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FarmerJawn Agriculture to Steward Westtown School Farm

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On Earth Day, Saturday, April 22, 2023, Westtown School officially announced its partnership with Christa Barfield, owner, and operator of FarmerJawn Agriculture. Earlier this year, Barfield joined forces with Westtown School leasing 123 acres to create an organic farm. Westtown families and residents from the surrounding community celebrated the new partnership this past weekend on the school’s campus. Attendees witnessed a special blessing by Lenni Lenape elders and enjoyed tethered balloon rides, hayrides, and a host of family-friendly activities.

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Continuing Revolution 2023: Nurturing Experiments in Spiritually Grounded Abolition

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June 2-6, 2023: on campus and online via Zoom

  • On-campus resident  (June 2-6): $100
  • Commuter daily attendance: $15/day
  • Online: $20
  • Significant financial assistance is available!

Continuing Revolution, Pendle Hill’s annual conference for young adults (ages 18-35), is a space of collective exploration and learning for the spiritually curious who are striving to live in ways that reflect their values. We welcome those who are seeking to examine the connections between their spiritual, political, and interpersonal lives. 

Join young adult Friends and seekers (ages 18-35) gathering both online and at Pendle Hill to build community with others exploring abolition of police and policing. Building on themes and feedback from Continuing Revolution 2022: Experiments in Spiritually Grounded Abolition, we will focus this year on the relationship between individual and structural transformation. We will explore together definitions and practices of structural change, building skills for positioning ourselves in that work in our respective communities.

We will continue to draw on Mariame Kaba’s understanding of abolition as “a vision of a restructured society where we have everything that we need to live dignified lives.” Kaba notes that “abolition” is not a static or singular thing; the word is used by people of various political persuasions and imaginations, who “want to eliminate prisons, policing, and surveillance, and . . . want to create true safety, health, and well-being instead.” We will learn collectively from the tools, strategies, and processes that contemporary groups are using in local, national, and interpersonal communities, with an emphasis on the interaction between personal and structural work.

Come to Continuing Revolution 2023 to support and be supported in learning to make decisions that reflect your values and hopes for the building of abolitionist futures. Enjoy opportunities for reflection, sharing, worship, and skill-building with other young adults from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences in the nurturing environment of Pendle Hill, either online or in person.

Pendle Hill Quaker Institute: Beloved Community as Prophetic Witness

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An on-campus gathering of Friends to learn about and practice the art of building beloved community as an act of prophetic witness.

Adult Private Room: $450/ $600/ $750
Adult Shared Room: $450
Adult Commuter: $250

Child (0-2): No charge
Child (3-12): $60 (room & board)/ $30 (commuter)
Youth (13-18): $150 (room & board)/ $75 (commuter)
Free childcare provided by Philadelphia Yearly Meeting.

If these options are financially inaccessible, we welcome your request for financial assistance.

Join us in rebuilding our Beloved Community, grounded in Quaker faith and practice!

Grounded in Friends’ history of community as the roots of spirituality and social change, we will learn from each other about what is possible in this moment – both old and new ways Friends are grounding our communities in our prophetic values and mobilizing in the service of healing the world.

In December 2019, Friends came together for the Pendle Hill Quaker Institute, Practicing Our Heritage of Mysticism and Resistance, challenging the false dichotomy between contemplative and activist Friends. This year, we invite Friends back to Pendle Hill’s campus to re-connect and re-group after surviving these traumatic and illuminating intervening years. We will worship, learn, and break bread together.

Experiential workshops will explore different ways that the Religious Society of Friends is creating cultures of beloved community. Themes will include the ministry of space, intergenerational programming, art as a container for building community, and ways Meetings can support and engage with Friends’ peace and justice organizations.

This long weekend is a collaboration with a broad range of Friends and Friends’ organizations, including the American Friends Service Committee, the Friends Committee on National Legislation, Friends General Conference, Philadelphia Yearly Meeting, the Quaker Religious Education Collaborative, and other Quaker institutions and retreat centers.

Philadelphia Yearly Meeting’s Youth Programs staff will lead a program for younger Quaker Institute registrants at no additional cost. We hope this will make attendance for families with children more accessible. It will be a simultaneous experience of building beloved community, designed for the ages who register.

Please check the event page for forthcoming schedules, workshop descriptions, and leader information.

Café Darkness: An In-Person Writing Workshop for People of Color

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An on-campus writing workshop for people of color with Joanne Daley, Danie Ocean Jackson, and K. Melchor Quick Hall

We are a community of writers of different genres and ages, committed to expanding the supportive space for people of color to write, read, and speak our stories, real and imagined, into being. Join us on Pendle Hill’s picturesque campus!

During this week of dedicated writing, we set writing intentions and work within compassionate community to move toward them. In this popular education-style workshop, we share tips and troubleshoot challenges in order to maximize our writing experience. Each day, we set goals, strategize about how to accomplish them, and share the written fruits of our labor.

Your day might include taking a walk while brainstorming a chapter or participating in an evening sing-along at the end of the day. Come for all or part of the workshop, as you are able. We welcome any writer of color open to sharing and learning with us as we support each other in our writing endeavors.

Second Saturday SING

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Singers,  musicians and listeners welcome!

Informal gathering singing songs out of the Rise Up Snging Books. We generally gather each Second Saturday at 6:00.

To be added to our email list or for questions email request to: MtHollyFriends@gmail.com

or text/call:  856.287.8380

Second Saturday SING

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Singers,  musicians and listeners welcome!

Informal gathering singing songs out of the Rise Up Snging Books. We generally gather each Second Saturday at 6:00.

To be added to our email list or for questions email request to: MtHollyFriends@gmail.com

or text/call:  856.287.8380

Second Saturday SING

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Singers,  musicians and listeners welcome!

Informal gathering singing songs out of the Rise Up Snging Books. We generally gather each Second Saturday at 6:00.

To be added to our email list or for questions email request to: MtHollyFriends@gmail.com

or text/call:  856.287.8380

Second Saturday SING

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Singers,  musicians and listeners welcome!

Informal gathering singing songs out of the Rise Up Snging Books. We generally gather each Second Saturday at 6:00.

To be added to our email list or for questions email request to: MtHollyFriends@gmail.com

or text/call:  856.287.8380

Second Saturday SING

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Singers,  musicians and listeners welcome!

Informal gathering singing songs out of the Rise Up Snging Books. We generally gather each Second Saturday at 6:00.

To be added to our email list or for questions email request to: MtHollyFriends@gmail.com

or text/call:  856.287.8380

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