Please note: The PYM Calendar is for all events in the PYM region under the care of any Quaker meeting, organization, school, committee, collaborative, or another group. Events hosted by individuals are not permitted.
Sep 16 – Nov 9 all-day
12:00 am
Spiritual Deepening eRetreat connects you with other curious seekers in an online exploration of Quaker thought, a deepening of your own spiritual practices, and the sharing of stories from your life and your personal journeys. Each eRetreat is facilitated by deeply grounded Quakers. The Silence & Light for Young Adult ...
Oct 14 – Nov 9 all-day
12:00 am
Spiritual Deepening eRetreat connects you with other curious seekers in an online exploration of Quaker thought, a deepening of your own spiritual practices, and the sharing of stories from your life and your personal journeys. Each eRetreat is facilitated by deeply grounded Quakers. This eRetreat offers participants the opportunity to ...
Young Adult Friends Fall Retreat
@ Haddonfield Meeting
Oct 19 @ 5:30 pm – Oct 21 @ 12:00 pm
5:30 pm
Young Adult Friends (YAF) age 18-35ish come together from across the Philadelphia Yearly Meeting region and beyond for a weekend retreat! Register Today! Expect worship sharing, games, and fellowship at this retreat focused on leadings! YAFs are at different places on our journeys, and we come together for rejuvenation, relaxation, and to ...
Imagining Philly Without Cash Bail — CPMM Panel Presentation
@ Friends Center, Cherry Street Room
Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm
6:00 pm
October 24th CPMM/ POWER presentation: “IMAGINING PHILLY WITHOUT CASH BAIL” CPMM will host a panel discussion including the Defenders Association and the Philadelphia Community Bail Fund, and a local resident who has experienced the current unjust bail process. Our current bail system traps poor people in long-term pretrial detention because ...
Mid-Week Meeting for Worship
@ Arch Street Meetinghouse - Monthly Meeting Room
Oct 24 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Going Green Together: Eco-justice in Meetings and Schools
@ Friends Center
Oct 27 @ 9:30 am – 2:00 pm
9:30 am
Register Registration fee: $20 pp includes light breakfast & lunch. If cost is prohibitive, please contact us at Deborra@friendscouncil.org PYM Committee on Friends Education and Friends Council on Education co-host a “Triad Gathering” of Clerks of Meetings, Heads of Friends schools, and Clerks of school committees. In a day-long program focused ...
Historic Meetinghouses and Burial Grounds
@ Downingtown Friends Meeting
Oct 27 @ 10:00 am – 3:00 pm
10:00 am
A Finances Thread Gathering This Thread Gathering will take up the question: What issues face us when it comes to maintaining our historic properties and burial grounds? How do we honor their history by making them available for the future? How can we use them as tools for outreach? How ...
The Atlantic Coast Quaker Activists – hosting The Poor People’s Campaign a Call for Moral Revival
@ Wilmington Friends Meeting
Oct 27 @ 10:00 am – 12:00 pm
10:00 am
On Saturday October 27th from 10am – 12 Noon The Atlantic Coast Quaker Activists will be hosting a large Statewide gathering of The Poor People’s Campaign a National Call for Moral Revival. The PPC – NCMR is a uplifting and continuation of MLK’s Poor People’s Campaign of 1967. 41 States ...
What White People Can Do About Racism, Fundamentals 1 WEBINAR
@ Two-Session Webinar: October 27 and November 3, 2018
Oct 27 @ 4:00 pm – 6:30 pm
4:00 pm
This ONLINE workshop hosted by the Center for the Study of White American Culture, Inc. (CSWAC) is intended to give white people some basic knowledge about: • racial structure • building connections and cross-racial alliances • finding direction on your journey as an effective change agent • building a personal ...
Concord Quarterly Meeting
@ Middletown Monthly Meeting
Oct 28 all-day
Philadelphia Quarterly Meeting – Fall 2018
@ Germantown Monthly Meeting
Oct 28 all-day
12:00 am
All are welcome! Join us at Germantown Friends Meetinghouse at 10:30 for worship, potluck, a special program and worship-full business. GMM’s Nuclear Disarmament Working Group presents: “Quakers for Nuclear Disarmament” – a program that reflects the monthly meeting’s minute of support for the UN Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear ...
Faith and Practice: A Book For the Future
@ Moorestown Monthly Meeting
Oct 28 @ 10:00 am – 2:00 pm
10:00 am
The fall program for Haddonfield Quarterly Meeting will be “Faith and Practice: A Book For the Future” featuring Sallie Jones and Bill Smith, members of the Faith and Practice Revision Committee. It will be held on Sunday, October 28, 2018. (10 AM Worship; 11 AM Program, 12:15 Lunch. The Children’s ...
Chester Monthly Meeting: a history
@ Chester Friends Meeting
Oct 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
12:30 pm
Yelena Tower is writing a history of the meeting from its founding in 1681 to the present day. Her research questions explore Chester Friends’ faith and practice, attendance and membership, conflict and unity, and relationship to the surrounding community of Chester as well as the wider world of Quakerism. This ...
The Gospel of Thomas
@ Buckingham Friends Meetinghouse
Oct 28 @ 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm
12:30 pm
In terms of religion, the Gospel of Thomas may have been the most important find of the twentieth century. Upon discovery, it was promptly deemed to pose “grave danger” to the Church. Even neophytes will find a measure of intrigue in that reaction. The Gospel is a modest document written ...
