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June 2021
Loving Earth Project Sewing Circle
A chance to sew , draw or progress your Loving Earth panel in the online company of others, quietly chatting if you feel like it, to share inspiration and support each other. Facilitated informally by Jasmine Piercy. Starts at 10.30 am UK time Email jasminep321@yahoo.co.uk for the Zoom link. Free.
Find out more »Quaker Arts Network AGM
Our AGM will be held by Zoom again this year. All members are welcome to attend. The Zoom link will be circulated in a newsletter in early June or you can email us to get it. The Agenda will be based around our Annual Report, also to be circulated early June and put on the website (documents page), Appointments, and discussion of what we would like QAN to do in the coming year - subject to volunteers coming forward to…
Find out more »Loving Earth: A Legacy of Lockdown : exhibition in Wimbledon
This small exhibition of textile panels reflecting how local people's experience of recent coronavirus lockdowns has affected their relationship with the environment will be on display at the Centre Court shopping centre, at Wimbledon station during the Tennis Championship fortnight. The project was organised by Sustainable Merton in association with the Loving Earth Project, a project of the Quaker Arts Network . https://www.sustainablemerton.org/loving-earth In addition to a static display, open at all times during standard shopping hours from 28 June, a…
Find out more »July 2021
Panel Makers’ informal chat
This informal event is for anyone who is making a textile panel to contribute to the international community textile project. If you’d like to make a panel, have got started or need more help with design or techniques, come and share your questions and ideas and meet other panel-makers. It would also be lovely to hear reflections from those who have finished your panels, and discuss possible or actual actions to help us live more sustainably in future. You çan…
Find out more »Loving Earth Panels at the Bury St Edmunds Green Fair
Bury St Edmunds Quakers will host a small display of panels from the Loving Earth Projet collection at the Green Fair organised by West Suffolk Hive today, amid a varied event featuring a wide range of local groups. Come with your friends and be inspired!
Find out more »Loving Earth Exhibition in Yorkshire Dales opens
Panels from the Loving Earth collection will be displayed at Bainbridge Quaker Meeting House 16th – 27th July together with some made by local people and pupils at Bainbridge, Askrigg and West Burton Schools. John Craven and local farmers, councillors, teachers, children, clergy, and other members of the local community have been invited to choose a panel which they find particularly meaningful, be photographed beside it, and say why they chose it, for a recorded présentation to be shown at the…
Find out more »Online Creative Writing Workshop
Explore the journeys of Cumbria’s rivers, becks and gills, from their source in the high fells to the sea, accompanied by local writer Geraldine Green. 11am to 3pm – Join us online at this creative writing workshop, led by Geraldine, our tutor and writer-in-residence. You’ll delve into stories of these incredible waterways to inspire your own writing. There will be lovely prompts to guide your writing from stunning images, provided by Cumbria Wildlife Trust, to a storytelling session about the…
Find out more »Loving Earth Project Sewing Circle
A chance to sew , draw or progress your Loving Earth panel in the online company of others, quietly chatting if you feel like it, to share inspiration and support each others. Facilitated informally by Jasmine Piercy. Starts at 10.30 am UK time. Email jasminep321@yahoo.co.uk for the Zoom link. Free.
Find out more »Earth Matters exhibition: Astley Park, Chorley
A selection of panels from the Loving Earth Project collection will be displayed in this exhibition of textile art works in the gallery at Astley Park in Lancashire, organised in conjunction with the One Step On local textile group. Come for a day out to enjoy the beautiful park as well as the art work. The Gallery is open Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays fro, 10 am to 4pm.
Find out more »Dance Chantraine: Finding Treasures
A chance to move about and dance with others, from your own home (via zoom). It's led by Kate Green (member of NE Thames AM) who has been teaching Chantraine dance for over 30 years. Chantraine is dance for joy, for the whole human being. The theme of the session is finding and dancing your treasures, whatever they may be.
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