Events Calendar
A wide variety of events and opportunities across our Yearly Meeting can be found on the BYM Online Events Calendar below.
Downloadable 2024-2025 Calendar of Key Dates
To submit an event to the Events Calendar, please email admin@bym-rsf.org.
The BYM Women's Retreat will not be in person this year. Although this comes as no surprise, we will greatly miss our annual winter opportunity to gather in fellowship. Friends Meeting of Washington, which was lined up to plan the 2021 retreat, has graciously agreed to plan 2022 with the hope that we will be able to meet in person by then. In lieu of a retreat in 2021, the Women's Retreat Working Group will offer an online meeting for worship and time for connection on Saturday, February 6th, from 10am-noon. Mark your calendars! The Zoom link will be sent out closer to the date. The Working Group consists of Inga Erickson, Dana Mitra, and Yuri Plowden.
The BYM Peace and Social Concerns Committee will offer a zoom workshop on Saturday, February 13, 10:00 am to noon on immigration and refugee issues including policies at the national and state levels.
The workshop will be led by PSC Committee member Bette Hoover (Sandy Spring Meeting, Maryland) who has substantial experience working in these areas. She will be joined by other Friends and colleagues working in this area as we review potential positive changes under consideration in our BYM states and nationally under the new administration.
• Immigration in the Biden administration - Marisa Leon Gomez, FCNL program staff on immigration and refugees will provide a perspective on what is possible.
• A Quaker Statement on Migration (a joint initiative by FCNL, AFSC, QUNO, Britain Yearly Meeting, Quaker Council for European Affairs)- Alicia McBride, FCNL’s Director of Quaker Leadership, discusses how it came to be and ways Friends can use this agreement.
• CASA de Maryland offers opportunities for allies of immigrants to get involved locally.
To register and, later, receive a Zoom link and more information, please click the link below!
Join us for Young Friends(YF) Love Con!
Below are links to the YF website and the YF Registration page.
Please explore them for more information.
A Webinar with Joseph Gerson
The “Doomsday Clock” was set on Jan. 27 to 100 seconds to midnight, meaning that some of the most knowledgeable of the world’s scientists believe that we are perilously close to a world-destroying nuclear holocaust. But we can prevent this from happening! Join our Webinar and find out how.
Click the link to register.
This free Webinar is sponsored by Baltimore Yearly Meeting Peace and Social Concerns Committee, the Maryland Poor People’s Campaign, Maryland Peace Action, Prevent Nuclear War/Maryland, and Massachusetts Peace Action.
About the presenter, Joseph Gerson: Dr. Joseph Gerson is president of the Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security, Vice-President of the International Peace Bureau, and Co-founder of the Committee for a SANE U.S.-China Policy, among other positions. He helped to launch the nuclear weapons freeze movement of the 1980s, led the successful opposition to construction of naval nuclear weapons bases in Boston, Rhode Island and New York, and was the lead organizer of international conferences and mass mobilizations on the eves of the 2010 and 2015 Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conferences. His books include Empire and the Bomb: How the US Uses Nuclear Weapons to Dominate the World; With Hiroshima Eyes: Atomic War, Nuclear Extortion and Moral Imagination, and The Sun Never Sets…Confronting the Network of Foreign U.S. Military Bases. Dr. Gerson worked with AFSC for 44 years, until his retirement. While at AFSC, he directed the Peace and Economic Security Program, which he later helped transform into the independent Campaign for Peace, Disarmament and Common Security.
