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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…
Find out more »Meeting for Worship for Dance
In the spirit of adventure and exploration we are offering a chance to embody our responses to what is going on for us at the moment. Live music from Robin Bowles will support and respond to the movement. We will start with a time to warm up our muscles and get our bodies moving, there will be a chance to connect with others and there will be time for worshipful dance. More details: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/product/meeting-for-worship-for-dance-oct/
Find out more »Words for the Earth: an online poetry evening
Join us on Zoom for readings of their poetry by four Quaker poets, responding to the climate crisis, introduced by Jennifer Kavanagh. Ella Otomewo is a poet who found her voice in the spoken word community years ago, and now writes for both the page and the stage. She lives in Manchester. Philip Gross is mostly a poet, for adults and young people, a former academic and a keen collaborator across art forms. He won the T. S. Eliot Prize,…
Find out more »Dancing from Earth to Sky
An opportunity to explore Chantraine dance with the music of Misa Criolla by Ariel Ramirez. Chantraine invites everyone into a world of movement, music, poetry, sculpture and real connection with the natural world. It's founded onon respect and love for human beings in all their diversity, and has a complete philosophy and practice of dance education. Open to everyone, all levels or experience and all ages from age 8 (children afternoon only)
Find out more »November 2021
Caring for what we love across the world, in the face of environmental threats
A Loving Earth conversation hosted by Glasgow Quakers at their Meeting House and on Zoom. As the COP talks get going in Glasgow, invited speakers with experience from different parts of the world will each introduce a couple of textile panels from the Loving Earth Project that particularly speak to them. These panels are about things, places, people we love, how they are or will be affected by climate breakdown, and what we can do. A more general conversation will…
Find out more »Meeting for Worship for Dance
In the spirit of adventure and exploration we are offering a chance to embody our responses to what is going on for us at the moment. Live music from Robin Bowles will support and respond to the movement. We will start with a time to warm up our muscles and get our bodies moving, there will be a chance to connect with others and there will be time for worshipful dance. More details here: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/product/meeting-for-worship-for-dance-nov/
Find out more »The Mistake – by Michael Mears: live play reading in Edinburgh
MICHAEL MEARS – a live reading of his new play THE MISTAKE about the dropping of the first atomic bomb The dropping of the first atomic bomb is referred to on the Peace Memorial in Hiroshima as “the mistake”. Written for the 75th anniversary last year, (but delayed due to the pandemic) Michael Mears’ compelling and moving new play THE MISTAKE explores personal stories surrounding that catastrophic event. Using testimonies and eye-witness accounts, THE MISTAKE interweaves the stories of…
Find out more »Spirituality and Creative Practice: making images from music
This series of sessions enables people to learn from practising artists about their different creative practices and how they connect to and enrich their spiritual practice. The sessions are interactive, giving participant to try out or explore the creative practice themselves. More details: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/product/spirituality-and-creative-practice-nov/
Find out more »December 2021
Meeting for Worship for Dance
In the spirit of adventure and exploration we are offering a chance to embody our responses to what is going on for us at the moment. Live music from Robin Bowles will support and respond to the movement. We will start with a time to warm up our muscles and get our bodies moving, there will be a chance to connect with others and there will be time for worshipful dance. More details: https://www.woodbrooke.org.uk/product/meeting-for-worship-for-dance-dec/
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