and build our activist muscles\, so we can collectively push for real change on health care\, inequality\, climate change\, and more. \nHistory shows that nonviolent direct action campaigns are one of the best ways to build such movements. Let’s prepare now for the work ahead. \nThis online course will teach you the basics of nonviolent direct action campaigning. With proven methods of building people power\, campaigns shake up the status quo through tactics that range from fasting and boycotts to noncooperation and civil disobedience. If you’re feeling discouraged\, this is the perfect time to build your strategic skills in the methods of Gandhi\, King\, and Quaker suffrage leader Alice Paul. \nDuring our four classes together online\, you will learn how to:\n● Choose an issue where you can actually make a difference.\n● Identify the people who you want to pressure and where they are vulnerable.\n● Develop creative tactics to make your actions effective\, press-worthy\, and often fun.\n● Build your impact over time\, so the people you’re trying to pressure have to take you seriously. \nEach session will include a mixture of lesson and discussion. Recordings of the class sessions will be available in case you can’t make every one\, along with additional materials and suggested homework. \nThe course will begin Thursday\, May 7th and run the four Thursdays of May from 7 to 9 EST. \nDue to financial hardship from the Coronavirus\, I am moving to sliding scale pricing. My hope is that you will choose a price that feels like a real investment to you without making it a hardship. The group registration option remains\, which is a great way to lower the cost for everyone while building your group. Please let me know if you have questions or need additional financial aid. \nContact: Eileen Flanagan 215-400-1547   https://eileenflanagan.com/building-a-campaign/ \n  \n 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/building-a-nonviolent-direct-action-campaign/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200512T213000
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SUMMARY:Quakers and the Poor People's Campaign
DESCRIPTION:ZOOM WORKSHOP  – 90 minute interactive program\nProvidence Friends Meeting invites us to join them on Zoom tonight to learn more about Quakers and the Poor People’s Campaign.\nIn 2020\, the Poor People’s Campaign is bringing people across the U.S. together in pursuit of racial\, economic\, and environmental justice; as in 1968\, faith communities will play a significant role. Learn about the origins of this economic justice campaign first organized by the Rev. Martin Luther King\, Jr. and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and how local Quaker communities can continue to speak truth to power in partnership with the Campaign. Be sure to have a few pieces of paper and writing utensils with you\, and feel free to bring a friend or family member along!\nPresenters:\nSophia Burns\, Stuart Fellow at AFSC\, and\nLaura Boyce\, AFSC and member of Providence Friends Meeting\nRegistration is required.\nUse this link to register and get the link for “Poor People’s Campaign 101”
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/quakers-and-the-poor-peoples-campaign/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T160000
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SUMMARY:Young Friends - Friday Check-in
DESCRIPTION:Friday Afternoon Check-ins!\n\nYoung Friends Staff will host the Friday gatherings between 4-5 PM on the dates listed below\, and Young Friends are invited to sign-up to lead the program on additional Fridays. Register for the Friday programs\, and we’ll send you the Zoom link.\n\n\n\nStaff Hosted Check-ins: April 17 — April 24 — May 29 — June 26\nFellowship\, games\, community!\n\n\nYou can sign up to host a check-in at the PYM Calendar page\n\nQuestions? Call PYM Youth Religious Life coordinator 215-241-7171 or email
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/young-friends-friday-check-in/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T210000
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SUMMARY:Young Adult Friends - Virtual Community Worship
DESCRIPTION:This week’s YAF Community Worship will kick off our At-Home Retreat.\nFor more information on the retreat or to find registration visit the retreat page.
