Communities Without Borders: Creating Sacred Spaces Through Storytelling Project

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Please join the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Guilford College to create sacred spaces for all. Communities without Borders: Creating Sacred Spaces through Storytelling Project is an art installation aimed to tell stories and honor the lives of over 400,000 children, women, men and all community members who are currently detained in over 200 immigrant detention centers in the USA. This project is a response to the historical atrocities committed against DACA recipients,…

“The Human Element” / Free Online Screening June 8 – 17

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Interfaith Power & Light is excited to kick off our summer film series with a return of a free online screening of The Human Element, followed by a webinar with renowned filmmaker James Balog. Over 7,000 people viewed The Human Element during Faith Climate Action Week earlier this year, and to meet the continued requests from the IPL community, the filmmaker has generously offered the film again.  “What an incredible film. It is beautiful and…

Graveyard Tour Update / May 25

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For many years, it has been a custom at New Garden to have an “alternative” Memorial Day graveyard tour to highlight the many different ways Quakers have served and sacrificed in the cause of peace and justice. This year, owing to the coronavirus restrictions, there won’t be a group tour, but from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. on Monday, May 25, Gertrude Beal and Max Carter will be under the porch roof at the meetinghouse to…

A Healing Poem

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This is a healing poem For when you cannot dance and cannot work and cannot walk. Concentrate on the things you still can do. Breathe. Dream. Love.   from Plain Living: A Quaker Path To Simplicity by Cahterine Whitmire “This is a healing poem” by Becky Birtha, 1991 Submitted by Tim Lindeman

Celebrating Earth Day / “The Human Element” / Free Documentary thru April 26

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Thanks to Interfaith Power and Light, Earth Vision Institute is providing the feature film for this year’s Faith Climate Action Week: “The Human Element” and they have decided to offer a link to view the film for free online during Faith Climate Action Week to all Interfaith Power & Light congregations, organizations, and individuals. Go to: https://tinyurl.com/ycs29k3j to sign up to receive the link to view now through April 26. In an arresting new documentary…

The Spirit of Harriet Tubman Performance / March 8

Art, Community, Fellowship, First Day, Social Concerns

3:00 p.m. / Worship Room / Please join us for a one-woman performance by Diane Faison, inspired by the life and liberating work of Harriet Tubman and her path to freedom travelling the Underground Railroad at least 19 times freeing slaves. Ms. Faison is a graduate of North Carolina Central University, with post-graduate study at Longwood University and the University of Virginia. This performance will help celebrate Black Women’s History Month two days before the…

Songs of Hope & Courage: Celebrating Pete Seeger’s Legacy / March 7

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7:00 p.m. / Worship Room  / Please join us for a concert (including a sing-along portion) by Annie Patterson and Mary Witt. Annie is the co-creator of the best-selling songbook Rise Up Singing.  She has led singalong concerts across North America and abroad building “hope & change through song.”  Mary is a terrific vocalist and bass player. Her award-winning swing and soul band The O-Tones is based in Western Massachusetts. Advance tickets & information can be…

The Spirit of Harriet Tubman Performance / March 8

Art, Community, News, Social Concerns

3:00 p.m. / Worship Room / Please join us for a one-woman performance by Diane Faison, inspired by the life and liberating work of Harriet Tubman and her path to freedom travelling the Underground Railroad at least 19 times freeing slaves. Ms. Faison is a graduate of North Carolina Central University, with post-graduate study at Longwood University and the University of Virginia. This performance will help celebrate Black Women’s History Month two days before the…

An Evening of Music with Joel Landau / February 21

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7:30 – 9:15/9:30 p.m. / Worship Room / Joel Landau will play guitar and sing popular songs starting around 1900, then progressing decade by decade into the 1980s. Along the way we’ll hear a selection from Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Frank Sinatra, Elvis, the Beatles, the Stones, Smokey Robinson, Bob Dylan, and much much more! This will be a fun overview of the progression of American popular music…