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Quakers & the 09/2019 Global Climate Strike
September 20, 2019
Climate Strike on Friday September 20, 2019
September 20, 2019
Help End Gun Violence as a Meeting Community
September 18, 2019
PYM’s Willits Book Trust Committee Honors Storytellers and Bridge Builders of the Underground Railroad
September 18, 2019
Commemorative Historical Marker Unveiled at Richland Quakers’ Richard and Sarah Moore’s Home
September 16, 2019
‘Quakers: the Quiet Revolutionaries’ will be shown on WHYY on October 6, World Quaker Day, at 6:00 PM
September 11, 2019
PA Historical Marker to Acknowledge Quaker Abolitionist
September 10, 2019
Haverford College Quaker & Special Collections re-opening!
September 10, 2019Calendar
Quaker events in our region
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The Water and Ways of China: Immersion and Impressions @ The Barn Gallery at Pendle Hill
Jul 20 – Nov 14 all-day
12:00 am
An exhibit of Diane Gordon’s environmental portraits and landscape photographs made during a photography tour of seemingly timeless villages in China, is on display in the Barn Gallery at Pendle Hill from July 20 through November 14. Free and open to the public, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily.
Grapplingwith What’s Given: A Journey in Photo Mosaics @ Tree Room Gallery, Main House, Pendle Hill
Sep 8 2019 – Jan 2 2020 all-day
12:00 am
An exhibit of photo mosaics by Lynn Lampman will be on display in the Tree Room Gallery in Main House through January 2, 2020. An artist reception and talk will take place on September 8, between 2 and 4 p.m. Refreshments will be served.
Permaculture Design Certification @ Pendle Hill
Sep 15 – Sep 27 all-day
12:00 am
This internationally respected Permaculture Design Course developed by Grow Permaculture™ led by Koreen Brennan, is focused on giving you the tools to create a regenerative life, and a higher quality of life, through the basics of food, shelter, energy, water, health, nature, and community. It is a healthy mixture of ...
Young Friends at Bucks Quarter Peace Fair 2019 @ Buckingham Friends Meeting
Sep 20 @ 4:00 pm – Sep 22 @ 9:00 am
4:00 pm
Come help to support the 20th annual Bucks Quarter Peace Fair! This September Young Friends gathering is wrapped around the Peace Fair on Saturday, September 21. The Peace Fair is a fun and lively gathering of vendors and performers from all around the region supporting work on peace, social justice ...
Peace Fair of Bucks Quarterly Meeting @ Buckingham Friends Meeting
Sep 21 all-day
12:00 am
100 booths of local crafts, artwork, food, games, animals and Bucks area non-profits whose focus is peace, community service, healthy living and the environment. Entertainers Tookany Creek (bluegrass), River Drivers (Celtic/folk), kids’ songster Ecoman, and others. Lenape Indians drum ceremony and Bachmann Players of Easton at 10:30; Bucks area poets ...
Sep 21 @ 9:30 am – 2:00 pm
9:30 am
This event is cancelled effective 9/16/19. PYM’s Committee on Friends Education and Friends Council on Education’s “Triad Gathering” of Clerks of Meetings, Heads of Friends schools, and Clerks of School Committees is CANCELLED Questions? Please contact Deborra Sines Pancoe. Committee on Friends Education Organizers: Lynn Oberfield, Deborra Sines Pancoe, and Melinda ...
Chichester Meetinghouse 250th Anniversary @ Chichester Meetinghouse
Sep 22 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
1:00 pm
Festivities include unveiling of a historical roadside marker, re-dedication of the meetinghouse, music by Historical Harmonies, open house and tours. Organized by Chichester Meetinghouse and Chichester Historical Society. Parking at Trinity Episcopal Church, 700 Meetinghouse Rd, Upper Chichester. Free, donations welcome.
History Day at Chichester Meetinghouse @ Chichester Meetinghouse
Sep 22 @ 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm
1:00 pm
Join Chichester Meeting and the Chicheser Historical Society as they celebrate 250 continuous years of religious worship at the Chichester Meetinghouse. Free festivities including unveiling of a historical roadside marker, re-dedication of the building, music of the era by Historical Harmonies, William Penn, and open house. Free. Park at Trinity ...