Upcoming Local Worshiping Communities Events
This page displays the events coming up this month. To see more, please go to the main events page here and select the category "Local Meeting Events".
How Sweet It Is! Tour. Well-known and loved Quaker musician and songleader Annie Patterson is coming to the Baltimore YM area! She will be holding a series of singalong concerts. Those present will have the chance to join her in singing songs of the heart from a wide variety of genres from folk to jazz standards, and from Beatles to Broadway. Annie is the co-creator (with her husband Peter Blood) of the songbooks Rise Up Singing and their 2015 sequel Rise Again. This is a great opportunity to celebrate what’s important to us during challenging times. For more information about these concerts go to: https://www.riseupandsing.org/events. Annie & Peter do their music work under the care of Mt Toby Monthly Meeting in New England Yearly Meeting. This concert is in collaboration with Valley Friends Meeting and will be at 292 North Liberty Street, Harrisonburg, Virginia.
Friends from Baltimore area meetings will be gathering on February 10th for an in-depth discussion of how the BYM Camping Program is working to make racial and economic diversity a lasting reality at our Quaker camps. The main presenter is Dyresha Harris, a Quaker of color and current co-director of Catoctin Quaker Camp. Dyresha can speak from her own experience as a young camper. She will also give us a solid understanding of progress made and needs still to be met in accomplishing greater diversity through the STRIDE program. Others with camping program experience over the years are invited to join in sharing what has worked and what needs further work to ensure that our camps expand their mission with effective work towards growing diverse leadership and inclusivity. The evening will start with a 6pm potluck, followed by an open discussion of this arm of BYM that has for many decades been an incubator for young friends’ faith and vibrant commitment to Quakerism. Come with your questions. Please bring something to share at the potluck, if convenient. We will provide the basics. Childcare will be provided, if Martha Barss is notified in advance by Wednesday, February 7th. (martha.barss@gmail.com)
How Sweet It Is! Tour. Well-known and loved Quaker musician and songleader Annie Patterson is coming to the Baltimore YM area! She will be holding a series of singalong concerts. Those present will have the chance to join her in singing songs of the heart from a wide variety of genres from folk to jazz standards, and from Beatles to Broadway. Annie is the co-creator (with her husband Peter Blood) of the songbooks Rise Up Singing and their 2015 sequel Rise Again. This is a great opportunity to celebrate what’s important to us during challenging times. For more information about these concerts go to: https://www.riseupandsing.org/events. Annie & Peter do their music work under the care of Mt Toby Monthly Meeting in New England Yearly Meeting. This concert will be at 2303 Metzerott Road, Adelphi, Maryland.
A few people from the Bethesda Friends Meeting community were able to participate in the Yearly Meeting’s workshop on implicit bias in November and were so impressed by the learning experience that they wanted others in BFM to experience it. And it may be even more powerful the second time around! It is an opportunity to learn how we are imbued with assumptions which skew our actions in ways we may no longer even be aware of. We can become more aware of them by taking time to pause and look them anew. Please join us at 9:00am on Sunday, February 11, in the Music Room, which is in the basement of the SAM Building, across the patio from the Meeting Room. Please come if you possibly can. For details, Jane Meleney Coe (bethesdafm@igc.org, 301-320-5083).
How Sweet It Is! Tour. Well-known and loved Quaker musician and songleader Annie Patterson is coming to the Baltimore YM area! She will be holding a series of singalong concerts. Those present will have the chance to join her in singing songs of the heart from a wide variety of genres from folk to jazz standards, and from Beatles to Broadway. Annie is the co-creator (with her husband Peter Blood) of the songbooks Rise Up Singing and their 2015 sequel Rise Again. This is a great opportunity to celebrate what’s important to us during challenging times. For more information about these concerts go to: https://www.riseupandsing.org/events. Annie & Peter do their music work under the care of Mt Toby Monthly Meeting in New England Yearly Meeting. This concert will be part of the school’s This Land is Our Land Quaker Schools Farm Conference.
