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Check out the latest QAN  newsletter.  You can download it as PDF file or see it as a Mailchimp campaign. Please check your spam folders if you are subscribed, but didn’t get it. If you are not subscribed, but would like to have our news send to your email address, please do let us know by emailing

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A group of QAN members who dance/love dance met recently (via zoom) in a spirit of worship to share our experience of dance and our spirituality.  We also spoke a little about the current work of the QFP Revision Committee.  The richness and variety of the spoken ministry about our dance and Quakerism, from many

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Our member Ann Johnson won this year’s competition to design a Christmas card for the small but highly active Scottish campaigning organisation OneKind. The design features a fox in a winter scene, collaged from recycled paper. A pack of cards costs £4.99. All proceeds from sales go to OneKind. If you send cards at Christmas,

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Riverhouse Barn Arts Centre in Walton on Thames is planning an exhibition ilion of panels already made for the Loving Earth Project in January, alongside a range of events – many of them online. Watch this space! http://quakerarts.net/events/If you have a panel in progress and would like it included in the exhibition, please try and

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This first Loving Earth Project course organised by Woodbrooke with Quaker Arts Network starts this week. All welcome – whether or not you’re a textile artist, or a Quaker . If you want to engage creatively with the challenges of moving towards sustainability, this course may be for you. Six weeks online, starting w.c. 14th

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For an independent review of this book by Gordon MacLellan, see https://www.celebrationearth.org/post/kiss-the-earth

QAN is delighted to announce not one but two online theatre events . Two plays by Quaker writers and actors, both filmed under lockdown, each followed by a discussion with the writers/performers.9 -14 July : THIS EVIL THING – by Michael Mears, about conscientious objectors in World War One , and 15 July : FEEDING

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Welcome to 2020, Friends. At this time of change, the world needs all the love and truth it can get. We look forward to another year of exploring and sharing our leadings through the arts, including in seeking peace, justice, beauty and a lower-carbon year in 2020. Check out the latest QAN  newsletter.  Our earlier newsletters are  here.

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Congratulations to Dorothy Jerrome whose poem about the shrill carder bee (written at Lucy Aprhamor’s Swarthmoor workshop in July) has just won first prize in a competition held by the Bumblebee Conservation Trust . Here it is: In the twinkling of an eye She darts from purple lavender to mint High pitched buzz of the

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