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/young-adult-friends-virtual-community-worship/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200515T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200516T190000
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SUMMARY:AT HOME - YAF Retreat
DESCRIPTION:Register Here\nThe idea behind our retreat is to collaboratively create something that speaks to a query and where young adult friends are at on this day. Throughout the retreat there will be large group community time\, and small group time where we are split up by the medium we are working on:\n\n\nWords (example: poetry\, creative writing)\n\n\nVisuals (example: drawing\, collage\, photography)\n\n\nSounds (example: observing\, making\, recording)\n\n\nEach individual participating in the retreat will create something that will be compiled into a zine of all our work together!\nPYM coordinator to contact mrose@pym.org 
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/yaf-retreat/
LOCATION:Camp Dark Waters\, 26 New Freedom Road\, Medford\, NJ\, 08055\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200519T203000
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SUMMARY:EcoJustice Collaborative Film Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Exploring What is True in the film Planet of the Humans\nConnection information here\nMichael Moore’s new movie\, Planet of the Humans\, has stirred up lots of controversy and confusion. Our presenters will sort out fact from fiction\, identify errors and accuracies\, and answer as many questions as we can fit into one hour. This will be a lively discussion\, so bring all your questions.\nJoin Zoom Meeting\nQuestions – contact Patricia Finley 267-475-0391
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/ecojustice-collaborative-film-discussion/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T200000
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SUMMARY:Young Adult Friends Community Worship - Virtual
DESCRIPTION:Join YAF Community Worship facilitated by Catherine Campbell.\nJoin Zoom Meeting by computer: https://zoom.us/j/540686103 \nOr by phone: +1 929 436 2866\nMeeting ID: 540 686 103
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/young-adult-friends-community-worship-virtual/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200525T200000
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SUMMARY:Northside Friends Meeting - National Day of Mourning for Covid-19
DESCRIPTION:Northside Friends Meeting is a Quaker Meeting located in the Uptown Neighborhood of Chicago\, Illinois. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and Illinois quarantine we have continued to worship and share fellowship over video from our homes and have drawn comfort and strength from this continuing connection to our community.\nAt a recent check-in video call\, we shared how we felt affected by the pandemic – we spoke of feeling sorrow\, frustration\, fear\, guilt\, and despair. Although these feelings were painful\, we felt lifted at being able to be together in our sorrow.\nWe know this crisis is far from over. We will experience more frustration and fear and guilt and despair and terrible\, terrible loss. But we know too that sorrow shared is sorrow halved and it serves none of us to carry our burdens alone.\nThere has been no call from the US government for a Day of Mourning to acknowledge the grief and loss caused by the pandemic thus far. As people of faith\, it falls to us.\nOur testimony of integrity compels us to speak truth – we will not deny our grief nor refuse to acknowledge our loss. Our testimony of equality compels us to see the privilege enjoyed by those whom the pandemic has touched lightly and witness the pain of those whom the pandemic has wounded deeply. Our testimony of community compels us to come together – as Quakers\, Chicagoans\, Americans\, humans\, and children of the Earth.\nWe invite all people to hold Memorial Day\, Monday May 25\, 2020\, as a Day of Mourning. We invite you to take time and to share your burdens with your loved ones and the communities from which you draw comfort and strength. We too will be worshiping together on that day and gather with you in spirit.\nWe also invite you to join with us in a visible action. At sundown wherever you live\, light a candle and step outside and hold a moment of silence for what we have lost together.\nMay 10\, 2020
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/northside-friends-meeting-national-day-of-mourning-for-covid-19/
LOCATION:PA
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200528T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200528T210000
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SUMMARY:Friends in Fellowship with Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge & Jeremy Routledge
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for an evening with Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge\, former Deputy Minister of Defense and of Health in South Africa\, currently Friend in Residence at Haverford College\, and Jeremy Routledge\, former director of the Quaker Peace Centre in Cape Town.\nTimes of global crisis\, like now under COVID19\, are also an opportunity for social transformation and innovation. Join this talk with Nozizwe and Jeremy Routledge\, from Southern Africa Quaker Community\, as they share stories of hope and courage drawn from their own life-long struggle for peace\, equality and justice in South Africa. There will be an interactive Breakout room where you can share your own stories of connecting locally and internationally.  Come! Practice hope and courage with Friends.\nRegister here!\nHosted virtually by Friends World Committee for Consultation\, PYM\, Haverford College and Friends Center.\nNozizwe is a Quaker South African politician and activist who started her life of political activism under the tutelage of Steve Biko\, a leading light of the grassroots anti-apartheid campaign known as the Black Consciousness Movement. Madlala-Routledge moved on to join the ANC and the South African Communist Party\, which were both banned\, and was detained a number of times without trial. The latest period was serving a year in solitary confinement.\nQuestions? Email Grace Sharples Cooke
URL:http://westernquarterquakers.org/event/friends-in-fellowship-with-nozizwe-charlotte-madlala-routledge-jeremy-routledge/
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