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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
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,
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
Panel-makers’ informal chat
OnlineThis 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
Is Dance Worship
Is Dance worship? Come and explore this fascinating question in movement, words, art and worship. Does dance, bypassing words, allow the spirit to flow through us? How might we respond to the world around us in movement? Might worshipful dance allow us to embody our world, to seek truth, connect to one another, and find
Get started on your Loving Earth Project textile panel
OnlineThis Zoom event will get you started on making a textile panel in any style, to contribute to this international community textile project. You may come with a topic you want to work on such as a place, person, creature or something else you love that is at risk, or an activity or innovation that
Loving Earth: Stop Funding Fossil Fuels
This one-day session is designed to help us to better understand the work against climate crisis being done on a national stage and guide us towards what we can do as individuals in support of and alongside this work. We will hear about campaign work towards stopping the funding of climate breakdown by the UK
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.
Quaker Arts Network AGM
Zoom , United KingdomOur 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
Loving Earth: A Legacy of Lockdown : exhibition in Wimbledon
Centre Court Shopping Centre, by Wimbledon Station Unit 225, First Floor, Centre Court Shopping Centre Wimbledon, SW19 8YAThis 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