The Gospel of Thomas
@ Buckingham Friends Meetinghouse
Oct 28 @ 12:30 pm
12:30 pm
In terms of religion, the Gospel of Thomas may have been the most important find of the twentieth century. Upon discovery, it was promptly deemed to pose “grave danger” to the Church. Even neophytes will find a measure of intrigue in that reaction. The Gospel is a modest document written ...
An afternoon of teen-aged barbershop
@ Woodstown Monthly Meeting
Oct 28 @ 3:00 pm – 3:00 pm
3:00 pm
Music at Friends is a diverse concert series hosted and sponsored by the Woodstown Friends Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Our mission is to bring quality musical performances to our area while utilizing the beautiful setting and fine acoustics of our historic meetinghouse. The Music at Friends ...
Special Drum Circle Event: Professional Instruction, Drum Rentals
@ Burlington Quaker Meeting House & Center for Conference
Oct 28 @ 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Mid-Week Meeting for Worship
@ Arch Street Meetinghouse - Monthly Meeting Room
Oct 31 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Fall 2018 Continuing Sessions
@ Arch Street Meeting House
Nov 3 @ 9:00 am – 4:00 pm
9:00 am
We hope you will save the date of Saturday, November 3 on your calendars for Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s fall 2018 Continuing Sessions. More information is forthcoming. For now, we can say that it will be held at Arch Street Meeting House, 320 Arch St, Philadelphia, PA, beginning at 9 AM ...
Open Art Studio
@ Firbank Art Studio at Pendle Hill
Nov 3 @ 1:30 pm – 5:30 pm
1:30 pm
Create in Community in our beautiful, light-filled art studio! These are drop-in, self-directed art experiences. A monitor will be present to help you find supplies and get started. Join us!
“Come With Me!… Songs of Travelin’ and Comin’ Home”
@ Fallsington Friends Meeting
Nov 4 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
2:00 pm
“Come With Me!” says the singer “… and let’s have some fun!” Listeners can take a little trip down a crooked road with local Americana musician, singer, songwriter Amy Duckett Wagner (Amy Dee) at a duo concert celebrating the release of her latest CD, “Come With Me.” The album delivers ...
Poetry Coffeehouse
@ Firbank Art Studio at Pendle Hill
Nov 4 @ 2:00 pm – 4:00 pm
2:00 pm
Join fellow poets to share poetry, or just come to listen to others share. Liberation is our theme for this year’s Poetry Coffeehouse. Open mic format. Enjoy hand-crafted hors d’oeuvres by Darius.
A Workshop for Women Writers of Color
@ Pendle Hill
Nov 4 @ 4:30 pm – Nov 8 @ 1:00 pm
4:30 pm
[Image: Melchor Hall (c) Heratch Photography, Waltham, MA] Women of color writers come together to share writing work in progress, celebrate their diverse voices, confront their common barriers, and build a sisterly community of support for the challenges ahead. Led by Melchor Hall, a black feminist scholar-activist, this workshop offers ...
How Direct Action Campaigns Serve Personal and Social Liberation
@ The Barn at Pendle Hill
Nov 5 @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
7:30 pm
After the flurry of election excitement people ask, “Now what?” In this lecture, George Lakey makes a case for nonviolent direct action campaigning as a technique that supports holistic change on personal, cultural, and political-economic levels. He tells campaign stories in which all of that happened, including Quaker stories of ...
Quaker Book Club — A Lenape among the Quakers: The Life of Hannah Freeman
@ Burlington Quaker Meeting House & Center for Conference
Nov 6 @ 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
7:00 pm
By Dawn G. Marsh Published by University of Nebraska Press https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/university-of-nebraska-press/9780803248403/ On July 28, 1797, an elderly Lenape woman stood before the newly appointed almsman of Pennsylvania’s Chester County and delivered a brief account of her life. In a sad irony, Hannah Freeman was establishing her residency—a claim that paved ...
Mid-Week Meeting for Worship
@ Arch Street Meetinghouse - Monthly Meeting Room
Nov 7 @ 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Nov 9 @ 4:30 pm – Nov 11 @ 1:00 pm
4:30 pm
This is the first in a four-part seasonal retreat series based on the work of Parker J. Palmer and the Center for Courage & Renewal®. Led by Valerie Brown and John Baird, this series combines opportunities to explore within community what matters most to you and to savor rest and ...
Coming Back to Life in the Mexican Cloud Forest
@ Ashram del Bosque
Nov 10 – Nov 17 all-day
12:00 am
“Coming Back to Life” – A Magical Journey into healing and spiritual ecology in one of the world’s most diverse ecosystems led by two Westtown Meeting Friends with 20 years of experience in Mexico. An extraordinary week for anyone seeking to discover the miraculous all around us and to rejuvenate ...
Bringing the Shadow to Light
@ Firbank Art Studio at Pendle Hill
Nov 10 @ 9:30 am – 4:00 pm
9:30 am
Our “shadow” is that part of ourselves that we don’t always see. Through creating community, using guided imagery and new embodied avenues to access inner “truths” about ourselves, we’ll create and use our cast shadow. Guided by Arla Patch, participants will learn pastel techniques to create a “metaphorical self” within ...
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