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April 2021
Where does our strength come from? Get started on your panel
What motivates you to take action on the climate? Where does your strength come from when the going gets tough? This workshop is an opportunity to reflect on why you have been making changes in your own life and are calling for more action to be take. We will use a short guided meditation, quiet creative exploration, and some sharing with others. It will also prepare you to make a textile panel to join the Loving Earth Project’s travelling exhibition,…
Find out more »May 2021
Friends in Tune virtual choir rehearsal
Friends in Tune Seeks Singers! Friends in Tune has launched a Quaker Virtual Choir project and would like to invite you to take part. Our aim is to record two songs using Zoom technology in order to create a video which can then be streamed to Quaker events or viewed online at Friends’ convenience. The songs are George Fox, by Sidney Carter and Truth’s a Seed by Alec Davison and Tony Biggin. You may have seen a number of videos…
Find out more »Panel Makers 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 »Spirituality and Creative Practice: Zen drawing
This session is inspired by Frederick Franck whose spiritual practice is drawing. You need no special equipment, just anything that will make a mark on some paper (pencil, pen, crayon, charcoal, paintbrush, etc.) You will also need something firm to rest your paper on maybe cardboard, especially if you draw outside. Drawing is about looking very carefully so that you see and understand the essential nature of what you study. Franck takes this further, suggesting that when we draw we…
Find out more »Getting started on your Biodiversity Loving Earth panel
This Zoom event will get you started on making a textile panel to contribute to the Loving Earth international community textile project. As Governments prepare for the G7 Summit in June, species and habitats are disappearing at an alarming rate . Much of this is directly due to human activity : Dredging the ocean depths, mining, warfare, and spreading pollution in the air, land and water. Climate break-down is accelerating this trend with icemelt, floods, droughts and storms. How does…
Find out more »June 2021
Friends in Tune virtual choir Zoom video recording
Friends in Tune Seeks Singers! Friends in Tune has launched a Quaker Virtual Choir project and would like to invite you to take part. Our aim is to record two songs using Zoom technology in order to create a video which can then be streamed to Quaker events or viewed online at Friends’ convenience. The songs are George Fox, by Sidney Carter and Truth’s a Seed by Alec Davison and Tony Biggin. You may have seen a number of videos…
Find out more »September 2021
Artists Retreat , Congenies France
Art Retreat Saturday 18th to Monday 27th September We invite you to join us for 6 to 9 days of creative art and friendship in a variety of lovely locations. This retreat is suitable for anyone who wishes to make art, whether trying something out for the first time or as an experience artist working with your favorite media We can offer sunshine and inspiration in our historic meeting house and beautiful garden located in a village between the Cévennes…
Find out more »October 2021
Music Week, Congenies, France
Saturday 9th to Monday 18th October We invite you to join us for 5 to 9 days of musical exploration to lift your spirits and make music with new friends in our historic meeting house and beautiful garden located in a village between the Cévennes Mountains and the Mediterranean. Mike Adcock is our experienced Quaker facilitator who will support and encourage you . You also have space to rest, reflect, explore independently or with friends The cost is 595 euros…
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