Carolina Friends School, Durham, NC / The Piedmont Friends Fellowship and Yearly Meeting Spring Retreat will be held Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21 at the Carolina Friends School, Durham, NC. The theme will be "Work on Peace and Justice," with an emphasis on the 50 year history of Quaker House. Registration required.
Carolina Friends School, Durham, NC / The Piedmont Friends Fellowship and Yearly Meeting Spring Retreat will be held Friday, April 19 through Sunday, April 21 at the Carolina Friends School, Durham, NC. The theme will be "Work on Peace and Justice," with an emphasis on the 50 year history of Quaker House. Registration required.
The New Garden office will be closed on Monday, April 22.
Living Room, Friends Homes West / Come and learn about planned giving! If you are interested in how you can leave Quaker organizations money, please join Mimi Blackwell from Friends Fiduciary for a presentation on legacy gifts. This event is being hosted by New Garden Friends Meeting, New Garden Friends School, Guilford College, and Friends Homes. Please contact Margaret with any questions: ([email protected]) or 336-292-5487.
A forum “Green Drinks Greensboro” at Scuppernong Books in downtown Greensboro explores Think Globally Act Locally - How can we get local government to take bold action on climate change? Speakers: Ken Brame, Chair of NC Sierra Club Chapter & Chair of the WNC Sierra Club Political Committee Blake Flemming, Lead Organizer, NC Sierra Club Chapter Ken Brame helped form and has been a leader with the Western North Carolina Renewable Energy Coalition in Asheville/Buncombe…
Ukestra performance at Greensboro Central Library to celebrate "Dia De Los Ninos" (Day of the Children).
Families with babies or young children are welcome to participate in this beautiful and welcoming tradition. Please email Karin Heller if you would like your child included. We need to know the child’s full name, birthday, and parents’ names. Contact Karin Heller at ([email protected]) for more information and to be added to the schedule.
This month’s Lunch & Learn presents “Little Yellow Boots,” a film about family, climate change, and the difference each of us can make. Join others after the rise of Meeting to share a meal, experience this 95-minute documentary, and discussion that follows. The film will start at 12:30 p.m.
David’s songs have found their way to Carnegie Hall, the United Nations, several Chicken Soup for the Soul books, the Kennedy Center, NASA’s Space Shuttle “Atlantis”, Peter, Paul, & Mary and Kingston Trio CDs (and 14 of his own) 5 Positive Music Awards, the Rise Up Singing and Rise Again songbooks, and countless venues in this and other countries (and now other WORLDS) for three decades. Poignant to improbable, holistic to hilarious, the Chicago native…
Max Carter will lead a (day called) Memorial Day cemetery tour at 10:00 a.m. on Fifth Month, 27. The tour will cover not only the usual themes of the day but also highlight the contributions of burial ground residents to peace and justice work. Following the tour, the North Carolina Friends Historical Society will host a reception for the launch of Gertrude Beal's and Max Carter's book, "Stories from a Quaker Graveyard," published by the…
